skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The toxicity of Glide. PFAS is a very broad class of chemicals. The toxic PFAS associated with PTFEs are PFOA and PFOS, both of which were phased out in production in the 2010s.

Whenever this topic of Glide being toxic comes up they cite this article :

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/dental-fl...

Which is written based off this study:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-018-0109-y

Which is based off blood samples drawn in 2010-2013, which is at the time PFOA was being phased out of the PTFE production process due to lawsuits around the PFOA toxicity, which DuPont was aware of. The new process using GenX (seriously), which is known to cause problems too but at a lesser extreme than PFOA. However the issue with PTFE was with the residuals of PFOA which you don’t find in commercial PTFE for GenX.

And yes, PTFE is widely used in medical implants and devices.
Still the headline is deceptive. They 'tried to hack chatGTP model', not gain access to project or something.

More colloquially when someone says: 'someone tried to hack us', it means the hacker tried to gain access to the companies backend servers.
A simple power law formula tax solves the problem. Of course, it eliminates opportunity for corruption, so government leaders do not want it.
Well, if you think it's possible, try coming up with even the core of an architectural basis for

1. a declarative language for describing the same things PostScript describes,

2. which allows the rasterization of arbitrary shapes at arbitrary DPI (PostScript is DPI-oblivious — it's up to the printer what DPI it's printing at!);

3. and which also works for vector plotters, that will never rasterize the data you're sending at all, but will actually follow the bezier curves, like the 2D version of 3D-printer GCODE;

4. and which enables the implementation of this rasterization and/or plotting on a variety of affordable hardware architectures in the 1980s — where the 1980s was a time where CPU power wasn't too expensive, but where memory prices were at an absolute premium. So your printer might have had a CPU as powerful as your computer's in it, to crunch PostScript — but definitely wouldn't have had the memory to buffer a full rasterized page.

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To put that last constraint another way: PostScript was designed to be rasterized in a way that enabled printers to do something much akin to "Racing the Beam" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJFnWZH5FXc).

In both the display-rendering and printing cases, this was done in 1980s hardware, because 1980s memory was too expensive for most systems to be dedicating it to hold a buffer to asynchronously pre-render into and then read from when drawing.

So instead, in both cases, you must render+rasterize in one motion, programmatically and extremely efficiently. And the obvious way to do this, is by using a CPU with rasterization MMIO registers it can very quickly poke at, to change mode bits during the rendering process. A CPU whose ISA becomes, in effect, a Domain Specific Bytecode for procedurally generating raster-lines.

If printer vendors of the 1980s could have been expected to agree on a single such ISA, then chip vendors would have just made printer SoCs that conform to that ISA — and we'd have ended up with some kind of "vector-drawing abstract machine" bytecode (with real hardware impls in printer ASICs, but also virtual ones on PCs) rather than PostScript.

But as with RDBMS vendors in the 1980s, the printer vendors were all too invested in their own internal architectures to agree on what the low-level execution plan should look like.

And a with RDBMS vendors, the solution that all these 1980s manufacturers could get behind, was a standard for a (theoretically) portsable, text-based intermediate-language standard — one that could be generated by computer software, transmitted to their system, and then, inside their system, compiled down to whatever internal representation allows the system to do things its own way.

In RDBMSes, this "intermediate language" was SQL. In printers: PostScript.
They grow in the South and all the way to the Atlantic. Including small parts of the North Florida panhandle.
They just confirmed that 24 V2 minis are 17.5 tons. So ~200 v2 minis would be 150 tons. But v2's are probably bigger than v2 mini's...
Getting it to airline-level safety will take at least that much, unless they start flying multiple times a day without any anomalies whatsoever.
The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta
yes that's what I had in mind for thinking.
for measuring it's all the different ways we've seen the last decades from those who claim to do data-driven decision making go astray.
It's right there. unminified and unobfuscated. just click save
The low-hanging fruit has been picked. But part of that fruit was producing better tools. So we now have taller ladders. As a result, there is new fruit that now is low-hanging.
If I opened a laundromat I doubt I’d need to fill out something for the DOE.

I think this is nothing more than another agency using the DOE for a conduit to get that information for them.
Why does the first slider with the cube not say what the “one property” the slider controls is? Viscosity? Airspeed?
His mechanical watch internals page is also equally amazing.
> And hardly anyone in the US live in areas that have so low density that there aren't viable routes, on the basis of comparing with the density of routes that are served in other countries.

This is just factually incorrect. The vast majority of people in the US live in places with large distances between population centers.
It means that the field has grown a lot, and is now more diverse than ever.

NASA is great in some tasks (interplanetary probes etc.), but not so great in others (getting people into orbit). That is quite normal in every quickly developing field: specialization.

As an analogy, Microsoft is quite good at Windows on desktop, but failed miserably with Windows Mobile, and other players are dominating that field.
I agree. But anything causing even a 10% population decline over a short period of time would have insane second order effects (e.g. nuclear war) as we fight over control of resources.
It means that private industry is doing a better job of allocating funding and meeting demand.
Slight divergence of topic here, but is there a word for this phenomenon? Namely, when you know of a person through two very different channels and find out they are the same person. It happens to me frequently enough that I feel like it deserves at least a neologism of some sort, but I don't have anything catchy.

(I find it especially happens with bands; I had listened to both Failure and Autolux for years before finding out they shared a guitarist, for instance.)
'source' as in obviously a different place in Greece vs. wherever they came from there to (US?)

'variety' as in among those that are available - maybe what you can get grown easily and cheaply in Greece/med is much better than that in the US, which is perhaps also local but necessarily (or for better yield) a different variety, so if you don't pay any attention to it you get something different.

My point is it's not just passage of time that changed but also where they came from. If you think all tomatoes everywhere are (now) tasteless and you're one of the few enlightened ones who have realised this, you are absolutely kidding yourself.
AntsCanada is a great gateway into antkeeping but I would beware about the GAN.

I connected with someone listed on the GAN in my state. As I was working out the purchase and delivery, there were a lot of red flags, which I ignored because I trusted AntsCanada. The person said that they already gave away the species I wanted, but maybe I would be interested in other species instead. They pushed a species which isn't really known to native to my area, but he insisted he found them locally. They aggressively tried to upsell me on expensive extra supplies they said were critical to the care of this species. When I got my ants, they were shipped from several states away.

I reported this to AntsCanada. I'm not sure what happened, but I recently tried to get a different queen from GAN and I ended up talking to the same person under a different identity.

I'm sure there are some great people on GAN, just beware.

I ended up getting a queen from Atlantic Ants. It did ship across state lines, but the species is one that's ubiquitous in my region.
I’m deeply familiar with this technique, have used it plenty, have encountered the perils, and so I do not really understand why you think it works well on practice.

It works well in only the case where you have perfectly well scoped small regions that you can model as your lambda. When you need to actually do anything intricate with the lifetime where you want it to escape (probably into a datastructure), the callback won’t cut it and it’s on you to ensure the foreignptr’s lifetime becomes interlinked with the returned b
The sad part about this issue is that this was an ongoing problem. NASA 100% knew about; they just ... didn't address it.

Here's an account of just one such incident:

https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts119/090327sts27/
No repercussions, because being a common carrier is voluntary.

What I mean is, you can have a members only club that is not a common carrier. For instance a member of the hypthetical video snippet network SnipWit can communicate only to other SnipWits. This means that SnipWit is not a common carrier. They are obviously private, as you can only communicate to other members. Worse yet, there is obviously consideration required prior to use, which means they would be able to add even more draconian terms to their membership requirements.

I'll give a hypothetical. CostCo is members only. You're not a member, you can't get groceries there. Full stop. It doesn't matter if it's the only grocer in your area, you'll have to drive to find a Kroger. And to illustrate what I mean by the ability to take things further, CostCo could add racial exclusivity requirements to their membership clauses. Blacks would then be barred from shopping there like they are barred from certain country clubs. And it would be totally legal and well within the rights of CostCo, those country clubs, or the hypothetical SnipWit. Why? Because these are all private organizations and members only.

I guess what I mean is, a lot of people talk about Common Carrier being the solution while forgetting about the private/public aspect and distinction at play in those regulations. We normally entice organizations to become common carriers by offering them goodies on the other side of that. Like indemnifications for instance. But what happens when you have organizations that are already fat, happy and growing like weeds under their "private with membership" umbrella? What do you offer them? It's a tough problem. There's a lot of people and shareholders making a lot of money in the current model. Those people will almost certainly vote their shares against becoming a common carrier unless there is more upside in it for them somehow.
This looks incredible as usual. What puzzles me, though, is why some people find flying puzzling. At least the kind that we do, ie. helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. It's easy to accept a fan works: just put your hand there and feel the draft. A wing is just like a linear fan pushing air down. It's completely intuitive to understand for me. The difficulties are just in making it practical and controllable. Conversely, many people don't seem concerned at all with bird or insect flight, which I find a lot harder to understand.
There's often a reason that you want to encapsulate details of the behavior in a library. What if the definition of valid changes in the future and you need to adjust isValid() to also return false if the data matches some other criteria, like being out of bounds? You can say "just change the comment" but the comment is effectively part of your public-facing API and you've just introduced a breaking change.
In a perfect market, the profits tend to zero. This is a basic idea in Economics, and can be seen in any area of work that gets 'democratized'. Whether that's good or bad can be debated, but the outcome isn't very surprising.

Apart from a few (0.01% or lower) content creators, most do NOT have very distinctive content. In economic terms it's a commodity market, and therefore it's not surprising that it pays similar profits.
So then it’s possible a US military option (involving the Army Corp of Engineers) will be required to fix it. Those soldiers have experience doing work in the line of fire and have no ability to refuse.
If you think typed Python is awful, try typed Ruby
Both. I don't do day trading. I focus on the long run.

At the moment Apple looks healthy.

Somehow they were able to suppress the next steps of evolution of web tech.

The topic is so difficult because you can install third party browser, but not third party browser engines.

I never thought lawmakers will understand that issue. But some did and EU DMA is just the beginning.

Nobody needs native apps.

Why are there only few PWAs?

Because of AppleBrowserBan. Apple want you to pay the AppStore Tax.

As soon as there are alternative browser engines on iOS, the next innovation cycle starts.

I am optimistic, the web, the universal platform, will shine stronger and beautifully after the decade of "we need native apps".
2012 article so it predates my time by quite a bit. Not a thing anymore though.
Power is as important to society as water and food, and it is limited, particularly in Texas during extreme weather events. Understanding utilization and being able to restrict non-essential usage during a crisis is the prerogative of government.
Burger chain Wendy's looking to test surge pricing at restaurants
Oh, absolutely. But the level of hyperfixation present in American racism against Black people stands out whereas the other racism feels more familiar.

I guess the European equivalent would be the racism against gypsies with the distinction being that it's less prominent for simple demographic reasons owing to us trying to genocide them for centuries. Of course this makes it all the more shocking to Americans when it does come up because of how flagrant it is.

But yeah, Europeans are no less racist than Americans. I'd go even so far as to say milquetoast non-racism (e.g. corporate DEI, the typical "one of each color" groups of people in stock images etc) is more widely accepted in the US than here in Europe given how many racist comments I see any time an ad includes a brown person. I think however that that has less to do with being less racist and more with being more "politically correct" (in the original sense -- i.e. saying what you're supposed to say, not what you believe).
There are many instances of "please provide your best estimate" on the forms, which provides a lot of reasonable doubt for any attempt to prosecute fraud.

Besides, the rest of the data required on the forms is almost certainly readily available on monthly invoices from energy providers and suppliers (for the bulk of each Schedule 2's fields), an Excel inventory of their mining units, and a Grafana dashboard showing hash rate and load. These are the bare minimum data they'd have readily available just to ensure profitability in the first place.
People who take themselves too seriously have never appreciated being satirized.

Which is to say, even if they watch it they'll grumble and be annoyed and will not listen.
Thank you for this context. I literally did not know this about watermelons.
I'm 50/50 on whether Nordstream 2 was Russia or someone opposed to Russia because Russia's response to it has been indistinguishable from its usual disinfo dance when trying to shift blame for something they have done. I don't think it made strategic sense but neither did invading Ukraine (and especially not right before the start of mud season).

I thought with the cable the general objection to the Houthis having done it is that they're too incompetent to pull it off. I'm inclined to believe the Houthis did it as they could have literally done it by accident at this point.
Is there an API that could be used? I have a use case that I'm integrating into a larger software package, but wouldn't be using a cli/web app for that.
I think every engineer has been burned by faulty test equipment. and I think every senior engineer has been burned by not trusting test equipment that IS working properly!

that was a pleasant read
Yes, it ended up being a pretty good deal for the first students! They recruited some great people from all over (including a couple of my friends, which explains my unlikely knowledge of any of this…).
IIRC you can view the source and it's all custom WebGL available for viewing.
Interesting how types like you will never outright say what they mean because they know it sounds bad when you spell it out.

For example, how is it relevant that my bio includes pronouns and why do you insist on calling me "pronouns bio" because of it? What do you want to say?
What did general relativity clarify about mercury
Author here. Did not expect to see this on HN at all. Just an engineering war story I shared.
the question is what do you do with the technician after the 2nd mistake. that is to say, When does this logic break down?
A laundromat does not affect how much generation you need - crypto facilities can and have.
Great! Suggestion for improvement: drop the delay upon tap start. I guess this is due to a library function that's waiting for double-tap, despite this being unbound.
You think the nice Christians wanted to get rid of it earlier, it just took them fifteen hundred years of active participation in it because it was difficult? Ridiculous.

>You turn this around like it is the fault of the nice people that it didn't happen faster.

No, I don't think Christianity is to thank for the abolition movement, I think other aspects of politics and culture led to it.
10X Management represents me, for nine years now. I recommend them but not sure who they're taking on.

I don't speak for 10X, everything here my opinion, not theirs.
Summary from Gemini:

"This is an article about Julian Simon, who challenges the commonly held belief that the environment is going to hell. Simon argues that most important measures of human well-being have improved over time. He believes that resources are not becoming scarcer, but rather more abundant. For example, he says that air and water quality have improved. Additionally, he argues that deforestation is not a major problem. Simon believes that the environment will continue to improve as long as humans are free to innovate."
What about the Nissan Leaf?
Blows my mind that my computer isn't even turning on its fans considering how many shaders are running in this thing.
Study shows talking faster is linked to better brain health as we age
this is basically how whole countries can operate.

users=citizens&companies,

suppliers=foreign companies,

shareholders=bureaucrats&leaders
You are exhausted. That doesn't mean the concern isn't well considered by those who are presenting it. The problem is your emotional fatigue, not that people are insufficiently "circumspect".
Buying a Home Near Nvidia's Headquarters Is Nearly Impossible Right Now
Electricity is a utility, and utilities are a common good with regulated monopolies and oligopolies. Collecting data about utilities is necessary to manage this effectively.
Yes it’s nice like that. Specially for side projects on AWS that could go wrong on your personal credit card. Also I heard they forgave bills sometimes.
Hope this article was quite insightful. Please share feedback if any!
That is antivirus updates delivered over Windows Update, not Windows Security Updates.
https://archive.ph/EjzjY
I think maybe people are misunderstanding my second sentence.

I meant it is clear from the `.il` TLD that it is an Israeli site, so from that alone you might assume it would be 'Israeli news', but the name 'Globes' then implies that maybe it would be more global - world news, and so seeing as I liked the site I might therefore visit it more/bookmark it for general news; but actually it seems (from the articles on front page, the About page) it's not, and it is Israeli business focussed.
Pretty sure, considering I work in aerospace. Can you name any alloys or materials you've used which are in some way specific to aerospace?
Cloudflare pages is pretty much drop in for netlify. And it has unlimited bandwidth for free (at least in theory. Guess they might call you if your site does 1 petabyte per hour)
Why is everyone so hyped about caddy, I don't get it
Libre-SoC Open-Source GPU/VPU Project Loses Key Funding
Never used "netlify", but to me a product is broken if you are using the words free and bill together.

I wont touch a fake free service if it requires a payment method. Want my money, give me a reason to pay you, dont trick me into paying you.

Temped to go fuzz your product and document other dark patterns...
If you’re regularly a large customer like that, seems like just moving to AWS directly would make the most sense right?
Caddy is a wonderful alternative for nginx for small / medium sized projects I've worked with it on. Mid market enterprise is where I have seen alot of Caddy uptick as of late.

nginx has a ton of inertia, but Caddy is a welcome player. I highly recommend anyone into this sort of thing give it a try. The configuration is so easy by comparison and its handling of HTTPS certs automatically is a huge win.

I feel its a leap forward from the typical Apache / nginx setup to me nowadays
That's fair, I just can't do other things as effectively while reading
I locked prices for existing customers. So someone who signed up 2 years ago is still paying 250€ per year, while customers signing up today will pay 895€ per year.
What? A ciechanow.ski airfoil explainer? But I have things to do today!
Between credulity and postmodernism: the UFO's-as-space-aliens media insiders
Unbelievable that a nearly 30-year-old article is still (retroactively?) paywalled.
The entire right side of the periodic table is composed exclusively of forever chemicals by this definition.

Non-reactive also means doesn’t interact chemically with other chemicals, which is a desirable thing in a plastic that might be ingested. While maybe not awesome that it sits in silt not reacting to the end of time, if it also doesn’t react with anything in your body, it’s safe to take into your body, no?

The problem with some PFAS is they don’t readily degrade but they’re biologically reactive and interact with the bodies chemistry. That’s not a great feature. But it’s a huge class of chemicals, all of which are chemicals stable due to their carbon fluorine bonds - one of the most stable bonds in nature. But that doesn’t mean they can’t react in ways that don’t break the molecule apart, or form other chemicals that maintain the integrity of the C-F bond.

But it also doesn’t mean that they DO react.

Life isn’t so simple it can be reduced to a mantra like “plastic bad” or whatever. PTFE has a lot of very useful characteristics, and its lack of reactivity in the body isn’t the least of them.
But imagine the PsyOps impact of the enemy looking up and seeing the US raining down literal ODSTs on them ;)

Realistically, they'd be dropping into an allied base in-theatre with a pad able to support a Starship landing, and then taking conventional means the rest of the way. Of course, I suspect that when it comes to "drop operators from space" vs. "train extra operators who can be forward deployed," the latter is probably going to be way more cost efficient. Would make for a cool movie though.
When you're done with that, might as well cut your seat belts, rip up your condoms, and go for a smoke at the gas station. Or, knowing this crowd, maybe just open all your ports, drink some rainwater, fly in a Boeing, and sign in to Chrome. Live life to its fullest!