skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The family accepted fire protection from their insurer and claim they forgot to pay the $75 fee, not declined to do so. It's possible they opted out, it's also possible it was an oversight. Certainly, the more human thing would be to make opting in/out more explicit and handle a late payment by sending it to collections (or reminder notifications) instead of just turning service off.

Or do you have any evidence they actively opted out of the $75 payment?
Always camera on is far worse than working in person in a cube, IMO. But, during most meetings, camera-on is a reasonable ask. As in, it's fine if that's the norm, allowing for occasional exceptions.

Edit: it is unfortunate though that you'll inevitably be judged for your room/home, etc. This is one reason I prefer in-person work; if my home is noisy or disheveled, nobody is the wiser.
Saying they don’t need to breed Tritium is yet another red flag, because their method of breeding H3 also breeds Tritium. In other words they do need to breed Tritium. Expect worse because not only do they need to breed Tritium they apparently want to separate it from their fuel and treat it as nuclear waste.

PS: Anyway, to correct a mistake breeding Tritium from D doesn’t produce a neutron the reactions should roughly equal amounts of:

D-D → He3 + n + 3.268 MeV
D-D → T + p + 4.032 MeV
D-He3 → He4 + p + 18.354 MeV (Slightly less due to escaping He3)

Plus some contamination with Tritium resulting
D-T → He4 + n + 17.571 MeV
That's why base skills like being able to confidently administrate Linux systems and maintain networks will be more valuable than knowing Kubernetes ten years down the line. Yes, the latter pays more right now and it will still be around, but it's a trend nevertheless. Linux isn't going anywhere.
Fully embracing the reality of ones own personal life experience is important. This seems to be where you want the conversation to stop. I think I can see the positivity and benefit in stopping there, choosing not to see any possible ugliness beyond.

Maybe that's the bigger question here. Should language be precise, or nice? Or, to the extremes we're seeing here, should language be formed to make certain types of subjects difficult or impossible to present themselves? Maybe freedom of thought, and the ugliness beyond, is something that should only be allowed in ones own head?
I'm still not sure if I should go the bazel route... recently found a long good explanation why anki switched away from bazel: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/5e0a761b875fff4c9e4...

I'd love to have cachable builds but I wonder how much effort it takes to maintain such a setup - especially in a small team very far away from silicon valley or google were nobody saw bazel before. Would be a perfect fit for my former company but even there I couldn't convince my colleagues - they build a monster using maven which would be more elegant in bazel but maven integration worked different than the maven algorithm at least 2 years ago...so my PoC turned into reading source code of dependency resolution algorithm in the used scala tool coursier... in the end I had to give up after patching maven issues in several projects we build upon - something nobody is willing to do I guess - to be fair I tried to incorporate Alfresco ECM which is quite an enterprise Java monster on it's own.

Also I couldn't find a good approach to use multiple git repositories almost all tutorials use a monorepo.
There are actually drugs that can help with suicidal thoughts:

“Clozapine is used to treat severely ill patients with schizophrenia who have used other medicines that did not work well. It is also used to lower risk of suicidal behavior in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.” Nov 1, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clozapine?wprov=sfti1

Medicine, therapy - and a group type therapy can help.

Also consider career switching - I believe you can reinvent yourself at any age.
The article specifically says:

Originally writing in 1692-3, Daniel Defoe noted that the firemen were “very active and diligent” in helping to put out fires, “whether in houses insured or not insured”.[33] Insurance companies’ instructions to their firemen were clear – they were to attend and help extinguish “all” fires. [34], [35]

What specific issue with this do you have? Do you disagree with the content of “Of Assurances”, in An Essay upon Projects? Or the Union Fire Office Board Minutes?

Or did you just not read the article?
Actually not! Most of the integrations are going to be completely free. Only a few very-enterprise integrations that are not needed for individual developers or small teams will be paid.
We intend to earn money from some advanced compliance and security enterprise features while providing a service to small developer teams for free.
I understand you may be ignorant to it, but an implied contract is not a concept I just made up. It is not a stretch at all to view the interactions between a website and a user through the lens of an implied-in-fact contract. If you are interested, here is a good place to start reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied-in-fact_contract

Sites have TOS, and users in violation of the TOS should be banned. This is not the same as a shadowban. I don't believe it is within the rights of a site to secretly claim that a user is in violation of the TOS and then punitively altering the user experience they agreed to without giving them any notice.
Build by Tony Fadell (iPod, Nest).
AMC seems to be cursed be cursed by the success of TWD and related shows. Simply, becasue they became lazy and rested on that success, at least that is my impression. That TWD ran into similar problems like GoT didn't help neither.
I have a blue ray dvd player and the quality seems.. fine. I don’t really know. It’s quiet as well, and I always put my dvds away where they go.

And anyway, it’s not really competing with Netflix since I sort of gave up on Netflix because it didn’t reliably carry most of my favorite movies and tv shows. It’s a choice between loading a dvd or not being able to watch it, not between loading a dvd vs clicking on Netflix. I’m in Europe so the selection is even worse.
https://kaijutegu.tumblr.com/post/188783528423/heres-what-a-...

also, pope water!
With private fire brigades, there was sometimes a monetary reward for being first to the scene. Sounds like a good incentive, right? But it resulted in competition between companies, to the point that they would sabotage each other. The article itself has some examples, and there are similar ones from United States' history.

I imagine some similar issues have happened at sea, but it seems harder to take advantage of and make profit on, since it probably wasn't too common for ships with expensive cargo to sink. And even if they did, it would be hard to guarantee getting there in time. Whereas in a city, fires are a pretty regular occurrence.
Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid - there aren't any good affordable capital cities any more. Maybe Berlin? It has the advantage its rebuilding after the cold war still.
That was just a prototype laser to prove the direct drive approach with a high frequency solution.. They demo'ed a suitable laser operating at 10hz vs. 0.0001HZ with the existing NIF capability. Since the 100J Mercury laser was transferring more than 10x the energy to target compared to NIF (with an obvious path to 20x) - think of this as a 1/20th scale replacement for a single NIF beam with the ability to fire multiple shots per second.

Even if they couldn't increase the power past 100J (which they certainly can), using 2,000 beams instead of 192 doesn't seem too difficult given the much smaller overall energy and heat-removal requirements.
Where did he claim this? I have never seen him make any claims except that impressions are down on seeing spam (i.e. there are still bots but fewer of their posts are being displayed).
Convenient timing, I guess. A happy coincidence that it was his file's time to slide onto her desk.
What are you going to do with a bank statement from a few months ago anyway? You will never look at it.
This makes me think of the "Powerful, Reliable Software Can Be Bad" section of <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....>. How can you avoid such a thing becoming the "open source DRM" that it warns about?
Thank you for your comments. I don't interact with "not of the world" folks much but am always glad when it happens.
> Usually commonly held widely believed oral histories emerge for a good reason. So if it was commonly believed that insurance companies let un-insured buildings burn, then it is likely to be true at least part of the time.

Yes, oral histories emerge for a reason, but that reason doesn't have to be "because it was literally true". There are countless oral traditions that are complete nonsense! Urban legends existed 200 and 2000 years ago just as much as they do today, and no historian would ever claim that you should take every oral history at face value.

> Also, lets look at the source -- he is an "archive and heritage consultant", i.e. someone that solicits money for his research. Is he getting paid for this article? Is he writing this in the hopes that he will advertise his services for insurance companies?

He was paid by a prominent YouTuber to find out whether a video said YouTuber made several years ago was incorrect[0]. That doesn't scream "conflict of interest" to me.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wif1EAgEQKI
If Amazon didn't make so much of its money off AWS, they wouldn't be tech companies any more than Walmart
> The entire model is strictly worse for the user than Twitter was.

The model does make it difficult for an idiot to take over _the whole thing_ and ruin it, though.

Your position as a user on any given Mastodon instance is worse than it was on pre-Musk Twitter, undoubtedly (post-Musk it just has a CEO ruling by fiat, which I would argue is a worse situation than you have on most Mastodon instances), but it's unclear that your position as a user of Mastodon writ large is.
brands.town is a satire site.

The "verified badge" on mastodon is just a satirical emoji.

Mastodon does have a mechanism for instances vouching for their users actually having control of a webpage (using rel=me links). Those are the links in green boxes here: https://hachyderm.io/@nova (It doesn't cost anything, and isn't exclusive to famous people).

I assume the person I'm replying to is aware of all of this... but for everyone else...
This book was definitely one of my highlights. The number of times I exclaimed “I’m really not the only one that feels that?!” Was too many to measure. It really forces you to confront time in a way that I haven’t stopped thinking about since.
I don't use Twitter so maybe this is just wrong, but isn't part of the appeal of Twitter that regular users can interact with celebrities?
Justified and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was also on FX. As another example of small networks making great stuff.
Building an Uptime Monitor
Not necessarily, at least in their JS SDK they have a clever way of actually compiling your Pulumi code directly into things like APIGW and handler Lambdas.
Saving burning buildings with no people in them is still a risk to the firefighters’ lives. Why go through that when the owners explicitly declined the protection repeatedly?
8 hours a week doesn’t even seem that light. We certainly have weeks (well, I. My wife loves YouTube) with fewer hours watched.
Wirth's "Algorithm & Data Structures" comes to mind.
Casinos will never die but the big games might move from Vegas to Macao and viceversa.
Once again, a great interactive drawing/comic/illustration from Randall Munroe!!!
All languages I know of have ways to preserve stack trace. That said, engineers tend to forget about it, so it is somewhat valid.
For audiophiles (and the record snobs who end up being tastemakers) it’s both.
The end of the world is just the beginning by Peter Zeihan. It is an amazing walkthrough of the modern global economy and how it is changing based on changing demographics and politics. Highly recommended.
> I know the best of my life is behind me, but I need help salvaging what's left of it

Jikes. Think, like others said, you need to find help. I am 47 and so far it’s only getting better.
And I am again forced to ask this silly question, but what are you referencing in regards to Section 230? There is no such delineation that is made as part of Section 230[0] and there is no legal definition for being a platform. Thusly there is no conundrum here.

This is a talking point that got beat dead in 2020 and I am shocked that it still has any life on HackerNews. It's not only moral positioning, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes someone a publisher and what is actually covered as part of Section 230.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...
Mme. Bovary. First it just was an exercise to show to my wife how _descriptions_ are _action_. I was trying to improved her everyday writing, you know, memos from work, informal/formal letters. I'm reading French just a little as English. So we are doing this... _exercises_ based upon an Spanish translate. And there it was. Just like I used to be remember it: fabrics that suddenly becomes a living creature embracing Emma B. nee Rouault, feelings that forms heavy lakes falling upon her, light that is light and sound and it taste like aluminum. Sorry to inform: is not a novel about couples, not even about a couple, not even about Emma. It's all about how you can tell a thing, whatever thing, not thinking about it as static dead thing but a living, fiery, not a few times menacing, whatever.
Wow. What did you use as the prompt?
What was the rationale for not simply making it optional to throw an exception on overflow?
It's shocking that people write that kind of misinformation and it is upvoted so highly at the same time. The threshold to be forcibly put into a closed psychiatry ward is enormously high.
> The Fediverse will eventually establish a concrete way for handling that sort of matters.

They've had years to get this right. This is their moment to shine and they're blowing it.
Footage of the shooting: https://youtu.be/r0M6OfQLUGI (warning, graphic content).

This is crazy, the guy walked out with the gun but was pointing it down at the ground. You can hear the cops telling him to drop the gun but started shooting at the exact same time, they gave him no time to respond and likely the guy didn't even know they were there.

The officer in this shooting needs to be charged with Murder as I don't see how you could make the argument that the office thought he was in danger. In the video the officer arrives on the scene and literally five seconds later starts shooting, this is not a "DROP THE GUN", suspect lifts weapon and officers fire. This is "DROP THE GUN" while you're already unloading your mag.
i found my therapist via a therapy app, which we both left long ago. Apps like BetterHelp and TalkSpace can be very hit and miss, but they're a place to start, and can serve as good matchmaking services.

Be prepared to pay out of pocket, my insurance pays about half of what my sessions cost. You get what you pay for. You don't want a therapist who is stretched too thin, overworked, or financially struggling themselves.

Also, ask friends and family, you may know more people in therapy than you realize, and talking about MH with people you know is incredibly helpful.

If you have a good PCP, ask them for a referral both to a therapist, and consider an IOP - an Intensive Outpatient Program. When you're trying to get out of crisis, it can be helpful to have more than just a weekly or biweekly session. I am in such a program now, it includes group therapy every day (I can choose which groups) and more intensive individual therapy and case management.

The particular program I am in also does ketamine therapy, which can help to rewire your neuropathways so that behavioral changes are more permanent. There are some online programs - Better U and Mindbloom come up in a quick search - which will offer this and other IOP-like services remotely, though I'm not sure how they compare to traditional IOP.

Above all, seeking help in any way that you can will make you feel better and I am personally proud of you for coming and asking a bunch of strangers for help. It shows a readiness to take on your challenges.

Good luck on your journey! <3
No longer if you were playing on Linux
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. It definitely lives up to its reputation.
> This news shows that practical fusion is now only an engineering problem, not a fundamental physics one - like it still is for Tokamaks and Stellarotors. For them no one knows if it is even possible to e.g. control turbulence long enough to achieve net positive energy gain.

Well, sort of. This is "theoretical breakeven" - the reaction generated more energy than they put in. "Technical breakeven", where you generate enough power to run the thing, is 2-3 orders of magnitude away. It's not at all clear that pulsed fusion like this is a viable power source even if it reaches technical breakeven.

The magnetic containment people are still struggling, but making progress. For a long time, everybody was looking for some clever magnet geometry that would yield stable plasmas, with limited success. Maybe active control will work. There are now people throwing machine learning at the problem.[1]

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2022/fusion-machine-learning-turbulence...
Time has shown that the only thing the old guard takes seriously is their own money. I'm betting the worst he gets is a stern talking to and a few disapproving looks. I'd love to be wrong about that.
The other genders are just the most popular mixes of the traditional male and female societal roles.

> The term “gender identity” first appeared in the 1960s. It referred to a person’s inner sense of belonging to the category of male or female.

If you made a list of all the traditional characteristics of male vs female, then it's all the combinations of these characteristics.

In reality, it could be unlimited.

When you say "just another word for personality", personality could be broken down into 100s of different traits, then gendered based on culture, then mixed.

One could argue that if a gender is unrelated from traditional gender roles, and the group population is minor, then it starts to become rather useless.
Not even thinking about whether the rip is bit perfect there's no expectation Apple even keeps serving up the version of the master you originally bought and want to keep. It's not even about the rip, it's that they might swap in a rip taken from a different version of the recording.

Many albums get remastered.. most of these cloud services will just drop in the new version and the old one is gone. IIRC Apple might be pretty good about this, but you still don't want to surrender control.

In any case there have been many albums where the remaster has worse audio quality than the original. If you bought the original you might really want to hang onto that version.

The most egregious form of that kind of thing is things like movies like Star Wars where the later editions are different edits of the movie. If you wanted the original you wouldn't be happy your copy was swapped out with the new edit.

In the case of music this is often just remasters having a lot more dynamic range compression and heavily boosted levels, but that can still be very objectionable.
I tried the book. There are several places where long equations are cut off. Other minor spacing issues here and there.
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”

― Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Whenever I'm in a rut I just recall this quote and force myself to take a first step in a different direction. A lot of change is momentum based. You just have to start moving.
Voice chat has been a “staple” but it’s consistently a torrent of abuse in the most mainstream games for almost two decades now. God help you if your voice presents female.

The game industry loves the mainstream ignorance on this issue. Epic conveniently omits the fact from parents giving their kids Fortnite bux that their 11 year old kid is directly talking with adults twice their age.

Seems like there are lots of ways to confirm age, with various levels of sophistication and thoroughness. I think it’d be easy to improve on the status quo of a flat zero.
> Cato clearly has an ideological bent, but it's not propaganda

It is literally propaganda.

> They don't just make shit up

They do, but that’s not required to be propaganda. Distortion by cherrt picking is a popular propaganda technique, for instance.

> they're not Fox News or something

No, they aren’t the popular propagands media, true. They are aimed at a different core audience.
Surprisingly no.

Several clients have reduced hiring and while there is a steady stream of SWE applicants, they’re not from prominent tech companies.

This is for multiple small, funded, successful startups.
A reporter on the scene spoke to the homeowner, who said he didn't pay the fee because he thought he could just pay after, like happened previously. He literally thought he could get away with not paying unless a fire happened. It's a textbook case of moral hazard.

I discussed the case a lot at the time it happened, and it never came out that he "forgot" to pay the fee. It was very clear at the time that he thought he didn't need to and they'd put out the fire anyway.
I agree with you, but the "tax" is the penalty for not having health insurance. The health insurance itself isn't considered a tax.
> as someone who has created multiple free cloud services only to have their costs or development requirements exceed my ability to maintain them I am weary of anything that would legally require me to maintain a cloud service past my desire to do so

I'd argue the expectation of a multi-billion dollar corporation to maintain an online service feature for a paid product that they are still actively providing on other platforms is pretty reasonable. And that expectation should not add any risk of liability for individuals like you shutting down free online services.

It would come down to how the theoretical law was written. But just because a law can be written poorly doesn't mean we should seek to maintain the status quo.
This really depends on what the common use case is. Probably the vast majority of use cases are going to be okay with 'std' and so 'std' should probably be enabled by default. So I wouldn't consider your advice here as good general purpose advice.

I agree it can be annoying if you are on 'no_std' and you depend on a library that doesn't expose the 'std' features of its dependencies. Then you're stuck, but I'd consider that a bug of the dependency you're using.

Now it is important to make your feature be 'std' as opposed to 'no-std'. That is, features should generally represent additive APIs. This is because you can always enable a feature, but you can't disable one if a dependency has enabled it and hasn't provided a way to turn it off.
I think safety may have something to do with it, it's pretty much a bomb
Sort of.

They will save you from an acute emergency, stabilize you, then dump you into a care home with inadequate care or to the street as appropriate, where you play the long game of succumbing to whatever ails you.
For those interested in this kind of stuff, there is the FXT library [1] and the accompanying book [2] by Jörg Arndt.

[1] https://www.jjj.de/fxt/

[2] https://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook.pdf
They issued refunds for this, why didn't you request one?

It also runs perfectly fine with proton.