Just for comparison, some data (2011-2018) for some USA states [1], show an even higher number:
> In 24 states-accounting for 51.9% of the U.S. population-591,402 emergency involuntary detentions were recorded in 2014, the most recent year with most states reporting, a crude rate of 357 per 100,000.
Notably, California with 400/100k. Florida with 900/100k. I think the why would make these numbers more interesting. How many are drug detox/recovery?
But by their own admission, other than for two states they don’t uniquely count people, it’s counting admissions. That could skew the numbers meaningfully.
Yeah, I think this is a big factor. I only know maybe 1 or 2 people who had been committed. They definitely have multiple commitments though. That seems to make sense as it's similar to some other medical issues where once you have one problem there can be second admissions if it's unresolved or encounter secondary issues.
That's fascinating because those percentages almost match exactly the incarceration rates of those two states. Florida imprisons away its problems at double the rate (if they can't just bus them to Oregon).
> I don't see them as different to any other company, really.
My point was in response to this. The idea is the available pool for a specific job may not match that of the general population. Different companies have different ratios of different jobs. So, assuming all things are equal, the diversity at different companies can only match the diversity of the qualified pool of workers. In that sense, different companies will be different.
For example, according to those statistics, Costco should be more diverse than, say, Netflix.
I'm software, but towards the hardware side of things, for decades, in silicon valley and elsewhere. I've worked with (as in, in the whole org) exactly zero software/firmware, and only one black hardware engineer (born and raised in Nigeria). I've interviewed a couple hundred people at this point, with only one being black.
Where I've been, trying to get some DEI policy to influence who's hired would be impossible, since the panel has to agree, and there's no way they would agree to someone not qualified. Even with pressure like "we really need to hire someone before end of month or we'll lose the req", the response has always been "find better people then".
He did not. It would be worth re-reading his comment. He's pointing out that we do have technology that could help with containment: quickly identify fires, communicate their location, and dispatch some local water carriers. He's also surmising that the cost of keeping these active would be less than the cost of damages, which could very well be true.
Something like a Reaper drone, which he specifically mentions, works fine in the wind, as do the water carriers, that fly at hundreds of miles an hour, that have been actively helping this whole time.
I think this is probably all true, but probably not the future since it would require a competent state government who embraces tech.
Putting the cameras on flying platforms actually limits their functionality because the platforms have to be refueled/recharged and rotated out on a constant basis.
Water carriers fly close to the ground and make sharp turns because they need to pick up water and make targeted drops, so they are heavily affected by the wind. The water carriers weren't able to start flying until late this morning/early this afternoon due to the winds being too strong (>75+mph gusts).
This is functionally identical to the capacitive approach. Pressing the button charges the cap whose voltage decays when released (starts the timer). If the button is pressed before it decays below the "release" threshold (timer expires), the cap is recharged (timer restarted).
Loosely related, my HiSense TV has a wifi remote that apparently sends separate key up and down events to the TV. If the wifi happens to go down while you're holding the volume up button, it never sees the "key up" so will just hold whatever button indefinitely, including the volume button, which is how I discovered it.
This is done before the SFP+ module sees the signal, but the module makes the design assumption that it is being done. It is right for 10G ethernet, it is wrong (at a certain time scale) for SPDIF.
In 10G ethernet phy's, it's a multiplicative (self-synchronizing) scramblers [1] and does not use line code. From what I remember, it's statistically fine, and plays into LDPC correction easier.
A way to quantify this doesn't immediately come to my mind. Maybe reasonable metrics would be:
1. What % misleading/false posts are flagged
2. What % of those flagged are given meaningful context/corrections that are accurate.
It seems there's circular logic of first determining truth with 1, and then maybe something to do with a "trust"/quality poll with 2. I suspect a good measurement would be very similar to the actual community notes implementation, since both of those are the goal of the system [1].
I think this is a race that Apple doesn't know it's part of. Apple has something that happens to work well for AI, as a side effect of having a nice GPU with lots of fast shared memory. It's not marketed for inference.
> In 24 states-accounting for 51.9% of the U.S. population-591,402 emergency involuntary detentions were recorded in 2014, the most recent year with most states reporting, a crude rate of 357 per 100,000.
Notably, California with 400/100k. Florida with 900/100k. I think the why would make these numbers more interesting. How many are drug detox/recovery?
[1] https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/epdf/10.1176/appi.ps.201900...
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