skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living in Germany/Berlin and can confirm. Our tap water is excellent and is way cleaner than all bottled water you can buy. Keep in mind, bottled water is also kept around way longer and has the time to „breed“. In tests, the tap water is consistently less contaminated. I recommend everyone to just stick to it.

As an anecdote: you can let your tap water be tested for free if you have a newborn to ensure and confirm that you can use it for baby food without doubt.
FT has an interesting article on it from last year: https://www.ft.com/content/944d068c-8a99-11e8-affd-da9960227...
Humans aren't the only thing that will be directly affected though. Microplastics are effectively forever and are already in aquifers and falling from the sky like rain/snow.

That means all life is going to become more and more exposed to microplastics as more and more breaks down. Sure, maybe it'll be not be so bad for a random human but what happens when this stuff starts getting into single cell and small organisms where it is in far greater concentrations?

What happens when phytoplankton, or zooplankton start getting a lot in them and it negatively impacts them? Do you get a collapse of an ecosystem?

What happens when pollinators like bees start getting large concentrations in them?

What happens as it accumulates in soil to the hundreds-to-thousands of species that are found in the first couple of inches of an average square meter of soil?

And here's the real problem... the plastic is already out there, it will break down into smaller and smaller pieces and if we entirely outlawed plastic today and no more was ever made in human history, the number of microplastic pieces would continue to grow for quite a long time before leveling off and then would appear to start vanishing as the pieces just got small enough to avoid detection via affordable methods.
Linked blog tells the story of how they got to tens of thousands of production clusters, now running almost all of IBM Cloud
A Texas Ranger got a prolific serial killer to talk
You might think that having an ex-VZW lobbyist as FCC chairman is the height of regulatory capture, but you'd be wrong:

https://www.denverpost.com/2008/09/10/interior-dept-scandal-...
You're speaking in generalities. This site is dealing with real people, such as a man who wants more sex from his girlfriend (apparently the most requested "ad") and so secretly signs his girlfriend's phone up for a system where she is shown ads designed to manipulate her into giving her boyfriend what she wants.

You don't see how there's an ethical difference, between that and a corporation advertising its products towards a general demographic?
Almost certainly, yes. They started with a fairly extensive bot platform, and I'd expect that this will plug commerce as a first-class into bots.
This is the comment I came here for. I bought a Kill A Watt some years ago when I wanted to get a feel for what my devices were using and can't say enough good things about it.

For USB, I also recommend a USB Power Meter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J7236K2 to see how much current your peripherals use when charging/when full.
The point is, in this window they haven't put it anywhere yet.
Even with a non-self service system spinning up a demo should not take that long. I'd say those companies indeed had further political or other issues leading to your experience. For the product team alone a proper pipeline for building and deployment is worth it.

Than again it of course also depends on how the product works, how deep the integration and customization needed are etc.
Slice of Tokyo: How Japan Became a Pizza Hotspot
By and large, the US doesn't use physical checks for paying employees. (we use the word "paycheck" colloquially) It's required by (possibly state?) law that companies allow direct deposit if you so choose. But it's an extra step the employee has to take, and many don't. It's technical debt for the employer to just give the employee a physical check and say "it's your problem now" than to pester them to provide their bank account information.

My first paycheck from my first summer job in high school was a check, and my severance from my last company was by check. Other than that, it's all been electronic. My previous three jobs don't allow regular paychecks by physical check, you have to have direct deposit. Physical paychecks are definitely the exception, not the norm.

There's also a lot of resistance to electronic banking in... certain circles. I'm not sure what they think "normal" banking when you speak to an actual teller is.
It's it wonderful that you can have an opinion that works for you too?
Chris Wallace is trending for telling the truth
That reminds me of how the main computer lab where I went to grad school was normally quite chilly in the winter, except near finals. The heat generated by all the PCs, printers, and people caused it to be nice and toasty near finals.
Most people get paid electronically. A lot of things people don’t realize is that at 330M+ people, the US has a lot of legacy systems due to the sheer size of the population.
And this is why most policy should be relegated to the states. But try making that argument and you'll be branded a nutty conservative.

But really, the states have always had the authority to do what people nowadays want the feds to do. Universal healthcare? The states are allowed to provide that. universal basic income? The states can do that too. Lower the drinking age? Yup, states can do that.

No one needs to wait for the federal government to 'approve' or 'allow' your state to do something. The states have ultimate, pretty much absolute authority.
My default presumption is that all results from the "social sciences" are false if they contradict my intuition. Whatever these fields are producing, it's not science in the Popperian or practical sense. A ton of policy has been built on the bad research and wishful thinking of the past few decades, and it's going to take a long time to unwind it all.

The problem, really, has been accelerating for a while. Something really went off the rails after WWII.
Cash/Consent: The war on sex work
Show HN: Spirit of C++
I'm paraphrasing, but if you think you can hack your way to individuality, you are not so smart. Check it: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/04/12/selling-out/
Clojure survey in 2015 had 2,445, 2016 had 2,420 responses, 2018 dropped to 2,325, and 2019 had 2,461. So pretty flat.
This concept is called 'price discrimination'. The idea is that it is most efficient for a store to charge every customer the exact amount they are willing to pay before they would decide not to buy.
that's why I find self-limiting forms of gamedev more interesting than AAA games.

I'd rather play a half-finished roguelike, gamejam games e.g. itch.io or Ludum Dare , indie games, concept games.

You feel the creativity more.

I don't care for a scripted piece of entertainment.

I want to explore different game mechanics and explore ways of interacting.

AAA games almost never give you that.
In other words, you have to crank up the light source to be 10x brighter to make it reflect as much as vantablack does.

I think the returns are always there when the improvements are on a log scale like that, assuming you care about darkness in the first place.
Square Cash App’s Viral Marketing Strategy Attracts Users
Language is just the mind's way of bragging about how many thoughts it has.
As much as I like spreadsheets and other general purpose numerical analysis tools, I wish there was a restricted subset of their functionality that could be used that was more formally verifiable, to prevent issues like this and Reinhart–Rogoff (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt#Metho... ) from being a common occurrence.
They were not smart enough then, didn't do their homework studying reddit and psychonaut wiki and never were reasoably cautious. Everything can be a poison when you take too much, too often, in wrong combinations, without proper protective measures and with ignorance to your actual physical and mental health. Indeed, many people should not be allowed to to touch any medical substances, let alone psychedelics without a non-stop doctor control yet many others can be allowed safely.
This comment is a walking caricature of the thing it's seeking to justify.
You don't have to worry about cache rules, but what about your bill with Cloudflare?

5$/month plan is kinda open ended, you pay for each request above included in the plan (0.5$ for 1 million requests)

With a high-perfomance language like Golang for example, I could write a script that's making 500req/second to your site. That would cost you 20$/day.

With Github Pages it wouldn't cost you anything (or they might disable your page if it costs too much bandwidth, not sure)
I was thinking about car/plane applications. At first thought, it's "that reflects no light that's a terrible idea". Thinking further, the absolute absence of anything itself stands out from a normal background, day or night. Would be a bit interesting to see.
That application we moved over was used to schedule doctors appointments. Before we got involved it was being used to schedule about 100 appointments a month. The failure rate of people trying to use it was over 95%. By moving to the cloud, using modern tools and better design we increased usage to 10,000 per week.

Veterans could get appointments to see their doctors. The number one kind of appointment was mental health. That is how it was changing the world. What we did with that one application can now be done thousands of times over for their other projects. We wrote the playbook.
Knock it off with the pop under windows. Cool site but won't be using it if you implement spam like that.
"...damn...its hard not to want to start another MUD..."

Or you could just play the best MUD there ever was, and still is.

http://www.realmsofdespair.com/
This is assuming you don't use gmail, and sign into any other sites on your main browser profile using google credentials, of course.
I think I know who built this, obviously, it wasn't Elliot Shefler
A presentation -- I gave -- aimed at building a healthy mental model of C++, without detailing the many dark corners of C++; it starts from the basics and ends at an intermediate level - thereon the viewer can comfortably pursue learning the language from more formal sources.

The slide deck, loaded with links to official sources to justify the claims made, can be viewed on a mobile too :)

Slide deck and code shared at GitHub under BSD-3 license.

Of course, this is my opinion of how to build a good mental model. Your's might differ. Any comments, suggestions, feedback or pull requests are welcome.
Of course when we're actually living in a bizarro world of moral panic [...]

Loading up a reasonable observation with tons of snark and broad political critique doesn't make for great conversation. I could just as easily point out that the technological innovation of vaping simply opens up a new market for unscrupulous capitalists to make a quick buck out of overselling the upside benefits while dumping the downside risks on the unwary.
I really hope that soon we can start looking at these media companies in the same way we look at cigarette companies.

CNN,NyTimes,FOX,Twitter etc. want you addicted to their product, are EXTREMELY powerful, and are willing to damn your health for it. It’s really sad.
Really sad to see and feels like it's becoming more common (maybe just because I'm paying closer attention). If it fits the narrative, accept first, retract later. It would be interesting to see view statistics on the original article vs the retraction.
Making technical choices using the default heuristic
I disabled that feature entirely.
Well almost all Payment Gateways charge the same in that aspect, and thus I end-up 62%.

A chance of syndicate transaction processing ? Like do not charge until the balance accumulate to 100$ and charge all at once?

OR

Something like Venmo for Business but with no transaction fee (like 0$ Venmo User transfer)
I work at a major bank in Canada and can confirm this is the case.

There is - confirmed here by a dev - at least in our instance, absolutely no technical reason why transactions can not happen immediately.

It is an intentionally-staggered process for bureaucratic purposes, certainly.
Well it has most of the data, but the form is a bit unappealing.

For comparision - this is a datasheet of a temperature sensor device:
http://pdf.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheet/maxim/DS18B20.pdf

Electrical characteristics, operation principles, state machines and so on, and it is suitable for printing.

EZO-CO2(tm) datasheet looks crazy.

page 3 is a big poster warning about submerging of the sensor

page 4 is a big poster warning about bright light interference

page 5 is a big poster warning about ground loops

1/3 of page 10 is a cartoon picture of a production line.
I have about 10 years of experience in software and have been working remote for the last year. While I enjoy the flexibility of working remote, I would not recommend it to junior developers. The experience you get from working in an office and listening in on conversations between senior engineers and management is invaluable. Not only that, but when sh*t hits the fan and the site goes down, watching how the experienced engineers handle and de-escalate the situation is something you cannot learn unless you are there to witness it first hand. These situations are what help you become a great engineer and can only be learned with time and exposure to those situations. Plus the fact that you can easily ask questions and pair program with older developers and learn how they approach and think about problems will pay off tenfold.

Once you've built that foundation, it's much easier to transition to a remote role since you hopefully now have the discipline need to know what features/bugs/projects to prioritize, and how to plan and lead projects. This would be extremely hard for a junior engineer to learn if they begin their career working remotely.
> I was curious if the micro-plastics could be coming from the bottles they are packaged in. The article says...

I assumed that they were talking about from the bottle itself.
That completely ignores the purpose of the abstraction. Copy is a high level concept that, yes, can sometimes be reduced to a read/write pipeline, but in many cases cannot. Interfaces and abstractions are important concepts that you shouldn't naively discard.

You're also focusing too much on the example, and missing the greater problem. There are other cases that fit the original problem, such a sending an email (who is the sender and who is the receiver?)
It's probably easier to become a bail bondsman, all effort considered, than to become a developer. Now ask yourself why everyone's not doing it. I'll start you out: your profit hinges on the behavior of alleged (or plain ol' "known") criminals.
One of the most important realizations I've had about dealing with other people is that "thinking" is a generic term and does not describe the same method of action in everyone. As but a few examples:

- Richard Feynman described an experiment he did to time himself counting to 60. He could do it while reading, but not talking. His friend John Tukey could talk while counting time, but not read.

- Temple Grandin described thinking of a word as seeing every individual example of that item she's ever seen.

- Some people claim to be visual thinkers, but there are blind people who are still perfectly able to think. Likewise with deafness. Clearly neither of these can be the only basis for thought.

This was an "a-ha" moment that explained a lot of human behavior.

For example, why does my manager put me in a noisy room and still expect me to write software, and propose "headphones" when I complain about the noise? He doesn't use silence as a scratch space for thinking. On the flip side, I don't understand why he cares if the lights are on. That's decidedly less important to me than whether we have extra toilet paper.

This article does confirm that thinking is not merely talking to one's self, which seems obvious to me but apparently is not a universal belief. Questions like "Multi-linguals, what language do you think in?" puzzle me because I don't generally think in any language, up until the point where I need to generate words. It's like asking what language a(n instrumental) symphony is written in, or what the key signature is of a painting. The question is a type error.
Larger pieces of plastic in the environment break down into smaller and smaller pieces. If we outlawed plastic today, and quit making it, the number of microplastic particles would continue to increase in the environment for a very long time.
That actually strikes me as a really good insight/improvement to come out of this mess.

Using the top 1% talent or whatever is sure to gloss over flaws that will bite avg pilots in the ass in real life
>Who were the kids with the difficult childhood?

Obviously I'm not going to give you their names. It was two brothers. 90s kids.

As for the grandparents, I should have been more clear about some things. First, this is like 3rd-hand information. Secord, what I'm told by my grandmother for certian was the grandparents had racist, Nazi beliefs that led to the rejection of their grandkids. They weren't neccessarily literal Nazis from WW2.

I never asked those kids about these relationships, since it's really personal/private information. It could be that the mother made this story up to get my grandma's sympathies. It's also possible that the 59yo made this up purely to convince the mother that they couldn't have a marriage. It's also possible that it's all true, which is what I've believe. These scenarios of deception are what we might want to believe about people running a "Cyber Bunker," but honestly, I'd be proud to host TPB and WikiLeaks mirrors out of a former NATO Bunker too.
Congress is having a hearing today on artificial intelligence and deep fakes
Deep Learning for Manufacturing: Overview and Applications
But the "interface" to the JSON data is different than regular columns, and arguably awkward. The dynamic relational assumption is that one can use regular SQL just like with regular "static" tables (with some minor differences to make compare-type more explicit).
After his mother died, he found her secret in the freezer
It's not just narrative fitting. There is also a strong bias towards publishing results that seem surprising because that gets more readers. Of course, that also biases toward wrong results because wrong results are likely to be surprising.
Boy how common and sad that is. Sensational findings on the front page. Correction saying sensational finding totally wrong buried on page ten or not published at all.
OK, wise guy.

There's a single bare lightbulb suspended out of reach in the void. The walls feel like ScotchBrite though you can't see them. You aren't wearing any clothes. The room begins to rotate slowly as if it were a large tumble drier, rolling you off your feet. The walls gradually turn red.

Peaceful or nightmarish?
We have a small business and print checks manually for employees. With 50+ employees and majority of them working less than 10 hours per pay period, the per employee cost to use a direct deposit/payroll service is cost prohibitive. With our employees being typically over 40, it's been rare to even have someone request direct deposit. Just thought I'd share a different perspective than the typical HN crowd.
It's just an idiom. When you hear a financier talking about being in cash it doesn't mean they have a giant stash of currency notes piled up in the corner of their office.
Well, there are occasional third and fourth categories -- when I got overly political, I was upvoted but still (correctly) got flagged or once or twice that looking back, I was being an asshole.
Show HN: 2048 in React (Play in the Browser)
No offense, but your original point was semantics. If you don't want to argue semantics and don't expect semantic discussions to get semantic, IDK what internet you've been using previously, but we have very different user experiences.

We agree on whether nerd is good, bad or neutral. That's fine. Just pointing out that there's another side. I can see why that phrasing would be used (especially by a publication that is written by/for a "younger" audience), and wouldn't even bat an eyelash over the headline. I believe people when they say something is offensive to them, but this wouldn't have even registered to me as possibly being offensive.

Good talk though.
Amazon uses third-party seller data to build a private label juggernaut
I get dividend cheques twice a year from some shares I hold and about four expenses cheques
Only in geek culture -- Facebook still has billions of users,
Marketplace for Algorithms Demo. I Hope We Did Drew Houston Proud
Thanks! It was quite the coincidence that I saw you were working on Workers KV at the moment I noticed that Cloudflare had abandoned Kyoto Tycoon for something else.
> despite zero Massachusetts vape deaths

There were deaths in other states. How close do they need to be geographically till it is ok to do this precautionarily?
I memorized this poem in high school and I refer to it whenever I need to remember the name of a meter: https://www.bartleby.com/360/9/155.html
Exactly, if a site that you know is perfectly safe showed that red warning, then you'd probably start ignoring it. UAC would pop up on almost anything you tried to run, making it worthless. The android bootscreen should almost never happen, unless you buy a second hand phone or someone actually hacks your device.
the tea bags are a new plastic mesh kind, currently from a small handful of manufacturers.
"In the afterglow of successful fecal transplants, researchers are now sniffing around vaginal fluids for the next possible bodily product to improve health—and they’re roused by the possibilities."

Were the article authors attempting to be funny, or were they seriously going for the worst-sounding opening paragraph to an article on fecal and vaginal microbiota transplants?
I'm in the hunt because I try to build a relational language (http://tablam.org - looking for help!) and have collected as many resources as I could.

Apart of the link given by @azhenley, some interesting stuff:

About queries:

- "Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language" by Yannis Klonatos, Christoph Koch, Tiark Rompf1, and Hassan Chafi

- "Optimizing relational algebra operations using generic partitioning discriminators and lazy
products"
by Fritz Henglein

The relational model

- "An Introduction to Relational Database Theory" by Hugh Darwen

About the whole thing:

- "Database Systems: The Complete Book"
by Hector Garcia-Molina Jeffrey D. Ullman Jennifer Widom

- "Database Management Systems 3rd Edition" by Ramakrishnan

About more modern stuff:

- Readings in Database Systems

- The Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Database Systems
Superhero Movies and Security Lessons
I work as a senior iOS dev at a major bank here in Canada, and I can say this is by far the most likely scenario.

First off, killing cheques would have to be a Universal - global - and immediate, thing.

For as long as the technology is still in use (everywhere) - even for obscure purposes - it will remain supported and thusly these issues will remain.

Nobody in the bank industry is stupid enough to self-sabatoge by not accepting or pressing cheques, because when your landlord wants a stack of post-dated cheques (still) - you’re going to be flying to the next bank.

Updating a new system, yes, we’re careful, as all hell, but we push iOS updates consistently.

Destroying an old one that is still in place by unfortunate necessity? We can’t do that yet. Doesn’t matter how insecure it is.

We just focus on making the apps and web and the new technology that we have a lot more control over as secure as possible.
I find Lord of the Rings Online to have some of the best story driven questing. The story line is interesting, the quests are fairly varied and the 'ohh...' factor when you walk into well known places like Moria is awesome!