skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> MDMA is also quite toxic in long-term usage.

As well as ibuprofen is. Whatever a drug (in both meanings of the word) one should decide with reason when, how much and why take it. I can hardly name a medicine which won't do any harm if you take it chronically or dose too high.

Even plain serotonin, which can be kept elevated by chronic excess of tryptophan in the diet (let alone 5-HTP supplementation) is cardiotoxic.
I'd say all of Germany is culturally very much ok with drinking tap water, Berlin not much more or less than other regions. People who drink bottled water here don't usually do it because they think it's "better" than tap water, it's either because of convenience when you're not home or because they like carbonated water (which is very popular in Germany).
Is this something that would be removed with common cheap consumer filters? (such as Britta)

I drink a lot of tap water, but always put it through a filter of some sort.
but they already do and no amount of saying they shouldn't is going to change that
That would be in the fab, not the factory, might mean tossing out inventory, and will take longer. I'm guessing they will do both.
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>> It literally records and reports back to HQ. If you ever make any statement that Tesla doesn't like, they will use what should be your own data against you.

> Wow. Take out the tinfoil hat Sir. I'll PayPal you $1000USD if you can cite this ridiculous claim.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/03/the-custo...

https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/that-tesla-data-... about this ridiculously detailed releasing of data https://www.tesla.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive

https://electrek.co/2016/05/11/tesla-model-s-crashed-own-sum...

or Teslas own privacy policy, which says that they may remotely collect telematics data including speed, odmeter, battery charging, use of charging stations (linked to location), infotainment system data, camera images, short video clips, lock/unlock data, horn honking, etc. They also collect detailed position data in many cases, but say that they store it in a non identifiable way. While the policy doesn't specifically mention recording torque applied to the steering wheel, presumably they must include that somewhere, as they have announced to the press that the user didn't have their hands on the steering wheel. The policy also says that they "also may use information we collect for other purposes, including: For our business purposes", a vague and expansive definition. We've seen in the examples above what they consider this to include - disputing customers accounts of what happened if it makes Tesla look bad.

https://www.tesla.com/about/legal

I presume your offer of payment was hyperbole, but in my view, even if you disagree with the links I posted, I have certainly cited the claim. Email me@kybernetikos.com if you actually intend to back up your words.
Sure, I mean ultimately you could shoot cosmic rays at your computer to rearrange bits and bypass any type safety you want. I don’t get why you think this bears relevance?
Cool, thanks for bringing my attention to this!
rod??!? wow! yes!

edit: i spent many hours on genesis[0] and did my first lpc scripting (area building) there

0: https://www.genesismud.org/
Time-distributed 3D convolutions/attention-enhanced 2D CNNs, i.e. you look at a sequence of images at once, not at a single image.
I guess it's just the places in the US I've lived in that have safe tap water.
If the axis labels are correct (which, after referring to the full paper, they seem to be) then I think this is the only reasonable explanation. I.e. that the dataset tracks all authors of scientific publications, rather than those who are active researchers (or had research careers and subsequently passed). [Note: I did not see any attempt to take this into account upon skimming the full paper]

Given the high attrition rate in many academic fields (and the small number of publications typical in early years) this would then rationalize the low numbers seen here. Though, I would say the meaning of these numbers would be quite different than if this were presented for those who had research careers (the more relevant number I think).
> if the credit card is attached to a checking account

Isn't that a debit card (rather than a credit card)?
While that is the common story, I am not entirely convinced. It is presumably true that there are more controls for tap water. But those controls still only test a limited number of substances.

One story that goes around a lot is for example the claim that tap water contains a lot of hormones from all the contraceptive pills women take and then flush out of their body into the water system. That seems to not be controlled for. Not sure how serious the issue really is.

More controls also doesn't change the quality of water. It only detects bad water of some variants. If you had an excellent "mineral water" and an OK tap water, more controls wouldn't make the tap water any better.

Not saying you shouldn't drink the tap water. I drink it most of the time.
No you're not you are mocking all of it, that's why you included the section about this "tribe" smoking too much of the pipe, fortunately we have F35 pilots who don't agree with you.
I think if more people had reliable always-on home boxes, software devs would have a better target for distributed tech (and one would expect it'd be incumbent upon the software to figure out reachability w/ ISP/NAT issues).

Similarly, if more people had always-on home boxes, many mobile apps might be thin clients to at-home software opening up plenty of possibilities. (even a simple VNC-like proxy to an at-home web browser w/ advanced ad blocking or other extensions can help those in walled gardens who could tolerate the latency)
Thank you. It still would be interesting to see how much it resonates with @dropit_sphere personal path.

On a "rising elitists" - you actually made me thinking how much of my own childhood contributes to what I am, albeit from polar experience of "shut up already, be like everybody, why do you always have to ask questions etc". I still have these barriers , for better or for worse - I don't know. Probably kept me "out of sight, out of trouble" more than once, but also prevented me from going faster in life too.
That graph has a pretty weak correlation. If you remove the two outliers for stock performance it's basically a cloud.
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> How do microplastics get into drinking-water?

> Microplastics may enter drinking-water sources in a number of ways: from surface run-off (e.g. after a rain event), to wastewater effluent (both treated and untreated), combined sewer overflows, industrial effluent, degraded plastic waste and atmospheric deposition. Surface run-off and wastewater effluent are recognized as the two main sources, but better data are required to quantify the sources and associate them with more specific plastic waste streams. Plastic bottles and caps that are used in bottled water may also be sources of microplastics in drinking-water.

https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/water-quality/gu...
Start doling out punishments worthy for such offenses and they will stop? End lineages. Publicly. The behavior will cease.
Just because things are better now does not mean that they are good. Ask the poor, hungry, and war-torn if they think things are fine, there are millions of them.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/06/better-does-not-mean-...
Is that what’s responsible for it smelling like swamp water? I always heard that somehow “algae bloom” was to blame, but there were certain days the San Jose tap water would be pungent.
>>According to El Pais, Undercover Global installed microphones in the embassy’s fire extinguishers as well as in the women's toilets where Assange's lawyers used to meet for fear of being spied on.

I guess if USA is after you, you have no chance. They'll spare nothing
Le Pen's father, the founder of the French National Front party, was a Holocaust denier who was forced to pay settlements over his statements. There's not "no" nexus between Le Pen and Nazism.
You don’t experience black in absolute darkness, more of a very dark static-like fizzling grey. In order to experience the deepest black, you need to contrast it with something lighter.
IRS has to work with my tax attorney. Banks have to insure money (up to a point). Banks also have to be careful about shenanigans. If people lose confidence, they would be a run on the banks, which they prefer to avoid.

Google/FB have to ... well, nothing. I have the same say with them as I would with a video game company and in-game gold. They could decide I simply don't exist. Ticket closed. Block chain (from the implementations I have seen) does not solve this.
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Def worth clicking through to the shuffle sharding thread. Simple concept (and somewhat common in my experience) but I’ve never seen the analysis before.
If you dig down to the results, San Pellegrino is one of the lowest:
https://orbmedia.org/stories/plus-plastic/

About halfway down the page. The graphs make it look like they didn't take too many samples per brand though.
He needed the car, and was worried you'd go higher!
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. We've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think it's quite as obvious of an error as you are suggesting.

They were trying to correct for scenarios like this: Hypothetically, Canadians are twice as generous as Americans and twice as religious, but religious Canadians are equally generous as non-religious Canadians and religious Americans are equally generous as non-religious Americans. On the surface, it appears that religious people are more generous, but really it's just that Canadians are more generous.

Instead of treating the countries as discrete groupings, they treated them as points on a spectrum with each country being assigned an arbitrary place on the spectrum.

If #3 happened to be China, they would be assuming that people in China should very similar to people in the US and Canada, because 1 vs. 3 on a scale that goes to 200 is hardly any difference at all, but really the numbers are just arbitrary identifiers.
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How did we get here? Is there any evidence that the consolation of old school media into a few companies is contributing to this problem? Over the last fews years we've gone from 50 companies owning 90% of the news companies, to only 6. I recently heard about this consolidation, and I can't help but think this may be contributing to the issue, but I haven't seen any evidence either way!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_U...
Yes, just the vast majority of the US (geographically and population wise) has incredibly good tap water, with a long tail of famously bad exceptions to the rule.
A strange article. There's some good information in there but he seems to undermine himself, leaving me confused as to his intent:

>When firms are still searching for a viable business model, the temptation to go full yogababble gets stronger, as the truth (numbers, business model, EBITDA) needs concealer.

...

My new firm, Section4, was going to "Restore the Middle Class." My colleagues rolled their eyes so hard I wondered if they’d been coached by my 12-year-old son. Then we were "NSFW Business Media" or "Streaming MBA." We’re trying to figure it out. Next week, I'll tell my board we've assembled a group of talented people, are producing short-form video and podcasts, and hope to educate and inform. We’ll go from there.
Living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, I can confirm that our water is extremely clean and good to drink. Additionally our city was rated one of the best tasting tap waters for all of Ontario, cities literally compete for quality water. Contrast that to Flint michigan across the river from me.
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In both your examples, the offense being given is orthogonal to the discussion at hand. If the offended party can look past the offense, the conversation can continue. Otherwise, it can't.

Actually, there's two ways this can go. One is where the offender is being a jerk; the other is where the offended is being a jerk. Civility and good faith go a long way, on both sides.

(How, in your first paragraph, would A be the jerk? I have literally never in my life encountered someone who wishes to use the pronoun ze, and when I do, I'm probably going to have a hard time remembering to use it for a while. That doesn't make me a bad person, toxic, or a jerk. It makes me a person with a lifetime of ingrained habits about how pronouns work, and it may not be easy to change that after being told once. If A regards that as hostility and offense - worse, if A is actively looking for offense - then we may have a hard time having a conversation. If A can recognize good faith in failure, and just smile at people who take a while to get it, then we're fine.)
> It does not seem like there has been huge health consequences due to microplastics, so microplastics are probably pretty safe for humans.

How are you deciding that there hasn't been huge health consequences?
You should be a little bit more careful generalizing from that Gallup poll; fewer Democrats are "extremely proud" to be American now, for pretty obvious reasons, but the gap was far smaller a few years ago.
Maybe, but all sorts of things could have long term effects. Even without plastic, the environment is full of toxic or non-digestible things, like dust, or pollen. Many organisms don't want to be eaten and shed particles that evolve to be non-digestible.

If you worry too much about what MAY be dangerous, you couldn't leave the bed anymore. Remaining in bed is definitely dangerous. Not drinking water is also definitely dangerous.
What you say holds true for illegal drugs (once you are in an illegal market, you have limited ways to know what's in what you are taking, and no remedy against the company), but making it legal doesn't change that - you need regulation and oversight. It doesn't get any safer if questionable companies can continue to make low-quality or unsafe products without regulations against them.
The (retail) US financial system is archaic and competes with Healthcare in regulation creep and backwardness. The first time I ever saw a check in my life was in the US.
There was also a Super FX 2 which powered Doom, among a few other games. Notably Winter Gold looked quite good given the platform's limitations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uQlCZVb_Ro
They don't (usually), you usually set up direct deposit to get your paycheck deposited into your bank account electronically. In fact, my employer actually requires direct deposit - it's the only way they will pay you.

Also, the government no longer sends out physical social security checks, they stopped doing that like five years ago.
It's dumb, but please don't make this thread dumber by turning that into the topic.
> it seems easy, as all those task you mentioned can be converted to single rules.

Single rules, yes. For each State in the US. And every other country in the world. And that can change at any time of the year. Oh, and nobody form those various state and federal government agencies are reaching out to tell you when and what is cahnging.

And GP just listed a few things off the top of his head - there are literally hundreds of complexities in doing this that he glossed over...
I feel the same but am on the opposite end. Hopefully your side is stupid enough to actually go for the gun grab. We can get it all over with shortly one way or another.
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Bellator 227
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https://www.traveldudes.org/travel-tips/officiallive-bellator-227-live-streams-reddit/144846

https://www.traveldudes.org/travel-tips/officialreddit-bellator-227-live-streams-reddit/144847

https://www.traveldudes.org/travel-tips/bellator-227-live-streams-freereddit/144848

https://www.traveldudes.org/travel-tips/watch-bellator-227-livestream-mma-fights/144849

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I use Wake on LAN on my Desktop PC/Plex Server and it works great. I still need to setup shutdown remotely which I could probably just do with ssh or something similar (I don’t think I want to go as far as Remote Desktop mainly for security reasons). Anyways, I’m curious as to why you said it never picked up. Do you say that just because it is not yet popular, not widely supported, or because it is somehow flawed?
All: comments are welcome as always, but please check that you're not posting because you find the topic activating. That always makes threads less interesting. Ditto for flagging; some users flagged this, but it's obviously a legit topic for HN, so we turned the flags off. Intellectual curiosity is the spirit: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Edit: I switched to what looks like a better article instead of https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/transplanting-poop-c.... Hopefully the BBC is a little more sobering.
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Arguably that's already the case for men. Poor pictures and a terrible profile pic is not going to get you many matches. To do well on Tinder, have a photog friend shoot some semi-professional SLR-shot profile pics, have someone help you write the text in your profile, and you'll do much better. FWIW, the same goes for any woman who's less-than-model-hot, (for mainstream, culture-centric definitions of beauty).

Thing is, for the beautiful people, all they need is one really good picture, and a pizza emoji as their profile text, and they're all set. Unless you hide profile pictures (which tbf, okcupid tried for a brief second) I don't see a way to change that.
Coupons are typically for low-margin goods, such as groceries. There's not much "more" to deliver. And companies do it because they tend to get more profit than if they didn't do it.
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I never even knew that it appears to be a peace sign in the US. In my (central European) country it is the victory sign for everyone I have talked to about it.
OT: Google Hire has been discontinued.
I wish Apple would just sell me the damn OS and let me install it on whatever hardware I want.
Still waiting for my xMac; the spiritual successor to the IIcx/IIci :(
If the microplastics are coming from the water source (not from the actual bottling, wherever the water is coming from, it already has microplastics in it) then this wouldn't do anything, right? Or is there a way to heat the water/steam to such a high temperature that the microplastics "melt" out of it?
My bank charges these fees, however there is an out for automated withdrawals, so I have a few of my bank accounts transferring the same amount between each other.
> but there are a lot of very similar patterns here.

Suicide is a leading cause of death, especially in men.
But how can we quantifiably score the talent of executives?
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Brilliant solution man.

Additional nuclear fuel, unlike the popular belief says, will not be taking any much significant weight. A critical mass of plutonium is only 10kg, and you will likely have it reduced with moderation and reflectors.

If you have to keep disposing heat away from a powered down, but still residually active core, you will have to keep a no joke mass of radiators just for that.
time for some data mining then. but that 10% return is probably 5% for 50% good behavior of criminals?
This makes the most sense to me. I don't work in the dataframes world but without this explanation it seemed like someone would have to go out of their way to make that error.
The families of those who died from this should file a class action lawsuit against the FDA and/or federal government. The market their regulations created caused these deaths, and could have easily been prevented by ending prohibition.
>I sometimes call it the "Grief economy" -- The entity which can suffer the most grief "wins" .

This is sadly true of human relationships as well. I've seen it phrased as "the person who cares the least in a relationship has the most power". If you are madly in love with your partner but they are slightly cooler on you, they are in a stronger position because they are more willing to risk or even break the relationship to get what they want. If you're a very clean person but your roommate is a slob, you're screwed because they're just fine with a level of mess that will quickly drive you nuts.
Why wouldn’t you turn it off? I would turn it of at the end off each workday. Booting a computer is a few minutes at the most, you don’t need to be up and running within seconds each morning. Push the power button, go get coffee, login, start work.
I don’t know what to say to you apart from if you see my past posts there is evidence of me being a professor.
I'd bet the advent of computers, not having to work with drafts on paper and suffer from rewriting them, has something to do with this.

Godel Escher Bach is a book that was enthusiastically written with a word processor. And that explains a lot about it.
This strategy was used in most cartridge-based systems that became popular enough to warrant the engineering effort. The original NES had "mappers" which accomplished similar feats, mostly expanding ROM / RAM but also interesting actions like triggering interrupts when the PPU (Picture Processing Unit, nowadays called GPU) took certain actions. https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Mapper

All of this was to squeeze more performance and make more advanced games.
(In my example, I specify that B refuses to use A's requested pronoun.)

My question then becomes what happens then civility has already broken down? Say, I think "cunt" is a terrible word to call someone, and my cohort in a discussion is from a region where it's a fairly normal word, like "jerk". As we discuss, my cohort uses that word as normal, and I take severe offense, causing the discussion to break down as my cohort also doesn't wish to "cater to" me. Now what, are we just doomed to never be able to discuss even random other stuff like chocolate vs vanilla ice cream?
You might find that she was unswayed and you learned the ineffectiveness of targeted advertising for that specific person. After reading the message, "Sure I saw the ads, cared about them as much as any other - ignored them".
It would just be....completely dark? I had this experience when working at a mine at one point, and if you went down one of the tunnels and switched off your headlamp.....it was absolute darkness. Like, we think that our bedroom at night is "completely dark" - but that's usually not true, that's always some source of light, after some adjustment you can see at least faintly. In an underground corridor without any lights at all it was very uncomfortable, it was like completely losing one sense of perception entirely.
This is the same strawman as Apple with the open "Thunderbolt" specs.

They open it up and hope other people will adopt it with the goal of profiting Apple that still controls the specs.

In addition they can also claim that other players are bad players because they didn't use the "open" specs.

That's not how it should work. Other EV makers are doing this correctly with an open consortium. A single brand (Tesla) shouldn't dictate what standards to use.
There are non-trivial compliance costs with maintaining accounts, an inactive account can absolutely be a cost for a financial institution. Not to mention that the bank makes a spread on deposits, so an inactive account is generating compliance costs + not generating any revenue (not necessarily the fees).