skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's the EFF, I think they went out on a limb on this one that not a lot of American parents would agree with. "People have the right to communicate privately without backdoors or censorship, including when those people are minors" (emphasis mine) is a controversial position. Arguably, not having that level of privacy is the curtailment on children's rights.
> grab some coffees and a beer at 8 PM. For the next four hours,

I feel like very few people in America could afford this in the places the vast majority of the population lives, especially multiple days per week. Even a couple hours of hanging out at a commercial establishment seems like it would cost $20, and many are designed for higher turnover so that you aren’t sitting there for 4 hours while nursing a couple coffees.

Not only are land/rent costs high in the places central to where people can meet, but labor costs at 8PM to 12AM are high too.
I would have presumed tests would have also included secondary and tertiary breakdown products of glyphosate. There is also research [1] that suggests measurements might not always reflect how much of the herbicide is being used and results can reflect other common products that have been released into the environment.

If helicopter spraying was noted before symptoms, it suggests since numerous other spraying occur around the world, that the company is using something additional to the roundup.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2024-07-glyphosate-european-rivers-far...
You'd be entirely dependent on Musk City with its regulations for having resources to stay alive. At least on Earth you can go live in the woods or become a tax exile or some such.
Pretty sure that's what it means to everyone and that's what they meant to say.
* Status meetings can (almost) always be an email. Or a slack (or equivalent) channel.
* Most other meetings can be greatly improved if whoever is responsible for the meeting publishes an agenda ahead of time. No agenda? Then you probably don't need the meeting.
Looks interesting but your tls cert isn’t valid on your site
if im reading a big sci-fi anthrology, i just search for key-terms that interest me and read the stories that contain them (eg, robot, colony,planet etc)
It’s like saying “Asian panda” or “South American giant anteater.” There’s no other place with giant hornets, so why would the name include it?
I’m glad someone is having fun in C++. Personally, after >20 years, I have to be done with C++. It’s just a mess.

If I really need the low-level control, I can wrangle C (warts and all), otherwise Rust, Python, etc just make me happier.
> README is a bit disingenuous

My guess is that they assume the reader is already familiar with sqlite. And "lite" is in the name Litestack. And it says in the second sentence of the description: "It exploits the power and embeddedness of SQLite".

Personally I think that's good enough.
Mine are right twice a day!
memo_wise maintainer here. No pressure from me to try it out, but if you do use it and have any feedback or suggestions please let us know!
> What might not be a great idea is to have 1600 dependencies in 2024, dependencies which already change at such a rapid clip your code base is effectively a moving target.

Has the author not heard about reproducible builds? Why would you care that your dependencies change?

> Dependencies...

> Drift away, leading to adjustments in your code or, worse, silent changes in behaviour

> Shift to new major versions with semantic changes, requiring rewrites on your part

> Get abandoned or simply disappear, or start to decay

Really, these aren't things that can affect you at all if you have reproducible builds!

> Tests are always a good idea, especially if you have many dependencies which shift and drift all the time.

Not a thing! If your dependencies "shift" or "drift", you're doing it wrong!
The History of Wordstar is there for the second year in a row :)
This discussion is complicated by the loose (ha!) definition of tea bags. There’s about a million different tea bags. Some use denser paper, some are thin. Some are stapled, some are pressed. Some are stringed and some are not. Some are single-use cotton (which I learned about when a local tea brand stopped using them due to cost).

Lipton makes a premium brand that uses a tetrahedral shaped micro-perforated plastic bag that very much could be shedding microplastics.

It’s hard to have a discussion without a clear definition and terminology.
> Nobody has ever made a printer exceptionally well.

Brother.
> I've no idea why they chose teabags to study

I think they are a pretty reasonable thing to study. Teabags are porous plastic subjected to high heat. So the question has to be "what happens when these plastic baggies get exposed to high levels of heat? Does that liberate some of the plastic into the drink?"

Particularly worthy because tea is one of the most common beverages consumed.
It sounds like you’re describing PaaS then.
Can the Name Age Calculator guess how old you are?
doctors want to put needles in your arm bigger than the needles of the hornet, but they want the hornet gone! Afraid of a little honest competition says I!
I absolutely agree that meaningful context would be helpful, but I don't see that as disqualifying. I appreciate that research is opportunistic, as often oriented toward discovery of new things not yet understood, as much about building up our factual understanding as interpretation.

So sure, I want context, but I think this kind of exasperation is a bit misplaced, as I don't think the article or the research itself was intended to be a comprehensive account of the broader contexts you are looking for. If it was masquerading as such a thing, I would be in full agreement. So I think it's a fair point in general, but the way you are saying it here sounds an awful lot like you're holding up a stop sign and saying "don't do any more research!"
I've been leaning in this direction for several years, now. Longer books generally are a) trying to do too many things at once, or b) demonstrate that the author doesn't understand their topic very well, or c) are filled with padding, usually as some form of Social Proof or similar, with irrelevant "case studies" or 500 irrelevant footnotes/references so on.

Quite similar with 2 hour long "podcasts". There's little to no respect for the subject, the audience, or the "author" on display in most of these. Exceptions tending to prove the "rule".
HN headline in the year 2400: "I SSHed into a box with a 146923-day uptime and found a cronjob still running"
Debatable efficacy.
With current state of legal, a real challenge can happen only around 10 years from now. By then AI players will gather immense power over the law.
'It's pure beauty' – Italy's largest medieval mosaics restored
It is absolutely not on you. In order to function as an adult you need to be able to have some level of trust in your family, your society, and your government (depending on where you live, I guess). That doesn't mean blindly believing everything you hear, but it does mean not having to do novel scientific research to confirm everything you were ever taught.

The majority of people alive on Earth today grew up in a world where plastic packaging and containers were a common, completely accepted part of life. Research suggesting this is harmful is very new, and still not settled. You cannot blame anyone for not picking this random ubiquitous aspect of modern life and avoiding it because it might be bad for them. Home microwaves themselves are no older than home plastics - why do you trust them?
I'd quite like if they deleted my iris data as they've given me about $300 so far and if so I could open another account or two and do it over.
Comparing a CEO of an insurance company to a Nazi officer running a concentration camp is so stupid I don't even know where to begin.

Insurance companies aren't overtly or covertly killing people. They might not be paying for their healthcare in every single instance where they should. As a business, they must decide what services to cover and at what price or they won't be in business for long. They face extensive regulation to ensure that they are not doing exactly the thing you're accusing them of. Yes that means everything has a limit.

Luigi was a rich kid. Neither he nor his family had any business with this insurance company or the CEO, as I understand it. So this action on his part is the result of some insanity plus radicalization, perhaps by people like yourself who have the gall to compare 100% legal businesses to Nazi concentration camps. Our political discourse has really degraded in my lifetime, with one large faction now frequently accusing everyone they disagree with of being Nazis. No good can come of this.

>The CEO of a company has the most power to change it, and definitely enough power to say "fuck this, find another CEO".

Perhaps he could change something but you can't articulate what that is exactly, because you don't care. You just hate the industry as a whole. Even if the industry needs a lot of improvement, it is entirely legal and regulated, and not a charity. The CEO has no reason to leave because he's got a great job at what most people regard as an upstanding business.

It could be argued that Luigi's murder of this CEO and the public reaction to it could make insurance worse. How? Think about it. What competent CEO-type would want to work at a company if it might put a target on his back? A lot of normal people would not want to. So you're less likely to get a competent and relatable CEO, and more likely to get a cutthroat or incompetent one. The kind of person who doesn't care that lots of people would celebrate his death just for having held the position. And an incompetent one could lead to more deaths, because insurance is basically a finance business that must make enough money to cover its expenses. If they go broke, then nobody is getting covered.
Or not bad enough to overcome other benefits that came out around the same time.
Yeah, but I'm mostly focused on the functionality: it's too narrow and sometimes not clickable when you are just off by a bit. The Windows one is ugly AF too but at least it's wider.
I didn't say that we know that they are reducing male fertility, we know that it's very possible. I could have said it probably does. But I'm not a scientist so I'm not going to.
> 7. ... Another business I worked for literally hired and fired four separate teams to build an on-prem OpenStack cluster, and it was the most unstable, terrible computing platform I've used, that constantly caused service outages for a large-scale distributed system.

I've seen similarly unstable cloud systems. It's generally not the tool's fault, it's the skill of the wielder.
PC Load Letter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_LOAD_LETTER
A bit fancier than my awk version

awk -W interactive 'BEGIN { t = systime(); } { u=systime(); if (u - t > 1) { printf("= %s %ds =========\n",strftime("%T"), u - t); }; print $0; t = u; }'

Or if you want to clear the screen too

awk -W interactive 'BEGIN { t = systime(); } { u=systime(); if (u - t > 1) { printf("\033[2J\033[H= %s %ds =========\n",strftime("%T"), u - t); }; print $0; t = u; }'
I don’t expect millions of people to do research, I expect people to look at the thing in front of them and think, “wait what is this made of? It looks like plastic, maybe I should be skeptical.”

However if the country is going to be based on lobbying efforts you better damn well be able to do a little research.

There is a reasonable way to make informed decisions. It starts with skepticism and not just shoving food into your face because it’s popular.
Being biased is not the same as hallucinating. LLMs have both problems.

At least you could check whether a source was reputable and where the bias was. With LLM's the connection between the answer and the source is completely lost. You can't even tell why it answered a certain way.
>Not catching a simple multiplication error is a terrible indictment of their peer review process

Most papers are full of errors nobody ever catches (or cares to catch).
> my maximum daily exposure to ingested flame retardants should be zero

What does this even mean? You refuse to eat anything that could possibly put out of a fire, or if included within anything else, could slow down the progress of fire when that thing burns?

I don't understand taking pride in irrationality. If you have some evidence (or even some reasonable suspicion) that the specific chemical could be harmful in the amount that you consume it, avoid it. It's weird for me to brag that I'd avoid something despite any evidence, because somebody mentioned it once and I refuse to let it go. What if what you replace it with causes cancer, but has no effect on fires?
Most tea bags that you purchase anywhere use some level of plastics in their component materials and/or binding (especially this latter). The only safe options are metal strainers that you filter the tea with (and that hopefully don't have coatings on them that are harmful... boiling a new one would not be a bad idea before first use) or just loose leaf.
That Wikipedia page explicitly states that the public has never subsidized damage from a nuclear accident. Nuclear energy companies are required to have $450M in private insurance for each reactor. For amounts over that, the Price-Anderson Act requires all nuclear energy companies to pay up to $121M per reactor, for a total of $12B in coverage. The public would potentially cover anything after that $12B, but that has never happened.

If every nuclear reactor in the US simultaneously had an accident requiring the $70M paid out for Three-Mile Island, we'd be around 1.2% of the way to needing Treasury funds. Three-Mile Island's operator was responsible for cleaning it up, and they paid the entire $1B required to do so.
This is the internet. Coming across unreasonable opinions is not rare. Because sarcasm is hard to convey in text form I think it's better to assume all comments are made sincerely. What makes you think they are being sarcastic?
I use a second plate, upside down.
"This reminds me of a tool I found recently:https://accentvoice.net
Did you mean that they are basis functions for irreducible representations of SO(3)?
tokyioyoyo was writing about making a place with the goal of having people meet and hang out. A bar doesn’t necessarily have that goal, it may have a goal of meeting a certain amount of revenue, most easily accomplished by incentivizing turnover.
Steel and glass
NSO Group Found Liable for Hacking WhatsApp Users in 'Huge Win for Privacy'
For smaller shops I'd argue storage is the hardest part. I've done several OpenStack and baremetal K8s deployments on prem and the part that always stressed me out the most was storage. I'd happily pay a markup for that vs just about anything else that would be more economical to do on prem for smaller simpler workloads.
I'm not sure anyone is saying there's an extraordinary profit margin being made. But if you're the dominant supplier in some niche and your customers don't have any real complaints, you can still make a lot of money and, as a potential new entrant, your niche probably doesn't have a lot of appeal to me unless I have a genuinely new idea that would have broad customer appeal and I can execute on it.
Just FYI, you can buy stainless steel loose leaf tea infusers. They don't cost a lot ($6->$15) and loose leaf tea is shockingly cheap. Just get a nice airtight container and some moister absorbing packets and you'll have great tea for a while.

I bought like 1lbs ~2 years ago for about $20 and still haven't worked all the way through it :D.
Beware of C23 and later.

C is basically going into "we want C++ but without OOP and with templates done via _Generic".

Also LLVM and GCC aren't going to be rewritten from C++ into Rust anytime soon.
RUBY_THREAD_VM_STACK_SIZE for Ruby
In business, that combination is nearly impossible to distinguish from beating them.
Geared Icosahedron Net [video]
So paper was still right to warn us about it but not for the right reasons.
But fertility dropped. May be a contributing factor.
I straddle both worlds. Consider that using the lens of mathematical reasoning to understand everything is a bit like trying to use a single mathematical theory (eg that of groups) to comprehend mathematics as a whole. You will almost always benefit and enrich your own understanding by daring to incorporate outside perspectives.

Consider also that even as digital technology and the ratiomathimatical understanding of the world has advanced it is still rife with dynamics and problems that require a humanistic approach. In particular, a mathematical conception cannot resolve teleological problems which require the establishment of consensus and the actual determination of what we, as a species, want the world to look like. Climate change and general economic imbalance are already evidence of the kind of disasters that mount when you limit yourself to a reductionistic, overly mathematical and technological understanding of life and existence. Being is not a solely technical problem.
> everything else is a theory which by definition is never 100% true.

Which definition of theory includes that it can never be 100% true? It can't be proven to be true, but surely it could be true without anyone knowing about it.
They also grew up in a world that was skeptical of plastics and chose to ignore the skepticism because not being skeptical and blindly trusting your family, society, government is a fools errand. The exact issue is people promoting this “well I shouldn’t have to think/research” way of life. That’s just nonsense and the reason we’re here. It’s a cute dream but ignorance will just kill you.
Shrug

I treat LLM answers about the same way I treat wikipedia articles. If it's critical I get it right, I go to the wiki sources referenced. Recent models have gotten good at 'showing their sources', which is helpful.
How is that you promote Gary Numan.
> and had no reason to believe there was plastic involved

This is about certain tea bags which are recognizably plastic, e.g. the ones pictured in https://scitechdaily.com/warning-plastic-teabags-release-mic...
I just made some major updates:
1. I can now also create company reports for companies that do not publish a profit and loss statement.
2. For approximately 16.000 companies, I am able to create a monthly credit report. I can do this because, in addition to the financial statements, I include data such as interest rates, unemployment rates, CPI, and so on. This has also made my models a lot better.
“Accumulation” is a keyword you might want to examine.
> I keep being told that "reducing friction" and "increasing velocity" are good things

As always, good rules are good, and bad rules are bad.

Like most people on the internet, you are assuming only one of those sets exist. But you are just assuming a different set from everybody that you are criticizing.
You're arguing from extremes and insinuation.

I never said anything about beheaded babies, so don't paint me as someone spreading fake news.

If you want a taste of Hamas live streams and videos, feel free to peruse this website: https://www.thisishamas.com/

Proceed at your own risk, graphic details.

If you want to learn how Hamas uses civilians as human shields every step of the way, how ingrained blanket hate for Jews and genocide of Israel is ingrained in Gazan life and culture and what they do to people in the streets who are considered to be cooperating with Israel, I challenge you to watch this mini-documentary of a Gaza-born Muslim who became an Israeli citizen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqzAsFIIrL0) or literally any interview with released hostages.

> You guys...

Wonderful blanket term. Do you have an issue with Jews in general?

I am neither Jewish nor Israeli, but someone who sees things as they are.

There were no deaths in Gaza prior to October 7th, there is only one side publicly hell bent on anihilating the other and that has spent billions of dollars on weapons and bunkers instead of their own people.

> Waving that antisemitism flag won't change the facts

I agree, just makes it clear to everyone who reads this who is one and who isn't.
They obviously meant halogenated, dangerous flame retardants, which are approved for use in consumer electronics but not utensils, not water...

If there was a thread on the respiratory hazards of airborne micron-sized particles, I guarantee that someone in the comments section would say "I can't believe these unscientific yokels are afraid of clouds."
Calling musk and AI expert makes me question your evaluation of the others in that list.
You may be interested in Weck jars too that are made of glass for storage and are very affordable. They have glass lids.
How much money does SF spend on giving the homeless homes? Not shelters, homes.

How much money does SF spend on making sure people can get medical care without going into debt? When I went to the SF General emergency room after after a bike accident, I walked out with a just under $2500 bill, which would have been financially crippling for someone of less financial means.

SF spends a massive amount of money on social safety nets that don't fundamentally address problems, because they don't have the political will to implement cheaper solutions that actually solve the fundamental problems.

Put another way, SF spends a lot of money on feel-good programs, and very little on actual social safety nets.
This argument makes no sense, life expectancy increased a lot after the invention of leaded gasoline†, yet nobody would say it's harmless.

[†]: Works as well for high fructose corn syrup or Fentanyl.
While we’re on the subject of reading advice, here’s mine. If I really want to learn something, like the history of the Russian Revolution, I have to read it three times. So, I’d read Pipes, then read Antony Beevor, then read China Mieville, then triangulate. Pick any three authors. Pipes was definitely conservative, but there is no such thing as completely objective history, especially on a topic like the Russian Revolution (arguably the most political event since the French Revolution)
Why should this be shocking?

1) Make thing that operates on hot surfaces/ near fire

2) Materials thing is made of known for being flammable

3) Add extra chemicals to help stop thing from catching on fire

Seems pretty logical to me.
My comment was saying that this part was about ending suffering, not about wishing ill-will. I don’t understand what’s unclear.

> > Reality is actually bad, and it should be far more intuitive to folks. The fact that positive experience is felt "quickly" and negative experience is felt "slowly" was all the evidence I needed that I wouldn't just press the "instantly and painlessly and without warning destroy reality" (benevolent world-exploder) button, I'd smash it!

> This is coming off as incoherent rambling to me

You do like to gesture vaguely and tell me that "I don’t know what this is". Meanwhile I have pointed out at least one instance where you flat out just contradicted yourself on psychoanalysis. Or "incoherent rambling" (on psychoanalysis) if you will
Because I was skeptical of paper towels too and only buy ones without.

It is also noteworthy that the paper towel doesn’t soak in the consumable when reheating like a tea bag does.
There are not 100% normal people. And pathology is essentially multidimensional even though we reduce it to one, and labelled people fallaciously as "sick" or "well."
That might be the one thing more toxic than toner powder particles.