skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't understand how the banking system works. Fed holds the balance of every bank. That is what is getting updated every night when you move money between banks. Banks want faster processing and settlement time because it de-risks them. There is less risk of check kiting and other scenarios where customer is spending money that doesn't exist. Bank listed in article is on the hook for $26 million because transfers and settlements aren't instant.
the big difference is that this 'Linux' is powered by gas.
we should start calling bottled water "plastic water"
In other news, Second Life is still a thing.
I watch dogs through Rover and they do have mechanisms to lock you in. The primary one is that your rank in the search results is strongly affected by repeat transactions and the number of repeat customers is listed prominently in your profile as an indication of your trustworthiness. Once I hit a certain threshold, I had to raise my prices to 30% above the area average in order to keep the number of requests down to a level that I was prepared to accommodate. The second is that Rover actually does provide a service to its sitters. They have great support that has helped me through a few crises (including a dog dying in my home from a heart attack) and insurance coverage.
You can always talk about a hobby project of yours if your day job is uninteresting or not readily marketable.

It's true that for some job interviews, an answer like in your example will make you lose points. However, for other jobs being able to fix and refactor legacy Python code may be just what they are looking after. Your interviewer might ask follow-up questions about code quality and cleanliness, how you made sure your refactor didn't break anything, etc.
After a long while I started reusing KMail (I'm using KDE on Debian boxes mostly) I would recommend it in a heartbeat if you are already using KDE.
Evolution doesn't seem to have rules that move messages automatically unless I've overlooked it. Other than that I like it.
I think that this article might meet those criteria, I still think it's important to ask questions like this about articles like this. Because it really is a fine line between putting people on display (like we literally used to do when we kept other humans in zoos) and examining the various biological traits in humanity.
No-one who would otherwise have accepted Christ would have rejected him based on that study.

It may be true that reading about the study would not have convinced anyone to become a practicing Christian. But there were undoubtedly people who were on the fence about going back to church, either for themselves or for their kids, who decided not to based on the purported conclusion that it made kids less generous. So just because the study alone might not have convinced anyone to follow Christ, there still might be more practicing Christians if the study had been done correctly (and therefore garnered very little coverage) or if the correction had been covered as widely as the original flawed study.
All of the comments there either agree with me or are talking about non-economic factors. E.g. the first one explicitly says it's not about economic harm. The second says they're taking producer surplus, which is correct if you interpret that as potential surplus had the producers priced higher. The third one also explicitly points out that it's not being looked at from an economic perspective.
Ugh, I drink San Pellegrino like it is water. :) There is one sitting next to me as I type this. I like the "fuzzy water" as my daughter called it when she was 2.

Any studies on if it is in the tab water and the effects of something like a Britta filter on taking them out? Our house water is though that.
> According to CNBC, this week the We board fired CEO Adam Neumann. No, the board didn't fire him. The media, academics, and math fired him. The board enabled him and either was a co-conspirator in the fraud, or they were just idiots.

Can we be sure that they are idiots? Given how much control founders have over their companies these days, we don't know how much they had their hands were tied. They may not have been able to do anything until the tide of opinion (on the board) turned against the CEO, to the extent that even the CEO's allies decided they needed to save their own butts.

Between We and FB, we might start to see the pendulum start to swing back the other way, with regards to founder control of companies.
Yes, it's all moot if you use a short numeric pin. The attacker can make their own brute-forcing build instead of having to ask Apple to sign one.
> experienced enough that your struggle is to make choices, not to get things to work.

I think you summarized beautifully the difference between design ("make choices") and implementation ("get things to work"). Am I correct in that?
I hope you do realize the irony in just declaring that something was "never meant to be a science"...

Science is about constantly evolving via falsification of theories.

You might want to base your definition of what can be science on something different than an unsourced appeal to authority from 300 years ago?
Have you ever seen how hourly employees get paid? Especially ones at union shops with crazy rules about overtime? And employees grandfathered in under older "legacy" rules" Or employees operating under one-off rules? And each employer you take on has their own set of crazy rules?

Dude. Stop while you are ahead. Payroll is edge case upon edge case upon edge case. And if you fuck up any of those edge cases, you are fucking up some poor soul's livelihood (or maybe making their day and the expense of their employer!).
Ignorance is Strength: 9/11 in 5 Minutes
This is a cool article. It raises all kinds of interesting questions.

I’ve often wondered if it’s possible to have consciousness as we experience it without language. When I think, I do so in words so I can’t imagine how I would do that without words. I also wonder if you lack language; say you were raised by wolves; would you create one in your mind.
But when an executive fucks up, he gets a golden parachute. Where is this "responsibility" you speak of?
Short answer: yes, it's definitely mostly plastic.

https://orbmedia.org/sites/default/files/FinalBottledWaterRe...

> In total nearly 2000 microplastic particles > 100 um were extracted from all of the filters, with nearly 1000 (~50%) being further analyzed by FTIR. Obtained FTIR spectra were compared to libraries of known spectra in order to confirm and identify the polymeric content of the particles. All particles analyzed were either best matched to a polymer, plastic additive or known plastic binder providing additional supporting evidence that Nile Red selectively adsorbed to microplastic particles within the bottled water. With this spectroscopic confirmation, it can be concluded that on average each bottle of water contains at least 10.4 MPP/L (Table 2).

[...]

> Given the limitations of the lab, particles < 100 um (the so-called ‘NR tagged particles’) were not able to be confirmed as polymeric through spectroscopic analyses (FTIR &/or Raman spectroscopy). However, in testing of various stains and dyes that could be employed for microplastic detection and analysis within environmental samples with a greater potential for misidentification and false positives (i.e., sediments and open-water environmental samples) both Maes et al. (2107) and Erni-Cassola et al. (2017) concluded that Nile Red (NR) was very selective, especially within the time scales of incubation employed, and could be used for the rapid detection of microplastics without the need for additional spectroscopic analysis. To be sure that is why this stain was employed for this study. Additionally FTIR analysis was done on fluorescing particles >100 um and every particle analyzed was confirmed to be polymeric. Even further, NR is well-established to selectively adsorb to hydrophobic (‘water-fearing’) materials and, as such, will not adsorb to the only contents reasonably expected to be within bottled water, water &/or its mineral components.
Basically in countries where water supplies are limited Nestle come in and buy the water, meaning wells go dry but Nestle still have enough to sell. Those in water poverty can't outbid Nestle, nor pay the right people bungs.

Snopes does cover the situation quite well (see link upthread).

This sort of thing: https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/08/30/nestle-waters-prop....
> This is bad, right?

Both of the last two republican presidents started wars killing and displacing way more than anything Trump did, this isn't so bad compared to that.

The only significant thing this administration did was to ignore climate science, which is huge yes, but it isn't something new it is just normal american corporate lobbying. USA has been a major polluter for a really long time and hasn't really done much about it under any presidency.
never quite picked up as in got so standard and ubiquitous you dont even notice it?
Just another personal anekdote:

A friend bought a water destiller because of some health-theories. You are supposed to drink distilled water in the morning and so on... He is usually using it on tap water because he believes the water isn't pure enough (Germany, should be pure enough). One day he figured he could try the bottled water, maybe less build up of chalk in the sistern. This area has a lot of chalk in the ground so everything gets white very fast. He was not totally surpriced with having a black burned, smelly gunk in the bottom the next day. He does not buy bottled water any more :-)
tasted gross in Berlin this summer, spent 2 months there.
> wait

I'll wait! 'Cause if it got even remotely adopted and mainstream, I'll be waiting... for years or decades.... before I can ever hope to make a single transaction.

Yup. Nothing like Satoshi's Glorious Blockchain and its blazing fast 4 transaction per second reference implementation that is Bitcoin.
Driving With Chiplets–an enabler for autonomous driving
The rent I pay for a 2 bedroom apartment in Delhi is the same as the rent my brother was paying for a 2 bedroom apartment in Atlanta about a decade ago (factoring in exchange rates).

The truth is that good third world employees aren't exorbitantly cheaper than their counterparts in the US. Cheaper, yes, but not enough that it would completely offset the cost of communication lapses, legal issues, and collaboration problems.
I get that, but there are biotechs that can get funded on an order of magnitude of tens or hundreds of millions. If the Vision Fund with $100 billion can't make biotech investments work, who could? That's kind of my point; if Vision Fund at scale can't make risky investments work, who could? The only alternatives are the existing profit-machines like Google (Google X) or governments.

I am also not the only one with this thought; Professor Andrew Lo of MIT has a final chapter in his book "Adaptive Markets" about how he might structure a similar "big problem solving fund" akin to the Vision Fund but with arguably bolder ambitions.

https://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Markets-Financial-Evolution-...

https://publicpolicy.wharton.upenn.edu/live/news/2784-can-fi...

And before someone argues that "they're likelier to lose a lot of money trying riskier investments", they just seemingly lost a lot of money on the "easier" investments. So if you're going to lose money, I'd rather it be on trying to solve hard problems than paying Adam Neumann.
"In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible"

To accomplish this successfully depends upon a strong interpretation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: that your language determines your thought. Most linguists disagree with this principle. Just because you have no word for a chair does not mean you couldn't use one, and just because you have no word for love doesn't mean you can't feel it.

(However, a weakened from of the hypothesis — that language merely influences your thought — is frequently accepted.)

It's also worth pointing out that not all people think explicitly in words. Such a person would be impervious to the Party's methods of thought-control, I think.
Why Blameless Post-Mortems
I second this. We all have unique brains, and it seems to me that some people are naturally less prone to anxiety than others. I know plenty of people who seem to have naturally low anxiety, and as far as I can tell, they never needed to have some profound realization to become like this, they were likely born this way, they have lucky genetics.

Anxiety means your brain has more of a tendency to worry about potential threats. Possibly because your amygdala are more easily activated. It may just be that, back when we lived in the savannah, being easily aroused by potential threats, and being overly careful, was in many ways beneficial for survival. However, we live in a time of relative safety, and it seems that being someone who worries a lot about potential threats is not generally a useful trait.

I'm not saying that there's nothing you can do to manage anxiety, that is obviously false, but I'm saying there's a strong genetic component, and that judging people who appear more anxious and telling them just suck it up shows a fundamental lack of self-awareness and understanding of how the human brain works.
Dude they don't even do this. You don't get it. They DELEGATE the decision making, the values and the enforcement as well. The firing, the finding guidance is all delegated.

It've very very minimal what they do. The overall performance of the executive is determined by his selection of right hand men. The executives main skill is managing the board and selecting the right people to do things for them.

The executive is not talented at creating, building or running a company. His main talent is selecting the people who do it for him. Also honestly, all this "value setting" stuff is trivial. Ultimately the people underneath him adapt to what works regardless of values.
Interesting. Hadn't seen the Retraction Watch website before.

Wonder if it'd be possible to automatically scan new papers added to (say) arxiv.org, for retracted papers in their references?

eg to warn the authors, and maybe eventually automatically as part of the upload process for arxiv.org (and similar)
Does anyone have good ways to determine if a company is a good culture fit for you, as an interviewee? I had an in-person this week where I tried the reverse of some of these - "Can you tell me about a typical workday?" "How is the work-life balance here?" and I just got BS fluff answers like "Well there's a variety of technical problems to solve here".
To add to that, the volatility would be short-lived and possibly small enough to be considered a helpful correction.
Glad you brought this up. A fun read the first time, and a concerning one the second.
California Constitutional Amendment Would Classify Nuclear as Renewable
I was in Berlin this summer for 2 months (Neukolln), in 3 different airbnbs and the water was not tasty, and was quite bitter. Very different compared to Swedish or Austrian or even Italian (florence) water.
Conquering Code Generation in Dart – Part 2: Writing a Markdown to HTML Builder
Wages are determined by supply and demand, no? The number of subordinates doesn’t even figure in the equation
It may not be as off-base as you think.

Remember, corp PR roles by definition are corporate. In other words their work is primarily geared up the corp ladder, as such they may as well just be "working for Jeff".
He’s my new favourite commentator. I love how, because he’s an outsider, he does’t care who he pisses off.
Organized Toe Maps in Extreme Foot Users
But if the neighbour is called Nestlé and has a deeper well, your well will go dry.

This model shows the problem nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4iCgxsZX4
I thought this was incredibly interesting. The author directly confronts the grey and ambiguous areas around consent when money is involved. It really drives home the point that if you want to legislate ways to protect sex workers, you should actually talk to sex workers and not make up feel good bs that can harm people.
Yes, and then it gets put in a plastic bottle.

Not all bottled waters are RO filtered, either. Many are sourced from natural springs and retain various minerals.
I suggest that the complete fare (A to C) should be divided by the 2 passengers. BTW John should try to stay in touch with Cindy!
Too bad companies like Bird, Wag, and WeWork get so much access to secondary market capital. Otherwise they would have had to IPO, and I could have shorted these companies like the flee-ridden dogs they are. Hey, at least I got to make big money on Lyft and Uber!

This VC backed communism is definately coming to an abrupt end. Once Son is chased out of town, the fun times will be over.
If you look at the description, I believe part of the problem is that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has always been under the delusion that "Computer Programmers" were little more than typists who understood programming syntax. There's an assumption that some sort of all important _DESIGN_ work was done by analysts or other so-called experts perhaps the almighty "Software Developer". Could it be Computer Programmers just type what they're told, and perhaps Software Developers do the important work;)

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
Initially I was disgusted, but, then I realized I'd be interested in a "Make your parents skeptical of Fox News" option.
So you commented before reading it?

Your critical thinking would be more useful in any other article that you believe does not match that standard.
Why was the color blue chosen by evolution?
Flexiple: $80K/month connecting startups with developers
He doesn’t think water should be a human right, he didn’t make a direct quote and the parent didn’t put anything in quotes so I don’t think there’s a problem here. A snopes “mixture” score isn’t something I’d bandy about like it’s an argument killer for sure, lol.
How is php old? Is c++, c#, Java etc considered old and should not be chosen too?
Britta are going to love the microplastic awareness movement. They'll figure out a way to filter them out and then they'll sell like hot cakes.
forestry seems like a brilliant project, thanks for sharing!
> But all that sounds like an idea an executive would invent to justify earning 1000x more than what an average worker makes.

Of course, and the recent absurd ratios of executive pay vs average workers are likely unsustainable. It is all part of the same echo chamber that gave us trickle down economics.

Realistically, most people in charge of money are the ones that decide how to allocate it and, without any other constraints, will allocate themselves as much of it as possible, as there is virtually no one else at the negotiating table to object. There are very few truly independent boards that would interfere in this self-dealing, as most are a self-referential loops of executive relationships.
Anyone have insight into Nuro? I was thinking of applying but now need to second guess joining any SoftBank co.
REM sleep–active neurons involved in forgetting hippocampus-dependent memories
In Germany, every supermarket has dozens of different bottled water brands. The vast majority are not fancy and are on the lower end regarding price. You can taste your way through the different mineralisations, from kind of dry tasting over sweet to salty. It's not a surprise the guy introducing Americans to the varieties of water tastes in your link is German.
My bank makes it prohibitively expensive to cash/write checks. I think even SWIFT wires are cheaper, and those are _expensive_.
SEPA wires are free though.
I was given advice in 2001 not to study CS because I was too much of a people person. Good thing I didn't take advice at that age.
When asking what language you think in, they're probably referring to your Internal Monologue [1]. Not everyone has one. It's kind of strange that some of us have it and others don't, it kind of makes me wonder how and why it evolved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_monologue
The "cute" thing about using --- is that it's a part of the YAML spec as a document divider [1] and some of the cheaper front-matter readers were just YAML spec-compliant libraries told to read only the first document in the file. It's almost weirdly disappointing that +++ doesn't have any real specificity to TOML itself.

[1] --- is the explicit document start marker. Most frontmatter should probably be more accurately using ... which is the actual explicit document end marker and doesn't imply another YAML document follows, but the symmetry of using --- on both sides is cleaner.
Does an executive manage workers? I thought executives manage managers, and managers manage the workers?
My strategy is to get to the bathroom as soon as possible.
Female sexual attraction favors secure men who don't talk feelings. This results in men feeling unable to express their emotions around their significant other.

On the other side, male sexuality selects based on looks more than anything.

Feminism calls the latter shallow and toxic, but truthfully both should have that label. Neither is serving society or evolution well anymore. But what can we do? Sexual attraction is an innate, unchanging aspect of what it means to be man and woman. It isn't going to be removed from our genes anytime soon.
> Maybe the vulnerable codepath has some code sharing between iBoot and SecureROM?

It does.
Some real gems in this article- “I’m kin to myself” and “she was as blue a woman as I ever saw” (how many blue people have you seen?)
Microsoft early mission statement: "A computer on every desk, running Microsoft software". They changed that because they achieved that.
For those not reading the article:

BV = bacterial vaginosis
Supercharging Creativity Using VR
You are missing the point. Do you know anything about this industry? Biotech is not anything like your "traditional" tech companies, they operate in a completely different dynamic. It is not risky in the same way. It can take many years to realize that your proof of concept is a failure, and there's no "pivoting" like in the tech bro world.

Are you prepared to realize that after 10 years and many millions of dollars later you will be unable to even try to sell whatever you were researching?

You are at the mercy of the FDA. You can expedite this a bit by going the medical devices route instead of developing therapeutics or pharmaceuticals for instance, but it will still take you years to go from R&D to market. If you ever get there.

This is why phony genomics software platforms are all the rage today.

but there are biotechs that can get funded on an order of magnitude of tens or hundreds of millions. If Vision Fund at scale can't make risky investments work, who could?

Again, you are completely ignorant of this space. Biotech is not the same problem. You can't just throw more money at it and expect to see results like you can in a growth market defined by first-mover advantage and outspending your competition. Biotech is insanely risky, as is any other scientific endeavor. It is science and experimental. It is not a chat app, real estate scam, or overpriced juicer. The comparison makes no sense.
People have dogs but don't want to walk them. It isn't that hard to grasp.
I think I have seen this link[0] posted a few times in related posts (I might have shared it as well).

[0] http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
She was not lying about being articulate
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you launder money.
In theory, could you make some ultra-modern SNES game using a modern ARM chip or such in the cart? Still some basic system limitations, but running pretty much everything on the add-on chip?