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In the UK you're protected by the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long term affect on your ability to carry out day to day activity. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/6

Your employer has to make reasonable adjustments. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/20

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has some advice: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/multipage-guide/emplo...

As does Citizen's Advice: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discriminat...

The reason you should mention it is because it gives you some protections, but you only get those if you disclose. https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/multipage-guide/how-c...

> Your employer only has to make these changes where they know or could reasonably be expected to know that you are a disabled person and are - or are likely to be - at a substantial disadvantage as a result. This means your employer must do everything they can reasonably be expected to do to find out.

The reason not to mention it is because people don't really understand ADHD nor PTSD, so you may face stigma and discrimination. That isn't guaranteed - lots of employers really do want to do the right thing.

Unions can usually offer useful advice about disclosing.

Good luck!
Thank you for correcting that! I read the license more careful now, and you are indeed right. I confused licensor with licensee. I was wondering about it, because I thought that open-source must allow commercial use under the OSI definition.
The big picture is that there are valid reasons for sending devices to a landfill.

I agree, but a dangerous battery should not be one of them because batteries should be replaceable.
Assange and Snowden are widely known to be conflated among the general public. [0]

I don't personally think either of these people are or have ever knowingly been Russian assets.

But that's not the point. Particularly after the Special Counsel investigation, Assange/Wikileaks has been portrayed quite publicly through a credible federal investigation as being used as a puppet for distributing Russian-acquired documents.

Snowden clearly ended up in Russia for lack of options when fleeing HK. There's never been any credible allegations of a Russian affiliation outside of that AFAIK.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M&t=8m
Little Bobby Tables, we meet again.
One of my thoughts is building infrastructure is a speculative bet. You hope that it generates enough economic benefit to pay for it's construction, maintenance, and eventual replacement. A thought is sometimes that bet fails. You end up with infrastructure that doesn't generate enough revenue to pay for it's maintenance or eventual replacement.

I feel like post war the US made a lot of extravagant speculative bets on infrastructure, particularly related to suburban housing development.
After decades of looting, NYC in 1975 was all but bankrupt. Then the very parties responsible for the mess bailed out NYC on very unfavorable terms.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-night-new-york-...

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

This is a story repeated nationwide. Exfiltrate money from urban areas to finance sprawl. Use inevitable debt crisis to smash pensions, contracts, services, etc.

Most recently: You've heard of Detroit?

"...that Strongtown's argument is fundamentally flawed."

Sure. Nicotine ain't addictive. HFCS is healthy. Human activity isn't responsible for climate crisis. Tax cuts for the richest creates jobs. We've always been at war with Eastasian.

Pull my other leg, it plays jiggle bells.
You could pay 10k to be told to teach yourself in person.
> The original task of the CPU experiment was “Run the given ray-tracing program on your homebrew CPU”. Now that you’ve got an operating system running on your CPU, you know what you’re supposed to do, right? We decided to run the ray-tracing program “on the OS “on our own CPU. We had a few bugs, but we managed to finish it an hour before the final presentation.
> They realized they don’t know anything about a topic and also can’t be bothered so they appoint these committees

It is literally impossible for any single elected official to know enough about every topic they need to legislate in order to make good laws. This isn't because they "can't be bothered", but because there are only so many hours in a day. They have to delegate.

Now, we can argue they do a poor job of delegating, but the problem isn't in the act itself.
I don't, actually.

What I really meant was that total functional programming is the MIT way to do it, and gas caps or supervisors are the New Jersey way to do it.
Please do not post ideological flamewar comments to HN. It's not what this site is for.

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I think it's probably the best way to be "sure" about your code and unfortunately this is an area that is under-tooled.
I enjoyed it, but I can see why someone might get that impression. Care to share other reads?
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I suspect you’re failing to understand the goal of being a teacher, which is to nurture your students. Toy operating systems are a time-tested way to learn.
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents–especially not generic flamewar tangents. They make discussion more predictable and therefore less interesting.

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Setup a local UserContent.css file for yourself and you can style any website any way you like:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserContent.css
Yes, the CAD part is the first step. Fusion 360 has a version that you can use for free for one year (https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal). Fusion is very user-friendly. Depending on your 3D printer, you can 3D print a picture (2D to 3D). Mine has that option (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vic6PkCgYk8), so you basically can use Microsoft Word or any program to make your design. The only issue could be the dimensions, but if it is for fun then it is OK. Also, look for any picture and 3D print it.
And this is it.
A reward system based on paper publishing and conference speeches is fundamentally broken.

There are really no built-in checks and balances, unless commercial interests care for it to do a 'check', that benefit that commercial interest.

Adding to that, a now well known, built-in corruption of student acceptance and grading, it is impressive that we get any forward movement at all in applied sciences.

>"..
. Now, in general, negative results may have value, and it may be worth sharing them. You could write a negative result paper (I think they are valuable). But wait, most conferences don't like those! Shit. So what do you do? You could write a blog post — as detailed as you want, no page limits, etc. you are the boss! — and move on with life with something better? But wait, blog posts "don't count" (more on this later). And in many environments, "no paper" == "I completely lost my time from the eyes of the public"...
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Why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
> working with these substances in a directed way can get to the root of these traumas in a way that frees the person from said trauma

I believe this to be true, but op has a valid point. Many people take these drugs for purely recreational reasons, in uncontrolled settings, with no intention of seeking a transformative experience. They are "reveling in the intoxication", although I don't think that necessarily makes them stupid.
Accelerating Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication with GPU Tensor Cores
This is very cool!

At first, I had some questions about why you'd use a Raspberry Pi for this, but once I realized that video was being recorded as well it made more sense. I'm quite impressed.

For increasing sample rate, it really depends on where the problem is. The Pi is recording video and managing the sensors - are these two tasks competing with each other?

Perhaps using another controller to deal with the sensors and telemetry transmission could help (if contention is actually the problem). Something like the ESP32 in the D1 Mini form factor would easily fit in the rocket. If I was doing this, I'd ignore the ESP32's onboard radios and use the LoRa module since it seems to work quite well in this application.

[0] https://johnjonesfour.com/2020/10/03/model-rocket-telemetry-...
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Can you please not post flamewar-style comments to HN? We're trying for something rather different here.

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Code https://github.com/oresths/tSparse
And how much is Nassau County spending on infrastructure maintenance?

https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/28135/fin...

> GENERAL EXPENSES

> General Expenses include a wide range of products and services required by departments to support service delivery. They include office, maintenance, medical, postage, recreational, automotive supplies, and gasoline. This category also captures the expense associated with road maintenance projects, sewage, and drainage supplies.

And how much is their general expenses fund? $38M. That's just above 1% of their $3.5B budget. Clearly, infrastructure maintenance is killing them.
I think it means population of all the state prisons combined.
To the first point, they're rare but industry is massive so their total absolute size isn't that small. And if you're a tenured professor in a semi-related area then it's not hard to land in one of them.

To the second point, it's true that the research focuses shift over time but if your research area fizzles out you can either shift to a more applied position or move back to academia.
Theorized next-gen quantum internet: unhackable networks, info transfer over c
Quite simply, this isn't low latency.

The way you drop latency is by reducing or eliminating buffers, that's pretty much it.

There's a trade-off with h264 and hevc/265, as with most video codecs - the larger the buffer you have, the more delta frames you can have between key frames.

This means lower bandwidth and better compression.

So it's a constant struggle between compression and latency.

The lowest latency that webrtc can get is about 4ms one way, 8ms round trip, at least based on the project I started to do realtime steaming with https://github.com/3DStreamingToolkit/3DStreamingToolkit

We proved you could do round trip times in the real world from cloud to customer in under 25ms.

But it comes with a lot of tradeoffs and cost and complexity to make it work.

Google Stadia fundamentally uses webrtc under the covers, although they use QUIC instead of TCP/ICE.

If you ripped out all of the congestion management from the video engine in webrtc, you'd reduce another several ms roundtrip at the cost of basically no network resilience.
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This headline is comical since we are well past “starting”. We had immense diversified conglomerates even before big tech, and they were already problematic. With Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple coming of age, the only new development is that the failure of antitrust enforcement in America (and elsewhere) is far more obvious and pervasive than even cynics imagined. With limitless capital, regulatory capture, massive patent war chests, and the ability to starve would-be competitors of talent (by spending a lot temporarily), the world is the mega corp’s oyster.

A society which limits the growth of mega corps will automatically see numerous benefits like redistribution of wealth and power, redundancy/resilience in the economy, decentralization away from mega cities, an increased diversity of cultures, localized circular economics, and more. I think this is something both sides of the aisle (in America) could and should support, since it achieves some of the goals of directly redistributive policies but with the market as the mechanism, rewarding hard work/success.

Outside of the US, other countries shouldn’t tolerate their customer bases being pillaged by international mega corps. It is a threat to their sovereignty, cultural independence, and limits innovation that could come from all those locations. We are super late on acting. Globally, we all should demand change from our politicians ASAP on this issue.
Yes it has. Sort of. These days, every high school has an overachiever clique. These students get great grades, but also run the various student clubs, have interesting hobbies, are into activism, are usually charismatic and good looking, etc. And they're usually popular and envied by people.

This group isn't exactly the nerd clique of the 90s. Motivations of this group are driven by status-seeking, both among peers and college admissions officers, unlike the pure passion motivation nerds of the 90s are known for. But this group offers a realistic path of a 90s-style nerd to popularity.
Because Chicago is supporting the rest of the state. We have horrible return on investment on our tax dollars.

If Chicago seceded and formed a city-state the Chicago budget crisis would end overnight.
(I posted a similar comment elsewhere but it's short, and relevant here too).

That's not what game theory says. Defecting against everyone you meet is a losing strategy in an iterated multi-actor prisoner's dilemma. Tit-for-tat does much better. Establishing and maintaining mutual trust, to cooperate with those who are willing to cooperate with you, is in a nation's interests.
> The way this happened is pretty simple. At Strong Towns, we call it the Growth Ponzi Scheme. Through a combination of federal incentives, state programs and private capital, cities were able to rapidly grow by expanding horizontally. This provided the local government with the immediate revenues that come from new growth -- permit fees, utility fees, property tax increases, sales tax -- and, in exchange, the city takes on the long term responsibility of servicing and maintaining all the new infrastructure. The money comes in handy in the present while the future obligation is, well....a long time in the future.

Believe me or not, this to an even bigger extend plagues China.

I think more than half of major cities in China are fully consciously running a Ponzi scheme with their own land leases, as they have really no other revenue source to sustain them long term, and this is why they are ready to go to any extremes to do this.

Effectively, private loans are financing municipalities through overpriced land leases. Everybody who ever dealt with real estate in China will tell that land auctions are rigged using every trick imaginable.
People use macs because you can send it in for repair, and mac OS is arguably the most polished unix based desktop environment. Linux is too fiddly.
Not at all. I changed because I wanted to live the experience of an acquisition and also being part of a company that will probably go public. That’s something only a few people working in tech can enjoy.
Good idea! I'd want to do some research and simulations to figure out how much of an altitude hit I'd take with the added weight of an additional controller.
So you're saying JSON doesn't support comments
Yes, the challenge is editor support.

What I'd want is an emacs special mode, that displays RS as a red* comma, GS as a simple newline, US as a red semicolon, and regular newline as a red "\n".

Comma, newline, and semicolon insert the control characters, while M-, etc insert the literal characters. Not sure exactly how to handle header lines but this is the general premise.

*red as in "whatever method of visually distinguishing them as special works for you"
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What lessons would you say are left to be drawn from Fortran?
I've built PyJobs - a Python job listing website where Brazilian people share Python jobs from their companies.

Last year I gave up my internship to dedicate full time to PyJobs, and the company that I maitain: RecrutaDev.

I've lived for a year with its money, and now I'm trying to expand its coverage with more customers.
Death to the Shell
> Why would anything different happen to a "resold" than a "sold" device?

Did you miss the other possible scenarios I offered, or are you certain they cannot happen? (If so, then why?) Did you not understand the point that recycling 100% of the devices might outweigh some reuse plus some portion ending up as landfill? Do you believe that devices ending up in landfill is worse than devices being recycled?

Why are you assuming the same thing would happen to a device on resale, compared to first sale? Do you know who GEEP was selling them to, and what for? I would guess that statistically the second life is much shorter, especially for devices that Apple decided couldn't be resold by their refurb program. I don't know that for certain, and I won't insist on it because I don't like to make wild assumptions, but if you believe otherwise, I'd love to hear what evidence you've got.

> for the sole reason that money changed hands without Apple getting their cut.

This speculation doesn't stand up to a reality check. Apple already re-uses devices: they sell refurbs! The second life you're advocating already happens to all the devices they can, and they already make money doing that and it's better for the environment. Why are you assuming that Apple is recycling devices for financial reasons, when it costs them money to recycle, and it would net them more money to resell these devices if they could? Why are you assuming these devices even have a second life in them, when Apple already sells used devices?

> I am beyond tired of dealing with the pretzel-like contortions of reasoning you twist yourself into to believe continued use of a device is somehow more harmful than stripping it for parts

This makes it pretty clear that you haven't understood my questions. I have not claimed that recycling is better than re-use. In fact I believe re-use is better than recycling, environmentally speaking. So I think we agree on that. What I'm asking is why you're so certain that this specific case is one where Apple is doing the wrong thing environmentally. That's not clear to me at all. It seems very possible that recycling here is much more environmentally responsible than re-selling. It really depends on more specifics than we have at hand; it matters what the condition of the devices is, it matters who they're being sold to, it matters what they'll get used for, how long they'll last, and what happens after that. What do you know that I don't know? I haven't seen anything yet to convince me that your certainty is backed by any evidence.

> I'll take their environmentalism with a massive grain of salt.

Could you please identify computer brands that are better, and link to their environmental records? What are the actionable alternatives that are more environmentally friendly?
DeviantART Chris Bolt?
Yeah, those sounds like thugs, not good people, maybe thugs who were convinced by some authority that what they are doing is right,but that's true of most of the evil in history.

Curious how you justify this.
I said after 2016. Wikileaks is a media company that reports info/intel from their sources, no different from the NYT, CNN, fox etc. There were no questions coming from these sections of the general public and the media you allude to when it was bush and it's very convenient for the intelligence community to discredit where they can. Snowden addresses the case against Assange in his latest episode on Joe Rogan, a very interesting listen.
"It’s quite possible to use Sonos speakers without an internet connection if you use something like AirPlay, a local NAS, or an audio in (e.g. TV or Record Player)."

Yes, this is technically true (and is my primary use-case for Sonos). However, in the 15 years that I have been in their ecosystem, the ability to play while Internet-disconnected has ranged between completely non-functional to sort-of functional to only-functions-when-Internet-perfect.[1]

The fact is, they don't care about this use-case anymore and don't devote resources to testing and bug-fixing it.

[1] There was a long period of time when Sonos worked fine with no Internet, and also with perfect Internet, but if you had laggy or lossy Internet they would just puke.
Can confirm still broken in catalina.
The target audience for most academic papers is not the general public and these words or phrases are known to the target audience. If the idea is that academic papers should have a more general audience, then I feel that’s a different statement, because I agree that academic papers are often less accessible to non-target audience members due to word choice.

In the case you mentioned there is a bit of redundancy which makes the word “ameliorate” easy to substitute. Terms like “therapeutic” and “misfolding” make it easy to derive that we’re going from a bad to good state.

“Activated protein X ameliorates biofilm formation” has more content than if we swapped to “target” in this case, because it has the added effect of indicating that the interaction was “good”.

As a continued aside, I think you’d enjoy the talk I originally posted. It dives into the difference between using writing to think vs persuade or educate, and how not recognizing that difference can cause poor scientific communication.
Today I've just discovered that if you are easily getting insulted that's mean you might have weak anahata.
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Nice write-up! I would like to insist more on the false "industry vs. academia" dichotomy, that was mentioned at the end of the post. I was asked the same question at the end of my PhD: "Do you want a one-way ticket to academia, or a one-way ticket to industry?"

After 8 years of back-and-forth, I settled on both. I think this should be the norm. Professors should take a break from paper writing to work on a startup and/or be in industrial board meetings to know what to research next.

I have so many friends that kept a foot in both industry and academia. I find the model very valuable.
Lots of things that are the same in some outcomes are very different in process.

A totalitarian dictator and democratic judicial system could come to the same decision on any given ruling.
Was it not obvious that I was talking about sites that use hosted comment solutions, and thus don't have discussion as a core feature?
I am the parent, and I am typing this on a second hand
Thinkpad. That's the problem with Apple users -- they can't see that there are better ways to consume and are unable to "think different".
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