skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of bottled water is literally packaged tap water. Anyway https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431... and https://www.consumerreports.org/water-quality/whats-really-i...
"For example, a typical point-of-use RO system will generate five gallons or more of reject water for every gallon of permeate produced."

https://www.epa.gov/watersense/point-use-reverse-osmosis-sys...
I mean, yes, the bottle itself is a source of microplastics.
Can anyone recommend a good reverse osmosis filtration that is actually certified and made by a company you can actually trust? I have one now, but not sure that it filters some of the PFOS/PFAS chemicals. There are so many clearly scammy companies claiming different types of certifications.
5 hours later:

$700M paperclips... :-|

Any docs about Yomi models? What is it about at all?
The return value of StreamReader.Read() will always be within bounds of -1 and char.MaxValue.

All surrogate pairs will be drained into the StringBuilder, working correctly. Most implementations usually agree that torn UTF-16 surrogate pairs (which are strictly the code points outside of basic multilingual plane) may exist in the input and will be passed as is, which is different to what UTF-8 implementations choose (Rust is strict with this, Go lets you tear code points arbitrarily).

We, as a community, can do better than to jump to immediate criticism of this type.
I wish this was the reason. It's just mediocrity and pure, raw ignorance. A result of throwing bodies into the technology industry in a desperate attempt to get the software out.
It's all just kind of f'd anyway.

The biological need for "water" is tuned to expect "water" to involve all sorts of trace minerals and compounds, some desired and some undesired, as well as some kind of stream of gut flora contributors and immune system challenges.

Thinking of RO and other forms of heavily or industrially purified H20 as the same thing is a technologist's mistaken idealization, and to a cynical eye reads a lot more like ancient Hellenic ideas about simple essential fluids than anything either scientific or sustainable.

It may be a necessary compromise because of modern contamination or because modern demand forces us to rely on increasingly worse supplies, but it's a long way from "verifying the response". It's more like an ugly last resort hack.
Yes but the push towards expansion and financial leverage means that you and your family are out working all day every day. So you have land but you don’t have any fucking time. Beef jerky and Red Bull it is then.
Fmcsa investigates Uber Freight after double brokering scam
When I’ve tried writing programs targeting wasm (in assemblyscript and rust) and platforms for them to run on, special care had to be taken to treat each language differently (how they encode strings differently for example.)

This means that not only do I need to take special care that my code can compile to wasm, but the platform devs (also me, in this case) needs to take special care to support a variety of different design choices in various wasm toolchains.

I’d rather just use SELinux containers and let the OS handle security.

Maybe Firecracker VMs like AWS lambda does.
Ask HN: Are new Jakarta EE projects started nowadays?
Adept -> Guru is the logical association
I forgot why we were doing this again hahaha. What's the point of this exercise? I mean it's fun, but I don't need another job right now. Is it a puzzle?
Are you confusing me with someone else? I never said land was the ‘primary cost’?

If your confused about the terminology, $300,000 is a smaller number than $450k. “Saleable square footage” means net of elevator shafts, hallways, etc….
Considering that on desktop EU users have been able to freely choose their browser for years and Chrome is dominant, I would not be so confident that it is not the article that is plainly wrong.
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RE "....Still an expensive process, ....."
Actually probably NOT , if all the $$ saved over the last 25 years , and also considering the many millions to get a completely new replacement system....
I figured I'd add a bit of clarification here. Tenstorrent has a couple SW stacks. The lowest level programming (Metalium) model is written in C++ and goes down to the register level. Higher level entrypoints (ttlib, ttnn) are written on top of that in python. I think it's the smi tooling and other systems software that might be written in rust.
That is a problem with the Python packaging ecosystem in general, not with aider. @BiteCode_Dev wisely advises beginners to use virtual environments to install anything that uses Python: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/back-to-basics-with-pip-and-venv
Microplastics is a different conversation.
I got blood testing through the MIPHES study:

https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/safety-injury-prev/environmen...

And well water testing through the Michigan DEQ, county health department, performed by Rose and Westra GZA:

https://www.accesskent.com/Health/PFAS/contact.htm

Culligan Water installed and serviced our whole-home water filter system until a township-approved excavation contractor was able to connect us to municipal water, which was funded by a separate lawsuit against Wolverine/3M.

No idea what (if any) the consequences were for the executives in the 70s and 80s who dumped chemical waste and leather scraps in a swamp behind a friend's farm upstream from my house, or their successors in the 90s who covered it up.
When you're four years old, are they really that different?
You imply that a string, reversed, would have the same length as the original.

This is not true.
The PC and the floppy disk should be running as a virtual machine. ( The Vm software and host OS and the hardware would all be current supported versions of course )
"there was little scientific knowledge about concussion in the public domain."

That's bs. We knew about concussions and head injuries being nasty. That's why patriarchal societies didn't let women box, a good thing, but amused themselves with poor men, "rif-raf", beating themselves senseless (a bad thing)

What we have had since the 1950s is that nasty little refrain: "there's no scientific evidence linking <x> with <y>" and the like. As if something doesn't exist until we can detect a statistical signal.

Science has been ruined by this. All other means to explore Truth, Beauty, logical Reason [1], etc, are dismissed under the weight of "statistical evidence".

We knew Ronda. We knew.

[1] yes, even logical reasoning unless underpinned by fast materialistic assumptions like QED are dismissed.
I struggle to understand how unions/government are often seen as the problem. Some of the best public transit I've experienced have been in places with strong unions and more government-owned/managed public transit e.g. much of Europe. Some of the worst in places where unions are weak and "public" transit is largely out-sourced to private entities operating on behalf of public transit agencies e.g. the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

I live in New Zealand public transit in NZ used to be incredibly bad during the heights of private operation in the 1990's but has improved heaps over the last 10-20 years as local/central govt have progressively taken back control over more aspects of public transit. However public agencies are still not allowed to directly operate bus or train services which still sees private companies failing to provide good service with no consquences and public agencies unable to take over to provide the service improvements that are needed. It is interesting to compare New Zealand in the 1950's had one of the highest levels of public transit usage per capita under public ownership of buses and railways. This dropped down to embrassingly low levels after out-sourcing to private entities to a low in the 1990's.

It has only been under government leadership that we have seen a revival to the current levels (e.g. doubling to 100+ million trips per annum in our biggest city from well below 50 million in the mid-1990's) due to local government coordinating public transit systems (and contracting private entities to operate to the timetables set by public authorities) that meets the needs of the users and not just private entities making a profit. Unions have been vocal too for improving systems not only for transit employees but also recognising that what's best for transit users also benefit transit employees.

YMMV and possibly depends on the political environment in each country.
Meh, not really? This seems more analogous to memory allocator optimization, where your libc malloc() is "optimized" to give adequate performance to all sorts of different allocation patterns, but you can do much better if you know a priori what your application's actual pattern will be. Just swap out "malloc()" with "the process scheduler" here.
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But somehow butter and lard are bad, that's how this whole thing started
That's called moving the goalposts.
Wyoming Truckers Say New Federal EV Rules Unrealistic and 'Asinine'
That's an extra 5 gallons only if it is done at the point of consumption.

To do it for all water- showers, washing dishes, laundry, etc- would require RO for all potable water for the city water supply.

Depending on where in California you are, that much extra water consumption (since the waste will have an even higher concentration of harmful chemicals) isn't exactly an option.
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken, as they used to say.
If SFMTA was "on the ball" they would have obtained source code from the original company.
Water quality: see https://www.sfpuc.org/sites/default/files/documents/SF_Regio...

Efficiency: see https://www.epa.gov/watersense/point-use-reverse-osmosis-sys...

For example, a typical point-of-use RO system will generate five gallons or more of reject water for every gallon of permeate produced. Some inefficient units will generate up to 10 gallons of reject water for every gallon of permeate produced. In recent years, membrane technology has improved and some point-of-use RO systems have been designed to operate more efficiently, with some manufacturers advertising a 1:1 ratio of permeate to concentrate production, meaning only one gallon of reject water is generated for each gallon of treated water.
Original title from The Guardian: German university rescinds Jewish American’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter
Maybe people wondering where the money came from (are there other investors now?)
If you're taking Vitamin D and Vitamin K like you're supposed to, these are the last things you have to worry about.
The article didn't say that at all. And vacancy rates in NYC aren't 30%. They're ~1.4%.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/nyregion/apartment-vacanc...

I'm not claiming that this kind of service is good, or that having a trial is bad. I'm actually really interested in the judicial opinion because I could see it going either way. What I am saying is that it just doesn't feel plausible that this software is single handedly moving the market in a big way.

People really do want to point to a single boogeyman for housing unaffordability. And that's too simplistic. Nationally we're short millions of units at a time when we're wealthier than ever. Low supply and high demand means rising prices.

Fix it by making units easy and cheap to build.
I'm not really sure the law could work that way. I mean in the sense that they may have codified that but realistically I think a nation's laws ended their borders typically
Just looking at the title, I thought ancient as in Amiga, ancient as in System/370, or ancient as in Antikythera mechanism?

Turns out to be the first two rather than the last, but there's an analog computer that, while much newer than Antikythera, predates all of these and is still in wide use today: the E6B Flight Computor, a sort of slide rule used by pilots to do time, distance, speed, and fuel consumption calculations and wind triangulation. Some pilots use digital versions of this tool but the old circular slide rule is still preferred by many because it doesn't require batteries and the pilot is used to manipulating the physical dials.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
But does the protective gear in American football help or makes the issue worse? The answer isn't trivial.
Because the law defines a “gatekeeper” of a platform not by market power (which would actually make sense), but having more than a threshold number of users. iPad is not a popular enough platform to qualify.
That is indeed a good price, because per its protein content it is cheaper than chicken breast.

Nevertheless you can still find meat that is cheaper than this, per its protein content, e.g. chicken gizzards, so it does not demonstrate the expected efficiency of eating directly vegetable proteins without passing them through animals.

It is likely that something like seitan should be cheaper to produce than this, since I can do it at home for many times less money than that, but most commercial products for vegans are overpriced.
Hey! I'm a val.town fanboy and I immediately thought about a workaround while reading the blog post:

What if I dumped every publics vals in Github, in order to be able to user their (awesome) search ?

So here is my own "Val Town Search": https://val-town-search.pomdtr.me

And here is the repo containing all vals, updated hourly thanks to a github action: https://github.com/pomdtr/val-town-mirror
Banks are especially bad. I know one bank that has you memorize 7 digits access codes and for authentication asks 4 digits at random places each time.
Much of rural America grows corn or soybeans. You can drive for literally hundreds of miles and only see these two crops. And it’s not even a corn that is edible, it’s grown to be processed or fed to other animals. Vegetable production is isolated to a few areas. Even then they are often limited to a few crops with narrow seasonality. You can grow vegetables in these areas but it’s not profitable.
If you got any certifications that require CPEs (or PDUs or whatever they may be called) put priority to them. I know from experience that it's painful to wake up on Dec 1st and realize you need to do 150 hours of training.
It's good to read there is consternation about the debits/credits nomenclature because I am definitely confused.

Interesting context on negative numbers, thanks for that!
I live in a city that was a hot zone for this type of contamination in the drinking water due to industrial waste from leather processing buried in the 60’s (shoe scraps treated with scotchgard.) We now have GAC filtering at the municipal supply level that is quite effective and not that expensive. The large beds of carbon last quite a while if I recall correctly. Despite regular testing, everyone I know RO filters their water regardless. For me, it’s because I have no idea what new previously “unknown” contamination will be next discovered, and would rather get out as much as is reasonable.

When the information began to surface I found it interesting the letters on public record going back to the 60’s with people warning that allowing this kind of dumping was a bad idea. Of course being the primary employer to the entire city, the economics won at the time. Since, the cost of cleanup and lawsuits to that company have been massive.
Wow. I made several fairly important errors here: 1. I wrote "goal" when I clearly should have written "global" - that's a typo but it's a pretty serious once.

2. There are currently four of these global firms not three.

3. I also omitted to even mention that of these four, three have their headquarters in London, England. This is clearly not a good idea, as a British person I'd like to think we could have one of the world's significant auditors based here, but it's obvious things aren't working properly when almost all of them are.
> Planting a seed 40 years ago may, in part, cause a tree to fall on my house at some point.

Sure, and a butterfly beating it's wings may have lead to JFK's assassination, but there are way more important factors.

> which can be used to circumvent or otherwise avoid the purpose, implied or explicitly stated, of the system

Did you read the law? It explicitly excluded luggage from the tax. Because the tax was never intended to apply to luggage.

So it sounds like the opposite of a loophole, by your definition.
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You could have a look at https://hefferon.net/computation which is certainly aimed at a broader audience.
Things has a nice watch app and it works well with Siri too. Granted the watch app isn’t as flexible as Reminders, but that may not matter for a given persons usage.
You gonna defend asbestos yet? PFAS is, like, actually carcinogenic and stuff.
Anyone knows which this hacker house is, and if it is still active?
It would be much better if there was a requirements lockfile, of course.
This is outdated as most of the mfgs have gotten better at it. Mine is 1:1 drinking:waste and my monthly water consumption is barely affected as it's indiscernible in the noisy variation. First 4 links on Amazon I'm seeing 2:1, 2:1, 3:1, 3:1
We know where a lot of it came from. Emphasis because it's an
historical problem:

Military and civil air fire-fighting foam.

About a million tons of perfluoroalkyl was put into the environment
between 1970 and 2000. It's very mobile, so it quickly got into
groundwater and rivers.

By comparison the leach from Teflon pans is probably a small
percentage.
Hmm any suggestions on how to convince it to produce something like this?

I have lyrics that I want sung by a solo female voice with the background being a male chorus. Something reminiscent of a woman singing the details of a David vs Goliath type battle backed by a chorus of the victorious warriors from that battle.

So far I have completely failed to be able to generate a female lead with a male chorus backing
Or we could have the government require that everyone wear a loudspeaker that constantly announces their presence so that nobody can sneak up on anyone. Citizens are required to purchase their own loudspeaker and anyone caught not wearing one will be fined or jailed.

Is that what you prefer?

On the other hand, if everyone around you was a black belt in jiu jitsu and you knew that there was a good chance that they’d break your arm if you tried to sneak up and punch them, you probably wouldn’t want to do that, would you?
Many times these hospitals also lack specialists. Some of my relatives will drive an extra hour to a bigger city, even though they live 10minutes from a hospital, because the doctors there don’t have the same specialities.
Deepfakes, elections, and shrinking the liar's dividend
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> I know those things aren't connected at all

Of course they are connected. You may be right that Apple would be largely unaffected by a small group of people dropping them, but you also need to look at the other side of the market. If a small-but-meaningful minority puts a strong signal that they refuse to pay for corporate-controlled services but do want to pay for "independent" alternatives, then you have the right incentive for some player to show up and satisfy this demand.

You'll be "degrading your experience" only in the beginning, but with continued support the alternatives would be surpass the incumbent. It could be seen as an investment.

It's not that different from the "Linux on the desktop" case. Yes, using Linux over Windows was "difficult" in 2008-2012, but if it were not for the people willing to drop Windows then we would never had companies like Canonical and Valve willing to make a bet on it. And Linux might have ~4% of the desktop share, but you'd have a hard time to argue that Windows is objectively "better" and today it's more likely that people will migrating from Windows to Linux than the opposite direction.
If you look at your bottled water, a whole lot of it has labels on it that say something like "comes from a municipal source". It's tap water sold at a 5000% markup.
Transit vehicles purchased with federal funds are required to meet a minimum service life (see below). For the Muni Metro you're looking at a minimum expected life of 31 years.

https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/2021-11/...
If you prefer GUI with more space to write task requirements, or use your existing ChatGPT/Claude subscription without additional API costs, you can check out my desktop app: https://prompt.16x.engineer/
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Making my own music is fun for me so I’m gonna keep doing that.
Doesn't the software just give the LLM the line numbers?
Well this is fun...

git clone https://github.com/pomdtr/val-town-mirror
cd val-town-mirror
rg news.ycombinator.com

Now I can ripgrep search public Vals, e.g. to see who's hitting Hacker News from a Val.
The many among us who already avoid those products, or who haven't gotten practical access to them, may be surprised by the tradeoffs you describe.

Just because a technology has become pervasive in some lives doesn't mean that it does a lot that matters. Like any other tradition, its value is often incidental and its popularity is mostly an accident of history (marketing, curiosity, fashion, ephemeral supply/industry shocks, etc).

Nonstick pans and synthetic fabrics are very much in that group.
Congratulations Eric! Super happy for you and the team!
This isn't common or as much of a concern at all. I'm talking about drinking water for consumption. It's a $200 expense, an extra 20 gallons of water a month at most (out of 3000).
Yes. It's a bit like, "Do you need a car?". If you're only going very popular places public transport might work. But to be able to surf the 'net you need ipv4.
I like this part about the Ada hype: https://youtu.be/0yXwnk8Cr0c?t=1854

Compare it to the hype around a current (intentionally corroded) language /s
> There is not a single country where I have the "right", granted by law, to shoot dead your 8Yo children. Period.

Sure there is.

If I'm a policeman, and in order to save lives I need to use my weapon and it results in the deaths of an 8 year old, that's permissible by law.

And so do the laws the of war.

If, in order to destroy the war fighting ability of an aggressor, I bomb a civilian center where the aggressor has placed offensive weapons, and is is judged by probability and proportionality to be reasonable, then it's legal.
Since ffmpeg has a wasm build, couldn't this be done client side?
Ah ok, so both are implemented via a call(s) to the LLM, as opposed to a standard algorithmic approach?
How much are people currently spending on bottled water, that they could save if the tap water was safer?