skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think the same thing, But I've seen reports recently that these levels are in rain water and tap water as well. The particles are just in the water cycle now it seems. Looking forward to more information.
How would it be worse?
A dreadful article on a good topic.

Repetitious, poorly-worded, unclear (the "how to" for Excel contains no actual instructions).
It's good to see someone appreciating them. :)
There was a WHO study published just last month[0] which did not find any dangers associated with microplastics in drinking water. One of the conclusions mirrors your reasoning:

"Although it is not possible to draw any firm conclusion on toxicity related to the physical hazard of plastic particles, particularly the nano size particles through drinking-water exposure, no reliable information suggests it is a concern. Humans have ingested microplastics and other particles in the environment for decades with no related indication of adverse health effects."

[0] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/326499/9789...
>...plastic bottle

I'm even confused by this point--given that some of the water (e.g. San Pellegrino) often comes in glass bottles, can we even assume all bottles measured were plastic? It seems like it should be obvious or else it would be a useless study, but I fail to find a single assertion that all bottled water tested were indeed plastic bottles. That and S. Pellegrino has such a low max count compared with others...
We have decades of research that people ignore warnings — see Vista UAC. People always click continue. There is so much scare ware out there people have become immune.
Evian is best spelled backwards.. ;)
What's really funny is in the late 1990s and early 2000s I always overclocked my systems because it gave a noticeable FPS boost in the games I played. Dual Celerons (physical chips) running 366@550 (a classic) and then a Pentium III 733@900 which was a huge upgrade, especially for a consistent 125 FPS in Quake 2 / 3.

My 2 legit failures were an old IDE HDD that audibly clicked like crazy for months before failing completely. Since it gave such a long warning I was able to back everything up thankfully. The 2nd failure was a different power supply that just stopped working without any notice or grand events. I never had any RAM or video cards go bad, but after assembling a new machine I always run them through rigorous automated tests to help detect faults. I've had 1 stick of RAM be DOA but I don't count that as a failure.

My current system is an i5 4460 (3.2ghz) with a bunch of other components. It's been going 5ish years now without issues and I work this thing pretty hard. Full time development, video recording and editing, gaming, etc..
Not really. There was a story about someone pranking their roommate with targeted Facebook ads but FB then raised the minimum amount of people targeted. However as far as I know nothing prevents you from specifying a majority of fake emails/phone numbers in addition to your target’s phone number as long as you’re happy to pay for the extra wasted fake targets.
Nuclear reactors can stand quite high temperatures, so it will be much easier than you would assume if you looked at other rocket projects. Remember that radiating power increases with the 4rth power of the temperature.

Also, a shut down reactor quickly gets to ~1% of the energy of an active one, so, again, it's easier than it seems. Generated energy goes down exponentially with time.

Of all the problems of creating a nuclear rocket, I don't think cooling stands up.
Yeah, I can't even imagine. haha.
What are the charges on internet in SF? The ITFA(internet tax freedom act) banned taxes or fees on internet service.
Thanks for checking it out! Limericks are actually a surprisingly ill-defined form, but I'll be adding what I consider an "80% correct" limerick feature soonish.

And yeah, I mentioned Shakespeare in this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21093024

Who'da thought that analyzing art objectively would be hard?
The TOML in the post is identical to the first config syntax I used, back in the early 90s. It's based on ini syntax.
For a nice overview of the prosody that underlies poetic meter, music, and most other forms of speech, I recommend this[1] video by Kyle Kallgren, which includes a lot of practical examples from the Beatles and other well-known works.

[1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x46rxnz
Backup cams are mandated now, so it's good thing they didn't rely on this sample size of 1. Small children and pets everywhere will be less likely to get run over as a result.

The company puts those features in there because the market is telling them to. Bad UX is orthogonal to that fact.
Bitcoin Startup RSK Acquires Major Latin-American Facebook Competitor Taringa
> which will almost certainly be used on any crewed mission to Mars.

This is interesting. I hadn't seen anything about NASA plans to get humans to Mars requiring nuclear-thermal propulsion. Does NASA even currently have a serious plan for Mars missions with the whole Artemis thing going on?
Even when the rest of it is "available" it can be taken back after weeks if it doesn't actually "clear."

There's what you see as clearing vs. actual clearing.

I've also had, with very large deposits, to call my bank and insist they call the other bank because they only way they'll clear the check is through manual verification. (This was a big bank and a smaller credit union -- 15 days later the big bank would only clear the check with a phone call from the credit union, but wouldn't tell me why/how and took a lot of digging from me to get the hold lifted. It also turned out the credit union had given the big bank the OK two days in, but big bank's system didn't "read" it somehow).

In other words, things can still VERY manual when it comes to check clearing, particularly large checks.
I feel bad for those people who Paychecks got stolen, I wonder if they'll end up getting that back or did already since it mentioned "briefly pull"... People who work paycheck to paycheck probably struggles the most and then overdraft fees, stress, couples often fight over money, etc... So pretty shameful if you are working hard, and stuff like this happens. You feel like you are doing everything right and things still go wrong.

Even if they did put it back, still overdraft fees during that time if someone had a check cashed or automatic payment sent due to those funds being removed.

I don't know why anyone would think they could get away with a fraud this large. I just think this stuff highlights how outdated the banking system is.

I've always hated the idea of checks, I rather the money be gone right away then keeping track of it... Since checks still show on your balance even if not cashed yet. Then checks have your entire account number people could misuse. I have never wrote a check in my life though, but I know my family does for bills but I know more and more places have online bill pay... They trust mailing their entire account info than doing it online.

However I feel both banking and the whole social security number thing needs to be rethought. it's insane you use the same number for everything and you pass it around to employers, contracting jobs freelancing or affiliate programs that pay commissions, credit cards, cable company, satellite tv, cell phone, doctors, dentists, etc. Well I know for doctors and stuff they say you can refuse to give it, but pretty sure they'll give you a hassle for exercising your rights. I know a while back there was some dentist storing patient information in a unsecured FTP account.
This has got to be a joke
Is there any reports that show information for tap water?
Keep in mind that large companies are already using the surveillance and advertising complex to influence behavior, and have been for years. This just puts it in the hands of anyone with $50 to spend.
Locks are trivial to pick. Typically easier than recreating keys through a photo. This does not dimish their value.
Nuclear reactors will be needed if you're going much further out than Earth/Mars. Solar power falls off rapidly as you go further out.
> How much energy am I wasting?

Plug it into a kill a watt meter and find out:
http://www.p3international.com/products/p4400.html
Yes, sorry! I was trying to just discuss the "iambic" part and ignore the "pentameter," which I'd assumed (maybe incorrectly) was not the source of confusion. Thanks for the clarification.
Most restaurants have an additional percent charge to provide healthcare or other benefits to their workers.
Also the "100% Natural" badge :)
Maybe something like an Ad-blocker would work.
Yeah, I'd love to try that out. Imagine waking up in a room painted with that.
And it doesn't look like it was owned by GitHub based on past snapshots

https://web.archive.org/web/20110202114448/http://reaxt.com/
Yeah people don't want to see Facebook improve and become beneficial. They want to see it burn and die.

It's worse now that tech is more about dogmatism as it becomes more popular.

The reality is they have a lot to improve, and they want to improve to keep the business running.

It's good that people are critical of FB and other companies, but many cross the line into a purely emotional state.

Even the rhetoric of Facebook breaking democracy is just a rhetoric. It's a problem with the whole industry.

There are many more Cambridge Analytica companies that don't require data from Facebook to know everything about you. It's good though that CA was a huge news story. I'm hopeful that in the next decade we can figure out these things because it is a huge problem.
I already use it as my signature.
What actually happens in Runescape is that certain animations override the running animation. When the animation then ends, the game compensates by making your character move much faster than usual, which can look like zipping all over the place. This is all client side of course; server side your character moves as normal.

Extreme example of someone using this in PVP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIFWSMW6Lzo
Aah, Got it !! Thanks for explaining it.

Btw, "what do you use" I meant for documentation. Did you use any API service that generates documentation? I used postman for ET, no complains - but I would like to have the option of changing the Coding language at the console screen not at the top of screen, like it is in postman, now.
You should anyway, as it's still a waste of energy, but if you are just curious about usage you can get smart plugs that will tell you how much energy a plug is drawing. That would let you see energy usage, and by extension, the energy bill.
How to organize your schedule as freelancer
Gaslighting is a negative term. You don't want to gaslight your family member, you just want to help them, which this service enables you to do.

Just because the copy doesn't mention it doesn't mean it's not there.
Part of this doesn't make sense. It says the executive is supposed to have a meeting a ratify the one decision. But right before that it says that the two people disagree.

It seems to imply that those two people are magically going to agree to something before the meeting.

Is the idea that they are forced to either compromise or cancel all of their plans? It seems like a common outcome might be for them to pretend to agree and then go back to their own section and just do what they want.

I feel like there needs to be some kind of verification to ensure that different perspectives are actually being integrated rather than people just talking past each other. Also, sometimes just mashing two ideas together creates a third idea that doesn't work even though either one of the two original could work. Also, even if they come up with a viable idea, someone has to check that they are actually implementing it.

I think the article might be a little bit of a simplification. Sometimes an executive needs to integrate different perspectives and choose a direction that neither party could see.
cartesin gentic programming: DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-17310-3

Brad Johanson, Riccardo Poli: GP-Music: An Interactive Genetic Programming System for Music Generation with Automated Fitness Raters
Agreed. I always found military jargon to be self important sounding on top of that. Using this language to attract civilian knowledge workers is bizarre and probably hurts their recruitment
If you click through to other sites, such as news sites, blogs, web comics, and so on, they may be loading ads from adtech companies, which may be retargeted based on your browser cookies without involving any social media site.

So your overall vulnerability to this targeting has more to do with what your browser does (such as whether it blocks trackers and expires or removes some cookies) and what sites you visit (in terms of where they choose to embed ads from).
Damn, I could've used this a few weeks ago. I moved my NAS from bare Ubuntu + ZoL to FreeNAS, and got stuck on a read-only pool because of unsupported features such as userobj_accounting (1). I had to zfs send/receive to external drives and back again to work around this, which was annoying, to say the least.

[1] http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Feature_Flags
Ask HN: Terrament needs a civil engineer co-founder to fight climate change
Hi all,

My startup, Terrament, is fighting climate change. I'm asking for help finding a senior-level civil engineer to be my co-founder.

Terrament is a new startup solving our trillion-dollar energy storage crisis. We are using underground pumped hydro energy storage. Unlike many energy storage startups, we are not experimenting with new technology. Rather, we are improving on well-proven tried-and-true technologies. We think our solution may have the best hope of scaling quickly and cheaply.

All intros to civil engineers would be greatly appreciated!

- Contact: Eric Chaves (eric@terramenthq.com)

- Pitch Deck:
https://www.slideshare.net/EricChaves3/terrament-pitch-deck-draft-for-founder-search

- More info: https://github.com/syllable-hq/uphs-feasibility-study
Or, we can develop solutions based on existing [proven] cryptographic primitives, with a focus of abstracting authentication / signing / encipherment functionality to an external key or secure-device.

Example: iPhone (and Andorid) both have "secure enclaves" where cryptographic keys are stored. However when you step into the basic PC/Linux realm the concept of a secure-device for key storage (TPM) is pretty non-existent outside of corporate players. We can do better, without totally going pie in the sky.
Just a side note from a law nerd. 'Reasonable person' doesn't mean 'typical' or 'ordinary' person, it means 'person who is amenable to reasoned argument.'

Suppose you make a proposition to a person and they reject it based on some fallacious argument. You, an intellectual, kindly point out the fallacy in their objection. A reasonable person is one who takes this in and reconsiders your proposition. An unreasonable person is someone who doubles down and either offers different but equally fallacious arguments (if they just hate your proposition and are looking for an excuse to reject it, but wish to conceal that) or refuses to acknowledge their original fallacy (due to embarrassment, stupidity, or perversity).
Embedded systems aren't using your everyday desktop operating systems, if that's what your asking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics_software

> Avionics software is embedded software with legally mandated safety and reliability concerns used in avionics. The main difference between avionic software and conventional embedded software is that the development process is required by law and is optimized for safety.
I wonder if pelligino is very low because it's bottled mineral water
I think this lambda handler is broken. It should be waiting for completion of the store operations prior to invoking the completion function. Otherwise the lamda could be unloaded or frozen prior to the operations completing. As the lamda stays active for a while after receiving a request it may seem like it's working fine until it's not.
The point of pretty quote formatting is to highlight distinction between your own and borrowed text. But in this case the quote is the main content of the message, so there is no need to format it.

The modern convention for such quotations is called "copypasta": you put your quote in the beginning of your message without additional formatting, and attribute it to the author in the end of your message or in the reply to yourself, or ever in the username of account you created to post the quote (such account would be called "novelty account" because THGTTG is in fact a novel).

Attribution after the quote has additional benefit of giving people the pleasure to recognize the source of the quote themself while they read it.
Literature Review on Elections, Political Campaigning and Democracy [pdf]
> The best customer is one that comes in and says "I want this item, I will pay a reasonable price right now and walk out a happy customer"

These customers are not price sensitive. So you do not want to give them the best deal. Instead the profit maximizing technique is to find customer who won’t pay your “reasonable price” but will pay some smaller amount. You make them jump through hoops so you don’t cannibalize your “reasonable customer” sales.

When done right every customer is paying what they consider “reasonable”. For some that is more money than others.
Yeah...HTX was really interesting until it was clear that 40G/100G enet was going to become commodity really fast.
Yeah, it's a joke :^)
From a utilitarian moral perspective, quite a few of the messages they present are actually good ones: quit smoking, drive carefully. Even the one about women initiating sex helps fight against sexist gender roles that women have to wait for the man to initiate everything.

But those are also things people may be comfortable just asking up front.

Of course other messages like "quit your job" for a coworker just seem spiteful and mean spirited.
For what it's worth, TOML [0] has been around for a few years. It's intended for configuration data and borrows some ideas from INI files. The +++ thing is just Zola's way to have you tell it whether you put YAML or TOML inside the "front-matter" of the post. +++ and --- to denote front matter isn't a standardized thing, as far as I know; it's just a convention that a lot of static site generators seem to follow. +++ in particular for TOML might have come from Hugo (that's at least the first place I encountered it).

[0]: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
Would the human eye see the difference between this and Vantablack? Even though it's ten times darker I feel like the returns would get smaller and smaller.

Also, what would 100% light absorption look like?
While we are picking apart your statistics, I wondered about your claim that journalists are "Overwhelmingly, white and male democrats".

From what I can tell journalists at major US papers have about a 60:40 male to female ratio: https://www.statista.com/statistics/625800/newspaper-journal.... I also found this interesting source which seem to say that most newsrooms are about 80% white: https://googletrends.github.io/asne/.

My quick conclusion is that if we thus assume that male, white, and Democrat are independently distributed, we find that 60% * 80% * 30% = 15% of journalists are white males that identify as Democrats. While this is probably the most common combination of these particular characteristics, it doesn't feel particularly overwhelming.
low-hanging fruit: "pure life" is the most impure brand
An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is retracted
You've convinced me, I'll avoid government jobs.
Technically, the title of the web page is: "The World’s Most Popular Conference for Independent Startups", but I felt that this didn't highlight the non-VC, non-Institutional Investor, non-Institutional Capital aspect, plus, "Independent" can be interpreted in many contexts...

If I have violated HN's rules about posting the original title in its original form, then I profusely apologize, in advance!
Tests only work if someone is actually going to do them :)
Yes.

Unfortunately, there is no good research yet [1]. As you say, it is quite possible that there is essential zero effect.

There are some indicators that concentrated nanoplastics (smaller particles) are harmful. [2]

[1] https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/08/22/WHO-More-data-nee...

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170925104730.h...
Anywhere you can see retargeted ads online you could be targeted.

WhatsApp group chats were used to spread carefully crafted opposition memes and fake news.

So, while you may be safe against 50$ campaigns, it could be a false sense of security. For 5000$-50000$ I am sure I can get a special message in front of your face: Take out local ads, plant a newspaper story, create a huge story about your controversial 5-million-dollar-revenue website on HackerNews (remember, no such thing as bad publicity, this website will see their customers spike today!)

> He banked on people hate-tweeting it. “I don’t mind what they feel, as long as they think something”, Halib said – which is scarily like something I’ve said in talks I’ve given about coming up with PR ideas that bang.
Was there some sort of scientific breakthrough that has allowed researchers to find these microplastics for the first time, or is it just that nobody had looked yet?
Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was:

> Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics.

Worse... it's worse than tap water.
SO a good example would be - you go into a shop and pick up a bottle and examine the label and then change your mind for whatever reason and place it back. Sombody else comes in, buys that bottle and let's say for ease of argument they have gloves and so does the cashier. That bottle then gets used in a crime to hurt somebody and tada. Your in the frame for a crime you did not commit and the onus laid upon you that you was not there or did it.

That kinda thing?
Yeah, if there's a solved problem, it's CRUD microservices.

As long as we've thought enough about the design (db schema, service responsibility boundaries, etc etc) we can get a working microservice up in hours to a few days.
Where I live they are all glass bottles, so I am not sure how plastic enters in the first place.
Where's your control group? If life expectancy would have been a year higher, how exactly would you know?
I agree with you generally that this kind of question can be used to manipulate, however I also feel those of us in the Technology sector need to answer it. So many of us are spending our lives without thinking about what we are doing. We just do whatever pays the best or gives us the nicest life. Meanwhile there are _huge_ problems that need to be solved, and we are ignoring them.

So it is a loaded question, but I feel its one people in the tech industry need to ask themselves.
I have family that buys the Costco brand and of many of the plastics it seems very thin / flimsy compared to some of the more expensive brands. I'd be surprised if it weren't comparable to some of the higher leaching bottles just based on feel and cost.

I've always been curious about plastic milk containers vs Tetra Paks as well. Beyond bottled water there are so many other liquids consumed out of plastics I feel as though there aren't many alternative options that wouldn't impede the cost of shipping (aluminum/glass) that consumers would be willing to pay for.