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> Also, if all it takes to mess with altimeters is a rogue 5G cell, the right approach is to harden the altimeters, instead of hoping no 5G cell ever will be misconfigured or pushed wrong configuation parameters by a enemy country or ransomware hacker group.

Wow, that is a lot of misconception about the threat model and real issue at hand packed into a single sentence.

First of all, great, let's say you're right. How do you harden the existing altimeters out there, equipped on thousands of aircraft? These are sensitive, tightly controlled and life-critical instruments. Radar altimeters have been in use for decades, almost a century now, and so the FAA is for the most part talking about already installed altimeters which were designed far before 5G was ever a thing. Likely most of their designs will not readily accommodate hardening against new kinds of RF interference. If you managed to patch all the different kinds out there and get fixes pushed out, that'd be a great effort in labor, logistics, and certification. Of course, one could simply replace the old radar altimeters with new ones, at a much greater cost too.

Separately from the difficulty of actual hardening, there's the question to be asked of, why ask old technology to adapt to new one when we can adapt the new technology to suit the old? Especially because, again, these are safety critical instruments that you don't wanna mess with, whereas 5G towers are much better suited to new experiments or fixes, or just being designed correctly and safely from the get go when the technology hasn't even launched yet.

And then, why do you think this is a security issue, as in an attacker aiming to disrupt air travel? You must be aware that most all aviation radio comms are in the clear and extremely easy to jam and spoof, including critical instrument systems like ILS. That is not the threat model! The FAA is worried about interference from ordinary people trying to use their cellphones, rather than a specialized attacker targeting radar altimeters. Of course, because these are two very different situations!
Could be true. That's unrelated to the hype cycle, though, except that we won't see any of the future you're envisioning until we get past the hype stage.
Ironically, the example they give (using lsof's source to learn how to list open ports), while open source, requires an apple-private entitlement to run with modern macOS security protections.
Provided an outlet for some thoughts, mainly.
In example: a REST API for a mobile app
I understand, the person above says they have a non-VoLTE phone, which will make voice calls on 2G or 3G.
Antibiotics, poor diet over time. I wonder if alcohol has any effect too.
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Tell HN: Please stop blocking my form submissions with client-side validations
Okay, I’m not talking to _you_ specifically (unless I am), but for the love of whatever gets you up in the morning: stop blocking form submissions with client-side validations.

It absolutely blows my mind how frequently I cannot submit login forms after auto-filling from a password manager. I’ve gone as far as to memorize the last character of some randomly generated passwords for certain offenders because I have to literally delete the last autofilled character and then retype it to remove the “you must enter a password” validation.

Seriously, just stop disabling forms on the client-side! Your server _needs_ to handle these cases anyways. Just let me idiotically submit my autofilled password and then yell at me later if it’s really not there.

Thank you.
Well, I wrote rights protected by the Constitution. Reproductive rights aren't protected by the Constitution, and look what happened there.
It's not exclusive to programming or "tech", but computers are so pervasive while most folks' eyes glaze over at the simplest tasks.

There are lots of folks who don't know how to check their oil or check their tire pressure (or even whether they have a jack and a spare), but in the US we do have a general expectation that folks know how to do those things, so most folks learn.

With computers or "tech", there are almost no expectations that folks should be able to do any maintenance or troubleshooting, so most folks don't learn. This is why "Is it plugged in" has to be the first question.

Software developers don't always make it easier, but our expectations for users are also too low.
I can already feel it dramatically increasing my personal productivity. I expect it's going to eventually lead to a 2x or 3x time productivity increase for software engineering generally (if not more).

Will that result in less demand for software engineers? I doubt it. I think it will lead to companies and organizations doing way more software engineering.

I was going to use the old "ATMs resulted in more jobs for bank tellers example", but apparently that particular example is flawed: https://www.vox.com/2017/5/8/15584268/eric-schmidt-alphabet-...
How does it require less implementation? It's just another arbitrary point in time and 2106 is too late.
Great insight! Thanks!
> My symptoms are just gastro related, so it’s probably not the same as childhood peanut allergies, though.

Maybe it's food intolerance, which is distinct from food allergy? Those I'm sure can develop later in life.
Every BigCo I’ve worked at (and I’ve worked at places that put the B in Big) people aren’t sitting on their hands because there isn’t way more to do than they can feasibly do. It’s usually because they’re fundamentally illsuited for the job and sitting on their hands is better than being homeless, or the people who are illsuited for their jobs feel anxious about being homeless so force everyone into meetings and team building and off sites and retrospectives and sprint planning and burn down chart analysis and whatever else they can conceive of that seems productive but doesn’t change production in any way. To that extent at least an AI would be left alone to write actual code, and those folks can have their endless meetings and still justify their job the same way they ever did. No AI will ever host a breakout session at an offsite to discuss strategy for getting people to work in the horrific hotel seating dehumanized office, they’re too capable.
> No, the AP and the device both have a strong interest to limit the power used: not just to limit interference with other devices inside the home, but also to increase battery life!!

For home routers this is a weak argument. Since most people download more than they upload, you could probably send a weaker signal from mobile devices and drown the air with signal from anything plugged into a wall socket.

> I just don't understand why most posters here assume the worst by default. Most people are nice and want to obey the law.

Maybe it's just where I live, but I don't see that on the road (people risking accidents to gain 30 seconds). People will only follow the law if they think it's worth their inconvenience and lots of people weight this in a bad way.

How many hand-tuned APs does it take to make a whole building lose significant bandwidth? After this the regulation has to become looser so the legal devices can keep working, and it never really gets better.
Maybe it's because I'm a less experienced programmer, but I find I have a lot of trouble understanding source code if I'm not trying to find or change something specific. I can't read it like a book, I have to experiment with it.
the comment may be superficial and dismissive without pointing out factual issues, but ad hominem attacks are still a very different thing than dismissing the credibility of a publication that has a track record of misleading pop science sensationalism
Black holes destroy nearby quantum superpositions, thought experiment reveals
Worryingly?

Why would that be a bad thing?
My guess is they are using Intel CNVi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNVi), which moves some of the WiFi/Bluetooth hardware into the CPU/Chipset. It saves money.
But do you agree that majority of the software jobs are replaceable in foreseeable future?
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It takes a lot to lose one's driver's license. You can be found guilty of vehicular manslaughter and the idea of losing a license is seen as inhumane - as if that's what's going to ruin one's life. "How will they get to work? How will they do any other daily activity? We couldn't do that to them!"
In my experience, neither urban or rural communities are impersonal.

Suburbs, however, are dystopian soul destroying hellscapes. Simultaneously parasites feeding off of the prosperous urban areas while desecrating previously productive lands.

Urban and rural peoples are natural allies, kept apart by pro suburbanite propaganda. The American Dream™ was presented as McMansions, endless pavement, strip malls, and 2 SUVs in every garage.
GPT-4's mathematical abilities are exceptionally good compared to GPT-3.5.
https://www.starlink.com/

Apart from the name, what you mentioned is not a new app idea, there are hundreds of such platforms. Why is it yours different?
are there caves there? seems like a road trip is in order
What a mess. I guess without all the necessary context tissue that is required to make them work this is little more than a tumor. I wonder what they thought would happen.
I don’t typically read to understand anything in depth unless im doing something like that. But just poking around the folder structure, seeing what the api looks like, the background jobs (usually pretty descriptive in their names), database structure, etc gives you a good feel for high level functionality and then more importantly when you want to answer a more specific question you know right where to go look.

Sometimes a question will come up during a meeting, nobody knows the answer, so I’ll just pull up the source and because it’s already handy and since I know the structure I can find the answer in a matter of seconds.
>Killing Horizons Decohere Quantum Superpositions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00026
You're conflating two different things -- the law, and the concepts of right and wrong.

But the majority of the things people think of as "rights" do, in fact, come from the law. "The law" is just us collectively deciding what the rules we live by are.

There is a small set of fundamental human rights, but that's a bit of a different thing and I think it's very hard to argue that driving a vehicle on public roads is one of them.
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unfortunately "read the code" doesn't always mean "understand the code".

You can get lost in certain codebases.
No, there's no need to apologise! That region is now a very strongly Czech-identifying one, but before the end of WW2[0] had a significant German minority who quite possibly bootstrapped the Pilsner style. So I don't think single modern-day nationality has a claim on its origin. It's maybe just interesting to know that "Pilsner" refers to a style of beer that originated in present-day Plzeň (a lovely wee city) but plenty of places can credibly claim to make "Pilsner" style beer, including Germany.

Apologies if it sounded like I was scolding, I didn't mean it that way at all :)

[0] - this is actually a fairly divisive issue to this day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_from_Czec...
"Doing and threatening violence" seems to encapsulate the American fetish for pickup trucks nicely.
I hear you. For what it's worth, I do specifically caution against the nostalgia-driven rose-tinting (https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1631746051295117313).

A few other notes.

1. I don't think the point of design and color and a rich visual culture is just to be "not boring" and "erratic" and look at me! I'm so random! It's closer to why we appreciate public art installations, beautiful architecture, well-designed parks. So on. If we spend a large chunk of our lives online -- whether or not that is good, is a separate discussion -- then I believe we should care a great deal about how that space is presented. Whether we feel it's inhabited by other people, instead of mega-corps -- is important. Imagine if the real world became just a super-sized mega-mall.

2. We absolutely /should/ focus on the list of concerns you mentioned. I don't think it's either/or though (I'm happy to hear arguments for why they're mutually exclusive). I am, as part of mmm.page, working on a few things that will help people create private spaces just for their friends.

Let me know if that addresses your concerns.
I was admitted "voluntarily", and it wasn't a whole lot better. I went willingly, and then when I started having second thoughts they basically told me to either sign the consent form or they'd do things the hard way. I didn't face any direct abuse, but the whole framework was organized around achieving compliance, not remission. Some people working there seemed to actually care, but they also had no actual power to improve things.

It's not a great situation to be in, and I absolutely would lie to a mental health professional to avoid going through it again.
Wasp is a pretty interesting project. Actually waiting until they are not react-only (if that will ever happen).
But could we observe the effects? Can there be particles which have mass and therefore exhibit gravitation but which are subject to reverse entropy? We would observe these for example as an unexplainable increase in gravitational pull on observable matter without an observable source of that gravitation and without a preceding cause.

Are photons themselves stratling this entropic boundary since they travel at the speed of light and within their own reference frame are not subject to the passage of time?
Maybe, and I don't know the details. I just have a hard time seeing how something like Graveyard Keeper doesn't load nearly instantly.
Not sure what your trying to accomplish with this pseudo-philosophical word salad. You've went through whataboutism, strawman, continuum fallacy and still haven't stated any sort of conclusion while topping it off with some example of corruption. It would be fun if it wasn't sad.

The gist of it is that you're making a very forced equivalence between a nation state doing a total mobilization within the boundaries of its laws to a nation state forcing another nation state to not do something (join NATO, the EU, etc..), outside the boundaries of the law, using warfare. One of those is not like the other.
It's already in your quote: They say they are going to publish the filters. Not the code that bypasses them.
1. Helped me get thoughts out of my head that are churning too much

2. Help me organize thoughts as I try to write them in a way that's helpful for other people

3. Allowed me to drop links into a chat with someone asking questions I've been asked before

4. Functioned as a memory bank when I forget how to do something I've done before

5. Functions as a scrapbook for when I want to reflect on a trip or something

I don't have a cool story about being hired or whatever like other people. I think around 2000 people navigate to the blog a year, mostly to a post going into a great amount of detail about my emacs blog post. The follow up most visited is a post I made about buying a Grand Seiko which is quite bereft so I have no idea why it's so popular, I have way better posts lol.

Kind of feeds my theory that a good way to get people reading / watching is to get a niche and stick in there. Possibly the Grand Seiko post gets so much volume because Grand Seiko's marketing is stupidly bad and seems to be completely dependant on content creators. So making content about them would fill somewhat of a vacuum.
Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts
I like that, multiplicative value because you can self-apply the lessons you applied to your product. Thanks for sharing the knowledge then.
At least... F&SF is the other subscription I just lost :)
Agreed on the first two sentences.

Regarding the third, I don't think the human mind is the gold standard for reasoning. My point: one key goal is perfect reasoning, not human reasoning.

Getting reasoning wrong in the multifarious ways humans have found is arguably harder than perfect reasoning.
Oh, please.

I don't even really have a beef with trucks used in the countryside. My main beef is their use in the city as commuting vehicles, where the vast majority of them have never, and will never, be used as a truck.

In that setting, trucks are a nuisance and danger to everyone else without any rational reason for being.
It's my impression that RationalWiki and rationalism are quite orthogonal.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WYzZ3bxctEJ2q6HFQ/what-are-y...

But I agree with your comment otherwise.
They will fix this, its already fixed in the pixel 7 pro, and it should be fixed on any gpone with march 2023 patch level.
On #2, it's not just headlight elevation -- it's bumper height. Imagine that truck on 44s with a 4" lift kit and 2" body lift crashing into a standard car. If you guessed that their bumper would go through the rear window of whatever they crashed into, you'd be right. At worst, they'd shear the top off the car they crashed into, possibly decapitating the occupants.

A common reason to lift trucks is to fit larger tires. Larger tires roll further with each revolution. Many trucks with larger tires DO NOT also have larger brakes. That makes braking performance worse. Running soft mud tires on the highway and not changing them when they inevitably wear down after just a few thousand miles also yields worse performance. Combine this with the added top-heavy nature, suspension with more travel, worse visibility, and "king of the road" attitudes that many lifted truck drivers bring, and it's not hard to see that this is a recipe for disaster.

It's literally illegal in many places, but the enforcement is so lax that everyone gets away with it https://www.motortrend.com/features/0601st-truck-lift-kit-st...

I really wish that at least California would crack down on vehicle inspections and actually start refusing to register these vehicles, fine the owners, and make them reverse the mods or scrap the vehicle. If you want to build an off-road Tonka truck, get a side by side which is way more capable anyway, or get something with adjustable suspension and swap out the wheels and tires.

Lastly, it's also infuriating how many vehicle owners, but especially truck drivers, remove their catalytic converters and/or mod their diesel truck to not require Diesel exhaust fluid. When they register the vehicle for use on public roads, they agree to adhere to emissions standards. They then renege on this agreement. It's only fair, then, to disallow them to operate that vehicle on public roads, to stop them from polluting the public air that we all must breath at a rate far beyond what they agreed to. I don't wager that many folks appreciate hearing their loud exhaust at all hours of the day, either. We have a few neighbors in our suburb with big loud trucks and for some reason they love flooring them every time as they turn the corners in the subdivision. I'd love to see all those vehicles get crushed for repeated inspection failures, and that's probably the level we'd need to go to given the widespread flouting of the law that we currently see.
Ah, so that's what the mystery creature in one of my local restaurants is.

I just assumed jackalope.
Why would I want to read about science in Vice, as someone actually interested in physics, but knowledgeable enough to understand a talented science communicator(with a PhD in the field) like Sean Carroll or Rebecca Smethurst.

What purpose does it serve to write sloppy interpretations of complicated, likely to not pan out hypotheses(almost always the case) on quantum mechanics?

So if this doesn't pan out, all they accomplished was that now a bunch of people are walking around with wrong information.

If it does, then we'll find out eventually anyway.

Science journalism is not useful to scientists, not helpful to nerds like me and for the masses it only contributes to misinformation and miseducation.

There are plenty of talented communicators with advanced degrees in their fields that can do this job better, and journalists should go do their jobs which is the opposite of regularly misinforming the public(inb4 cynical reply hurr durr journalists always misinform about everything <direction> wing media herp derp. Not interested.)
The video goes over all the arguments. Trucks have bad visibility, encourage reckless driving, and wreck smaller cars/pedestrians during collisions. This isn't "hating", these are serious problems.

Trucks are popular specifically because of government meddling. Importing smaller and cheaper transport vehicles like vans is impossible because of import fees. Trucks also don't have to adhere to emissions and crash safety regulations which means trucks are cheap relative to cars. If we leveled the regulatory playing field trucks wouldn't be nearly as popular.
How is it ad hominem to say that somebody's comment is excessively harsh to somebody, but not ad hominem to say that somebody's comment is attacking somebody? They're extremely similar sentiments, and I personally wouldn't categorize either as ad hominem for the same reason — a person is distinct from the tone of their comment.
Tidal implies cyclical, so no. This is accretive in a sense, but not in any gradual way.
Given how emphatic he is about everything, the answer is clearly no.
If I was reverse engineering a program and I saw this I think I might just quit and rethink my life.
I have built plenty of complicated things that were much more than glue. Even for those, coding was far from a bottleneck. Because coding is easy.

In fact, all the complicated software anecdotes I could give were things that ChatGPT wouldn't even touch. In the realm of design and scaling and fault tolerance and other such things.
its unfortunate that ESR has always been a little snooty, but I guess that's what gave him the gumption to go publish and maintain all this internet history.
Oh, just knee-kapping them.
Maybe the urbanism fight is tiring because people realize what they would have to give up in order to achieve the urbanist vision -- especially their trucks and SUVs.

Selling a positive vision rather than shaming people and trying to take things away from them would help.
I see a lot of irony in this.

When Chomsky proposed generative grammars, his theory of universal language acquisition, and so on, they were radical ideas that upturned the central cannon of linguistics.

Time has been on his side - entire schools and subfields of linguistics went extinct as more evidence emerged that Chomsky was fundamentally right. Basically every computer language and data format in existence is parsed/lexed in ways inspired by his models of language.

But now Chomsky is considered the stodgy old establishment, and whenever one of his theories is contradicted somewhere on the margins people shout "Aha! He was wrong the whole time!" and ignore the 99% of cases where his models are still the best ones we have.
I read far too much news/politics articles and I'd like to read more books instead. How do I go about doing this? The novelty of news and perhaps the uncertainty of rewards (slot machine syndrome) makes it appealing.
The hypothesis I have encountered is that time would reverse when the expansion of the universe peaked and started to collapse back in on itself. The next big bang would start another run of our universe. I'm guessing the randomness in quantum fluctuations would allow this next run to evolve somewhat differently from the one we are experiencing.