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> “But power isn’t the only thing that matters when it comes to setting an acceleration record – effectively transferring that power to the ground is also key,” says Dario Messerli, head of aerodynamics at AMZ. Conventional Formula One cars solve this through aerodynamics: a rear or front wing pushes the car to the ground. However, this effect only comes into play when the car has reached a certain speed. To ensure strong traction right from the start, the AMZ team has developed a kind of vacuum cleaner that holds the vehicle down to the ground by suction.

Kind of hilarious.

EDIT: why the downvotes? Isn't it at least somewhat funny that this being characterized as a "vacuum cleaner", given that there's no "cleaning" going on?
I heard/read this before, and I'm convinced by it: torturing someone does something not only to the victim, but to the torturer as well.

The act of torturing someone does something bad to you, regardless of whatever other effect. The kind of person who would torture someone in cold blood is not someone I want next to me.
Have you tried the Super Hot or Blackout variants?
I knew the guy who answered the phone at that Starbucks. He worked with my ex there and it was funny hearing the story from his end.
It would highly depend on when in 1945 Hitler showed up... if it were before the Surrender of Germany, he's toast... after, hold him for the war crimes tribunal.

Baby Hitler is easier... give his mom 2 tickets to America, arrange a stay with some distant relatives there, some money, and make sure they get on the boat. She'd be glad to get away from his father.

Collective punishment - that's a war crime.
This doesn’t seem like a particularly prestigious contest.

It seems the people doing the “prank” intended to show that a lot of these contests are not legitimate and just an opportunity for the organizers to make some money.

It would be interesting to see whether a legitimate contest that did blind taste tests would fall for such a trick.
Will Penn Station and Grand Central Station ever be connected to the same rail lines?
DRI3 clients allocate themselves their render buffers. Hence perfectly possible with X11.
Completely agree. In terms of the mental gymnastics that Apple fanboys sometimes go through, dynamic island has been the biggest head-scratcher for me in terms of their willingness to defend it.
I know it’s history and I know it’s future.
What's the waste of the software industry?
Also, having a portable M2 enclosure that you plug into USB-C that can transfer a terabyte in less than 10 minutes is pretty cool.
You can't simply ignore the base rate, even if you don't know it.

In a purely random world, 5% of experiments are false positives, at p=0.05. None are true positives.

In a well ordered world with brilliant hypotheses, there are no false positives.

If more than 5% of experiments show positive results at p=0.05, some of them are probably true, so you can try to replicate them with lower p.

p=0.05 is a filter for "worth trying to replicate" (but even that is modulated by cost of replication vs value of result).

The crisis in science is largely that people confuse "publishable" with "probably true". Anything "probably better then random guessing" is publishable to help other researchers, but that doesn't mean it's probably true.
> However, we urge caution and advocate for nuanced research approaches with low risk-of-bias study designs to avoid a miscalibration between hype and evidence.

It's interesting to think about the information conveyed by this sentence.

Would anyone seriously propose non-nuanced research approach with high risk of bias that easily confuses hype for evidence?
Props to the Airtable team for keeping the faith for 2.75 years between launch and first customer.
> 1:1s are a peculiarly American thing

I had regular 1:1s when I worked for Huawei.
Directly voicing views in a forthright manner is useful if the communication is meaningful and informed - which often isn't correlated with how "loud" it is.
This trope of China steals and china fucks it up is counter productive. The IPR is sold, or licenced, and the Chinese develop on it. 60% of the worlds batteries are now from CATL.

You need to stop assuming its theft, or they made bad product. They innovate like everyone else.
You can get wood burning stoves that are completely closed as far as the interior of the home goes. All they do is radiate heat where you need it. The hatch where you put in the fuel and the exhaust are all outside (hopefully somewhere accessible if you're in a blizzard :) ).

Daily incident shortwave energy per square meter is significantly lower in the winter (about half of what it is in the summer). You're also not going to get much of a current when the solar panels are buried in snow.

Wood burning stoves are cheap enough and the odds of you losing power to warrant needing one are large enough that it's a safer bet getting one.

Listen to your neighbors.
This is described in The Toyota Way (CEO walking the shop floor, talking to people, using products, etc., and generally having deep dives). Bill Gates did deep dives in Microsoft in its eighties prime (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev..., and many other sources).

Bad CEOs will micromanage or only look mile-high.

Good CEOs will do deep dives, and use that to inform strategy, policy, and organizational design.
Yea, this is always the thing that gets me about the "lol wine tasting is all lies" crowd. Sure, I'll easily admit that I may not be able to identify and explain the difference between various grapes or such, but that doesn't mean all wine tastes literally exactly the same. I don't necessarily like wine because it's a specific grape, or a specific origin, or more or less expensive, but that doesn't invalidate that I prefer it to some other wine. And an experienced person who has tried a lot of wine, may be able to take my explanation of what I like and recommend me something I'd like more than something else.

It's a bad argument that relies on muddling the objective and the subjective. Yes, in a totally blind tasting, people can be surprised by what they think something is. But if I walk into a wine bar, and tell them I like red wines that are dry and have red fruit flavors, they can likely give me something I'll enjoy. If they tell me that there's a white wine that they think I'll like because of that explanation, then sweet, that sounds cool and different. It doesn't mean that hurr durr all wine is the same.
Wait wtf, that’s how I back up my data. It’s impossible to test these backups, I might need to pay for iCloud for peace of mind then.
Sounds a bit dramatic, don’t ya think?
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I guess my personal experiences mowing lawns and dirtbiking in a mask are meaningless and false. I got it. I just have to do more work, but it's no harder, and I can still get 'plenty' of air, as long as I don't need more than totally sedentary.
Me I was hoping to switch to FireWire, because it sounds so awesome.
The concept of measuring "viral copies" in breath is pretty cool, seems like a brand new technique? I can see it being invaluable in studying respitory viruses going forward.

The only shortcoming of this study is the lack of data points _prior_ to symptoms. One of the hotly contested points of hygiene policy during the pandemic was about how the virus spreads before symptoms show up.

I'm unsure if there's a study that already settles this, but this new method seems like a sure fire way.
I had something similar happen when I was working overseas. I originally agreed to work 3 months on, 1 month off. The 3 months on were 90 days straight, no weekends or holidays. Then I’d get a month of no work to go home, renew my visa, and spend as I please.

They changed it to 3 months on, 2 weeks off. Fully intending people would quit due to the untenable schedule and they could avoid paying severance / deferred benefits.

Domestically, we really should have some kind of consideration for this. At minimum allow people who quit to collect unemployment benefits or something, and trigger any contractual severance clauses (which are fairly rare, I’ve never been offered a contract with one outside of that overseas job).

Should also trigger things like California’s WARN act. I know they've changed it a bit to address things like this, but not quite sure what the details of that change is.
Hmm, we'll probably see you in the people's court soon.
A search for "GZDoom" on Steam will show some different indie games that are using the engine, there are a few interesting ones.

A cursory youtube search brought up this random video with a wide variety of examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjnOdDzSxWs

There are also several versions of random level generators for Doom engine maps out there: https://obsidian-level-maker.github.io/

I can't remember the names but there are mods and games out there integrating the random level generators.

Of course the maps are still BSP and therefore somewhat constrained but the level of creativity in the mod community is pretty amazing.
> you either have a terrible boss or an even more terrible Machiavellian corporate culture

Both of which abound, in my experience. If your "boss" is paying you as an "employee", that's still a competitive situation between two businesses: the business of you selling your labour, and your boss, a.k.a. your only customer, who may try to use information warfare to get the best deal.
I used it at a Fortune 500. I’ve used it at a Fortune 100. I’ve used it in a small startup. I stand by my statement. It solves problems self inflicted due to crappy cloud architecture and mutable environments. Running a simple deploy script means your DevOps pipelines and cloud are mature enough to handle rollbacks, failures, blue/green deployments, and any migrations applied after a data snapshot (whatever that looks like in your architecture).
This paper has been online at least since 2018.

It has since been published:
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v98/stelmakh19a.html
In a world that has gone so far in the direction of hedonism, the opposite message is a centring force that helps people find balance in their lives. As one of my coworkers used to say “always choose the middle way”. I’m honestly more surprised that people aren’t talking enthusiastically about asceticism to be honest.
Right, fair enough..

Speaking of separate but equal, were schools in the US ever separated by gender? Because ~100 years ago in Canada they were. You can still find old school buildings with Boys/Girls engraved above separate entrances.
this is only true if you accept the circular definition of "well, if it does less than lightning then it's not a true USB-C cable".

in practice there are lots of usb-c cables that don't do data, which all lightning cables do. they're just not officially certified ones. which means they're not "real" usb-c cables.

again, the problem is it turns out in practice virtually nobody is using "real" usb-c cables, and if you want to stand on the formal definition, then we can formally say the standard has no real market penetration and can reasonably be disregarded until it catches traction.

if you can walk into a bodega and be assured that the lightning cable sitting on the shelf is going to be a certified and approved cable with data transfer, and the usb-c cable probably won't, then that's kinda all that really matters.

(and thus, we can see why certification programs like lightning exist. the $2 lightning cable on the bodega counter probably has better capabilities than the $5 usb-c cable on the counter because of the certification process.)
Isn't "preventative" punishment basically the plot of Minority Report (story and movie)?

The problem is that, even if it worked, I wouldn't want to live in a world where people are punished or executed before they actually do anything wrong. In a sense, I think it's valid to "throw in the towel" and claim: if this is what it takes to minimize suffering, I don't want anything to do with it; to hell with it.
This is what I was thinking, too. I can usually tell between cheap "jammy" wines from the US, which I don't like, versus the cheap Cotes du Rhone I buy, which tastes delicious.
If it's between the dynamic island and high quality sensors, I will happily accept them keeping a notch. It makes sense they'd try to make it a selling point, as it is somewhat unique to iPhone in how they've really leaned into making the most of it.
What's wrong with establishing a governing body to give it's seal of approval, and letting consumers rely on that?

If we had DOPs from the outset, we'd have a huge number of extra names for the non-regional versions of foods.

Additionally, Italian regulatory bodies are well known for not giving a shit about the products that are exported from Italy, so getting the certified "real thing" isn't a good indicator that, for example, your olive oil is even real olive oil.
Now that you said it, you are obligated to share more details! :)
Burnt out developers?

Start ups that could have been viable small/medium business but were scaled to death?
I get analysis paralysis with Flying Goose brand, it's like if I'm going to place an order, I want to get 15 variants.

Has anyone tried one of their flavors that has really knocked their socks off? Galangal, Tikka, Black Pepper and Kimchi sound good.
I don’t accidentally do anything in production. Sorry. Nor do my teams or any developers who have access to my clouds. These kinds of failures don’t happen in my world. You will not have a mutable environment outside of data storage. Period. Nuke all you want, it will repair and redeploy itself.
>I'm not familiar with _unvaxed_ people getting coronavirus multiple times (prior infection confirmed by antibody blood test).

Then you simply aren't paying attention. Most of my anti-vax relatives have gotten covid multiple times.
Starwhale: A new MLOps platform for Model Evaluation
Yikes. Hard to wrap my head around that many people being swept away. I can imagine that with the ongoing civil war, Dam maintenance is not a high priority.
I read the article hoping someone else had noticed how weird it is for a giant train hall to have virtually no place to sit down.
How it PT on the PS4 at all relevant in a discussion about games being taken off steam?
Wow, I haven't thought about the joy of carrying textbooks in ages. Those were the days.
Crypto, spam, viruses, pop-up ads.
I've done the same, with the same results, because I've rarely come across a medical bill that is actually correct.

I'll call the provider once and explain what's wrong with the bill. Either they fix it, or I ignore them completely after that. Their bills go straight to the trash unopened.

Frequently as soon as you explain they need to fix something they just completely drop the bill for the same reasons as in this article: It's simply not worth their trouble to bill accurately, and they don't have the ability to do so. (And I'm talking about the provider here, not a debt collector.)

I've never once had a provider actually fix the bill, the closest I've gotten (just once so far) is a "courtesy credit" to make the bill what I told them it should be, and I paid that one.

All the others didn't fix the bill, so I didn't pay them.
If you consider it "loud" to be able to send out an email of five things to a group in a structured format that everyone at the company uses then I think we should just agree to disagree. I see that as not loud but having the expected level of communication skills to function in a company at anything beyond a junior level.
I'm sad to see lightning go away. It has auto centering edges, unlike USB-C, which makes it much easier to plug it in by feel. USB-C could have adopted a connector like the lightning plug, but no they insisted on wanting small thin pieces of curved metal that could be crushed when you stepped on it (which I have done with USB-C cables).
To be fair to *shudder* Microsoft, all the nasty cookie dialogs I see on Firefox have the "Fuck it! Take all my privacy!" option on the right.

It will be malicious when they swap it back the other way.
Russian airliner forced to land in corn field
I did the same thing, except I know Wally because I follow him on Twitter. To be honest, I don't even know what he looks like.
If a USB-C to USB-C cable only had wires for VCC and GND, here's what wouldn't work:

* Data (this one is fairly obvious)
* Power (since the CC wire in the cable is missing, and a compliant USB-C power source will refuse to output power unless the CC wire is terminated on the other end which signals what type of device it is)

You'd need at _least_ the CC wire as well.
> The former advocate in me will observe that the single most effective method for resolving debts is carefully sending a series of letters invoking one’s rights under the FDCPA (and other legislation)

Can we get a summary of which letters / rights to invoke?
given that carplay has, until now, been exclusively implemented by devices that don't support USB3, that's a pretty good suspicion
MIT reaches full tentative agreement with union
Free Download Manager had a long history of being compromised. For a long time, their auto-update ini file (kind of configuration file) was manipulated to point to a compromised version, thus people installed a clean version but will get a malware infested version once they updated. I believe they are the target all along.

I’m surprised that people installed them on Linux. Stop believing OSS is automatically clean and safe.
Absolutely. The title alludes to the IWC which is at least a fairly prestigious award, and I couldn't have told you it stood for 'international wine challenge' before now, so frankly did think that's what it was. But that isn't where it won gold, it's something I've never heard of and the tasting isn't even blind (eye-catching label, etc.).
As in like multiplayer? No, you cannot play multiple multiplayer games on one steam account at the same time. This is not different from other platforms, where I don't think you can use the same Xbox account on multiple systems to play online games at the same time.

The simple answer is any game you can play without a wifi connection can be played in offline mode.
Honestly I don't know. I copied and pasted the text and punctuation from the original document and it put them there. I also didn't do the research. The office of Senator Warren did. You can quibble with them. :)
By preventative, I'm describing punishment being used for deterrence purposes, which is where the question of whether also punishing the family is justified comes in, as it might have a further deterrent effect.

Minority report is another "dire hypothetical". Like the author, I'm comfortable dismissing any hypothetical that relies on perfect future knowledge as unrealistic and unworthy of consideration. Unlike the author, I'm not taking a stance on either ends or means based philosophy. Just reacting a bit to what the parent post said.
When they agreed to the service 12+ years ago, were they shown the costs? Would you say their purchase was fully informed? Hell for all we know it was an ER visit and they had absolutely no say in the matter.
this is Apple. this is not some random seller on Amazon.
Popular nasal decongestant doesn’t relieve congestion, FDA advisers say
It's important that he's talking about military officers, not random people chilling at home. There's a minimum level of results necessary if you want to avoid eventual assignment to latrine cleaning duty, and laziness drives efficiency in achieving those results.
I hear now and then that Delphi is still popular in Germany.
> Stop thinking of product-market fit as a yes or no question—but instead as a process of finding fit with more segments of the market.

This seems really true to me. Though the nature of the search for PMF with more segments changes after passing some milestones. It’s more difficult to make large changes in the product once you have a basic level of traction and growth.
If you play a bunch of notes for me then I won't be able to identify them exactly either, and I might not even rank them correctly from high to low (especially when played on a variety of instruments) because I'm about as tonedeaf as they come.

That doesn't mean I can't distinguish two songs, or that I can't like one song and dislike another.

People may not be able to identify wine tastes very accurately, but that doesn't mean that "anyone telling you they can taste the difference, even between red and white wine, is lying". Obviously there are differences in taste between different wines, and that statement is so utterly bizarre and so obviously untrue it makes me wonder if you have ever tasted more than one bottle of wine.
Ask yourself why you chase difficult goals, since you are asking this question i'm going to assume you chase difficult goals for some external achievement, the hard facts about external achievement is that not many people have the talent, grit and luck to achieve them, even those we think as superstars have a great deal of luck to be born at a time where their unique blend of personality, talent and skill make them succesful. Image if Newton was born during the warring states period of chinese history, he probably would have been unheard of. All this is to say, do things in your life because you want to, success and reward are just bonuses to being able to live according to how you want to.
That's the thing, the software industry is the waste processor of open-source software development.
I disagree that desirable places aka tech cities are decreasing to the mean on price increases over the last 25 years. But I really need evidence instead of my opinion.

I think that in the expensive tech cities (for lack of a better description), like seattle, austin, SF/bay area, prices have generally increased over time much faster than inflation, and they aren't losing that lead. It's actually true that people can hardly afford to live in those places because hourly wages of $20+/hour is just not enough to pay for housing. Using a multiple of avg salary seems wrong because where does the average come from, because avg in that area?

It's simply too expensive for most regular workers, teachers, police, but also that person working at a coffee shop can't afford to live there. It's not a good thing. I recognize we need to build more housing and I'm part of the problem because I bought a house in mine a long time ago.
How does this pricing scheme even make sense? Why do they think "installs" is a relevant metric? I could uninstall and reinstall a game 100,000 times. Would I single handedly cost the developers a ton of money?
Do any companies pre-game this out with PR response plans for scenarios of "public acceptance", "public indifference", "public outrage" and so on? Or are the executive suites usually so high on their own supply that they expect everyone to accept whatever is doled out?
New York City’s crackdown on Airbnb and short-term rentals goes into effect
> Why do they reverse some claims but not others?

I guess that is the question. I'll be interested in the bank's reply.
Traveled down a rabbit hole of their videos -- all of them are great! And the music as well. Makes me want to plan a roadtrip.

Purchased their CDs to listen to in the evenings until then.
Where is pseudoephedrine actually banned? It's available everywhere I know of in the US, you just have to show ID to get it.
MotoGP bike vs Rimac Nevera

https://youtu.be/_3868Dnogrk?si=o4rkjjOcdHIBSbMt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202009 was just a few weeks ago so it's a dupe by HN's dupery rules. If you want the link on the old story fixed just email the mods.