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Motel of the Mysteries, David Macauley's satire of then-modern America intertwixed with a satire of archaeology and historical and academic understanding, masquerading as a picture book. A remarkable work I still think about today.

https://www.vox.com/22753080/motel-mysteries-book-david-maca...
It would be illegal (at least in the usa); you’re not allowed to share your home internet, or function as a public utility.

There are huge regulatory moats around everything that costs $20-500/mo recurring and is incurred by large percentages of the population. Internet access is a huge one.
If you look at the kidme5, samegene321, and george23 accounts in this discussion you'll note that they predominantly comment about Musk in Musk-related threads (usually SpaceX, it seems), often sporadically with large delays between when they make comments (weeks and months). They also post the same things as each other (though this is non-obvious, kidme3 deleted the content of one of their dead comments, but it's verbatim what samegene321 posted). It's either an individual or a coincidentally very narrowly-focused group of people who not only think the same, but write the same.
I have never had to spam anything and all of the places I've been have come from relationships I have built. Actually started out from relationships I built when online gaming, so not real life, but online relationships. And people used to claim that gaming is a waste of time! Also without education (self learned coding) and without mentors or any pre existing connections in the industry.
Fiction : the history of love
Non fiction: start with why
It's a standardized part of the highway system in the same way as the standardized lines painted on the pavement, not just something to support or not-support based on current fashion. The linked article does a very poor job conveying this with its framing on radio-as-entertainment and on corporate consolidation of radio stations. Key phrases: “Highway Advisory Radio” or “Travelers Information Station”, neither of which are mentioned in the article.

Here are the technical requirements and implementation details of California's (CalTrans') system, for example: https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/research-innov...

And some general history: https://aairo.org/history.htm
>run_in_executor that can be spelled as asyncio.to_thread() won't help utilizing cpu for pure Python code

That isn't true. If you use a ProcessPoolExecutor as the target instead of the default executor, you will use multiple processes in pure Python code.
At least the bottle deposits (€0.15 or €0.25) are listed with tax included and can be payed with 2 coins (10+5 or 20+5)
This is awful and cruel to do, no.
Rings like that would have been a game changer for early navigation.
We're in agreement - just from different angles.

These companies are very much profit-driven and in terms of pricing as cold-hearted as they come.

It's just that if they could get your money now at once, they would do it. There's no scheme to keep you paying again and again - they're just not able to provide a different solution.

Meanwhile if a treatment isn't explored by them it's usually due to one of the following reasons:

-Not patentable.

-Not broadly applicable (e.g. only effective in people with specific, rare genes).

-Not effective.
You don't find it sad that you would rather theory craft about democracy rather than participating in it? If having the desire for oneself to spread democracy makes me partisan than I guess I'm lucky to live in a country where these partisans actually have power.
This means something is wrong with one or more of the stations on those bands. It’s not normal.
won't it just turn to garbage eventually? like spinning an article 10 times would just produce shit.
Stein too
Isn’t LoRa patented and proprietary?
Great! I hope next initiative will be moving all municipality and public services from closed platforms to Fediverse.
LLMs really help me with the blank page problem. Just getting something, even partially working, to built upon can be a huge win.
If incarceration is always "downstream" of per-capita crime rates, then it presumably has little effect on the upstream causes of crime.

And yes, the US has a larger underclass than the EU, which just might have something to do with why we have more crime, no? And if so, increasing incarceration rates is not likely to help much, is it?
In that case, however, you also see the drawbacks. The Witnesses discourage socialization outside of the church and also use shunning as a method of social control: if you disagree with the church on anything, your options are to acquiesce or lose your entire social network, even family members.

I share the desire for more social lifestyles - I think suburbanization is a huge driver of this - but want a secular form which doesn’t have the drawbacks many religions offer.
> I cannot for the life of me understand why the standards committee cares much about various other minor improvements when these issues are still unsolved after two decades.

It's different people.

WiFi is a pretty wide field. There are plenty of people whose interests and/or qualifications only extend to part of it. Should they just sit around twiddling their thumbs if the parts they can contribute to aren't the parts with the biggest issues?
I can't even get "5g" in my own house. I had to order a signal strengthener (fortunately for no extra cost)... That connects to my wifi. And the speeds make me wonder if we really came that much farther from 3G.

The US mobile infrastructure is an absolute sham, even in the outskirts of a large city. I can only imagine how some entire states fare.
But Norway and Switzerland are two countries where I'd assume you don't see as many 20 year old cars as you do in the opposite parts of Europe. Many cars since the early 2000s don't have those standardized boxy stereos you could just swap anymore. You can make the point that people can just tune in through their phone but most people won't go through the hassle every time they sit in a (company owned, for example) car. I doubt FM is going away this decade, perhaps even longer, for most of the world. As for Europe, there's also Romania with their longwave AM broadcasts.
Way less then banknotes... bacteria etc don't like metals
1. Wi-Fi is of course capable of reconnecting fast, so you don't even notice it. When you see a multiple seconds worth of a connectivity gap, it's likely not because Wi-Fi is stupidly waiting. Most probably it's radio interference, or the access point can be overloaded and have not enough resources to service all the connections, so it drops some.

2. Wi-Fi is a transport layer; equally TCP and even HTTP do not offer a generic mechanism for logging in and accepting terms. This needs to be addressed at a different level, but I totally agree, it would be great to have a reasonable standard that's open and is better than a captive portal.
I think with polymer notes, they might last until withdrawn by UK standards, but that's a unique factor of how fast they cycle their banknotes out. I think even 5 year old English notes (the paper GBP50 with Watt on it) are at the phase where you have to take them to a bank and replace them with polymer ones.

America has always tried to avoid calling back old notes, likely to avoid creating an upset in places where they're a store of value overseas. This means the old ones can circulate basically forever. I can recall my brother getting a $10 note of the 1934 type in a normal transaction in about 2015, and 1977-series $100s seemed strangely common into the 1990s and 2000s. So the survival rates at 10 and 20 years are relevant for American paper in a way that maybe don't apply in the UK.
Many bank websites require bank apps or hardware tokens to login.
This is a cool resource, but I'm side-eyeing them characterizing it as some new thing when this scan was uploaded more than ten years ago (as their own link to the college's archived blog post on it shows).
I’m on the application side and I’m curious, what role do cover letters fulfill in your hiring pipeline?

P.S. Do you need an MLE?
Can I ask which country this is in?
While I don't disagree and understand the authors concern the bottom line is the author, and others of the same mind, will have to face facts. LLMs are a genie that isn't going back in that bottle. Humans have LLMs and will use them. The teaching angle needs to change to acknowledge this. "You need to learn long hand math because you won't just have a calculator in your pocket." Whoopsie! Everyone has a smart phone. Now I'm going back to school for my degree and classes are taught expecting calculators and even encouraging the use of various math and graphing websites.

By all means urge folks to learn the traditional, arguably better, way but also teach them to use the tools available well and safely. The tools aren't going away and the tools will continue to improve. Endeavour to make coders who use the tools well to produce valuable well written code 2x, 5x, 8x, 20x the amount of code as those of today.
Physical security isn't an intractable problem, but effective security requires expensive expertise and maintenance. The cost of good security is why you keep your spare couch in a self storage center but your jewelry in a safe deposit box.

In theory, a well designed security system at a self storage center could be good enough to deter thieves relative to the value of what's stored there. In practice, the fact that owners pay for the security, insurance pays for break ins, and customers are supposed to evaluate the whole mess leads to a lot of naivete and show and not a lot of effective solutions. Show me a self storage place that guarantees you against the loss of your stuff and I'll show you a storage place with effective security. I'll also show you one that's more expensive that the competition and doesn't have much to show a consumer to justify the surcharge.

Looking at self storage places locally, they all seem to compete on price. When I eventually found one that seemed to be competing on security, it was 50% more expensive.
Wayland is an entirely new display system that's completely incompatible with X11.

X11 apps can generally run under Wayland, but through XWayland, an X server that runs nested under a Wayland compositor.
I guess I don't understand your motive in what you call a "subtle shift" of trying to redefine away the concept of the tragedy of the commons.

You say 'There wasn't ever "a big sea full of fish and anyone could just do whatever they want".' But to the contrary, that's basically always been the case. Fishing boats were limited by technology and the size of their local markets, but once those limitations disappeared because of inevitable technological progress, then that's exactly what happened. And we see this happening especially with Chinese overfishing today.

You're claiming that supposed "systems of control" existed in the first place and then were attacked, but that seems entirely counterfactual to me. There was no system of control for a problem that technological progress hadn't created yet -- humans don't see that far enough into the future. And if four countries that border a sea want to limit fishing but a fifth one says I'm going to overfish as much as I want, well then what do you think is going to happen?

I don't see what benefit there is in attacking the concept of tragedy of the commons. It's not some kind of fatalistic viewpoint of what must happen (which you seem to be claiming -- "that people/communities cannot manage resources held in common"), but rather a warning of what will happen when resources aren't properly managed. Claiming the tragedy doesn't exist seems like it would only benefit the people who want to to exploit our shared resources. By recognizing its validity, we can do our best to create and improve systems of management (especially international systems) to prevent the tragedies from occurring.
In ideal world, I would prefer coins to be powers of 2.

It requires 7 coins in [ 1 .. 64 ] range to reach 100, but the average of popcnt( 1 .. 99 ) is only 3.19 coins per transaction, way better than 4.1 coins.
The Economic Consequences of Generative AI on the Art Market (2023)
I don't know – would we risk Kessler Syndrome for a war? Win a piece of land and doom humanity for a hundred years of regress in space? Maybe, probably can't be ruled out.

As for jamming, is it feasible or practical to jam very large parts of the world? I can't imagine it would be. It seems to me like jamming would probably be used for specific military purposes and people would be left alone to communicate with each other otherwise.

It's not that I'm saying this could not be done. It could. But this is not the most likely scenario in my head. The immense benefit to all humanity is a very likely scenario, in contrast.

LoRa is another equally exciting technology that has a lot of potential in all the spaces I mentioned. I just can't currently imagine a reason it would go mass-market.
Ask HN: Which jurisdiction has least amount of bureaucracy?
I am incorporated within European Union and am starting new online project for international customers. I do not plan on staying in EU because I do not like the environment in here when it comes to regulations, bureaucracy, red tape, taxes, VAT and whatnot.

So I am wondering which jurisdiction is business friendly and worthy considering moving into? It would be also good to have high level of free speech and free press(simply put, government stays out of people's business as much as possible).

PS: please, don't insult me by posting links to Index of Economic Freedom and things like that. And no, I am not seeking tax-free countries or looking for tax avoidance. Taxes are irrelevant to the main question.

PPS: the country/jurisdiction must also be in working order. So no extremes, please.
It is both cheating, and also the way things are now. Also your calculator example is odd, because when you're learning the math that calculators can do, using a calculator is cheating. Nobody would say we should let third graders bring a calculator instead of learning to do arithmetic, it defeats the purpose of the learning.
> If only Congress realized that some of these advertisers and data brokers answer to the CCP ... maybe we could have a tracking-free internet.

Yes, but Google, Microsoft and Meta answer to Uncle Sam. Why intetfere with their business ? /s
When I was living in "upstate" NY (the Poughkeepsie area, which isn't upstate, but that's what it's called), I would regularly listen to AM stations out of NYC (close to 100 miles away from the broadcaster); using just the standard receiver in my car.
The self-hosting option is nice but, from what I understand, I would not even need to do that if you provided end-to-end encryption with PGP. i.e. the form is encrypted with my public key, then sent to your server, then sent to my e-mail, then decrypted with my private key.

With such option, the self-hosting is still a nice to have, if you cease to provide the service at formbee.dev.
Most people use the OTP lib! There's this super useful intro repo: https://github.com/bcpeinhardt/learn_otp_with_gleam
he involved himself in politics, so everyone who have strong feelings against his "side" or for his opponents, project it on him in a form of hate.

Inevitable consequence of the two party system and/or fptp election system
Well that would explain the sad estate of government sanctioned Wifi. They were bought out, as usual, from people who just want an extra buck instead of properly serving the public's needs.
> A page written in HTML and vanilla JavaScript, loaded from the public/ directory, completely outside of the Next.js + React system.

I once had a newcomer open up a PR that completely bypassed the dependency injection system.

> Vanilla JavaScript loaded in via filesystem APIs and executed via dangerouslySetInnerHTML

I wish I had more context on this one, it looks like someone is trying to bypass React. (Edit) Perhaps they learned HTML, wanted to set the HTML on an element, and React was getting in the way?

> API calls from one server-side API endpoint to another public API endpoint on localhost:3000 (instead of just importing a function and calling it directly)

I once inherited C# code that, instead of PInvoking to call a C library, pulled in IronPython and then used the Python wrapper for the C library.
I can't tell if this research still applies. There currently appears to be an emphasis on CO2 as a particularly Bad Thing, but the research in this paper suggests that CO2 is less of an issue than just temperature in deciding whether a space is pleasant or unpleasant to work in
You don't need to watch 1080p TV to report the current temperature and humidity, or to receive a command to turn on a light bulb.

As for channel congestion, check if your WiFi repeater is in mesh mode or not. If not, it literally halves the throughput on your WiFi network, that seems to be already over-congested by whatever is messing with your channel settings. Based on your description of the area, if your 5GHz somehow ran out of space, something seriously weird is going on. Maybe some non-WiFi-device is using the 2.4/5.2GHz band to transmit data? I know stories of cheapo baby monitors wiping out entire neighbourhoods, for instance.
In the Netherlands we've been rounding to 5ct intervals for 20+ years now, and 1ct coins were abolished long ago. With the introduction of the euro, the 1ct and 2ct coins returned, but all shops still round to 5ct for cash transactions.

Every time I return from Germany I have a handful of 1 and 2ct coins though, since they haven't done this, and most prices are X.99.
I would prefer this over JSON.

For Ziggy to be competitive vs protobuf it would need more machinery for managing schema changes, which currently is not there at all.

I'm currently writing an application where I'm doing binary serialization of data and I'm not sure yet how that should play into Ziggy, but as I explore my use cases more I will change Ziggy accordingly.

That said, I will probably always err on the side of small scale, so it might very well never become a format worth considering vs protobuf. We'll see.
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I'm sorry the OP has to endure this. Grief is long.

The story reminds me that busy people don't seek health care enough (not saying it would have changed anything in this case).

We wait until something is so bad that we can't work. But we really don't want to wait.

Roughly speaking, health care can prevent many, many things, but it's rare that it can solve something once it's so bad that it actually interferes with life or work. So the real efficacy of health care lies in prevention and early intervention.

It's natural to be prone to choosing the urgent over the important. That's why you should counter by encouraging those in your circle to take care, since you would never de-prioritize the important for your loved ones. So get them to do it, and do it for them.

Preventative care is mostly a matter of self-education (based on real sources), self-monitoring, and nurturing good active providers. It's not strongly limited by resources. It includes building trust within your biological family to share genetic risks and disease incidence. Knowledge and monitoring should increase your confidence and peace of mind (i.e., if you find it making you anxious, then it's existential anxiety directed at health, which should be otherwise addressed). And there may not be a "payback" because you may never know what problems you prevented; the only feedback would be relief from catching something early enough to do something about it. So it's not part of the reward system feedback loop; just do it on principle, based on the efficacy profile of health care with prevention and early detection.
I'll be horribly blunt here but I don't give a shit about any of that any more. It's irrelevant which is why open source is a complete joke for most people.

I, much as other users, just want my computer to solve the problems I ask of it, not turn into an activity in its own right or a maze of hosting problems and pain to get a simple task done. The job of the computer is to free us from slavery and everyone seems to have bloody well forgotten that.

macOS is my dream OS as it stands.

I can add a cucumber to my shopping list on my mac and when I get to the supermarket, it's on my phone.

I can share a calendar with my family and it just works.

I can listen to music on it and the same music is on my phone.

I can open and move pages around in a PDF without having to futz with anything or open a terminal.

I can literally write on my iPad with a pen and a PDF pops out full of my writing which I can send to people for review and feedback.

I can use Lightroom, Photoshop and Excel, which are far superior to any open source products and I do not mind paying for that privilege.

etc etc.

The hardware cost and upgrade inflexibility, neither of which I have found a problem either way, is insignificant anyway to the pain I would incur without it.

And that's what the community does't get: the last 20% is the hard bit and the above is the last 20% and it has never even once in the history of OSS got anywhere even remotely near that. No one cares about the political purity and ideology behind it.
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Miniscule is absolutely the correct term for this. An already demolished ecosystem was briefly worse, in trying to clean up the built-up pollution from a closed mine.

Compare it against the health damage the coal industry has done to billions of people over centuries and it looks pretty damned small. Trying to ding the EPA for "industry left a giant toxic mess and cleaning it up was tough" is just odd.
I wonder what the user experience was like. Did they have to select "Starlink" instead of "T-Mobile"?

If not, was there some kind TMobile-signed-starlink's-key situation?

It's an interesting interplay between preferring user consent versus wanting things to just start working when they need to.
Show HN: Peer-to-peer, End-to-end encrypted, Ephemeral chat with Age
Y'all need to remember this in those threads when you say Linux just works and MS's registry is stupid and needs tweaking to work right.
Nothing annoys me like these foolish headlines. Running out of electricity? Then generate some more! With grid-scale solar and batteries (Chinese production is driving prices down aggressively) you can spin up gigawatt-scale plants almost overnight, until you can cover the shortfall with nuclear or thermal plants.

And, it's not like TSMC is using electricity clandestinely: they're a fantastically profitable business probably buying electricity wholesale. So, stop the stupid handwringing and expand production.
+ 1 for React Email and Resend.

Very easy and reliable.
Block-Attention for Low-Latency RAG
No, it is called having one's open source output stolen by billionaires who then pay enough apologists, directly or indirectly, to justify the heist.
I'll point out that this is the same way that FPGAs implement arbitrary logic functions, as lookup tables (LUTs).
Satellites can be hacked, jammed or destroyed

LEO satellites need constant replacement.
Guess this ape will have to disagree with ya. I'll never wear one of those again.