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The current system in California / some other states are broken.

From personal experience, in Illinois, someone can receive hospital care involuntarily if the doctors deem that they would deteriorate without intervention / become dangerous to others.

One look at the differences in law between the two is illustrative:

In CA -

To qualify for mandated treatment in a hospital or other inpatient facility, the person must be:

- dangerous to self/others; or
- unable to provide for basic personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter.

in IL:

- be a reasonable expectation of danger to self/others
- be unable to provide for basic physical needs so as to guard against serious harm without the assistance of others, OR
- refuse or not adhere to treatment, unable to understand need for treatment, and, if not treated, reasonably expected to suffer mental or emotional deterioration and become dangerous and/or unable to provide for basic physical needs

Your sister conceivably wouldn't have reached that state because once she reached the stage in paragraph 3, if you brought her to a hospital in IL, a evaluation would've determined that she should be involuntarily hospitalized, and she would've received medication.
(2017), please
FWIW, I thought it was about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)

I was a Cairo or so further out of date than you were. :-)
The Saudis can still make money at 20$/ barrel oil. Oil is just a commodity, so the decline in oil consumption will be a gradual process, not a step function.

W.r.t. power production in good solar areas, modern transmission tech can send power 1k miles w/less than 1% loss. Those regions will likely export power, not import people.
There are probably more JavaScript developers (not necessarily professional developers, just people writing JavaScript) than C++, Go and Rust combined, so it's just more likely that the ecosystem with more momentum will get more interest and resources.

I'm sure Facebook could have written React Native in C, C++, Go, Java or Rust, but take a guess at what the adoption rate and the hype around it would have been...

If Netscape/MS browser in the 90s had shipped with an embedded, sandboxed JVM with native browser APIs, then maybe the world would be very different today, but we work with what we have don't we all?
tl;dr, anybody?

I came to this article hoping to learn something about public policy, esp. regarding privacy. Whatever insights into those topics there might be are too buried in story for me to find them easily so I stopped reading.
Once you burn a fossil fuel it's gone. When a battery stops charging properly you can recycle the lithium in that cell.
I have a raspberry pi 4. That thing runs HOT. 64c idle (44c above ambient) without any case, but with a PoE hat and disabled fan.

The PoE hat makes attaching a proper heat sink (or using the flirc case) impossible, so I have now rolled my own using copper coins.

I am not comfy with letting my pi run that hot 24/7, and I don't want active cooling. I bought a rock pi 4 which has a PoE hat that can be combined with a HUGE heat sink, and there I have no heat issues at all.

There are cases you can use when you don't have a PoE hat, but the original pi 4 case almost throttles the pi at idle.
Why only south of 37° N? Solar makes a lot of sense north of that line in many places too.
Where does it say it’s “Profitable minus CapEx”?
I've hear the Hoover Dam proposed, and theoretically any existing dam could be converted? Just need to pump some water back upstream when there's excess load in the system.

Here in Canada a lot of our energy is hydroelectric and I know there's a lot of talk about this sort of solution in Quebec.
Doesn't this bill completely undermine the insurance business?

Good. I'm all for taking profit-by-default out of health care.

It always seems to me that these half way positions between universal health care and commercial end up being worse than either.

...

Though I'll admit the whole system feels rigged at this point and is likely intentionally convoluted to make consumers uninformed (by level of difficulty).

It's pretty damn bad right now so it's hard for me to imagine something worse. Let me give you my tangentially related anecdote. I don't currently carry insurance for a variety of reasons and I ended up in the ER earlier this year. Upon being discharged they left me with an estimated bill. The paramedics (SFFD) were very prompt about billing me (ouch). The hospital, part of a private chain, was not. Eventually I got inquiries from their patient outreach (or whatever) department — not billing, but a whole department dedicated to seeing if uninsured people qualify for a variety of government programs. Eventually I got an initial bill with a due date and three different "total due" dollar amounts (full price, their goodwill discount, and a further discount if I paid in full by the initial due date). So I navigated their ambiguous web site and paid it, and was prompted to take a survey asking how clear I thought the bill and payment system was (lol). Then I got a bill demanding the middle dollar value with a due date earlier than the initial bill (I'd already paid it well before both dates). Then I got another bill claiming I hadn't paid anything. I finally created an account to actually view my billing statements. The site claims that I owe the difference between the lowest and middle "total due" values from the initial bill.

As an added bonus because I'm not carrying insurance it's not like I can complain to the state insurance commissioner.
I know someone who has gone fully off the grid via sailboat and is currently on his way around the world. He converted his sailboat to a hybrid setup (electric engines powered by the same batteries that power his stovetop, refrigerator, etc.). His power sources keeping those batteries charged are solar (1200W) and sail regeneration [0]. He has an 18kw diesel generator as a safety measure.

His story is particularly interesting to me because he doesn't give a shit about climate change. His views are best described by George Carlin [1]. And yet, he has the lowest carbon lifestyle of anybody I know. In the 15,000 nautical miles he's sailed, he has burned a grand total of 5 gallons of diesel. And that was only because he stayed for a few weeks in Palau without sailing around, and there was a stint of a few days where there was little solar energy due to storms. He now thinks his decision to buy a diesel backup generator was just a waste of money. If you ask him why he did it, these are his answers: It's cheaper, it's quieter, it's less smelly, and it's more reliable. Not a single mention of carbon emissions or resource depletion or pollution.

At this point, I feel like the only reason fossil fuels are used anymore in new projects is inertia. The costs and performance of renewables+batteries has come so far in the last 5-10 years, and I think we're finally at the point where the intrinsic costs will guarantee adoption.

[0] https://oceanvolt.com/solutions/hydro-generator/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
> If the receiver marks it as spam, it's spam. By definition.

but that shouldn't effect the deliverability to everyone else, but thats a reality which has its own problem and has its own countermeasures.

when people asked OP if they had a solution to this, they hand waived it away. all closed sourced mailing list clients have solutions for this.

but anyway since somehow it is 2019 and people want to act like its 2009 on this matter I'll just skip ahead to echo the productive answer someone else left:

this could probably be run through Amazon SES with their DKIM settings
Why would you not expect to be able to port your data and applications to another cloud provider? They all can run x86 virtual machines, they all can store data on iSCSI equivalents (EBS) or in object stores. No one is writing custom code to run on custom hardware at cloud providers (except perhaps to optimize for specific hardware extensions, GPUs, etc).
Autonomous-Machinery Economics Weighed
I'm currently uninsured and trying to deal with the healthcare system in the US is so annoying it makes me want to give up and move to Canada.

I went to an urgent care center and had a doctor perform a routine examination for a sinus infection. No special tools or materials were used. Before I went in I signed a form stating that I acknowledged that I was on the hook for whatever extra it cost if the situation required it. I was thinking along the lines of bloodwork, x-rays, etc. The doctor was very helpful in avoiding unnecessary expense as well.

A month after I paid and left I got a bill in the mail stating the that doctor had performed an 'extensive examination' and that cost an extra hundred dollars. They had all the information necessary to bill me this as I left the urgent care. Yet they chose to wait and send me a bill because it's a complete fraud.

I really wish I could find out the answer to how this works, but my guess is that there is some automated process that tacks on extra billing where possible as a way of boosting income. Ordinarily it's a 'victimless' crime in that it is paid for by an insurance company.

But ultimately we're fucked in this country with regards to healthcare. It is a disaster that keeps people sick, yet we need it because it's such a large part of our economy. Little by little this sector has inserted themselves into the literal lifeblood of the nation's finance and health and is holding everyone hostage.
We finally got a dual sided "more context" button for diffs, that was so annoying when that was missing (and a declined feature request when I asked).
> Not sure what can be done here

Tax based on efficiency. Tie permits for building renovation to insulation upgrades.
Don't know as I'm right there with you using nVidia myself right now. While I'm going to be picking up a new Ryzen-based system soon, AMD's GPU offerings aren't where they need to be for me to shift away from nVidia yet.
Well now it's called NextGen Connect™, so I guess there's no more naming conflict :)
What language are you going to try and improve? Add static types to Python? Or make Java purely functional? Often one needs to start again. Mirth looks much better than most.
Most transformers and solenoids/electromagnets are less than 2 T (two Tesla) because the saturation density isn't much higher than that for typical core material. Much the same applies to electric motors.

See, for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_%28magnetic%29

and for some easily readable background on transformers showing simple calculations for flux density:

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/transformer/transformer-basics.html

The magnets described in the article don't have ferromagnetic cores so they do not suffer from the same problem. On the other hand the technique is not really applicable to power transmission or motive power.
I'm having a hard time understanding the fundamental problem that you are bringing up. Sure, machinery doesn't just magically transport itself, same goes for the plant matter. But these machines produce fuel/electricity, so they can be used to power chippers, tractors, or whatever machinery you need to run your orchard, timber mills, or office park cleanup activities. This is the point I'm making, there is free fuel that can be used from growing plants (of a variety of sizes and uses). Just as we use lawn mowers and wood chippers to clean up our yards, we should also be using the resulting material to fulfill our energy needs and produce biochar to lock away carbon back into the soil.

You're correct, nothing comes for free, but the alternative is to leave this dead standing wood on forest floors to be later fuel wild fires. Or in the case of agricultural waste, to be composted or burned directly. Seems like a waste, as composting produces methane and CO2, which unless captured in an anaerobic digester just goes into the atmosphere and contributes to global warming, and burning does similar harm.

Small scale gasification reactors can run equipment, and are easily transported on trailers to the site of waste if it is not already easily centralized (in which case a dedicated cogeneration plant is usually a better option). A 20kW reactor can produce enough electricity to run 16 US homes, so situating one on every block is also a viable option that we should be considering.
> Endomondo seemed to stop evolving around the time it was acquired by Under Armour.

I've noticed the same. Among my issues with it is that the accuracy of distance traveled has been way off for more than two years. Some releases it tracks optimistically high, other releases it tracks consistently low. This has been persistent over multiple phones and multiple Android releases. I've compared it to Google maps, mapmyrun, and my car odometer and it's always off.

I'm strongly tempted to write my own "anti-social fitness app" that just collects data and exports it.
Business Insider used to be a reasonably intelligent publication, and it's just degenerated into nothing but clickbait garbage. To be fair, they're probably just doing what they have to in order to get enough clicks to keep the lights on...
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One of the benefits when you're the only country celebrating a Military Abolition Day.
Chipping Away at Big Data
Hardware accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI) in end-user devices—neural network chips integrated into smartphones, autonomous vehicles, and Internet of Thing (IoT) devices—are capable of creating smaller representations of big data locally, rather than wasting bandwidth sending massive raw data streams to the cloud.
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Ask HN: Web design for back end developer
I'm looking for a course that would teach how to design attractive websites.

I know all the ingredients, HTML, CSS and js, I've been working with those technologies for years professionally, I just don't know how to build visually attractive websites, even with bootstrap.
If it's free, you're the product.

Overall I think it's a good deal for both users and Cloudflare. Users get a major CDN for free, and instead of paying for it with ads, surveillance or other shady thing, they pay by being beta testers.
I understand it. I've worked in AWS, and now in OCI, dealing with systems that affect hundreds-to-thousands of customers, which businesses are at stake.

Mitigation is your top-priority. Bringing the system back to a good shape.

If there needs to be follow-up actions, take the less-impactful steps to prevent another wave.

If there was a deployment, roll-back.

My concern here is, a deployment have been made months ago, and many other changes that could make things worse were introduced. This is the case. The difference between taking an extra 10-20 minutes to make sure everything is fine, versus taking a hot call and causing another outage makes a big difference.

I'm just asking questions based on the documentation provided; I do not have more insights.

I am happy Stripe is being open about the issue, that way many the industry learns and matures regarding software-caused outages. Cloudflare's outage documentation is really good as well.
Despite the conclusion and the source being biased in a direction that will probably make steam come out of the ears of many a HN reader, this is a very succinct and decent explanation of why complex engineering efforts tend to have a high risk of going wrong.
Thanks for your helpful insight.

Since everyone agrees on this point I now absolutely consider that a fair argument. I just don't want to believe without a little research first. In fact I think I learned more than I expected from everyone's responses.
We also found using Excel as an output to be a powerful design pattern. Excel is a great language for explaining the flow of calculations. We used to have WPF screens where a portfolio manager / trader / analyst could right-click on a number and select "show details" and he/she would get an Excel workbook where that same number would be selected and they could see the derivation by following the cell's precedents. It was not always feasible to show a complete derivation, but we'd try to show a useful amount of elaboration. This was a heavily used and loved feature, often leading to the users making edits or additions to these detail sheets and giving it back to us as a spec. Building the 'details' Excel books programmatically was a lot of work, but part of the payoff was that we also used them as a nightly check on our primary system, i.e., we'd automatically run 'show details' on everything and make sure the 'detail' result matches the primary system result. That comparison caught many bugs. Kent Beck: "More important than tests vs types is the principle of double checking. If you say something twice in independently derived ways, you're more likely to be correct than if you just say it once. Tests are a form of double checking. So are types."
In that case you would probably still roll back to prevent further data corruption and restore the corrupted records from backups.

There are certainly changes that cannot be rolled back such that the affected users are magically fixed, which is not what I am suggesting. In the context of mission critical systems, mitigation is usually strongly preferred. For example, the Google SRE book says the following:

> Your first response in a major outage may be to start troubleshooting and try to find a root cause as quickly as possible. Ignore that instinct!

> Instead, your course of action should be to make the system work as well as it can under the circumstances. This may entail emergency options, such as diverting traffic from a broken cluster to others that are still working, dropping traffic wholesale to prevent a cascading failure, or disabling subsystems to lighten the load. Stopping the bleeding should be your first priority; you aren’t helping your users if the system dies while you’re root-causing. [...] The highest priority is to resolve the issue at hand quickly.”

I have seen too many incidents (one in the last 2 days in fact) that were prolonged because people dismissed blindly rolling back changes, merely because they thought the changes were not the root cause.
Not always but definitely true for anything politically controversial.
Prairie dogs' language decoded by scientists (2013)
"American Greatness" blames the software and Indian subcontractors.

Wrong. The problems is in management of Boeing, and managerial decisions about selling the technically impossible plane (impossible to fulfill the specifications with which it was sold):

https://dilbert.com/strip/1998-05-06
And the air still smells like car exhaust in pretty much every city. I've been there many times and was actually there earlier this week. I've been all over the western half of the country. They have an insane tax on cars - I think it's like 20% of the value of the car - which means a bunch of people drive old beaters and cheap dirtbikes. They are noisy and dirty. I had an easier time sleeping last time I went to NYC than I did in Palmares with all the motorcycles riding around. They require you to bring your car in for regular emissions tests, but I don't know how that's working out because a bunch of the cars there are a lot dirtier than what we have in the US. Once you get away from the cities and cars it's beautiful though.
By https://devrolabs.com
"In this year’s first quarter, the electric scooter operator lost nearly $100 million while revenue shrank sharply to only about $15 million, people familiar with the matter said. In the spring, it told people it was down to about $100 million in cash, even after raising more than $700 million over a year and a half."

This is a business? How, exactly, does it get better? The cost and revenue are pretty straightforward here.

Just because Uber found a big enough sucker, the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund, to keep them going, doesn't mean everybody can do it.
Same here. For a second I wondered if they had produced a new language. :)
I'd be interested to know what they're proposing as an alternative? LibreOffice?
No, this is not right. Most power generation is done by steam in the US (85%). Steam can get much hotter than boiling water, and it is cheap and makes no waste.
It's perplexing that Mozilla insists on forcing signature checks at any cost in release builds, when there is no consensus on the fundamental reason for doing so.

> Most fundamentally, the full Firefox team does not have a common understanding of the role, function, and operation of cryptographic signatures for Firefox add-ons. For instance, although there are several good reasons for signing add-ons (monitoring add-ons not hosted on AMO, blocklisting malicious add-ons, providing cryptographic assurance by chaining add-ons to the Mozilla root), there is no shared consensus on the fundamental rationale for doing so.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Expired-Certificate-Technic...
snickers while writing group-theory proofs on a blackboard
React Native runs on a JavaScript runtime with a FFI to integrate with native iOS and Android APIs

Hermes is basically a replacement for the (current) default React Native runtime which is designed to work a lot faster in that particular scenario.
With the current administration, despite accusations of the contract originally being designed "with AWS in mind", I'd take a 99-1 bet this goes to Microsoft. No way Trump will let this go to Bezos' company. And I myself find it incredibly sad how the fact that I think that will happen, with no or muted outrage, doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
It's relevant to Bird because Bird makes these scooters available to use at very low cost.

Nobody would leave their own scooter in the street, but people have no problem leaving someone else's scooter wherever it was convenient. People leave them all over the place where I live, and it's been a huge problem. They're constantly being fished out of the rivers, dumpsters, etc.
>The Post-Mortem result for me is that I have xpinstall.signatures.required permanently disabled.

Firefox has been ignoring that preference since 2016, when it broke my workflow in the middle of the day and I wrote this Hitler parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taGARf8K5J8
The big difference is that fossil fuels are burnt, lithium is not. Lithium can also be recycled once batteries hit end of life.

But lithium is just one of many possible battery chemistries. And you're not even limited to chemical batteries; potential energy ones work at grid scale too; all you need to do is pump water uphill.