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I disabled notifications for every app on my iPhone aside from Phone, Messages, and an app that tells me when I left my car door unlocked.

I deleted all apps that distracted me, Instagram, Facebook, Firefox, Email, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Telegram. I check the ones I care about on my laptop/desktop. I deactivated my Instagram/Facebook because I kept logging back into them and scrolling for a bit -- not for very long, but any free moment I'd look for entertainment there.

Any time I need some app, e.g. YouTube to show a video to a friend, or Uber to catch a ride, I'll download it and delete it once I'm done with my task.

I've found that my screen time has gone down drastically. I used to spend 3 hours a day on Instagram, Facebook, Hacker News. Now I spend closer to .75-1.5 hours, with about 50% of that being very difficult to trim down because it's mostly useful (1:1 texting, finding music on Spotify, using Maps). I still have HN, xkcd, and the NYT for reading, but that's not much more than 15-20 minutes of my day, which I think is acceptable.

I also put my phone in grayscale with reduced white point. This makes it much less enjoyable to read, and reduced white point makes it much more difficult to see/use, which reduces the time I spend.

It's a lot of effort, but it's so easy to get sucked into your phone. Every little moment when I'm bored I'd pull it out and look for something. It's so much more valuable to be doing nothing, and to not be controlled by little notifications on my phone when something happens.

I wish I could get an absolutely stripped down iPhone. I want Maps, Spotify, Messages, Phone, CarPlay, and that's about it. Maybe it would let me switch profiles for travel that has extra apps, or to some entertainment mode with a time-delay (e.g. if I wait 5 minutes I can open up Netflix). Something like the Light Phone [0] seems interesting, but not having CarPlay is a non-starter because I find it so useful. I suppose I could have two iPhones -- one for everyday carry that is barebones, and a second with the rest of my apps that I can keep in a drawer 95% of the day, but that sounds just so wasteful.

[0]: https://www.thelightphone.com/
> We never see any elected politician complaining about military spending, however.

You see it happen all the time. That's part of the broken incentive structure that led to the F35 in the first place. Politicians cancelled or curtailed the B-1, B-2, F-22, A-12, and V-22 just to name a handful off the top of my head. The B-1 and V-22 got uncancelled, and the B-2 and F-22 programs produced significantly fewer aircraft than they originally intended to (thus making these programs more expensive on a per-unit basis since the R&D couldn't be amortized effectively).

Therefore the F35 was intended to fit the requirements of three separate services (protecting it from interservice rivalry and more broadly amortizing the R&D expense) as well as exported to several allies (in order to further amortize R&D and make it safer politically). If there was the political capital necessary for a Harrier successor to be funded on its own, it wouldn't have been rolled into the F35.

> However, if you insist on a criticism in the proper jargon, F35 will never, ever, regardless of how much is spent, be as capable at close air support as the vastly less expensive A10 "Warthog".

This is not actually true. The A-10 is a death trap that is notorious for creating friendly fire casualties. The machine gun isn't effective against armored vehicles, and if you fly the plane low enough to use the machine gun, you're basically committing suicide against modern anti-aircraft weapons. Other than that, it's basically a missile truck, which lots of other planes can do with better accuracy and survivability. Even Ukraine doesn't want it.
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The US commentary team is so terrible... It has all the energy of a golf tournament.

I really miss Jack and Dario on the world feed.
One thing I learned from the obituary on Scott Aaronson's blog (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6622) is that Juris Hartmanis proved in 1965 (as a very early result in his career) that there are infinitely many separate complexity classes (both for time complexity and space complexity) for decidable computational problems.

That is, for every problem that takes a certain amount of computational resources to solve correctly in general, there is always a harder (still solvable) problem that takes asymptotically more resources than that one. There is no hardest problem.

That doesn't necessarily say anything about whether these problems would be of practical interest to human beings, but conceptually, there is an infinite hierarchy of complexity classes, and there can never been an algorithmic discovery that would make all of them equally hard to solve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_hierarchy_theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_hierarchy_theorem

Aaronson says that this guaranteed that "that the [then] new field of computational complexity theory would have a subject matter". He also notes that Richard Lipton and Ken Regan say that Hartmanis actually pioneered the concept of studying problems systematically in terms of the complexity classes they fall into.

Hartmanis's original co-author, Richard Stearns, is still alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Stearns
The few races I watched were just silly. The tracks were so narrow and had too many 90 degree turns, it was just painful to watch. No flow. Nothing interesting happening.
Researchers found that people spent longer choosing between options that were roughly equal in value than between options in which there was a large value disparity.

“Value” here means how much participants said they would be willing to pay for each item at the start of the study.

When shown a disfavored food alongside a favored food, people chose fast. When shown a favored food alongside another favored food, people took a while. But this is irrational (at least in the economic sense).

When making decisions, we spend too much time choosing between options with roughly equal utility.

How is this a paradox. I don't get it. Of course, if having to choose between a king-size KitKat vs. kid size Reece's or kid size Snicker's most will choose the KitKat because it's bigger, but otherwise will deliberate longer between the roughly equally-sized candy. Because they are not homogenous except for size. If they were identical, then it would be the same. Food has many other values besides utility, such as taste, which cannot be inspected in the same way size can be.
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Depends on your local area and broadcaster (just like F1TV); here in the UK, Channel 4 has it either broadcast live on YouTube, or in their 4 On Demand app. (Or both.)
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Recently Raspberry Pi got so expensive. I'd rather buy second-hand Thin Desktops off ebays. I ordered Lenovo ThinkCentre m720q in spring and they serve me well. $300 with x86. I can add however much RAM or hard drive I'd like (32G RAM + 2*1T SSD).
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NYC back in early 2000's had a West Nile Virus scare so gov did extensive aerial spraying of pesticides for many months ... that was the end of mosquitoes... gov publicized the nighttime spraying back then, not today yet the city continues to be mosquito free ... my guess is the pesticides they use has contributed to the abject loss of most insect species not just in the city but in upstate NY as well ... the NYC watershed covers several hundred miles into upstate where insects are simply absent today in comparison to decades ago
All in then? :D
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A lot of what you've written resonates with how I used to think.

While I don't find NASCAR very interesting, I no longer think of it as "turning left for a million laps", since track position (i.e. high, middle, low) is actually a subtle, tactical game. Also, as I'm sure you know, "turning", in any racing, is never as simple as just turning the wheel; race drivers also use the brakes and throttle to turn, and there's enormous subtlety in this. The skill in NASCAR (or IndyCar oval racing) is in carefully observing your opponents, and noticing the small mistakes they consistently make, which you can then, skillfully, convert into gaining positions. Having said that, I hate the way American broadcasters cover racing, and the biggest draw of NASCAR is absolutely the spectacular crashes, which I'm not a fan of either. So, it's not for me, but I do respect the drivers.

Having said that, yes, FE has a long way to go before they are reliably producing exciting races. But they recently started racing on the same Monaco circuit layout as F1, and that race is reliably more exciting than F1's Monaco GP. If you watch no other FE races, ever, I'll nevertheless recommend watching the Monaco ePrix (dumb name), if only to see how good a race can be around those streets (something F1 will never demonstrate ever again).
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> What are your sources for the cow info?

Having raised cows and some Googling. Your numbers are for dairy cows and not meat cows. Dairy cows consume a ton of water because they are intended to produce a liquid nearly non-stop, and while they are eventually slaughtered for meat it mostly ends up in dog food.
You do realise the earth is at the very end of an interglacial period? The purpose of "stopping global warming" is not to stop the earth warming. Stopping warming would be as bad as global warming. Reversing warming would be much worse. We want to slow it, not stop it.

Global warming is the (as usual incredibly well-chosen) name for the rate of increase in temperature going up way too fast. The purpose is to stretch the next 100 years of warming at the current rates to call it 2000 years of warming. To make it take longer. Not to stop it, and not to reverse it. The ideal global warming changes will keep warming the planet, just much slower than is currently happening.

The problem is I'm going to get downvoted for this, as there is an anti-global-warming "theory" that says we're at the start of the next ice age. And like all good lies, it's essentially true. In the next few thousand years an ice age should start. The name global warming, however, means that if possible it'd be nice if all the remaining progress to the next ice age didn't happen in ~200 years.
> Tokyo Disneyland’s wildlife control program must have extended to more than just mosquitos.

Between this comment and one part of the thread above your post, this makes me think that “broad-spectrum pest management” is an inadvertent side effect of the methods used by Disney.
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Every year when they detect west nile in my neighborhood, they start driving trucks around once a week spraying concentrated poison directly into the air.

They don't even put up signs to tell us what day to close our windows, or that they are doing it at all.
Your being downvoted, but i agree. Chemically treating someone's plants without telling them is not ok.

Doubly so if they are intending to use it for food purposes.
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It's definitely possible. This 2001 CART race was cancelled due to concerns about driver safety because of high sustained g-forces. And that was just an open wheel racer like an Indy car.

> There was fear of the possibility that drivers could suffer "grey-outs" or lose consciousness from g-LOC. It is also likely that the high g-loads would have been outside the design limits for the HANS device, which was required for all CART races at oval tracks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Firehawk_600
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Too many tabs is overwhelming. I know for myself when the tab count gets high it's a sign that my mind is cluttered, I'm unfocused, and I need to prune and centre myself again.
Bookmarks are one way, but I mainly just use the search bar directly for history. Things to read later are put into Pocket or linked in Obsidian notes or somewhere more relevant.
Oh, man, does this bring back memories. Mostly good ones. When machines were expensive and programming labor was cheap.
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Good thing he didn’t do it and it was only a thoughtcrime
Does anyone know what they do for malware and virus detection / protection? There are a lot of commercial products but they are all quite opaque in how they work, vendors don't discuss the cpu/latency impacts of their solutions (or perhaps they don't know what these impacts even are...). Would be great to know if there was something or what approaches Google takes to protect themselves and their employees.
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9 in 10 businesses fail within the first year. And another 9 in 10 fail the following years. The odds aren't great. Also now your customers are your boss. You don't necessarily have more freedom.
> First of, Tesla is buying massively from Panasonic, LG and CATL.

i.e. competing with everyone else for the same pie

> I can believe how little credit Tesla is getting for literally turning into a battery company over just a few years. Their batteries are gone give them a huge advantage in margin.

Probably because they aren't a very good battery company yet. they haven't even started mining or refining their own lithium, and they have yet to volume produce their own chemistry.

> Tesla makes that many in less then 6 month. And there is a large difference between signing a supply agreement and actually getting it. The lithium industry had scaling problems and pretty much all expert suggest a shortage is coming.

Tesla will have the exact same problem given they have no mining or refining operations. Even if their volume production goes well they will be fighting over the same lithium as everyone else.

> For Ford to get all those materials, it requires a huge number of supply expedition projects to go correctly and that is not at all guaranteed.

My understanding is that those supplies are pretty much entirely from 3rd party suppliers and don't include their in-house battery production which is slated to start later. But hey, maybe they lied to investors about the supply and if so they will pay the price.

> Not sure where you got this from, but its false.

Bloomberg Intelligence, and the actual claim is that they will outproduce them, not just have the supply to: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/volkswagen-to-overta...

> Andt Tesla has some of the most interesting research in that direction.

I will believe it when I see anything from battery day 2020 materialize.
Part of why it is so difficult is that these C-level executives have mastered the art of sounding good with minimal set of accomplishments. Sometimes I listen to these presentations and it feels like a solid story and presentation, but there is nothing behind their rodeo when you sit back and dig deeper. A fucking mirage.

It's not the person who does excellent work that gets promoted or climb up the corporate ladder, but the person who knows how to sell their work, as sad as this is.
I agree, I was trying to examine how plausible it was from a very simplistic model, which is why I said "ignoring other very important constraints". It sounded implausible on the face of it, as it might require cars to be leaving the assembly line at freeway speeds, but it wasn't quite that bad in reality. There are plenty of other things which make it very unlikely/implausible though, such as market demand, as you note.
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Its also a bit of a relative thing.

People who haven't lived in a mosquito infested area (e.g. Northern Canada or Alaska) have no concept of what "a lot of mosquitos" mean, and will talk about seeing a lot of mosquitos, which other people would consider an undetectable amount.
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Amazon has a serious counterfeiting problem. They need to clean house.
I used to think this was a tall tale. In my culture, they call it "sweet blood" when mosquitos go after certain people. But it is for real!
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That's a problem of electric technology not being good enough to have a Formula E race at Spa or Monza that lasts more than a few laps. But I think that's the goal of the series, and they're slowly moving closer and closer to that goal.

I'm not watching yet, but I'm optimistic about its future.
Kind of a garden path sentence.

Could just remove "when it comes to" and the sentence would read much better.
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I think a good way to do EV racing would be to use batteries with relatively small capacities, but very high power density. (Maybe supercaps?) There'd be a section of the track where the car can recharge without stopping by making physical contact with overhead lines or metal plates embedded in the road or something like that.

The battery would have enough capacity to do maybe a couple laps. So, you could slow down in the "charging section" to fully charge, or you could go faster or pass the slow cars by bypassing the charging section altogether, but then you'd have to budget your energy more carefully and maybe have to spend longer charging next lap.

It'd be interesting to set up a track like this for racing radio-controlled cars.
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How did you find these opportunities? I'm looking but having a hard time finding non-profits hiring "Software Engineer" on job sites.
Radiation hardening is commonly done by triplicating everything, and taking/resyncing the majority result.

(At least for FPGA-based satellites. I'm sure there are many varied approaches at play these days.)
TLDR: I don't know. :)

The configuration was just a file. The file format was standardized to allow any modem to work I believe, so in theory someone could replace the configuration file without much effort. The ISP would know the CM MAC, possibly another identifier (it's been a while, I don't recall everything), to know what services/speeds to allow for a particular customer, and know which config to send them. If the ISP just make the filename for a customer the CM's MAC, it would be easy to replace for just one user. If it looked up which configuration to supply a customer from a database, you'd need to tweak that. As the configuration selection gets more complex, you might just get hackers replacing a config shared by hundreds or thousands of customers... the massive uptick in traffic that would cause would likely cause trouble. No idea how quickly they'd find the replaced config, but if it was affecting everyone on the same plan, I imagine they'd clue in pretty quick.

I'm not aware of how people abused the system or how the ISP configuration side was generally done, but it sounds plausible. What I don't recall if is the downstream bandwidth is actually listed in the CM config, since only the CMTS needs to know the limit on what it can send, or what upstream bandwidth to allow. A CM can request to download whatever it wants, but the CMTS will throttle your downstream and upstream bandwidth however it wants. If it's in the config, and if the CMTS reads and uses the same config, then sure.

Even if they were separate configs, and the CMTS config was non-standard, people may also just just copied the higher-end CMTS config over top of the lower-end one. Who knows.

But yeah, if you did it in a way that affected everyone, you'd probably cause enough trouble to get noticed pretty quickly.
Weirdly, the article links to all of the competitors _except_ one: Mahindra, the Indian automaker.

For completeness, here's their site: https://www.mahindraracing.com/
Personally, I’d expect to lose access to data if I stopped paying for it. As a good practice, the company could make it read only for some time before archiving it (what happens if I sign up again!).

Archival storage is so cheap these days that it doesn’t make sense to delete customer data unless they ask, or you are in B2B.
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What are the odds? A couple of hours after I posted my comment above I got a WhatsApp message saying that my aunt was in the ICU. She died minutes later. This stuff happens.
Oh, I'm sure it's flawed. However, their AI-generated prices did tell them to get out of the market, and despite their stated reasons at the time it looks like they decided to leave the home-buying business suspiciously close to the top.
Might be a bit of a misunderstanding here. We’re not providing a sim world for you to do ML training on. Caladan would actually be a pretty terrible tool for that - it’s a static low-res environment without any other agents.

In Caladan we’re giving you a whole autonomous robot (in sim) that you can order around via a simple API.

In our use case the 5-10% that I’m talking about is really hard, but most teams / projects run out of funding before they get to that point (because making the robot, and making it autonomous, is so time and cost intensive it dominates the project).