skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Plastic contaminates everything, even your implant.

The plastic breaks but does not degrade.

The microplastic becomes nano plastic, which breaks and becomes picoplastic which breaks and becomes femtoplastic and so on." [1]

No use getting fearful until you see some evidence. There's a lot more to fear right now to your immediate existence, if you want to exercise that nerve.

[1] https://www.implante.institute/artigos/microplastics-in-gut-...
It better be quantum safe at this point. Otherwise, another update would be needed soon.
> The problem is, how anti-septic is 2% beer?

It feels like you're deliberately not reading or addressing all the answers telling you that boiling water to make beer is what made it safe.
Have heard about this happening on multiple other platforms too.

Substack is human moderated but the moderators are from another culture so will often miss forms of humour that do not exist in their own culture (the biggest one being non-literal comedy, very literal cultures do not have this, this is likely why the original post was flagged...they would interpret that as someone telling another person to literally set their house on fire).

I am not sure why this isn't concerning: large platforms deny your ability to express yourself based on the dominant culture in the place that happens to be the only place where you can economically employ moderators...I will turn this around, if the West began censoring Indonesian TV based on our cultural norms, would you have a problem with this?

The flip side of this is also that these moderators will often let "legitimate targets" be abused on the platform because that behaviour is acceptable in their country, is that ok?
We have really over-indexed on this dopamine thing as a culture, I think. The important piece is the feeling of internal reward, not any specific chemical. The role of dopamine is so, so much more complex than "make brain happy." I don't think the dopamine response of the physical act of typing is terribly relevant here, for example.
Canopy is an open-source Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework
Hot-Patching a Third Party Binary Library
I actually just bought a 6th gen ipod classic. Converted it to flash and put a new battery in. It's definitely an experience, but it's been a fun ride so far
And at about 0.5% ABV you digest the alcohol at about the rate you can drink it (assuming you drink it at anything below a "competitive" rate. Just like, as much as you'd drink socially, or with a meal, or for rehydration)
I had essentially the same experience. I'm 67 now. My grandmother used to give me a miniature of De Kuyper's Cherry Brandy for Christmas from when I was six or seven, I made it last until after New Year!
I think this is how they saw my comment, but the human who reviewed it was clearly not doing their job properly.
This is especially bad in Starfield. On the galaxy map, one click sets the star as target to fast travel, but click and drag moves the map. Sometimes I actually had to hold the mouse with my left hand and tap the button with my right finger to select the star, all because of this little movement caused by the clicking.
Love seeing a whole new generation of companies, like Tembo, laser-focused not only on breaking PostgreSQL down to it's basic building blocks but also on all PG extensions that are out, many of which are 10+ years old, of mixed quality, and then going super deep on improving them, re-architecting them for modern workloads ("Twitter Scale as described in this blog post) with the idea there are enormous amounts of performance gains and/or efficiencies to be gained.
Isn't that the wrong question? Presumably unrestrained builders would be happy to sell to anyone, so you need the build rate where it is not profitable to invest in properties, not the build rate where it is impossible for investment to buy all properties.

And then it's logical that the one is lower than the other.
> In exchange the large employers force every employee to sign up for union membership. Sometimes the company itself signs the employee to the union, without any consent from the individual.

This is not the case in Sweden.

Maybe in the US?
That's what I'm curious about — everybody went up significantly in 2022, but if China was paying double for imports, then why wasn't everybody else having to pay double as well?

China procures most of their lithium through trade, so they're tapping the same global markets as everybody else.
There are a ton of universally recognized images.

Put the Linux mascot. Use the Windows XP background image. The Monalisa or the Sixteen Chapel.
If you hate capitalism so much, what are you doing on a forum for startups?
The whole point of the article is that what little we do know looks bad.
They didn't knew about bacteria and wouldn't have had the theory to explain why it would help.

Boiling water wasn't really that necessary because the medieval period was sparsely populated and people had access to safe water sources. I am sure they would have figured out boiling water if their survival dependent on it.

We know that People generally knew about basic hygiene and applied it even if they lacked modern theory.
The problem is exactly that Tesla refuses to bargain with the union. Once you are dealing with the unions you will be safe from sympathetic strikes.
This is what happens when you make a simple library and then raise a bunch of money at peak hype. There wasn't really a valid business path but now they have to find some way to make good for their investors.

If I'm being honest, LangChain seemed like it created more restrictions than it made my life easier. I found it far more flexible to write the few lines of code myself. Most people are consuming the APIs. The advanced cases get into modifying model logits and such, but that requires you run the model yourself.
You can also run Stable Diffusion in cpu mode, if you don't mind it being slower. I have an NVIDIA card but it's not powerful enough to run it. I'm on Ubuntu.
Bears are 75% water so it'll get you most of the way there.
Because absolute opinions on this are stupid. For every cutting edge cancer treatment we get, there’s another pharma company abusing their position to overprice specific drugs. Since the free market explicitly can’t rectify the situation (patents grant artificial monopolies, sick people have very little option to shop around) there should be some system to review and police the worst abuses. One can argue about whether this type of political review is the best, or if we should have a more structured approach (I would like that, tell Congress.) But just shouting that the current system is perfect and should be unrestricted is also a bad approach.
Hopefully that lasts! Where I live it didn't use to get hot,
so no one has air conditioning, but for the past three years we've been hit with a week of 32°C/90°f + temperature. Those that can afford it have added air conditioning, but as global climate change kicks in, I'm expecting more extreme weather to become the norm.
Same deal. We stopped subscribing to Bon Appetit, moved to a new house, and a year and a half later they started showing up again. Now I just have something new to throw into recycling as soon as it arrives and I can’t get them to stop because I’m not actually a subscriber.
There are, obviously, replacements for email. Most of us get a tiny fraction of the email we did just 10 years ago because so much has moved out of email and into other messaging systems. The faulty logic being used here is that there is nothing shaped precisely like email to replace email, and, of course, there never will be.
I do know the supplier I bought them from bought them in the hundreds. I also know I'm the first customer who has noticed they are counterfeit.
So, there is still enough money there I guess.
This was my initial reaction too, especially since "Decompyle" was a popular python bytecode decompiler ("was" because it seems to have been superseded by pycdc at this point)
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant.

It is ostensibly about the 2016 Fort McMurray, Alberta wildfires, but the background is broadly interesting as context for this last summer’s historic wildfire season and the ones sure to come.
> And just to add, the postal service in question is private and works like a private company, though the states of Sweden and Denmark fully owns it. Employees are not state employees.

I don't think you understand how a private company works. You can't say it is a private company owned by the state - if that is the case, it is a public government agency, no matter how you want it not to be. So in short, a government agency chooses if it wants to work or not...
> And the trade unions and the employers' associations like it this way, that the power is in their hands, and not in legislation. A government that would try to step on their turf, would be asking for a lot of trouble.

Part of the reason the US has so many onerous labor laws is not necessarily from anti-labor sentiment (though it didn't hurt), but part of anti-crime efforts to fight the mafia in the 50s and 60s.

"Sign this agreement with the Teamsters, or else your parts will sit at the dock and your customer deliveries will sit in a warehouse" was a very real and common tactic. So the US passed a bunch of laws against sympathy strikes.

Obviously the mafia is no longer a bit issue in the economy, but the laws are still on the books, and people in the US still feel uneasy about general strikes.
You're missing the point. I'm not debating the validity of whether people should leave Tesla and go work somewhere else. I'm saying that it's not a strike if you're just refusing service to a customer.

A strike - whether because of your circumstances or another's - is you downing tools and stopping working.
No worries, I completely understand!
Completely reasonable IMO to expect these to be problematic, right down to the scale of individual molecules. Once these compounds get into your body in such small particle sizes, it's obvious that they are not at all as inert as they appear to be on the "macro" scale.
I don't think that many people (anyone?) actually think Plan 9 is a good movie in the film critic sense. Rather it's something you should watch (or at least you used to) at a midnight movie showing because "it's so bad it's good" (or at least a lot of fun in the right context).
I know for a matter of fact that it is the case in Sweden with some employers. They'll sign you up for the union without your consent and without informing you. Then the union in their turn will sign you up with insurance companies and other third parties without consent of information. Just a bill suddenly arriving in your mail that you have to pay.
Another way is to write HTML/CSS and use satori [0] to convert that to SVG. It's meant for Open Graph images (the images that show up when you link a site in Discord, Slack, Twitter, etc.), but it works quite well for anything.

This is obviously not as flexible as true SVG, but it is familiar to author for anyone who's written a React application. I've used it on the backend to generate match reports for League of Legends [1]

[0]: https://github.com/vercel/satori

[1]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter-boys
> doesn't mean he didn't make the decision to trade

That is not how 10b5 works. His trades are set in advance. He made zero decisions about this trade.
Forced unemployment insurance is a supposed safety net, so should be open to discussion as part of solution. Let me opt out, or take premiums to a non-State provider.
Larger in what way? A starter can draw more than 300 amps in some cases. However a starter only needs to run for a few seconds and then get plenty of time to cool off. You can burn out a starter if you crank the engine for too long. By contrast a windshield wipers needs to run for hours when you are driving in the rain, and thus needs to be larger to dissipate all the heat. (starters are also typically series wound DC motors which are also smaller, they work great for starters but not for most other motor applications)
Big Idea Platform
The future of Intellectual Property. They are tokenizing IP and Intellectual Capital.
haven't thought of that program in decades, thank you. First time I learned about a null modem cable and just scraping the surface of RS-232. I also remember using crossover cables so I could network 2 computers on a high-schooler's budget.
Yes, and imagine if I would have figured out how to do the view transitions properly :)
> "not compromising on principles"

which almost always is immature behavior, whereas adults think solution-oriented, which sometimes is called "Realpolitik" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik).

Doesn't get better in this particular case where musk is opposing to officially agree to common worker protection rules, wages, ... he already follows. Just another case of "dumb behavior".
> No use getting fearful until you see some evidence.

TFA is precisely about early evidence that plastics at these small scales are biologically active and might have adverse effects on human health and the environment.
Purely speculative/anecdotal, but: Atari 2600 games are just not that fun. Of course, for a while it was the best gameplay experience one could have, but when the next generation of consoles came, it was flat out outcompeted.

I (and quite a few people) still play NES-era games, and not just because of nostalgic value. A lot of them are still a lot of fun. I have tried some Atari games, and with hindsight and the internet, I can target the best ones, or even recent homebrews that were made with current knowledge about gameplay mechanics, but at best they can get a few minutes of my attention mainly due to curiosity. Gameplay is severely limited by the single-button controller and processing power, very tight memory constraints mean very limited content (at best a handful of different screens played in a loop), and graphics are horrible. My brain can "fill in the blank" with NES-generation or later pixel art, but not with Atari 2600-style big blobs of color.
Why do people who have not tried modern AI like GPT4 keep making up things it "can't do" ?
> Allowing the government owned post office to pick and choose who gets mail just seems like a step too far.

The government isn't doing this, workers are.

Wouldn't it be more problematic if the government stepped in and forced the hand against their workers, and in favour of a private company like Tesla?
The buck stops with pico.
There is no way to know what effect a layoff will have on stock price in advance. This sale would have happened in the exact same way if the stock had tanked after the layoff.
Fascinating. Do you know why?
I don't understand why such legacy support is necessary for 99% of my terminal use cases. I just want to run command-line programs in something that doesn't emulate weird hardware from last century, but uses OS standard text input and display. I will never be convinced that setting colors and cursor positions with keycodes is a good design.
The alternatives are generally far better than email, which is why normal people (and most of us) get so little email these days. My email accounts have more life as a transaction recording system for online shopping than they do for interpersonal communication. Email has largely been superseded. That alarms nerds like us, the way it alarmed people when HTTP superseded purpose-built network protocols, but there is a losing side of this argument, and it's the side that is still using Mutt.
He is not omniscient. He doesn't know what effect layoffs will have on stock price.
Did not know this, I don’t mind learning something. You’s think though that autocorrect would pick up on that…
>Hard to ascertain harm because it’s endemic
Increasingly endemic because it’s hard to ascertain harm

I mean, given we've shrouded almost every consumable item in them, for approximately 40 years (maybe more!) we can be whatever harm they do is minor.

Like, it's not carcinogenic. It's far below, say, asbestos. Or arsenic. Or thalidomide.

We can be extremely confident, whatever the effects of micro and nano plastics, they're not even close to those levels of danger
I've lived and worked in the UK, the Bay Area, and Stockholm. Sweden does not pay as well but the employee/union perks & lifestyle is night and day compared to the other two. I definitely miss Bay Area salaries but I'm getting more holiday, I get paid extra for going on holiday, I get a years paternity leave & IVF bonuses, I get free healthcare (and most employers offer free private healthcare), I get a company car for very cheap, rent/properties are cheap and actually pretty large, the cities are built around nature, poverty is low, crime is low, people are happy...

I prefer the Nordic model so far!

Edit: I forgot the best one - unemployment insurance. If I get laid off I get my salary covered at 80% for 6 - 12 months (depends on the policy). This is through the union. Such a nice relief with all the layoffs happening in tech nowadays.
keyboard: Unicomp "new model M" https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/NEW_M

trackball: Elecom M-HT1UR https://forum.trackballs.eu/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=58

both products serve me so well I am eager to share the news, in hope others might benefit similarly. There's few other things I can recommend similarly, older "Puma" pocketknives perhaps.
I'm not saying they shouldn't go on strike. I'm saying that they aren't on strike, as they're still working. Refusing to service one customer isn't striking.
No benefit? I've seen estimates of $1000 in reduced cost due to reduced copper wiring, and more importantly the labor required to string that wiring.

Modern phones charge on 48V these days, so 48V parts are extremely common & cheap.
Objectively, yes. You don't need meat or animal products to survive. It's a luxury.
…according to you:) This is a so called sympathy strike: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action
It's really funny to see hackers fall in line to work at big companies. In the 90s all the true hackers hated large established companies and would show them the finger and work for scrappy upstarts. And now all the kids are bending over backwards to work for these large corporations doing hours of leetcode. What a shame.
Unions are simply like GPOs[^1] but with the most valuable asset in any organization. Their workers. It baffles me to read anti-union comments from fellow tech-workers.

It's so clear that unions give back a tiny bit of negotiation power into your own hands and yet people side with the exec whose only purpose is to extract as much value from the organization as possible.

You are supporting the "competitive labor wage based on your location" and the "we're a perfectly functioning organization but we'll layoff 10% of the staff because it looks good to stakeholders".

Why is that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_purchasing_organization
1. Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein — have read other titles by this author & they were mostly meh, but this is an incredible book, hard to describe, better to experience. Ostensibly is about how the author is often confused with Naomi Wolf who went down conspiracy rabbit holes but it is so much more than that.

2. The Myth of Christian Beginnings by Robert Wilkin — an older title (1971), short well written book on how Christians mythologize early Christians, & frame it as some static model of heavenly perfection that they're always trying to get back to, or maintain

3. Everyday Utopia by Kristen Ghodsee — on the surface, a book about utopian community experiments but is so much more, imaginative conjuring on thinking outside the box, how we blindly just accept things the way they are, so dismissive of nonorthodox ideas

4. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris — just as the title advertises, have read a lot of history but the 19C on California presented here was so interesting
Experts avoid PGP like the stomach flu. It'd be interesting if you could find a single cryptography engineer of note that has spoken up for it in the last 10 years.
Knowledge Mining for Decentralized AI
You would need larger wires to account for the losses at a house scale. Since nothing runs are 48 volts you still have the bad power supply in every LED bulb.
> There could be a business opportunity for supplemental market-priced contributions which pay on job loss.

Private job loss insurance exists already, its not an non-addressed potential market.
Of course knowing is different than indexing and they are routing your code to an LLM, so data exfiltration is also involved. I can summarize my project in two minutes to a collaborator, and they will have more knowledge of it than any indexing mechanism. The underlying connotation when you use the word "knows" is that you've shared it with actual people, not a vector database. And that is creepy. Not sure why I would have to explain any of this.
Yes they are because they are both activities that take up resources. And both are unnecessary because humans can feed themselves without using animals.
> it's not a strike if you're just refusing service to a customer...a strike...is you downing tools and stopping working

This hasn't been what a strike has meant in Scandinavia for a century.

I'm American. I broadly think unions are ineffective and corrupt. But it's ridiculous to claim this strike is unprecedented. Even the pattern of an American company being flummoxed by it is deeply precedented.

If you want to do business in the Nordic countries, you respect the collective-bargaining process. That doesn't capitulation. It doesn't even mean you must enter into one. But you can't blow it off, and at that so dismissively.
This is impressive -- Google sheets stalls out for me all the time with data sets that are pretty small, all things considered. What was your trick for making it so much faster inside the same browser? Anything design decision that stands out?
I hope he does, it would seriously incentivise someone to build a competing service!
I’m not sure what exactly the rules are in these foreign countries, but it doesn’t seem unbelievable that the state could end up bound by a contract with the union. In a good country, the state also follows rules and laws and makes contracts, after all.

Particularly, as you note, in the case of a pseudo-government agency like Postnord.

The only tricky bit, IMO, is the requirement that the plates must be delivered by Postnord. If it is a bit of law, it seems a little unfair that there should be a legal requirement to do business with Postnord.

I thought there’d been a story recently about some alternative arrangement where the plates were instead delivered to a dealership or something, and the people could pick them up… I wonder if that changed.
Even Roger Ebert who I think was both an excellent film critic and more an everyman in his tastes than Gene Siskel had a definite film critic mode that was more highbrow than my tastes (which are not especially lowbrow). You probably don't/didn't get into that profession without having some degree of film snobbery.
This isn't just wrong because of the beer thing, but people also drank a variety of herbal teas and other drinks, the most popular being a boiled barley drink. Just like now people prefer drinking something with more flavor then water.
I don't know Chinese but Google translate says "贤" means "virtuous", "worthy", or "able".

Is that word plausibly used to refer to devices to mean "it works" or "it passes tests"?
https://www.lifeextension.com/lab-testing/itemlc100087/hla-d...

I see that they're saying 24% of the population, not the 1-in-6 I recall reading from some other source. Also, I seem to have been wrong about the test's needed to be ordered by a doctor (except in Pennsylvania).