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Each year, my extended family goes on holiday at a remote piece of property we own. There are a few cabins on the property with enough technology to make life there convenient and comfortable: solar panels, refrigerator, electric lights, running water - but no internet and limited cellular coverage * . My family makes an effort to keep electronic devices off and out-of-the-way, or only used in a limited fashion (such as using a laptop for writing). I prefer to keep my phone off for the duration of my time there, which is typically 10-14 days. This would be unthinkable for me in my daily life, but without internet access it is easy.

The reduction in stress and increase in my happiness is quite profound. My stress levels are noticeably lower than on a typical holiday, and far lower than my normal levels. I attribute this partly to the lack of internet, and partly to the experience of being "close to nature". Possibly it is also the quiet and dark nights that lead to great sleep.

I don't think there is any change in my focus (which is quite poor). I read more than I usually do, but maybe that is just because there is no internet to read.

One other interesting factor is the air. The air is much fresher feeling. When I return to civilisation on the trip home, the air makes me feel sick. Eventually I adapt, or stop noticing how disgusting the polluted air is (and how loud car traffic is). I wonder if the air quality influences my mood at all.

During the voyage home, there is a point at which the data signals return. This leads to an amusing deluge of notifications on our phones. The most amazing thing is how little I care about any of it.

Normally I check notifications often. I sometimes even find myself checking my phone out of habit when there is no notification.

Similarly, I don't care at all that I missed 10+ days of activity on HN and Reddit. Why is it, then, that normally I feel like I have to check every day or I am somehow missing out?

Based on this, I think you will find it becomes easier to live without technology the longer you go without.

If you want to see someone who has taken this to an extreme, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir-s8KRN97Q

* In the past, there was no cellular service at all, but it seems that new towers were erected close enough to the property that it is possible to get a signal. In any case, it is not such a bad thing in case of emergencies.
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The real person is dead for years, but the science santa clause could have inspired kids for years to come.
The most sensitive fMRI methods don't do alignment at all, they do all data processing in the individual subject's brain space.
Highlighting text with a wikpedia link is a really useful feature. I wasn't aware it existed. How did you find out about it? Is there a list of such tricks somewhere on wikipedia?

The description of anytime computing reminded me of reservoir computing, but not for any specific reason, so here's a link with a highlight to reservoir computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_computing#:~:text=Re....

Another association is with Scott continuity from denotational semantics where algorithms are modeled as continuous functions on Scott domains. Like with anytime computing continuous functions converge gradually to their output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_theory#:~:text=Domain%2....
That reddit comment doesn't go into much depth, do you know if that 100gbps number is actually the sat to ground budget? IIRC, the majority of the starlink satellites' bandwidth is for sat to sat transmissions (routing data from other sats to the nearest ground station).

Edit: also IIRC, SpaceX said that Starlink will offer up plans up to 1Gbps
The streams of dollars are from different sources.

Defunding local police is easy, but there is no way to meaningfully take that money and meaningfully apply it to social purposes.
Heavily armed unidentified prison agents patrolling DC
Mostly correct, except it's only indirectly the surface of the "atom" - because of the way covalent bonding works, there's continuous electron density between atoms too. It's just that the region around the nucleus is the most electron-dense. And yes, those look like phenylalanine or tyrosine (amino acid) sidechains to me, both of which have a benzene ring at the core.

(For the record, there is also something called neutron crystallography, which works like X-ray crystallography except it's the nuclei that diffract, not the electron clouds - which allows you to visualize hydrogen atoms more directly, and even resolve the difference between hydrogen and deuterium. But it's another speciality technique, in part because neutron sources are so much weaker.)

EDIT: since I actually did some work on visualizing electron density maps on the web, here's an interactive view of an older X-ray structure (from 2003, at only 3Å resolution) that shows how a protein molecule fits into the density:
http://natechols.github.io/xtal.js/map_viewer.html
(click and hold the middle mouse button to pan through the molecule)
Moreover, imagine for just one second that github became the defacto way to interview candidates.

Now every candidate starts hacking their github full of all kinds of code, or even paying people to, or copying work to create a perfectly manicured "facebooked" version of what their work looks like (probably with fake timestamps too).

Suddenly that signal becomes entirely worthless too. I think tech has one the best interviewing processes of all industries.
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You could also just always specify the left-most point first.

If it should cross the meridian it would be easy to detect.
I agree a bit, I'm not certain exactly what their game is either. The one thing that feels consistent is the priority to endurance, to push for actions that are sustainable in the long run.

Of course, in the long run we are all dead anyway, so I'm not certain what's best!
At least at my location and with my carrier, 4G and 5G don't give anything close to those speeds
Are you speaking from experience of Clojure?
so if this passes and is a China only thing then a bifurcated internet we will have
I think part of the confusion stems from the choice of word. This is the definition of defund from the Oxford English Dictionary: "prevent from continuing to receive funds"

It doesn't mean "Reduce funding down to a much smaller level in order to ensure the police fulfil only essential functions, while raising health, social and housing spending"

I'm not sure which word would be a better choice, maybe there is none. But the literal meaning of defund suggests the proposal is to eliminate the police.
Why don't you get the adapter I linked to, then another HDMI to USB C to go to the monitor.
so Phone -> USB C (power into adapter) -> HDMI -> USB C -> Monitor
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> Github projects, OSS contributions, and StackOverflow questions, are imperfect measurements and can be inaccessible to a large number of developers.

I fundamentally reject this premise and your arguments are orthogonal (GitHub being banned in like Syria and most OSS projects being in English is just flimsy hand-waving).
I agree that there is fat to be cut, as with a lot of the government. That said, hasn't it been pretty well documented that these areas that experience the riots have a drop in police presence after the fact and typically have worse conditions? I just think this will have insidious externalities that wouldn't help the way people intend it to.
Bit of revisionist history. The EV1 only came about because California was passing laws requiring ~2% of vehicles sold in the state to be EV's by 1997. A regulation which GM campaigned against and then sold their interest in the battery technology to an oil company once they got it scuttled. The oil company proceeded to prohibit NiMH battery technology's use in vehicles through patent licensing and enforcement.

Tesla was only possible because Lithium Ion battery technology came along and supplanted NiMH. They also weren't motivated by government regulation so much as the desire of the founders to make it work.

In 5 years I would be willing to bet GM goes the way of every other company who killed newer technology in order to extend the market for their incumbent products.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_au...
German passport photos (until now) could be taken by those photo machines that are all over the place. Australia requires a printed photo that’s most easily taken at a shop but doesn’t have to be.

Disclaimers: it’s been 6 years and 2 years since I’ve had to do this.
1) There will always be "boring" work regardless of whether you run your own company or you are a Jr. Software Dev. When faced with boring work I always recommend: A) Challenge yourself do to this in the most excellent way possible: Is everything perfectly named? Layout is beautiful? Met all of the coding standards in place at your workplace? Is the change documented in end-user facing documentation? B) Could this be automated? If it is truly that mind-numbing and routine could you write scripts to do this with a few inputs? C) Can you delegate this to a more junior staff member?

2) Not sure "how" your manager is being "uncooperative"... Is he/she only giving you boring work? Sometimes managers dole out boring work if they think the person cannot handle more challenging tasks. Have you proven that you can be Excellent (See 1A) at all times? Have you nicely asked to be given the chance for a greater challenge?

It is going to be a tough "sell" to your manager if you are not completing boring tasks because you cannot focus on them. You'll probably need to prove your competence and excellence before you'll be granted tougher assignments.

Best of luck!
In Los Angeles at least, mail in voting aren't truly anonymous. Your ID is in the ballot and you have to provide your signature when mailing it, which is then verified with the records. So I have to trust that the ID is only used for verification only.
I think the most interesting bit about this is how wrong _everyone_ is on the highlighted metrics.

More data here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantcheva/files/slides_ae...

The extreme _regional_ wrongness about economic mobility is particularly interesting; people in places with higher mobility tend to somewhat downplay it; those in places with lower mobility tend to massively upplay it.
My understanding is that there are federal grants that are responsible for the militarization of municipal police, largely put in place by corrupt politicians wanting to court the vote of military contractors and their employees in their district. Can't find a source for this ATM though.

edit: here's a pretty lengthy academic article on the matter, see page 1803. https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?...
This got worse over the past 10 - 15 years, as people went optimization crazy.
All that will do is make the pile of bodies higher. The solutions are attainable and don’t involve violence.
Is there any evidence defunding the police will make the community safer? Is there a particular part of the police budget that should be cut?
Microprose is coming back soon. They are building a B-17 simulator for VR where a group of people work together in the bomber.
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My statement wasn't in defense of the military. Rather it was a defense of my fellow citizens in the south who were unfairly characterized in the parent comment.
Why Not Use Kubernetes?
I wouldn't say it's really that new, assuming an even distribution of passports over time, close to 40% of active US passports probably fall under those rules.
Good riddance, I guess?
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How to Write Manual Test Cases for API Testing?
Yes, there is.

Extract a piece of work from the project the new hire will be working on. Set up scaffolding and any boilerplate so that only have to implement one new feature (or fix one bug). Give it to another employee or yourself and solve it while recording how long it took. If someone that's familiar with the project took 4 hours, simplify. If someone that's unfamiliar with the project took 1-2 hours to solve, send it out to candidates.

If you can't do any of the above, you might have process issues that you need to solve prior to getting a new hire in the first place.

Oh, and if the take-home exercise is expected to take 4+ hours, pay the candidates to do the exercise.
I think he means that in the nature of the case liberals are most likely to be correct because liberalism generally aligns with the truth better than conservatism does.

As a conservative I would say conservatives (perhaps) err more often on low-level particulars whereas liberals tend to err on big picture, how-the-world-works issues.
An even better question would be, why would a domain registrar block your domain at all, if it isn't for a court order ? Is it really their duty to police content of websites hosted under the domains they are selling ?
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Clojure is a scam and Rich Hickey is a con artist.
Didn’t anyone loudly proclaim the conflict of interest?
Highly recommend the “Advisory Circular Project”[1]. It takes ADS-B data grabbed from a network of 3000 pi+gnu radios [2], analyzes them for aircraft flying in circles(!), and tweets out the images[3].

This is better than FlightAware as you are getting raw unfiltered ADS-B/Mode S/MLAT location data broadcast from the aircraft and aren’t filtering out position only flights.

Here is an instance of the California Highway Patrol observation plane circling downtown Oakland last night for some reason: https://twitter.com/skycirclessf/status/1268408145224720384?...

[1] https://gitlab.com/jjwiseman/advisory-circular/

[2] https://www.adsbexchange.com/

[3] https://twitter.com/skycirclesdc/status/1268332759358947328?...
Average police response time is 10 minutes. Violent criminals don't wait that long.

Edit: To be clear, this isn't a good reason to go out and buy a gun. We already know that the help isn't coming, which is why the police should focus on real crimes.
How do you intend to deal with developers that have little to no Github activity?
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Looks like a reliable signal is to count how many deaths above average happened for a particular month, for example here in St. Petersburg, Russia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/04/st-petersburg-...
> Now every candidate starts hacking their github full of all kinds of code, or even paying people to, or copying work to create a perfectly manicured "facebooked" version of what their work looks like (probably with fake timestamps too).

I'm of the opinion that going over someone's GitHub code (asking about design decisions, language alternatives, testing, algorithm choices) during an interview is probably orders of magnitutde more valuable than having them implement a linked list. But to each their own.
I live in the Bay Area, which as you probably know has a shortage of new housing construction. The town I live in has a councilmember that is a staunch opponent of state-level housing regulations and regularly votes against new housing projects in the town (or votes for less units, more difficulties on the developer, etc.)

Surprise surprise, the councilmember, and her husband, are both realtors with a personal interest in keeping the housing market tight. And of course, no recusals when it comes to discussing policies or issues that she would benefit from as a realtor.

The number of conflicts of interest at the municipal level is crazy, to the point of being depressing sometimes.
Companies have a right to attempt to protect their IP
So what you're implying is that if everyone had everything they needed (perhaps prescribed by someone else), then we would need little or no policing? No cuts, no bandage!
This reminds me of the movie "The Invention of Lying" where everyone was truly honest until someone decided they could get away with whatever they wanted.
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The "People's Budget"? The folks calling for defunding are small in number and do not represent the views of all or even most of the "People". I don't want to see the police defunded, nor do most reasonable people around me. Here in Seattle, given the sharp increase in property crimes and blight over the last ten years, I would like to see the opposite - increased policing and increased prosecution. It's an especially big problem since most people are so jaded from the total lack of police response, that they simply no longer report property crimes.

We've already hamstrung our justice system due to calls from activists. For example, the city regularly releases criminals instead of sentencing them, which resulted in infuriating situations, like a man with 74 prior convictions including 15 assaults being released, only to then throw hot coffee at a toddler (https://komonews.com/news/project-seattle/no-felony-charges-...). Reducing policing simply further removes disincentives for crime, beyond what we've done already, and will remove all the good we get from policing as well.

The calls for "community programs" also seem incredibly vague and wasteful, and are unlikely to provide any substitute for the societal safety that comes from enforcing laws. Instead, I suggest we focus on more nuanced and precise actions - like banning or altering training around carotid artery holds, like banning no-knock raids, like having always-on body cams, like revisiting qualified immunity (https://fee.org/articles/to-curtail-police-impunity-rep-just...), etc.
My mom was obsessed with providing Section 8 housing and low income housing, the tenants were a mess every single time. I was put off on the entire concept and hassle of real estate, until I was exposed to inner city luxury housing. Which is priced in its own privileged tier to even get started as an investor.

Of course it comes down to the people, regardless of the psychological incentives. But maybe the incentives promote some poor behaviors enough that its such a shared experience of poor behaving tenants.
Have you looked into Calyx? Might be a good solution for you if you can get Sprint 4G coverage in your area and it’s actually unlimited.

https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet
I do think that software engineering is setting a very good example of knowledge sharing and helping others grow their skillset. However, we definitely aren't alone in this effort. For example, I've been learning woodworking exclusively through dozens of YouTubers who have spent hours upon hours creating videos filled with valuable wisdom and advice for free. I'm certain we can find examples in various other fields as well. Perhaps our efforts are just most visible because we happen to be comprised of a bunch of internet savvy folks.
This is my point: sometimes 20 year old Windows software doesn't work. What you're seeing is evidence that it is the exception rather than the rule because people expect it to work because it usually does.

In the Linux world, the community is pretty actively hostile to people simply wanting to run software not in the repo let alone originally compiled 20 years ago.
To be clear, "defunding" here doesn't mean to zero, just defunding most.

As the chart shows, reducing a city's police spending from 53.8% to 5.72%.

I mean... I'm actually shocked to hear that policing is a majority of the budget. That seems wild. Surely a twentieth of the budget is more in line with legitimate needs to fight crime?
Watch Swedish cops restrain a belligerent on the nyc subway. They take him down, then keep asking him if he's ok. Why can't American cops be like this? Why do they talk about "hitting them hard" rather than just "make sure they're ok"? Why is the default relationship adversarial?
You got a bad taste because Java tastes bad. :) Almost any other statically typed language will be more pleasant than Java. Java barely counts at all, in my biased opinion, because null references are so pervasive. OCaml is a better intro (or if you're into the new hotness, Rust). But yes, tooling helps too.
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He's notable as a thinker and speaker about programming, quite apart from Clojure. The idea pool is the same, but that's true of any thinker.

It's a bad argument regardless. Plenty of figures in intellectual history are notable because of one big thing they created, and I'm sure most have Wikipedia pages. Alas I'm blanking on examples just now.
This is a really good point. Local elections may be even more important, and are definitely easier to have an impact on. Local governments also - from my anecdotal impression - seem to have a lot more corruption, probably because they often go ignored.
Honestly that's kind of yikes.
That probably just adds extra complexity, and there are better ways to deliver VMs.
just a bit of website critique. your menu wraps on my 1920x1080 screen.

Contact wraps to the next line
i'm all for people’s budgets over police-oriented budgets. yesterday's take two† had councilman mike bonin talking about LA's budget, also calling out the increases in police budget relative to cuts in services that could soften the economic devastation we've seen this year.

incidentally, the covid response (lockdowns, fear-driven justifications, selective enforcement) and the protest response (needless curfews, calling in the national guard, selective protection) has really revealed LA mayor garcetti's weakness as a leader, someone who runs to use of force at the slightest provocation. with such authoritarian tendencies, he needs to exit stage left.

† https://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2020/06/03/20895/
anyone use https://www.rcdevs.com/products/spankey/ ?
The ballot also has an unique ID, perhaps is not tied to your name, but there is nothing that would prevent that. The ID is known when it is marked to you.
IP is theft
Probably hinges on mandatory ID: once you have that, the passport is hardly more than a copy into a slightly different medium.
sudo vim /etc/hosts

include the lines:

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

127.0.0.1 www.nytimes.com

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

127.0.0.1 www.cnn.com
Take-homes, other OSS contributions, StackOverflow activity... GitHub isn't the only code outlet in the world. If I'd hire a writer, I'd like to see writing samples. If I hire a coder, I want to see coding samples.
Most likely nobody knows. This is unfortunately what happens when local newspapers disappear; there's no one else around to discover this stuff.
There are currently no sat to sat transmissions, so it's all sat to ground and ground to sat.

Sat to ground and ground to sat use different frequencies so I would guess it can do roughly that speed in both directions simultaneously. There are also separate frequencies for ground stations and for user terminals, and I believe the implication was this was for user terminals. The number was just obtained by someone implying around 20gbps on the 0.9 sats and later on someone else saying something about 4-5x the speed on these sats. It's not official or likely to be particularly accurate.
That is essentially my point with the exception that there are things that are inherently L2 and thus you don't want to bother with IP or for that mater any other L3 protocol.
The curfew was ordered by the mayor, an elected official (LA in the case of the video you linked), not the police.
Look, I get it if the domain itself in its entirety is malicious. For example, someone mimicking a bank website or using it to distribute malware. This seems different.
> Defunding the police is a great idea.

People saying this live in secure, peaceful suburbs( obviously).
Weird. In Sweden its required to have your picture taken by a machine at the police office where you apply for the passport.