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That grill is designed for ramming, shoving, and a hammer-head maneuver that destabilizes the target vehicle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIT_maneuver
[1] https://youtu.be/OjvBYk8_8HI?t=19
Sure, for camera gear, but it's clearly marked on the item's page. There's also nothing explicitly wrong with grey market items.
So, "social correction" items mentioned earlier could include autarky, where no change gets implemented. This is the system you've argued for across multiple comments. If society agrees, why not.

I am for a bit of redistribution, myself, but the positive claim made about perpetuation of bias is simply a systemic fact. Blinding means that, conditional on prior experience and work, your likelihood of landing the job should be constant. That means prior bias gets perpetuated (is built into the factors that generate prior experience and work).
It's good to see a positive article about China. Everything i was seeing in the news seemed so negative and hostile.
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From their "Technologies We Use" page ( https://www.summarizebot.com/summarization_business.html#tec... ) I gather that they use a Blockchain for storing their training data and language models.

In theory that makes the language models auditable and tamper-proof. I'm not so sure about the supposed benefit of that, though. Yes, it means that the model itself cannot be tampered with (in order to introduce bias to the summaries, for instance) but as long as the algorithm itself remains closed source you could still alter the results by for example boosting some values while attributing less significance to others.

Simply publishing both the algorithm and the model as open source alongside with an SHA-2 hash to make sure neither has been tampered with would achieve a lot more in terms of reproducibility and trustworthiness.

Then again, they would've had one buzzword less in that case ...
Non-vegans are hardly a tiny minority. Life-long debtors who nonetheless have access to as many two-dollar-burgers as they can stomach far outnumber the few that own almost everything.
This reminds me of the opening to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
>Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.
You followed the news right ? They removed a gene from a baby not to cure him but just to experiment and see what's going to happen to him. This absolutely inhumane. This children had scientist messing with his DNA without his consent, just to see if they can create a new generation of more resistant humans. So scientists are perfectly fine with doing inhumane experiments it seems...
It is a reality you have to face. We have to face. I read and so far the argument is great and informative. You can exit by closing this tab. But discussion is just text. No reason to stop.
This isn't how IPFS works FWIW. Your upstream connection is only needed to feed the small number of fetches that aren't cached somewhere else in the network. Much the same as a traditional CDN in that respect.
Do you equate the Chinese to nazis? Because that's insane and totally fear-mongering, especially if you think China is evil but other countries would use scientific research for only rainbows and puppies.
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This used to be the case but it is changing rapidly. Especially in Math and CS right now.
Caveat: I come from the monitoring and control system side, so I've only learned about the actual water treatment part as a side effect from working on monitoring and control systems for it.

1)

My understanding is there is very little actual hazard here, provided the pipes are in reasonable shape and there isn't a source of contamination.

One example of a source of contamination: dead ends in plumbing (eg, an old branch that's been capped off). The stagnant water can grow bacterial colonies which can then contaminate everything downstream from where the dead end branches off. The residual chlorine can fight this but it's of course better to not have the dead end at all.

2)

The problem with the dips is it's not possible to distinguish between the "expected" nightly dips and real problems.

For example: do you just ignore all alarms between 3am and 6am? or should that be 7am? Is there another check (+alarm) to be sure the clock is correct (and do you now need a secondary clock source for that) and that DST is respected?

Or do you build something very complex that checks against recent flow rates before raising the alarm -- in which case, how do you test that code and ensure it never breaks (keeping in mind it's safety-related and it's very hard to unit test real-world flow meters, chlorine sensors etc). This gets difficult because you might have different plumbers / maintenance people doing things (adding branches, fixing leaks, etc) that might change the physical layout and not even realize there is control software that might be affected by changes. You can add more sensors to try to check for some of these potential conditions but each sensor costs even more money and adds more complexity.

A lot of this is really "CYA". If something ever did happen and a resident got sick (or worse) from the water, and it came to light that not only were there alarms every night but they were specifically suppressed, even though that might be a rational decision given the facts, at best, that decision would still be faced with a lot of scrutiny and at worse it could be considered criminally negligent.

3)

It's basically not possible to flush the ENTIRE building, because you'd have to open every fixture (every sink, shower, and flush every toilet). In this case, the solenoid dumped water from what was effectively the main line through the building which everything branched from, so from any apartment running the water for maybe a minute would get you fresh water from that main line.

So I'd rank this in the middle of what you said: "quality was probably (usually) fine before, definitely more likely to be fine now, and if an alarm goes off at any time it's real".
Read it outside the WSJ paywall (normally need to Incognito it): https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.c...
Yes, they used "_do you consider yourself_ underrepresented". And there's also the implicit "and _do you feel like this matters_ for this survey". Some people may feel underrepresented but don't feel like this should matter on this survey, so they'd be likely to answer "No".

So a decrease in the "underrepresented" statistics doesn't necessarily mean it's dealing with the actual situation.. It wouldn't necessarily imply anything "bad" or "undesired".
At a glance, that's offering funding for commoditized satellite busses (the infrastructure of a physical satellite) and payloads, so none of that goes to the groundlink. I'd also suggest that this funding offer is trailing the direction that the community is headed, as opposed to leading it. There are all kinds of players trying to do this.
Amazon will sell the counterfeits just as willingly as through a third party, from my experience at least.
They're up-front about it, and those are still genuine products, just not meant for the US market.

Amazon's nonchalance about counterfeiting and fake reviews looks increasingly like willful ignorance. Bezos could probably buy Fakespot.com or equivalent with loose change from his sofa, but no, they only pay lip service to cracking down on fake reviews and thus the search results in Amazon are highly questionable.

I don't think this will change until someone is electrocuted by a fake iPhone charger sold by Amazon from stickerless commingled inventory, and they are sued for billions.
It's nice to see a lot of signatures, 277 at the time of writing. Given the culture at Google I wouldn't call them brave (they aren't putting their jobs or future promo at risk, at least within Google), but certainly it's a powerful statement.

However, let's guesstimate 55k full-time staff. That's .5%. At that level, it's a gesture that will get addressed in corporate-speak if at all. It's a vocal minority. You will not hear from the 20% that are in favor and the 79.5% that don't care much either way.

Now if they would all commit to (say) a 6-12 month timeline to "divest" or they will leave, that's saying something that Google will have to listen to. Sure, there is an unlimited supply of equally capable others that will be thrilled to take their place, but it will be a cultural game-changer, a risk the powers-that-be probably don't want to see play out.
> I thought the point of diversity was about giving equalty of opportunities to all folks indepndently of gender, race, ideas, etc, not about achieving some sort of colorful mastermind.

That's where you are wrong. To liberals, diversity is equal outcome, not equal opportunity.
Costco (and costco.com) seems to be working on filling the niche of a trusted source for quality products at reasonable prices, with great customer service. All while treating their employees well (as I understand it).
Lip service indeed. We imprison our own at 4x the rate they do, and spend all our surplus capital on bombs and guns while they build trains and bridges. 2 of the past 3 Presidents had less votes than their opponent.

But hey, we've got lip service!

Not that there aren't problems in China. But people should check their biases and learn some history before advancing radical hot takes.
China has a population of 1.3B. Isn't it possible that a lot of them have starred it because it is in Mandarin and targeted primarily towards them? You're not accounting for bias.
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There's always something they are being dispatched to investigate

That's one of the problems right there. In America the cops' mission is to catch something, criminals, speeders or undesirables, and even their vehicles are camoflaged. In normal countries the mission of police is to keep the peace, and police vehicles and uniforms are designed to be visible.
It actually has a different result, for someone like myself: it makes me not buy a new iPhone at all.

I like the ability to charge my phone and listen to music simultaneously, without having to worry about my headphones also dying. Usually this is in a travel scenario.
Thanks for your perspective, I can see how you really can read two tones into his statement.

Side note: it appears gist links aren't stable? I think halgari had the same issue when trying to link to his response.
Because engine chess is not human chess. Defending a position with a ~3300 ELO computer is not the same as doing it as a human down on the clock. Look up some of Mikhail Tal's games to see how you can become the best in the world whilst still playing moves that are "refuted" by engines.

Still he's heavily favoured in the tiebreaks, so I don't necessarily fault his strategy.
Sure, that's why both kinds are useful. I don't disagree at all.
How different is a commercial setup compared to running a pi with rtlsdr and a homebrew helix antenna?
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A classical misalignment of technology and "business" (or rather raising funds). Why slap blockchain on top of something that has no (apparent) use for it? In fact, I wouldn't even want to work with investors that don't understand this.
Most languages can access C without much hassle (Ruby, Python, ...), F77 predates this, and while you can combine C and F77 for a particular compiler, it is a painful and unrewarding task (and the result is compiler-specific). It is often quicker to run the F77 though f2c so you have an entirely C codebase (even if f2c is not really readable).

Typically f2c code will be slower than F77.
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Why is this on HN? Why has this not been flagged? Can someone please flag this? It is not intellectually interesting. It is political. How can anyone think that HN has not drastically changed in the past few months when you see stuff like this here now as well as videos, completely out of the blue?
If the other option costs $1T?

It's a bit of a hypothetical since that won't be the only other option, but that was the thought experiment.
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This is great. I love that people are taking on the higher education space. During my masters I would take the uni's online courses that were of absolute garbage quality. I've gotten better content from Udemy for 45$. The only reason they could get $3500 per class from me is because they were one of a limited few accredited universities in my area. Competition in this space is much needed. I hope that Make School will one day be competing on price.

I also really like the idea of a focused 2 year degree in applied CS. CS concepts are useful but at the end of the day we're building applications and solving problems. A minority of CS graduates stay in a pure CS role. It also takes out a lot of the fluff of general ed. I would absolutely have traded my undergrad for a program like this, but I doubt I would have had that foresight back when I was transferring from community college.
Wow this is straight out of a major plot point in "Sorry to Bother You" (which was a great film if you haven't seen it).
“On a personal note, at least two or three times a day, every day, a colleague at MPK [Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park] will look directly at me and tap or hold their wallet or shove their hands down their pocket to clutch it tightly until I pass,” Luckie wrote.
I forgot to mention one other pair of related things.

* Clearly indicate who the OEM of the product is.
* Clearly indicate the exact mode number(s) the product might be (including revision number).

That would complete actually 'advertising' a real and specific product. If sellers lie about things then they can be hit with fraud charges and actually punished. The lack of co-mingling or white-listed only co-mingling (and actually tracking who's touched a given product) would allow for determining the authenticity and reputation of sellers / returned item fraud issues. Including items should be returnable for reasons including 'fraud, item not as listed / shown'.
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Apple's removal of the headphone jack wasn't "courage." Courage was Steve Jobs determining that pen tablets weren't viable back in 2000 and knowing later just when touch tablets were ready for the public. What Apple did was fail to realize that Bluetooth headphones are still a bit awkward and not quite ready for mainstream ubiquity. Instead, they took away something that just works and replaced it with something a bit over-complicated that is nifty in a propeller-head way. It was the opposite of what Apple is supposed to do.
target.com, bestbuy.com, macys.com, hd.com should cover everything you need without 3rd party stuff. They're working hard to stay relevant and actually pretty decent.
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Isn't more open issues just a sign of a older and/or more widely used library? It's not necessarily a bad thing.
I am a bit confused by this, "South Koreans worked 2,024 hours in 2017." That does seem demanding but I am not sure how the US wouldn't be ranked higher where the minimum for full time employment is 2,080 hours a year. Can anyone clarify?
It's odd but I guess natural for people to need "an excuse" to have a pause. There is nothing keeping these people from doing this by themselves: stay home and do nothing (don't tend to household chores, or anything else, just to what you decided in advance to do, like reading or writing) if home is too busy, head down to the library and again, do what you planned to do, or a hotel and same. But it seems the problem is often times one will break a promise with oneself (to not be interrupted, distracted). So it's easier to rely on proscribed behavior (of this mock prison, for example).
The market is still paying a 3.2% premium (at time of writing) for actual USD over Tether:

http://www.untether.space/

If Tether's withdrawing platform is for real, that should collapse to ~0%.
> Do you equate the Chinese to nazis?

No, I emphatically do not. That's the most false and inflammatory misreading of my comment possible. The Chinese people are not villains, full stop.

The point I was making is that political regimes matter when it comes to the desire for progress in science and technology, and the idea that it doesn't is naive. I'm glad the Nazis and the Soviets were technically and scientifically behind the Allies and the West, and I think the world would be better off they had stayed even further behind -- even if that meant that humanity as a whole has its scientific and technical progress retarded for the want of their contributions.
I think this could be the class action lawsuit of the century. If the plaintiffs can prove that Amazon was negligent and they can show damages, I can imagine a potential verdict in the billions, even tens of billions.
> Now if only I had a satellite to use it with...

I wonder if this would work with Blockstream Satellite: https://blockstream.com/satellite/

(Of course using a remote ground station operated by someone else completely defeats the purpose of Blockstream Satellite, but it would be a fun "hello world" for AWS Ground Station, if it were self-serve)
I think taking this kind of sabbatical needs to become the norm in our field. I recently did so and, while I didn't end up with anything as viable as what you made, I'm 100% glad that I was able to make the effort and not have to deal with the 9-to-5 grind for a while. No. Regrets. It's also eye-opening how most people have difficulty comprehending the idea of quitting voluntarily to do something of personal interest.

Working on projects "on the side" was damaging to my health. I sacrificed way too much of my "recharge" time after work sitting in front of a computer doing more work, rather than going to the gym, hiking, cooking and relaxing. Most of the time, it's just not worth it to sacrifice those things.
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Space near Earth is hot (apparently, ~ 120°C) in the sun, and cold in the shade (e.g., the Earth's shadow). On average, it's not particularly cold. You can get colder average temperatures on Earth, without the wide swings.

But more importantly, space is empty, and the best way to cool is to dump heat in some medium which carries it away (air is the basic one on Earth, but applications that really need cooling like to use water as a primary medium.) In space you've got...nothing, basically, somyou are stuck with radiating, which works, but poorly.
Because a cheap knockoff device that plugs into AC current could kill you.

http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and...
> We don't have any evidence Tether has hard currency backing its Tether.

We have some evidence: The CFTC subpoena was about a year ago, and it is hard to imagine that they would not have

1. Subpoenaed bank statements to support the backing, and

2. Let tether continue operation if the support was lacking.

So it's possible that the CFTC was snookered somehow, but they're not known for being patsies when it comes to obvious fraud.

The investigations for manipulation are more complicated, and it is easy to imagine that it takes a year to iron that out, but a simple balance check? Hard to imagine that's not already complete.
That is incorrect. It's more like because equal opportunity is so difficult, people target equal outcome as a second best. I (decidedly liberal) only value equal opportunity. But since opportunity appears to be hereditary, an equal outcome can, over time, equalize opportunity.

It sure would be nice to skip that first step, and I think it's probably not going to turn out effective for a number of reasons. I don't know what would be more effective.
Having seen several accounts go down for counterfeiting claims I strongly disagree that Amazon is ignoring the issue.

Reviews has nothing to do with authenticity.
40 hours/wk with only 2 weeks combined of vacation/sick days/holidays is 2000 hours. 2080 as a minimum is kind of crazy.
Actually sometimes I really fantasize about a 3-6 month stint in prison - am I the only one. Surely it can't be that bad If Martha Stewart can do it. Imagine no commuting or on call support or social engagements or children's homework or chores. bliss.
> the FBI executed seizure warrants to sinkhole 23 internet domains

Sinkhole?
Remember when Bush said Saddam aided "al Qaeda-like organizations"?

People just heard al Qaeda.
Can I know how you got that number? Presuming you work 37.5 hours per week which should be the minimum fulltime labor amount at 5 days times 7.5 hours per week.

2080 divided by 37.5 is about 55 weeks, while there is only 52 weeks in a year. If you count it as 40 hrs per week then it is 52 weeks but people usually don't count the extra half hour which is usually a break but that could be your number.

This is probably a better comparison to the korean number for the US: https://www.fool.com/careers/2017/12/17/heres-how-many-hours...
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> I think it's a distinction worth posting about since policing as an institution got its start in union busting and slave catching.

Do you happen to have a good citation for this, I've heard it several times but am not familiar with any scholarship documenting that connection.
That's basically impossible. Almost every full time job that pays well is some variant of patching together code that other people wrote with very little work on interesting problems.

Unless you somehow consider "why is my CRUD app not working after my teammate introduced this shit library" an interesting problem, in which case I'm very jealous.
It should collapse to the fee to redeem Tethers, which is 3% for whales.
Would you feel comfortable buying this?: https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MD819AM-Meter-Lightning-Cable/d...

Note that Amazon lists the brand as Apple, and the default seller is a third party.
> I'm not sure diplomacy works when someone is actively shooting at you or other people.

So the best option is to go to the other extreme, and give our police military weapons, vehicles, and armor--except that police get a looser RoE, they investigate themselves, and have a great history of murdering civilians.

> If people are rioting (actually rioting, not protesting) then I honestly don't care how the presence of a MRAP makes them feel. It's the police's job to stop the riot and they need tools to do that.

These vehicles show up at protests. Someone else here suggested we look them up on YouTube so we can see how they SAVE LIVES when police use them. Except the only video that I found in my admittedly short YouTube search was the police using these at a protest, lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-R2D0-wOI&t=3462s I'm so glad the police had all of that protection there. Phew. Saved so many police lives.
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