skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just asked him.

“Teflon is a high molecular weight polymer made using perfluoronated surfactants. Technically, PTFE is a fluorine-containing material but it is not the PFAS pollutants of recent concern. In the conventional synthesis, the real source of PFAS pollution is primarily those surfactants used in its manufacture. Our process made the use of those surfactants unnecessary.”

Why do you DuPont never acted on your patents?

“It was a cost of business decision because they had already invested so much capital in making Teflon with those surfactants.”
By that same logic more people are dying or ruining their lives from poor diet and lack of exercise. Should the government be mandating diet and enforcing exercise quotas?
Are Narcissistic CEOs All That Bad? https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/10/25/are-narcissistic-...

People with a high degree of narcissism get promoted faster, new research shows. Why? https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210830-how-narcissist...

Sociopathy And Narcissism Among Business Leaders: Are They More Common Than In The General Population? https://www.mentalhealthmatters-cofe.org/sociopathy-and-narc...
Decriminalization has nothing to do with limiting the use of drugs. The main purpose is to bring down costs so that criminal cartels will see their profits eroded through competition. This will also reduce other crimes, especially violent ones, because less people will need for example to rob a shop to buy drugs.
Of course more easy drugs around mean that initially more people will use them, however that is just the immediate result of having at hand something that once was harder to find. Give it time.
We all know that whoever is on drugs won't stop searching for them, no matter the cost, and no matter if that cost is on someone else's life; the choice is between prohibiting something that can't be prohibited effectively, or destroying profits for criminals, which can be very effective.

And then there's the stance by some politicians furiously in favor of prohibition, which smells of conflict of interests to say the least, but that's another story.
Like Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine...
Is pixie capable of realtime usage like in games or generative art? Last time I looked it seemed CPU-only.
That is exactly what it means though, they don't want everyone to stop just overheight vehicles. What do you want the sign to do? Encourage everyone to stop?
Great to see the government tackling those thorny, nuanced problems that threaten the livelihood, security, and future prospects of the average citizen.
It’s not spreading though.
That sounds awesome! Would love to hear more about how you set up the migration.
> it's VERY common for "please report this issue! [link]" to be met with a login wall

Which unintentionally, but strongly, communicates that the devs don't actually want the telemetry data.
A significant fraction of wealth is difficult to track because asset value isn't "real" until there is a transaction that places a value on it, which the government does track. Until those transactions happen, any estimates of asset value are notional and may not be remotely realizable in a real market.
If I search for McDonald's I see 5 in my list.

If I just click the fast-food button, it only shows 1 McDonald's. But it's because it's a sponsored listing and I can still see the address of the store when I tap on it. It says it's 0.9 miles away.
Investors are more willing to pay a premium for established tech companies with proven revenue streams and profitability. On the other hand, AI investments may be viewed with a longer-term horizon, which could impact valuation considerations.
There's already powerful incentives against narcotics, you mentioned three of them: "poor health, homelessness, and death." If that's not enough to dissuade someone, laws aren't going to make much difference.
Unless you’re slavic catgirl.
Shelved ones are likely using lab-isolated CBD.

It's the items on event tables and such one should be "worried" about, if that's a concern.
Same thing is happening in Austin. It's sad.
For the swaying buildings, you'd almost certainly not get enough power out of it to make it worth the cost and additional complexity to install.

For roads, whatever power you generate from the traffic would be less than the additional power those cars require to drive on your road. It would be a net loss. Basically generating electricity from gasoline, with extra steps.
A thought experiment I think about is along the lines of: what would society look like, say, 10,000 years in the future, if everybody somehow magically had an Einstein-level of intelligence and rationality. In such a society, sure, the government probably wouldn't need to step in; the vast, vast majority of the population would either have little interest in the drugs in the first place, or, if they did, could be trusted to partake responsibly.

However, that's not the world we live in. We share our cities with fairly unintelligent, irrational people, that have no interest in higher ideals. Our cities are being destroyed and made unsafe by these people that are just out of their minds on drugs / mental issues, completely disconnected from society, vandalizing, breaking and entering, hurting other people. They obviously, demonstrably, can't be trusted to partake responsibly.

I guess the debate is to what level the government needs to step in to control such people and the actions they take. I'd say that since they've already demonstrated they can't be trusted to coexist with peaceful society, that some level of action needs to be taken. But it's tough because in an ideal society I'd say the correct thing is for the government to stay out of it. But we live in a far from ideal society.
If you feel it's a "total lie" (this suggests both false, and exaggerated was that your meaning?) have you thought about ways to figure this out through primary sources? In my experience the numbers are reasonably accurate. The dynamics of interacting with people who recognize that wealth levels in the group vary dramatically are a pretty Silicon Valley thing AFAICT.
The People's Computer Company published many BASIC games in its publications (PCC Newspaper, People's Computers, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Recreational Computing) and in the book, What to Do After You Hit Return: Or, P.C.C.'s First Book of Computer Games. Many of the games were reprinted elsewhere, often without attribution.
Ah Michael Bloomberg writing an anti-WFH opinion piece in Jeff Bezos's personal newspaper. Could anything be less ethical? Would anyone in their right mind take this seriously?
There's another angle there too.

The dealers are often up-charging MORE for fuel efficient hybrids or EVs. It might be 2-5k more for a gas burner, but you get nailed 10k over MSRP for the hybrid or EV option.

They're effectively making you pay the difference in the cost of gasoline up front so there's no economic incentive to the consumer to get the better MPG or emission-free option.

I haven't done the math but intuitively it seems like you end up pre-paying the difference you'd save by using less to no gasoline.

I think part of it is also that dealers / manufacturers are creatively trying to capture tax incentives as well. Instead of the consumer getting a cheaper EV via tax breaks, the dealer or manufacture charges that much more and it ends up in their pocket.

It's messed up. Just about every large business in America is on the government teat in various creative ways. They're not innovating or competing anymore.
If this isn't the most, "Emacs is a great operating system..." moment, I don't know what is.
>Notably that Tesla still isn't at a scale of production where walking off the lot with a < $30k vehicle is possible!

It's estimated Tesla has a 30% profit margin on the Model 3 meanwhile automakers traditionally were at 5%.

There's alot of overpricing there.
"I was disappointed, everyone seemed normal"

In a total plot twist, you can make a lot of money without constantly obsessing about it. You can even be "a bit Epicurean hedonist", enjoy your money, and still make more.

(Also, seriously, if you want people obsessed with "work hard, make lots of money" to the exclusion of anything else, there's no shortage of them. If you can't find any, may I gently suggest that the problem may lie with your search?)
It heats up the atmosphere and eventually gets emitted back into space!

For the Earth's temperature to remain approximately constant, the energy leaving the system (as infra-red) has to balance the energy entering the system (as sunlight).

The atmosphere is almost transparent to visible light, so sunlight doesn't really heat the atmosphere at all, it mostly heats the surface.

In contrast, the atmosphere is mostly opaque to infra-red (apart from the 'window region' at about 10um), which means energy is mostly emitted from higher levels in the atmosphere.

This means that you have to have a way of getting energy from the surface (were it effectively 'arrives') to higher levels in the atmosphere (where it can leave the Earth system again. Latent heat is an important way for this to happen - you can see it in this figure, showing how energy flows in the Earth system

https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/multimedia/earth%E2%80%9...
I refer to this idea as making our own inflation. We such stratified groups of spending so that if you want to spend $100 1980 dollars on a pair a jeans you can find that price range. If you never want to spend more than $20 on pants that is possible also.

For all but the most constrained the same product category(inherent quality differences may or maynot exist) is available at any price point.
The ideal californian is a combination of intensely ambitious (internally), while also seeming like an epicurean hedonist (externally). Like, you have to show how hard you are not trying, to be an unbelievable successful person.
I don't want to be a jerk or a anything but since you brought up a specific fee.. A "basic OpenAI chat bot" is not necessarily complex. I live very frugally and can build the same type of system for $3500 if it's a two week project. See my comment on this page. Will be open for work in a few weeks.

runvnc@gmail.com
Identifying and Exploiting Unsafe Deserialization in Ruby
A person who becomes addicted to opiods, methamphetamine, or other "hard" drugs will with some probability require medical treatment, and and some people who uses those drugs will cause other costs to society. I don't know what those percentages are, but for opiods it's definitely not negligible. Many people begin using opiods and become addicted without intending to, and later need medical assistance. So there is a public interest in how much these substances are used, and it's legitimate for government to regulate them.

In other words, there's a tradeoff between the autonomy to do things to your body and the real costs that drug addiction imposes on others.
Why require them to open a ticket, though? Just allow an easy way for people to upload the file and be done with it. You should take care of whatever bookkeeping your process requires yourself.

I have no github account, for instance, and there's no chance that I'd create one just to provide this data.
‘Whatever the reason, nightly and beta failed to be an effective canary’ - Im also curious about this? It is typical to try to move quality ‘left’ - which would imply understanding this issue and fixing it. But the focus seems to be on adding more logging - which will by definition have less impact on the quality of public releases than improving the quality of beta/canary releases will.
Nostalgia and Fun with Calculators
This is a natural behavior that everyone should take part in.

Animals don't breathe indoor air all day, with no sunlight, and neither should we.
Maybe I should describe my job differently...
It's written by a billionaire (Bloomberg) and published in another billionaire's paper (Bezos). If anything this should be a call to arms for labor.
A friend of mine was born on 6/9/69 and she made sure to tell everyone.
I mean the case when tiny models can outperform LLM on certain tasks. For example storytelling, and only for Harry Potter world. Something very niche but with maximum quality that can't do other tasks. Just want to see an example of that tiny model.

Did you try to optimise your model for specific tale, game characters etc ?
Too early to draw any conclusions
I love Joyce Manor — mainly that they drop straight into the hooks, no nonsense and an album is done in 20 minutes. Their ability to write catchy songs is remarkable.
>Japanese and South Korean increasing technical prowess didn't, why would Chinese be any different?

Because while Japan and South Korea are the 51st and 52nd US states, China is a superpower vying to usurp the US as the preeminent world superpower.
The namesake of LK-99 is the year it was first synthesized - 1999.
Alternate title: Sucking up to managers can get one promoted.

Truly a discovery of all time.
Exactly, people underestimate how high those asset values are. The owners of said asset are borrowing against them, not selling.
I've never seen this insanity anywhere in world except for California:

https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/san-francisco-stores-lock-up-f...
It's downright criminal that apple doesn't provide tools to backup and archive imessages. I have like 40gb of messages on my phone that I do not want to delete, but I don't need them on my phone.
Yeah I don’t use iCloud either, but that method always worked for me, where it does fail for you?! What’s the scenario where it doesn’t return what you were looking for?
> we should use another word like "Automated User Feedback", or something else without the baggage.

Edward Bernays, propagandist, famously coined the term "Public Relations" to give propaganda a new name without the baggage the Germans gave it. https://youtu.be/DnPmg0R1M04?t=486

Telemetry, and the "baggage" associated with it, is the right word. We could be _more_ pejorative and call it "spying" or "tattling", but "telemetry" will do.
That only happens when the source becomes cheaper than black market.

The only way that happens is gov. Subsidies.

It’s why CO and WA and others still have such a large black market for weed.
Well, battery packs generally have about the same lifespan as an engine, give or take.

And with used cars will come used/refurbished battery packs for less than new ones.
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Ooh, where can I get a 2024 Camry for $3750?

(Actually it's interesting to see car prices in the US seem quite high when converted to AUD - e.g. the base Tesla price in the US is supposedly 48k, equivalent to 72.5K AUD, but they're advertised for 66.5K here. In years past I'm fairly sure that wasn't the case, though it's still true that on a PPP basis they're more expensive here.)
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It actually isn't just tax incentives.

All the EPA rules set MPG targets based on historical "fleet" averages of the car model + factored in the wheel base of the car.

Basically, the last 1.5 decades have encouraged automakers to keep increasing the size of cars because it keeps reducing the MPG target they must meet.
Zippers are a tough problem. When the best, YKK, doesn't work reliably, you must wonder.

I would ponder that velcro would be more reliable in a lot of use cases. And maybe there are solutions which don't require physical sealing, and tied or looped flaps would suffice.
When would this be better than

curl https://example.com/api/orders | jq '.data[] | {date, amount}'

or

curl https://example.com/api/orders | jq '[.data[] | {date, amount}]'

if you want it collected back into an array?
That's a possibility ... if it's your own money.

I'm pretty sure lotsofpulp's underlying question is, how would that - or any divestment - work when it's the PM's father-in-law which has the shares and is chairman emeritus?

Are all relatives within distance X supposed to divest? And if not, you can't become PM? Hopefully they all like you enough!
The most delicious was one of the Ghibli shorts they screen on 35mm only available to see at the museum. A bread making witch. Don’t recall the name.

My fav of theirs though is Mei and the Kitten Bus just wish I had a better copy of it
Is there evidence to support that "most of the time" he unmasks marks instead of the real actors?
The title "Blade Runner" was unintentionally borrowed from a 1974 novel by Alan E. Nourse, and it has no direct connection to the plot or themes of the 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott, which is based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The adoption of the title has contributed to the film's enigmatic history and enduring cultural significance.
PFAs just needs to be regulated, not banned. We absolutely should/must be able to buy an outdoor jacket that lasts decades, provided you traded that last one in to be recycled (sort like mandatory battery core recycling). Long lasting goods are far better for the environment then short-lived "recyclable" ones.

Do you fast fashion Nikes or bicycle chain lube need PFAs? No.

The hysteria surrounding PFAs is going to be a net harm, and some politicians need a wedge issue to vault themselves forward in the media spotlight to buy votes.

Reading the HN comments today is sad. I thought this was a science based community.
Trends in Alcohol-Related Deaths by Sex in the US, 1999-2020
Agreed. Even 50% of 300 miles is reasonable for commuting.
The Challenge of Intelligent Decision-Making
It is 100% a luxury product for one reason alone: weather.

Having lived in areas with harsh winters and then moving back to CA, you’re basically paying to gain an extra 3 months of life every year.
You would probably put the superconductor in the barrel and magnets in the ammunition :)
Nah, that belongs to Genera, TI and Xerox PARC.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36074845
Heya, I really appreciate you actually listening to what I said, instead of splitting hairs and arguing with me! Empathy is such a lovely quality.

To answer your question, I would (did, hihi) drop the 'man'. If you want to remain 'folksy', you could say 'my friend, ...'.

Finally, I agree that it was used endearingly - that's why my comment was pretty milquetoast :)

I recognize I'm asking you to do something 'extra'. I really appreciate it!
This is not snark, just trying to understand but: why would you expect a text autocompleter to answer questions about cutting edge material science?
In some (or all?) counties, if you move to another house in the same county you can keep your original tax base.

Transferring a Principal Residence Value within a County

“Proposition 60 (Revenue and Taxation Code 69.5)

Property owners of at least 55 years of age may transfer the base year value of their principal residence to a replacement principal residence. The replacement must be of equal or lesser current market value and located within the same county. Sacramento County does not allow base year transfers from other counties.”

https://assessor.saccounty.net/LowerMyTaxes/BaseYearValueTra...
If we stopped accepting jobs where they used surveillance software this problem would solve itself.

Startups have incredible precedent post-covid to not waste early capital on of all things... office space.

I used to be in the office camp, but you'd have to hold a gun to my head to waste 1/3 of my day sitting in traffic to sit in a desk to doodle on a computer somewhere else other than my home office.

That said, government employees in any form are stooges and the lowest of the bottom of the bucket. They're barely capable of doing their jobs in an office. (just renewed my passport)
Show HN: What you can do with 35 bytes of HTML and a single CSS file?
Hi! Minimal code required to render an contentful and styled HTML page with CSS consists of these 35 bytes:

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In the submitted link I try to share with you how it works and what are the limitations of this hack

I hope you have some fun with it :) Thanks

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The average is rising because dealers are pushing auto loans much longer than the previously usual 5 years. They are feeding people's lack of financial literacy with 7-8 year loans under the idea that you can buy a more expensive car while only focusing on the monthly payment.
The point is he is invested in Infosys because his father in law is invested in Infosys. Nothing can change that, other than him no longer being related or caring about his father in law, and hence his wife.
> It's fashionable to talk about China taking over

It's not so much fashionable as it is literally state propaganda used to try and shoulder its way into the South China Sea and the Pacific by claiming it is so prosperous and populous that it is entitled to increasingly large sphere of influence and direct control.
> And I don't understand _why_ it has to infer anything, as the type is explicitly declared.

The seq declaration doesn’t need to be inferred. However the right side does need to be inferred from the declaration.

> I mean, there are 2 possibilities: * 1 is both a valid integer and a float literal => Nim needs the type declaration on the left to unify the type

Yep, `1` is an ambiguous number literal. So the compiler needs to back the info from the type into the assignment expression. Not super hard to do for simple cases, but it can become expensive for complex types.
My point here folks is this is a knowable number if you want to know it. Just spend some time at the County seat and look at the public records for home sales. If you know a realtor you can pull MLS data and if you do some data science on it you can draw heat maps of neighborhoods where turnover is more rapid and those where it is less. Do a bit of legwork. I'll tell you that the retiree living in a home they have had for 50 years is an outlier, but encourage folks to go to the primary sources themselves, don't take my word for it.
I gather the auto pilot option costs another 15k.