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>Royal Mail chairman Keith Williams... said first-class stamps will have to rise “considerably” to pay for Royal Mail deliveries on Saturday.

>He said: “The cost to us is driven in part by [the fact that the] volume of letters has declined. You're delivering the same number of letters over six days when you could be doing it over five. So that is forcing up stamp prices.”

This is the same argument Royal Mail always trot out. It conveniently ignores the fact that, while it's true that people are writing and sending less letters than they used to, the volume of other 'stuff' being sent through the mail has gone up about eleventy billion percent in recent years, thanks to the amount of online shopping being done.

If Royal Mail can't turn a profit in this kind of market, they shouldn't be in business.
I think parent is implying that Musk is using Twitter as a misinformation tool. Misinformation about government agencies such as health, SEC, FBI, etc.
restic is great and simple to use. Use it for archiving my backups to Google Cloud Storage.
I park outside. My garage is also a shop. I guess that I didn’t let the car soak in the cold snap, last week; I usually plug it in when I get home, since this is more convenient for me.
Eh, to a first approximation the FAA won't let you crash the planes. It's been 13 years since there was a fatal plane crash on a US passenger airline.
In the less-famous-than-they-ought-to-be words of Victoria Nuland, "Fuck the EU" [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGq_Xvzn_3I
We already draw a line: those under 18 can't vote. The main problem it seems is that we don't know when someone will die. /s
I'm not sure I understand.

I can be conscious of the existence of the rock. Doesn't mean that I am the rock.

Each interaction has different participants that are conscious of each other in their own ways.
I’ve seen it many times but had to reverify when seeing your comment.
The opposition parties in India like AAP and Congress are also playing a dirty game as they have investment in some of these companies, instead they blame random one off days like Diwali for fireworks to take the attention off this plastic and crop stubble burning
Do standards organizations tend to release/sell/provide any sort of “test harness” that vendors can use to validate their implementations against? Some coworkers and I recently authored an open API standard to be implemented by external vendors, and the test harness we released alongside it was the single most valuable tool we could possibly have provided to speed partner integrations/catch problems early.
Thanks, and that’s an interesting idea! What do you mean when you say economic framework? I’ve been wary of economic models because they tend to oversimplify and become “confidence artifacts”, so I’ve thought of this more as a toolset for thinking through problems (meant to add some templates for putting it into practice but it was getting quite long, maybe next post!). Looking into “Product Flow”, any other framework examples to look at?
MitM on android works very well if you just use an app without a browser view. Android don't tell you that the certificate was changed and the app developer usually don't care to pin the certificate or check for the issuer. When using a random wifi, use a vpn just to be sure.
It's not just urban areas where housing prices have skyrocketed but suburban as well. There's no reason du & tri plexes are illegal in so many suburban areas
I've had these exact thoughts in my head XD. I agree that a lot of other jobs deserve higher pay but aren't given higher pay due to economical reasons.
Reliability. Borg has been around for a long time, and is far more mature.

I wouldn’t trust my backups to Kopia (unless for experimentation).
That can still be ridiculously profitable if the output is good enough and general enough. The human mind has insane leverage, especially in the modern world.

For example, Newton / Leibnitz's invention of calculus created much more than enough value to pay for every single mathematician ever since, and that wasn't even all they did.
> Who thought he had technical chops?

Many, many people liked Musk, or called him more credible, for being the one CEO who also knows engineering. It also made him aspirational or a role model for many engineering types. It's a bit like when people mention that Angela Merkel has a PhD in quantum chemistry, it confers legitimacy in context.

The difference, of course, is that Merkel also actually has her degree.
I looked and I'm running 1.30.0. It wants to update every time I start it, but I just say no and it runs (slowly) but fine.
I read "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist" this year, and the authors make great points. The ones that stuck with me the most are those regarding Kant's scepticism.
H&R Block used to give you any of their clients' tax returns with SSN, last name, and ZIP Code. I think this form of authentication is extremely common.

The big problem with asking for SSN+DOB or SSN+ZIP or even SSN+Name is these are highly correlated. SSNs are issued in order by date, in tranches given to each hospital, which gives you a fair chance of guessing a ZIP. Once you have a ZIP and a year you can also make informed guesses as to last name.
restic also seems to have better Windows support.

Borg can can run in WSL but has seen limited testing under such, per their own docs.
It's actually not that bad since the only thing on the other end is a transducer that's already rated for a lot of current. It's just rather dangerous to have powered audio signals on exposed copper so you generally don't hot swap the things. It's not so bad for amps since the cables are very short and inaccessible, but for stage monitors you can accidentally unplug it on stage.
In such a safety-critical system, it's important to have backups. You need at least two cameras to accurately estimate depth, and cameras can fail for a variety of reasons (sun glare, low lighting, heavy fog). Radar, at the very least, is a backup for the cameras. Also, with vision, the best you can do is estimate distance, whereas with radar and LIDAR you are explicitly measuring it.
I hate that I might actually use this service. It feels really mean but I have to deal with my health insurance company and their complete inability to process a five figure medical claim that I have in writing from the company is covered and I had to pay out of pocket for. I’ve just been out the money for going on 4 months now and no movement despite the “we’ll process it in a month.”
The battle is lost the moment data is collected. It will be leaked, misused, stolen etc. The question is not IF, the question is WHEN.

All the laws, promises, good intentions etc are not worth the paper they are written on. If there is data to be stolen, it will be stolen.
I'm a KDE user who really likes the classic Oxygen theme, and it's annoying when certain applications (e.g. Eclipse) just look way out of place. I managed to find a decent GTK port of the theme so even Emacs and Firefox are quite well-behaved.

No idea what a Windows app looks like, though, I recently fixed my grandfather's Windows 8 laptop and immediately gave up trying to understand how theming is meant to work.
Afaik elogind itself does not provide full seat management. That said, seatd[1] exists. I believe that it should work with kmscon, but I haven't tried.

It'd be nice to make elogind/seatd/etc. work for this use case if it doesn't today.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd/
Thats true I definitely don’t know all the details of SS, just that it makes up an obscene amount of my yearly taxes (13%). So would you pay into the trust if it was optional? Why can’t I defer my SS payments by paying an equal amount into my 401k? If the purpose is to prevent society having to support elderly workers who failed to save anything that would also tick the box, but then the govt wouldn’t get to touch the money.
It would appear the author is expressing concern that the board is not focusing sufficiently on removing the actual blight on academia. Scraping the woke off the top is not enough. In this context, it likely means just getting rid of the usually University faire: bigoted admission policies, bigoted language from university leaders, racial preference, "diversity for diversity's sake", forcing gender studies classes on non-gender studies majors, etc.

Getting rid of these blights would certainly make the university more liberal in the truest sense of the word. However, you have to go deeper and clean the rot from within. Once the top has been scraped clean you now need to go into academia itself and root out the same problems. Not just the problem of what can be called "militant diversity initiatives" but even more so the problems that exist in research, grant funding, choices for tenure, election procedures for positions of power, etc. Not only do these suffer from the same "surface wokeness" but they also give large amounts of money based on so-called diversity quotas. To be truly a liberal institution this must be stopped. Worse, that is just simply the start.

It sounds like the current board liked the idea of scraping the wokeness off the surface but otherwise wanted to keep the same ole system in place. I tend to agree with the author. With the core rot left in place, the surface will become blighted again. Academia is basically a matryoshka of pseudo-intellectual progressive virtue signaling today. Academic politics resembles a twitter argument more than a meeting of the minds to advance humanity. To decompose this matryoshka it'll take more than just a wave of a wand.
Airlines don't have quarterly gains. They regularly go bankrupt and get picked up again, because the country needs airlines and because they have large union contracts.

See any gains here?

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/LUV:NYSE?window=5Y
In this alternate future, HBO Time Warner maintains a force of elite counterassassins to protect their interest in George RR Martin's IP, the 10 year mark having long passed.
Let me respond as a developer with admittedly no taste at all, who both committed and fixed plenty of atrocities:

Just like security, design is one of these things where snake oil salesmen are everywhere, to the point that finding a good one without becoming a designer yourself is hard. I also notice you identify as an artist, not a psychologist, which seems the wrong approach to me.

So what will happen if I let designers loose on my program? They might have real insight and improve things a lot. Or maybe they'll go all artsy and put lipstick on the pig, leaving me with an even worse program in lovely pastels? Or maybe they'll dumb down an interface in an attempt to create a granny-safe rocket launch pad, leaving the actual rocket engineers frustrated? Or they'll just move stuff around for the sake of moving stuff around, creating a lot of busywork and forcing user retraining without any upside. I've seen all these things happen.

So what is your advise to this dev? How do I get designers that actually improve the design?
We have an anti-Russian-government song that says

You don't know your place and where you belong,
you mess with Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia
Army of bandits and a band of orcs,
meanwhile your own country looks like Mordor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAKa4w2jv9w
Probably the main reason for this confusion is the lack of a good definition of “intelligence”. Basically no consensus if you browse the associated Wikipedia page. Of course the definition is also bogged down in human-centered history, assuming that humans are at the pinnacle of some contrived intelligence scale and placing other animals below us. I’m sure the genius philosophers who came up with this scale would’ve placed themselves at the pinnacle within humans as well.

Tacking “artificial” on top of that doesn’t make it any clearer.

My understanding of the taxonomy of these things within CS is that AI is a broad class of techniques for problem solving. Machine learning is a subset of those techniques which uses data and statistical methods. Non-ML AI is sometimes called GOFAI (“good old-fashioned AI”).
If you don’t want other humans to remix information you have broadcasted, then don’t broadcast in the first place. It’s not like you haven’t been using other people’s ideas in your “original” work.
Ah, why so gloomy. Solving this probably comes down to 1) sensors, and 2) computational power available in a car. The sensors used in Teslas were a joke last time I looked (low res, bad low light performance, not enough cameras probably), certainly we can do better? And Moore‘s law is still alive in a way, allowing stunning progress like demonstrated in Chat-GPT. Ever-growing car batteries will also allow for way more power draw for computing. I expect vast improvements in the next few years. Maybe we can get from „drives like a drunk teenager“ to „drives like an overly cautious grandparent“ at least.
Yes, but. Most real world engineers could also be software engineers too. I studied Mechanical Engineering and had to learn Fortran and Pascal as part of my undergrad. What I find strange is that some of the best software engineers are not as strong at Math as you would expect. Of course there are exceptions (and no doubt they are all here on HN!). So while real world engineers can cross the divide to become software engineers, the reverse is not the case in a lot of instances.
What's an airline got to do with the free market? They're a extremely highly regulated business.
I forgot the other part of my reasoning: my hints only work for me. If I am incapacitated in a way that affects my password recall the hints won't mean shit to my family.
Indeed! Programming pre-hardware is not a time of my career I want to repeat. I’m no Lovelace— I need to see my code run to know it’s correct.
Same, but I have the full-sized plug-in clippers. They're probably about 20 years old. I've been wearing a buzz cut for a long time, and also use them to "shave".

I will use a real razor if I'm going to a formal event or something, but for daily use the clippers work fine.

I've replaced the blades once. Normally I'm pretty good at sharpening stuff, but I wasn't satisfied with my attempt on the clipper blades (too many tiny blades, and if they aren't super sharp they pull the hair instead of cutting it... not fun).
Developer uses iOS 16 exploit to change system font without jailbreak
I've wanted to write a small text editor for a while - cause I feel like most editors don't fit my workflow - but I've been a bit too busy with work.

I don't really care about fancy features or extensions. Let me just create "tasks" (for compiling and such) and let me execute these tasks with a single button, then let me see the output from these tasks that eventually execute some application/compiler etc. That'll let me use it for any language and task.

I'd also preferably like to use I J K L as the cursor keys and toggle "Mode" (VIM style) with TAB.

And the whole thing should just run in your terminal, which can already render text nicely.
--> One of the devices contained biometric data on more than 2600 people, some of which had entries such as "Volunteer Background Checks," "Host Nation Police," or "Host Nation Military."

https://twitter.com/BR_AILab/status/1607707952147992579
I'm not sure why this would be seen as a talking point for right-wing politics.

The Canadian healthcare system is broken (I say this as a progressive-left Canadian).

The answer to people wanting to kill themselves because they can't easily get treatment for their depression, or other life issues, is to offer more support.

That's something Canada isn't doing.

I support MAiD, but it seems like there are a large number of people using it who would be better served by other social programs.
Yeah, one would think post-Brexit and post-pandemic and post-Russian invasion of Ukraine people would in general be more aware of interdependence in trade, finance, manufacturing, etc. but apparently not. (Yes, they did say that before WWI, and today it's a million times more intertwined)
What if you use the plastic as a foundation or filler covered by a layer of asphalt?just curious if it’s possible to elongate the plastic tire interface and eliminate pulverization
I respect your opinion but would only suggest some context/details be appropriate instead of a one-word comment
Historically a lot of progress was made in these areas and what they are able to do is amazing, but I dissagree that it is necessarily harder today.

Many engineers in all disciplines do things that are relatively easy and some of them also do novel things that are hard.

I don't think that is different in software.
Aka "Shut up and calculate" interpretation of QM. But yes, an interpretation is only needed because we need to square the theory with our intuition. Once we say that our intuition is hopelessly wrong, interpretation is not needed
It sounds like the claim is GoDaddy themselves are squatting on domains their customers fail to re-register. According to previous reports they also do this to domains prospective customers search for.
Maybe they could have a link in the popup?

I wonder if you could start an online cables boutique that just sold tested and reviewed cables and cable management with a 50% markup for people who just don't want to deal with it.
Lots of places take Amazon returns and do something similar. There's an auction house near me that regularly auctions pallets of returns from amazon. A relative of mine used to run a store where she'd buy those pallets and repair the items and resale them. Usually most things are returned work fine, or are missing something you could get from lowes.

Amazon doesn't test a lot of their returns and they get sent out like that.

Bargain Hunt's business model is entirely reselling amazon returns.
I tried using a power-only USB cable for data once, then tossed it back in the bin. Later, tried it again, back in the bin. I think on the 5th try, months later, I finally threw it away.

Also, Dial-Up/Ethernet pairs seem to be too complex? Each house I bring my Ethernet/wire Tester+Detector to, somewhere I find a rat's nest of copper cable. Just today I found an Ethernet cable that connects 4/8 to nearby the router, and the other 2 Pairs of wire terminate in a Dial Up cable in another room!?
Aren't there a bunch of statistics that show stagnation for the great many over recent decades?

Averages might be going up, but they are averages: an attempt to boil down a large number of data points into a single number.
There are, at this point, I would have to assume, databases with those in them available for purchase or download. No need to use statistics and guesses.
...he said that “solving” FSD is “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money and being worth basically zero."

Why? As a consumer, I would be thrilled with an affordable vehicle with a powerful and reliable electric drivetrain, top-of-class range, comfortable features and sensible UI, and flawless fit-and-finish.

That should be what the company strives for in the medium term. Stop the fixation on tech that's a decade+ out and magnet for lawsuits and penalties from regulators. Make the best made-for-human vehicles out there, and become the most successful auto manufacturer. Keep working on moonshots but treat them as such.
This is illegal under the Outer Space Treaty. I'm tempted to say it's a joke but Elon may be able to outmaneuver whoever would enforce that treaty.
I didn't say anything about "the information collected and organized in files and databases". And I don't think businesses find your fingerprints very helpful in selling you things.

Mostly the value in tracking you comes from profiling you, i.e. building relationships between facts, mostly metadata about what you do over time. But biometrics aren't metadata and aren't what you do.

I did mention "discrimination" but redacting data in case future governments are racist isn't all that useful; they're the government, you can't hide from them, and since discrimination isn't based on real objective categories then you can't predict what it will be based on. There's no biometric for being a Cagot.
Working pretty good in North Korea.
Nord Stream AG is a Swiss holding company. Try a little harder next time. And the Russians have only been hostile towards the far-right controlled Ukrainian government (which murdered over 10k of its own Russian-speaking civilians in the Eastern oblasts before February 2022), not Germany.
Shameless plug to my own project: https://GitHub.com/trane-project/trane

Dependency relationships between exercises are core to its design.

I tried to use Anki but this limitation is pretty baked into Anki and made it unusable for cases where there's a clear order in which things must be learned (music in my case).
"In Computer Science, we stand on each other's feet."

-- Brian K. Reid
I definitely support assisted suicide, but not for economic reasons. If someone feels helpless because they can't afford a house or food that should be given to them. I think we're a little ahead of the curve here because we don't have robust safety nets yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xsVORMDqU0
This is a great video on the topic from Canadians, it's 90mins but has good info and different perspectives
Not all of it, just enough of it to move the bottleneck somewhere else. A factory is always bottlenecked by something, sales if nothing else
That depends on your city pair.

Boston to Las Vegas, Orlando, or San Francisco, I’ve got a wide variety of choices, 2-4 carriers flying more than that non-stops per day.

Flying from Des Moines to Presque Isle, Maine, I have only a bunch of 2 and 3 stops on United.
Embeddedipsec: IPsec for Embedded Systems
So in your world when I go to the mall. I buy an iPhone from a cellphone store. Id have no confidence on it being the Apple iPhone.
I recommend to take a look at the research paper because it has a few drawing that show how the Cl- and H+ [1] are connected with the molecules of the solvent. I like Lowe's post very much, but this really need a few graphics.

[1] Note that the H+ is never alone. It's too difficult to remove that electron from the Hydrogen, so H+ is a shorthand for something more complicated.
Oh my sweet summer child, you think civil, electrical and mechanical engineering are clean, ethical businesses? You don't get started in any serious EE work without signing manufacturer NDAs. Half the reason why our devices are so locked down is because of the hardware manufacturers. Behind beautiful skyscrapers are legions of corruption, middlemen, and organized crime. The cloud may hold your data hostage but the pricing is at least somewhat transparent. Mechanical engineering have their own ways of enforcing lock-in. You can't easily swap out a supplier just because you can see what a part looks like. Be glad that software isn't as regulated, you would not like to work in a industry where trade groups decide everything, and where licensing and accreditation unions are used to keep engineers in line like cattle.
Does Tesla genuinely have a value on a par with all other car manufacturers combined? [1]

And if not, do you have faith that others can be made to hold the bag with "Tesla is worth that much" written on the side long enough for you to profit and exit?

[1]: especially as many of these manufacturers also have competent, if memetically unexciting, electric programmes, and also have proven manufacturing capacity and ability, pre-made global sales networks and CEOs who aren't spending hours a day starting flame wars on Twitter.