skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I read about things like decreasing sperm counts or increases in cancer I always think of the same phrase, "Everything is chemicals." It just really doesn't surprise me knowing how little evaluation is done on chemicals and materials throughout the supply chain.

I believe the period from 1900 to around 2100 will be looked at as this horrible era where we filled our own ecosystem with an almost unimaginable amount of "toxic" chemicals.

Truth is, particularly the US, the only thing we really test consumer products for is lead and mercury. These are the two things we test basically everything for. Other than that it's pretty much don't ask don't tell (and don't test), unless there is a specific piece of legislation that forces such a test. It's starting to change. But the US model is basically, "Do whatever you want. We'll let liability shape policy." So you create a product, put it out and have it do unimaginable damage, then pay for the health and environmental damage you did, and then create legislation around what others should do going forward.

I get the economic reasons for this. But I think we went too far, too fast, and too hard.
> The US has more expensive workers who are overall worse at the job and don't have the expertise to be compete with the people in Taiwan.

Putting the rest of your statement aside, this is a very silly thing to say. The United States invented the IC and started silicon age. Integrated circuits made in Silicon Valley were literally on the moon at the same time that Taiwan was still an incredibly poor country living under martial law.

Maybe today there aren't the exact people in the US to compete with Taiwan on this chipmaking process, but that doesn't mean the US lacks the ability to compete. It's not about general country-wide work ethic. If the right person to get the job done is a one-in-a-million person... well the US has 330 of them vs 23 in Taiwan.
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30 deg is not angle of the lines on the projection. It's the angle at which camera must be oriented in 3d space to achieve ratio of 1:2 on projection.
Crypto is an ideological position first, and a technology second (and only in a subordinate role as a framework for the ideological objective).

So whether it is useful depends on how one feels about the tradeoff between highly efficient but potentially more oppressive centralization of public capital (the incumbent position), vs. ineluctably, stupendously inefficient but notionally less corruptable decentralization of public capital (this is the crypto-blockchain position).

And notionally is pulling a heavy load here indeed, as we have seen time and again that cryptocurrency might as well be called kleptocurrency given the endless fiasco parade of rugpulls, outright fraud, concentration of the market's very thin real liquidity in a few hands (thus enabling Number Go Up chart puppetry), facilitation of rampant ransomware and extortion to the point of inflicting naked cruelty on innocent people, shutting down city services, hospitals and more.
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>a (self-imposed) shortage of natural gas

Oh come on.
A good non-dev can be hugely helpful to devs and much increase their productivity. To repeat: a good one.
You are right that this is a much better approach. The problem is Europe also has low sperm counts and are also being exposed to endocrine disruptors in the same way as the rest of the world. So whatever whitelist approach they are using does not seem to be saving them from this problem.
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In theory, maybe. In practice you have to work to reconcile the constructive "all functions are continuous" with classical results like "a strictly increasing function can be discontinuous on a dense set." (The two disagree on what a function is.)

As for choice, try doing much functional analysis without Zorn's lemma.

There are parts of math that you can do constructively. But most of it you really can't. And choice is embedded in a lot more math than you'd guess.
I asked on Twitter: "Why do you assume Google (who has one of the largest AI teams around, plus DeepMind) won't also integrate this into search too?"

I mean really, do people really think Google isn't also working on stuff like this?
We allow this now: https://community.fly.io/t/new-proxy-handler-pg-tls-postgres... :)
I've worked with systems like this in the past. It becomes a huge burden eventually when you have teams like marketing, analytics, etc that need access to the raw data and you eventually have to store all this stuff somewhere else unencrypted.
Never thought of it that way, and honestly this is so correct. Some of my PATs are stored in Apple Notes because I need them every so often. I guess I could use something like 1Password to store them securely but it's just another transfer of ownership and trust.
Great content! And thank you for making it open and free. I recommend adding a License to your Github repo.
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No, but it does affect fertility, as well as various cancers. Breast cancer: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7286136/, cervical cancer: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4801991/ and fertility: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479690/
> As I’ve become a more experienced manager, I’ve stopped giving this advice. I still believe it’s the correct advice, and I continue to see managers who fail because they are missing this perspective. However, I’ve also seen some of the best leaders that I’ve worked with burn out by following this advice too loyally.

Most employees, especially in the West, especially in USA, are going to be biased towards their individual interests. Aligning their interests with the collective organizational interest is an extremely hard problem, but an extremely important one. Definitely something that could burn out a manager. But very much worth trying if you want a successful, healthy organization.
I mean it's not like it's dangerous on its own, but if you're like "Hey GPT how do I put out a grease fire?" and it replies "Pour water on it" and you believe it then you're in for a bad time.

So I mean I guess you're technically right, it's not dangerous so long as you have 0% confidence in anything it says and consider it entertainment. But what would-be scrappy Google competitor is gonna do that?

The thing that makes it particularly insidious is that it's going to be right a lot, but being right means nothing when there's nothing to go off of to figure out what case you're in. If you actually had no idea when the Berlin Wall fell and it spit out 1987 how would you disprove it? Probably go ask a search engine.
Since when did micro- and nanoplastics become an SI unit?

Where do I put my feet?
Google admits to violating federal law and plans to keep doing it
I've been doing this back and forth dance with Google for a while, where I remove a credit freeze from Experian, wait a couple days and then apply for a payment plan through Google Fi for a new pixel phone. I am then denied with a message:

"There are special circumstances on your credit profile that do not permit us to access your credit information, and we are therefore unable to review your eligibility for the Pay Monthly Device Plan."

After talking to their support and Experian, it was determined this is most likely due to having a fraud alert on my account that I placed there after getting a breach notification from T-Mobile. However, as Experian stated and claims on their website and the FDIC has published guidance stating the same, denying credit due to having a fraud alert on your credit profile is illegal. It is a violation of the ECOA because having a fraud alert is a right under the CCPA. The steps that companies are supposed to take for people with a fraud alert, is to contact the phone number included with the fraud alert and verify the individuals identity. Ironically, Google actually includes the section of the ECOA that they are violating in the denial.

After two months and retrying the same steps, I finally got a Google representative to admit that they are blanket denying credit for having a fraud alert because as they claim it is their policy and they don't have the resources to verify identities. Yes, you heard that right, a billion dollar company claims they can't afford to follow the law. I notified Google about this back in September when I sent an email to their legal department and mailed their registered agent, along with filing a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which they ignored.

I am not the first person to ever complain about this, as it appears someone else reported the same on reddit but it is a pretty unique issue. Google states that I should remove the fraud alert and then try again. I appreciate the suggestion, because this will be the final nail in the coffin to prove that they are indeed violating the ECOA. However, it will be interesting (and unfortunately expensive) to see if a judge actually applies the law as written or gives a special exception to Google based on their connections.
I asked the same thing to Luke Mulks (VP of Business at Brave) about an year ago when search got out of Beta and he "promised" that the behavior from the built-in ad blocker would be the same as it is any other page. IOW, the ad blocker does not block first-party ads unless you set the browser to "aggressively block ads and trackers".
That always goes well.
The point is that scrollbars also affect what the viewport, meaningfully defined, is.

Getting into infinite loops is a possibility with any non-trivial layout engine if you implement it in certain ways. Per GitHub discussion, though, there is a known algorithm to handle it; the problem is that only Firefox implemented it, and even that as an experiment.
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"By the same logic how can we allow Humans to do those jobs either?"

First, since you can't see tone, let me acknowledge this is a fair question, and this answer is in the spirit of exploration and not "you should have known this" or anything like that.

The answer is a spin on what I said in my first post. Human failures have a shape to them. You cite an example that is certainly common, and you and I know what it means. Or at least, what it probabilistically means. It is unfortunate if someone with lesser understanding calls in and gets that answer, but at least they can learn.

If there were a perfect support system, that would be preferable, but for now, this is as good as it gets.

A computer system will spin a much wider variety of confabulated garbage, and it is much harder to tell the difference between GPT text that is correct, GPT text that is almost correct but contains subtle errors, and GPT text that sounds very convincing but is totally wrong. The problem isn't that humans are always right and computers are always wrong; the problem is that the bar for being able to tell if the answer is correct is quite significantly raised for me as someone calling in for GPT-based technologies.
I wonder how the covid vaccines affected this
BPA is merely one of many endocrine disrupting chemicals found in plastics. Oftentimes BPA is replaced by BPS or BPF to get that coveted "BPA-free!" label, ignoring the fact that the replacements are JUST AS BAD^1. It's a minefield.

Silicone tends to not have endocrine disruptors because it doesn't need plasticizers.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4492270/
Valid Arguments with Invalid Conclusions
It's Freemium, you pay $3/month for no ads, or you get ad-supported search _that is privacy focussed_ for free. They're running their own index, it costs money.

The question is whether this is better than Google's offering ... to me it sounds like it is so long as the results stand up to scrutiny.

Brave's USP always seems to have been meaning the web work practically without profiteering and maintaining a strong user privacy focus. It always seems to have had payment for content as a part of their model, and so payment for search seems to fit well in that framework.

I admit it does seems to be a climb down for those who see Brave as "free + no-ads".
You are still getting mixed advice here from learn to code to get OSCP.

There are two pathd, in the US that is: get an IT job, certs and then entry level security or get a degree and then entry level security.

The ideal entry level security job is a SOC analyst where you learn incident handling and a breadth of security knowledge and hopefully get your company to sponsor SANS training or GIAC certs (only because they are expensive). I know people with OSCP who are smart and struggle with incident handling, malware analysis,etc..., I say that because as awesome as OSCP is unless you want to be a pentester only it only gives you bits and pieces of what you need to succeed outside of offensive work. Certs are great at getting you interviews but the rest (knowing your shit) is up to you.

If someone tells you to avoid certs, do yourself a favor and disregard everything they say. Certs don't prove anything other than demonstrate you are good enough to make it to a phone screen interview but that part is crucial. As far as training, SANS is the best to get you started, not finished. What I mean is your company (hopefully) pays a lot of money for the training not so you master stuff but so you know what to google for and then master stuff.

Usually after your entry level gig, that's when you specialize.

Even if you want to be a pentester, work in a SOC first so you understand how defenders work when you try to evade them later on!

That aside, outside of typical corporate arena there are other entry jobs where you get really good at coding and do appsec stuff (code review mostly I believe) where prior coding experience plus something like oscp helps.

There is also a ton of vendor babysitting (manage tools/appliances) , compliamce,vuln management,etc... but they are usually not entry level unless you have a good degree.

Everyone in security needs to know the basics like risk, impact, vulnerability and threat to start with. Moreover, you need to see what threat actors are doing and be familiar with their techniques no matter what you do. That's why I recommend your first gig to require incident handling.

Also, find a boring messy company to start with so you can leanrn stuff when they get pwned and probably wear many hats because they are too cheap to hire enough people but that means exposure for you lol.
That's nothing, I can just ask ChatGPT to make me a clone instead (last image in this album): https://imgur.com/a/d8LZicq
Do you work for free? A company has to make money to survive and pay its employees.

Brave blocks third-party ads, not all ads.
> Is Python even or odd?

> The required code is provided below. num = int (input (“Enter any number to test whether it is odd or even: “) if (num % 2) == 0: print (“The number is even”) else: print (“The provided number is odd”) Output: Enter any number to test whether it is odd or even: 887 887 is odd.

The first sentence is not my query, it's a question that Google offers and answers in their useless box.
I like the bookmarket option. Thankyou for this. I might run through some of my previous orders to see what comes up.
It's not that easy to hurt somebody enough to make a real difference without weapons. Getting angry and taking ineffective action is one more thing that people will mock you for and further contribute to your worthlessness just as much as the principal telling you that you have no recourse for what is happening to you.

My acting teacher told me about her fantasy of punching somebody in the face and I told her that when I tried that as a kid and really hurt my hand. In fact there was a time my son got mad and hit me in the arm and I didn't find it especially painful but his hand was still hurting 10 hours later. Usually your hand is less durable than whatever it hits, particularly the rather large bones in the face, it is a big subject of martial arts to mitigate that. Someone who smacks you has to balance the intimidation power of the smack vs the very real sting they'll experience. Packing a roll of dimes in your pocket is a deniable way (like the clipboard carried by a store manager confronting shoplifters) that can greatly improve the pain factor for both your target and yourself.
Thanks, that makes sense. I was confused where you where and how you were applying the Bonferroni correction yardstick.
I'll add to this, it's completely replaced my work search, and I haven't fallen back to a google search in months, even for very arcane Linux kernel internals. You can even manually prioritize certain sites, giving you a way to have a hand in building your own search experience.
People can definitely notice not only sub-100ms, but even sub-10ms.

Case in point...

My previous iPhone had 60Hz refresh rate, that equates to ~16ms.

My new iPhone has 120Hz refresh rate, that equates to just ~8ms.

I can absolutely tell the difference in the display between these two devices when I scroll.
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If you like cats and the general population are willing to feed and take care of them. Istanbul has proven this approach to be a fairly effective.
I've not bothered with flakes (yet?); mostly because I don't quite understand/appreciate what they're for/add.

They're apparently better than using channels, and env vars like NIX_PATH; but I don't bother with those either.

I just use `fetchgit`/`fetchFromGitHub` with specific commit IDs, and that seems mostly reproducible. I've got Nix repos dating back about 8 years, and the only reason some commits can't be reproduced is due to link rot (mostly GitHub repos being deleted in protest at Microsoft purchasing it). I don't think flakes solve that? (Seems more suitable for something like IPFS)
They have a paid option. It's paying or ads. Running a search engine is not free. Somebody has to pay for it.
They obviously have expertise, the point is that the parent was implying that all the tech involved is exclusively TSMC's, which is also wrong. The parent literally said the US is trying to "steal" TSMC's technology...

So maybe read my comment in context instead of implying racism right off the bat SMH.
I'm sorry but this is profoundly out of touch with the way a lot of people live. "We" is doing a huge amount of reaching in absolutely everything you're saying.

> We are wealthier today than at any point in human history.

Wealth disparity is also higher today than since records were started. You can't cite overall wealth without factoring that in.

My neighbourhood has a church which holds a weekly food bank, giving out a bag of food to anyone that needs one. The line goes far down the street every week. Do these people have "outrageous" lifestyles? Do you think they take luxurious vacations and sip frappuchinos? Not to mention:

> Homes are much larger now than in 1955.

Okay, how about... affordability? If you're going to claim housing is more affordable than it was in 1955 I'm going to need to see a citation.
"For all we know she had been working incredibly [...]"

We no nothing. The whole exercise of the thread was to know something.
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I see you're not the parent poster. Your response just restates the premise that it matters, implicitly assuming (falsely) that it is fundamentally similar to a household.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2018/04/30/gover...

The alternative is not "default" that pathological case is not what anyone was talking about at all, the alternative is a government continuing to be in debt, servicing it and rolling it over. Public debt is private wealth, that's who holds the bonds.

> There are significant differences, but in the end ...

But in the end, "The analogy has been characterized by economists as misleading and false, as the functions and constraints of governments and households are vastly dissimilar"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-Household_analogy
hard to see how that meaningfully differentiates them from everyone else given that this is what all the ad platforms seem to be moving towards with topic/cohort based ads and third party cookies on the way out.
It does not.

I find the wild, anti-competitive cross product "synergy" the big tech companies are employing just as concerning as privacy violations.

(E.g. Google search pushing Chrome and other services, Chrome sync logging users into YouTube, Android, Windows pushing One Drive, Apple music not paying the Apple store tax, Facebook harvesting WhatsApp data etc.)

Brave joining those practices leaves an ugly taste.