skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even there you'll see the same: micros in SQLite vs millis for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is simply not the right choice if you want in-process speeds.
This supports my thesis that America's primary value is anti-authoritarianism and doesn't actually care about human rights.
Insurance companies will be hiring contract killers to save their premiums.
The risk profile is different. Yes, both have a payout that depends on your own mortality, but there are other risk factors to consider.

An annuity is also a credit risk: if the counter-party goes under, then your payments will stop. Since most of the time the counter-party is a well-capitalized insurance company (potentially with an implicit government backstop), this risk is pretty small.

On the other hand, a tontine has a risk profile that depends on the mortality of the other nominees who participate: your payout in a given year depends on the number of nominees still alive. Also, depending on how it's structured, there might be some market risk as well.

From another perspective, for there to be an arbitrage opportunity, you'd need a way to create a synthetic annuity using a tontine (or vice-versa). But the risk profile of the tontine, which depends on the mortality of the other nominees, is hard to come by unless you are an insurance company. You can view a participant in a tontine as owning a certain life annuity as well as having sold the other participants a smaller life annuity. So each time one of them dies, you no longer have to pay that life annuity and can keep more of the income from the annuity you own.
That's probably just called homeschooling. The way I described how my parents' homeschooled me in highschool is that they were a general contractor for my education. Writing classes were online, history classes were from the local community college, other activities from the co-op, calculus was from a textbook supervised from my engineer dad, etc.
No that’s right we’re still in the denial phase some time in 2000 but the layoffs have started.
Hmm, lectins don't typically affect the liver to this degree though... I know they said their toxicology came back negative, but this sounds like toxin contamination of some sort.
I felt this at GE. There was a huge group of layoffs around 2016, and while I wasn't working there, the echoes of that were still reverberating across the now decently empty office. Fast forward to 2020, and when the COVID cuts came and they announced another huge layoff, it was a huge impact on the teams, especially since most of the people had seen everyone get laid off. It was a huge blow to moral.
End result is the same people without jobs. Raising expectations and making people quit has the side effect of those “low performers” leaving, some people easily hitting the expectations, and most people busting their ass to keep up. Sounds bad to me.

I don’t really see this as an extinction level downturn for fb. Time will tell, but I’d be shocked if this seriously threatened the company in any way except its share price.
In my experience, Wine has better support and is much more stable than ReactOS, especially when using Proton builds.
Taking market share can be done with a 10% discount. But why a 90% discount? That doesn't make sense to me.
IIRC, it's 15%, meaning that they can only have $675,000,000,000.00 in profits.

That is $675,000,000,000.00 they can take from us and instead of using for healthcare or even healthcare administration, it's just additional money that they took.
Monthly payments haven't doubled.

Here's an example. Imagine a $500k house in Texas with a 2% property tax rate and $2k/year in home insurance. Suppose a hypothetical buyer is putting 20% down.

At a 3% mortgage interest rate, the monthly PITI payment would be $2686. At a 6% mortgage interest rate, the monthly PITI payment would be $3398.

That's a substantial increase, to be sure, but if payments had doubled then it would cost $5372, not $3398.

How high would mortgage interest rates need to be for the payment to actually double? Answer: about 12.8%. So interest rates would need to more than double from where they are today to see actual housing payments double.
This trick, like several others like it, is easier to remember and work with if one adopts the notation x̅ for ten's complement (10-x), e.g. 4̅ means 10-4=6.

So the trick this post gives is (essentially) that:

[x̅] × [y̅] = [x̅+̅y̅][xy]

where […] denotes a single digit, as it simply says that

(10-x) × (10-y) = 10(10-(x+y)) + xy

In this notation, the example given becomes:

6 × 8 = 4̅ × 2̅ = 6̅8 = 48.

Note that this also works when there's a carry (write the "carry" digit as a superscript on the left):

6 × 7 = 4̅ × 3̅ = 7̅¹2 = 3¹2 = 42.

(I think I first saw this convention with the "vinculum" in Swami Bharatikrishna Tirtha's book Vedic Mathematics which is simultaneously a work of fraud and genius: the book contains several such dazzling tricks that are convenient in special cases, which the Swami must have collected/invented and mapped to a small set of mnemonic rules ("sūtra"s), then (dubiously) described as "Vedic" knowledge as part of an anti-colonialist project. Actually looking at it now, it uses the vinculum slightly differently, e.g. uses 31̅ to mean 29 rather than 39. Another book in that genre is The Trachtenberg Speed System Of Basic Mathematics though it doesn't go as far.)
Yeah, but "something" could be advertising, kickbacks, cherry picking, lemon dropping, making comparison difficult, selectively optimizing visible metrics while balancing with dirtbag fine print, etc etc.

Competition != Productive Competition
He refers to open world games that don't push back against the player, as feeding a colonialist desire to conquer and complete. He posits that the player never learns that he can't have it all and thus learns to be entitled.

Not sure if entitled is the right word as a lot were power fantasies that focused on rising stats and increasing combat abilities, rather than strictly speaking titles. The pursuit of more flowing rewards naturally drags the player into a position which looks like entitlement.

Morrowind did it better than the later open world games, you had to level up a lot to access dangerous areas that could kill you. The dumbing down and excessive ease in games had been commented on since the original prince of persia.

The games community acts like a bucket of crabs, pulling down anything above it and ripping it apart to feed. The greed for more digital nurturance is exactly why the industry is profitable and getting the drug just right is an art. But the greed is also what drives the crabby trash talk.
As someone who had lots of family work in Appliance repair, I can assure you that venting is still very common.
They have, per the article, buildings full of slaves to do the selling. I doubt GPT-4 will be able to compete on price with that.
> But for people remembering soviet times it isn't serious tragedy - they (or their parents) have seen it many times

I’ve seen this stated before but it seems very confusing. Widespread poverty sucks. There’s no way people are fine with returning to it because they saw it decades ago. Surely nobody thinks that’s ok?
By default, use INFO to tell what has been done, use DEBUG to describe what's going to be done and how it's deciding it.
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I agree with everything you've written here 100%, and this is why I actually think the art style they've chosen for this new game is interesting in a tentatively good way, despite me having basically zero grounds upon which to judge art in general. they eschewed the sort of overwrought cartoon whimsy of the later games and Special Editions, and found an art style that allows much of the same level of expression you'd get from pixel art, while not being pixel art, if that makes sense. it's certainly a bold choice, but it kind of had to be, right?

this is why I never said anything about "consistency" and why I am empathetic to the plight of having to figure out how a Monkey Island game in 2022 should look, because as you discovered it somewhat surprisingly (for someone unfamiliar with the series) doesn't "draw itself" like one would expect for a revival of a retro franchise.

all of this reasoning is exactly why I don't understand why Internet backlash to the art style reveal was so allegedly unforeseen—it was a real "damned if you make it look like any of the old games, damned if you make it look completely different"-type situation.
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I did a quick search on how much refrigerant is in a household refrigerator. Internet says 30 to 180 grams.

I wouldn't be very concerned with 100 grams of propane. Your kitchen has probably 20kg of air. You ain't going to get even close to the flammability limit releasing a 100gm of propane into it.
I mean I fully support the second amendment, but no amount of AK-47's are going to stop a Russian armored column they needed the javelins and drones for that.
There are columns of data, and as a simple example they are {{1,a},{1,b},{1,c},{2,a},{2,b},{2,c},{3,a}} of two columns and seven lines. I'd like to process the data through a function which would yield {{{1,2},{a,b,c}},{{3},{a}}} which is slightly better than {{{1,2,3},{a}},{{1,2},{b,c}}} because former has 7 leaf elements vs latter 8 leaf elements while both has if you will two lines.

How to write that function?
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Google voice has a poor shaken stir implementation that only blocks the most egregious spam calls and sms and does not let users choose to be more strict. It also does not support blocking phone numbers by pattern/prefix.
Supposedly today is the day that even the small carriers that were previously exempt from not having to comply with STIR/SHAKEN will now have to.

But its meaninglessness is demonstrated by the fact that I have received two spam calls (complete with "accurate" caller ID) since starting to read these comments.

So yeah. The phone companies are all complicit.
I'll admit, this is one thing, perhaps literally the only thing, he did that I think is excellent for individual Americans.
Yes. Although painted by reactionaries as a communist plot, ACA was modeled after Massachusetts’ “Romneycare”.

It’s typical old school GOP policy of leveraging private sector actors with public sector dollars. It’s not awful policy, but did create bad cost incentives and encourages cartel like health networks.
I'm actually still laughing about this comment a few days later. Have you considered lending your talents to makers of movies and other entertainment, since you've got a strong understanding of objectively correct pacing?
Still, I'm kind of confused about Unity's direction - they have virtually 0 presence in the AAA space, and it seems to me they're most successful in the indie mobile, and non-game spaces (VR stuff, visualization etc.).
But if I tune into their keynotes, I get the feeling they are firing on all cylinders on putting out high-definition content - an area UE is infinitely better at, at the cost of ignoring their core developers.

And of course, when talking about Unity, one always needs to mention their perma-beta science experiments which never quite reach production quality, while deprecating similar, existing functionality.
I am just starting out at CMU. Most of the work was done before I joined in January. I am hoping to teach students how to do this, beginning with a course in the fall on Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes.
So BMW is switching from a Linux distro to a Linux distro
Because the obscurity of the prices is a result of regulation as well. We need less layers of control with "unintended" consequences.
We’ve been using the Dorot Gardens crushed garlic. It is crushed and pressed into a tray with little cubic depressions to hold the garlic and then frozen. It’s like tiny garlic ice cubes. We get them at Trader Joe’s. Each cube packs a wallop of garlic flavor and is indistinguishable from crushed fresh. The melt easily in some hot pasta or when sautéing vegetables. My husband still wants to use fresh garlic but it takes enough extra time that we don’t. These garlic cubes are ways ready to use and it makes a big difference.
I'll grant that I'm not an expert in this kind of thing, but according to the article:

> Furthermore, vanadium is a readily accessible element in many different easy-to-find minerals. The rest of the battery is made up of equally accessible materials, making it easy to assemble and recycle, in comparison to lithium-ion batteries, which need metals like cobalt and manganese to function.

This paragraph links to the following website: https://www.australianvanadium.com.au/what-is-vanadium/

Obviously this doesn't answer all questions, but at the very least it's a place to start.
In some cameras you can use "pixel mapping" to "fix" the sensor's imperfectoins, see https://www.fujix-forum.com/threads/pixel-mapping.73391/.
I've seen a green V symbol on many vegetarian products, so I've assmuned there already is?
They are correct. The USPS has a universal service obligation. If you send a letter or parcel to any address in the US, the post office must deliver it.
I'm a musician, but not a music tech expert. However, most professional guitarists/bassists I know who play larger venues are using an effects rack, not a board of pedals (or maybe a pedal or two to switch effects). This has waxed and wanted in popularity since the 80s, but my anecdotal evidence is that pedal rigs are less common than ever. I agree about the rugged design, though--I still use a chorus pedal from the late 80s, and it's nigh indestructible.
Mine arrive mostly to Whatsapp, but there's no technical way to auto-block unknown numbers. I feel like such a simple control would solve the problem in majority of such cases.
No, it means that Obamacare is working as written[1]. Insurer profit margins are set to the legally permitted ((medical bills) * 15%) - operating costs.

If insurers want to make more money, they can either make medical bills more expensive, or reduce their own operating costs. Reducing the cost of medical bills does not increase the amount of money they make, unless it means they are capturing market share from a competitor.

The problem is that it's nearly-impossible to capture market share. Which insurer do I have? The one that work provides. Did I have any choice in it? No. Did I choose my workplace based on the insurer bundled with it? No. Will my workplace ever switch their insurer provider of choice? Almost certainly 'no'.

How do you capture market share, when all of your customers, and all of your competitors' customers are captives?

[1] Whether or not it was written well is another question.
I added to my previous post before I saw your reply in the case I made things confusing. I'm in Tennessee. My city is somewhat famous for developing to be a center of ecological research and advancing gay rights. It is on the border of multiple counties with less than accepting cultures in regards to both of those. Being adjacent to some very popular tourist destinations that lean into old-timey culture as well makes me feel like I have a decent cross section to represent the nation with.

Police details here:

My local police forces are two, one of the city and one of the county... Harm reduction and efficient policing is becoming prominent in our metro force. The county force polices the same area, in not just outside the city limits. These police see and interact with each other but generally don't like each other. The county force is much more representative or a darker past, as I hinted to when I said entrenched. They tend to be the ones escalating, sometimes literally having fear based panic attacks as they arrest people. Their training is problematic. The federal state troopers on the highways seem mostly annoyed or indifferent to these dynamics but I can't speak to any generalization there. The high profile infamy here is deserved when the national police union prioritizes their members above all else. They are "in the car" together, much like the classic Italian mafia.

Anyways, do come check it out if you have the chance - and honestly post your fears on local forums (e.g. subreddits) because there would likely be an outpouring of hospitality to keep you from having to worry about that.
CCCP won the war, using US equipment.
Excellent link!

Here you've got the idea of using a ESP8266 or ESP8285 microcontroller (basically a chip, an ASIC -- which contains CPU, enough onboard scratch RAM, WiFi circuitry, and GPIO -- to be used for the Ethernet interface, apparently implemented by a separate ASIC and/or attached module/electronic circuit) -- to implment a WiFi Router and/or Access Point...

And for very little money no less!

If we look at this set of ideas in the broadest most abstract way possible, we have an ASIC (in this case a Microcontroller) -- or set of ASICs (if we count the Ethernet chip as separate) which cost very little money to implement a WiFi Router/Access Point -- on...

This leads me to the following question:

What is the cheapest, absolute cheapest ASIC that is available today that would implement all of the features necessary to create a WiFi Router/Access Point -- with direct support for (one or possibly several) wired Ethernet ports -- included?

And maybe another question:

Would that thing be an ASIC, or would it be a board + Ethernet Ports based on that ASIC? (It may cost someone more money to purchase the additional components once you have that ASIC than the cost of purchasing a pre-manufactured board with all of them on it...)

Let's suppose that the use case would be: You want to sell hardware devices with basic Router/Access-Point capabilities to customers, but you want to pay as little as you can for the parts...

So what combination of those parts -- gets you the cheapest, yet most fully-functional WiFi Router/Access Point?

Someone going down this path might need to even take into consideration costs arising from cases and power supplies -- because that's what end-users/consumers would expect as part of their purchase...

Anyway, Excellent link!
Now do this for the influence of the state's pathologies on public schoolkids.
In Germany Nissan Motors would have got the domain.

According to german law
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Wizard supports parsing and typechecking of SIMD instructions (passing all the spec tests for them) but no interpreter implementation yet, so it can't execute them. Help wanted :)
Serrated knives are for sawing, not slicing. They don't really need to be particularly sharp. Chopping knives are similar; a dull chopping knife will waste your time, but isn't particularly dangerous. But a dull paring knife, or a dull wood carving chisel? Beware.

Anyway, per the rest of this discussion, definition of 'gatekeeping' is clearly contextual. Paraphrasing the exchange above: "What about safety?", "Sure, but that's not what we usually mean by gatekeeping."

Telling somebody they shouldn't weld without goggles isn't gatekeeping, it's safety advice. Telling somebody they aren't a real welder because they're using a cheap but functional brand of welder is gatekeeping, because there's no good reason to malign a welder for having an unfashionable brand of equipment.

Gatekeeping is only 'true' gatekeeping if there isn't a good reason for keeping that gate; safety advice in particular is generally exempted. Since gatekeeping is only true gatekeeping in contexts where there isn't a good reason for it, claiming that something is gatekeeping without explaining why is basically worthless. Such accusations are assertions without supporting arguments. It often boils down to circular reasoning: You're gatekeeping which is bad, and it's bad because it's gatekeeping.
... what?

I don't think so
> it's just additional money that they took.

When did they take it?

All the 10-Ks are showing me 5% or less profit margins.
Strain called Durban Poison is supposed to be one, relatively common to find in dispensaries. I actually got some yesterday so I know what I am doing Saturday night :)

Interesting read on the subject:
https://dutch-passion.com/en/blog/what-are-cannabis-landrace....
I feel somewhat vindicated knowing that even big companies have the same distro-hopping problem that I have on my own machines.
Maybe if everyone had guns and everyone was willing to let the city burn to the ground. But must people just want to get on with their lives for better or worse. The majority of Hong ong residents would not have supported all out war.
Since 2008 "not understanding inflation" was his (as well as Yellen's and Bernanke's) job description... They were printing money like there's no tomorrow, but "tomorrow" is now.
Western-like in the sense of its institutions, elections, rule of law, economy etc. Not that these things are western by nature, just that people tend to associate them with western countries.
I noticed lately that Android changed the UI of my Clock/Timer app without asking me, and it looks worse, not better. Plus it confused me when I was confronted with the change.

So future car owners, beware.
Mainly because of Goebbels and co:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Ministry_of_Public_Enl...

"At the time the German word ‘Propaganda’ was value neutral."

English "propaganda" sounds the same .. and therefore got the negative connotation as well.
> It's not just the insurers themselves, but the whole system. Burn it all down.

Painstakingly, methodically, improve it, taking care at each step that you're making it better. :)