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> Of course you have to also believe that the manufacturer will still be around in the same corporate form in 25 years and able to honor its warranty.

I just bought 26 AEG panels for exactly that reason. They were a bit more expensive but my estimate is that AEG will outlive me so that should be fine. Contrast with many other solar panel producers who seem to go out of business ever five years or so.
Would aluminum not work as well because it conducts heat better than steel so it might burn the rice?
Asking because I have an aluminum pressure cooker and I'd like to try it still.
I just.. on so many levels, I see your response here as a lower form of human communication. Honestly, and I get how pretentious that sounds, but you sound like a wounded, broken animal.

As if you're hardly even human; the embodiment of your own insecurities, lashing out in confusion about how the world around you works. You spout whatever combination of words would hurt you most to others, a whirling dervish of emotional weakness and impotency.

There's no light in your eyes is there? Just a dead, cowlike stare, a ring of sclera revealing your panicked ego constantly assessing how you fit in with the other apes, dreading even the tiniest perception of loss.

And honestly? It probably doesn't get better. This is probably it for you, there's not likely to be a grand improvement in your life or how you perceive reality. That panic will never go away, that confusion and anger is just who you are now.

You apparently rage against medicine, you rage against people who actually understand reality, but mostly you rage against yourself; this is it. This is you. You are a pile of fear and frustration from incompetence, just like you were as a child, and you'll never be anything more.
Most arbitration agreements let the big company choose who does the arbitration. If you have the choice of giving a single consumer a fair deal, or keeping a giant client, which option is going to be chosen most of the time?

Court in america is pretty much expensive on purpose, as a way to give only rich people more access.
The reason for forced arbitration - aside from the unavoidable bias on the part of the arbitrator - is that many claims simply are not worth the costs required for a single victim. Eg it’s “efficient” in the sense that it means people can’t pay practically recover costs, so don’t try, this saving the company money.

For example: say a
Company sells something with a known defect that costs $200 to repair. No on is going to hire a lawyer for a $200 bill on their own. So by forcing arbitration the company avoids having to pay for damages they cause.

We know that this is the sole reason for forced arbitration- not efficiency, etc that such corps claim - because whenever people do get together and then say “fine, have a tens of thousands of arbitration cases” companies try to get out of their own forced arbitration contracts.
https://m3o.com/cron
Therapy is like covid boosters. Every two months for infinity and you never get any better.
> You are aware that an entire generation of Internet forums operated (and still operate) this way, right?

And yet many of them died or, better put, most of the new forums were never born nowadays because communities moved to centralized, managed solutions (Facebook, Telegram, Discord, Slack etc)
Fuddle Duddle
When I was looking into ClojureScript I was kind of concerned at the complexity of writing applications in ReFrame which seems to be what most of the community is using. I've developed apps in this kind of event-emitting/event handler style before in JavaScript and found it quickly got quite out of hand. For my next app I will want to go with something like React-Query that in a sort of declarative way handles all your data fetching for you, and lets you decouple your components from the getting ahold of the data they depend on. I also searched far and wide for some kind of framework/library that supports SSR+CSR like Next.js but I don't think there's anything ready yet except maybe https://github.com/pitch-io/uix.
> How do you organise your paper documents?

I just throw them in a box, without even opening them. On the off chance that I ever need one, I go to the box and fish out all the envelopes from that bank, and look for ones from the likely date range.

That is, I optimize for quick storage at the expense of slow retrieval. But even the slow retrieval isn't bad.
Dude... your life has barely begun my friend. You've got an education, skills, a little savings... I guarantee there are plenty of people in this thread who would trade places in a minute. Get some therapy or figure out how to get your head in the right place, figure out where you want to go in life (career, family, relationships, hobbies, etc) and go there.
Always knew Scale AI was complete BS and overvalued, the lack of controls and oversight is embarrassing, I can't believe they have govt contracts.
Can you not trigger an action via a local cronjob and the API?
If I paid rent to my parents in college would that make their house a 2-unit rental?

I am okay with a certain amount of gray area in the rental market, especially for informal or family situations. If these units ever hit the general market you can hit them with tighter rules later.

Again, in this case, she would not be exempt, she would pay a one time fee for the housing program.
Astronomical Calculations for Hard SF in Common Lisp
> Sorry if I pounced on you there, BTW. I could have been less confrontational with that previous post.

It's good. The nerd pedant in me can't let a mention of EMTALA go by without hammering on it. It's a bit of cognitive dissonance to inflict on the "free healthcare market"-types who have moral qualms about letting people die but aren't about to give an inch on "socialism".
IMO tech pessimism sells these days in a way that optimism doesn't, so places like Ars and The Verge lean into it.
True, though I guess they were all working in more isolated ways than we are today too.
Probably the compilers were very much tied to the machines they were written on as well (I know we have lots of architectures today but I get the impression it wasn't like today where x86 dominates).
Curriculum learning. It is pedagogically useful to teach simpler and easier versions of something before teaching the harder versions.

While you likely always have a calculator with you which can do division much more quickly than you can do long division, if you want to teach students more advanced math, it is nonetheless useful to have previously taught them long division of numbers, so that you can teach them long division of polynomials.

If students haven't learned how to do long division of decimals, and how that works, it is harder to teach them to do long division of polynomials.

Of course, nowadays there are computer programs which can do long division of polynomials more quickly than a person can, but this is just an example.

Suppose there are a sequence of levels, where for each level n, it is much easier to teach someone level n+1 if they already have an understanding of level n. If computers can do levels up to level k faster than humans can, it may still be useful to start teaching someone at level 1 and then proceed to level 2, and so on, even though computers can already do those levels, until finally it is time to teach them level k+1 which we have not yet managed to teach computers to do.
thanks, and you're probably right. But I do want to say for anyone looking on, personal trainers can be way cheaper than you'd expect, like half the price of a massage, I pay 50 bucks a session. Which again, isn't nothing, but in hindsight I would have payed way more for what I ended up getting out of it.
Could be hybrids accounting for the rest
Best insight

""C++ is a fast language" is a ridiculous statement. It is not easy to write fast code in C++ and you need years of expertise to write code without memory issues."
Ask HN: Your Favorite Video Game(s) of the Year?
An impartial, trained professional...in what exactly? Therapists / psychologists are glorified life coaches. "Psychology" is a mess. All therapists can do is act as a programming rubber duck equivalent.

What makes the psychologist more qualified to give advice to you than yourself?

Maybe the misconception comes from this "training" idea - people think there is some magical solution in psychology and it's not all a pseudo-science. P.S. if you are a trained psychologists, try to summarize psychology to me. Tell me what's left after you take away the failed theories of Freud, aversion therapy, Jung, etc?
> very well defined set, a household

What exactly is "very well defined" about a household? Are they using the IRS definition (obviously not, considering this applies worldwide)? Are unrelated people living together a household? What about families where kids are in college and come home for breaks? Domestic relationships that may or may not be recognized by a certain jurisdiction? What if some member is vacationing or traveling for work for extended periods? Or an extended family member (parents/grandparents) who lives with you for certain months of the year?

It's easy for Netflix to arbitrary say "yes" or "no" to any of these, but you are saying it should also be okay for the government to arrest and prosecute you for getting it wrong?
The clearing house hosts the database. There's no need for a blockchain.

https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/advocacy/issues/central-clea...
My wife's cousin is a police officer, who was involved in conflict caught on video that showed a great deal of restraint on the part of officers. None of the officers pulled the trigger until one of the people that they were trying to restrain grabbed one of the officer's gun and got into a tussling match on the ground. The officer was gut shot (non-fatally) first and then the assailant was shot (fatally) by the same gun a second later. The other officers didn't whip out their guns and starting shooting the other assailants, who were using diverse non-gun weapons. Only the shot officer pulled the trigger while wrestling on the ground over the weapon.

The cousin was supportive of mandatory instant retirement for any officer that kills someone, justified or not (with subsequent review BEFORE retirement pays out). His colleague, the shot officer, was in clear psychological distress after returning to the force both because he had been shot AND because he shot someone. If an officer doesn't experience psychological distress after shooting someone, I really want them off the force. I think knowing your work life is over (regardless of justification) might cause officers to hesitate a bit more.

Obviously, it will take careful implementation to make sure this policy didn't have unintended effects, though.
Keep an eye on the panel construction though, the gold standard is glass-glass but there are plenty of other materials used for the sandwich (and the sealing!) and not all of them will stand the test of time.
> The really funny part, I bet a lower percentage of the captia die from cancer in the UK than the US.

The US, quite famously, generally has the highest cancer survival rates in the world. The standard bearers for cancer survival rates in Europe have traditionally been Switzerland and France, which are close to the same level as the US. A decade ago in the UK there was a public outcry when studies showed it had one of the poorest cancer survival rates in the developed world; in the well-known Lancet study, survival rates in the US were 50% higher than the UK.

The UK has improved their cancer survival rates significantly over the last decade in response to those studies but it isn't near the top tier.

In the US, everyone gets essentially the same cancer treatments, even if they are poor. The economic stratification occurs around enrollment in experimental cancer treatments, by virtue of needing to be located where experimental therapies are being tested. Experimental therapies are a big deal in the US because most state-of-the-art treatments are developed and tested there before being widely available. If you want to enroll in experimental cancer treatments outside of where they are being tested, you need to have the economic means to travel there. I personally know people on welfare in the US who survived Stage 4 cancer because they happened to live where highly effective experimental cancer therapies were being tested, making it readily available to them.

The US lives a little bit in the future for state-of-the-art cancer treatments. I know several people that survived cancer in the US thanks to experimental therapies that are now standard therapies. It usually takes a while for these to propagate to other parts of the world.
So SEPA allows the government to spy on us while being a black box to the rest of us while Ethereum and Bitcoin are fully transparent while protecting our privacy. Not sure how this is a good point in favor of SEPA but ok.
In fact, putting rice in hot sand to puff it is sometimes thought to be the world's oldest cooking technique. Still done in places in India.
within cooee
: within hailing distance : not unapproachable
I think the second part of your sentence is a least a partial answer to your first part.
IMO, the most likely result is one or more large, heavily connected meshes centered around an ideological middle ground of significantly online people (probably divided by liberal/conservative ideology), sparsely connected to somewhat more fringe instances (maybe a socialist instance that doesn't restrict overt calls to violence, but is still largely ideologically acceptable to the average liberal), and some archipelagos/unfederated instances of even more fringe social groups.

And that's a good thing. Individuals get to choose servers that align with their views on moderation and morality, server moderators only need to deal with occasional maliciousness rather than trying to walk a fine line of tolerance, and your social group isn't at risk of being disrupted by a billionaire moving in and blowing it up.
It's true that you don't, but I can see the advantages.

I have a Raspberry Pi that is natively running a scraper using headless Chromium and cron. It works great, except....

I ended up needing a virtual framebuffer. I got it working on the Raspberry Pi, but I got a new workstation and wanted to edit my script and test it there. I got cryptic errors that I needed to debug to understand they were framebuffer issues, then attempt to recreate the setup that's running on my Pi, then debug that.....

My first mistake was not writing down what I did in my README, but a Docker image would have saved me a ton of time here.
I was just trying to allude to the nature of the universities’ business. (Being assessing that they’ve taught what they claim to teach.)

My PhD mentor is actually leading a discussion about ChatGPT use by students, and the tone is mostly concern. But it’s not all bad; it’s an incredible tool for quickly diving into a subject at a surface level and getting your bearings regarding what’s important. It saved my ass on one of my finals too when the rest of the questions were harder than I expected and ChatGPT helped me tear through the remaining T/F questions.
I just picked up a second hand quest 2, pretty cool. What workout app(s) do you use? So far beat saber can get the heart rate up a little depending on what song and difficulty you choose but I haven't tried anything else. Mostly I've just been playing through Alyx.
Knowledge Fight
I feel that the other segments of the population don’t realize the non-environmental benefits of EVs like not wasting your time at a gas station (including the drive), or wasting time at a mechanic or doing maintenance yourself. From my experience, maintenance is an oil change every 2 years. The caveat is that every 10 years you need to change the battery for which the service is not yet very standard.

I would also imagine that in the event of a disaster that we can restore electricity much faster than being able to deliver gasoline to all gas stations
I invite you to stop here: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9773012,-110.5310232,3a,75y,... when there is traffic coming in behind you.

Please don't say: "oh it's a quiet road", I took the first example I could find of this kind of onramp.
As much as I would love that, I have yet to see an AI system which tries to solve the actually hard problems of programming.
Even Milton Friedman said that prevention of monopolies was a legitimate and even necessary cause for government intervention, in order to preserve the free market.

Free market ≠ corporate capitalism. At least it didn’t use to be. Free market rhetoric is almost always using small businesses in their story telling, in which there is a lot of competition and an implicit level field. How to handle the vast concentration of power and wealth is basically outside the scope of most of these theorizers, which is unfortunate because it’s our biggest practical issue, imo.
This is true, that's how I'm getting therapy right now. I was scared this was too much paperwork for me at first, but my therapist explained that I basically needed to only do three things:

(1) go to a GP (Hausarzt) and explain my situation so they fill up a report and confirm that the issue is indeed psychological and not physical,

(2) go to a therapist that works with public insurance so they can write another report, your therapist might refer you to one of his/her colleagues, and

(3) email five therapists that work with public insurance and ask them how long their waiting list is. They likely will all tell you it's longer than 3 months, which is what you need to hear.

You basically send this stuff to your insurance company and they deal with the rest.
Well i just tried this with all the grains in my cupboard and it now smells like burned ass in here and it all tasted horrible.
Regardless of the racism argument, it seems obvious to me that NEM 2.0 is forcing those who can't afford a solar system to purchase overpriced power from those who can.

I wish we'd just charge/pay people the instantaneous market rate of power. And at noon on a sunny summer day in California, the market rate should be pretty close to zero. Nowadays, the grid needs more storage and peaking generation than it does more solar panels, so we should stop artificially incentivizing rooftop solar panels.
Ryugu isotopes suggest it formed close to comets along with some unique minerals
I read where that is the world's oldest cooking technique!
I haven't looked at Clojure in a bit, but shouldn't the (nil? to-info) check in the transfer implementation of handle-action come first? It seems like that would never be reached in the current implementation.
I never thought I'd say these words but -- I feel seen, I feel heard. I'm more into going to parties but I guard my alone time as a sacred duty.

To add my own twist to both of your stories: I just had an amazing date yesterday with someone who thinks like us. Of course it's only been one date so I could be misunderstanding them.

If both parties value their alone time it means scheduling time together is drastically simplified; you both do it only after each other's batteries are recharged, and you won't feel bad if you say no to a meetup :)
Gotcha—so probably not going to end up in the official Instant Pot cookbook. Ha
I think it's the same reason why we are teaching assembly even if there are compilers. Or teaching Latin even though it's a dead language
I’m currently playing Horizon Forbidden West and loving it. Will get the VR version when the new PSVR lands next year.
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That’s true, but it’s a trade-off rather than a straight win. Hardware formats do have a few disadvantages:

1. Larger size on disk

2. Reduced quality at all MIP levels

3. Complexity of each platform wanting its own special format.

Basis fixes 1 (by adding an extra layer of compression) and 3 (by transcoding to almost any format at load time). But it doesn’t fix 2, and it adds another downside -- decompressing and transcoding is relatively slow.
A Beginner's Guide to Building a Kubernetes Device Plugin
With the recent announcement that the Device Manager has gone GA, I thought I would post a beginners guide on implementing a kubernetes device plugin.
If you like mysteries, The Strait Times did a mini-series on "The Unsolved Mysteries of South East Asia" [0] which were (other than MH 370) totally new to me.

"Arms Control Wonk" [1] has episodes on North Korea missile tests, open source intel methods, etc. which often get simplified by regular press.

[0] - https://omny.fm/shows/the-unsolved-mysteries-of-south-east-a...

[1] - https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/author/podcast/
I don’t know what the future here holds, but I agree completely and this is why I think it was a poor choice long-term for Netflix to become a production company. Their model was wholesaling content, first via mail and later over the Internet. Now that Netflix produces content, other studios wishing to stream content on Netflix are also in competition with Netflix content on Netflix’s own platform. The advantage of a neutral arbiter -over the debate of what to watch - is gone.
Lol, I don't use Quickbooks, though several of my former startup clients did. One of them had profits of about $3xx million last year on sales of roughly $2 billion, and they're still using Quickbooks. Quickbooks is a lot more powerful than people think it is, though at that size they really should be considering Fusion instead, or even upgrading directly to SAP or Oracle if they foresee needing that sort of complexity.

My client base of successful California companies exceeded the value of the companies fleeing California by about several hundred billion dollars. Post-COVID, the CA companies are even more valuable than the ones that fled California when they couldn't cut it in a competitive capitalist environment. But yes, you're right that companies that took government handouts from other states to leave CA are surviving off those governments handouts.

However, you're just embarrassing yourself. You've been whining on HN about your company leaving California for a few years now, it's pretty clear that at this point your company has evaluated that option and determined it was actually a stupid thing to do. It's like Elon Musk's "first order thinking": leaving California sounds great on paper until you actually look at the numbers and discover that it doesn't solve anything and actually makes things worse.
Thank you! This is our plan indeed! Environment variables are still by far the most popular approach for storing secrets - and we are trying to create a better (more secure) alternative for managing environment variables and secrets than, let's say, .env files, and at the same time an easier alternative compared to other secrets managers. With time, we will be adding more niche and secure approaches mentioned in this thread to direct the developer community.
Training people (or anything) using a flawed objective function is not useful.

Writing essays, specifically expanding a list of well-reasoned bullet points into communicative written prose will be a worthless operation in the future, and likely already is.
It is actually astonishingly high, given the number of employees in aggregate those agencies employ and turnover in a given year.

I guarantee you a more pedestrian megacap tech company unrelated to information warfare (say, for instance, AMAT) will not have such a high number.
People want to move to Texas #1, the places the parent comment posted are much more dense where people actually want to live. Buffalo, NY doesn’t have the same issues as NYC and Springfield, IL isn’t Chicago.