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There are some low-hanging fruit that isn't implemented. Just today I was in a food court that has categories that aren't clear for the common items disposed in a food court. Identically shaped rectangular hole does for garbage vs recycling, and why do the cylindrical bottles not go in the round one? We would do much better if we optimized for clearly marking where the high volume recycling goes and minimizing false positives going in.
The core team endorses everything, not only pip, but good luck finding an example setup.py with example repositories from any of the documentation pages you find on Google. It’s results 1-3 and is always marked Obsolete.

The communication on what to do is a disaster. Look at non obsolete https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-p... - my dude, their pyproject.toml doesn’t even specify a dependencies section, which is 99% of the value proposition of packaging.
> which I understand as roughly “the human mind is a collection of looping programs with these characteristics”

uh ... the center of Hofstadter's worldview, which he re-enunciated later in "I am a strange loop" is almost precisely the opposite of Hegel's persepective. Hofstadter came to see the idea of "heterarchical systems" as central to creativity and, in his opinion, consciousness. These systems are precisely not what Hegel describes, with "each level building on what came before it", but instead the levels are functionally and physically entangled so that "higher level" ones can intimately and profoundly impact "lower level" ones and vice versa.
This article and title are extremely misleading. It’s not 3 weeks of 24-hour days. It’s 21 ‘contact days’, i.e. days in which contact was made with the healthcare system. By this definition a pregnant woman probably spends 2 ‘weeks’ on health care just in prenatal visits.
Are there any doubts that the bulk of future (at least urban) car usage will be car-on-demand rather than individual ownership? If so, something like Uber has differentiated based on quality or capacity, rather than brand of vehicle. And Apple is very much a brand-focused company. So I'm wondering what the educated guesses are about a future that reconciles these two facets. Are we calling an Apple car to the airport in the future? Are they anticipating a large enough gap between self-driving cars and an increased drift away from car ownership that they get 10-20 years from that, and then migrate to car-as-service?
> don't provide a button to re-trigger reselection of "selected photos"

iOS Settings should have an app setting menu to "Edit Selected Photos".
state mandated insurance shouldn't be legal unless either the states or the insurance companies themselves carry the entire risk.

Car Insurance in the US has turned into a tax on the poor.

I don't mind the idea of insurance, but I do mind the idea of insurance companies trying to lessen their risk by getting the state to mandate everyone needs to pay for it. If someone is paying insurance and the other driver doesn't carry insurance and doesn't have the money to sue for it, that's the risk of doing business as an insurance company.

It's regulatory capture, plain and simple.

And lets not even get started on police enforcing it and writing tickets or impounding vehicles of people who don't have insurance. Who doesn't carry insurance? Those who cannot afford to. The state is literally causing harm here.
When my last android died in a freak accident all I had was a spare iPhone mini. I find simply not having a good screen size for reading has cut down on my usage by easily half. I suspect e-ink phone users probably have similar effective phone aversion.

iPhone text prediction constantly messing with me didn’t help either. I’m sure it’s tunable somewhere, I just don’t care anymore.
You can substitute it with any addiction. Try replacing it with porn instead. It doesn’t matter. Your analysis is cruel and lacks empathy into how addiction actually works.

You wouldn’t tell a depressed person to just stop being depressed either and that they lack the discipline to be happy.
Music downloads became viable a lot earlier, and so the companies are a decade+ ahead on the dealing with sharing angle.
The strategy that has worked for me so far is to delete all any addicting app (entertainment, social media, etc) that has a web version. I still can access them with browser, but the experience is not the same, so after a while, I get bored, and close them.
Rally car lighting systems have more in common with aircraft lights. The landing lights on a 757 are standard GE units with 600w, 28v, bulbs, costing $50, that produce 750k candle power. Narrow beam. As bright as the sun. Wider beamed taxi and runway turnoff lights still use 450w.
Who Wouldn't Enjoy Torturing Lawyers?
Having no secrets seem like ideal end goal. Especially for the true top dog. True awesomeness should be witnessed.

Secrets are for the weak.
But that's discussed in the article as well. Hb levels vary within an individual as well. Timing the transfusion so that Hb levels return to within "normal" physiological range (which is quite wide) would not be detectable and would not disqualify.
wildfire insurance isn't saving lives, the state does that via fire departments.
I took a lot of seniors to and from their health care appointments when I was taxi driving. After a while I started to try to get them to chuckle about their predicament of being tossed from specialist to specialist. The system I observed made no effort to put people's health problems into context.

Last year I went on a few doctors visits with two seniors. The one lady to her visit with the substitute PA. All she got was a referral to an endocrinologist, which went nowhere, as there is no endocrinologist in our rural community. The next visit was to the practice's new MD. After a few minutes of watching the doctor's efforts to pull something meaningful out of the woman's EHR, I informed the doctor that the woman had gotten 'sad' after her partner died about a year before (stopped eating well, etc). The whole visit changed - the MD was able to acknowledge the person in front of him. Then he went back to thinking about a drug to treat the woman's complaint about anxiety, when it was perfectly obvious to me that exhaustion was her actual problem. At least he didn't put her on benzodiazepines.

The other senior's appointment was a surgery consult. The doctor considered the X-rays, said "this is exactly why you're hurting" and "surgery is the only way you'll have any quality of life". Perfectly reasonable, from his limited perspective. At the end the surgeon asked the patient if he had any other health problems. "No." I knew better, but didn't say anything.

Prasad's law [0] describes the how our health care system is incentivized to provide expensive medicine instead of interventions patients actually need.

I've been thinking about 'the predicaments of old people' for 10 years, since one of passenger delivered a lesson to me about his neighbors. The essence of seniors' predicaments is that they can't be honest with their doctors because they'll be shamed, and their doctors wouldn't know how to help them anyways.

[0] "Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law”" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864
I sort of assume that when you aren't a SaaS and you aren't phoning home, the old rules still basically apply. However, making SaaS the normal model of business closes this off for many companies.
Also see some excellent comments on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1aigom1/the_th...
It's funny how reality tends to "test your resolve" with things like that.

I've got a flip phone (Sonim XP3+) with a viable camera in it. It's not amazing, but it's more than good enough to document stuff like that, and I can send things with a computer when I get back home (though admittedly, I carry a powered off laptop with me often enough - that plus tethering off my phone gets me a backup for just about everything I could want, though I almost never use it).

Or just carry a cheap point-n-shoot digital camera in your bag. I've started doing that too - the rugged/tough variety are well suited to banging around with you until you need them for something.
Group three depends on means, motive, and opportunity.
i agree with almost everyone's takes in this thread. one thing to note - stop talking about where you get your isos.
Mobile devices have hooked a lot of people who weren't interested in desktops or laptops. They also created the ability to use the internet or play games in places people would have been unlikely to use computing devices before, like at a restaurant or on the bus. I’d ask how much it’s related TV, but on the other hand I often see people doing both at once.
I hacked a few IKEA air quality sensors so, beyond their traffic-light color LEDs, they also log actual numeric measurements to Home Assistant. It's proving to be one of the more useful "ensmartiffication" for several reasons - including being able to check all the meters from one place on the go, and being able to position the device so its LED indicator isn't annoying my wife at night. But honestly, I wouldn't actually buy a smart device for this - soldering a NodeMCU into a cheap IKEA device is the sweet spot of relatively low skill required, and zero bullshit included.

I can't stand vendor apps. They're always garbage. In fact, the main reason I set up Home Assistant, and the main reason my wife embraced it and uses it daily, is because hooking up our A/C to it made it infinitely more useful than having it operated over the vendor shit app. With HA, either of us can reconfigure all A/Cs and then go and make tea or whatever, in time it took the official vendor app to fully open.

IoT is a disaster, Home Assistant and some tinkering is the only thing that makes it reasonable to have a smart device.
This mantra has served me well for the past five years: My phone is there when I need it, not when the infinity of the internet wants my attention.

My work/friends/family have gotten used to the full-time Do Not Disturb. They can call me if they need me, which my Garmin watch will show.
Uber turned into taxis, but worse.

Airbnb turned into hotels, buts worse.

This is "disruption."
I do this too.

Of course, the companies fight back, e.g. Facebook messaging isn't (last I checked) available through the Facebook-in-the-browser; it requires the Messenger app.
So is the case with washing machines, but here we are.
What happens to all the previous Caesar hotel bookings? Have they negotiated with other hotels for a conference rate?
Not OP, but in a similar place for the phone somewhat dominating on the go stuff. Its just incredibly freeing leaving the house with only my phone. These days it can handle payment most places. It is my library card. My bus pass. My car key. My camera. My paperback novel. My guide. My gym pass. It lets me know when my bus or train is running late. It lets me know when that store is going to close, or if its even open on a Sunday. All the while providing music while on the go and entertainment when sitting around.

When I've got my phone, I don't need my keys. I don't need my wallet. I don't need a book. I can have a whole night out with the only thing on me is my phone, other than a few bucks stashed in my shoe for emergency bus fare.
> period.

Yeah, within the bounds of not torturing people and all that constitutional punishment stuff.
If you're going to argue that "hackers" are wrong/dumb/whatever for desiring that content creators be fairly compensated for their work, by all means go ahead, but you're definitely going to need to do a lot better than that.
From stories I’ve read, I think people generally, and including Feynman, concluded that the sprinkler would not rotate. Because conservation of angular momentum. Which is almost true. So what’s fun is that this experiment shows it’s not entirely true, if you have a sensitive enough experiment that takes into account more nuance of the fluid dynamics.
They did this in Australia.

it's now rightly called cultural genocide.
"Excessive" optimism should be defined in the intro. Naturally, it's more click-baity if it's not.
I suspect Caesar's dropped DEF CON because the DEF CON attendees likely have a fairly low "avg revenue per attendee" yield because fewer of them gamble compared to the avg Vegas conference attendee. They also probably spend less on high-end restaurant dining and bar drinking inside the hotel.

Since the pandemic Vegas has had a pretty strong resurgence in general and this may be a sign that Caesar's is doing well enough they've decided there are higher-revenue guests they can put in those rooms — even in the doldrums of August (a traditionally slow month for Vegas tourism).

I happen to regularly attend an unrelated, non-tech conference that's always right around the same week as DEF CON. That conference also happens to attract attendees who don't gamble or spend much at the hotel other than room costs. The reason the conference organizer chooses August is they get better discounts on their costs from the hotel in exchange for filling up rooms that would otherwise be empty (except this hotel is lower-end and cheaper than Caesar's). This works out because unlike Caesar's this hotel is far off the strip and doesn't have nearly as much dining or gambling revenue potential anyway.
Sure, good abstractions are good. But bad abstractions are worse than none. Think of all the nonsense abstractions about the weather before people understood and could simulate the underlying process. No one in modern weather forecasting suggests there is a way to understand that process at some high level of abstraction. Understand the low level, run the calcs.
> Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy

We never stole (cute word pirated) anything. We became cordcutters (OTA and streaming) because we felt we weren't using but maybe $20 of the $180 monthly we were paying to cable. We became cordcutters in 2013. We never stole (cute word pirated) anything.
Misconceptions About Knife Burrs
Oh, absolutely. A desktop is far, far less "fanged" than a phone. It's not with you all the time, and it generally can't send notifications if you don't have a webpage open (I know there are the "web notifications" every shady site wants to use, but they're off by default, vs on by default for phones).

Going back to a desktop computer that you turn off regularly (so there's some friction waiting for it to boot) is one of the best ways to approach the internet these days.
Well it’s possible to support enterprise features as part of your product roadmap without it being “hijacked” but this requires building an understanding with the client that they can’t get everything that they’re asking for right away, that they should be open to a back and forth when it comes to new product features.

Often the account managers have a Golden Goose attitude and don’t want to say no. But it’s possible to build healthy relationships that allow this to work.
> I don't get why it matters so much to people. It's all just incentives aligning and how the deals work.

Think of it like working conditions getting increasingly poor and abusive year over year, while your salary stays fixed.

It matters not because the deals are increasingly shit and abusive, but also because them being much better is within most of our's living memories, and there's no actual reason for things to go this shit, except a supplier-driven market fucking customers over because they can, and race-to-the-bottom mechanics preventing any single vendor from reversing course.
Overall I like HN but with HN @dang 's political and racial biases are clearly visible when you observe posts and titles.

I hope he expands his worldview by reading or experiencing more of the world.
I do. There needs to be one international company who is co-owned by all these media companies. They need to "nationalise" streaming amongst themselves.

That way users only have to pay one streaming service, the content is available in every country, the rightsholders are paid fairly by the content consumed instead of these never-ending monthly fees for one show and ignoring the rest of the library.

If they don't do this, piracy again becomes the best option and media companies will only ever get stupid disengaged customers and that's a bad business model because those people eventually leave.

The time of predatory streaming service bullshit is over. Provide a service which puts customers first or they'll all go back to piracy. They already are.
What’s maps/yelp like?
Also DEF CON was canceled, but we uncanceled it : https://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/1aj6ixn/def_con_was...
I've Decided to Learn ML
Christ I'm old. I still remember when it was at the AP. Although I've left that part of my life behind, I'm glad DEF CON is still around.
Drone Boat Swarm Vision Laid Out by DoD
TCP itself doesn't have packets with a size field though, it has segments. If speaking informally and everyone is on the same page, maybe it's OK to say. But this might be a good place to be pedantic, since there is confusion. The 64 KiB limit for TCP/IP is due to the 16-bit size field of the IP header. Crucially, TCP segments themselves don't have a size field (hence TCP only works over a lower layer that encodes size). TCP segments have a 16-bit window size, but that can be increased by TCP window scale option.
So TCP/IP has a 64 kbyte limit, but TCP itself does not. There was a proposed RFC for IPv6 "jumbograms" but that never gained adoption.

In the end, this 64k limitation being discussed comes from the DNS protocol itself where it encodes the length as a message prefix, this isn't related to TCP or IP.
I find this strange but not surprising. I've heard of speed bumps in the past related to 'hackers in town' and I wouldn't be surprised if it comes out later that it had something to do with it, even if unfounded. I think overall, having that many 'hackers' in town makes people overly paranoid.

<tinfoil hat> I wonder if the ransomware incident last year played a role in this decision? [0] I'm guessing they wouldn't announce it for fear of boycott, but who knows. </tinfoil hat>

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/14/caesars-paid-millions-in-ran...
Unless your employer explicitly forbids outside work (most don't, I think Google does), why wouldn't it be legal?!

In California, incorporating with an LLC costs $800/year and provides little to no benefit. It specifically does not provide much legal cover if you're a one-person corp.

On the other hand, it's easy and free to set up a "sole proprietorship" with the IRS, and register some snazzy name at your county registrar. This is the path I took, and I recommend it. (Nolo Press is a good resource for many basic legal things.)
Steam really did this for games for me and somehow hasn't stopped working for me yet. Maybe Netflix should ask themselves how Steam competes with bootlegs and what they might do like it.
Well, think about it that way: What's the purpose of copyright? It gives ownership of information, to the people who produced it, some years for a song or a movie. The presupposition is that said information, will be valuable in a year or 10 years.

Along the same lines what's the purpose of investing? It captures ownership of a company, for some time, or indefinitely. The presupposition is that said company, will be valuable in a year or 10 years.

Well as technology advances, everything becomes easier to produce, including movies, songs even car companies. The saying means that everyone will be able to produce something, which will gain big traction for a small amount of time. At that point he will be a billionaire, but someone else will produce something very similar, in fifteen minutes, and his ownership will go to nothing very quickly.
Is there a fundamental difference between a drone and an anti-ship missile?
It's mostly working for music. Spotify and Apple aren't competing on their catalogs.
Can someone post highlights of the article? It only allowed me to preview so much in reader mode.
It is a a simple issue of SNR. Even if we could somehow turn down all 2.4GHz transmitters (we cannot), that won't actually help -- it can never make things behave like 5GHz bands do.

Relatedly, hypothetically increasing the transmit power of all 5GHz devices can never make it behave like 2.4GHz does.

Walls will still attenuate the higher frequency more than the lower one, and this function of a wall is independent of transmission power.

And Wifi devices are nowhere near as polite as you proclaim. They walk all over eachother all the time, for all kinds of reasons.

(CCA improves this, but it isn't a magical antidote.)

Furthermore, not all 2.4GHz transmitters are Wifi at all. There's (still) a ton of stuff in use on that ISM band, much of which has nothing at all to do with computers or Ethernet.

A 2.4GHz video feed doesn't care about neighboring Wifi networks, for instance. It doesn't even have the ability to care. It just transmits video, using whatever modulation it uses to do that, without any regard at all for other users.

There's a lot of reasons that 2.4GHz is completely trashed in many areas -- including such offenses as leaky microwave ovens. That's just how it is, and how it is likely to remain.

Which sucks, but here we are anyway...
Well I am screwed, then, because I already only access everything via the web browser on my phone, I don’t have any entertainment or social media apps… but I still browse hackernews and Reddit too much.
"where you edit code not text"

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The last Defcon I went to was at the Aladdin.
"Early stage" anything doesn't sound very good either
Equivocation. You're claiming that posting on a public forum is the same as producing content for profit, which it isn't
What It's Like to Be a Therapist for the Ultrarich
The are two problems with this: 1. You need to have all 4 to reach a significant fraction of the population. 2. They are fake real-time transfers [the app says the money has been transferred but it won't actually be delivered for a couple days] instead of actual real-time transfers (which Europe has). This means there are much more susceptible to fraud [you think the sender has sent you the money--so you ship him the goods or whatever--and the next morning or so the money is gone from your account.]
What’s next you may ask: AI generated movies that are on demand on how you want to tweak it, it’s not piratable because the model is on cloud and the processing required is uncommon. Just a thought
If you already have a reservation at a Caesars property, from what I saw you can keep it, you'll just have to find transportation to LVCC via the monorail or other means.

Not sure on transfers. They have negotiated with Sahara on a rate and are looking to add more.
I also have a small iPhone, but have had the opposite experience; text looks great thanks to the quality and resolution of the display and I far prefer it to my laptop for reading, with the exception of PDFs (my iPad was great for those).
Getting old rocks, I highly recommend it.