skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PFAS are a class of chemicals, not specific molecules. Depending on your database there are thousands or millions of them. Broadly they are fluorinated carbon chains of an arbitrary length. They are analogous to oils and fatty acids with Fluorine instead of Hydrogen. Banning them bans a wide arrange of industrial processes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...

PFOA is a specific chemical, and probably one of the most widely used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid. It could be replaced by something like ADONA. So there is the cat and mouse game. But by banning PFAS in general, you can ban pretty much all fluorinated chemistry from consumer goods.

Here what the EPA is doing is banning impurities. Any chemical reaction will have some side products, especially organic chemistry, which are labeled as impurities. No matter the exact fluorinated chemical used in the reaction, it will produce some amount of PFAS as side products. By targeting the PFAS impurities, they don't have to ban a specific input chemical, they can ban large classes of chemicals that produce similar impurities.

Environmental groups involved in the case welcome the EPA’s decision to essentially ban Inhance’s fluorination process.
My big complaint with NMS was that it does some things SO WELL that I want to play it despite all of the things it does so poorly. The player combat feels awful and clunky, but ship combat is amazingly fun and exciting! Exploring is great, but having to constantly find the same resources over and over in order to get off the fucking planet, or have a massive stockpile, is really boring. I also don't like being forced to build bases, like if I wanted to accomplish something by shooting and making money, I would rather do that than play a half baked survival crafting game.

I really wish that a game would come out that mixes all of the space and exploration of NMS but with the polish of a rockstar game like RDR, with the immersion of being a space explorer. I want fun combat with cover mechanics, I want trade and crime with NPCs, I want story (even if it is procedural), I want all of these things that NMS doesn't have. I look forward to this game because presumably they will have to focus on player combat and immersion more simply because there isn't a ton of space combat or similar. It looks a lot more "grounded", both literally and metaphorically, than NMS
That's cellphone carriers. MMS messages generally have to fit within 300-600KB[0] so they are horribly, horribly compressed.

https://m.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=mms
Stuff like Flatpak and Snap exists because the framework side kinda is built-out. Isolation technology had matured, newer desktops emphasized per-window security and needed APIs to portal in and out of each instance. The desktops needed a packaging/infrastructure solution to tie that together and make it presentable to the user.
Zulily and Jane.com their demise show that small e-commerce cannot compete against Amazon.
When you talk about the work owner, are you talking about the buyer who released it with the crack, or are you talking about the work producer?

Because I had the permission from the first, and a bit earlier when I bought oblivion in a second hand game store, the work producer didn't gave me permission either.
If you consider a container to be a limited distro, we turned one into the other
Hence I specifically wrote "use it"...

The GDPR use "process it", which is generic enough to cover AI.
Doesn't matter in this case.

An Xbox was ordered that's classed as a "high value" item so requires a OTP being given to the driver to release the package.

The package was hand delivered to the customer when the customer provided the OTP, but it turns out the contents of the package were swapped out with junk.
I'll add my own: prescription sunglasses. Game changer.
wxformbuilder can get you 80% there
FT is losing control over comments
I used to enjoy going to the Financial Times comments, but no longer. The FT has lost control over comments.

Letters to the Editor was ye olde print version of comments and it worked. Let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater. The letters added customer written content, but via a human editor.

Investigative journalism is what the FT is known for. It is an old fashioned idea, but it works. One cannot imagine an AI robot doing investigative journalism. Human journalists using AI might work and might leapfrog NYT - New York Times - who employ human editors as a gate to comments; this works but is expensive.

Or maybe the FT could moderate comments via an algorithm, similar to how Hacker News does it.

What do you think, human editors or an algorithm? Or is there another way?
There are some programs that sell binaries but also give away the code.

The premier pixel art editor Aseprite is free (source available, not open source) if you're willing to build it from source yourself, but most users buy the prebuilt binaries. I think this way you satisfy both the privacy conscious / cheapskates, and also the developer's economic needs. RMS doesn't approve I'm sure, but you can't please them all.
Yes, I would echo this. In most categories there are loads of subpar efforts when putting all that effort behind the top few would yield a handful of excellent apps.

Collaboration can seem daunting and hard work, but it's work that will yield results which is time better spent than that devoted to projects that end up abandoned.
I don't think this saves Amazon money. They have a huge problem with internal, for lack of a better word, corruptions.

* Packing people who don't care if high-value items are broken

* Delivery people who fake deliveries and steal

* Co-mingling of fake items with sellers

... and so on.

Because the delivery person wasn't investigated, they'll steal again and again, and that will spread to others in Amazon culture. Good companies do investigate issues like this one, and keep the business clean. Once a culture of theft creeps in, it's a lot harder to fix, and it oozes $$$ at a crazy rate.

This costs them a massive amount of money. My guess is there is no one in the corporate hierarchy who cares enough about their employer to fix it (everyone I've met who works for Amazon is a disgruntled employee).

There is a slight bit of short-term savings, but around two years back, I stopped ordering anything from Amazon which might be subject to fraud or safety issues (e.g. high-cost items, food, medicine, SD cards, SSDs, brand-name clothing items, etc.). This year, I cancelled Prime. There's just too much fraud going on.

I can't imagine Amazon is saving money when XBoxes and similar items get stolen, and I can't imagine long-term success if they're bleeding customers and brand value.

If AWS wasn't tied to the retail division, I'd be shorting Amazon retail right now.
Gross value added per worker by country and area in Europe
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-252-how-broken-br...
I live in rural new mexico. When we moved here 5 years ago, even the most available item shipped using Prime would take 3-5 days to arrive (and more typically 5). Over the last year, that has shifted to the point where some items arrive next day and nothing takes more than 2 days.

I would not generalize from my experience. I would suggest that you do not generalize from yours.
Nothing will beat IMUSE from Monkey Island 2. Maybe because of the way MIDI worked versus the "pre-rendered" audio used today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjtxK_WT784
In case buying doesn't work. Then you wakeup with a coup in your back yard.
Can confirm. Had a situation with 3.5 where it was refusing to show me example Ada code in response to the prompt “Give me some Ada code”. It was responding with something along the lines of “Ada is not used in Python and therefore I cannot help you with this request”. My custom instruction is “We use Python 3 with strict typing”
Developers are most often also users. This is especially true for free software.
What about the concept of a window? Can anyone own that? Or, a cat octopus? How about a discarded piece of fruit?
I consider a container, shipping the developer's computer into production, or the revenge of microkernels, take your pick.
You pay less. I did the math on other sellers versus Amazon, factoring in cost of dealing with fraud@Amazon. Paying a little bit more sticker is much cheaper than getting cheated once in a while.
And yet became a official standard anyway, and was occasionally actually used, despite the fact that is was obviously backdoored to anyone who knew anything about (elliptic-curve) cryptography. (It's literally a textbook-exercise leaky RNG, of the sort that you would find under "Exercise: create a elliptic-curve-based RNG that leaks seed bits within N bytes of random data." in a actual cryptography textbook.)
Since around 5000 B.C.
I would disagree that that constitutes a "fundamental advantage"
I simply refuse to buy high value items from Amazon these days. Especially Apple products.

In fact I tend to buy most goods via local same-day delivery or pickup.
It appears to be used for infrastructure, including things like power and transportation signals here in the US.
https://www.freshyacht.com/blog/The-5-Best-Things-About-A-Ya...
(Good) baristas dial in their grind size multiple times a day due to environmental changes like humidity, and I daresay the decor of a coffee shop is designed to motivate appetite. Not sure if that completely answers your questions but they've certainly been considered before.
That's a great book, and (speaking as a carpenter, though in the USA) accurate and well observed.
"I don't want anyone thinking I support Musk."

Twenty years ago we would have dreamed of an all-electric superfast luxury all-American best selling practical EV. The model Y is that.

I can't speak for you, but if I asked you twenty years ago if you would have wanted that, my guess is you would have flipped for it. If I told you the price was that the CEO would be an asshole, you'd have shrugged. Obviously I'm projecting and you may have been consistent, but I also think it's possible that we often obsess over unimportant details and take great stuff for granted.

And EVs really are good, so you'll probably get one. And if not Tesla, there's a good chance that you'll be "supporting" the Chinese Communist Party or whatever.
It was a huge surprise that ChatGPT is popular?
Amazon's market cap soared when profits were negative. Amazon was building up reputation, logistics, and customer relations. As far as I can tell, they've been torching all of that long-term value for about the past three years.

That's a huge loss of value.
The Wera Toolcheck Plus has been a great addition to my toolbox

Generally now grab it first, when a job comes up!

https://products.wera.de/en/ratchets_and_accessories_zyklop_...
Username truly checks out. And yes, a prophet far ahead of his time.
are there sidewalks in the city? are the roads in good condition?
You don't really need to understand elliptic curves to understand Dual EC. It's a public key RNG. The vulnerability is that there's a matching private key.
The "scene", no, but demos? Arguably, yes. The demo scene was little but the evolution of demonstrations of tech or art from doing it as e.g. part of a product demonstration or research to doing it as art or for reputation.

E.g. the IBM 7094 "singing" Daisy Bell in 1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
Depending on format your genome can be upwards of 100 GB. Granted they probably don't use full sequencing for analysis. They probably use just genetic variants, which is about 300 MB, so would fit a single CD.

I imagine a couple of floppies a year might've been cheaper in 1995 than a CD.
Thanks! Just issued a new release to iron out the quirks.
Lately I've been seeing comments like this surprisingly often, but my firsthand experience tells me otherwise.
There are several factual inaccuracies in your account.

Historically, Jews faced widespread animosity in Europe. The Roman Empire's destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD is a notable early example. Jews were wrongly blamed for the Black Death, leading to widespread pogroms and massacres. During the Crusades, particularly the capture of Jerusalem, both Jews and Muslims were massacred. In 1492, the Spanish Inquisition resulted in the expulsion of Jews from Spain, which had one of the most significant Jewish communities in Europe. Many of these expelled Jews found refuge in Palestine. The history of Jewish persecution also includes severe instances in Russia and Poland, and the situation in Germany is widely known.

By the 1900s, Jews and Palestinians were coexisting relatively peacefully in the region now known as Israel and the Palestinian territories, even though Jews constituted only about 3% of the population. However, relations began to deteriorate with the onset of mass Jewish migration, which saw the Jewish population in Palestine increase to 30% within a few decades. Tensions escalated dramatically following the British decision to allocate over half of Palestinian land to this minority population.

It is also misleading to suggest that there wasn't a significant effort by Jewish people to relocate to the Middle East. The choice of Palestine was intrinsically linked to Jewish historical, religious, and cultural identity. For the Zionist leadership, any location other than Jerusalem was unacceptable.

In essence, this was a chiefly European problem outsourced to the Middle East.
I think I would be happy with same, but only the nicer biomes from NMS without any of the environmental hazards that are all basically the same.
> without knowing sed or similar

Not having to know sed or a similar tool.
Most unix tools are structured in lines, columns, etc. anyway.
If you're getting FBA, it's just an optimization of throughput. If there's enough folks in your area with Prime, trucks are going around your neighborhood daily anyway, so it's better to send a full truck, even if it means things get there early, then to send a partially empty truck twice.
Sorry I did take a bit of liberty with quoting you, the correct quote is: "Bombed basically every hospital" ... "basically" is basically a filler word that does not change the meaning. But I apologize and promise not to do that again.

I don't think changing "settlers" to "security forces" or conflating "issued an evacuation order" with "bombing", or "torture" vs. "things that happen in prison" is having a discussion in good faith. Many of those killed by the security forces were killed while they were attacking Israelis or during combat or clashes. If you're willing to have a discussion in good faith I'm happy to engage but you'll have to stop doing that. This is not helping some of the valid points you're making. "But what about the west bank" is a common anti-Israeli propaganda tool on social media. There's a lot to unpack there but I think it should mostly be an orthogonal discussion to the war in Gaza.

https://embassies.gov.il/UnGeneva/NewsAndEvents/Pages/Hamas-...

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/hamas...

I think specifically with ambulances there's a few ways to think about this:

- What is the benefit that Israel derives from attacking ambulances?

- What would be a reasonable standard of proof here? If forces come under attack from an ambulance, they bomb it, and it's destroyed, how do you expect Israel to prove that?

- Is the Hamas a signatory to the Geneva convention and are their methods typically in line with the laws of war? Are they generally honest? Moral?

- Did Israel order evacuation of those areas and give ample time for this evacuation to happen in accordance with the laws of war?

I think if you answer these honestly you'll say that Hamas would certainly use ambulances if they felt that was to their advantage and that Israel would not generally target ambulances intentionally. Is there a large gray area? Sure. Is it possible that Israeli forces would have a "light finger on the trigger". Sure. It's a war and it's their lives. Do I think that allowing Ambulances to operate within combat areas is a high priority for Israel? No. There's a big difference between actions that are within reason and actions that are intentionally evil. The goal of many people saying "Israel attacks ambulances" is to paint a picture of Israel being evil. They want to take a single ambulance that was attacked in a major scale conflict and use it as a propaganda weapon against Israel. That said Israel should be expected to follow the laws of war and we should demand that it does.

If our goal is to end the war and to make some sort of progress for the benefit of everyone involved I don't think inflammatory language or evoking anti-Israeli emotions is the way to get us there. I can get behind that goal if the methods are different.
Netscape had a feature called LiveConnect that allowed interaction between Java and JavaScript. See http://medialab.di.unipi.it/web/doc/JavaScriptGuide/livecon.... for some examples of how it worked. Even though AJAX wasn't available yet in 1998, I think you could have used LiveConnect to achieve the same thing. Java applets had the ability to make HTTP requests to the originating host (the host that served the applet to the browser).
I'm sorry but this isn't indicative of the reality of driving in NYC. If you drive into NYC, you will have to park. When you park you'll need to pay for a lot or a garage. Daily parking in NYC can cost $50-100, monthly subscriptions can easily run over $500. Even if the unlikely happens and you find a parking meter those are $10 an hour. Poor people aren't driving into NYC, they're commuting on trains like everyone else. It should also be noted the congestion fee is for driving into Manhattan, not around.
My Thinkpad Yoga 11e running Manjaro, got this refurbished for $160.
The amount of AI generated SEO spam.
They shouldn't have done that though. Filtering is not the solution.

OpenAI terms of service explicitly say it cannot be used to create a competing product.

Is it hard to filter ChatGPT output from random chats shared in articles? Yes, it is. That's their problem though.
That is a pretty cynical view. They just got the thing up and running. They will fix parts that are messed up.
In Paris I get next day delivery on most items.
My first thought was Untitled Goose Game! So cheeky and fun how the music works in it
When were profits negative? AFAIK Amazon.com may lose money but AWS more than makes up for it. Amazon.com is a long game to monopolize retail logistics, which they are just now starting to offer as a service to other retailers, meaning Amazon.com is of less importance.
I would really like to see a guide, mainly for parts, where I can get this above USBC and bluetooth kit, as well as a m.2 solid state and a bigger battery all in one.

I would really like a music player that is very detached from my phone that has all of these nice features, has a crazy good battery life, and is reasonably modern in function. I feel like the only way to get that nowadays at a reasonable price is to make one, and universally the iPod deck is considered the best value for what you get, especially at used prices.
I saw gamestop the movie recently and it was stated as fact towards the end, IIRC. I was just vaguely remembering it, but I believe it is proved.
Why would you expect them to exist? This is an unexpected war fought defensively in response to a surprise attack.

When responding to the second largest terrorist attack ever, step 1 isn’t “sit down and write a long-form justification of your right to defend yourself, in English, for the benefit of skybrian’s curiosity.”
If the EPA could instantly ban chemicals and disable specific verticals then it would be used as a weapon. Just lobby against your competition's process, and kill them the moment the regulation is enacted. Regulations should be strong, but hard won.

Also PFAS are legitimately useful in many industrial contexts. But maybe we shouldn't be using them in places like food packaging that people reheat in microwaves.
I'm not very experienced in photography, but I would be very surprised if phones have caught up with cameras in terms of sensor size and lens size.

In regard to lenses, I can see that the phone lenses are still much smaller than those of standalone cameras.

And since cameras are less size constrained, why wouldn't they put bigger sensors into them?

And it's not only about lenses and sensors. All of the buttons and wheels are now pixels. And you can edit your photos right on a phone. And put them on social media. No teenager would ever swap their phone for a device without software to put the photos directly on Instagram.
Quite common brands sell handbags that cost several month's rent of a western european house. An airplane costs millions. Military planes billions. Amounts so staggering large they could easily pay for the rebuilding of entire countries after a disaster.

> for elite goods back then

This hasn't changed.
> Target All The Linux Distributions

> Unlike other platforms, Linux is a very diverse target. There are hundreds of Linux distributions, some more popular than others. Once published though, applications can generally work everywhere.

> There are well documented software packaging and distribution systems which enable developers to get their applications into the hands of users.

> Each developer framework and Linux distribution will have their own recommended route to users. When you’re ready to share your creation, the development documentation will signpost their suggested packaging guides.

“Your apps will generally work everywhere” and “there are hundreds of distros and you have to do work to support each one individually” are essentially contradictory, no?
One quick improvement would be to have a Readme.
This. Making tracking annoying to consumers is feature, not a bug.
The main options that I'm aware of are: selling support (RedHat), donations (I can't recall examples but they do exist), open-core (GitLab), and paid hosting (WordPress). In the past, there was also the option of selling physical media (which the FSF did for GNU projects, for instance) but that's been killed by the Internet.

All of these models are very hard to get working (e.g. the donations model requires that you have a very large number of people interested in your work who are generous with their money, kind of like Twitch streaming), but they can work. They're not an option for the majority of programmers, though.
Don't forget to encrypt.
Huh - I've had Amazon prime 'guaranteed' n-day delivery fail twice in succession for a 90GBP textbook. I'll put this down to incompetence rather than malice, but imagining the disappointment of any potential thief of it served as some compensation.
I’m not sure it matters. For any interest or hobby, doing it my way, to my taste, is the entire point. If someone else doesn’t like it or can’t tell, that might actually be an advantage.

I don’t think I would be able to tell - I make fussy coffee, but not to this extreme.
Plume's editor is a block-editor I wrote completely from scratch using C++ (model) and QML (view). This allows me to create an advance editor that can have complex elements (like Kanban, Columns, advance image components, etc) within the text. The performance using Qt C++ compared to Electron is a mssive improvement over current web apps (like Notion and the likes), and actually, i's even faster than native apps on macOS (Craft, Bike) and apps made in Flutter (AppFlowy).

Example: https://imgur.com/wajSjbn
(I'll implement the Kanban feature next week (:)
You’re not just wrong but also racist. There are numerous historic examples of historic muslim majority countries and empires which had thriving non-muslim minorities. An easy example is the Ottoman Empire which had Jews, Christians and Muslims living under muslim rulers. Persia/Iran has always had non-muslim minorities for over a 1000 years, some thriving more than others.

But you don’t even need to look into history. Today Malaysia and Indonesia both have non-muslim minorities. Bosnia and Herzegovina has slight muslim majarity and is doing relatively fine.