skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the study was performed on a liquid, so I guess definitely don't microwave soup. Wonder if the effect is the same with a food that doesn't have as much contact with the container. Anyway, like many commenting here, microwaving food with plastic fallen in the "it just seems wrong" category for me, so it's business as usual.
With the notable exception of Digg, big-bang deaths are rather rare for social networks (and even Digg's wasn't _quite_ as big-bang as people tend to remember); they drift slowly into obscurity. While there might be a triggering factor that could be remembered as the cause of the decline, it's generally hard to pinpoint a time of death.
Pretty sure based on what you're writing that the reality I'm perceiving is quite different from yours. The only thing the Wagner event demonstrated is the lightning-quick reflexes of the Russian decisionmakers and their absolute stranglehold on power. Things are looking ever more grim for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people (who at the end of the day are really those that suffer/will suffer the most).
Prolonged protests put Reddit at crossroads with ad revenue
> Does ActivityPub these days replace the traditional RSS/Atom feeds?

No. In fact, Mastodon has RSS feed support.

Downloading an XML file is dead simple. ActivityPub is vastly more complex.
U.S. Wind and Solar Overtake Coal for the First Time
The write-down might be fair. But the lesson I see with Reddit, Discord and Twitter is that letting a public company own even a tiny slice of your private company is a terrible idea.

Despite only owning a point or two of multi-billion dollar companies, they implicitly get pricing power over the entire cap table.
Doesn't this imply some kind of scaling law? An LLM of complexity Y will only benefit from a context length of at most Z? That feels truthy to me.
From my understanding, this is what TOR did for some time. They tried to make it look as close as possible to HTTPS.
Oracle Is the First Transformation of the AI Era
I can't see why it wouldn't be _legal_, but it would certainly seem less _desirable_ for the politicians concerned.
There’s no such thing as low tech aside from FTL. If you have FTL you have weapons of mass destruction orders more powerful than anything we have. And energy sources greater than anything we have.

It’s not humorous when people bring the same idea up every time and defend it sincerely.
There seems to be a general problem with social media as a profitable business models as there don't seem to be any real path for companies to monetize their user base that don't end up causing damage.

Given that Discord and Reddit have an overlapping user base it could be realization that that's not an user base that's either no especially desirable for advertisers or one simply hard to monetize for other reasons.
Somewhat related question: reddit has been quoted as having around 1,700 employees. Does anyone know how many of those are devs? And how that compares against similar sites/companies?

Reddit has consistently been incredibly slow to fix bugs and implement new features, so I was wondering how dysfunctional their dev teams are.
code-server works really well on the iPad. Make a web-app and you have VSCode as pretty much a full citizen. (Except of course you need a network connection and a remote system.) When I’m traveling light, this is an excellent solution. That said, no one should buy an iPad foremostly to code on.
Have you looked at old Xeon PHI devices? They're not fast, and they may not meet your ram requirements, but DAMN are they cheap.
I think many Figma users are concerned with Adobe's purchase of Figma. I've already removed Adobe products twice from my life (professional and personal) and would prefer to not have to do it again.

That said, I can't see the acquisition being a problem for competition in this particular space. It's not hard to imagine someone just making figma-but-different and becoming the next big thing. There are also countless other existing options.
By the way, the existing Italian lists are all already public (except for the CSAM lists which require a decryption key), that hasn't bothered anyone given that right now, blocks are only made at a DNS level, completely ignoring the existence of DoH :P

(Well actually not completely ignoring DoH, there's another not-yet-applied Italian law that requires ISPs to completely ban DoH, but it has kind of gone under the radar since it's essentially inapplicable without DPI (and even then, the upcoming ECH standard will make it practically impossible to block DoH providers that use ECH))
Compared to the cheap plastic laptops HP, Dell etc sell they sure are! For many years I've dropped my MBPs, MBAs, and ipads and have only had one failure, yes a broken ipad screen.

But "undisputed leader"? No there are plenty of more rugged devices used in construction, the military etc.
So, some further thoughts on your methodology:

- It's comprehensive. That's ... admirable, but not necessarily efficient in data analysis. There's a lot to be said for both random sampling and inference.

- You might get more mileage by looking at the top-n stories of a given day. I'd suggest 3--5 items. There's a considerable fall-off in activity from storypos 1 to storypos 30 (1st to 30th items on the front page archive), which is one of the dimensions I've looked at.

- The thought that's occurred to me over the past few days is that this seems like a natural area in which LLM / GPT techniques might be used to classify posts given training data.

- Tuple and ngram analysis can also turn up interesting patterns. Here it's useful to have a base corpus from which universal tendencies can be inferred, and to look at statistically improbably terms which occur both from the HN subject corpus to the universal corpus (terms and phrases which HN finds significant), as well as changing trends over time within the HN corpus.

- Day-of-week and month-of-year analysis can also show interesting patterns, and I've looked at a bit of the first. I'd really like to know if there's an HN "September" (on an annual basis).

- I took a look at your data and ... spreadsheets. Maybe I'm old-school, but flatfiles and gawk are really my style.
Doesn't surprise me, unfortunately. Niantic isn't really an AR company, a geolocation company, or even much of a technology company. They are a "were incredibly lucky to get and exploit the Pokemon license" company and have been completely unable to move beyond that (not for lack of effort).
And yet coffee smells awesome but the taste is nothing like it. Not that it's tasteless but it's definitely very different.
So, riddle me this:

If a website is found to be doing illegal shit beyond some reasonable doubt, why the fuck aren't these websites taken down and their operators arrested instead of showing some nebulous warning?
It's an emotionally charged topic, but one of the reasons it's bad to call others names is that they can turn around and do the same thing to do. "You're too dumb and stupid to see the right answer". It adds nothing and worsens the convo.
Not so much publicly as most of these happened pre-2010. But like, I think when I finally decided to keep my shit to myself was when I went off on my own initiative and built a solar system construction tool for Chris Roberts to play with, a day or two after I finished his HUD demo for Star Citizen. This wasn't open source, obviously. I built in a lot of neat features for a builder tool that I would love to have if I were making a sprawling galactic open game. Chris is, obviously, a legendary coder. But he seemed to get really pissed off when I showed him this project, and told me THERE'S NO FUCKING WAY WE'RE BUILDING ANY OF THIS USING FLASH. In truth, it was only a flash project to let you drag planets and moons around, size them, set them in orbits around a star until you were happy with the solar system's dynamics, and then output a slim XML file describing each system you built. I thought it was cool. At the same time I was being publicly attacked and on/off praised all over the user forums for HUD things I'd written that no one had actually seen (and never ended up seeing).

It wasn't the first time I had a problem the public as a coder, because I wrote and ran - meaning, stayed awake and watched, 24/7 - the first Bitcoin casino of any size for a couple years, and a lot of the early players were devs of some description. It was helpful, and I shared my code with players. But it was always a case of "if I were you, I would've..."

Prior to that I had a major run-in against Fox NewsCorp when a whole platform I'd developed solo for an indie game got sold to them and they thought it was my responsibility to explain my code to them. Their strategy to get me to comply with this was to offer me half my normal hourly rate and ask me to sign a contract stating that all my intellectual property belonged to them. No one in that case ever said my code was bad, they just couldn't get a team of 10 coders to understand it so they shut it down and lost the $500k they'd paid for it.

Actually, the response to the non-commercial projects I've put out personally has been fairly "meh" in the last few years - I haven't really promoted them and presumably no one wants or needs them. I think I got like +2 votes on the last thing I showed HN. I have no problem contributing on other people's projects, but it's just a fix here and there if I see something. But the reason I didn't show the code on the thing I put up on HN last? It's that the two people who saw it would undoubtedly just tear my code to pieces, and I have moved on to other things.

/rant. Sorry.
> IMO, it's not the government's job to protect people from their own failure to identify a fraud.

I really don't understand this stance. If it isn't a governments job to protect people from fraud, and people should learn on their own, why stop there? Why have any food standards, learn to check every item of food you consume? Why protect from violence when people should just learn where not to go, what not to say...
Every government has its own special set of things that, for better or worse, it tries to wipe from the internet.

1. In the US it’s prostitution, copyright infringement, DRM circumvention, etc

2. In the UK it’s any “offensive” joke

3. In Germany it’s anything glorifying Nazism

4. In Russia it’s mentioning the War

5. In Thailand it’s Lese Majeste: anything said against the King

6. In Pakistan it’s blasphemy

7. In China it’s everything

8. In a large number of countries it’s anything that threatens the regime

Which country on Earth has free speech?
> There's still plenty of room for high-quality writing about the world and its inhabitants;

Where can this be found?
What is intellectually dishonest is mischaracterizing my beliefs, which you have done to an impressive degree.

I’m an opioid addict and formerly homeless person who has spent thousands of hours advocating for, and working with, the unhoused. I am the furthest thing from a 1980s drug warrior.

In fact, I have always argued that American drug policies are an unequivocal failure. All I have stated, and continue to believe, is that one cannot emulate successes such as those in Estonia, Switzerland, Portugal and other jurisdictions by picking only the policies that are most politically feasible or attractive. These are holistic approaches that require changing the incentives of all agents interacting in the illicit drug economy.

If one only focuses on a single element of the trade (say, the users, as has been done in many American metropoles) then the policy is bound to fail.
We've tried to find some public templates but Gitlab was pretty much the only one having public OKRs[1].

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/company/okrs/
f*ck social media at this point
Where did you get the 1g figure from? I'm curious to read more about the circumstances under which they found toxicity, e.g. if that's acute rather than sustained across decades.

Also, what does in vitro mean here? Do I remember correctly this means you're not dead?! Seems like an odd bit of jargon to add
You can ground models better with retrieval augmented generation, and toolformer can actually call functions and whatnot, it is also entirely possible to orchestrate things with "agents".
I definitely think the content is dumbed down compared to my issues from ten years ago. Regarding the political stuff, I'd say there's a notable lean in the writing but imo that isn't the worst offender in it's decline.

The kids content they put out is great, we don't get the magazine (probably should) but have 3 or 4 of the big encyclopedia's and they're fantastic.
> Most manufacturers don't want to hire kernel and hardware devs.

I don't think this is particularly relevant. IIRC Qualcomm hardware support includes a handful of binary blobs with restrictive licenses. So if there is a vulnerability in one of those OEMs can't fix it without Qualcomm's support. So it is impossible to promise longer support than Qualcomm will provide. In practice they may be able to support the device longer if they can work around security issues from outside the blob or if no security issues are found, but they can't guarantee it (and without a guarantee there is also less incentive to actually do it).

We are finally seeing Apple, Google and Samsung creating their own SOC with longer software support, hopefully that is enough to disrupt Qualcomm's shitty practices here.
Right, I wasn’t saying it was a current vehicle, nor trying to bolster the 6x claim.

I’m just pointing out that doing stupid financial shit that is effectively the same as that kind of over-leveraging us hardly new, nor raised many eyebrows.

Banking trades will seek the most ways to make money possible. Before CDOs were the poison they are today they allowed 50x effective leverage
Tempered soda-lime glass is still preferable as a food-contact material to almost anything else, but it is much less pleasant to use than borosilicate glass, because it is much heavier and if you abuse it the tempered glass cracks relatively easily (e.g. if after boiling water in a tempered glass teapot you immerse it for cooling in cold water from the tap, the chances of cracking are high, while a borosilicate glass teapot is impervious to such a treatment; I know this from personal experience with both kinds of teapots).
Did you ever try /e/OS? All my banking apps surprisingly worked on FP4 with /e/OS
Cute, could do with a bit more variety of sounds and sequencing abilities.

https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=gAEAAAAIAAAH...
you're missing the point.

I'm happy to have laws that prevents causing harm to other people (the highway code for example, or for the food industry to have a responsibility to not poison their customers).

But I'm not happy to have laws that stop me from growing my own food, without having to lab-test it, if I don't intend to sell it.
Remove the lid before heating.
So the fae folks are us all along
I don’t think HNers will be losing any sleep over the inability to link to a couple of CBC articles!
> This is before we get into the comical evolution from "You just need the touchscreen" to "Actually physical keys are good for long typing" iPad and a keyboard case

This part is a straw man. When the iPad was first introduced in 2010, there was an iPad stand, keyboard contraption that SJ showed off. The iPad has always supported Bluetooth keyboards.
Interview with the author https://www.digitalesbild.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/inexplicably-b...

"KP: Is it important for you that the photos actually originate from real estate marketplaces? If so, how do you verify their origin?

AD: Yes, that’s actually really important, otherwise the blog is just unverifiable user-generated content. If an image is submitted without a link, or no agent’s logo on the image, or I can’t find the source online, I tend not to use it. I’m sent lots of images taken by agents of something funny or shocking they’ve seen in a property that day, but if the image hasn’t been taken for the purposes of marketing the house, I don’t use it."
Sentia is the world’s first GABA Spirit
Does anyone know if this would include plastic lids on glass containers? or a plastic cover to stop whatever you're heating from splashing all over the microwave?
I think the hard part is the initial phase, before you know how to make things move, how to draw to the screen, how to handle multiple states of multiple objects without the code getting incredibly messy and unmaintainable etc. If I had to guess I'd say your brother spent a lot of time building many little things before getting to a point where he can quickly build a basic prototype of any game he saw.
That's not what I meant, let me rephrase my question:

How does someone know what they should fill in?

Is it fine to fill in African American if one of your grandparents was black? Or only if your skin is dark enough?
There's a hack here though, right? Run the LLM once to say "summarise this conversation in 500 words", then tack the new exchange on the end and run it again?
As a daily Aeropress user, I wonder if I should maybe switch to something else. Thoughts?
Yeah but you still need a phone and then we're looking pretty zoo like.
I was absolutely gutted when I discovered that Compiler Explorer [0] didn't work on my iPad + ridiculously expensive keyboard

[0] https://godbolt.org
I tried carbon steel but I couldn't get the seasoning right, and it flash rusted every time I washed it. Also, to someone used to non-stick or stainless steel, it often looks kind of dirty - its difficult to distinguish between "good but unattractive seasoning" and "you didn't wash your pan well enough".
I live in Mexico and have for nearly two decades. I can tell you that blaming the United states on the violence in this country is a half-baked argument at best. Firearms availability to the cartels is only a part of a much wider, deeper problem of systemic corruption at all levels of government, causing widespread uselessness in the basic infrastructure of government doing its most fundamental job of providing public safety.

In Mexico, the state and its functionaries (very much including the police) at all levels are too inept, too corrupt and too indifferent to handle their investigative and protective duties as things stand. This is a major cause of insecurity and high crime. It's only a secondary factor that the cartels and their weapons (many of which are not even bought from the U.S but instead stolen or bought from the corrupt public security agencies, unless you think you can buy RPGs and mortars in an American gun store, for example). That these cartels dominate so much isn't specifically because they can buy U.S weapons, or use money from drug sales to the U.S. to corrupt institutions. Instead they dominate because they can do all these things in a landscape where the state either retreats persistently, doesn't seriously apply itself to public security or simply sells itself to their bidding.

Canada, to the north of the U.S also has plenty of drug demand, drug sales from the U.S and an even more open border, yet it remains a safe, well-run country. Why? Because unlike the government in Mexico, Canada's government takes its duties seriously and invests in applying them.
It's not just food of course.

A first overview of textile fibers, including microplastics, in indoor and outdoor environments

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02697...

A Review of Human Exposure to Microplastics and Insights Into Microplastics as Obesogens

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34484127/

International quantification of microplastics in indoor dust: prevalence, exposure and risk assessment

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35977640/
Iirc most of the devs are building the features that users actively hate like like chats and live streams etc. The tiktokification. Also, ads, of course.

Still though yeah I'd imagine a minority of that number are devs.
And people have been saying the sky is falling and Apple will force all Mac apps to go through the App Store since 2011.
> but she doesn't trust they're microwave safe.

The glass or the printing? Mine have survived without issue.
Hetzner is good value, but I had a long conversation with their support, and we were separated by a common language.
Yeah, I always thought it’s only good for architects with their drawings or for businesses offering product configurators and such to their customers in their physical spaces or museums, etc. But look at that, instead of carrying one more paper notebook in my bag I now have this extra thing in addition to my laptop and it’s pretty good!
I interviewed with reddit over 10 years ago and the company had less than 25 people working out of co-working spaces but still maintained uptime and managed to get by just fine. This was before they had advertising, no trust/safety team, no official app, etc.
Oh wow; the captions are devilishly hilarious!
This is how I've been boycotting Reddit myself; I'll click native google hits, but I won't visit the homepage/any subreddits directly. HN's filled that need somewhat.
I'm assuming the solvent is water. You're right that it's not specified in the abstract. "In vitro" means "in glass", but the actual meaning is in any non-living container, no matter what it's made from, e.g. in a petri dish. If it's in a living organism it's "in vivo".
We don't actually know that. Science (especially physics) assumes that the universe can in principle be explained, but there's not actually a way to prove this without assuming some explainable is possible (see: problem of induction). More concretely, we know our current theories and maths can't fully explain our observations, though they are very close.
Corporate Software Development Assumes Software Can Be Append Only
Timecraft: The WebAssembly Time Machine
Finally, somewhere to share my a list of dubious property listings! In Norway agents hire house stylists to make a house look good. Airbeds dressed up to look like somebody just got up, magazine pictures on the wall, etc... often to a farcical level in a rundown house.

On a similar theme is Zillow Gone Wild https://twitter.com/zillowgonewild and McMansion Hell https://mcmansionhell.com/
It's important to remember that piracy and theft are also capitalist practices. Companies routinely break the law and do unethical things, and consider it a sucess as long as money was made overall. Yet there is somehow this sense that individual consumers MUST play by the unfair rules often set up by these monopolies themselves. The incredible asymmetry in how copyright law is abused is an example. These companies deserve the same level of contempt they show their users.
In the US and Canada (the only countries whose copyright law I have studied), it is not.
It happens to the tribe of Sheba (people fo Saba) (Read at https://quran.com/34)
No, no it doesn't work really well. iOS Safari aggressively suspends tabs in the background. So when you switch from editor to webpage, it will often suspend your editor, forcing it to refresh when you flip back to it and you lose the ssh connection, debugger, or whatever else you have running. And if you're debugging a front end in a certain state, it will suspend that, and refresh it when you return, losing that important state. Very infuriating experience. I tried for months to make my iPad Pro an acceptable dev environment, both locally and remotely via code-server, and the OS just isn't there (yet). Maybe someday.
I believe we already have a version of this, where non-citizen can join up in exchange for a jump in the naturalization line or similar.