skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between my wife, dog, and I we've gotten about a dozen in the last three weeks (we are frequent visitors of forests/fields around here). One of them was in February which I've never seen before. Apparently it takes several days of 10 degree weather to kill them off so I doubt it will slow down much from the last couple days of cold.

Unfortunately one of them was a deer tick that dug into my armpit, so now I'm playing the "wait and see if it's Lyme" game :(
He's not wrong, everything is plastic packaged in more plastic. So far industry has been totally unwilling to change that en masse. Often doubling down in fact.
No, I haven't read or written about it I'm afraid.

System level fakes is how I achieve it though. They're often more costly to build up front but they're extremely reusable between projects and you can use them to construct better, more realistic fixtures.

I suppose it is still dependency injection of a sort - but it's dependency injection that is A) stack-agnostic and B) invisible to the app C) connects much better to the outside world (e.g. real databases or filesystems).
Just go for the job you want. Don't burn other companies and waste their time to exercise your experience.

Your limited experience - internship as work history - will already allude to the fact that you don't have interview experience. You can address that up front during the recruiting process.
It goes without saying that a piece of software can't be a copyright holder.

But the person who uses that software certainly can own the copyright to the resulting work.
Of course it does. At minimum you need to have your dev team program these features so that they can be disabled without breaking anything else. At the absolute minimum, QA and all costs involved are doubled for the foreseeable future.
Yeah, or a RCE that allowed them to directly hit each individual client, rather than coming from the server?

Seems there are mentions of Easy Anti-Cheat having a vulnerability, but I'm not sure how trustworthy that is. It's a widely used anti-cheat, if it has a vulnerability, it would be big news, bigger than the "Apex Legends final being postponed" story.

But who would blow such a 0day on ruining a competition, instead of doing something profitable and sneaky? Gotta admire that, seems it was just for "fun".
No, it is just a numeronym[0], just like K8s for Kubernetes, g11n for globalisation, i18n for internationalisation, or L10n for localisation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
"You have to tell people if you're lying" isn't a stupid rule because lying is good, it's a stupid rule because liars can lie about lying and proving it was the original problem.
I'm not really clear on the asbestos risk. Everything I've read and heard seems to indicate that the panic around asbestos might be overblown. Asbestos is unsafe but it is a matter of degrees. In certain cases like loose-fill insulation or certain situations where workers grind/cut asbestos regularly, it seems to cause a meaningful level of risk. Especially for those who are already smokers.

But having gone through a remodel in a house with asbestos, I have been blown away at the extreme level of regulations, the meticulous procedures that remediation companies have to follow, the tens-of-thousands spent on remediation and repeated testing, and the tens-of-millions being thrown around in courts whenever Asbestos comes up.

As best as I can tell, the risk is close to zero for minor and occasional exposure in otherwise healthy individuals. I'm open to seeing hard evidence to convince me otherwise.
Must have been time when spec wasn't stabilized and browsers have been introducing it. Those times are long gone.
PFAS will mess you up. Badly.

"How bad could they be?" You ask. "They're incredibly unreacitve!"

Enter steric interference.

Also, there's a very good reason we do animal studies; because, unless there's a really good reason why something (say burnt food -> we've coevolved with cooking) wouldn't affect humans, if it kills animals, it kills us.
This article was written by my wife a while back. It is part of a series she wrote to help people think about Vitamin D. She's actually doing a facebook live presentation (and taking questions) on Vitamin D next month if anyone is interested [1]. She's doing consults all day today and tomorrow but I'll let her know this is here.

[1] https://fb.me/e/4WMVAXS9u
Are they going to ban tiger's eye
Well, that constructor by default sends all the headers you have for your own domain and auth you are entitled to. This is how all other APIs in browsers work due to security and privacy concerns.

If you call to other domains, then this problem is no different to what we had with CORS years ago.
Is it actually embarrassing for Lemon? He took Musk at his word, and Musk proved to the world once again that his commitment to free speech is one-sided. Who else would have had the opportunity to expose Musk's hypocrisy in this manner?

If Lemon's so-called naivety was so embarrassing, why would he publish the interview in a different venue? Sounds to me like Lemon doesn't have anything to hide here, and all the egg is on Musk's face. If anything, engaging with Twitter looks like a smart move on Lemon's part because the attempted cancellation raised public interest in the interview. The opposite of naive.
That's one reason I do not like people doing software/computer/AI thinking themselves smarter than people doing other industries.

I know a lot of people who are very smart, many of them are not in the software/computer industry.
If the contents of my ibuprofen bottle changed due to regulatory changes, then it wouldn’t be weird to have that cited at all.
Perhaps controversial take but Asimov is much stronger in his short stories. I never cared too much about Foundation, too pompous.
SV3D: Stability AI's 3D Generation Using Latent Video Diffusion [pdf]
You'd think they're evil too if they let a bunch of middlemen and parasitic companies dictate how the software you invested untold sums and hours developing and marketing should work.
Agree with this. These CEOs try and use the line that your not going to get rid of oil completely to get people rilled up. Noone is expecting that - though the thought is to significantly lower our reliance on it through new technology adoption.
Talc, ie baby powder. Its still too common in cosmetics too afaik
Whole article is a bit rushed. Seems like a knee jerk reaction based off the tech demo of “Devin AI”.

I’ll admit the tech demo was impressive on the face of it. But it had all the flags showing it was a well rehearsed demo (think Steve Jobs and original iPhone debut) or even simulated images and videos. For all we know the code was written well in advance and recorded by people then tech ceo Steve Job’d the shit out of that performance.

I notice the ai is still in preview and locked behind gate
Saudis grappling to cope with a trajectory they have no control over. With EV, heat pumps, utility scale battery storage ramp rates, not much demand left if its only aviation and plastics. Certainly not enough volume to maintain long petrol delivery supply chains, not to mention refineries reaching end of life and no one wants to invest in an industry with a death date.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39575172 | https://electrek.co/2024/03/02/1-in-5-new-car-sales-globally... ("HN: IEA: 20% of 2023 new car sales globally were EVs, curbing oil demand")

https://www.ft.com/content/b255d7b9-88f6-4481-a3a6-87542d2b7... | https://archive.today/eC5Pp ("Zombie car factories on the rise in China as buyers opt for EVs")

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/09/21/the-ev-revolution-in-5-... ("The EV Revolution in 5 Charts")

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21419505/oil-gas-... ("Big Oil’s hopes are pinned on plastics. It won’t end well.")

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-21/scotland-... | https://archive.today/nrat5 ("Scotland’s Fuel Binge Offers Glimpse of Future Without Refinery")

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/narrative/production/sub-to... ("Refinery closures lower domestic crude oil distillation operating capacity, but refinery utilization rates remain flat over the long term")
I'm afraid I don't follow how this is responsive to what I wrote.
I would say it's "surprisingly modern" and quite prescient - definitely worth reading.
FWIW EasyAntiCheat are saying they're not to blame, and the finger pointing at them was only speculation in the first place.

https://twitter.com/TeddyEAC/status/1769725032047972566

Unless something similar happens in another game with EAC I would assume it's exploit(s) in the game itself - the remote attack surface of the game is orders of magnitude larger than the anti-cheat after all.

> Yeah, or a RCE that allowed them to directly hit each individual client, rather than coming from the server?

Maybe, but Apex has dedicated servers so there isn't a great deal of client-to-client communication to potentially exploit.
1/6 is 4/24 or 16.6%, I don't see why we have to be so pedantic.

That aside, the work of prioritizing accommodations is already done. Just read through the WCAG criteria, start with level A, then AA. They already determined what the most critical issues are to accommodate everyone who uses your app. I find it extremely callous to frame people's ability to use your product in terms of the revenue they have to offer you. A storefront has to build a ramp because everyone deserves basic human decency, not because they want wheelchair users to spend money inside.
And furthermore, that accessibility is useless.
In 100 years I bet those same stringent policies will exist for fiberglass batt
Seconded. The windows power users are the worst to land in Linux. Most users do just fine on Linux(kde or gnome), or on Mac, assuming someone installed it for them and takes 15 minutes showsing the correct apps. Surprisingly, a lot of them seem to like it better than windows.

But the people who know every Windows nook and cranny suffer hardest. They have so much to learn and unlearn, and they have work to do on a system that fights them. They'll be the loudest grumpiest customers in a switch. If they want to give it a chance and do the effort, it seems to take about a month before they reach equal productivity. If they don't want to give a different OS a chance, I rather see them continue running windows.

Each their own favorite tool, I guess.
Researchers find unanticipated complexity in aging brain's memory decline
There are some interesting hardware solutions from camera makers that provide provably authentic metadata and watermarks to videos and images - mostly useful for journalists, but soon consumers will expecting this to be exposed on social media platforms and those they follow on social media. There really are genuinely valuable things happening in this space.
I don't see how JetBrains can fix (or even be expected to fix) this problem long term. It's a macOS/Java problem that can only be truly fixed by Apple and Oracle.
Sure, but ensuring all mechanics everywhere have access to use PPE, and then enforcing its correct use is way less effective in practice than removing the hazardous material from the workplace entirely. Being exposed to any fine particulate matter over long periods will be detrimental to health (we aren't evolved to breath large amounts of dust), but not every particulate is an acute carcinogen.
One of the ZX Spectrum's contemporaries, the Jupiter Ace [1], had Forth built-in instead of BASIC. Sadly:

> This difference, along with limited available software and poor character based graphic display, limited sales and the machine was not a success.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
We can't have the proles misrepresenting reality the same way that the rich have been doing for the last century. Rules for thee but not for me.
"Why would game developers care about memory safety, performance > everything"

At least this remote-code-execution was essentially "harmless" as these things go. Who knows if the next one will be, or even if this has happened with malicious intent before - without attracting so much attention.
That study kind of proves that economics is not a science. Not even the "true" value they want to compare their forecast with is correct. It's also just an estimate. Complete nonsense.

"To assess the quality of the forecasts, they are
compared with the actual GDP figures. Since GDP is
normally revised several times, it is necessary to
decide which figure to take as the outcome. Following the literature, we use the first available estimate
for real GDP growth. In our case, this is the annual
average calculated by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco) in March of each year on the
basis of its quarterly estimates.2"
Country at risk of heading into an economic calamity and sliding into irrelevance on the global stage puts out PR talking points saying the thing keeping them going but looking shaky is actually all just fine. Shocking.

I don’t disagree, just probably the worst spokesperson on the planet to make this point.
Given a random set of realistic-looking real and AI images, we have found that humans usually score in the 65-80% accuracy rate.
You can give it a try here: https://sightengine.com/ai-or-not
Sorry to hear. Yeah this weird winter is super unusually warm where I am too, though we've fallen back into seasonal normals in the last week. I've been keeping an eye out for ticks, but so far nothing.

I've only ever seen deer ticks here, never black legged, but they're definitely in the area.
Googling this it seems it doesn’t cause headaches. Also if you’re doing the remediation, you should have PPE and good protocols to protect you.
It goes without saying that provisioning an army includes feeding them.
I am often picky about my/our time being wasted by low-effort comments but in this case I actually was myself coming into this thread assuming the actual tool being discussed was itself going to be an LLM-based solution; and, when it wasn't, all I was thinking was "aren't we in the future? isn't this just something people are going to ask an AI to handle now?".

Hell: a friend of mine claims he asked Claude (using some plug-in in his IDE) to port his app from Firebase all the way to PostgreSQL and it just did it... and it mostly worked well enough to save him a ton of time typing and looking up syntax for stuff, and I think it is now in production?

I do agree, though--and maybe this was your core point--that maybe this "let's ask Gemini" comment should be left by someone who would also know if the answer was correct rather than just saying "no clue but". Although, honestly, even having the output seems useful here (and again: I am someone constantly unhappy about people asking questions they can Google and other such filler content).
Apple can sell on its own website and it will have good demand but than it will affect their M3/M2 sales. Also leftover inventory could be easily be sold via stores/BestBuy and all.

Also, quote from article - " But it looks like Apple is going to keep producing the M1 MacBook Air for this deal with Walmart."

Walmart article - https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2024/03/15/walmart-brings...
You do realise that maintainers of open source projects don't owe you anything, right?
Now if only oil wasn't a finite resource...
I think iPhones do some pretty complex image processing, and other brands of phones go even farther. I believe there have been instances of phones adding in completely new details (although maybe I hallucinated that detail).

What’s the expected result and also what should we put as a “true” answer if we take a picture with our phones and upload it?
Sounds like my shadetree approach means I’m steps ahead of the pros.
Get onto some open source work or ask around to see if there’s any startups you can help for free from which you can learn more up to date tech. Only you can change this situation.
It does, but if you're calling it from the browser you can't add arbitrary data to them (the way you can in e.g. a `fetch`)
I remember when Saudi Aramco went public, they initially wanted to be listed on the NYSE, but financial disclosure requirements made that unattractive for them. In other words, they refused to legally disclose how much oil is left. Now, the CEO claims that peak oil won’t happen for the foreseeable future, but if that were true why not list on the NYSE?
Operating out of thin air! No servers present at all!
The author is periodically active on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=devaboone
Vitamin K is needed so that calcium doesn't build up in the vessels but goes to the bones where it's supposed to be. But, taking D and K at the exact same time reduces the absorption of D.
Certain goods sold in the EU are required to have CE marking to affirm that they satisfy EU regulations.
RIP, McQueen :pray:
The problem is that there wasn't a rule that could be used to take a misleading video down. Now there is.

Finding out a video is maliciously fabricated is a different problem.
Ok but, could we not use green electricity to capture carbon out of the air and make plastic that way? Might be more expensive, sure, but seems possible?

We can also probably reduce our use of plastic in packaging by quite a bit. Drinks used to be packaged in glass bottles. We could go back to that.
I agree and would rate it one of the top sci-fi series of all time. The office aesthetic is so well done and there is not a single bad role or actor. I keep waiting for season 2. Nothing else measures up.
Elite in nation built on slavery and fossil fuel struggles for relevance. More at seven.
Independent mechanics never wear PPE and they are covered in dust and automotive fluids daily.
Your argument lies on the assumption that consumers are too lazy to follow their favourite content creators to new payment avenues.

The reality is that a number of artists have already added crypto as an alternate and additional payment stream, and this includes comic artists and illustrators. This trend will probably continue as more platforms and payment processors make changes that are generally against the interests of their users (eg: the OP).
Chronic toxins that affect us over decades are difficult to detect. For starters, few studies last the long.

That PFAS are very unreactive is meaningless. They still occupy volume and therefore affect kinematic rates and occupy reaction sites.
Data mining was already addressed. There's a copyright exception that says you can data mine publicly accessible stuff, as well as outlining who can do that and for what purposes (mostly scientific).

2019 Directive for Copyright in the Digital Single Market, articles 3 and 4. The two regulations kinda complement each other.
That's the weird thing about about this field, the definition for ultra processed they use is pretty arbitrary from (iirc) some Brazilian paper. And still, effects are found.

So it's really important what the mechanism is why e.g. it leads to higher calory intake.

I think it's something to do with mouth texture or chewiness that causes us to eat more of processed foods, but I've only read a small bit.
From a Google/Alphabet perspective it could also be valuable to distinguish between „original“ and „ai generated“ music for the purpose of a cleaner database to train their own music generation models?
Yes. This is a legislative implementation of the Evil Bit.
Well what'll end up happening is you will use the army to control territory and extort regular tribute from farmers in exchange for you protecting them from other raiders + you not taking their stuff. You can also provide your army with stolen farms, and call them up to service when needed. Congrats, you are now a feudal lord.

This is what the current government does but in the post-apocalyptic world it'll be less fair and more expensive.

The reason why government exists is because it solves very real problems. If there is state failure, we're not going to devolve into a libertarian utopia. What is more likely to happen is what has already happened in countries such as Somalia or the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Compared to the amount of oil used for making fossil fuels plastic is almost a rounding error. So he's technically right, but not really if you look at th bigger picture.
> Everything I've read and heard seems to indicate that the panic around asbestos might be overblown. Asbestos is unsafe but it is a matter of degrees.

Oh definitely. Like, if you ask the EPA, they'll tell you that there's "no safe level of exposure"...which is true at a population level (and completely understandable for a regulatory body to say), but terrorizes the kind of people who panic at the idea of chemicals.

You don't want to be breathing the stuff when it's floating in the air, but people absolutely freak out over the idea of being near anything containing asbestos, even if the stuff is sealed in plastic or ceramic -- tons of old floor tiles contained it, for example. That's pretty obviously harmless, unless you grind it up and aerosolize it, but it triggers the same level of response as fraying asbestos pipe insulation.
Not sure why this comment is being downvoted. Thinking about accessibility is likely to positively impact your product or service's user experience. Not everyone has low/no vision or uses a switch device, but keeping those users in mind will allow abled folks to benefit from your design choices as well. Have you ever used a UI and complained that elements provide ideal contrast, or that you're able to use your keyboard for interactions?
It seems to be a uniquely American thing. In my country at least (Australia), anything that benefits the common man isn't labelled as communism. It's probably related to hysteria induced by McCarthyism.
Everything is a finite resource. No?
Normally modern brakes do not contain asbestos. All major car manufacturers have not used it in decades. Why was it still being used at all?
https://motherduck.com/duckdb-book-brief/
Talc has sometimes been contaminated with asbestos, but it isn't a use of asbestos.
I strongly discourage anyone to use such tools. More often than not they make the user experience even worse for users with disabilities, and they paint a huge target on your back that litigious users will take advantage of. The majority of a11y lawsuits target companies that use these overlays[1].

[1] https://www.accessibility.works/blog/avoid-accessibility-ove...
Interesting event! One of those ones that really suddenly brings back to cyberpunk decades ago and makes me feel like we're living some of it now. One comment in their comment section caught my eye though:

>"It really is incredible that they would run these finals on the live internet."

I think they were thinking in terms of doing in-person physical LAN versions, and as another reply said that's a not insignificant undertaking in terms of cost (if nothing else, just plain having potential competitors from all over make their way there), though given all the amateur traditional sports that manage it for everything from surfing to dogsledding I'm a little skeptical that it'd be that impossible for these companies. But yeah it's a jump.

However, I do wonder if there's ever been any consideration to using VPNs to that end, at least for the finals? Have players set up a WG tunnel to the mothership with all other networking disabled just for the match, that'd be about as good and if it was super easy seems like players could be onboard for it as well. It wouldn't be some big interfering kernel thing like so much anti-cheat, not anti-cheat at all in fact just security against external griefing, they could turn it right off after. Given this is clearly unusual maybe not something to worry about in general, but could be an approach if it proves a bigger problem.
If someone else uses the same AI generator software and makes the same piece of music should Google go after them for it? I don't think that would hold in court.

Hopefully this means that AI generated music gets skipped by Googles DRM checks.