skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cardiovascular disease imposes costs society, both direct costs through the medical system, and opportunity cost in lost taxes when workers die.

If we apply the logic above, those costs provide justification for mandating and criminalizing diet and exercise.
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Oxide and Friends Podcast – Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund [video]
In a private car, do I really need a law to cover that case? On public transport (a place where such mandates generally do not exist), I could see the argument because it’s standardizing behavior amongst strangers.

But in my own car, I have no problem telling people to buckle up or GTFO (or not, by my own choice). If I allow them to ride unbuckled, I’m voluntarily taking the risk one will try to go through the windshield via my noggin.
If the Minibone repo turns out to be malicious I don’t think it makes much of a difference whether they are committing as one anonymous user, or as 12 fake people.
Also worth noting that some past Automattic acquisitions have also been open sourced, e.g. Pocket Casts back in 2022. There's a LOT of stuff in the >900 Automattic repos on Github: https://github.com/orgs/Automattic/repositories
PFAS chemicals have been used in various industries and products since the 1940s and 1950s.

We now know that PFAS chemicals cause cancer in humans.

Humans have suffered from cancer since ancient times even though PFAS chemicals are a modern invention.

How can that be?
I have just finished writing a multiparty videoconferencing web app using WebRTC today. It was not easy (all tutorials are outdated and using libraries that abstract away WebRTC), but it was fun. I will check this out.
Hopefully a more "exciting day" for the users than when Pebble sold out to Fitbit...
Same as now. Driven by incompetent management.
This issue is the failure to latch the three latches on the bottom of the engine nacelle, each of which is capable of holding the cowling closed for an entire flight. These latches are supposed to be inspected each time they are used and if they are not latched they will not be flush with the nacelle and should be caught by whichever pilot does the walk-around.

So no, the most plausible conclusion is not a structural failure but that maintenance opened the cowling and then failed to properly latch it and that was not caught by the pilot who did the walk-around.
Macs don't support CUDA which means all that wonderful hardware will be useless when trying to do anything with AI for at least a few years. There's Metal but it has its own set of problems, biggest one being it isn't a drop in CUDA replacement.
The numbers you bring up are insignificant at the scales involved.

> Case in point: almost 40 years later, the Chernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone is still quite literally 1000 square miles.

Whole 1000 square miles? Looks like the habitable area of Earth is 24,642,757 square miles. That only leaves us with 24,642,757 - 1,000 = 24,641,757 square miles to work with. We are doomed.

> Fukushima will cost billions in maintenance for decades to come, so far has cost >$70 billionn and will likely approach $1 trillion byh the time it's all over [2].

That's it?

"The United States' reliance on coal to generate almost half of its electricity, costs the economy about $345 billion a year in hidden expenses not borne by miners or utilities, including health problems in mining communities and pollution around power plants, a study found." [1]

"[...] in the United States, particle pollution from existing coal power plants is expected to cause some 13,200 premature deaths in 2010, as well as 9,700 additional hospitalizations and some 20,000 heart attacks.

[...]

The report found that the total monetized value of these adverse health impacts add up to more than $100 billion per year." [2]

"Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil was responsible for 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, a staggering one in five of all people who died that year, new research has found." [3]

"Between 1999 and 2020, 460,000 deaths among people who got health coverage through Medicare were attributable to coal-fired plants, the new [US] study showed." [4]

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-coal-study/coals-hidden-...

[2]: https://www.gem.wiki/Health_costs_of_coal_plants

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/09/fossil-f...

[4]: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/23/health/coal-fired-plants-..., https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf4915
Yeah right. Appeal to the same court that opened the illegal inquiry. Good luck indeed.

What a vibrant democracy!
There are two projects that you may be interested in:

- helloSystem (https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/) —- an OS inspired by macOS that uses FreeBSD as its base and uses the Qt toolkit for rendering UI elements.
- ravynOS (https://ravynos.com/) —- a more ambitious attempt to create a FOSS clone of macOS. FreeBSD is still the base, but it does not use X11 at all for windowing.

There is also the venerable GNUstep project, which aims to provide a FOSS implementation of the Cocoa API.

These are massive undertakings. I haven’t kept up with these projects in a while, so I don’t know their current status.
Indeed. I go through a pair of TWS every 12-24 months - so far that has never been because of battery life. It's 20% dropping/damagingand 80% losing one of the earbuds.
That's what is so frustrating about people who oppose renewables - it's super simple capitalism at work. Once prices came down enough, why would you want to have to PAY for the fuel your power plant uses?! Install it and let it go!

This is also what's killed coal so effectively - why would any company want to provide all of those good paying jobs when they just don't have to! (this pertains to NG and other fuels, too - they are just so much less human intensive to extract once the infrastructure is established)
Dashcode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashcode

My headcanon is that this was secretly a test run for what an iOS IDE would have looked like under the original (pre-iPhoneOS-2.0) model where there was to be no native SDK since Dashcode 2.0 does actually include the ability to target iPhone Safari.
Wider war in Europe 'no longer a fantasy', warns EU's top diplomat
Saw Stop initially tried to get other companies to license their patent. They all declined because they didn’t want the extra cost. It was only after Saw Stop started manufacturing their own saws and proved there was a market demand for people not cutting their fingers off that all the other manufacturers suddenly decided they wanted to implement it.
Low chance of obese people recovering normal body weight (2015)
> Twenty-four 200 gigabit (Gb) Ethernet ports are integrated into every Intel Gaudi 3 accelerator

How much does a single 200Gbit active (or inactive) fiber cable cost? Probably thousands of dollars.. making even the cabling for each card Very Expensive. Nevermind the network switches themselves..

Simultaneously impressive and disappointing.
EQ can make a huge difference, and these days autoeq.app and the open data behind it make getting good EQ settings incredibly easy.

If you still like you want to use your wired headphones, something like the Fiio BTR5 is pretty excellent - you can use it either wired via USB-C for highest quality, or via bluetooth for convenience.
You wouldn't be implementing anything in software. The hardware would have decoding built in, so it's really just a question of choosing a bluetooth audio soc with the codecs you want and paying the licensing fees.
20-30 years ago they didn't charge extra for checked bags so more people did that instead of dealing with the carry-on hassle.
lol this is why everything is in an NDA upfront.

For us, every customer has pretty unique, so even two feature sets that look the same might have wildly different support agreements.
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Except panel prices aren't the only component of solar power cost. There's also installation, maintenance, and energy conversion.
You do have some kind of proof for this wild accusation.. right?
Probably those are students + hobbyists + maybe Windows game developers? Or my anecdata is just not representative.

Maybe Zed considered it is worth targeting only Mac audience, as it gives much higher rate of people who would actually buy their editor (i.e. the rate of professional users, who code for living, is higher)? That is my guess, I don't have any data to back it up.
I think that the entire net economy has to make new social contracts about price discovery.. somewhere between Debian and Oracle.. for example.. and I support open data generally. But how is it antithetical to make a service for site customers with a login? given high-powered robots on the net and very unexpected guests as a fact-of-life on the network.. this seems more like locking your door at night in a mid-sized town, not some deep betrayal of cause or rank hypocrisy .. no?
“iOS like” is not meant to be an insult. I’ve spent a considerable amount of time using GNOME and I find that iPadOS is its closest analogue — to me, it feels like what you’d get if someone were tasked with taking iPadOS and making it workable for desktop usage. There are a great deal of similarities between the two.
The CH Mach III looks tight!
I was messing around with a DOS game Sword of the Samurai and was wondering what types of sticks were being used by enthusiasts at the time since that game supported a joystick.

What kind of things were you playing with that when you purchased it new? I'm in this industry in no small part to watching my brother play Descent with a joystick in the 90s. I think his was made by the same company - F-16 Flightstick. I remember it having suction cups on the bottom though
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This isn't just about the feed. I once saw the remains of some cattle that got hit by a train and was dumbfounded by the amount of trash they had eaten. You'd be surprised by what they will eat and if the farm is pretty "trashy" that ends up in the cattle as well.
im not sure what you're saying, it sounds like you're referring to the building process rather than the buying process
Tesla Planted the Seeds for Its Own Potential Downfall
The good 'ol split-flap displays. Lots of good maker projects out there on this and some commercial providers as well.

Getting your hands on some of the old train-station split flap units is pretty tough. They can go upwards of $300 a character on ebay...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-flap_display

https://www.oatfoundry.com/split-flap/
Very cool project! Is there a timeline on upserts?
Love this idea. I might try this out with leaving my phone in my bag instead of at home, to start with, might be enough friction.
It's almost like the developers who do those FOSS apps aren't being paid to do it, and like Wayland hasn't being ready for production for all those 15 years...
Yeah, I suppose that's a fair point.
Google Lighthouse
PageSpeed Insights
GTmetrix
WebPageTest
Pingdom
YSlow
Chrome DevTools
Chrome browser
New Relic
Sitespeed.io
DareBoost
Saw Stop's original patents are expiring. Reaxx will come back on the market and there will be a superior alternative that doesn't self-destruct. Saw Stop defending their patents during their period of exclusivity is the entire point of the patent system. There is no reason to vilify them for it when they used it to launch a successful business.
Here is a link to Gass' patent portfolio:

https://patents.justia.com/inventor/stephen-f-gass

Notice that the vast majority of his patents have to do with various aspects of "active injury mitigation technology", primarily related to saws, and that the most recent one was filed in August 2021. The only patent being offered up is the original--- Patent 9,724,840--- which basically only releases a very specific, early implementation of the safety system that has since undergone 20 years of additional patent activity.
That he is orange is just a fact. What makes him a bad man is everything else he does.
The RAG from scratch video series on the Langchain youtube channel has some pretty good coverage of this and many other ideas. https://www.youtube.com/@LangChain/videos (the LlamaIndex channel is similarly good https://www.youtube.com/@LlamaIndex/
Snow doesn't matter. Rafters designed for a cheap roof plus snow need to be stronger to support slate or tile plus snow. It's a static addition to whatever else.
And most people would say it’s broken and only returns false positives. Well, half right, but the positives aren’t false…
Advanced Python Mastery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785005

Book: High Performance Python
87% of US Tesla drivers say they'll buy another Tesla – Electrek
You can make sure people who sign up use their company email. If they are found to add wrong information you can block their account.

You can also give companies an opportunity to reply to a post.
Whatever you do don't use Lulu. They sell your name to some spammy India based robocall center that keeps trying to say they are interested in improving/buying your book.
Higgs' bosons return to the universe
> Moreover, they said during the hearing that they'd offer permissive public licensing to their remaining patents should this rule be made effective.

It sounds incredibly naive to think this will happen. If they haven't done it so far why would they do it when the government mandates that you have to be their customer?
Volvo released it's seatbelt patent to the public, as TTS has vowed to do so if the CPSC mandates AIM. The last 20 years is not the present.

>However, one key patent — the "840" patent — is not set to expire until 2033. To stave off potential competitors, it describes the AIM technology very broadly. In a surprise move at February's CPSC hearing, TTS Tooltechnic Systems North America CEO Matt Howard announced that the company would "dedicate the 840 patent to the public" if a new safety standard were adopted. Howard says that this would free up rivals to pursue their own safety devices or simply copy SawStop's. At the hearing, he challenged them "to get in the game."
Not the same at all. He said he doesn't use anything from China.
I recently fell off of team 3.5mm-jack when I discovered USB-C headphones! These include their own DAC and that means they have the potential to be *much* less noisy than the usually cost-reduced DAC included in the handset. Plus this way I can splurge for one decent set of headphones and get the same mix on all my devices, which is good for composing.

So, the 3.5mm jack can die. I'm now on team "dual USB ports" to solve the charging-while-listening issue. Let's go team!
A note on terminology. Where I come from, at leat, a "cow" is a mature female breeding animal. We'd expect at least ten years out of such an animal, barring any unforeseen circumstances. A young, immature female would be referred to as a heifer. When the "cows" "calve" each year, obviously some of the calves are male and some are female. Most of the males will be castrated at a young age, for the purpose of preventing testosterone from negatively impacting the musculature in relation to meat quality. A castrated bull is referred to as a steer. A steer will almost certainly be raised for slaughter, and for that particular animal, an 18-24 month lifespan is a good estimate. A heifer may either be raised for slaughter, or may be added to the breeding herd. So their lifespan depends. Then there are bulls, who are males who are left intact. These are relatively rare, and their lifespans are shorter than a "cow," because their main purpose is breeding and they become less effective at that job over time. But longer than an animal that's sent to slaughter. Maybe 6 years or so. But the bulls probably don't affect the average too much.
Have been keeping my eye on these too. The approaches taken by the first two aren’t how I think I’d go about it, but I don’t have a project yet so what do I know haha.

GNUStep is interesting but I don’t see it gaining a significant following with Swift sucking up the majority of air out of the room for apple-platform-adjacent projects.
What did you find difficult about WebRTC? What could have been better/easier?
If you get in an accident and the seat belt saves your life you do in fact have to replace (at least) the seat belt.
My assertion is not based on pure speculation. There is zero evidence or rational thought that would lead you to believe LLMs will lead to AGI. Only hype.
> When looked at in totality, you can see the fingerprints of the change in culture of the designers. The men that created Civ I were unapologetically part of the Faustian Western tradition. Civ 6 was created by men who completely disconnected from that tradition.

I know it’s twitter is my expectations on supporting evidence are pretty light but there is no meat of any of this. It’s an interesting theory, but one that it would benefit from the author actually putting any evidence into building a coherent argument rather than just lamenting Civ 5 and Civ 6 as bad games, without much explanation why.
So secure that my Galaxy device refuses to use it.
Is there something in the Samsung Ecosystem that disables the use of the core android one?
I know I can use Samsung Smart things but the rest of my life is in the Google Ecosystem and I would prefer to be able to track my phone through that, especially as last time I needed it Samsung required me to 2FA with my phone to use find my device
I haven’t used pidgin in years but does that Teams plugin really work? I’ve seen projects try to integrate it into matrix and drop off because it was too hard.
Again, 60-80% of projects that cost tens of billions is in construction. 100m on land is trivial and doesn't budge this figure. The interest on financing has nothing to do with the actual cost of construction. That depends on how much working capital the builder has and how much they're taking out via loans. And it applies to any big construction project, not just nuclear power plants. Furthermore it means that improvements that hasten the completion of nuclear plants have an outsized effect because it means you pay off the load sooner.

There is nothing of substance in your comments that contradicts the claim that 60-80% of nuclear power's cost is in construction.
The US should do something like the BBC, as un-American as it is. Tax-funded state journalism with a "political views must be equally represented in the staff" requirement.

The closest is C-SPAN, but they're basically just Congress's A/V club.

It'd be nice to still have corporate journalism, ideally, but the economic model isn't there anymore, and, without it, there's too many toxic incentives like rage baiting and audience capture.
It looks like you can trade insights for an unlimited account, so I'm assuming they actually vet your claims, e.g. ask for identifying information on who you are and what your company is, and ask to see evidence e.g. invoices, contracts. I mean, that's how I'd do it if I was wanting to build a platform with trustworthy, essentially canonical pricing lists, and charging a couple hundred bucks a year for people to see that info.
Depends what codec! For 1280x720 with a VMAF score of 90 this is the numbers I use.

* H264 - 1.25Mbps

* VP8 - 1.00Mbps

* VP9 - 700kbps

* AV1 - 550kbps
A phenomon frequently called Poe's law! And I too am confused although given the context, I'm thinking "serious"
Fair enough! I've never used iPad OS so I wouldn't really have any means of evaluating that it, but the way you frame it seems perfectly reasonable, since it seems like you're granting that GNOME is at least adapted for desktop use. I definitely have seen that statement leveled in a dismissive way, though, quite possibly by people who have never used iPad OS or even regular iPhone OS, so I was assuming it was that again :P
> Sawstop already offered their key patent for free

They didn't offer the patent, the offered to offer. It's no different to when billionaires pledge to donate billions, yet year after year they're still on the Forbes top 100.

This is so naive to believe them.
Structural changes always take longer, there's more code the review, to port and to validate, along with many users who want their experience to remain bug-free.

Many projects are starting off 'wayland-native' and they are having an easier time.

Once you have users your side-project is a side-job.
My Apple Watch 9 is acting weird – Is this a bug?
There is actually a notice tag sewed into the seatbelt that is visible when too much force is applied. Most often the spool is no longer operative at that point as well.
Ha. I've owned a SS for five years and used several of their high end cabinet saws in other shops. No one is going to bother brazing on new teeth on a saw blade. They'll just buy a new blade...
> "iOS like"? At that point what does that even mean?

optimized for touch screens
> Also not exactly possible to expect confidentiality around prices because your banks and their staff will see it..

There's a big difference between seeing data in the course of your job, and being legally able to share it!
But your company doesn't use Git? That's all you need for .gitignore.
RIP the original Easy-Bake.
I think basically all non-PII data should be Free as in Freedom, but this is an interesting business problem. You can view it for free, if you submit 5 pricing datapoints of your own.

If it was all free, I suppose they'd have to reduce whatever friction they have in authenticating data input (I'm assuming they ask to see invoices or contracts for now), and run the risk of competitors pricing eachother up or just bad data being entered.
The Windows 11 installer is basically Windows 7 for the first part too, though this might be changing soon.
Haha. I actually thought Da Shi was pretty spot on, but maybe I was spellbound by the fact that they cast the same exact actor for him that I cast in my head when I read the books! :D Gruff Chinese detective guy? It had to be the detective guy from Contagion.
> automatic updates enabled is not in fact the same thing as reloading all your cryptography code every single time

It is absolutely the same thing as potentially reloading all the code on a regular basis. If you aren't monitoring the updates then "a regular basis" might as well be every time. Turn automatic updates off (but notifications on) on an android device and watch how many apps sometimes update a few times in a short period.

There is a minor gate in that there will be some cursory review of an update delivered via an app store, where a web server can give you updates literally every session or potentially every request, but that cursory check is not enough to give the level of assurance over js from a web server that some take.

> look what happened with xz, and note how you did not in fact get owned

The xz thing could easily have affected a great many people had it not been accidentally discovered. It shows why the app store model could be a concern as much as the js-from-a-web-server app model, not an example of how such gates truly make a difference. It likely would not have been picked up by the screening done in new app releases in a store, and likely nor would some hidden-ish exfiltration code.

The slow update process whereby changes upstream go through testing periods in "unstable" bleeding edge distro variants before getting into the officially stable ones only made a difference by chance. That upstream-to-enduser latency is much lower for E2EE apps in app stores - I'd argue that the risk is much closer to the web server model than the Linux distro model, and the distro model probably very nearly didn't help.
I haven't had a single headphone jack fail since my 2nd gen. original iPod (and I'm an avid headphone user). It had this special variant with a remote connection in an outer ring around the headphone jack, resulting in a weak plastic ring which broke a bit too easily from wear if you omitted the wired remote, and plugged your headphones straight into it.

But as others have mentioned, I too have had quite a few Micro-USB and USB-C connectors fail over the years. But almost never the trusty old and dearly missed minijack.
SS was not the only company to come up with blade sensing technology...