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There are several obvious ways around the problem, including folding the edges over (then rounding), or just shaping things correctly.

The problem seems to be the willingness for Tesla to comply with legal requirements, rather than a materials problems.
Horrible. If I have to spend all my time keeping in touch with hundreds of people then it sounds like hell.

A more realistic suggestion is to just to make a profile on upwork and grow your reputation there.
Temporarily using a samsung smart TV is the reason I will sooner have no TV than a smart TV. Worst piece of tech I've ever used. I didn't have any of the smart stuff enabled; I was using it almost exclusively to display HDMI (I watched terrestrial TV for Eurovision once a year) and it was a kafkaesque nightmare. It took 15 minutes (when it worked) to go from standby to displaying HDMI. I had to reflash the damned firmware half the time I went to turn it on (from standby). I could go on for hours about it but I won't lol
> For a couple of days of the week, it was very regularly a 20-22 hour day.

I do not believe this and it seems disingenuous for an author to quote that as fact without at least a little bit of scrutiny.
Yeah the Apple TV interface is so much faster, more responsive, and ad-free than virtually every built-in smart TV function. I don't understand how anyone, especially anyone remotely savvy, can stand to use them.

Even the "good" ones like the Android TV in my Sony is sluggish clunky garbage in comparison. I gave it a shot when I bought it, but couldn't stand it. Disconnected the TV from the network and just use the Apple TV and it's nearly perfect.
I wonder if code embeddings might have been a better way to organize the projects, although probably infeasible given the amount of resources required to download and compute embeddings for each file.
It seems that maybe the direction things are heading in is having desktop apps that can take over the computer, and prompt you to sign in yourself when auth is needed. Which would limit the usefulness of something like MCP as the interface becomes the UI, not APIs. But I'd be curious what other approaches to auth seem to be promising.
Which is what is the sad part. Seems like all forms of a living wage now involve working closely with people which wasn’t how the world was in the decades and centuries past.
TCL is the same, as are likely every brand of TV. The smart tv hate is overhyped. All my TVs are dumb because they were smart but never got WiFi access.
Winsorize the data points to remove outliers and then divide it by the population count for the case of the heatmap?
A list of "pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other".
I love Dillo.

But I have lately been trying Dillo+ which adds some quality of life features. Have these features been incorporated into the existing Dillo?

https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus
Soundbars are bad and there's better alternatives at soundbar price ranges imo. Spend the soundbar money on even a relatively humble set of logitech speakers for a really bare bones simple set up.
Yea return it 100%. No way in hell should a computer monitor be connecting to the internet or have streaming apps. In fact this is the first I've heard of this. "Gaming monitor" in name only.
Why not get it read by a couple peers and iterate on their feedback?
My writing is not great, but with the design docs I created, the first version is always terrible, not easily understandable mostly because of not listing all the assumptions whereas the third version almost always becomes something I would never be able to achieve myself. Over the years, I settled on 2 rounds of review. First to mostly add missing sections and rearchitect the design and the doc, second to mostly hone the explanation/details.
They don't make their displays in house. Until they bring displays in house, it doesn't make sense to get into the display business.
What was the language?
It's never nagged me as far as I can remember, and changing input and volume work fine (though it always stays silent on HDMI 1 with EARC).

Of course, none of the "smart TV" things work, and it's not connected to a network, but I don't need those.
This is truly awesome.
> more calories on pleasure than any other species

That’s true we aren’t cheap on the pleasure calories, on the other hands most mammals seems to include pleasure in hunting or building their shelter or other activities. Think to dolphins, Wolfe, or rabbits. We humans have created many pleasant activities to forget our workday -which is not a pleasure for most-, while the lion enjoy its nap before an exiting hunt tonight with fellows.
What does this offer over jq which I can also afford?
Cool visualisation!

It was somewhat amusing that MicroPython isn't in MicroPythonia but Arduinoria...and CircuitPython is in PicoPythonia. :)
For myself, I always find great value in debugging new code that I have written. Something about stepping line by line through new logic, and viewing variables/memory really helps me to improve my code. "Oh, I don't need that local var." "Oh, I should add a temp var to make the code easier to debug here." "Oh, this code is weird when the collection that we iterate is empty." No matter how old I get, and no matter how much code I write, I always discover new things when I debug my newly written code. I guess this could be compared to an author writing a first draft, then going back to read it... or reading it aloud to themself or another person.
Some of your statements contain kernels of truth. But remember Chesterton's Fence. With the CRA, would we really want ~the MTGs~ non-expert politicians who are beholden to their constituents and/or donors/lobbyists/interest groups reviewing implementations that are tech-heavy?

Your position seems to have a strong nondelegation-doctrine bent, but another way of looking at it is that your position would have Congress reassign the Judiciary's review power to the Legislature itself.
>MacBooks can easily run models exceeding GPT-3.5, such as Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen 2.5 8B, or Gemma 2 9B.

If only those models supported anything other than English
What about Netsurf? Have you tried it?
On top of that, the dumb TVs could come from the same hardware line and just run different software. It's not like they need to spend millions to retool like they would for an unusual panel size.
At my high school in South Africa, in the late 80s/early 90s, we had a two-week schedule, so you had to remember not only which day it was, but whether it was week one or week two!
Same here. I have an older LG model with a Nvidia Shield hooked up. I never even get terms of service prompts.
That's a pretty exotic machine for someone in high school!
Where did you get it?
We all know how the editorial decisions are made this year...
You usually don't need that, since kubectl supports jsonpath.
Or, as I read it in my head "Dil...oh"
> Most of these people are in relatively safe districts.

I don't think that any of them are in safe districts. I think that they are in districts that are invulnerable to partisan attacks (i.e. they will not change from Republican to Democrat or from Democrat to Republican) but they're all vulnerable to principled attacks because almost none of them are very popular or inspire much turnout. They just bus the same old people in, and show up to the same churches, and that's enough to get them through another primary.

If the new administration's principle is "cut social spending", though, which it seems to be for some reason, there's absolutely nobody vulnerable to that. Everybody wants to cut government waste and corruption, but there's no such thing as cutting spending. Without cutting actual waste, cutting services, neglecting infrastructure, raising taxes, or cutting imports/growing exports, the only way to cut government debt is to raise private debt, and people in the US are already in debt to their eyeballs.

And the mobility scooter brigade that has always given Trump its biggest mandate did not do it to get their Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and VA benefits cut. If they could cut it off for just black people or just Mexicans, fine, but if they see cuts, they're going to punish administration-backed challengers, not take out incumbents.

I have no idea why a lot of pundits on the right seem to this this election was a mandate for crypto (our next systemic crash) and cutting social spending. Or privatizing the Post Office, after what happened in the UK? They might get away with that because it's bipartisan, but it will weigh the party that does it down for decades. If they actually do any of this, they're going to get killed at every level and the White House is going to turn over again in 4 years.
Part of being on autopilot and in flow for many people might be thinking about/solving/planning what you will do next while you are writing code for the last item…

I find this especially true while working on data science tasks - slicing and dicing data, visualizing, fitting initial models, etc - things where the larger more complex data generation pipelines are already taken care of and the data (or temp data/subsets of data) are readily available and you are free to rely on the improvisational skills you have developed working on similar data science tasks countless times over.

Also feel something similar when working on frontend wireframing/laying out and styling dashboards with no reference design.

Anyways, point is, it’s definitely feasible to enter into a flow state where you mind is a few steps ahead of your fingers and is actively solving problems that your fingers catch up to.
> was a news report on YouTube

…come on. (Also, how is a random cop qualified to rule on whether a heat signature has been modified?)
Yes, that's called galvanic corrosion: metals with different electrical potentials come into contact and water enters the mix.
Maybe the car metaphor breaks down sooner than you’d hoped?
https://boingboing.net/2021/03/22/adult-male-virginity-soars...
> They have the potential to lead to a thousand fold increase in speed of microelectronic components and digital memory while being more robust and energy efficient.

Magnets are only used in spinning storage right? And SSDs are typically on the order of 3 orders of magnitude faster if not more in terms of IOPs due to random access performance being roughly the same as sequential. So is this saying 1000x faster than spinning HDDs because of latency or is it saying faster than even flash?

I’m also not too familiar in how magnets show up in microelectronic components in a way that this would speed them up.
Looks like someone’s finally caught up with The Hallmark Channel’s LLM performance
I mean, not really; John's Hopkins puts Finland's all time test positivity per capita at ~26%, to the United States' ~30%. A bit better, but not enough to explain differences like this. Its not vaccination either: Finland only leads the US by ~0.23%.

One area where Finland had low impact is in deaths: 0.16% per capita to the US's 0.33%. But, if the theory is that COVID infections themselves caused a globally observable effect like this, that stat should cause the problem to hit Finland more, not less, given they had more COVID survivors than the US.

I think the better explanation might be COVID adjacent: COVID seems to have some direct neurological impact, but the lingering secondary cultural, economic, and psychological effects of the pandemic & lockdown feel a lot more likely to explain this. Additionally, I'd put money on social media also being higher on the sources list than direct COVID neurological impact.
I had a 1ghz machine with a gig of RAM in 95. I had 100mb internet on lan and multi t3. Google was around before public launch in 98. You're a few years off. In 98 I had a sgi visual workstatuon with 4gb ram and 50gb HDD and was on the same hub as the t3s. This was at college of course. I had dsl in 00 and it was as fast as campus. My mom was the first non-commercial install in STL (she was kinda a techie but also a good mom to a cs student kid).

Summer of 95 I convinced her to get dialup so I could learn about this internet thing I figured would be big. I was about 2 years too late for that wave.

But yes things were way more primitive and the learning curve was high. I had to spend several hours on the phone with the ISP to get on dialup on Mac. They onboarded people on campus manually and sold Ethernet cards back then.
> The go-getter networking ethos of founders and small business owners can be hard to distinguish from the way MLMs find and prey on people.

Aren't all those the same thing?

A different thing would be someone wanting to meet up only because they wanted to see you (not to nurture or harvest a resource).
That seems like something that could be fixed with a preamp? I run things into my receiver and then to the TV, so I haven't needed a line-out port before.
Llama 3.1 8B advertises itself as multilingual.

All of the Qwen models are basically fluent in both English and Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe
I do view the documents we format after they have gone through the processing stage. They seem to be the same in most ways I would care about. Diagrams are still present, etc. I don't know about PDFs that contain forms as these are not those kind of documents but closer to research documents.
I'm thinking 1 is more like: "The devs who can write a new system are not the same as the devs who can keep a system running."

That's definitely true in my experience. The people you can hire to write a totally new system are out there in abundance. But finding a guy or gal good at maintenance is actually surprisingly difficult. Good maintenance devs are worth their weight in gold.
White House granted clemency to the 'kids-for-cash' judge
I'm not sure how exactly the First Amendment works, so someone please correct me, but does banning a platform constitute a violation if individuals can choose other platforms?
In the vast majority of cases, when I left a job I was genuinely excited about never having to see or talk to any of my coworkers/managers for the rest of my life, so breaking such streak with an intentional outreach would qualify as lightweight torture to me.

In a career of 15+ years I don’t think I have ever reached out to an ex coworker, not even once. My current company happens to be particularly “prestigious” at this point in time and I have received hundreds (yes, 100+) of LinkedIn messages from ex coworkers ranging from “meet and catch up” to “can you refer me there”. Some have gone as far as finding my phone number and texting me, after they didn’t receive a reply on LinkedIn. The nerve someone has after causing me so much pain and stress during code reviews or random acts of corporate backstabbing to ask for a referral years later. I ignored each and every one of them.

I am not saying this is healthy at all and I well understand the problem is “me”, I would say I suffer from quite a bit of misanthropy against pretty much every coworker I ever had, and on top of that I am an extreme introvert, relationships forced upon me cause a lot of contempt. Fortunately I have a very small circle of people that I love (wife, blood family and a few good friends), so despite the misery of my comments I am not too unhappy when I’m not at work.

To be clear, I am not the one looking for part-time gigs, I have decided that the solution to my struggles is to become financially independent via above-average frugality and diligent savings/investing, and then withdraw from the obligations of modern work. Technically I am already there, just trying to find the courage to quit my current (and last) job.
I'm sorry, but the thrust of your earlier post was absolutely that the social sciences "have taken a pretty hard turn" and "might benefit from a renewed emphasis on methods that can result in generalizable findings", and that "a correction is warranted".

Pragmatically speaking, I'm unsure why you would choose this language if you wished to convey the nuance that qualitative methods are actually great, that you're merely wishing that more "empirical" studies would also be undertaken, where "empirical" I guess means "quantitative" and "rigorous" though you don't make that explicit.

For what it's worth, you absolutely can generalize from an observational case study. RCTs are not the only way of drawing generalizable conclusions—it depends a lot on what your epistemic goals are.

It kind of sounds like you don't like that some social sciences rely more on non-quantitative methods because you don't think those are definitive. That's fine, you're welcome to hold that belief, but let's not pretend like you're a fan of all methods and just wish there were a few more quantitative studies in sociology (or whichever discipline).
Adélie Linux 1.0-BETA6 Released
Last time I tried to find a Sceptre, the only things in stock were models that were several years old, with features comparable to TVs that were even older.
Part time makes sense for a company if it's a specialized role that they can't saturate with 40 hours of work per week but still need on an ongoing basis. E.g.

* Remote hands for 10s of racks at a datacenter

* SOC2/auditing paperwork

* Customer service

* DBA

* Accounting, HR, and other backoffice

For most other roles (e.g. developing product software), the company would rather onboard the minimal number of people to finish quickly, so they will want full-time. It's pretty rare that a company needs part-time work for a fixed-length project, but it's sometimes useful if it's a small part of a larger project. E.g. a designer could be part time on a typical web-dev project once implementation starts.

A really good tester would be awesome to hire for 1 hour per day, but it seems like that part of the industry is unfortunately a race to the bottom, so it's probably hard for talented people to get paid what they are worth.
FTC Revives the "Magna Carta of Small Business"
I'm not against replacing jq/jsonpath for the right tool, they're not the most ergonomic. What isn't clear to me though is why this isn't SQL? It's so nearly SQL, and seems to support almost identical semantics. I realise SQL isn't perfect, but the goal of this project isn't (I assume) to invent a new query language, but to make Kubernetes more easily queryable.
Show HN: Check your GitHub streak whenever you open a new tab and get motivated
It takes an expert to confidently delete a cat picture in a modern set-up. Why do we think we can unplug an AI running in the cloud?
I can't speak to your definition of what is political, but if hacker news was just a math forum there'd be no point of visiting it.

> history of science, new products

Ok you're just lying to yourself at this point if you think either of these topics can be divorced from "politics" in even the most facile context. People are gonna disagree about the history of science and whether or not a given product is worth the investment.
Very well said. Can relate to most of these.

To add, lot of us assembled our own PC. Though I didn't build one, I routinely opened the cabinet for upgrading RAM/HDD, or to transfer large files through HDD.I clearly remember when I upgraded RAM from 32MB to 64MB, the speed bump was incredible. After a while it became so frequent that I didn't bother to close the side panel.

A side effect was that computer getting bricked was a normal affair, so we all had boot Floppy disks at hand along with CDs of all the important softwares. In fact I would routinely install things from scratch to get rid of all the freeware stuff that clogged the CPU & RAM.

As you said we were living on the cusp of two revolutionary changes at once, PCs and internet.

I wonder what do youngsters of today look back 20 years down the line and have similar fond feeling & memories.
I think it is implied that conspiracy theories involving Epstein don't amount to much either. That whole approach doesn't amount to much.
making more than $100 per hour, post tax, puts you somewhere at $400k+ income per year. outside of FAANG this is nearly impossible. even within it it's not so easy lately.
ChatGPT’s math says that a picogram at 0.999c delivers about the energy of a strong human punch. Aside from issues of metal fatigue that wouldn’t seem like the thing to be most concerned with regardless of distance - the effect to me would seem closer to space rain (assuming you could dissipate the heat which seems like the bigger problem).

Dust is a concern but again the typical dust particle size would be about the power of a gun shot of a small caliber rifle. A problem to deal with but a rarer event still. Of course another challenge would be larger dust particles which while improbable are still possible which largely rules out humans in these craft. But that goes without saying since the acceleration to get to that speed would be unlikely something humans could withstand anyway.
Oh, right! I'll fix that after coffee, thanks!

Edit: fixed!
Ok so why did the scores change?
I think Grindr underwent a forced divestiture from its Chinese owners due to US gov as well.
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what if decieving them is what relieves the most suffering?
I think in this case as they are talking about force, it is a vector and implicitly imply direction. So antiparallel really means that the two force are pointing to opposite direction.