skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That it's been this way for 13 years

No, the spill was discovered 13 years ago, but it happened even earlier. The article doesn't say when the spill from the 58-year-old building happened, just that it was detected 13 years ago. To me, the fact that an untold number of year passed before this massive, highly radioactive spill was detected, and the further fact that it took them 13 years to figure out how bad the spill was, doesn't inspire confidence that they have a full handle on the situation and have accurately measured just how widespread the contamination is.
A little off-topic but does anyone know of pressure sensors suitable for home-baked blood pressure monitor?

I'm planning to build a little Arduino- or raspi-based device to own the data. All I managed to find were (non-blood) pressure sensors and I'm unsure whether these could be used for blood pressure monitoring and how I'd place them against the hand to get readings of reasonable quality.

If this approach is a no-go, a ready device with some physical interface (and no "cloud"-related garbage) allowing readings would do.
Does Twitter have that same approach with user data?
Going Way Beyond ChatGPT
Because it, like Mastodon, is a usability nightmare and literally nothing is being done to address it. All criticism falls on deaf ears and the community is hell bent on pushing their flawed vision through
The Reddit Protests Continue, but the Company Has a Much Bigger Problem
Yes, but in many places the prostitute is not a side in the transaction. Google human trafficking.
We need to talk about Kevin.
Seems like they were doing some work in there, and some stuff spilled. They probably cleaned it up, and then discovered a crack some of the spilled stuff leaked through?
> What was the last thing you remember being must-see sfuff on Twitter?

The Russia circus last weekend made for some pretty good near real-time intrigue. That being said, I don’t care what crazy thing is happening…I’m not creating an account to hear what’s being said on “The Global Town Square ™”
This attitude that: if it ain't broke, don't destroy it, is something I'm finding myself valuing increasingly. I use Stylish to make HN look a bit more readable and prettier, and beyond that, it functions exactly how I want it to and I'm glad to see that the institutional momentum here is a core value.
True story: taking low doses of ivermectin for a few weeks will end the reproductive cycle of bedbugs, since the eggs produced are sterile/never hatch. It won't stop the feeding in the meantime , however.
the harm reduction approach actually satisfies both, but the latter group really have no purpose aside from “prostitution is wrong” and all the “becauses” are observations that will continue shifting because the goal posts only move towards using the state to criminalize transactional sex
> I’m not even sure it’s unethical.

If it doesn't respect robots.txt, it is unethical.
As a user, I don't care whether it's like email or not. I just want a Reddit clone without the API changes.
> You need one account and then can contribute to all Lemmy communities on all servers.

That's not entirely true, some of the larger instances have no open federation policy, meaning the owner of the instance you are on has to get itself allowlisted in order to federate.

In practice this means that you can follow _some_ communities on _some_ other servers, but not all, and not every popular server.

Add that to the fact that some larger instances have stopped federating with each other and you have the current state; a minefield where your average user tries Lemmy, pastes a link into it's search box as instructed, nothing shows up and goes back to Reddit.
They’ve got all this fancy swat gear laying around, they’re just itching for any excuse to use it and justify their budgets.
I will criticize Musk for lying about free speech on Twitter, but that is beside the point.

Twitter is a commercial product, it is a private square to use your analogy. It can be and is bought and sold on the open market. If you don't like it, come on up and put up an offer like Musk did. If you don't have the money, tough luck; nothing to get furious over. If you do have the money but lose to another buyer, touch luck; nothing to get furious over.

Lest we forget, it's not like Twitter before Musk was about free speech either. In fact, it came to light that Twitter was, as previously rumored, manipulating things behind the scenes to promote certain topics of discussion above others. Musk coming in put a stop to a significant portion of that, which some regions like Japan especially appreciate to this day.
It seems that the police system is set up in such a way that a 90s-era spoofed phone call can cause the deployment of lethal force.

I suppose you could fix this by making the phone system fully authenticated. DNS predates SS7 and somehow DNSSEC works just fine. So, probably, there is a technical answer that solves both swatting and spam calls and industry will eventually do it. Is anyone working on anything like that now?

Alternatively, you could have police require more confirmation than a phone call before kicking down doors. The police and public seem to both want more door kicking though, and that's unlikely to change. From the article, after they draw guns on you a few times, they do keep the guns holstered and just leave a business card and have a laugh about it. So maybe that's progress.

Or, we could compile a list of everyone we might suspect of swatting, and then raid them! We'll need some more budget, but the boys are getting pretty experienced kicking in doors, so I think they're up to the task. Go get 'em! (I guess? just please make sure it's them).
Federation is its own thing. I use Lemmys and Kbins but I follow the communities from my Mastodon account, so the number of extra accounts I created is zero.

It's super-neat, actually.
Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback
I wouldn't expect details of nuclear enrichment and refinement techniques to be published publicly, just vague bits like saying which elements they were working with.
Ah but then what of their business model of undercutting redhat on RHEL ?
The answer is twofold. For one, you already do things that don’t have a direct, measurable impact, such as voting: you do that because it matches your beliefs. As soon as you make up your mind about something, it will become part of your moral compass and influence your decisions. If you happen to conclude that intelligent beings deserve to live (and do so with a minimum amount of dignity), it would be disingenuous to your own morals to keep on eating them or tolerate their abuse.

The second part of the answer is just a meta-observation: at the end of the day, nobody but yourself can’t judge you. At some point I got to value being able to look myself in the mirror, and part of that is being honest with myself.
No, he sold all (I think) of his shares long time ago apparently because of conflict of interest with Tesla.
I have a joke t-shirt that says Hanford on it, with cartoon family that has a two-headed dog, and the skeletons glow in the dark.
You're probsnly stuck in a buble. Maybe you just don't know how to find other people. Discovery is a problem. Follow hashtags. There are a ton of serious scientists and other academics.

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
Wikipedia has a huge list (split into two articles) of film remakes, and I really enjoyed reading through it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_film_remakes

One tidbit that I learned: “A Star Is Born” has been remade three times (not including the original), with releases in 1937, 1954, 1976, and 2018.
Previously discussed here, with ~200 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542252
I don’t have to buy Twitter. I can just vote with my feet and start using a few Lemmy/Mastodon instances. I’m fine with creating multiple accounts. I’m not fine with what is being done to Twitter and Reddit.
The problem was three-fold:

1. Everyone trying to build a do-all-the-things-junk-ware-drag-and-drop system. Turns out fixed styles are a pain with complex widgets that are supposed to talk to one-another.

2. Turns out that designing something for just desktops was a mistake - media queries sort-of came to the rescue for print/mobile. But opening the door for extensions like this made it all-to-easy to want to simplify/re-use stuff.

3. Semantic HTML was too light-weight. Everyone building single page apps wanted views, html turned into a sort of weird GUI structure language with semantic sprinkled on top, and it was incredibly tempting to see CSS as a main driver of that view (inline styles were awkward but CSS allowed you to sort-of-obviate that).

So we grew weird CSS/HTML extensions that turned into (DSL) languages that got folded back into CSS in a lot of cases.

If we could start over I'd scuttle CSS/HTML separation, styling would just be part of html and html would have first class support for templates. You wouldn't need to cascade anything, because the HTML would just know what it was supposed to look like, and practically auto-cascade. If there were any "style sheets", they would be just default value lists, and again, they would be a part of the html standard, not a separate "standard".

Which I think is practically what CSS used to be, lists of values that applied to various elements. This made it easy e.g. for early web to allow per-user customization by providing access to those lists, or in-browser modification of those values for quick feedback cycles. The mistake was calling it CSS and HTML's shortcomings, not how it functioned.
When I worked at Aph Consulting in the late 70s, Glen Hightower who ran it would make a single wirewrap board computer installed in a Samsonite briefcase, designed to run the first handheld LED games. On a flight, security would show great interest in his briefcase full of handmade wires and electronics. He'd satisfy them that it wasn't dangerous by pulling out the controller and playing the game.
I agree. Just saying "it's Reddit but federated" doesn't answer any of the obvious questions about how it works. E.g. how do user bans work? How do they prevent spam? How does moderation work? Who controls who gets to be a moderator? What are the implications of choosing a particular instance? Etc. etc.
Right, like e-mail. That other thing that never took off. I'd love to have been here to read about uts launch.
> That's not at all clear in this case.

the USSR has lot multiple wars against non nuclear armed states.

so has the US.

> EDIT: ... because they may be willing to use nukes when they realize they're losing.

Welcome to the end of the Russian federation.

Any use of a nuke would mean they lose both the war and their country collapses.
Why not? Your floor is the base cost of the BOM. Since they absolutely and pathetically have to prioritize shareholder value there is strong impetus to drive prices up or extract additional value some other way. Remember if you're not showing cancerous levels of growth you are dying, if not worthless!

The only time prices ever come down is when one tries to undercut the other, or they feel they can make more money by lowering them. This rarely happens in any permanent or consistent fashion, barring exceptional circumstances or a collapse in demand.

Add in inflationary pressure, and exec's pathetic desire to be cool and copy what their competitors are doing (who cares why? AcmeCo has it, we need to have it to!!!) and you don't even need a price cartel because everyone is making the same sad little moves independently.

The conspiracy aspect is absolutely a red herring. Nobody is that smart, thankfully. This is all supposedly rational actors acting in supposedly rational self-interest. AKA "Market forces"
In terms of backwards compatibility, I think that would be an easier one to resolve. Returning a 308 (Permanent Redirect) for all http requests to a https version is a single catch-all rule.
I've never written such a test assertion in my life. I'll be fine with Jest
I checked my email history on it. There isn't much but from what I can tell the exchange was changed that they were traded on but there was also a change in back-end broker and there was a delay of them moving the shares to the new back-end broker. So maybe the change of exchange wasn't the actual reason, just a coincidence.
You’re sharing lies. He donated $10 mil and talks it up 10x.
They need to build that regardless to do business in that area. Once you have it, putting it on the map is not difficult.

Again, they already do this for most other countries.
Training LLM and developing webgl app that works like magic on any devices with no visible performance problems on any level of zoom, dynamic, interactive, smart, lightweight is totally different level of engineerinf skill requirements.

Training LLM is like a child play compared to it.hack , even NEETs from 4chan are training erotic roleplay LLM for fun.
Just pay for api access if that's all you need
Yep, absolutely massive river running through basalt rock. Vantage WA might as well be the Grand Canyon.
Ah yes, the forever cry of fascism. 'Only centralized winner take all systems can ever win. Anything else is surely too difficult & could never ever possibly get anywhere. Because that's what my very important opinion says. Get used to hearing this call friends, it will be repeated verbatim forever, for surely your attempts are futile!'

Change doesn't have to come overnight, or even soon. Better is not on a deadline. Society can adapt & improve slowly too, in difficult not easy win struggles. This article is about 0.025% of the planet signing up, mostly within a couple months. To me, one that that ain't bad! The growth trend isn't likely to continue apace but this like critical mass, like a seed successfully germinating, for a long life, that can bring who knows what.

But of course overwhelmingly negative doomsaying 'it'll never work' is the tried & true forever response to all efforts to do anything other than a couple centralized megaproperties. Everything is too hard for users at scale. Only bad can win. Resign. Give up. Don't try. Unless you have 3b+ users you shouldn't even try.

This is just going to be the same point forever & ever, anytime anything good might possibly happen.
That's a fancy way to say it's infested by scraping bots, which makes sense since its been weeks since the API was dropped
> the 324 Building operated from 1966 to 1996 and supported research on highly radioactive materials.

There are many possible research activities that take under fume hoods in chemistry labs and hot cells in radiation labs.

At Hanford scientists were interested in both charting the radioactive decay breakdowns and half lives of elements ( a huge tree of branches and possibilities ) and in weapons development - studying the properties of various clumps of matter wrt how well they absorbed particles, emmitted particles, focused particles, etc.

When (for example) milling a disc of material, there will be waste, when using beakers, they will be flushed and washed out .. all this leads to material going down a drain and into a holding sump.

Ideally the sumps are cleaned out, even when hazardous, but eventually many sumps will crack and leak material.

Several Hanford sumps leaked - as did multitudes of Hanford waste barrels.

People were pretty much learning and developing procedures on the flay in these early days of atomic fever.
Wait until you realize that highly centralized businesses are a feature, not a bug.

We've BEEN through federated platforms before. We've even been through PROTOCOLS before. They're all horrible. The successor to any platform that currently exists will have slight improvements to what already exists, and that's IF they're able to do so.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I do have over 30 years of being around social media platforms on the internet.
HN is negative to everything. There are catalogues of "what HN got wrong" and it's honestly embaressing to the point of cringe. I think in this case though at least a few people are shilling for the dying services, which nakes it look a bit worse than it usually is.
MDN core maintainer confused, to revert: https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208#issuecomment-1615411...
I mean, RHEL clearly does not care about the GPL. Couldn’t the same argument be made then about RHEL and their attempts to undercut all the devs who put in free time to make Linux?
And then Google decides for no discernable reason to lock your account, making it impossible to login _anywhere_.

I get the convenience and also the security benefits, but there‘s a whole lot of risk, too.
Our worldviews seem to be so different that I struggle to know where to begin with responding to that. I don't see these concepts of "vice" and sacredness, it seems strangely religious
In fairness, it's a phone call with a spoofed origin. They believe they know the origin, that it is in the house, and it is an urgent call for help to please kick down the doors and come protect the caller. Which again, they see with what seems to be proper identifiers.

Also, the FBI has not swatted people (maybe they have rarely, but it's not normal). In America, those are usually the local police, maybe the state. And because of that, it's hard to implement a good national solution. Some local police coordinate with people who might be victims of swatting to set up mitigations, some don't.
This makes no logical sense. Why would the scraping not restart after its unlocked? More realistically, he got a lot of backlash from users and website owners where embedded tweets suddenly stopped showing up.
Oh yeah, that's definitely not how I read it. Thanks!
You know, that doesn’t matter. They’re doing it not for you or anybody else, but the moral standards they hold themselves to. You can try to ridicule that as long as you wish.
May I ask, why?
At last I have discovered my next career!
You don’t need multiple accounts, i can post and follow stuff across the threadiverse from my single account.
What kind of annoyances have you had on Twitter, as a user, that makes you want to leave?

I have been using Twitter more often lately as I really don't care about what they do to their APIs or whatever, and it's honestly improving lately.
sorry, i don't believe inequality is rising, at least in ways that matter.
in the last 50 years, a substantial number of people were pulled out of poverty.

Obviously this would mean that countries that previously relied on subsidised labour from those third world countries would have to start paying up. I'm not suggesting that it is a zero sum game however.
it really hasn't.
Aiports, the security lines, people traveling, people working there, flights, etc. are all miserable. And I have a drastically reduced trust in the airline companies these days in terms of their safety. At this point, I feel like cattle just being shuttled into a tube that may or may not be safe.

I wonder how much money is being spent into these programs. They don't seem to be about keeping flights safe. Don't they already know who is traveling anyways? What's the percentage of people they don't know via the standard checks? And then what's the percentage of those people that would be caught by these systems? It seems more likely that this is just an excuse of using fear to subsidize a massive collection of facial and body data of people moving through airports.

> allows participants to verify their identities without taking out a physical ID at all.

As if that's the hardest part traveling thiugh an airport.

> TSA doesn’t retain the details of people’s faces—what’s called biometric data—after the comparison is made.

There's no way that's true, and the article.in fact points out that they already admit it isn't true.

Is the point of this to get rid of the humans in the loop when checking IDs and flight tickets? Again, what percentage of people will this catch that isn't caught by the existing checkpoints?

> the agency declared an intention to phase out even the use of physical IDs and rely purely on facial recognition.

And there we go. As if that will be safer.
1. Can those smarphones run the necessary software?

2. You're tying people to the whims of internet availability

3. (not yet discussed: main reason for being unbanked is not enough money to even cover the initial required balance)

4. (not yet discussed: bitcoin transaction fees)

But sure, do tell me how great Bitcoin is for "banking the unbanked": since we already increasingly exclude people by requiring them to have internet-connected smartphones what's another such requirement which is additionally also much more expensive for all transactions.
Only that doesn’t work with the current method of catching lots of fish. The industry tries (bycatch is annoying to them), but is unable to. That’s the issue.
Why is this disgusting overreach of authority not being talked about? How can we fight against these kinds of extreme privacy violations but still be able to use such facilities? Is there no other choice than to kick back and take it lying down anytime you go on a flight?
The Wikipedia page says the most recent version of the standard is 3.4, published in 2021:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A...

In my 25+ year career I haven't seen it in use anywhere. I only ever encountered it while getting my CS degree.
Yeah it's wild how long it's taken for the government to respond...it's almost been 20 years since the first major swatting incident got national attention[0] and I personally know a group of people who it happened to over a spat in Halo 3. Those people might never will be "normal" again. Streaming culture and influencers becoming widespread has definitely exacerbated the practice, and despite the obvious potential for abuse here I actually commend them for finally recognizing it as a serious, lethal thing people use to enact petty vengeance with. Unfortunately trigger-happy local and state police still have some catching up to do.

[0] https://insidehook.com/article/crime/brief-history-swatting
I remember how CORBA was all going to be the future.

I wrote dozens of programs in C++ and Python using IDL.

Funny, though, that we now find ourselves doing the exact same thing but it is "an API", has no type-checking, no error handling, requires more work, is limited to particular languages and is slower.

Distributed objects were ahead of their time by maybe 15 years. Now we're stuck in async API-over-JSON hell forever.
It’s ethical when your average Joe does it on a small scale to scrap their favorite favorite YouTuber or to buy something when it becomes available.

When you have financial incentive to build your business on someone’s data and you scrap literally millions if not billions of pages - it’s unethical.
You are saying without trying.Penpot can only compete in functionalities. Due to their architectural choices of using SVG ,no WebGL renderers, very resource intensive java backend they will never reach performance req of FIGMA.
Designing just a few screen is crippling it.
Reddit API changes are imminent. Here’s what’s happening to your favorite apps
Your comments are consistently dark on this topic.

Is that why you're using a throwaway, or new account, because you know defending adtech is dubious?

It's this kind of lack of integrity people are unhappy with.
Apart from the content they add it also include other shadow libraries like sci-hub, zlib, libgen and some more[1]

[1] https://annas-archive.org/datasets
Ironically when I try to open this page I'm IP blocked for using an ad blocker (actually I thought that was the joke at first):

Blocked IP Address
Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following:

You have been using Opera or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, and are unaware that these programs are hijacking your Internet connection for their own purposes

Note I'm just using plain old Chrome + Ublock Origin
Have you tried vitest?