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> Working with the Institute for Justice[1], a nonprofit focused on civil liberties, Henry Minh alleges a widespread pattern of unlawful package seizures at Indy’s FedEx processing facility.

The IJ does some amazing work. Highly recommend supporting them if their mission resonates with you. I always find something refreshing and uplifting in the bimonthly print magazine.

EDIT: I cannot reply to metabagel's comment (due to it being flagged?) about IJ being "right wing" but here is a smattering of recent cases[2]:

Institute for Justice Files Lawsuit Challenging Florida’s Ban on Cultivated Meat https://ij.org/case/florida-cultivated-meat-ban/

Courts Say City Owes Her Over $200,000; But Now She Has to Sue Again to Get Paid https://ij.org/case/oklahoma-takings/

New petition asks Supreme Court to let woman’s suit against her abuser’s enabler move forward after nearly a decade in court. https://ij.org/case/martinez-v-high/

Lawsuit Seeks Accountability for Unconstitutional Raid of a Political Opponent’s Home. https://ij.org/case/marion-kansas-retaliation/

Virginia Woman Challenges Permanent Punishment Preventing Her from Working as a Substance Abuse Counselor https://ij.org/case/virginia-fresh-start-2/

Family seeks to hold officer accountable after he led SWAT raid at wrong house https://ij.org/case/texas-wrong-house-raid/

[1] https://ij.org/

[2] https://ij.org/cases/
It was also targeting a very different capability level from the PS4/XBox One.
I disagree with the premise, and the article author’s attempt to convince me of it is weak.

I can equally claim we’re living in a golden age of music, both in terms of accessibility and of the diversity of music being made.

There’s likely some truth in the idea of mindless consumption, but I’m not sure that’s any different now than it was in the past. There have always been people who didn’t explore much beyond listening to the top singles chart in the car. That’s fine, not everyone has to have some abstract notion of good musical taste. Meanwhile, there are still vast communities of highly motivated music appreciators willing to travel the world to seek out the best music experiences. Too many, arguably, based on how expensive and crowded festivals and gigs have become.

Personally, I think the 90s-00s were the weakest decades in pop, but taste is subjective.
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/12/the-watchers

If democratic self-governance relies on an informed citizenry, Penney wrote, then “surveillance-related chilling effects,” by “deterring people from exercising their rights,” including “…the freedom to read, think, and communicate privately,” are “corrosive to political discourse.”

.. “Governments, of course, know this. China.. wants people to self-censor, because it knows it can’t stop everybody. The idea is that if you don’t know where the line is, and the penalty for crossing it is severe, you will stay far away from it.. if your goal is to control a population,” Schneier says, “mass surveillance is awesome.”

.. The social challenge now, [Zuboff] says, is to insist on a new social contract.. “We have to create the political context in which privacy can be successfully defended, protected, and affirmed as a human right. Then we’d have a context in which the privacy battles can be won.”
Elbow grease mostly, but when you feel you've done enough, screening.
> The US is younger than a single Chinese dynasty.

Eh? There are like 60 Chinese dynasties throughout history. The US has been around longer than most of them. And some of the dynasties that were around longer than the US has been will lose that title if the US lasts another ~30 years. The Qing, Ming, Tang, etc. dynasties all lasted ~275 years, and the US has been around for 248 by now. But the vast majority of the Chinese dynasties lasted like 10 to 50 years.
One key application for this line of smart sensors lies in personal security and information. Numerous specks of technology could be discretely placed to invisibly monitor a home, business, or personal device.

Do most people really want more pervasive surveillance?

I wonder how sensitive these are to EMP...
I tried [repopack] and it did a very good job (y) Simple installation too.
Lessons from implementing Sokoban for the Intel 8080
In support of HSRs; I recently took a car train in Switzerland. They have - I think - 5 of these, which take a shortcut tunnel through various mountains, and saves you quite a bit of time, as well as angst driving through narrow and windy mountain roads.

So I could see similar HSR car trains saving quite a bit of time, between HSR hubs in appropriate cities in the US, versus spending e.g. 20+ hours driving from Dallas to New Jersey.
I didn't discount anything. Where did I say that? I merely have high expectations and I'm asking about the feature and whether it satisfies the high expectations, and if so, how. This is called curiosity.

I'm never the kind of person who discounts a feature before I even use it. And I clearly said I haven't used it.
It is against FedEx policy to send cash. It is a violation of the shipping agreement. the declared value coverage does not cover cash or cash equivalents. If you have more questions regarding acceptance standards it is recommended that you visit a FedEx Express Ship Station ( where your local packages are sorted) and ask to speak to a “Senior Customer Service Associate” this person is a senior FedEx agent and can walk you through the finer points of more difficult to understand shipping scenarios.
Right, which is why longer strings play lower notes.
Really, none? IDK, I've always thought DynamoDB and S3 were amazing, and Lambda, albeit not perfect on launch, was highly innovative and useful for many, many, many circumstances you'd either needs a k8s cluster or fleet of little used servers at the time.

SQS and Cloud watch were legit to, although cloud watch metrics are a bit aged and logs were really difficult to use until insihhts came into place

Also Glue, while it has some tenancy issues and rough edges, takes a bunch of work out of managing a datalake

Oh and Aurora + Aurora serverless weren't as flashy but from an ops perspective game changing at the time

Cloudformation is definitely showing it's age and I hate writing it compared to CDK, but it was also pretty game changing at the time. I don't know if it was the first infrastructure as code language, but it definitely kick-started the revolution.
Coral Cache! Thanks. Totally forgot that one.
There isn't much point in wierd algo solutions to 1% packetloss, and most people are living under 5% most of the time. I would say on an 80/20 class decision most of us either have layer2 loss in the link to the provider, and then not much loss, or have some corner case of congestion like zoom inter-continentally.

Remember, 75% of content now comes from a DC within 1 AS hop of your ISP.

For non-western economies reliant on mobile IP, there is a level of loss and congestion being seen in the radio packet layer but that layer is usually dealing with it.

Starlink has worked out how to manage it's TCP loss issues despite steering dishy between sats in orbit in a 15 second timeslot model.

I'm not trying to dismiss this work: I don't understand the use-case because from my perspective (admittedly in the western economy, but in asia and exposed to the other kind of internet for less developed places) this level of sustained packetloss isn't usual, And when it is, the link layer is usually doing something like FEC to take care of it.
Are we talking about "an AGI", or are we talking about overfitting large transformer models with human-written corpora and scaling up the result?

"An AGI"? I have no idea what that algorithm might look like. I do know that we can cover the majority of cases with not too much effort, so it all depends on the characteristics of that long tail.

ChatGPT-like transformer models? We know what that looks like, despite the AI companies creatively misrepresenting the resource use (ref: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/technology/2024/08/21/h...). Look at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06405:

> Combining Wu’s method with the classic synthetic methods of deductive databases and angle, ratio,
and distance chasing solves 21 out of 30 methods by just using a CPU-only laptop with a time limit of
5 minutes per problem.

AlphaGeometry had an entire supercomputer cluster, and dozens of hours. GOFAI approaches have a laptop and five minutes. Scale that inconceivable inefficiency up to AGI, and the total power output of the sun may not be enough.
Music isn't getting worse. Popular music has always been mostly garbage, and the further back in time you go the less garbage gets remembered. There's always been enough music for the good stuff to still make up a large body of work once you filter out all the trash and so music seems to get better the further back in time you go (until you go far enough back that recording quality was bad.)

Combine that with everyone of course always having the most nostalgia and exposure to stuff that was around when they were teens and you get everyone saying (time when they were a teenager) was when music was good.

All you need to do is stray a little outside of the top music charts, check out local gigs from lesser known artists, explore specific genres you like and you will find so much good music you won't be able to listen to it all.
By setting minimum work conditions, rather than exact or maximum work conditions? Every SAG actor from George Clooney to video game VAs benefits from residuals, for example.
I have never liked the "20 = critical success = always succeeds", mainly because I can with a 5% chance end a "Destroy Sauron's ring" adventure in 40 seconds with "I attempt to destroy it by hitting it with a hammer, like, really hard."
I've never heard that song I think ;)

It's a little hard to say in the now what's going to be a classic. There is definitely good music happening today but a lot mainstream pop right now is kind of sucky. I feel like e.g. in the 80's pop was better. Maybe in the 70's it was worse. It's somewhat cyclic. 90's worse again?

My daughters and their friends don't really listen to that crappy pop, they listen to other music, you have a lot more choice than "what's playing on the radio" these days.
I challenge you to find old software that still runs on modern Macs which was never code signed. Note that support for 32-bit applications has been retired, and x86 applications will eventually be sunsetted as well. This isn't Windows.
Isn’t most pop music written and composed by committee anyway? People can smell insincerity a mile away.

Meanwhile Apple Music seems to deliver me several new bands a week. Generally smaller and they have to write their own stuff. It feels a lot like my golden age of music right now.
Does that give the police free reign to steal it?
Obligatory Bryan Cantrill quote: "You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think «oh, the lawnmower hates me», lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. "
I was not talking about civilizations but countries with their current institutions.

The current incarnation of China was born in the late 70s, when Deng Xiaoping managed to consolidate power after generations of chaos. Most major European countries collapsed at least once in the 20th century. The UK was the main exception, but it also fell from a global superpower to a regional power.

In contrast, the US still has the same centuries-old constitution, and it hasn't faced a serious challenge to its continued existence since the Civil War.
I guess this would converge with Peter Thiel’s criticism that we’ve had so much progress in the world of bits, but not in the world of atoms. I suppose what we really need—and don’t have—is an accelerator for companies like SpaceX. In a sense, by making entry to lower orbit affordable, you peel back a lot of the risks that startups would have had to mitigate themselves. In that way, it functions as a kind of accelerator, which is the point.

But I think more generally, it’s true what he says: where’s our progress in the world of atoms? We probably need to start accelerators focused specifically on that, not just on “let’s pitch this to the limited partners, get those sweet, quick returns,” and create the next air quotes “unicorn” company.

I think you need an institutional-scale endeavor committed to that, like what Y Combinator has, as has been said, “lower-hanging fruit” of progressing bit-based startups!
Randomized Trial of Alcohol Harm-Reduction Communications
My main pain point is random bash scripts you find on the internet no longer work reliably without modification. It feels like 99% of the bash scripts in the wild reference #!/bin/bash or #!/usr/bin/bash neither of which exist on NixOS. Similar story with downloaded binaries. There are plenty of workarounds. But it gets annoying. I find it works really well for servers where random downloads are less likely, but I ran into this constantly running as a workstation. steam-run will become your crutch.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Packaging/Binaries
The release notes for Sequoia.
The "Sega Saturn Slim" Is Now Our Most-Wanted Hardware of 2024
IIUC this would work well to tunnel the TCP/UDP WiFi traffic and cellular traffic over so that you get the advantages without needing to migrate software. But then again FEC is already employed by these (maybe not raptor codes but that’s a relatively simple update). Or does tunneling not work?

Is 10% loss common for backbone networks? Maybe if you’re dealing with horribly underprovisioned routers that don’t have enough RAM for how much traffic they’re processing? Not sure otherwise the use case…
Agreed that it's a problem but probably not a huge one today on the internet since most loss is actually a result of congestion.

It has led to some weird things whereby the L2 protocols (thinking wifi and LTE/cellular) have their own reliability layer to combat the problem you're describing. I'm not sure if things would be better or worse if they didn't do this and TCP was responsible, the iteration of solutions for it would be much slower and probably could never be as good as the current situation where the network presents a less-lossy layer to TCP.

We have to completely rethink things for interplanetary networking.

I thought I recognized your username, I remember jailbreaking the original iPhone on IRC with you helping :)
Seems incompatible with a 40h work week.
Yes, esp comparing against "UDP" this way doesn't make sense.
> I can breathe through the CPAP exclusively for hours but then as soon as I try to go to sleep I feel like I’m being smothered and my heart starts racing

I felt the same way when I was prescribed a CPAP about 20 years ago. I'd be set to go, get panicky, take the mask off and not feel like trying again for longer periods of time until I gave up. Then about 2 years ago I decided to get a doctor again, talk about my sleep apnea, get a new set of sleep studies done, try to get a machine (it took forever!). I got prescribed a similar machine called an ASV.

For me, the thing that works is a breathing technique the technician at the sleep study told me, which was breath in manually, but then just relax to breathe out rather than forcefully breathing out. Currently I do that by breathing in manually, and then relaxing while counting to three as I let it out. I don't know if it's just a mental way to relax or what, but it works for me. Also, when I was taking the sleep study, I was determined to complete the test, so taking it off wasn't an option, even if I got anxious. So I did the breathing thing, and they were able to get enough data to proceed.

I go to sleep when I'm very tired; that might help. As far as I remember, I fall asleep very quickly. If I wake up in the morning, I can't really get back to sleep since I just notice the mask too much while not falling asleep; I guess I'm not tired enough any more at that point. 7 hours is good for me, but often I'll get 5-6 hours.

Edit: oh yeah, my number of sleep events (when you stop breathing) went from 120 to ~1 per hour. For comparison, >5 is mild, >15 is moderate, >30 is severe.
At what point did sending cash become criminal such that the police felt justified to seize it? Are we just fully ignoring the Constitution now or?
China rams Philippine ship: South China Sea tensions could draw U.S. in [video]
Sadly, I think that the technical reason that music sucks today will never get the exposure it needs. Even catchy music today is fatiguing and quickly tiresome because of dynamic compression. There have been plenty of good songs over the last couple of decades that are basically intolerable because they're a wall of noise.

The "loudness war" has ruined popular music. Not only everything that has come out since the late '90s, but everything "remastered" since then as well. It's probably the greatest crime against art in history, because of its scope and insidiousness. And when we lose original recordings (as in the Universal fire), we may be left with ruined trash.
From a Randian perspective, he does practice it—publicly & privately. They all do. If you mean that he falls short of some ancap purity test, hate to break it to you, but that’s just their version of “that wasn’t true socialism”.

As for the ADHD sensitivity, deal with it. People who get so stuck on their diagnoses only do it because they aren’t performing. It’s very important to milk it for maximum victimhood, so that the next time the boss/customer/client gets pissed at him for not delivering the goods, he can sue them for discrimination against his “disability”, instead of getting fired for being a flake. I don’t care what people say about ADHD because I perform, and see that sort of play as an ignoble win.
They're just trying to carve out a disproportionate ROI. Internet is one of the easiest ways to do it, and when you look at what else can: movies/tv shows, games, medicine, medical devices etc, a smash-hit AAA game or movie can generate a billion in revenue in week 1 but it takes them 4 years and over a hundred million to get there.
Similarly, I wonder if nyxpsi has congestion control? It's probably tricky to implement if you are trying work with a crap network. I guess you could see how packet loss or latency responds to throughput, but then you need to change the throughput periodically while transmitting, which slows down the transfer.
I think the use-case for the author is "this is cool" which is the best reason for anything to exist.
sure but if we allow companies to capture this information then it will just be massively leaked like they fumble everything else
I wish many of these protocols would expose non-FEC versions so that the FEC and retry logic could happen at a higher layer. In particular G.hn powerline is terrible in the implementations I've seen, since it will retransmit infinitely, a sudden loss of bandwidth during a large bulk transfer can increase ping times to over a minute.
What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy
Any SDEs who are thinking of leaving Amazon over the 5-day RTO announcement, what are the best options for WFH flexibility, interesting projects, quality of colleagues, and salary? I'm a DB-focused SDE3 in the Seattle area, but am open to general systems programming projects, with 0-2 days/week onsite.
I'm of the opinion that actual hands-on labor is significantly undervalued, so yes.
A paid developer account would be required by every developer wishing to publish their cross-platform application also on MacOS. Even if it was free it would be an issue because it would require an extra registration and workflow that requires internet access and having Apple to arbitrarily decide that your application (or you as a developer) is banned.

Therefore instructions how the users can run the application is the only solution.
Why to Not Write a Book
I don't understand why this has been so downvoted – although it might be true for now, there's a deeper truth that it's true that any union benefit has to be fought for and constantly defended between negotiations. (Which is why unions usually have legislative and political advocacy arms to codify these benefits – so they don't have to waste barganing power on them.)
> They're not firing workers who simply ignore the mandates

Citation needed. They may not be literally firing people for simply ignoring the mandates, but they sure as hell putting a mark on your performance record (at least at one big tech company).

IIUC one of the reasons for the original RTO mandates was to get people to leave (either willingly or through perf review pressure).
Did you write the app? It looks like a game for kids. Do you have a backstory to share? Why did you "remove" it?
Thank you, something to think about! $5000 to $6000 is a lot to swallow.

I wish luxonis would get into some eye tracking hardware the OAK-D Pro seems so close to a monitor mounted eye tracking solution.
https://www.luxonis.com/
https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-hardware/issues/114#issue...

This does not fit my use case but seems like an interesting project.
https://polar.sh/NativeSensors/posts/eyepather-new-tool-in-e...

I feel like the field of eye tracking is entrenched so deep into research that it takes away from accessibility. It's not just the cost. Tobii is a good example where the hardware is capable but locks out accessibility from users so it doesn't cannibalize from sales from research/industry.
I mean, I, for one, sleep a lot better knowing that money isn't just flying around in trucks.
funnily enough, these factors affects mobile games the least:

- Gamers cannot see the real cost of digital items, leading to overspending.

mobile games do have some confusing tactics like using odd currency amounts (say, 180 in game currency instead of 200 to pull a character), but changing that won't really kill any game.

- Companies’ claims that gamers prefer in-game premium currencies are wrong.

for premium games with MTX this makes sense. For a f2p mobile game there is no preference.

- Consumers are often denied their rights when using premium in-game currencies.

mobile games tends to be pretty good at dealing with this. Mobile had huge charge-back rates, be it through Google/Apple or CC companies (and probably still do), so it's financially wiser to just help out complaining customers who aren't objectively in the wrong. the digital currency is basically worthless anyway.

- Children are vulnerable to these manipulative tactics.

A classic argument. I don't know how this one will result, but I have seen more and more games launch as 16/17+ rather than 12+ (I dont know if these stores even allow 18+. But I'm sure they would if it means they keep their lootboxes). A few even retroactively increase their age rating. But those are for reasons beyond the scope of children fears.

It's a good step to make console games choose between f2p or premium, but I don't think this (in its current iteration) will clamp down much on the mobile market.
Depends on the genre, but the music sucks today because of the many distractions.

Back then as a kid, there was not much going on but listened to cassette tapes or the FM radio, and hung out with friends. Or just listen to music over and over, just staring at nothing, no internet and smartphone in hand.
There's very few other fields out there that provide the benefits that tech does, with the work-life balance. What are the alternatives?
Maybe popular music is getting worse, but music in general is not. The main downside of good, modern music is that's its next-to impossible to share with other people in real life because everyone has different tastes due to genre fragmentation.
There's a usmc veteran that got pulled over with his life savings and ended up in a world of legal procedure over it. The people putting wads of cash into boxes and sending them by post are not those people. (He got it back, I hope they won't.)