skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laptops have batteries that can ride out a power failure of typical duration, especially for non-dev workers. People can get a lot done without the internet.
> GE wouldn't downsize.

"GE’s renewables segment is going to generate between $15 billion and $16 billion in revenue this year, and onshore wind will make up the vast majority, roughly 70%."

The returns are fine and growing, but GE is restructuring, and as the article points out, facing stiff competition and supply chain issues as well. Apparently they think losing 20% of their staff will help, and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how long it takes a new tower to become profitable.
Many traditional types of payments, such as wire transfers, cash etc. are also non-undoable.
Incarceration and a variety of other tools at law enforcement's disposal are used to recover funds.
A major part of the current cultural moment (on both the left and the right) is a war against merit, and objective fact.
I have over a decade of experience in the design and manufacturing of advanced display systems and ran into precisely this problem around twenty years ago. At that time we experimented with and developed pretty much exactly this type of compensation; implemented on custom FPGA-based real time image processing boards.

Just looking at the pictures, this does not look like a backlight problem but rather degradation of the liquid crystal layer. Yes, sure, there's interaction between the two. The purple shift, however, is very much something that was happening twenty years ago with some liquid crystal chemistries. Back then you could definitely tell which panels were not using high quality LC fluid.

Apple had this issue with their second generation HD Cinema Display product (the first aluminum enclosure, 24 in, 1920 x 1200 model). Some percentage of them would turn purple. I don't have Apple's stats on this. From my own experience the number fluctuated between 15% to as much of 50% of the panels in a batch going bad after moderate burn-in.

Having said all that, this type of compensation or fix might be OK for a TV at home or the computer monitor on the desk of a doctor or even a coder. Not good --at all-- for someone doing critical color work, such as a graphic artist. The reason is that you introduce spatial nonlinearities and differential errors.

The simplest way to put it is that you no-longer have the full 256 (or 1024) steps per R, G, B channel between 0 and 100%. Hypothetically, you might have 256 for green and, say, 200 for red and 175 for blue. This means that the path from black to white is no longer monotonic. You can have serious color rendering errors through the color space. For example, it might be impossible to make an accurate 50% gray because you just don't have the RGB values needed to accomplish that. Worse yet, everything between 47% and 53% gray might look exactly the same.

You can also introduce serious gamma distortion. If, on top of that, you add a temporal element (video), well, it can be a real mess.

The real solution (for critical workflows) is to replace the panel.

BTW, this can apply to RGB OLED as well.
Oh, come on. Have you never lost a check? Never seen a credit card bill you can't explain? Never had an argument with your spouse over what the $2k at Costco was for? Never gotten a bill and had trouble figuring out if you've paid it or not?

Accounting failings happen to all of us. The only people with perfect bank accounts are either (1) accountants themselves or (2) never really bothered to look.
Sorry, correct link here...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/behold-the-fat-...
Apple employee salary ranges for engineers, software developers, and analysts
> quash the subpoena

Yes. Obviously they need a lawyer. But they should be able to get this quashed. At least narrowed and moved somewhere more convenient.
I would consider it older... it comes down to how quickly does each individual grows up. I think the wisdom teeth are a good paremeter to gauge/compare many individuals together.

people's brains, specifically male brains get to full adulthood around 22-25; iirc women get there a couple of years earlier.
this interesting as private manufacture firearm [PMF] can not be for sale or barter, they are to be for own personal use.

it could be said [valid or not] these 3D PMF were manuactured with intent to sell, regardless of business status.
I am French too and our social security is already is such a deficit that subventionning chalk and water did not have a place.

People are free to but them off course, from their pocket.

Why don't we subvention sport, which would have much better effects?

Boiron (the biggest homeopathy scam) is sueing anyone who publicly states the truth (that all double blind tests failed).

Together with our law on squatters this is a national shame.
How long does it take? 5 hours?
It's the inverse affect of TV news. New products have hype or buzz (even if they're previously recycled). The news only shows the bad stuff. I guess it's just how our brains work.

Perhaps from a study perspective they're mostly focusing on the "normal" responses and ignoring outliers. Although I have seen some safety studies on various things that do look at the negatives. Those don't really get shared here (or anywhere really).
Instead of "edge", a lot of websites should just have 3 locations (us,eu,apac) with a non geo replicated Serverless database in each region. At least that's what we're building at WunderGraph (https://wundergraph.com/). Edge sounds super cool, but if you take state and consistency into consideration, you just can't have servers across the globe that also replicate their state consistently with low latency. TTFB doesn't matter as much as correctness. And if stale content is acceptable, then we can also just push it to a CDN. Most importantly, you'd want to have low latency between server and storage. So if your servers are on the "edge", they are close to the user, but (randomly) further away from the database. Durable objcets might solve this, but they are nowhere near a postgres database. I think the "edge" is good for some stateless use cases, like validating auth and inputs, etc., but it won't make "boring" services, even serverless in "non-edge" Locations obsolete. You can see this on Vercel. Serverless for functions, server side rendering, etc. and cloudflare workers for edge middleware. But they explicitly say that your serverless functions should be close to a database if you're using one.
All of that requires a lot of capital, but what makes it expensive is the neutron flux ruining it in just ~5 years.
A relational system with the guarantees usually provided by them seems really difficult to do. Like cockroach db but considerably harder or with considerably worse performance.

I always thought it was more common for stuff like KV stores with looser guarantees
In the US, 60% of firearm deaths are from suicide. There are, on the other hand, ~430 accidental firearm deaths per year. Not saying reducing accidental deaths isn't a good thing, but in terms of efficacy, the dollar spent per reduced death, I feel like there might be better ways other than a buyback program.
The Danish government I assume?
What's stopping criminals from printing these today and using them?

The answer is that a Hi-Point is the same price and works way better.
The very first piece of advice the internet should give you if you start googling things about psychedelics is "Have benzos".

Benzos are more important than a trip-sitter. If things go south, no human being can contain the possible damage. Benzos will put you right back down to earth. It could mean the difference between 30 minutes of an unpleasant experience or being hospitalized.
Yeah, to be clear for Google work I am talking about the combination of Cloudtop (VM), Cider (IDE), Blaze/Bazel (Builds).

In addition you also need a version control / file sync system.

It's also nice to have some kind of network proxy especially if you are doing web dev. Tools or web services run on the VM and you just access it directly through the proxy on your local browser.

The integration/combination of these is what allows things to work.

For personal code this is Google Cloud Console. You can actually just jump into it . It has a built in VS Code editor.

But at home it would be GCP VM + VS Code + Git.

GCP also has built in proxy. The only problem I have had so far is it doesn't rewrite URL's which can be an issue for web apps. I think it's solveable I just haven't really tried yet.

Theres some other solutions in the other comments as well.
I am similar. I have a very good memory, and am ability to hold a lot of detail in mind, but my recall is horrible. It can take me hours to get my head back into a subject, but once I'm there I can easily go deep. As you can imagine, context-switching can completely destroy my ability to engage meaningfully on any pursuit.

What I've found useful is creating index files that have just the highlights for the major "blocks" of thought. Then it's like skimming my thoughts. I just need the triggers to prompt recall. If I can get the pump started with the main ideas, or key information, the details will flow.

I also tend to take copious notes about everything, but I don't pressure myself to actually use them. They serve a different purpose. Because it takes conscious effort, the act of note-taking convinces my subconscious that the information of important, and improves my recall, at least for a little while.

Not the same process as above. The index files are optimized for reading and to promote recall. The detailed notes are optimized for writing and to promote retention in long-term memory

I guess, to the article's points, I feel like note-taking is a personal endeavor. If you're doing it because you think you "should," it's probably not useful. But as you are trying to know your own mind and develop your own productivity, it's a tool that can address some specific challenges. What it ends up looking like should be very tailored to your mental processes.
> If it's a close three-way election, you might cause your favorite candidate to lose by ranking them first.

Could you explain that? I can't think of a situation where putting the candidate I want to win as #1 would cause them to lose. Ranking other close candidates as #2/#3 could cause my #1 to lose, but I don't think voting for someone as #1 alone would possibly harm them.
Did notice some oddities during that period accessing the Twitter oEmbed API.
Everyone wants to make this out to be some sort of ideological matter but this is exactly what happens when schools treat students like "customers". There's already WAAAY too much tolerance for grade-grubbing behavior all over academia, not to mention various grade inflation.
Caught an ex employer using sslstrip and they definitely used bossware. Management would imply they were reading work and personal messages, emails, browsing through thinly veiled threats to workers (self included) and through gossip.

They also used push notifications on the desktops to know when people were active or what they were doing, and had keyloggers installed/active. Once caught a manager's personal laptop on the network running mitm software. A friendly coworker in IT confirmed all of this with me in private.

Tried warning a couple coworkers, but got brushed off. People don't seem to care nor believe even though they're being manipulated.

That place was a nightmare to say the least
Plausible. But it'd still be an interesting research question in its own right. I wonder if it's related to hypnotic suggestibilify.
Yup. Same thing with articles. It's all lazy production.

This is why people like HN.. You just read the headlines, and see if someone posts a tldr so you don't have to waste your time reading or listening to an hour of unstructured data
What kind of chump would waste an entire week and a couple hundred bucks to make $20k?? I do that in an hour.

At least 38% of them are off the streets now, which is all that really matters.

Based on the overwhelming and scientifically-proven (and 4/10 doctor-recommended!) success of this program, it should be implemented everywhere, but at $750-$1,000 per gun, because more == better.
Maybe things changed in the last 3-6 months? But from what I have gathered, from people just talking in slack channels, Blind, and friends who work there, is not good at all. People have received emails from L4s having nervous breakdowns after being bullied by managers and peers. If you want , you can search your mailbox.
Do you think your uncle’s expertise is worth more than the developers in Taiwan who set up the contract tracing system that prevented tens of millions of people from getting COVID?
GE is not the only builder. Siemens for example is a big company that is building a lot of wind turbines.
DoJ shifts 150 prosectors to crypto cases. A bet at least one will be looking into this.

https://news.bitcoin.com/doj-launches-network-of-over-150-fe...
I've never taken hallucinogens, but I had many friends that did:

Best friend and his girlfriend did LSD, the girlfriend had an immediate mental breakdown and was hospitalized. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the following months, has been a life long schizophrenic ever since.

The best friend developed "schizoid personality disorder" over the next year and was never the same. Both were normal, happy go lucky teens that changed dramatically over a summer.

Another friend took mushrooms several times without issue, but one time had a breakdown afterwards and developed a severe anxiety disorder immediately after that never went away.

I could list about 5 other friends with similar experiences, but the point is, some people have extremely negative reactions to hallucinogens, and I'm glad I never tried them.
F benzos, use Gabapentin, Pregabalin or GHB. Out of all of them, etizolam (yeah, I know, it's not an "official" benzo, but afaik it works similarly to alprazolam) was the hardest to quit while having meh effects.
If all it takes for a "forgotten" attic gun to be secured is something to trigger those gun owners to take action on securing them, a simple ad campaign would be a lot cheaper than $500 gift cards.
What legal system doesn't have this feature? Seriously where are you from that this isn't how it works?
A New Social Credit Score? You Won't Believe What's Coming [video]
The current CEO is doing a pretty good job, in my opinion. Has been very focused on fixing the debt situation and improving costs through process and manufacturing improvements rather than accounting non-sense. Comes off as very much a “manufacturing operations / kaizen” guy.
You forgot, if you are smart, read the pros and cons of each and make the decision for yourself.

Thanks for your review of a product that isn’t even out yet
> The reason fiat money works

It also worked before the US went to a fiat currency in 1971 when Nixon took us off the gold standard. It also allowed for massive deficits because before they couldn't spend what they didn't physically have and now they can just print it without gold backing it.
Exactly. It's so much more prevalent when reading the transcript - you can see how many words are wasted and how much longer it takes to convey something in that form as opposed to an article, however it has the advantage of not engaging your visual system so ultimately allows you to parallelize.
Sir, this is capitalism.

I've never understood that viewpoint. It's equivalent to claiming a cashier is underpaid because $7.50/hr is a tiny percentage of the sales that go through their register.

The world doesn't work like that. You're paid based on the cost of replacing you, not the value you deliver.
it would be a shame to spend our effort squabbling over which alternative, than giving support to the one that has the most momentum and chance of succeeding now

I think the bigger shame would be to spend so much effort promoting RCV, only to have people become jaded and disillusioned with voting method reform in general when they realize RCVs many glaring problems.

The biggest problem with RCV IMO is that it looks like it eliminates the spoiler effect, but it really only eliminates it in simple cases where the third-party candidates are not competitive. This suddenly becomes very obvious and painful in cases like Burlington, 2009 or Alaska, 2022 where voters were told "RCV is great because you can vote honestly", only to realize post-election that this was entirely false, and that they threw away their votes and let the election go to a candidate they despise.

Trust is extremely important in political movements, and very easy to lose. I fear RCV is going to poison the well for any FPTP alternatives for a long time to come.
The interesting takeaway is that even if you don't consider SimulaVR a competitor of Meta, Meta does O_O
How long does a coal or natural gas plant have to be operating to offset the environmental impact of collecting and producing its construction materials?

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There's a reason people with serious mental illness don't take their medicines: they have unpleasant side-effects.

The main type of medication is anti-psychotics. These drugs are also classed as "major tranquilizers" - drugs such as the notorious "chemical cosh" haloperidol are in this class. They suppress delusions, or at least delusional behaviour; but they make you gain weight, rock, tremble, mumble. The side-effects are progressive. Modern anti-psychotics have less side-effects than the old ones, but their effects are very marked.

For people with bipolar, their illness sometimes makes them feel alive and cheerful, and the drugs take that away from them, depriving them of affect and zest for life. Basically the pills make them unhappy.

So we're discussing forcing people to take pills that make them feel ill or unhappy. That's only justifiable if the compulsion regime is completely trustworthy. We have a compulsion regime in the UK (we tore down our asylums back in the 80s, just like the US). If you have an episode, you can be incarcerated for a few months on the say-so of two doctors. It seems to work alright - as far as I can see, they farm you out to some private secure clinic.

But between the train-wreck of US law enforcement and the US reluctance to spend money on public health, along with the heavy, heavy politicization of everything in the USA, I think it would be dangerous to adopt the same model in the USA.
For anyone curious, 40% of 45,222 is 18,089
Ah, I should have been more careful then. I was under the impression that Boise was dealing with an overwhelming transplant issue and was resistant the way Austin and Portland have been.
"Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man."
I beg you to keep GET requests idempotent. It's not that hard.
Meta is allowed to defend themselves against lawsuits. SimulaVR is a startup in the space. They have a shot in VR, or at least believe they do. SimulaVR a great example for Meta to use to defend themselves against a stupid lawsuit.

The FTC shouldn't be bringing this case. VR is still up for grabs. Defining the relevant market as the "dedicated fitness virtual reality app market" is questionable, and the idea it "proves the value of virtual reality" is nonsense.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/07/...

The idea that meta have some dominant position that can't be overcome is like suggesting Excite or Altavista had a dominant position in search that couldn't be overcome in the 90's, or MySpace in social in the early 00's. It's too early to call this market "won".
FYI: the text on your blog post is cropped on my small screen (iPhone SE), and scrolling doesn’t even help, so its essentially unreadable.
OK, but what about data synchronization?

One of the tremendously simplifying aspects of traditional web applications was that they were, to a first order of approximation, stateless. The state lived on the server in a centralized location. When an update occurred, it was done via an HTTP request that failed or succeeded.

If shared state between users is stored on the edge it needs to be synchronized between edge nodes, leading to collisions that may appear at a point significantly after a user has "clicked save". I can imagine this becoming a nightmare as a user accretes dependent local changes, all of which eventually have to be rolled back as edge data stores synchronize with one another.

Now, there are advanced technologies for this sort of thing, but they are relatively complex, hard to program against and often don't and can't offer great end user experience.

I am not saying that the edge isn't going to be useful for some applications, but it is throwing out one of the main simplifications that the original, REST-ful model of the web gave us.
The above is for orgs that play by the rules. Here is a tale of one org who didn't: They called me 8x w/ some awful requests of SSN and shit like that. Knowing California law labels >2 (I think) unsolicited calls without consent = harassment, and _each_ violation stands alone, I did not press 2 to opt out, because I'm a gambler. A year later, I got a class action lawsuit parcel which I signed and returned. I got $1,065.
Jack Welch is evil incarnate. He ought to be universally condemned for moral bankruptcy.
That’s the official goal, but it’s not necessarily what happens (“while many communities include buybacks in their overall gun violence prevention strategies, most research shows these events are ineffective at reducing homicides and suicides,” https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta... ).
:-)

Very broad indeed, though I think it's just qualification for asking, not grounds for acceptance, (thankfully)

One thing I'm curious to know is what it's like on the distribution side though, getting these requests and then approving them (or not)

I wonder if they only get serious requests (say steel mills and hospitals) or if they also get requests from non-essential businesses who shouldn't be on the list?

Most data centers should have back up power, so the question of whether Facebook, Twitter and Amazon get cut off probably doesn't need to be asked.
"We're holding a gun buyback. But no, not that gun."
They could tell by a few of the pixels that the photo looked shopped
Mental health treatment is of course the best way to prevent suicides, but when people are in a suicidal mental state, they're a lot better off if they don't have grandpa's heirloom shotgun lying around.
Yeah! Government regulations have never solved anything, ever! Except automobile safety, food safety, workplace safety, medical safety, and a few other things, but other than that they've NEVER solved ANYTHING!
> I can't imagine being able to easily enforce that without asking people to edit the correct part of their commit.

I imagine something something githooks. However it might be enforced, it seems like a miserable way to develop.
Better answer to the title question: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-o...

Some researchers got together and devised questions that get to the vulnerable parts of a person's life, giving you that connection rather efficiently (conversation while following the questions, allowing for tangents, has taken me 1-2 hours on average).
I don't know about Google, but as far as I heard, AWS folks pay for their own AWS resources for side projects, at least.
The firearm numbers don't distinguish between suicides, accidental deaths, self-defense, and homicides whether intended or negligent.
I wouldn't lump Techno in with 'EDM'

Techno = A movement that is largely an exercise in pushing computers/midi to their limit while creating inventive music.

EDM = event driven marketing. pop music with a 4x4 kick drum.

...Yeah I know, semantics.