skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worse is, ethanol also has the same effect on gasoline and engines, however since GM needed something they can patent and control and exploit, they invented TEL and pushed it aggressively [0].

> So in February 1923, a filling station sold the first tank of leaded gasoline. Midgley wasn’t there: he was in bed with severe lead poisoning... [0]

This guy is an embodiment of quick-acting karma, and he didn't listen.

[0]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-...
Their interest is to convince themselves that it won't be needed in their lifetime, and to hell with anyone else after they are dead.
If you write Event-driven applications and need to update database and produce a event to a broker (like Apache Kafka), then this blog is for you. It demonstrates how Spring Modulith can be used to implement the Outbox pattern and update both database and event broker consistently.
LLMs don't do that unprompted, though. So prompting an AI to invent something and then file for a patent for the invention is comparable to using a template for the patent application. They don't have that kind of agency (yet).
It's completely new, and based entirely on PGP. The proofs are stored with your PGP key, so it's also decentralized. It doesn't have any amenities like chat or file storage – it only maps your social networks to a given PGP key. But I believe third parties (like Matrix) could step up and support it natively – all the benefits of Keybase, none of the drawbacks.
AVX512 added 16 more vector registers. Isn't 32 registers enough to unroll by 8?
In Poland there's also price per unit but with way smaller font than the price.
On Job Interviews
Reading this article reminded me that we need to think more about the whole lifecylce of a software product. I usually make the mistake developing a product thinking that it will exist forever and new features will be added continuously. The truth is: Almost every software product has a point in time where it is obsolete. (Maybe except some really big enterprise solutions or OS libraries).

I see these phases for many small software product:

1. Development Phase (Features are added continuously)

2. Maintenance Phase (No features are added, compatibility is ensured and bugs get fixed)

3. End of Support Phase (Basically no development happens for the product any more.)

The second phase "Maintenance Phase" is usually much longer than the development phase for a successful product. The cost during this phase heavily depends on the amount of features, that were added in the first phase. So be careful what you develop, you need to maintain it for a long period of time and at one point in time it will be obsolete anyways.
Another listener of Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales?
If not, give it a listen!
https://timharford.com/2022/11/cautionary-tales-the-inventor...
The story of the Radium Girls tell a similar tale. Lick your Radium loaded brush to sharpen the tip, totally fine. Then the company denies all responsibility, and actively oppose concerned workers that start losing teeth, limbs and eventually their lives.
lol, I might need to rethink my question.

https://xkcd.com/1425/
I don't know what this means
You can't use that to detect shrinkflation unless you remember the old price per unit, right?

Some NZ supermarkets have that kind of labelling, but not always for every product.

My regular (soon to be former) cereal has gone from 700g to 620g to 535g in about 3 months, all for the same price. The box has the same width and height, but the depth has been shrinking.
While the spirit of this sentiment is admirable, I think it's also very important to encourage men to take parental leave. Both for the benefit of actually bonding and spending time with their child, but also because it benefits the mother and ultimately family unit as a whole by setting the expectation that both parents will be equally active in childcare.

I don't know the specifics, but I think where I live some portion of parental leave days are allocated specifically to each parent and cannot be transferred. There is also shared parental leave where the days can be allocated as desired, but some are specifically earmarked for each individual parent.

Anecdotally, I've had many coworkers regardless of gender take from a few months to a year off to be with their children, and firmly believe it benefits society and the work environment as a whole for them to be able (and encouraged) to do that.
Don't tell me he took copper supplements on his holidays?
I use the work notebook lid for this.
At the end of the work day I slam it down and my brain stops thinking about work too (most of the time)
I work in a closet, it's in a London converted Victorian terrace house, a flat. The closet is 1.3m wide, 1.8m long... it is small, but it works.

There is background noise, from my partner, and occasionally neighbours and building work in their homes which can be as close as 2-3m from my window, but it works.

I attribute this working to several things:

1. buy a great microphone such as a Shure SM7B with a tight polar pattern focused on the person speaking as this will prevent the pickup of virtually all noise outside of that. this mic needs to be an inch or two from your mouth so you need a decent mic arm. any near-field studio monitor speakers are adequate, your mic will _not_ pick up the sound due to the polar pattern.

2. buy decent lighting, there's a lot online but you can default to Elgato Key Lights and these can do daylight temperatures as well as evening / night temperatures. you want two of these positioned around 45-40' angle offset in front of you on either side and just above the camera (you will not be staring into a blinding light), and one to light up the space behind you. alternatively a single key light with an umbrella / dome, and then 2 lights doing the environmental. this is a useful YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpEeYwrkBPU

3. if you happen to wear glasses and you have a DSLR as a webcam then consider getting a circular polarizing filter, as then you can remove screen reflections from your glasses trivially.

I do not use sound dampening / conditioning in the room, I have some books on a shelf which helps to reduce / prevent echoes, but otherwise I've done nothing despite it being a box closet / room.

I do agree 100% with Pamela that air quality is the biggest issue... everything else can be changed easily. Any CO2 meter, i.e. the Aranet 4 or equivalent, will tell you when to open the window a little, if the CO2 level goes above 700 I open the window.

The office is tiny, there's a lot of equipment in here... and so I never need to heat this room even when it's below freezing outside. In the Summer I need to aircon it, I use a portable aircon... and despite it being noisy for me, the Shure SM7B is basically miraculous and the sound of the portable aircon is extremely low and all of the noise reduction software works perfectly against it (I use Nvidia Broadcast noise reduction only during the Summer when I run the aircon).

Closet offices can work, but the microphone is virtually everything. it looks like Pamela is using the Elgato Wave, it's an OK mic and has a lot of gimmicks... but truly, just changing to a Shure SM7B https://www.shure.com/en-GB/products/microphones/sm7b and combining it with an audio interface like the SSL2 https://solidstatelogic.com/products/ssl2 with a FetHead on the cable https://www.tritonaudio.com/fethead would've cured most of the problems.

Only the air quality is hard to solve.
DDT as used is safe for humans though.

it's estimated that DDT saved 500 million lives. so you know, it's not black and white.

and FSD works, just not efficient if the safety parameter is set to high, because "suddenly" human drivers will start to bully it
“It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway” - there’s a couple posts in the series.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...
On the other hand, it makes me happy.
Good.
I would rather have the same amount of product I am used to and pay more than have less of the product in one package.

Same goes for quality. Don't degrade your product. If it gets worse, chances are I won't buy it, no matter for what price you sell it.

If you instead keep the quality and increase the price then I might be willing to pay up just to enjoy my favourite brand of crisps.

That said, it is probably better for me that a regular sized bag of cripsps is now 175g instead of 200g.
The text-only version: https://lite.cnn.com/2023/12/20/climate/nuclear-fusion-energ...
In terms of finishing, the best is found outside of Switzerland: either A. Lange & Söhne, or the very high-end Seiko (Grand Seiko and Credor).

Otherwise, real watch people buy vintage watches. Universal (tricompax), Longines, Zenith (el primero), Heuer (not TAG Heuer), Minerva (Cal. 48), Omega... And like with old cars, a real watch person accept a degree a quirkyness: less accurate time keeping (but honestly it's not that bad), manual winding every morning, a blemished dial and scruffed case, finding and befriending a watchmaker with the right skills to maintain it every 3-4 years...

It's part of the charm.

Like with cars, the current batch of watches - on top of being luxury items, when in the past it tended much more towards practicality and "toolness" - doens't have the same flair, style, history or fun.
> That fragmentation is one of the reasons why in the end you get an Electron app.

How so? I run Electron apps all the time. They behave like any other app.

> Most people don't want to spend hours tweaking Enlightenment themes, or keyboard shortcuts for tiled windows.

Most people don't want to run Linux. And I don't want to waste my free time experimenting with a critical desktop component.

BTW, remember those people who actually make Linux work for the rest of us? Many of them do want to do those things. It's how they got to be Linux contributors in the first place.
We have the same in the UK. On rare occasions there is a bad comparison between two products, one will be per kg and the other per item, but otherwise it's a great system.

The problem in the US is that food/ag corporations are powerful and always fight against this kind of consumer information. Same with ingredient and nutrition labelling. They want the consumer to have as little information as possible (information asymmetry is the term in economics).
Interesting but if you're expecting an actual OSS model, it's only usable through their API.
> The "Meetings" section might be controversial

I can't really say I found it all that controversial. If I wanted to be controversial I'd say that most recurring meetings and any meeting with more than 5 people are a waste of time.

I quite often ask someone who messages me out of the blue with a problem to book time in my calendar (which is usually at least 50% free). Because having a specific time to look at something is usually much better than me either dropping what I'm doing to think about something else or forgetting about their message and getting chased by them 3 days later.
> If you have 100 mice, it's quite likely that around 20 of them will die within one year of cancer.

If you have 100 people, about 40 of them will be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetime (39/100 females and 41/100 males). Note "diagnosed with" is very different from "die" and "over lifetime" is not the same as "within one year", but the probability of people getting cancer naturally is high as well.
Presumably you're reading the paper for a reason. Take why you're reading the paper and form it into a question.
New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMT
I stand corrected! Thanks
Note for Americans, many EU countries do not have any concept similar to Tort law under their legal system and thus the damages for fear will not be in danger of being set by appealing to a jury's prejudices in most (and perhaps all?) cases.

As a general rule I believe the American Tort system is one of the great benefits of the system, but people often get prematurely angry about the idea that people might sue companies for damages of this sort, so I just wanted to make this clarification.
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What is the point of this project? I can just add screens (which are stock graphics, can change the text).
I can add relationships between screens (but not clickable).

So this looks like a sitemap.

Is that all?
rectangles are very closely related (for all the reasons given in TFA) to the k-ary trees of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32507510
This blog post is literally unable to be read due to the medium spam that blocks you from reading the moment the page loads. I have no idea why people use medium still
Pardon the glibness but I feel humanity will survive longer without an asteroid-deflecting technology than if we own 1Gt nuclear devices.

If that's the scale required, I propose ignoring the possibility.
Reading about this — I'm sorry to hear about your loss! — makes me wish we understood the dynamics of things like this much better than we do. Some stuff seems pretty clearly "not good", but sometimes it's really hard to reason about what is bad as long as you're exposed and leaves relatively little lasting damage, or what can have bad effects with highly delayed onset, and how the mechanism of "setting in motion the delayed-onset damage" works, exactly — is it the substance that stays in your body and continues to do damage, does it throw some process off-balance that then continues to harm you even after the substance is gone, etc. If anyone has any pointers to sources that cover our understanding of this better, I'd be very interested to read more about it.
Storm Pia is passing over the UK today, and it is a very windy day [1]

[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-...
Here is some gunpowder, crafted by a "cosmopolitan" post WWII german jewish emigree. It's called the Jargon of Authenticity and it can be fun :
https://ia801903.us.archive.org/0/items/adorno_jargon/adorno...
How do you negotiate who gets to use their bomb for this? Whoever does it basically gets a free nuclear test that the other nuclear powers would probably be jealous of, but those same nuclear powers might also worry that their own bomb test, if they were permitted one test as compensation, might not go off without a hitch. They might therefore wish for there to be no nuclear detonations at all, to avoid the risk of being embarrassed. Furthermore there's also the issue of launch vehicle; some nuclear powers are more experienced with deep space missions than others, but fitting one country's bomb to another rocket may not be politically possible. America, maybe China, Russia or India could do it. The UK or France putting a nuke on an ESA rocket seems questionable. Pakistan and the other nuclear powers probably lack the requisite launch vehicle entirely but might publicly assert that the whole thing is a sham to violate the test / space weaponization bans.
On my mom's side of the family, there runs a genetic illness which is autosomal dominant, and inevitably disabling. If you have the gene, you will go blind before you reach old age. There are no treatments and the is no cure.

My dad, who is strict and obsessive about his diet, exercise, and overall health is right now facing two large, cancerous, deadly tumors. They are the result of a complication, decades later, from a then-undiscovered disease transmitted to him through a life-saving blood transfusion after a traffic accident in which he was not at all.

It seems clear to me that whether we retain autonomy, mobility, and health is hardly up to us. Disability and ill health are things that can come for any of us, and when they do, it's not always about the choices we've made in life. Securing mobility and autonomy isn't about assuring you will always be free of disability— it's about learning to do so within disability, which is practically inevitable.
Space is mostly empty, a random orbit is very unlikely to hit anything.
>Good. I would rather have the same amount of product I am used to and pay more than have less of the product in one package.

There was a joke in eastern europe (after the berlin wall fell, and all kinds of fraud and high inflation were happening) - The average price of a liter of gasoline fell by 4% last month, the average volume of liter of gasoline fell by 7% ...
This could be generalized to any url right? With maybe special rules so that you know how to get to the pdf for arxiv.
France also.
Self-driving is very easy to evaluate. We humans are potentially very good drivers, and in practice we all can say if someone is driving safely or not.

Chemical and biological interactions are very difficult to evaluate and predict, so I don't see the parallels here.

One is a very hard research field, while the other requires complex hardware, but it is readily applicable if/when it works.
The stones in the Menga dolmen reveal a great engineering feat of the Neolithic
Synth strings can be great, but in their own aesthetics. I'd argue the sample pack is much, much more realistic and rich sounding than any synth patch you can come up with. There's no easily programmable synth that can emulate the mixture of a dozen or so strings vibrating at slightly different pitches. Creating a single, somewhat realistic violin is almost impossible outside of very large physical models (there's a good model in Reaktor by Chet Singer). Even dedicated physical modelling synths fail at that task.
The speaker is a developer advocate working for YugabyteDB. How does this relate to Kyle's work?
This is the really cool thing about the internet. When otherwise would these 2 16 year olds have found each other?

They would otherwise have had to go to the same high school.
Unsure if it's law in the UK - but every UK supermarket I've visited has price per 100g / kg / litre / 100ml on every product.

Rather amusingly (to me!), lavatory paper has a price per sheet, which is abbreviated "sht"... https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/304782328
My wife and I have dabbled (with great success, but not for everyone) in keto for a few months at a time over the last 3 years.

Sugar has been added to basically everything at our Canadian grocery stores. Some examples:

Creamcheese + 600%
Fresh sausage + 300%
Cold cuts + 300%
Canned tomatoes + 400%

Of course this also coincides with Canada's lovely carbon tax (which is applied to our farmers).

Taxing the farmer is a problem because every person in the middle is marking up that carbon tax before passing it along. Just tax our food and call it a day. Otherwise companies will just continueto buy the tomatoes from Mexico and SHIP IT ACROSS 3 &$+#+$ COUNTRIES.
So if we package up AI into an autonomous loop, so that it can file for a patent unprompted, that is sufficient precondition to allow patents to be assigned to such a loop?
disease*
Go structured logging log/slog middleware
His latest documentary on the fall of the soviet union was fascinating, although admittedly very dry and difficult to watch since there was no commentary.

I feel that's really only for hardcore Curtis fans, which I'm sure, he knows would be interested in.
Tsar bomba was 100 Mt design, about 50 Mt test. Not much of a difference, you're going to be toast anyway (multiple "smaller" warheads are more economical and harder to intercept anyways).
There were some great ideas in the article that would also improve the working conditions in corporate offices. I especially like the curtain behind the chair in order to make sure that no one crosses the video stream accidentally. This is something that happens a lot in corporate open floor settings.

Apart from that monitoring the air quality is also something that usually is not done in the corporate environment.
Alternatively, skip all the meetings anyway and then fire your middle manager. Or, if that fails, go work for a company that values your time.
It's like saying your Tesla has better 0 to 100 kph acceleration than a 70s Aston Martin V8. The answer is "so what?". You're not driving an Aston Martin V8 for the best acceleration, or the gas mileage, or suspensions, or the ease of maintenance. You buy it because it kicks and roars and slips and smells...
Surely the counterfactual isn’t “what if we did nothing to reduce knocking”, but rather “what if we used any of the other substances which were known to reduce knocking and known to be safer, such as ethanol”?
Not sure, but it would be deployed by a ragtag team of oil rig miners...
> When will car manufacturers start taking responsibility for the behaviour of their customers?

I'd say never. Because they successfully lobbied against it and shaped public perception way back.

They used to be blamed for it. They just acquired and spent enough money to make it disappear permanently.
I wonder when they'll finally support view transitions.

AFAIK, there hasn't really been a roadmap for it, meanwhile a lot of people are already using them since they've become standard in Chrome.
I do use these labels when shopping, and it does help quite a bit. There are other underhanded tricks they use though.

Incompatible goods. Buy 8 buns for a 6 hotdog package. Jam jars of 600 mL but refill packets of 750 mL. Absolute madness. Why do you do this?

Store's own brand is like 20-30% cheaper across the board. How is this even possible?

And the worst one:

Incompatible units in comparison price. You buy popsicles, one box has them in money/popsicle, one box has them in money/volume frozen water.
Yes, it's an EU-wide legal requirement (directive 98/6/EC
on consumer protection in the indication of the prices of products offered to consumers).
I used to do the same, without public IP from the VPS.

I just used Cloudflare, and a Go package [1] to lock down access to anyone but Cloudflare (because at the time their tunnels required Argo).

I now also use a VPS that's dirt cheap [2] if you make it IPv6 only (I have 3 in 3 different availability zones for about 1.5€/mo, it's insane). Cloudflare exposes it as IPv4+IPv6.

Compute light stuff comes from the VPS, compute heavy is proxied home instead.

[1]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-cloudflare/origin

[2]: https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/
Anyone interested in discussing these topics, I'd like to discuss more, since it's what I'm working on. My email is my profile. I'm also participating in discussion on the thread.
The iPhone and iWatch are clearly status symbols. How many users really need the full power of those chips? How many actually use it?

I could go into very lengthy details into the technical prowess behind Rolex watches.
It's often those two extremes, and I like to claim your parents' type are the smarter ones. The others feel like they are above everybody else; everybody else just has unjustified fears because they are stupid and don't understand, and sure while there were enough instances in the past where something turned out to be a really bad idea much later, it never crosses their mind that they could make the same mistake, or any mistake at all. Just being exceedingly smart (according to themselves) makes everything they do and say true, safe and right.

It can happen at all levels, not just to "stupid people". It's just that those higher up the education chain can create far more disastrous results.
That's 5x larger than the Krakatoa explosion; huge but not alone big enough to exterminate humanity.

The most dangerous nukes are actually the smallest, since politicians may convince themselves that just a few small nukes is permissible, resulting in a rapid escalation that sees every major city showered with megaton h-bombs, destroying civilization and sending humanity into a poisoned dark age.

If it seems implausible that politicians might use tactical nukes, ask what those nukes were created for. The US made many thousands of them to be used against a conventional Soviet ground invasion of West Germany; lobbing small nukes at tank columns. Escalation from a conventional war to a nuclear war was a common assumption in the military planning of the late cold war. But sides anticipated it and were prepared to perform that escalation themselves.