skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Reducing PFAS in our drinking water is the most cost effective way to reduce our exposure,” said Scott Faber, a food and water expert at Environmental Working Group. “It’s much more challenging to reduce other exposures such as PFAS in food or clothing or carpets.”

This says nothing of how impactful the different types of exposures may be, or if a partial reduction is meaningful when we still have other known exposures that we think are just too hard to deal with.

Sunken costs can be a bitch, but I really don't get the argument that removing exposures that we are adding into food, for example, can be hard. Just stop using PFAS chemicals, period. Its not hard or expensive, just stop using them and companies will stop manufacturing them.

Removing PFAS chemicals that are already out there, like in our water supply, is the difficult and likely expensive change. Giving up any process or product that creates more PFAS contamination is the easy one, and would make a huge dent in the contamination problem as part of the issue is that we continue to add even more chemicals into the environment at a faster rate than nature can deal with.
Yeah, that must be why it's been such an overwhelming success story ever since Munich started it in 2003.

/s, in case anyone wondered.
Their external and internal structure, shape, colour, density, etc….
Reading your profile page, you missed making a new account.
Unfortunately a weird train wreck of wrong and strange statements.
Letting them out in the spring and seeing these large, generally "lumbering" animals run, hop, and frolic in enjoyment is a scene one never forgets.
Big Tech's grip on social media is a growing problem
I switched to a home water still, and the distilled water it produces is amazing. It tastes so silky, nothing like the gross distilled water from the store (probably because I store it in glass bottles only).

I highly recommend it.

After each batch, all the residue that remains in the boiling chamber is revolting. It smells absolutely vile. I can't believe I used to drink that.

I went with this instead of a filter after finding out most filters use plastic mesh screens, that actually increase the amount of plastic in the output water.
Climate change is rewiring fish brains – and probably ours, too
Why add the complexity of having to maintain an Ansible installation, a logging stack, deal with their upgrades and whatever python issue one might encounter. I had the issue of Ansible builtin `shell` not doing the right thing (sh vs bash) or it being unnecessarily slow when uselessly looking up `cowsay`.

Adding layers and layers of tooling is often overkill and it is hard to bit the simplicity of 33 lines of shell when the use case is a single person doing the code, deployment and maintenance.
Lots of good answers to your question already but I'd add one - anonymity. It's a lot easier to be a dick on the internet than it is in real life.
If it's trained on data covered under the GDPR then it means you're 1) a "data processor" of that information and 2) there's a risk of it reproducing that information in some form.

In the case of #1, they probably do not have an agreement with the "data controller" in the case of scraping, which means #2 is a violation of GDPR.

IANAL.
'Hottest Ever' March Is 10th Month in a Row to Shatter Heat Records
This is actually the classic example of where personal accountability fails, which is what cigarette companies would lobby for. Which is the root of this post

As a result governments have stepped in and now there are age restrictions on both smoking and alcohol, blood alcohol limits for driving, lockout laws, no advertisement of cigarettes in supermarkets, additional taxes on cigarettes, plain packaging on cigarettes.

Making something immediately completely illegal isn’t necessarily the correct course of action. But governments have stepped in to try and help people exercise personal accountability.

Disclaimer: the examples are from within Australia
> People are broken. Perhaps they always were.

There’s an unspoken burden of past Child Traumatic Stress that, consciously and subconsciously, tints individuals’ resilience and the way the now-adults view the world.

I’ve been fortunate to have a happy, normal childhood. However, based on the number of people that I’ve spoken to, I’m starting to think I am in the minority. Friends have casually talked about facing suicide, complex family dynamics, neglect, and crazy religious experiences in early life like it was nothing, when it was/is a big deal.

It’s devastating to hear, and realize that the “silent majority” are likely maladapted individuals who are not even close to unpacking their traumatic past (i.e. things like “the friendly uncle” and “the cool youth group pastor”) that got swept under the rug or repressed.
I am not sure if I understand your issue but if you close Firefox with CTRL+Q you get the same windows back when you launch it again.
I don't care how many upvotes the parent comment has, it needs more.
Bite the bullet, I guess.
In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024
I don't really understand what you mean. What is bootloader-like about this project? Any kernel, no matter what platform it targets, is going to look pretty similar to this project at this stage.
> It is like written by someone really drunk though...

Try approximating a 草書 form.

One problem with using this to draw 字 is the lack of vertical strata. Just look at the character 子: it has five distinct vertical positions. (Initial topbar, bottom of the hook down from the topbar, bottom of the vertical stroke, top of the hook up from the vertical stroke, and the crossbar.) But QWANJI has only three distinct vertical levels.

I've seen a font where 女 (actually, the 女字旁) is represented as a symmetrical form, kind of like if the 点 in the top center of 义 were replaced by a 横 going through the other two strokes. That reduces the count of vertical coordinates from 5 to 4. I imagine adapting characters to QWANJI would take quite a lot of that kind of thing.
Makes little sense to actually run anything on X5960 power-wise
Offsets in files and mapped memory. None of this is done through Java objects or arrays, but rather by reading data directly from memory or disk and manually keeping track the data's type and structure.
I see it as my purpose as a parent to ensure my kids are able to take care of themselves since I will not always be here. To that end, a job is a requirement and school is a requirement. I had to push them to even get their driver's license, but they got one. My stance is, if you want to spend your free time lost in social media land, fine. Do what needs to be done first and then play. Interestingly, their social media usage in their limited free time seems to have declined in favor of interacting with friends and family.
Classic Apple:

> In iPhones, users can see the choice screen only when they click Safari, and then users are shown a list of browsers with no additional information, said Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway's Vivaldi.

> "The process is just so convoluted that it's easiest for (users) to select Safari or potentially some other known name," he said.

> The complicated design has led European Commission to start a non-compliance investigation into whether Apple may be preventing users from truly exercising their choice of services.

It's very fun to see that the EU is refusing to give up and take Apple's passive aggressive compliance on any front!
Bluebox: Tiny, performant subset of Redis clone in 2500 lines of C
I guess killing your whole account should count as a refusal of sorts.

The refusals coming up in the benchmark are discussed at the bottom of this blog post:

https://aider.chat/2024/03/08/claude-3.html
In the UK the word comes from Norse, via the Viking Invasion not directly from anything Germanic (other than that Germanic and Norse share some stuff).
> What? Generic-sensor API is a candidate recommendation

I said hardware APIs, not sensors. There are more hardware APIs than just the one you decided to cherry pick.

> I'm struggling to see great difficulties

Whatever you're struggling with, the status of these is literally "not on any standards track"

> FUD FUD FUD.

You asked which standards are not on the standards track and are enabled by default by Google. I listed some of them. No matter how loudly or hysterically you shout "FUD", reality remains unchanged.

I don't have time for your emotional outbursts. Adieu.
No, the choice is always more nuanced than that.

However, if you believe that the choice is binary, how's this for a measure: world's largest advertising and tracking company with the world's most dominant browser should not be able to just shove whatever it wants into the browser with full disregard for any and all concerns.
Hey, I went through something similar. Even though it's inevitable to fault yourself, you need to avoid it. I also do it sometimes but it never helps; I need to actively remind myself that it's not something worth thinking about. Hope you're doing a bit better now.
> how easy it is to get stuck in this cycle. I just wish there was an easy way out of it

What you described may be body dysmorphic disorder. Social media aggravates that, but it is not the cause: BDD is a variant of OCD. Like OCD, it can be effectively treated with a specific kind of therapy (exposure and response prevention). I know a lot of people have replied to your post, but I don’t think anyone has mentioned this possibility yet.
2 wheelers do have their place and are well positioned imo. they have easy-to-remove batteries that counter reliance on charging infrastructure. this with enough range for an average middle class commuter in small to large towns.

the last mile transport rental market was quite ripe to complement the gig economy guys pre-pandemic but i wonder if it will recover for regular commuters in major cities to the same level.
German industry unlikely to recover from energy crisis, warns RWE boss
You didn't explain what's wrong with having the pricing page as a PDF. WTF is supposed to be wrong with that???
I haven't done any extensive work with Claude 3 so will defer to your experience here. From the Aider blog post where Paul benchmarked it:

> The Claude models refused to perform a number of coding tasks and returned the error “Output blocked by content filtering policy”. They refused to code up the beer song program, which makes some sort of superficial sense. But they also refused to work in some larger open source code bases, for unclear reasons.
I think people underestimate the beauty and impact of accounting.

Just a tiny number of formulas (accounting identities [1]) and statements (P&L, balance sheet, etc.) can represent what's going on in any org in ways that can be roughly comparable. Reminds me of the "fundamental theorem of calculus" or "central dogma of biology".

Accounting is also where we get math and written language [2] as ancient Mesopotamian civilizations initially kept track of commodities using specific "accounting tokens" [3] shaped like the thing represented, and that evolved into written language, imagine: hieroglyphics.

Later, Al-Jajr [4] (aka algebra, literally "balancing") was invented by Al-Khwarizmi (origin of "algorithm") to solve Islamic inheritance law, whose rules of splitting up became a series of equations that led to the need to solve them quickly and correctly. Al-Khwarizmi's quadratic formula was the origin of why "algorithm" gets its name from him.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_identity

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_accounting

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_numeral_sys...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jabr

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi
The tale of a GSM Kernel LPE
I don't know about "everybody nowadays" but I remember Recursive Neural Nets as an architecture introduced by Christopher Manning with the argument that it was better suited to the hierarchical structure of language than existing architectures. I did find it a bit of a bad choice of name, given that it's so closed to Recurrent Neural Nets. All this is from memory though I might check the internets later to see what I misremember.

RNNs are a large class of architectures of varying complexity, from Kallman Filters to LSTMs. It's not clear to me exactly what the wikipedia article means by "linear" but LSTMs for example treat their inputs as sequences and don't try to deconstruct them into parts, like e.g. Convolutional Neural Nets do. So maybe that's what's meant by "linear".
> MaNGOS

I feel like MaNGOS never really got good enough, and instead all the solutions in use branched off it. At least, MaNGOS certainly had a reputation for being janky and inaccurate 15 years ago
This made me think about the xz dev. Hope he's doing alright.
-server is only a thing for HotSpot. They mention that HotSpot works perfectly fine. There is no option of "-server" for Graal native-image. It has "-O{0,1}" though for turning optimizations off and on respectively.
> The time for me to ring you, tell you this in voice would be far quicker than typing.

The post you I was responding to was talking about "group chat". How long would it take for you to call 6 people? How long would it take for you to text 6 people?

I'm all for calls from one person to another person, if you know that person doesn't mind voice calls. Text and group chats are great for coordination of groups.
Neat, does it support i18n for the UI?
i’m extremely ill-qualified to advise here, and i think it will be even more reckless to assume i understand or appreciate the scope of your effort.

it’s more difficult to even suggest what to do. what are your thoughts on genuinely being interested in her? not for the purposes of helping her. but being interested in her so that you spend time in conversations? start with a minute here and there reminiscing about moments between you two (and perhaps the larger family) that you both enjoyed, and gradually moving into longer conversations? i think what i’m saying here is that you might need to rebuild trust then build a new relationship on top of that. how to go about that? i really don’t know.
If you're using pointers in Java you're doing something wrong
I think this view sucks. A core part of being a functioning human being is being able to interact with others whose views differ from your own.

The core problem is the ostracization of opinion on social media. It also doesn't play very well when social isolation has had other consequences, such as the proliferation of viruses and the broad economic impact. Plus, COVID is now integrated in our society, thus giving more ammunition to those who thought that social isolation was pointless (even if it wasn't at the time).

We need to move on from the isolationism and vitriol of others with differing opinions.
I see the "town square" analogy used a lot, but it's ignoring the actual purpose: it's an advertising platform, run by advertisers for advertisers. The presumed function of communication (something it certainly was started for) is purely for keeping the attention of users to sell to advertisers.

As a town square, it's more akin to Times Square.
You found one compiler bug after moving to a new version of your compiler/runtime. Not unheard of, to be honest. Now think of all the common bugs you _didn’t_ get in all these years because you wrote your code in Java instead of C.
Probably the things C does not do? No messy vtables, no exceptions, no vm, etc. If you just do less stuff it's less likely you do something wrong.
I never said it was binary, but we’re talking about governments stepping in to help. The government cannot and will have the capacity to come in and solely fix the problem.

Collective change is required and that could include the help of Government, but currently the Government isn’t doing anything, which is the premise of this post. Should they step in and if so, to what degree and how much can they really do.
They’d actually have to make sure to correctly inform the user.
> Hey how do you implement X in lang Y using Z?

I'd ask that, look at the answer then write the code myself. Unless it's "how do you initialize a button in lang Y using Z?" or other trivial stuff like that.

> is just one massive bubble and we're actually nowhere near AGI

Correct.

> life changing for language specific tasks like translation etc

Translations can be even more dangerous than code IMO. Think contracts and other legalese where every word matters.

Also the difference between a great translation and a useless one when we're talking fiction is enormous. Great ones are basically a rewrite by someone who knows both the source and destination language and has enough literary talent to somehow translate the original's style, not only the words*.

There's a lot of middle ground where it doesn't really matter though.

* Think of translating Terry Pratchett. Or Lord of the Rings.
Maybe get a home still. It's basically just a big coffee pot that boils the water into a carafe. It takes about 3 hours to do gallon. Since it's all metal and glass there's no plastics in the output, unlike filters that often have a small plastic filter for the smallest particles that can end up introducing plastic in the output water.
Also, GDPR compliance is forcing companies to collect and store data they wouldn't have been collecting otherwise, such as to be compliant in regards to child safety you must find out which users are children. Data itself can be seen as a somewhat radioactive commodity, requiring exquisite handling, and creating new reputational and security risks.

It's not supprising that many smaller companies are saying fuck this noise.
This is cherry picked data trying to cut off at 2001 or later. Go look at self-harm data which included the 1980s and 1990s. Self-harm has been climbing since the late 1990s.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428496/figure/...

Haidt is cherry picking his data because if you point to late 1990s, there was no social media and therefore the crisis cannot be put on social media.

In my opinion, social media is helping this situation, not causing the situation.
> I’m sorry our government is garbage

It looks pathetic indeed. Makes many people question: if THAT'S democracy, then maybe it's not worth fighting for.

> All the sane and rational people are rooting for you here in the U.S.

The same could be said about russian people (sane and rational ones). But what do both people have in common? The answer is: currently both nations are helpless to change what their government does.

> are rooting for you here in the U.S.

I know. We all truly know and greatly appreciate that. There would be no Ukraine if not American weapons and help.

> There’s always Folding@Home

Makes little sense power-wise.
The problem is the assumption that if you allow someone to say something on yur instance, then you necessarily agree with it.
New requirements labelled as bugs so they don't have to pay is scary and demoralizing.
I assume this script runs on the server. I was building Go projects on the server as well, a vps where I have several things running. At some point I noticed that larger builds severely effected the other websites. So now I build locally and push the binary to git. To not bloat the project repo with big binary blobs I use a special deploy repo.
It's not a native image, it runs on the (JIT) Graal JDK.
ice pick lobotomies: Do I need to argue about this being bad?

electro shock therapy: were still doing this, there isnt good research to support it at all.

Quaalude addictive, banned in USA since 1984

Benzodiazepines, Valium, Xanax, Kolinapin: Addictive, withdrawal from these are brutal: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=benzodiazepines+suicide

MAOI: so well studied that we let them out in the public and then realized that taking them and eating leftovers could kill you.

SRRI: This is an entire class of drugs that is getting ripped apart by current research. There are studies that show they dont have greater benefit than placebo with therapy. There is new research that says they may be damaging in their own right and have massive withdrawal symptoms.

The term "replication crisis" started with psychology. And, though it has shown its face across much of academia, psychology on the whole looks particularly blighted. Modern research is having no problem turning over much of the last 30 or so years of drugs and research.

It. Is. Damming.

>> Many, if not all, of the medications you listed have been a net benefit for the individual and the world.

The only medication I mentioned with a leg left to stand on anywhere is the SSRI group:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jul/no-evidence-depression-c...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130402/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0... (hey better that we figure this out AFTER it has been on the market for 30 years right?)

To summarize all those links: A study that says serotonin isn't involved in depression. Another that is a meta analysis of SSRI research that says "no better than placebo" and the last one that says SSRI's have some gnarly withdrawal and you should taper off them (a multi month process).

So no I did not have a tirade against a broad spectrum of drugs. I had a tirade against the "treatments" that have, or are, turning out to be worse than the diseases they were treating.
Airbus General Meeting for Shareholders on Live Stream
Do you think shareholder voting has an impact? Tune in to hear the board discuss decisions made that impact the company and stock offering.

https://www.airbus.com/en/investors/annual-general-meetings
Open AI is all about LLMs, that's their entire product and core competency, so withholding access in such a big market isn't worth it to them. Sure, there's a risk, but there are far bigger risks facing Open AI now than GDPR noncompliance.

Google is in a completely different situation. Gemini is, so far, a niche product, making little to no money for Google. However, due to how the GDPR works, a mistake with Gemini could cost the entire company dearly, impacting the profits they make from any other products.

This is a more general principle. If you're a small startup that manufactures foos, and there's a risk that manufacturing Foos infringes on Apple's patents, well, that's just one of the risks you have to bear as a startup. If you get wiped out by a lawsuit, you're established as a limited-liability corporation for a reason, if the fine is larger than the worth of your company, you can just declare bankruptcy and go away. You can't decide to stop manufacturing Foos, as that's your entire business.

If you're the size of Google, getting into the Foo-manufacturing business is not worth it. If Apple sues you, that won't just impact the Foo-manufacturing side of your business, the fine can be significantly larger than any profits you ever hoped to make from the venture, not to mention the brand damage, strain on resources etc. If Foo manufacturing is ultimately going to be a side business for you, it's probably not worth it to be the hill you die on.

This is why it makes sense for startups to "move fast and break things™", and for big corporations to require countless legal reviews on the smallest of decisions.