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Hi, I am not talking about your device ageing. I am talking about the protections put in place by Dell to prolong the life of your product. Dell are especially innovative in this space.

For example, in my opinion, you're seeing the effect of "Dell Smart Charging", which is a by-design feature of the Dell Power Manager [1].

Your profile may be set to 'Adaptive', and it may automatically use the 'Primarily AC' behavior. Here is an excerpt from that behavior: 'Extends battery life by lowering the charge threshold, so that the battery never charges to 100 percent capacity. Recommended for users who primarily operate the system while plugged into an external power source'.

My experience with Dell Power Manager is that this is done transparently to the user, for example the user may see '100%', but at the battery firmware level it knows that it is only charged to '80%'. I think that you're just noticing the smoke and mirrors and getting concerned when there's probably nothing at all to be concerned about. There is a numeric filter between your real and fake battery levels, and yes, at times you're going to see inconsistencies when rebooting your product. And there will especially be differences between sleep and cold-start. But if Dell had implemented it differently, on the flipside plenty of people would send their laptops back for 'not charging to full'.

My recommendation here might be to reset your BIOS settings to factory default and see if the settings in the Dell Power Manager can resolve what you are experiencing instead (i.e. from Windows DPM disable Advanced Charge and use the Standard setting instead of the Adaptive setting, fully charge and discharge your product, then leave attached to an adapter for 4+ hours).

[1]: https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/power-manager_users-guide_en-u...

Source: electric vehicle battery engineer.
Do we have any examples of this D&I stuff working? All I hear about are campuses and companies literally imploding. I never hear any places that were bad, and then got better. Is there any data at all to suggest that these ideas work and result in a better world?
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... Wait, are you suggesting that everyone is doing fraud and six figure money laundering?
Just pointing out that the article does literally talk about the legislative efforts that are happening internationally to tackle this. Which is exactly what you were questioning.
You are the problem if you believe one can't even label themselves as pretty progressive if one doesn't advocate every little trivial thing.
I had a grand-boss who proposed buying an add-on to our PDM system. I explained how we already threw away $15 MILLION on buying ALL the licenses for a previous PDM system up front, only to scrap it when our company got taken over (and pillaged and destroyed, but that's a story for another day). I BEGGED him not to spend the money until we proved that we could actually, you know, integrate the add-on, and USE it successfully. No, of course, we spent all the money up front. And THEN found out that we couldn't use it. And then I heard he got a big kickback from the company, and I because a little less naive, and a lot more jaded.
Probably because finance people know to not accept such obvious bribery.
You mean years.
> Why couldn't we just have stuck with yellow? Introducing skin tone provided no advantage and just opened a can of worms.

I 100% agree. But technology follows the imperialist idiosyncrasies of US American political debate.
In my experience, Business Ethics exists to silence whistleblowers. In either case they have about as much influence over executive prerogative as diversity offices have — the people who make the decisions will never give them enough power to question decisions at or above the VP level because they don’t want their own decisions investigated.
It's from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) [0]. The audience for OSTP is cross-Federal, and the contributing agency scope for this site is wide. The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) [1] used to do this kind of technology policy work too. OTA served US Congress, is no more, and may or may not be worthing bringing back [2].

Personally, I like seeing deep (no pun intended) technology expertise at work in US government. The Michael Lewis book "The Fifth Risk" was hagiographic that way.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...
[2] https://www.brookings.edu/research/it-is-time-to-restore-the...
Not to be a doomer but there are scenarios where neither genetic variation nor research would solve the problem. The correct mix of virality, incubation and lethality would do it. Pneumonic plague is terrifyingly close. I wish there was a bigger interest and investment in biology, I think it’s the only viable path forward for humanity.
Yep. Emergen-C is just a techno prayer, born from scientism.
Basecamp made a questionable policy change, then the CEO started mass blocking everyone who said anything remotely critical of him no matter how kindly and politely they said it, then a third of the company took severance package offers. Paraphrasing one of the viral jokes: they hate when people take 30% from them, so it looks like they stepped back to rethink their actions.
This type of 'discovery' won't be possible with the next generation as the digital version of that would be locked on some media (possibly encrypted) somewhere forever.
Or there are just different code paths in the called function (eg a “cache hit” code path and a “cache miss” one), and only some of the code paths need to await.
> Bleach works as surface decontamination agent. They know it works for CWD, and I expect it works for others too.

I remember reading that nothing but incineration would work in the context of Food-and-Mouth disease, but it seems modern techniques in brain surgery do use bleach. Interesting.

Essentially, the only thing that works is disintegrating the prions. You can't wash them off, since you're simply washing them into the water cycle. You can't deal with them in a way that preserves other biological matter, since they are proteins, disintegrating them means disintegrating any other proteins in that area.
Speed limits are set for passenger comfort rather than the fastest speed a train could safely travel.

The equation for the speed limit for a curve is a combination of the radius of the curve, the relative elevation of the outside rail (superelevation) and the allowable “unbalanced superelevation” of the train itself, how much lateral force the train is permitted to have going around the curve. You could design a railroad where the outside rail was raised enough to not feel any lateral forces effects of curves, but speeds will be much lower. Typical trains have 3 or 4 inches of unbalanced superelevation, but a tilting train can drive this number much higher to 7 to 9 inches. This allows faster speeds and maintains passenger comfort.
The article's tone is way stronger than "suggests". There are multiple quotes from people flat-out saying the whole mythology of Abagnale is fictitious.
When communism was a thing after WW2, there was really a lot of countries which followed the regime in some way. It took those countries many decades for that system to fall off. I think all this money printing is a similar issue. It isn't a solely US problem, but a world problem.

A lot of countries's central banks and relationship with politcs, monetary policy and so on made people feel somewhat confident that this can go on for a long time and perhaps doesn't create inflation, as long as the money is directed towards "stuck" money, money that isn't moving around and doesn't accelerate M1.

I think the final outcome of this will be that all those zombie companies that only exist for the reason that they can take debt almost indefinitely will plague the growth of countries up to the moment that they see that they are no longer growing.

There's also a problem with GDP that doesn't make it obvious because a zombie company, no matter how dead it is, is still pushing that number higher as long as it still manages to sell
or produce something(not whether people really want it or are actually buying it). Imagine a company selling to the other company a useless product, if you make a good loop, this could go on forever and make am infinitely high GDP figure... but for the end consumer it has no impact.

It might take multiple decades for us to really understand what will be that impact and no real economist can say what that impact and effect is, but one thing for sure is that it will create turmoil and issues in society.

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If you want an answer in order to protect yourself from all this mess: diversify. Diversify by not only investing in many stocks, but many kind of assets. Including land. Learn how to live by yourself without being very dependant on others. Learn how to grow your vegetables and look for alternatives most people in the rat race aren't looking for. The system will change, that's the only thing that is crystal clear. You want to be ready for those changes to adapt with it.

Most of people here seem to mention crypto, but crypto is just a very tiny part of what you could to in order to protect yourself. Have farmland in multiple countries, assets in multiple countries, hell, even multiple fiat currencies and metals. AND mostly importantly... invest in yourself, be healthy, in shape and go see your doctor while he is still there.
Where world is going? You can't even trust a conman anymore.
I don't want to create an account so I can't read this.... any idea how to get to the blog post without registering?
I think the scary scenario is advanced countries thinking a sneak attack will succeed and/or be deniable.

Something like https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-... applied on wide scale to a developed nation's power infrastructure has the potential for enormous numbers of deaths without the "well obviously the rest of the world will hate us" consequences of nuking someone.
It has always upset me that development of vehicle software hasn't been aporoached with the same care and unyielding professionalism as that of the space shuttle.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

The software running our cars should be the most bulletproof in existence. Literally millions of lives hang in the balance.
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I’m wondering if the original Covid infection runs the risk for latent prion issues too —

There’s just no reason for the mass hysteria from governments from what I’ve seen spread amongst my friends - and I run dangerously close to leaving the “anecdotal data gravity well” with how many observations I’ve tracked, deaths included.

It felt like they were withholding some long term effects to keep everyone calm.
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Last fall, I found the plist files which control OS X's character picker, and spent an evening backporting seven years worth of new emojis to OS X 10.9 Mavericks[1]. The one thing I couldn't get working was skin tone variants, because Mavericks has no concept of them. All emojis in the picker are yellow.

Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I got a really nasty email accusing me of being all sorts of racial things, because I hadn't included skin tones. I don't know if this person was just trolling or crazy or what, but they were really mad! I'd never received an email like this before, so I was pretty upset.

1: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/updating-maverickss-emo...
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> It's called fraud

Is it really just counted as fraud in the US? Here in the UK, bribery is a different offence from fraud.
Doesn't the fact that you're commenting on a story about their rocket program with a comment about them putting people in concentration camps show that we can spot both, at least from a high level?
Here’s an iOS service:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resolver-share-clean-urls/id14...

In addition to cleaning trackers it tries to convert AMP and Apple News links to the real pages.
You document and report a vulnerability to Walmart, Northrop, some random BigCo that nobody thinks much about and you get nothing. You document and report an equivalent vulnerability to a tech BigCo and you make the front page of HN.

It's not about having a working exploit you can monetize. These hackers aren't gonna steal cars. They're showcasing their skills and picking their targets for that purpose.

Had they hacked a Daweoo wearing Chevy clothes or an FCA product nobody would blink twice. The comments would all be people saying you get what you pay for or repeating the typical Reddit tropes about the big3 being crap.

They picked one of the brands that starts with T, ends with A because those brands are sacred cows of the upper middle class and have rabid online fan-bases who will greatly amplify and publicize these hackers work.
Most of modern retail platforms offer fractional shares.
Timeghost. https://xkcd.com/1393/
To be fair, "Cat's Cradle" is a famous work of science-fiction
> Nice hypotheses. How would you go testing it to check its validity?

That’s more of an axiom.
Yeah - a convicted fraudster found lying and/or exaggerating tales? How could it be...?
killing with a byte sequence is as effortless as it gets. And it's one of the more plausibly deniable ways to do it. Why create additional ways for state actors to kill people? They could at least add "Power off all modems" option to all cars, and stop relying on over the air updates.
1 - Nope

2 - Pretty much yeah
Here's a direct link to the list with more info about the data https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-for-working-from-home/...
> show that we can spot both, at least from a high level?

Think it was stop*.
> Let's not forget that adding all this complexity to Unicode has a real burden for people who implement Unicode.

We're talking about emoji for crying out loud, the entire idea is frivolous (and that's fine!)
Ah, here...: https://archive.is/nLJdW
I think the thing you need to content with is the fact that when someone says the Republican party uses racism to win votes what they're doing is linking you to a wiki page with long and detailed documentation of the specifics of what they're doing and how.

Now, in response to that you sort of just wave around and claim all parties use racism. But that's not actually true is it, there is no similar concerted strategy on the Democratic side to stir up racism to drive votes- and this is born out in the numbers where one party has a very out of the norm demographic appeal.
This is kinda like judging C by how bad Algol was. Fortran 90 and its successors should be looked as a separate language from the old fixed format Fortrans, and they are the currently IMO the best we got for supercomputing purposes (i.e. I'd prefer it over C/C++, in that specific domain). That being said, I hope Julia pushes through as a replacement. Note that I'd never advocate for Fortran in any capacity outside of that domain, e.g. for system programming.
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you can buy a US senator for a few thousand bucks.
Awesome. Does it require access to the document/window or it can be used in React?
My bet is on either bacterial or agricultural source contaminating well water.
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This would be a good rebuttal, to offer up a bunch of counterexamples of transponder data with no corresponding signal in the WSPR "data" using the same method, but also ADS-B transponders are limited in range, so there will be big gaps specifically in the Indian Ocean. But if this (frankly unbelievable) method works well enough to suss out the location of MH370 in those ocean holes then imagine how well it should work in areas saturated with transmitters and receivers. But it won't, because it really sounds like a bunch of hooey.
Yes, the big shift is what I am interested in here, We moved from using living creatures to using machines like cars, but what's next after machines like cars beside flying cars(its still a car) that will mark a huge step for mankind in terms of transportation. Something that is not a car, not a flying car, not a plane, or electric plane, something along the lines of bio-engineering or teleportation. That will rock
or AWS sold them rough sketches of your activity.
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Shouldn't the counterpoint be how the driver somehow is no longer responsible for the vehicle? Which, is why it would be absurd for Snapchat to be accountable? To me, this seems no different than the driver claiming they aren't fault because "someone dared me to".
not surprised given netflix culture
are you using the mapkit-js[1] to integrate with other platforms than ios, or something else ?

[1]https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkitjs
The Simpsons (partially serious).

Coloring Black and Asian characters with skin tones, means that yellow in the Simpsons represents only white people.
U+1F7E6 + ZWJ + U+1F3E1 ?
You'd be surprised how many countries have similar regulation, some starting at the first sale, sometimes even regional. We'd have to file in 20-30 countries by now. We're waiting for any tax office to contact us directly before acting, we assume they target bigger companies first. Example

> Register for ضريبة القيمة المضافة in United Arab Emirates as soon as possible.
> Add the local tax rate in your <our vendor> tax settings.
> Do your periodic ضريبة القيمة المضافة filings in United Arab Emirates.

because we did a single sale to the UAE apparently.
Catch Me if You Can is still a great movie, even if Abagnale lied about the whole thing. I mean, "inspired by a true story" or "based on a true story" movies already deviate pretty severely from history in many cases.

Here's a question though: did the writers feel they had to stick somewhat close to the "truth?" Did it cause them to make some choices they might not have if they were writing about a totally fictitious conman? And, if indeed those things happened, would the movie have been even better if they had total freedom? Or did the movie thrive in part due to its constraints? All unanswerables of course but an interesting train of thought. Reminds me of how the first three Star Wars films are the best despite their limited budget and Lucas' relatively constrained freedom of direction.
This feels like a somewhat dubious metric, all told. For one, complexity of language says little about complexity of programs made in language. And, that is usually more influenced by age of the code base with how many are contributing to the code base.

Still, if you find the article, is be delighted to see the argument being made.
Flame bait doesn't have to mean intentional baiting. It may be that your comments will surely lead to flame wars so the moderator would rather not deal with it.
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It is a thing still here. The friend who we’d have asked to do that (and has done it before) was unable to attend our ceremony, so we just went down the city’s list and picked someone.
I heard that because earth is 70% water, it will probably land in water.

But according to [1], its movement is almost evenly split between land and water in the uncertainty interval.

[1] https://aerospace.org/reentries/cz-5b-rocket-body-id-48275
The future's now. Try posting emoji on HN!
“Tesla patched the vulnerabilities with an update pushed out in October 2020.” Begs the question, how or when did his hack take place given article is from this month? Unpatched Tesla?
Thank you so much! I can finally remove those stupid highlights that show up when searching Python docs.

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When I opened the page I was disappointed to not see a picture of someone using confusing holographic ui's to navigate some sort of graph. Scrolling down, I see my fears were unnecessary. AI == holographic UI.

The girl in Education and Training appears to have no less than 16 unique holographic objects surrounding her.

On the hand, the applications girl has a far simpler visual interface, but appears to require advanced spiderman hand gesture to properly interact with it.
The entire medical profession as it exists runs on grift and payback schemes. The reason why the medical industry is pushing out vaccines to the elderly is that their pharma cash cow would disappear if the number of 85+ year olds dwindled a few percentage points.
In short: Google still hasn't figured out how to stop black people from showing up in Photos searches for "gorillas" (hence, such searches return no results; go ahead, try it). The irrevocable "poisoning" of computer vision systems is a real threat.
What does the bill details screen show? I manage an AWS bill and I find it overly detailed. Others mentioned leftover EIPs, but the bill shows these as their own line item.

Not saying it can't happen, but I've never seen an 'Other' listed on the bill details screen. As I said above, it's detailed to a fault.
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In general the likelihood an exploit will be exploited can be thought of as a relationship between it's ease and payoff. Just because something is exploitable doesn't mean it's likely to be exploited unless it's easy to do so or there is a good reason to put in the effort required.

I guess if it was possible to remotely take over or disable the brakes on an entire fleet of self-driving cars then we could have problems. Likewise, if it was possible for school kids to "prank" their teacher by downloading some exploit software from the internet we could have problems. But in both cases you would hope security would at least be good enough that these types of events could not happen.

Remember someone with a bit of knowledge could easily tamper with your mechanical car today if they wanted to. Digital tech provides new attack vectors for someone seeking to do damage, but if designed correctly any new digital attack vector shouldn't present any greater risk than the existing mechanical attack vectors.