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A related problem just hit me this weekend. I had removed a failed/bulged Lithium Ion battery from a week ago and placed it with my others to be taken during the one time a year that garbage collection allows us to bring the toxic stuff to them for recycling (later this year...).

Fast forward to this week and the battery is nearly twice its size. A while back I decided to repair a bunch of failed Ryobi Li-Ion packs (taking them apart, testing the 18650 cells independently and rebuilding each with all new cells of the same specifications)[0]. I'd done this several times over the years with various battery packs made up of 18650 cells[1].

While basically ignoring all of the intelligent warnings for handling/dealing with these cells[0], I managed to short one of the visibly bad cells for long enough to turn the battery into what might be a very respectable, completely out of control, blow torch.

The heat from the flame caused me to immediately drop it and everything I was holding but despite being in my hand for all of maybe 10 milliseconds, it managed to leave a permanent scar (which serves as a reminder for me every time I decide I'm going to risk my limbs to save a few bucks to ... at least ... be a whole hell of a lot more careful).

My question is: what in the hell do I do with this expanding pouch battery? I can't take it to the "toxic waste day" event until the fall. I know these pouch batteries are as prone to torching as much as the 18650 cells and this one is growing so fast that it was noticeable.

Are there any options beyond: (a) Toss it in one of the "Electronics Recycling" boxes at a big box store (are those still a thing?) -- I am concerned for the safety of the staff/store. (b) Same but get one of those "mail away" bags -- I would never do this; trading a garbage truck fire for a mail truck fire isn't an improvement and I'm sure it's as illegal as: (c) Hide it in the garbage and hope for the best -- see the article and "b" for why I won't do this, either. And finally, the only option my garbage carrier gives me: (d) Find some magical way to store this thing until the fall when my garbage carrier will let me drive it to their facility for Toxic Stuff Day. By then it'll be in a box of melted goo.

For the moment, I went with (d) and placed it inside of a container from a kiln I hacked together a few years ago ... which sits in the center of the cement floor of my shed[2].

I don't like any of these options -- anyone else been in a similar spot and found a good solution?

[0] I am not a battery guy or an electrical engineer, just a typical hacker with the driving force being: "What could possibly go wrong?"

[1] Pretty much every notebook from that era (gifted to me as "I'm just going to throw this out, do you want it?) had detachable packs made up of combinations of 18650 cells wired together.

[2] I learned I built this pretty well after it took a real world test with some mixed molten metals and other materials that left the entire interior covered in a layer of black "something" but did no damage otherwise.
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>High ranking member of political party 1 does something illegal.

>Huge stink and nationwide conversation ensues.

>High ranking member of political party 2 does the same damn thing.

>Crickets.

You can even reverse the order of the events or parties. It happens a lot. Such laws, unfortunately, simply become political tools.
Christianity has lot of weird stuff. When you really start to think it over from roots and consider certain aspects. But members are just told to follow and ignore those aspects. Not to mention the stuff that is simply ignored if you would slightly expand it.
>never will be

I don't believe this is inherently true. Theoretical designs exist that solve a lot of nuclear power's problems: this issue is that it got caught in a death spiral due to Chernobyl. That ended investment and R&D, so nuclear power plants didn't improve while other sources of energy did, so they got even less investment and R&D.
It's more like, I ignore government orgs like the FCC giving warnings that involve tech in some way. I don't care if my phone says incoming missile strike, it's probably a false alarm, and I disabled those anyway.
That's fine, but put your marketing copy in your marketing, not in your docs.
Is a company which makes billions in revenue from making and selling stuff a patent troll?
Alkaline batteries contain manganese dioxide, which is certainly not as bad as the rechargeable types but still is a health hazard in enough quantity. "Heavy duty" (zinc-carbon) has the same concern AFAIK
>So this means police informants in connection to the police are also committing a crime?

It says "falsely and maliciously".

So, if what say is true, it's not a crime.

If what they say is false but they believe it to be true, it's not done "maliciously", so it's not a crime.

If what they say is false and they know it, yeah, it is a crime.

But if the police and court believes them, or if it's the police itself that pressured them to point their fingers to some person they wanted to get, then it doesn't matter whether it's a crime or not, as it wont be prosecuted, and the police not only doesn't care, but explicitly wants the false testimony.
At least in nyc alkaline batteries do go in the normal trash.

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/services/harmful-produc...
Why would the AI be running in a loop between queries? It has no work to do, and running costs money.
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What makes you think their goal is succeeding on the broader scale, though?
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Random gripe, but it's weird they used a picture of a charger and not a battery for the article.
Nah, Andrew Moore went full-Oppenheimer.

https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-V...
not strictly any worse than e-banking or storing your bank details in 1password (with the exception of deposit insurance)
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35163590 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34937223
The ratio of things that need fixing is higher than the ratio of things actually being fixed. Over many years, it will all add up into a hot mess.
>I think I'm trying to state: "Aren't the bulk of Meta's offerings too susceptible to trends to garner the trust required for a 40 year bond?"

Meta has more cash on hand and revenue than most countries. They are an institution unto themselves at this point, regardless of the future success of any individual product.
I am probably in the minority and would get shouted at by a DBA of yore, but I use foreign keys for referential integrity and… that’s it. We use soft deletes for almost all rows, so the whole cascading side is less relevant for us than getting an error in test or even production because a missing relation has been used. Combined with using non-integer primary keys, it’s godsend.
So, let someone else do it. It's the laziest excuse.
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He applied a factual label to the account. The real question is why would you be upset about it?
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> Orthopraxic v. orthodoxic: In the study of religion, orthopraxy is correct conduct, both ethical and liturgical, as opposed to faith or grace.[1][2][3] Orthopraxy is in contrast with orthodoxy, which emphasizes correct belief. The word is a neoclassical compound—ὀρθοπραξία (orthopraxia) meaning 'right practice'. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopraxy
Clearly, folks with money aren't putting that money where their mouths are with respect to their climate change signaling.

Oh, I see people disagree with this take. I'd like to know where it's wrong. They certainly could pressure each other so that only detestable "baddies" are left flying in private jets...
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Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts! I also felt that they are pretty similar. But, I am guessing that SQLite (similar to most relational database systems) does not automatically cache the results of functions, do non-trivial cost-based optimization for functions in queries, or reorder function-based predicates based on the estimated cost of running the functions, etc.

Edit: I have shared more details on the function-aware optimization in EVA in this post (in case you are interested) -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764355#35773608

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So what happens if you have open CDs with First Republic? Assume the accrued value is below the $250K limit. Does it get paid off at the accrued value up to the seize date or do those CD holders now own JPMC backed CDs at the prior rates?

Curious as for a time the rates for First Republic CDs were well above their peers.
A deposit refund [0] similar to what’s already in place for bottles and cans in some states might be the way to go if enough states/counties would actually implement it.

It allows for consumers to consider the “full cost” of being inconsiderate and not recycling properly while not “actually” increasing the cost of the product if they properly dispose of it. It also created a secondary market for scrapers/recyclers to collect and deposit items so there’s another chance it won’t enter the waste steam.

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You're assuming that it will have "tasks", or that it will prioritize them in such a way that it becomes possible for it to realize this is a condition of accomplishing them.

You only have tasks that, one way or another, raise your chances of reproducing successfully. You have a job so as to look like a good provider for a mate. If you find the job fulfilling in its own right, this is so that you don't spaz out and quit and go be a beach bum, thus lowering your chances.

Self-preservation doesn't make much sense outside of a biological imperative to reproduce.
Every loan banks give out now helps their balance sheet since interest rates are higher. Don't think they'll stop.
Around me free pianos are just worth less than the cost to move them, not that there is anything wrong with them a professional couldn't tune.

I see people trying to sell old Yamaha organs and they lower the price until it becomes "free just take it out of here so I don't have to pay someone to do it."
This way they would not have to risk failing to issue a bonds at a later time.
I disagree.

Companies are building surveillance infrastructure that is:

* way ahead of governments in terms of technical capability (NSA and top-level intelligence agencies are outliers, but your average government IT departments are too incompetent to be of any threat)

* widely accepted and not regarded as malicious - not even the NSA can get people to voluntarily include some malicious Javascript on the vast majority of public-facing webpages, yet Google Analytics managed exactly that

* profitable and self-sustaining - the government doesn't have to spend money on building and maintaining it, nor needs to justify its budget/spending

Those companies however are still at the mercy of governments, either via violence/coercion (in the US, they have to obey a national security letter by law, or armed goons will show up) or mutually-beneficial relationship (a lot of companies either outright sell this surveillance data to the highest bidder, or don't outright sell it but will be happy to let the government in on it in exchange for a good relationship and favors in the future).
The future is unknowable and unpredictable. The last console generation really dragged on because there was concern that consoles were dying. Well, this generation is selling better than ever. PC gaming is exploding in popularity too. The Switch is a sensation.

All the cloud gaming predictions haven't happened. Mobile gaming hasn't killed traditional gaming either.

In fact, it turns out that all those precautions were largely wrong. There is a huge market for high-quality games you play on local hardware for maximum visual and input fidelity.

I too find it very dangerous for government regulators to be predicting a future that industry can't themselves predict. They are not experts on this industry and don't conduct user and market research. They are literally just guessing.

It is equally likely that cloud gaming never becomes a thing because phones keep getting more powerful and eventually they take the place of the future that cloud gaming was supposed to represent. Apple could eventually allow you to hook/locally stream an iPhone to a TV to use it as a console.

There will always be a market for hardcore hardware like consoles and PCs, but who is to say that the more casual option will be cloud gaming and not some world in which mobile devices can be used as less-powerful home gaming machines?
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It's not that simple for The Fed or the Federal Government, as they have to take over all the tedious affairs in banking (like KYC, among many smaller tasks), so I suspect they'll be reluctant. But that doesn't mean it would be a bad thing to talk them into it.
I can imagine enjoying Haskell in a team setting with existing patterns, but I think its flexibility gives my mind decision fatigue when starting from-scratch.
> Otherwise even if we (HN audience) switch

This is a problem. Even the HN audience seems to struggle greatly in choosing non-proprietary and privacy friendly solutions. While the amount of privacy advocates are certainly greater here than in many other places, the general sentiment I get from reading a lot of these threads is that "If you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide".

Why do you think that is? Certainly a community like this shouldn't be bothered by the slight obstacles you would be challenged with.
perhaps it has greater than $40B of expenses anticipated?
I think this will ultimately result in more and more companies bypassing the UK. The CMA has proven to make arbitrary decisions unrelated to real competition concerns. While the EU is a large enough market for now, the UK could potentially just be skipped. All European markets are fading into irrelevancy, if the UK decided to be extra difficult to operate in, it will just accelerate its decline.
I'm all about the FOSS but I can't see what an "open source naming system" would due for us or how that would work.

How do we account for nuances on AMD, Intel, or Qualcomm chips? Does that apply to other ARM chips?

And then there is the issue of trademark, copyright, and branding, which could get into legal struggles.
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Unmediated, in-person communication might become way more important, at least for a while.
I'm curious what part is daunting to you? I have no issues getting set up on Damus. It was as easy as any other app.
> And if I'm displaced, perhaps my skills were not as meaningful as I thought they were.

If "things that AIs can't do" defines the scope of meaningful skills for humans to have, that scope is going to shrink rapidly, and then where does that leave humans?
It's rate is not arbitrary, it is maintained at specific level, as they say, for better economy development. But it is unclear whether you will win from that or somebody else, what is certain that you lose money every year because of this. You had 100 dollars and year later they are only worth 98 dollars. What is it if not stealing?
If the human did this for "plausible deniability" to avoid being persecuted, they shouldn't bet on it.

If they can get them, they will. The law is more of a technicallity for such cases.
Sure, inflation is a problem. But there are different causes for inflation, and different remedies based on those.

If inflation is caused by rapid wage growth, then pushing to cool that growth can help. If, on the other hand, inflation is caused by widespread corporate greed increasing prices to juice profits, trying to cool wage growth won't touch it, and will instead make the situation worse.
Well, I wouldn't say it was shut down per-say and more of it was never allowed to start. They never got a banking license.

IIUC, the regulator's argument is that people are incredibly interested at putting their money in a narrow bank (aka Pass-Through Investment Entities) such that few people would want to store money not at a PTIE and it would screw over liquidity in the financial market.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/the-fe...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/03/12/2019-04...
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> The city has a dedicated hazardous waste disposal site in each borough — but the hours of operation for these sites are limited.

Where I live, the waste hauler offers a single day per year where consumers can take hazardous waste for disposal.

And AFAIK, that's been the case everywhere I've lived since I was a child.
Maybe not exactly elegant, but certainly much more neat and tidy, clean and consistent than it is now. From W95/NT4 up to at least W2K it was quite OK.

And using the old-style “theme” or whatever it was called, you could use that tidy and consistent UI throughout XP in stead of the garish “Fisher-Price” look, via Vista in stead of the annoying and distracting transparency, and well into Windows 7 in stead of whatever the “native look” of that version may have been like (I have no idea, switched to the old look first thing I did).

It only finally went to shit with Windows 8, and unfortunately restoring the Start Menu wasn't enough to make 10 good again.
I hate everything about this on so many different levels.

That people are so lonely that they invest emotionally in an AI is flooring.

People talk about AI being "good for therapy" and similar, but perhaps having a real human being on the other side of an interaction is important in case things go South.

E.g., if someone is depressed, tells an AI what's wrong with their life and that they're suicidal, what if suicide seems like a valid option? There's plenty of prompts to "jailbreak" LLMs and take away "safety" measures.

Some things simply shouldn't be left to an LLM to not "hallucinate" over or go off-script with. Yes, being a therapist is a challenging occupation, but there are plenty who love their career, find it rewarding, and do some excellent work on top of all that.
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Theoretically you'd have a JPMC CD today since it's considered a deposit account.
Be glad because these are the people that are burning our future.
It’s not lying. It’s being wrong in the timeline for deeply complex technical innovations. This is like me calling my engineers liars every time a task takes longer than expected (which is nearly every time). This whole “predict the exact day humanity will solve its most ambitious technical challenges like self driving cars or you’re a liar” attitude is incredibly toxic
>Only if you don't get caught;

Well, that's true for any crime tho, so doesn't answer the parent's question.
Network effects. Every new app that joins grows the network without the content creator having to do anything new.
I think both chess.com and lichess are positive influences on the chess scene. We need a corporate presence to be able to organize tournaments, find sponsors, and support streamers.

That said, I prefer lichess and think most people should be using it. But I understand it’s not about the platform’s technical features; for most people, it’s about the network effect with their friends.
More than anything else, this is why I stay out of crypto: It shifts your trust from public institutions and the rule of law, to your own understanding of the security of the algorithms that implement the system (since there is often no public backup). And I don't trust myself to be able to identify such deep vulnerabilities.
> Avoid PayPal, use Bitcoin.

So instead of the government being able to spy on you, you want the government and anyone else capable of monitoring the blockchain to spy on you? That seems worse on all fronts.
This is blogspam, there is an even a meme photoshop of the CEO's face on a Leo di Caprio image macro.
Is there any data on how much of private jet usage is for urgent medical requirements, government contracted transport and transporting specialist workers quickly? Maybe this report is taking private to not include that usage, but I can't find it.
I don't know... whereas before the internet enabled people in poor countries to offer their labor to the international market at competitive rates, AI threatens to undercut their price advantage.
That's a huge benefit over social media projects like Mastodon, which lack discovery features entirely.
Hogwarts Legacy completely averts this trope. It's probably worth a play.

I think it's primarily successful because of its use of uses smaller, mostly linear environments. It's also swath with plenty of shaders & animations that react or trigger on player position—there's always multiple things happening on screen, not just one idly spinning fan off in a corner somewhere.
gotta be some sort of card game right?