skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that a counter example? Doesn’t Kotlin fulfil a similar role for Android?
Converting the units to make comparison easier:

Worst case ingested dose for toddlers: 22.1ng/kg·day

Dose found to be toxic in vitro: 1,000,000,000ng/kg
Wiener Zeitung: the oldest published newspaper stops its print edition today
Not quite the same but that's what Stable Foundation did with stable diffusion.
Have they really?

Because many people use plastic Tupperware in the microwave. I've never purchased a piece of tuperware that said it would release microplastics into the food if I put it in the microwave.

I don't know what it is lately but I feel like a lot of things labeled as "myths" and "woo woo" seem to be coming out as actually harmful, forever chemicals, fluoride in drinking water are others that come to mind.

I remember there was a bit of a trend to rubbish using microwaves, as if it harmed the food or something, but it is curious that those people actually had a point, at least when the microwave was combined with plastic containers.

My opinion, it's better to always have an open mind.
There were great differences between the legal status of serf in western europe versus eastern, at least after the black death. This is due to the fact that western europe experienced a serious labor shortage after the black death wiped out a good part of society. This paradoxically put serfs in position where their labor was desperately needed and they could leverage this to gain legal recognition This difference is said to be one of the reasons why the industrial revolution started in western europe and why it took much longer for eastern europe and russia to industrialize.
You can't do this here. I've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i know, who needs those though?
Governmental oppressive control of the web always starts as “a way to protect the children”, and before you know it web browsers are forced to stop citizens visiting pornhub or casino sites.
There has been a Chinese spy base in Cuba for years now.

And remind me who forced Finland and Sweden to join NATO just a few months ago ?

Sure seems like they did this on their own volition given it passed their parliamentary processes.
I lost interest in NG since they dumbed content down and concentrated on political correctness and being on the "right" side of the political spectrum instead of providing interesting, deeply researched and meticulously planned articles and caring more for the scientific truth instead of the political truth.
That cardboard ain't waxed, it's covered in plastic.
Microwaving aside, food and plastics don't go well together.

Study Finds Microplastics in More than 90 Percent of Tested Water Bottles

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-finds-microp...

Just opening a plastic bottle can release thousands of microplastics

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237900-just-opening-a-...

Study: Plastic Baby Bottles Shed Microplastics When Heated. Should You Be Worried?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/10/19/9255251...

NIST Study Shows Everyday Plastic Products Release Trillions of Microscopic Particles Into Water

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/04/nist-study-sho...

Occurrence of microplastics in raw and treated drinking water

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...

Plastic bottles for chilled carbonated beverages as a source of microplastics and nanoplastics

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37354839/

Plastic containers still distributed across the US are a potential health disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/01/pfas-law...
The cartels would still exist; they'd continue to make money, selling untaxed drugs, & via kidnappings and extorsions, & the numerous other ways that can be found to make money if you are willing to break the law and do bad things.

The solution to cartels is a strong and effective state. Think Singapore, or what Bukele is doing in El Salvador now, or NYC vs the mob.
The way that kind of censorship works is that they will block 1 legit site that they don't like for every 100 actual scam sites which 'deserve' to be blocked. You won't even be able to tell which is which. It will literally look like a long list of spam sites and everyone will thank the government for doing a great job protecting them as they always do. Whenever western governments do truly evil stuff, there is almost always a very good cover narrative.
Founders from Fractal claim it is Blackisted by VCS
Look at my comment :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36533118

Basically for now the only thing that can put a site on this list is if the website is harming their visitors.
>However, new modules in Qt 6 and any rewrites of modules Qt 5-> 6are now GPL

That's very surprising, it would make upgrading from Qt 5 to Qt 6 a no-no for the small companies who use Qt LGPL. I'm sure they want to keep developer mindshare. Which LGPL Qt 5 modules became GPL in Qt 6?
I agree that opiates require a more comprehensive approach than just legalizing, but I wonder if the astronomical cost of housing in those cities contributes to making it hard to really get people off the streets and out of the system.

There is a serious opioid problem in the rural Midwest and Appalachia but most users there are housed because housing is affordable. Many also have roots like family in the area. Makes treatment way easier if people are safe and off the street already.

How do you get off the street when, at least in SF, the poverty line is upwards of $100k/year? You could leave but that’s a big leap for someone battling addiction with no resources and a very small world.

Don’t know.. it just seems like other places in the world have decriminalized to better effect and something else is wrong in West Coast cities. The cost of housing seems like one possibility.

Edit: could also be cultural. I know Vancouver has a deeply rooted opiate culture. Just go listen to some 90s industrial from that place. Every song is about smack or trying to kick smack or being back on smack. Good music though. There’s a whole thing about heroin and good music. Too bad it’s so addictive and toxic.
Goodreads has no incentive to be good
> The best way to have less people use drugs is probably to make it illegal to use and buy drugs.

I think we have proven this to be incorrect.

In fact, making it illegal to use and buy drugs has the effect of locking people into a counter-culture and making it a major life decision to use drugs instead of a daily decision like it should be.

If I want to take time off of work to waste a day of my life doing drugs for fun and pick up where I left off the next day, that shouldn't be a life destroying decision.
So spying on people using GPS trackers is legal in 25 states in the US? Anyone in those states could put a GPS tracker on the car of their employers CEO or a local politician or sheriff?

And anyone can spy on everyone in the US using license plate readers or face trackers? If so I would guess there is a lot of blackmail going on. Aren't there laws against stalking? Why are new laws needed for GPS trackers?
Plan to Train More Doctors More Quickly in England
So I got to the bottom of this recent alien hype. It's that Avi Loeb is the department head of astronomy at Harvard and he has turned to be some kind of insincere scientist and grifter and his latest grift is aliens. This has caused all kind of horrible downstream effects and emboldened every alien grifter and delusional ones to step forward with their theories reaching critical mass that the legislature has to acknowledge this army of alien enthusiasts.
I rarely see Apple promoting computing in general.

I havn't watched TV since football season, but it appears they mostly focus on celebrities, the shape/color of the device spinning, and the words "Security" and "Privacy" with black backgrounds and white text.

(Which I take strong offense to, I know "Security" has no meaning, but to have worst in class security from Pegasus/0 clicks, it irks me that their marketing team did this.)

According to my 25 year marketer buddy, Apple sells a feeling or part of being in an 'in-group'. I wonder if OP is a victim of this.
Look at my comment :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36533118

Basically (at the current state of this law project) the criteria for being put on this Blocklist is for website to be actually doing fraud.
>I don’t find this to be a problem when using 7th Generation dish soap, which I consider to be far superior.

I feel i'm about to fall into a rabit hole where i read way too much about dish soap. Is this a joke or is there really such a thing as 7th generation dish soap?
> until Apple throws a “real” OS at the thing

+ it still doesn't offer user profiles, so it fails to serve as a family device in the living room
> Of course, governments have a responsibility to protect all

Absolutely not.

Government's job is to enforce laws and protect the national territory.

But my personal protection is my sole responsibility.

If someone endangers me by not respecting the highway code, the police needs to stop them, it's their job.

But do I agree to have the government mandate that I wear a safety belt? No. If I'm stupid enough to not wear it, I'm fine to not be entitled to claim damages in case of accident.

Of course you can make an argument that not wearing my safety belt has a cost to society (or not having that domain suppression list) and that therefore it should be banned. And I hear the argument. But in the end it comes down to what do you want the government's role to be: protect your freedom or protect you from your own stupidity?

The latter really scares me.
For what it's worth, I am working on a new chapter, which will be the 5th update to the book. This topic is a moving target!
I completely agree and I cannot think of a single instance of that happening in the history of the United States, with a possible exception of the nation's ongoing collapse into oligarchy and rule by that minority.
yep, can confirm, have been using them for years and didn't break a single one. I bring them to rally events and other sites without issue.
No, I'm not sure, but it could go either way. It could very well be that those authors had no other choice than drown their overflowing creativity in alcohol in order to survive / tolerate themselves.
Being 'declared possible' seems meaningless. Isn't it already implicitly possible?
The commercialization of the internet ruined it for the most part. Ads and tracking everywhere and people are centralized in a handful of networks of a handful of companies that want to make the most profit at all costs.

It's refreshing to see how people are starting to revolt on platforms like Reddit and Twitch. People are done with this stuff. Even if it is only a small percentage of the total amount of users, it allows for new platforms to thrive and grow, while the old platforms slowly decay. I hope this day will come for Youtube as well.
>> From 1 February 2023, Victorians cannot purchase, or be supplied with single-use plastic drinking straws, plates, cutlery, drink stirrers, cotton bud sticks or expanded polystyrene food service items and drink containers from any business or organisation. These items cannot be sold or given away for free.

https://www.vic.gov.au/single-use-plastics

Other Australian states* have either already done this or have it in their legislative pipeline.

( * except for Tasmania )
This is a train of thought that appears to pull into the station of using civil unrest to balance the scales. After all, if the government only responds to power then power is the coin of the realm to purchase the justice one wants.

Interesting, and worth considering the next time there's a riot.
> It doesn't matter what type or brand of given soda, if it has calories its bad for you. What else do you need to not do so?

Isn't the point that diet coke doesn't have calories[1]? This is why it uses aspartame as an artificial sweetener.

[1 https://www.dietcoke.com/products/diet-coke
The British documentary maker Ross Kemp turned down the opportunity to film on the Titan submersible, on which five people died this week, after the vessel was deemed unsafe following third-party checks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/24/ross-kemp-turn...
> Without a need for software as complex and resource-hungry as a web browser engine ePub would require.

I know that technology purists love that, but any electronic reading device handles HTML easily (especially the simple HTML in ePubs).

The point becomes moot when your book contains images/illustrations and you (like a normal reader) want to view them within the content. You will use some Markdown formatter/viewer which is again based on browser.

> Word/LibreOffice documents others would send me often are real pain to modify as WYSIWYG word processors bundle tons of redundant invisible formatting details for every bit of text even when not asked for.

Markdown is just insufficient for any non-trivial document. There isn't any standard way to set image size for example. There's no standard way to create even rudimentary tables.

> “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Then go for plain text. All those headings and asterisks are a distraction anyway. Years ago, many e-books used to be distributed in plain text in fact.
My experience with ChatGPT with GPT-4 has been much better than with GPT-3.5. Though have heard some say GPT-3.5 is better at some things?

It seems like you're also only allowed to ask 5 questions per day, hopefully that limit will increase (or better yet, go away) once it leaves beta.
That's a viewpoint that leads you to lab testing all your food before eating it.
Or just sci-hub.
> Sure, there are some plastics labeled "for safe" and "BPA-free"

Indeed, it's common to substitute bisphenol-B for bisphenol-A in these situations.
> I think it ended up being a little dramatic, but I agree that the iPad being as shackled as its been has been a net negative for computing.

...well the war on general purpose computing is on, so, unfortunately, the iOS/Android model is "the future". It won't be long until macOS and Windows are just as shackled. Things are definitely moving in that direction right now.
If we look at Apple's quarterly earnings, the iPad brings in roughtly the same amount of revenue per quarter as the Mac. It's even better than the Mac because it brings even more recurring revenue through in-app purchases from App Store.

The problem is, the iPad is competing for talent and resources inside Apple. It's sandwiched between the iPhone, which is arguably the most successful business product of all time, and the Mac, which is necessary for making apps for all of Apple's platforms and it's the platform of choice of software developers in Silicon Valley. Mac gives Apple street cred in the tech world.

The iPad is poor at doing iPhone things and poor for doing Mac things. It's fantastic at note taking with the pencil, reading and annotating PDF's and watching content. For those things, it's much better than the other 2. The tablet form factor has it's strengths and weaknesses. Seems like Apple is happy where it sits in the line-up. It's serving its purpose as another product to protect the iPhone moat.
My unconscious bias made me read this as “Maryland Book”.
Google Pixel, install GrapheneOS on it
HackMD is often my go-to to create a shareable (and collaboratively editable) markdown document that supports math notation.

https://hackmd.io/
Bagisto is a powerful and customizable e-commerce platform that enables developers to build feature-rich online stores using the Laravel framework. It is designed to be scalable and can handle small to enterprise-level e-commerce operations.
Mmmm. Cheesy scalloped potatoes. I haven’t had that for a long time. One of my most treasured possessions is a folded piece of paper on which my mom hand wrote her cheesy scalloped potatoes recipe for me.
Same. I had the OP 3T, best phone I ever had. Moved to the OP 7T worst phone I ever had, slow updates, and every update brought it's own set of bugs. OnePlus went down the drain, avoid them like the plague.
Are there any alternatives? In german speaking countries we have GEO magazine, but IMO the quality is also decreasing every year.
Terrible real estate agent photographs
Tangent question: What are currently viable Markdown alternatives?

Imho Markdown is a overall terrible and (especially regarding technical writing!) very limited format. But nothing else seems popular. Why actually?

Are there any realistic alternatives?

Thanks for some hints!
Deprecation of Bdist_egg Uploads to PyPI
Dishes marketed under the Pyrex name are no longer borosilicates. The brand name was sold off (and in fact the company that bought it was recently discussed in HN as they also bought Instant Pot, and have gone bankrupt).
CDO’s are generally no longer held by banks. The closest derivative are CLOs and the bank with the biggest exposure to them I could find was JP Morgan Chase who holds less than 0.5% of their assets in them. They owe more than 40x in deposits than they hold in CLOs.

In no way does a bank holding CLOs on their balance sheet validate the idea that they are loaning out their deposits 6x. That simply doesn’t happen with well run banks and people espousing that it does largely don’t understand banking.
Women Interviewing for Gates’s Office Were Asked Sexually Explicit Questions
This is absolutely real, and I am impressed they included that. It is called a "walled shot" I used to work as a bowling mechanic when going through college. The lanes in PBA bowling have to have a minimum amount of oil. There should be more oil in the middle and less on the boards towards the gutters.

However every single house has no oil at all on the boards towards the gutter. This allows the balls when thrown with a hook to boomerang back and smash the pins.

I always wanted to make it a PBA shot, but the managers said no absolutely not! Bowlers equate how good a place is with how good they bowl! They get angry and superstitious about everything. Like they would think the head mechanic oiled the lanes better than 19 year old me but it was really done entirely by the machine. So if you gave them a regulation shot, and they started bowling worse, they would go to an easier house.

Edit: It is not just the high end recreational bowling centers serving sushi, it is all of them. They change the pattern if hosting a PBA event.
https://archive.md/IMP7R
If you have RHEL in production, you are already allowed to install it on test servers without restrictions. Or so I'm told.
> Then we must go for Russia first, this is no recent analogue to Russias coordinated execution, rape and torture of civilians, in not just Ukraine but in Chechnya too.

Are you seriously suggesting Russia is responsible for more death and destruction around the world than the US?
Is it a pressed or burned disc? Pressed discs should already survive 100 years if stored carefully.
Because it lets them sell data to other parties than Google and Facebook? That's actually pretty great. Only having a 1 or 2 customers kinda sucks.

A search engine partnering with an answer engine may not send traffic, but the answer engine is a potential customer for the websites the search engines direct them to.
Pretty happy with my 3+ year old Nokia 5.4. It's been pretty good at getting OS and security updates. Came with Google apps and no Samsung-style apps.
Oh nice! This has so many great diagramming tools I'm now learning about.
Golf is both way harder and way more varied than bowling though.

A golfer who does an eagle on a par 4 is a lot more enjoyable to watch than a bowler who doesn't screw up a strike (regardless of oil conditions).
The iPad has been mostly uninteresting since its release for anything more than consumption or sending emails. And now with the MacBook Air, I’m happily selling my iPad Pro and never looking back.

To paraphrase Logan Roy: these are not serious products.
At least for Python documentation, this plus mkdocstrings is great.
https://archive.is/r5uHq
Is this true ? I haven't seen the magazine in a very long time, so I don't have a way to opine. It would be great to back this statement with facts.

We have subscription to "National Geographic KIDS" , which our kids devour inside out. I really think its great. It would be sad to lose it.

I would recommend the subscription to every parent looking for a non-digital window into learning about the world. Perfect gift for a 5-9 year old, IMO.
The moment macOS is shackled any more, I'll move to Linux. And I suspect I'm not alone in this, and that Apple knows.
Meant are not completely hopeless. As if they were the military would be having an easy time recruiting.
It's a brand name.
You can also `ssh lg@bgp.tools` for terminal-based “Looking Glass” queries (which is how such an interface is referred to, as they provide a view into internet routing from each provider. https://www.bgplookingglass.com/)
If they're unsuccessful they can declare bankruptcy and let the FDIC fund cover the gap. If they're successful they get big $$$!
I had a subscription in the really 00’s which I canceled when they ran an ad on the back that visually suggested somebody would drive a Toyota SUV in a straight line from Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon.
Come buy our DDT-free, strontium laced laxative now!
Check out the Pydantic docs pages - they use Mkdocs-material

https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/
Embed a WASM-based Jupyter into Sphinx documentation
A Sphinx extension that provides utilities for embedding JupyterLite in your documentation
Yes that's all well and good, but What "security primitives" in wayland are you even typing about? The main author basically admits in every forum and discussion that there is nothing to do if your system is compromised.
"...And at the same time, the group that started the magazine, the National Geographic Society, which used to run on a budget of millions, now has 1.6 billion dollars in its piggy bank."

What on earth are they doing as a non profit to justify keeping that stash safe from taxation?
Glass gets very hot in the microwave. Hot enough to burn skin.
> The magazine is still well-read at a time when other magazines have lost subscribers or folded their print publications entirely. Through the end of last year, the magazine had more than 1.7 million subscribers, according to the Alliance for Audited Media, which audits publications.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/business/media/national-g...

This unwind is MBA spreadsheet driven, not actual supply / demand driven.
bowling is fucken weird..I was a junior almost pro bowler and I know Belmo, being around the same age, coming up at the same time and in the same area as him…he’s a freak in the best sense of the word. I remember some other kids who would bowl with a bigger hook (and their thumbs) but Belmo was just super consistent…knew he would do great and very glad he has, despite all the haters
It’s just a brand name. It’s not 7th generation in the sense of a 7th gen fighter aircraft.
The "wax" is probably a PFAS-rich coating like you see on microwave popcorn bags. Maybe we should use glass, to be honest.
I mean for playback, the clipping is audible at any volume, it's visible in the waveform from the CD too, for some albums, I can get the vinyl version which may or may not be better in this regard (but then have generally less crisp highs, probably for the same reason)
I 100% agree about cooking with non-stick pans at high heat. Several years ago I switched to a type of non-stick pan that is supposed to be safer and I stopped frying foods [1] and instead simmer in vegetable broth. I take a regular stir-fry Asian, Japanese, Korean, etc. recipe and using the same ingredients but no oil, simmer everything in veggie broth and the results are delicious. I add a tablespoon of cold quality olive oil to the food a minute after I turn off the heat.

[1] my wife likes fried food and she uses an iron frying pan.