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I think of my drone less as something fun to do, and more as a flying camera. Photography can be fun, but it involves a bit of planning. You will most likely get bored of flying in the same location over and over.

I applied for Global Entry in 2017ish, and at the time it didn't use login.gov. I renewed my passport and had to update my passport number in the system this year, and that was my first exposure to login.gov. So sometime between 2017 and 2021, they started using login.gov.

The process for establishing identity for login.gov was frighteningly easy. It required something like my Global Entry ID and my full name only, and then it automatically connected with other details about me.

Perhaps projects should include a "don't be an asshole" addendum to their license of choice that allows revocation in cases of abuse by users. It's a small thing to ask, but I'm not sure I like 2nd order and higher consequences of such an addendum.

But man, it would probably feel great to reply as @shotcut, "Your license to use shotcut has been revoked under section 8.3.4 of the license agreement. Please cease use of shotcut until remedies under section 8.3.4 have been made (public written apology for abusive behavior)".

You might be surprised by what is possible when you set goals and live below your means. You might also be surprised by how little money it costs to take off a year mid-career.

When I finished university, I had a few weeks between graduation and my start date at a well known Midwestern embedded electronics company. I had a $7k signing bonus and I found a $500 round trip ticket to Rome, so I went to Rome. While I was there, I learned about the world of backpacking and hostels. I ended up spending 6 weeks in Europe before returning home. During that time I decided that travel was something I wanted to pursue in my life.

The salary at my entry level SWE job was $58k, which was pretty modest. I didn’t buy a new car. I didn’t buy a new house. I cooked most meals at home and I brought lunch to work. I tracked my expenses and budget using Mint, and set a goal to save $30k so I could leave and travel in SE Asia where I calculated the daily burn rate should be around $30/day. After three years I hit my savings goal and bought a one way ticket to Hawaii, then from Hawaii to Thailand. I ended up spending over a year outside of the country and returned home with a $10k cushion to get back on my feet.

The biggest leg up I had was graduating with $2000 in student loan debt, but that was made possible mostly through merit based scholarships. No trust fund.

I inspired a friend to do the same thing, except with a destination of Australia on a working holiday visa. Also no trust fund, just living below his means and saving over time.

My advice to you is to find a way to do the things you want to do instead of limiting yourself with beliefs that only the ultra-rich can take time off from work to pursue personal passions.

Why wait until one is old to have fun? Why assume one will even live to enjoy retirement? Can one even pick up windsurfing at a typical retirement age?

I took off 3 years in my 20’s. 34 now, and back on track to retire in my early 40’s. Saving for retirement and enjoying life today are not mutually exclusive.

I have very little experience with the existing medical establishment, so forgive me if I've imagined a scenario that is not relevant. I would like to be able to go to have a scan done, receive the scan data, then have the choice of submitting that to a radiologist of my choice or to an AI service of my choice that can read and recommend next steps. It seems like such a scenario is stifled by the existing way of doing things.

My experience with getting a sonogram was that the sonogram wasn't that expensive, but getting it read was hugely expensive. I understand that there are issues of liability, but it's really frustrating that I'm saddled with a high deductible healthcare plan where access to useful medical stuff is stuck behind 3-4 digit costs. Want antibiotics, inhalers, ADHD meds - all of which are pretty cheap in generic form? Pay $100 to the doctor for the privilege. People have very little agency in this system.

I guess at the end of the day I'd like to see open data (I'm able to get the images/data from all kinds of scans & diagnostics), and some kind of transparent system for submitting my data for diagnosis or analysis. There may be caveats & waivers, but I'd be willing to pay $10 to an AI service to tell me "You definitely need to consult with a radiologist based on the data presented" before I pay a radiologist orders of magnitude more to tell me that everything looks OK.

In iOS one can turn on/off notifications per app at the OS level. Some apps have fine grain control for types of notifications, but this type of fine grain control does not exist at the OS level.

My $8k figure was based on 4 company get togethers per year ($2k * 4).

$2k for one week of travel expenses was based on 5 nights of hotel at $150/night ($750), 5 days of rental car at $200, gas for the car at $40, roundtrip flight at $500, travel to/from home airport at $60, parking at home airport at $50, and 6 days of meals @ $55/day ($330). Grand total $1930 plus taxes and tips.

When my company rented out the convention space in the Hard Rock Hotel plus rooms for 50-100ish employees, the room rates were still $150+/night. Granted that was the same week as CES, but I don't think hotel costs scale down that much unless one is willing to sacrifice location or something else.

The other things should be scalable a bit with tradeoffs. That said, I wouldn't be too keen on going on a week long work trip where I can't leave the hotel, must eat every meal at the hotel with my colleagues, and don't have any way to get around. To me, that means a successful event would have to budget for people expensing at least some of their own meals and for people expensing at least a few taxis/ubers.

Again, my experience with big company gatherings is tied to CES which is its own beast, but in the case of CES my company pretty much left everyone up to their own devices in terms of getting to/from the hotel and for most meals. Hotel rooms were also individually expensed (but out of a reserved block of rooms). My company was obsessive about expenses and the cost of CES, so I imagine if there were a cheaper way to do it, we would have been doing it that way instead.

I’m not sure, but it removes the conflict of interest (and subsequent gatekeeping) created by radiologists who don’t want technology to automate away some of their work.

I worked remote for 5 years before COVID. I was somewhere around 10% travel to customer locations, and about 1 week per year to HQ overseas. It was a great balance. I’m not sure how that would scale to an entire company though as one week of travel expenses worked out to around $2000 for domestic travel within the US. Does the cost of carrying office space work out to more or less than $8k per person per year?

COVID style isolated WFH ruined WFH for me and contributed to burnout.

Copy/paste works for me between Windows and Mac in Synergy.

> Further, Radiologists standards of practice are driven partly by their board (The American Board of Radiology) and the supply of labor is also controlled by them (The American Board of Radiology) by way of limited residency spots to train new radiologists.

Perhaps it is time to found the American Board of Computational Radiology (or Medicine)? There seems to be a chilling effect on tech innovation in the medical space in the US. On recent trips to the dentist, it seems like most of the cool new tech is coming out of Israel.

The beauty of Wikipedia is that you have the power to improve and make changes as you see fit.

I know it’s a meme that edits to Wikipedia are fraught with editor politics and reversion of good faith changes made by users, but that hasn’t been the case for me lately. If you have something to add or improve, don’t let anything hold you back!

Tax evasion, worker abuses, and anti-unionization all happen far away from me and require some kind of SJW attitude to motivate change. I don’t see these things, they don’t impact me directly, so it’s no wonder they don’t factor into my decision making as much as things things that are actually happening in my home.

Alexa advertising to me, becoming a nuisance, and coopting my internet connection all happen close to me.

I ordered two HomePod Minis to replace the Echo Dots in my home yesterday. Amazon will no longer have a foothold in my home, and won’t have visibility into my shopping list or other usage.

Can you give any insight into the solution you’re using to achieve this? I’ve got some noisy gadgets on my network that I want to cordon off, but I’m not sure where to begin.

Every time this Sidewalk concern style story crops up (which it has several times over the last 6-12 months), I have rechecked that Sidewalk is disabled. So far I have not found it set to anything except for disabled. I hope Amazon isn’t doing a gradual roll out to enable, as if I find it enabled at any point in the future, I am done with Amazon devices in my home.

As far as I’m concerned based on Amazon Logistics performance in my area and the impact to the quality of other delivery carriers in my area, Amazon is not afraid to engage in a race to the bottom in the name of market share and profits. Opting me in to Sidewalk will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and sends me to anyone else except for Amazon when shopping.

I see flag as something more along the lines of report on Reddit - I assume it raises the flagged comment to the actual moderation team (dang et al) for review & action against the user if necessary. I don't think it's worth flagging someone and risking their account over a bit of self-promotion, punning, one line jokes, or abrasive comments. I see downvotes as my chance to shape the conversation without jumping in to comment and add to the fire.

An example: a common HN trope is to comment something tangentially related to the linked article, but the comment isn't directly related, isn't an attempt to discuss the linked item, and comes off with a "hustle" vibe (check out my project that is similar, check out the company I created that solves the same problem, I wrote an article about this last year go to my website instead) rather than actual discussion about the article. Sometimes these comments come off as extra slimy, but I'm not going to flag someone for trying to get attention, I'm just going to do what I can to shape the conversation by downvoting in cases I judge as egregious.

> I think that the downvote mechanism should just be removed

Why? I think this approach makes an assumption that everyone is upvoting everything that they would not downvote. I upvote things I find interesting or insightful, and I do my part in terms of moderation by downvoting comments that don't have a good fit for HN.

What I see on Facebook and Twitter is that the inability for the hivemind to have some kind of downward pressure mechanism on comments encourages/enables polarizing comments by vocal minorities to rise to the top. I see this frequently in the comments on the posts of local political figures. The top comments shown are almost always controversial and unhelpful/unproductive - things like whataboutism, blatantly racist remarks, etc. Eventually I got tired of constantly catching myself up in arms over FB comments and stopped participating.

The only way I see to counteract this as a rank-and-file user is to upvote/like every single comment except for the ones that are hurting actual discourse. IMO this will drive away people that you ultimately want to be participating on HN.

I’ve thought through this over the last few days and I don’t think it’s viable unless all countries enact the ban at the same time. Imagine country A bans trade or mining of PoW coins - that puts the citizens of country A at a disadvantage to citizens of other countries, and encourages holders of PoW coins in country A to exfiltrate wealth and capital from country A.

You end up needing to solve the same type of problem that PoW solves in order to enact a PoW ban simultaneously across all countries - how can all parties trust that every other party is being honest and will follow through (Byzantine Generals problem)?

Sidewalk is also connected to grid power, and the backbone consumer devices are in fixed locations. I don’t see grid vs battery or fixed/mobile device locations as necessary advantages or disadvantages though.

For example, the FindMy network would continue to work even in power outage scenarios like parts of the country experienced in Feb 2021.

gwern has written on the topic[0].

[0] https://www.gwern.net/LSD-microdosing

It’s a public health issue on the same order of magnitude as COVID-19, but happening every year: “Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.” [0]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...

The author found a vulnerability, extracted data they should not have had access to, processed the data (aggregated, anonymized), then published the data. Isn't everything starting from "extracted" illegal? Or is it a gray area where "the server would not have provided the data if I were not authorized to receive it" -- in spite of the author's admission that it was acquired via a vulnerability?

I'm curious where the $37 number comes from? I just did a quick search and came up with $13.64 for a "high priority" transaction (higher than normal fee to get included in a block sooner)[0]. It's still high, but not $37 high.

[0] https://mempool.space/

As far as I understand, when you land on an AMP page, you get the same (cached) page that everyone else gets. Which is basically a shortened version of what you would see if you were not logged in. So while it may not be AMP's fault, AMP enables/encourages the behavior.

If the AMP page is showing everyone the same thing, then of course I won't see Reddit with my user settings (old mobileweb, do not ask me about the app, etc), and of course trying to interact with the page will redirect me somewhere else. If I could opt out of AMP to avoid this issue, I would.

When I click a Reddit link, I expect to be logged in as myself with the ability to vote & comment directly. Instead I land on an easily cacheable page that asks me to download the Reddit app without fail.

Reddit is already fast, Reddit does not benefit from AMP - except by putting that "This page looks better in the app!" modal back in the face of people that have otherwise disabled it via their user settings.

Which artist / which restaurant? I’ve got a few hunches, I live in the Crossroads.

Assuming normal distribution, the law of large numbers kicks in at n=30.

It seems to be a perennial problem, as I was looking back through old tweets and saw that in 2010 I was complaining about the same thing.

In my search results today, they're doing a good job of putting wikipedia style facts onto my screen, while simultaneously pushing wikipedia results further away from the top. I'm usually shown lots of "news" related results - maybe some kind of optimization for temporal relevance?

It's hard to know how to respond to a request for something like "octopus hat". As myself, I know I would prefer to see results from Etsy over Amazon for this particular query today. As an outsider, I don't know how anyone would know that without being around me for some time, and knowing the exact mood/mindset I'm in at that moment. In comes all of the data collection to make this algorithmically/heuristically possible. It's a bit concerning that everything coming up at the top of the results for this query are trying to sell me something - making, thinking & doing are falling way further down the page.

It makes me curious what a naked search experience would be like these days, without the personalized bubble. I try it from time to time via DuckDuckGo, and when deeply curious I suspect I'll try to navigate Google through tor.

On iPhone, there is a built in remote app in control center, then you use the volume buttons on the phone to adjust the TV volume. It’s part of the OS, not the remote app from the App Store, and I’ve found it to be a good fit for those emergency volume adjustments. Sharing so others can benefit from what took me a while to discover :)