skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are simple things, but they don't go critical like you're describing. Simple ones often just have a mechanical bimetal thermostat device that opens / closes around a given temperature (a bit north of 100degC). In addition to that, they have thermal fuses that will blow if the temperature reaches over some threshold (I think 200degC?). My understanding is that they often use a pair of thermal fuses for safety. In this case, you would somehow need to have both thermal fuses fail closed, as well as the thermostat fail closed.
If you had read the article you'd see the headline is completely misleading. Musk isn't daring to break off the deal at all.
WGU BS / MS Graduate here: I attended 3 other "traditional, B&M" Uni's in years past (~60 credits). I also attended a couple Community Colleges (16 credits).

I created a career in IT by getting a job (2000) and working full time over the years. I got certifications on my own that I transferred in for credit with WGU.

I have now been teaching full time in an IT program at a community college for 2 years and have also developed and manage 2 different MS level online classes for a traditional B&M university you have definitely heard of.

I can tell you, unequivocally, that what I had to do to complete my degrees with WGU was more rigorous than what I am requiring my students to do now (not my choice ... chain of command). The grading was harder at WGU than what I am permitted to do now with my students in the CC and B&M MS classes. I have now been on each side of the "WGU is not legit" argument. Anyone who thinks this is very wrong. No, it's not Stanford or MIT, it's not supposed to be ... though I'm sure grade inflation and special treatment happens at those places. There is no special treatment or grade inflation at WGU. You take a cert exam, take a test, or submit a paper to an unknown grader. You either pass or you don't. Simple as that. If you know your stuff, move on. If you don't ... learn it to move forward. It's meritocracy at its best. That is NOT the traditional University way.

I would included the OP in this ... he states in the end of his blog post that "The program is not the most rigorous." How does he know this having not attended other university recently? How does he know this not having developed or taught classes at other universities or colleges. He's right about the clear value that can be attained from combining knowledge, experience and work ethic to a WGU degree. He's wrong about the rigor.

IMO: WGU is not the place to LEARN, it's the place you PROVE WHAT YOU KNOW.
fb has so much profit and cash that this is not such a big risk.
Compared to Q12021 it’s an improvement.
Exactly. I'm hungry for information and much of what I find is non information poorly researched and placed in SEO friendly listicles posing as information.

The challenge is sorting through that to find real information.

Sometimes I secretly wish the entire internet would burn to the ground and we'd get to start over clean. (Of course then I'd be out a job so I don't really wish that, but the thought has crossed my mind).
That doesn't really answer the question. "it would actually double the amount of care". It would double the amount of staff hours. How those staff hours are used is a measure of patient care and not all hours are equally relevant to the patient.

As an example, if we assume you are a software engineer and you double your work hours, will you double your code output? Probably not, just like it's not a 1:1 translation of nurse hours to patient care.
I'm guessing most people in NK aren't carrying $1000 phones. They are carrying "...government-approved, Android-based smartphones...". Your statement about companies controlling the devices is certainly worth arguing for, but it's a different, far more draconian situation in North Korea.
You don't answer my question, then use a vague term of 'technically work' to ensure I can't give you useful info tl;dr you don't want to be helped.
I once had a buddy walk up behind me while I was at a urinal and smack the back of my head - one of the most infuriating things ever. Ever since I'm hyper aware of people behind me at the urinal.
I don't think the second point applies here, as the story in question takes place in the late 80's, before this change occurred. I don't know if coffee machines had clocks in that era, either.
JCPenney offers $8.6B to acquire Kohl's
Huh--I was certain it could be better, though I didn't realize it was that high! On the other hand, my electricity is hydro and it costs like $0.009 per kilowatt-hour.
No, you need to know Dijkstra's algorithm in order to tinker with an OS. /s
FB was down 13.2% in the last week (201.53 -> 174.95) for "no reason", so that probably explains the difference.
In case seeing it in software helps anyone else, here is some C which implements an Enigma machine: https://vanhunteradams.com/Enigma/Enigma.html
They wouldn't need a warrant - that's the point.
How are more people not sounding alarms about the future of our society with more bleak headlines like this? I fear we have become far too reactive to many problems that should have been anticipated, and planned for.
Easy, enable only cookies for the things you want (maintain your session with 1st website, plus core functionality like payments). Everything else are marketing cookies.

I used umatrix for years but gave up. The guessing what to enable to get a site to work got tiresome, and IIRC there was also problem with browser support.
So the key difference you’re describing between this and a degree mill is that you’re expected to already possess the knowledge. And maybe organize it a little bit or fill in the blanks. As opposed to cramming it, or blowing through it too fast for it to amount to anything. This makes sense. I can imagine traditional universities offering this sort of thing everywhere.
This doesn't require open source for everything that receive a grant. The text of the open letter is “Implement legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence.”

It's more like if the tax office build a software to compute taxes, you can use it to compute your taxes, add a simplified a gui for basic users or incorporate it in your ERP.
>Negligence means "failure to take proper care in doing something", which is often just called an accident.

This is not true, because you're equivocating on the word "proper". An accident is failure to take proper care, where proper care means "care that follows the rules". Negligence is failure to take proper care, where "proper" means "can reasonably be expected". They are not the same thing.
I very carefully batch things / break them up to make it work well since none of the models I am using individually need 15 min for a single frame.
It's not clear from the description, but it seems like it's for "you got access to your colleague's computer" type of prank, so after your configuration, when they load a particular page the extension will trigger the popups.

I guess it won't work if they're presenting PowerPoint or some other app instead of a web page.

But a good target would be a Jira/Trello board, they often get presented...
Thanks for the detailed answer. I've updated now as you've said!
These contracts are likely emergency contracts, which pay outrageously but often require a full week of 12-hour shifts or something similar with the expectation the nurse will only do one week then recover. I've seen this for COVID peaks and when a hospital's entire nursing staff is planning to strike. The $5200/wk rate is more likely 3 or 4 12-hour shifts.
For me, that Reality Labs is the division beating estimates drives home that Meta's bet on XR is going to pay. Ad revenue might be down because of changes in Apple and Google mobile policies, but they are going to control the platform of the future and set their own rules.
> A cop killing an innocent civilian at a nonviolent traffic stop can pretty much happen only because of malice or negligence.

I'm not sure this is true, specifically because the difference between a nonviolent traffic stop and a lethal (to the officer) traffic stop can be a split second.

If my keyboard had a 0.01% chance of lethally shocking me... I'm pretty sure that would alter my typing behavior.
The relevant contracts for Germany have an interesting clause: They can only by changed by agreement. If one party wants a change, it has to offer something that it thinks the other will want. What may it be?

Reduced minimum purchases in the coming years perhaps? .de has stated that it wants to reduce those purchases.
Great. Now if only they managed to produce enough (electric) cars so that a delivery date is not years ahead, that would be terrific.
Atmos is not 11.2!
Home theater Atmos is 12 statically positioned streams, usually 7.1.4 (horizontally_emitting.low_freq.vertically_emitting) and up to 20 dynamically located streams. The audio is then rendered for the speakers configurations. Highest-end decoder can theorically support 24.1.10 but I never saw a decoder support more than 32 channels.

My receiver has 13 outputs (11 amplified, 2 sub at line level) but I use a 5.1.2 configuration, in a relatively small listening room, and I don't know where I could add more speakers without rebuilding the walls and the ceiling.
What a strange product. Is it software or hardware or both? And it features... Sine! Wow.
How, in your opinion, did the Affordable Care Act affect nursing? Were you in a position to observe then?
I know very few graduates of schools outside the "top few hundred" in the US who received thorough grounding in core skills unless they took the personal initiative to fill those gaps through self study. That's hardly a rousing endorsement for that track, if the student has to later plug the holes that a poor school left in their education.

I have no personal experience with WGU or Phoenix or other online unis. But I've met a few folks who graduated from lesser schools (outside the top 200) on traditional campuses. Unless those kids were preternaturally bright and took the initiative to teach themselves (fill the gaps), they often face an uphill battle to recover from the poor preparation that an undemanding and incomplete academic program can inflict on 1) their ability to compete in those skills on the open market and 2) their passion for learning. IMHO, that's a high price to pay.

My advice: don't cheap out on your education.
North Koreans have been "jailbreaking" their electronics for a long time.

There are some good books about how ordinary people lived up to around Kim Jong-Un's reign, such as "Nothing to Envy" and "Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader".

Devices such as TVs and radios were always set to only receive state broadcasts, and they are subject to regular inspections. But the safety measures were cheaply produced on a small scale, often a simple mechanical limit on a dial housed behind tamper-evident stickers.

The Tumen River has also been a traditionally porous border where black market media (and cosmetics, food, electronics, etc) could flow freely. As is usual in an authoritarian regime, well-connected people can ignore the rules, smart/wealthy people can work around them, and the occasional unlucky person can be made into an example.
This is great, I've often wondered why so little focus is spent on tools like this. Feels like low hanging fruit given the great usability improvements they can bring.

All the talks about backups but the reason people don't do it is partly because the tooling is so bad. (no, snapshots is not a proper backup by itself, but a great addition to).

Wondering if btrfs will get some love too.
Social Psychology: Discovering the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity
I replied to the parent, but the highest quotes are probably emergency contracts for 5 or 7 shifts of 12 hours but only for a week. Longer contracts are often 3 months at 3 or 4 shifts per week.
How do you use this in 3D printing?
For healthcare the regulations mostly entrench the big players in insurance. It’s regulatory capture 101.
But they still allow using 2FA via SMS too, even if a yubikey is configured. And there’s no way to turn the SMS auth off (last time I checked).
I work for a major healthcare provider (thousands of nurses) and while there's a lot of unhappiness, nowhere near '90%' are considering leaving.

And really, this is a red herring; the real problem started long before COVID. This video essay nails it (or so care practitioners at my workplace say, anyway):
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000008158650/covid-...
You're strawmanning pretty hard here. Nobody mentioned anything about universal enthusiasm, praise, cheerleading, or anything similar. Looks like you've intentionally missed the point.
Buying a diploma is not really a bragging point.
I was surprised that big, heavy repair equipment like the "display press" and "Heated Display Removal Fixture" sell for only ~$250. You would think these are $1000+ items.
Conservative Twitter accounts got boost in followers after Musk acquisition
Humans are adaptable. I figured out how to connect all the computers in the house over a LAN and dial the living room computer's modem on activity when I was little because a switch and some cat 5 was cheaper than an extra phone line. Computer science is just a way of discovering and sharing a niche of adaptations.
Possibly interesting... but these are rules about outgoing SMTP servers (MSAs), yes? How much of a relation does the outgoing SMTP server for a domain have to the canonical set of receiving SMTP servers (MTAs) for the domain held in the domain's DNS MX record? These can certainly be one and the same server; but it's not a requirement. So how often are they in practice? Especially for people actively trying to evade these sorts of RBLs?
Apple customer support sucks. I had a macbook air with a dead battery under warranty that I wanted to get replaced. It took a month of discussions with their customer support before the Apple Store (University Village) actually got the damn battery. And then to add insult to injury, the "genius" accused me of damaging the laptop with water and acted like he was doing me a favor by giving me the battery I was owed. I'm certain he was trying to scare me into buying a new computer.

The whole thing made me think back to my old thinkpad, for which I could perform a battery swap myself in seconds (plus two days for the battery to arrive in the mail.)

More recently, my Dell XPS 13 died while under warranty. After a three minute phonecall with Dell customer service, they had a perfectly polite repairman come to my home the next day to replace the motherboard.
This is a fair question but the answer can get complex. Honestly the design/manufacturing of this aircraft joint is way above my expertise and pay grade. I would hope that Boeing has some extremely specialized and talented people working on this. In short, the question of how a gap might affect this assembly is far outside my expertise. However if you want a simple example:

Consider a geometrically perfect cylinder resting on a perfect plane. The contact is a line, with zero width. Therefore a contact area of zero. Pressure is force divided by area. So the nonzero weight of the pin, divided by area (zero) is... infinite? You run into the same problem with a pin in a slightly larger hole. How does this seemingly infinite pressure not lead to failures in wheels (think of train wheels on tracks), ball bearings (spherical balls in torroidal raceways with slight clearance), roller bearings, etc? We are surrounded by geometries that have seemingly zero area points of contact, but they support tremendous loads.

Hertz (yeah, the same guy for whom the 1/s unit is named) figured out the math behind these contact stresses. Basically, for round (and round-ish) things in 2d and 3d, the contact stress has a lot to do with the deformation of the materials. To answer the riddle above (of the cylinder on plane infinite contact stress), you have to consider the deformation of the cylinder and the plane. The stiffness of the materials comes into play, as well as the geometry. You can read up on Herz (or Hertzian) contact stresses if you would like to know more. The math is not terribly difficult, especially for 2d geometries. For a 2d case of a pinned joint, you can often find that a change of a couple thousandths of an inch can mean the difference between a comfortable factor of safety and failure.

I have given a hand-waving example of the importance of tight tolerances on clearances for a small class of problems. I hope it is close enough to the subject matter at hand to be of some use. My comment is from memory, so please forgive (and correct!) any mistakes I've made.

edit: I am rereading my comment, and realize that I didn't make explicit the importance of tight fit for Hertzian contact stress. The smaller the gap between a pin and hole, the greater the contact area (with the same amount of deformation). Think of it this way--for a fixed amount of deformation (say strain at failure), you can carry way more load if the contact area is greater. How do you increase this contact area? By a smaller difference in diameters (smaller gap) of pin and hole. So all things equal (material properties, load), a smaller difference between pin and hole diameters will increase load the joint can carry.

Another point: calculating these contact stresses is doable for most metals, but is far more complex for anisotropic materials (mechanical properties vary in different directions) materials like the carbon fiber composites.
The Invisible Hand works generally fine-ish for non-essential and commodity goods. People might be sad their favorite store went away, but, for the most part, life goes on. It seems to even be the least bad way to handle these sorts of things.

It's a bit harder for me to see this as an acceptable approach to health care. Not every segment of the economy needs to be a constant drunkard's walk in search of maximum profitability in the aggregate. Sometimes what the public actually desires is stability and reliability.
No one is shitty like children are. It’s part of growing up and a great source of bad interactions that teach us about the world and ourselves. If the only thing you do in life is protect yourself into a perfect atmosphere, the less you are prepared for the real world which is unpredictable and full of trauma.
Are you on Blind by any chance
I could definitely imagine nurses having twice as much time to carefully read my charts, or twice as much time to sleep at night and be well rested so they don't fuck things up, or being able to come by and help with something twice as quickly
We certainly don't want to ignore them, given they have the most immediate understanding of the situation and entitlement to guilt.

We don't allow plaintiffs to sue without standing. Why do we allow DAs to prosecute without a victim?

The state has a justification to pursue crime, but it seems like that should be limited when there's (no victim) or (victim who disagrees with prosecution).
I did this in two different houses and it does depend on if you have bad culprits. By far the worst for me was a Zanussi washer/dryer with an on/off that went "clunk/click" and popped in/out - but would still use 10W (about £10/year back then). I just ignored that switch and used the wall socket switch instead.

A few timers on other devices to turn off bluetooth speakers overnight. Over the ten years I lived there it was a decent saving.
>Caries are a sign of an immune disorder or imbalance

Or just terrible habits like drinking liters of soda everyday. Besides the diabetes, the mix of sugar and acid is terrible for dental health, and contrary to the myth, brushing your teeth will not save them, at all, if one persists in terrible habits.
I got:
"The question is different"

I can't stop laughing, this is treasure
Well, making it open source is not the same as making regular citizens/programmers to work on it.

You still pay the company to develop and maintain the software. Same way as open source developers get "sponsored". The reason is that anyone who wants to see the code and suggest on how to make it better, or to report a bug, then that would be possible. Furthermore, that work can be reused by other parts of the government.

That last point is why some companies wouldn't want to do it, or would charge more. However, to your point, I think the increased cost is worth it in this case.

Sure, there are going to be less better roads/schools by 500k, but the problem with that money is that there are rarely big projects for that amount, so it's not like they would be put to best use without being "lost" in the process of relocation.
I mean otoh the market only offers so much choice and often established producers work to make it more difficult for up and comers to themselves be established. We are infact often cattle whose choices are limited to merely where we can stand within a tightly controlled field of very limited size, especially when many of these tools we are reliant upon in modern life can no longer be practically made in the home.
As additional datapoint, afaic(r|s) amazon doesn’t allow any non aws employee maintainers on any repo in a github organization with aws or amazon in the name.

Also freertos was a bit of an acquihire originally of Richard Barry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRTOS

What I’d like to see more contribution / participation from Amazon around the extant open source community projects they run as saas (postgres, MySQL, Kafka, etc). The numbers here are extremely low.

Also your article seems to have missed firecracker vm,
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
> Old fashioned discipline starts in the mind. You must be ruthless with yourself, and make a determination

Well, I think we're kind of in agreement here. I'd now need to essentially torture myself to do something that used to be a fun hobby, and required zero effort.

> I'm reading this book

Ok, but the problem is, _which_ book?

Let's say you search for a JavaScript book on Amazon. It seems to yield more results than all the books they had in my local computer bookstore! Pick one at random? But what if it has low reviews? Pick one with the highest rating? But maybe it was published 2 years ago, so maybe it's already outdated? Anyway, I saw on HN that everyone is using Rust now, so perhaps instead I should read a book about that? That's the analysis paralysis I mentioned.
Build it into the cost of certification. You absolutely want the brightest people working their hardest to uncover potentially fatal issues so they can be fixed before people die.
I haven't found concrete figures, but from what I've read, they do often work more hours during the contract. However, travel nurses in general have far more control over their schedule than regular salaried nurses. A salaried nurse cannot refuse to work, but travel nurses routinely say "No" to contracts if they don't like the pay or the hours.

What happens is they'll accept a few weeks (or 2 months) of long hours, and then take a month off and relax. As you can imagine, if they're getting paid $6000/week, they can easily take a lot of time off and still get paid more annually than their salaried counterparts (while overall working fewer hours per year).
If there ever was a contrarian move then it'd be for an 18-year-old to start nurse training now. Probably one of the last professions at all to be hit by automation, practically guaranteed demand for skilled labour and a hefty shortage thereof in the making.
Is this because of the whims of individual nurses, or because of policies put forth by the hospital administration?
But at the same time, having a dress code could let people worry less about their attire and be able to focus on other matters.

Here I'm thinking specifically of school uniforms. It can be easier to be able to just wear the uniform rather than having to choose what to wear every day.

That said, I probably wouldn't like to work at a place with an overly stringent dress code.