skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite brainwave on UBI was to brand it a negative income tax. Would stymie a lot of the more traditional fiscal conservative arguments (albeit not going to counter the drive for regressive rates).
If no one were building an adblocker for Chrome I'd just build it myself. I'm sure I'd do a worse job than the people doing it today but it'd be better than nothing.
A Tesla Megapack battery is on fire at a PG&E facility in California
I run an SEO platform SaaS, so I'm familiar. :)
Signed up for their service to get visibility into our infrastructure; we're a small company with a big setup. They bill hourly, but we do a lot of small instances that run for a few minutes at a time. Twelve instances running 3 minutes each is billed as 12 hours of monitoring.

We approached them to see if they would work with us on reducing the massive bill that resulted. They agreed to cut it by 50% if we signed up for additional services. I'm not talking about a future volume discount; we were working with them for a good faith credit once we discovered the mismatch with their billing model (we had already filtered out those instance types)

Objectively, we owed the money. However, every other vendor I've run into works with small companies like ours without resorting to those kinds of tactics, so it's a pretty terrible look for them.
If this happened to me, the first thing I would do is switch to using a VPN. In my experience, Google is far more likely to throw up CAPTCHA challenges to VPN users. I wonder if this is what happened to the OP.
That’s been tested and it’s objectively not true from a physics perspective.

That said, weight isn’t as big a factor until you go uphill, which is why you’re seeing the trend to more aero instead of lighter weight bikes.

What you’re describing, however, is the simple effect of eating food replenishing your energy.
Alex Hormozi was on a podcast recently talking about how you should learn high volume sales skills in a scenario like a gym chain, car dealer, etc. Do that for a few years and then take those skills to sell the most expensive thing you can to make “real” money with better quality customers. Seemed like reasonable advice and aligned with your experiences...
I also always use StartAllBack to fix a lot, but the fact that Microsoft is this stubborn and can't get why this is a usability problem for many actually pisses me off. How hard can it be to reinstate this officially? </tantrum>
> Why is none of these bastards in jail?

That is the question, right?

I mean I get the NTSB no blame approach in progressing safety practices, but there needs to exist an authority that enforces these practices.

And the worst part is that this gives a bad rep to "IT" as a whole in the eyes of laypeople, even though IT's internal view aviation is that it's full of safety standards, redundancy, reliability and maintenance is paramount, etc.

It turns out the standards were not followed, and starry eyed junior programmers' view of aviation is just smoke and mirrors.

When will we reach a turning point?
The official terms at play here are "modular" and "mobile" home. These are the terms that define the kind of house you're thinking of. "Mobile" homes are constructed to a separate set of parameters, and are not "permanently" mounted on the property. (Regardless of how "permanent" you make the attachment for a "mobile" home, it is still titled separately from the land.)

Modular is the term of art for a factory-built home that is installed on the land and becomes titled as "real property" with the land its self, search for "modular home builders." Nearly every modular builder also builds mobile homes, so when you go to their site, look for "available as modular" or "modular" as a category or search term.

FWIW, "modular" and "mobile" are actually built to two different manufacturing requirements and specification, and why "mobile" homes are often disallowed in towns and cities, amongst other reasons, is that HUD controls the specs for "mobile" while "modular" must meet local building codes.
Super interesting. Super stupid question from someone not really versed in sales: what’s your key takeaway about how to be good at selling something?
Also not hard to envision websites being incentivised to lie in their indexes.
Always made me wonder if taking the swimmers route instead would provide all the same benefits without the cost and look. Shave your whole upper body and go shirtless and you would be pretty damn aero no? Would a skinsuit really improve upon that?

In addition after switching to a Brooks saddle (I tried literally 10s of saddles using the "saddle swap" forum feature on some forums) I now no longer ever want to use padded bike shorts again. Of all the short types the simple padded chamois was my favorite (simple foam - no gel or any other BS) and now I just prefer wearing a pair of synthetic lightweight boxer briefs (no fly) that were designed for hiking originally. There is no padding at all and from day one the brooks was extremely comfortable. It only got more comfortable with time and applies all pressure directly to my sit bones. Every other saddle + padded short (even ones that mostly were on my sit bones) ended up forcing padding into the areas between my sit bones and outside them as my weight compressed the padding. I havent tried their new non leather seats but they seem to operate by a similar tension (a tensioned pliable surface vs a hard plastic shape with padding on top) which results in your weight creating additional space below the sit bones vs filling it with padding.
GCN/CDNA is denser with more FLOPS.

RDNA has more cache and runs with far less latency. Like 1/4th the latency of CDNA/Vega. This makes it faster for video game shaders in practice.
Morgan Stanley Lost Some Hard Drives
> With more secure hardware, you realistically could make stolen parts useless.

I really doubt that. People always find a way around these types of things, especially for something as popular as an iPhone. It's all effectively DRM, which has never been fool-proof in any implementation as far as I know, whether it be hardware or software. It's not like Apple has some magic super secure supply chain. Internal manuals get leaked and parts stolen off assembly lines all the time.

> The main problem with after market parts is there is often not informed choice. These parts very frequently advertise themselves official or equivalent to official. With fake specs, fake labels, and fake brands.

The same could be said about literally everything. Counterfeits are not a new phenomenon, it's just a fact of life (especially on the internet, and particularly on Amazon)

> ...And then these phones get resold on to others who have no way of knowing that the reason their experience is compromised is due to fake parts.

> ... And allowing the installation of non genuine parts with some on boot message explaining exactly which parts are not genuine. So on sale the new owner knows what they are getting.

The argument you're making here is that Apple should inflict major harms on consumers in order to marginally improve their business. By preventing independent repairs via serial number locking, Apple is able to ensure that second-hand iPhones are higher quality, and the people who buy them are more likely to be impressed and will want to buy a brand new iPhone in the future. That minor benefit to Apple's business/brand should be more important than the damage to consumers' wallets, rights, and the planet.

Everyone has their own view of the world and value systems. This reasoning just seems bonkers to me, but I understand that we're probably completely different people with polar opposite viewpoints on this, and you probably think my views are insane. I can respect that. I'm not going to change your mind about it, and you're not going to change mine. So I think the conclusion here is to end this discussion on mutual disagreement.
Nobody said it wouldn't suck. The only question is whether it sucks less than the alternatives.
> now the async ecosystem is so fragmented you can’t build libraries generically for async runtimes or for both async and sync

This is true, but I think there are a few notable caveats:

1. Although you can't generically build libraries per runtime, it is possible to right a library supporting an explicit set of runtimes with some boilerplate; the simplest way is to just to abstract all of the async primitives you want into an API to use internally, use feature flags to implement them based on which runtime you want to support, and then only use that API in the rest of your library (which both avoids the need for conditional compilation outside of that one wrapper module for async stuff and reduces the surface of places you'd need to update to add or remove support for a runtime or if you want to update a runtime to a version that isn't backwards compatible.

2. Although there are quite a lot of runtimes that exist in the ecosystem right now (and more could enter the scene in the future), in practice the usage of a lot of these runtimes is quite small. For a few examples, at the time of my looking up, tokio has 66.7 million downloads overall and 10.3 million "recent" ones; async-std has 9 million overall and 1.3 million recent; smol has 1.6 million overall and 158k recent. There's diminishing returns for each new runtime you add support for, so while there's some up front burden in terms of supporting more than one runtime (like I describe above), the burden over time is not going to be super high.

3. Rust has a history of starting out by providing lower-level primitives for things, letting the community iterate over various ideas in the space for a few years, and then eventually settling on a single or small set of pseudo-official crates for them. I think the error handling APIs are the best example of this; Rust 1.0 launched with the standard library Error trait and the `try!` macro, and the community iterated over a bunch of potential solution (error-chain, failure, and probably a bunch of others I don't even remember at the moment), and for a few years it was a bit messy. Meanwhile, the standard library added the `?` operator and added a replacement for one of the `Error` trait methods (deprecating the old ones), and eventually the churn settled down and most people just use `thiserror` and `anyhow` now. There's still some lingering things to standardize like backtraces for errors, but overall the error handling space is way less fragmented now than basically at any point in the past. I'd argue that the async runtime churn is already starting to trend towards equilibrium; if this turns out to be the case, the costs of supporting multiple runtimes will continue to go down, and I'm guessing (hoping?) that within a few years people will have either mostly standardized on a single runtime or we'll have a standard solution for wrapping the small set of runtimes that retain any significant usage in the community.
There are only 3 chapters so far...
I was about top 1% in the country. So buying from me would be a different experience. Maybe you landed on someone in the bottom 50%, at a bad dealership too.

The owner of our dealership was a Cal grad, the sales manager was a Jewish accounting major, I had an engineering degree, my favorite coworker completed medschool but couldn't pass the MCATS, and everyone else had a degree too.

When I went to work for a Penske dealership (a public company), corporate was in town one day and had a meeting with me to ask how the owner at my previous dealership did things. So maybe it wasn't your typical car dealership.
React itself really hasn't gotten significantly bigger. It's more of a rendering library than a framework.

Custom elements are really neat, and may very well do what you need. The big pain point that React solves (for me at least) is that you get to define your views declaratively instead of imperatively.
Local authorities have closed the adjacent Highway 1 and instructed residents to "shelter in place" and "shut their windows and turn off their ventilation systems."

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/highway-1-closed-at-moss...

https://www.ksbw.com/article/fire-battery-storage-facility-m...
IBM has done some innovations of their own implementation, which nowadays lives on as OpenJ9.

Some of the innovations were value types extensions, AOT compilation or JIT caches, and until OpenJ9 came to be, that usually was only available to commercial clients.
One problem with that is now you have to trust the websites to give an accurate index of their content.
During the time that scene was set there _was_ no light in the sky, all light came in sideways from the Two Trees.
There are already sitemaps, and pages used structured data like HTML5/ARIA roles, RDF or JSON+LD to provide some semantic annotations.

I'd rather that web robots use this information to build useful indexes than to have to worry about generating yet another feed in the hopes that it helps people find my content in a search engine.

Besides, a web robot can determine how much other sites link to my content and help determine its overall ranking in results. Adding another type of index file to my site will do nothing to determine how it relates to other sites.
I'm simply pointing the problem, a real-world an realistic problem, and you're acting like it's a non-issue. Point me a CGNATted network which has enable port forwarding. Does it break a lot of things? Oh, absolutely. Did the carriers still not activated it? Yes. Automatic port forwarding is only beautiful when you know how would your device react. It's ugly when you're a network administrator who don't control all devices.

There is no "perfect" solution here because the real world is a messy place with devices that you cannot personally vouch for.
Since MV3 adds quite a lot of limits on what uBO can do, you have to grant permission for each site to have cosmetic filtering.
As someone who has run a meetup before for engineers, please, please, please tell people to wear deodorant. You may think it's weird to do but it needs to be written and said verbally. We got kicked out of a Borders because of the stench of BO from so many people. It's crazy that it has to be said but it does, especially in this kind of community.
Day 1 of Recsys2022: our favorite 5 papers and talks
Recommended book on CIA, by someone who had to deal with them and the NSC during Vietnam War:

The Secret Team, Col. Fletcher Prouty, 1972

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2438756.The_Secret_Team

In full:
https://un-forum.org/books/library/EBOOK%20COLLECTION%20(PAR...

From intro:

"For nine consecutive, long years during those crucial days from
1955 through January 1, 1964, I was one of those briefing officers. I had
the unique assignment of being the "Focal Point" officer for contacts
between the CIA and the Department of Defense on matters pertaining to
the military support of the Special Operations[1] of that Agency. In that
capacity I worked with Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, several
Secretaries of Defense, and Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well
as many others in key governmental places. My work took me to more
than sixty countries and to CIA offices and covert activities all over the
world--from such hot spots as Saigon and to such remote places as the
South Pole. Yes, there have been secret operations in Antarctica.

"It was my job not only to brief these men, but to brief them from the
point of view of the CIA so that I might win approval of the projects
presented and of the accompanying requests for support from the military
in terms of money, manpower, facilities, and materials. I was, during this
time, perhaps the best informed "Focal Point" officer among the few who
operated in this very special area. The role of the briefing officer is quiet,
effective, and most influential; and, in the CIA, specialized in the high art
of top level indoctrination.

...

"Henry Kissinger was a briefing officer. General John Vogt was one
of the best. Desmond Fitzgerald, Tracy Barnes, Ed Lansdale, and "Brute"
Krulak, in their own specialties, were top-flight briefing officers on
subjects that until the publication of the "Pentagon Papers," few people
had ever seen in print or had ever even contemplated.

...

I have not chosen to reveal and to expose "unreleased" classified documents; but I do believe that those that have been revealed, both in the "Pentagon Papers" and elsewhere, need to be interpreted and fully explained.

I am interested in setting forth and explaining what "secrecy" and the "cult of containment" really mean and what they have done to our way of life and to our country.

Furthermore, I want to correct any disinformation that may have been given by those who have tried to write on these subjects in other related histories."
> The 3090 Ti series was already pushing 450W so this isn't new.[1]

Every time this comes up, people forget that:

1) Flagship cards like the 3090 Ti and 4090 consume significantly more power than typical cards. You should not buy a flagship card if power is a concern.

2) You don't have to buy the flagship card. Product lineups extend all the way down to tiny single-fan cards that fit inside of small cases and silent HTPCs. It's a range of products and they all have different power consumption.

3) You don't have to run any card at full power. It's trivial to turn the power limit down to a much lower number if you want. You can drop 1/3 of the power and lose only ~10-15% of the performance in many cases due to non-linear scaling.

4) The industry has already been shipping 450W TDP cards and it's fine.

If power is an issue, buy a lower power card. The high TDP cards are an option but that doesn't mean that every card consumes 450W
Kiwi Farms reminds me of Something Awful forums in its prime, a forum I was a part of in my teens. We were making fun of internet celebrities but also talking about politics and Xbox vs PS2 vs Gamecube, same as Kiwi Farms.

Just because we made unsavory posts doesn't mean we wouldn't want to register a pseudonym.
I dunno. I think the man is as evil as everyone else does, but what are we to do I fear, Q anon and gun toting crazies more than I fear a grifter president.
The Big Bang should have made cracks in spacetime. None has been found
Book Review: Open Circuits (Bunnie's Blog)
No, my justification comes from actually working as the appointed legal guardian for a number of drug addicts and knowing how it actually works instead of having a purely academic understanding of addiction like so many homeless "advocates" do.

Compassion for drug addicts does not mean letting them stay addicted. That is the cruelest thing you can do to them. Compassion for a homeless drug addict means forcing them into treatment so they can be human again.
After that encouragement I do! Thanks!

The premise is how to write a successful framework. The cynical takes are presented as advice.

It's structured like those guru business books like "Blue Ocean Strategy" or "Little Bets".

That genre requires an additional separate focus and some further work. It's by a bunch of narcissists who ran multiple businesses into the ground who pivoted to being a guru and offer acronyms, charts, and X-point frameworks in tidy books with a bunch of business examples, most of which catastrophically collapse within 12 months of publication.

And then the books sell 5 million copies, the authors get Ted Talks, it's the same mechanism at play. People pass around their Clayton Christensen of Geoffrey Moore diagrams and crib paragraphs quoting them like they're bible passages. And people eat it up. It's wild.

I remember looking at the Appendix of one of Jim Collins books for the first time about 10 years ago where he talks about his methodology with his team. When you start cross-referencing and see the omissions, mistakes, and misrepresentations, it's wild. I was like "wow this thing is nonsense".

You've got Sutherland's Scrum, Collins BHAGs, and you burn through $20,000,000 in Series A without releasing shit. Alright, I guess that's what we do.
Please show me these videos of ballot harvesting. If you point to 1000 mules let’s be clear it’s legal to drop of family members ballots, name the mules, and gps data is easily debunked by knowing voting locations are found in high trafficked areas public transports, Ubers, mail services, Ect can account for people being at multiple locations over time. It’s not rocket science.
You're right, it really isn't.

Gamers don't see it that way though because often, faked reflections are "good enough".

In some cases though, the faked reflections are noticeable and immersion breaking. I notice it in MS Flight Simulator. I'm flying over water and approaching a large city, and I can see the reflection of buildings in the water. But when I push the nose down, as the image of the buildings goes off the top of my screen, the reflections go away too. In reality, this wouldn't happen. But in the sim, it does because the reflections are generated by just inverting the rendered image of the buildings.

There's a map in Apex Legends where a section has a shiny floor. It fakes a reflection by rendering an environment-mapped texture. It does a decent job at making the floor look like it's reflective, but as you move around and compare what's being rendered to the actual geometry, you notice how it falls apart. But in a competitive FPS, you're not looking at the environment long and hard enough to notice.

Duke Nukem 3D had proper reflections, but it did it by actually mirroring all the geometry, a technique that only really works well if the geometry is simple.

RT makes reflections Just Work and work properly.
no, that's post hoc rationalization. the world is more complex than 2 points on a line, always. sure, our brains like 2-dimensions the best, because they're easier to reason about, but there's no law that says that that simple reasoning translates into either an accurate read of a given situation, or an accurate prediction about the future (which is what we want models to do).

that's why starting with the "political spectrum" is bound to give you false information. it compresses too much of the complexity down into a simple model that doesn't predict the world in any meaningful way. it may aid conflict, but that's exactly the trouble: couching sociopolitical challenges purely in terms of conflict itself perpetuates, rather than helps to solve, problems.

and as others have noted, you can just as easily have multiple political coalitions coming together to solve problems without devolving into dualism. humans prefer but don't require binary political stances as you're asserting. moreover, even binary issues won't all fall neatly into a single left-right spectrum without active coercion (which is most of what we see in mediopolitical theater).
Anyone who won't drop everything to go to your house at 11pm after you've been taken to the hospital to make sure everything is turned off and locked up because you fell and broke your back during a power outage caused by a hurricane Isaias in 2020 and the power was out when you left and the paramedics couldn't find my keys to lock my door isn't a friend.

I have two friends and that's all I need.

Everyone else is an acquaintance.

Maybe my standards are too high but that's all I need.
I trust mining GPUs a lot more than gamer owned GPUs tbh. Better ventilation, severe undervolting, not even maxing the gpu itself and the fans are not actually spinning that fast.
It’s in the comment:

> an accelerator course for *interacting with, reading*, and closing people

(Emphasis mine)
I agree, the "finance person" that technically does your paperwork and pitches you all those aftermarket products is the biggest crook in the industry (right next to the service advisors that tell you what service your car needs and the price).

I would sometimes fill in for finance on a rainy day, and even though I was top 0.3% in the country when it came to car sales, I Couldn't sell that garbage even with a gun pointed at me. I just can't lie like that.