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> I don't know anything about John Zerzan but

Stop right there. You know nothing about the "modern left" if you have never heard of John Zerzan. And if you think that he is some kind of Marxist because you skimmed a Wikipedia page, you are clearly a know-it-all idiot Dunning-Krugering himself.
Because Vision Fund isn't this magical VC that trumps all others. They just had a lot of (Saudi) money to throw around and frankly just aren't very good at it.
Alright, then perhaps I am wrong (or out of date). I'd not seen nor heard of these six story high facilities, my lord.
> It’s been my preferred layout since Mac OS X 10.0, and that type of layout has basically been the one I have used since I started using email more than twenty years ago

Lost me at UIs shouldn't change in twenty years
When was the last time AWS reduced egress rates?

And they could negotiate the best rates on the planet given their scale.
I am wondering, what is the quid pro quo here.

I don't like most of these people, but they don't ring to me like the kind of people who could be bribed with a seat at a prestigious university's board.
I wonder what is going to happen to the wavepool company.
Looking over that follow list, I'd unfollow everyone too.
Maybe tell Leigh M. Rothschild what you think of his practices: Leigh@PatentMgmt.com
I think it is also important to mention Tsinghua Holdings [1], or a name commonly heard in Tech Circle Tsinghua Unigroup. And all the stories behind it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_Holdings
Unlikely. With today's social media, AI boom, deep fakes, and ever increasing processing power, they can do their PSYOPs even better.
FWIW I installed Catalina from the first beta and it's worked flawlessly for me. Maybe because I'm on a newish Macbook Pro and I don't use shitty Adobe software, produce music on this machine, or have a complex testing setups with purposefully old stuff.

If you mostly use a browser/terminal for everything its nothing to worry about.

I will say that Podcasts app kinda sucks, just like the iPhone one it's needlessly confusing when trying to open the show's page with the episode list, instead of just "recently played" or w/e you've downloaded. It tries too hard to be clever, while abandoning simple descended by when the show was added. idk why they can't do both.
With high probability, the links on the website are outdated. I'm an international student at Tsinghua, and a lot our lot of English web presence is stale. Both of the official instagram [1] and facebook [2] accounts have posts from within the last 24 hours.

On-campus IPV6 gets you a connection to most "banned" sites. Imagine trying to do research without google scholar? Aside from "sensitive" times (anniversary of tiananmen, 70th anniversary, etc.), it's relatively easy to hop the GFW from campus.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/tsinghua_uni/
[2] https://www.facebook.com/pg/Tsinghua/posts/?ref=page_interna...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/445846-you-wasted-150-000-o...

That summarizes the issue. Why pay 200k or even 100k at the beginning of your adult life for something you can read and then talk to people?

If you think students or professors at these colleges will turn you away when you've studied the material, you're sadly mistaken. Why do you need to get stuck with the bill when you're not really getting anything out of it?
Not really. 32-bit apps run on Mojave and below without needing 64-bit code. Unless an app needs to address more than 4 GB of RAM, there's no great need to make it 64-bit. On the other hand, going from 32 to 64 bit requires work up front.
I've upgraded to Catalina on my 2015 MacBook Pro the day it released (didn't run the betas), and I haven't experienced any problems.

I mostly use it for development, everything still works.

My only annoyance so far has been SideCar, it just never works the first time, I have to switch from second display to mirror, then back to second display to make it work.
I can say anecdotally that the graduates from Tsinghua that I have met are absolutely brilliant individuals.
Can you give me the TLDR version of MacOS Catalina’s downsides? Apart from mail layout change of course. I tried to read your blog but it was too difficult to find the points you were making too much rant with actual points hidden here and there.

Personally for me this has been the smoothest upgrade ever! Literally no apps are broken and no data lost.

Edit: typos and clarified that I read the blog.
>So isnt this a recapitalization of the firm? Why would they need to pay $200M for control if the alternative is some variation of bankruptcy followed by a firesale and cheap buy?

Because it is obvious if they do Firesale and Cheap buy they would have destroy the company and buy something that everyone knows isn't remotely worth that much. By trying to save it now they could at least get back some of its investment via IPO.

My question is what if Neumann decides to be an ass, and just want to watch everything burn? After all he has the voting shares.
Or they optimized via direct connect.
Exactly this. I would be OK with buying expired food iff it's sold at a discounted price and it's labelled as such. Otherwise it's fraud.
ah, also - are you cool with suicide? if so I think your hardline approach is fine, it's really just being forced to live + treated like shit (ref. your post) if you don't enjoy it enjoy it enough that I think is the real issue
There might have been a minority of creators, but there was far less to consume compared to today.

The creators in the 90s created because there was very little to consume compared to today. When the creators of the 90s were kids they didn’t consume, because there was little to anything to consume. But creating software was limitless.

Creating content in someone’s platform is different than creating your own HTML experience. Both are relevant... but the percentage of creation should be a default skill of all users beyond working for companies for free to create user generated content to sell.
seems I was mistaken, Rust seems fine. I was probably misremembering, as I haven't played much with it. The point about Python and other still stands, though.
Making up opinions and then arguing against them is not popular here.
I was not making any commentary on Blizzard, I was just pointing out that they had backtracked, to an extent from what the GP was posting.

Personally, I disagree with Blizzard's stance, but it should be noted that they partially backtracked. They're letting him keep the prize money, and down to a 6 month suspension from 12 months.

Blizzard's terms about not causing offense are so broad that one could hardly wish someone a good morning without risking offending someone.

To reiterate: I am not defending Blizzard, just pointing out they had a partial mea culpa.
I thought I’d see a very old version, but I just see the current website... is that their first?!
I was working at Microsoft at the time. All the smart cool people left to go do startups, money was easy to get. This was 5 years in to my first job. I encouraged my friends not to sell their Microsoft stock because it was going up for a long time still (some are even still my friends). The market crashed but Microsoft kept on going. I didn't really notice a change. Many of my friends came back to the mother ship. I recognize I was lucky.
Traffic circles / roundabouts (for smaller intersections) are better. I wonder how mass adoption might impact air quality and fuel efficiency.
"Apple Music, TV, Podcasts, Photos, Notes, Reminders, Screen Time, and Apple Watch"

Apple has, for the entirety of Mac OS X and macOS, has spent a substantial amount of time enhancing media and mobile quality of life. Catalina is no different. Take a stroll down memory lane: iTunes (was the amalgamation of the first three apps you mentioned), DVD playback, iChat, .Mac syncing, Dashboard (Widgets), Back to My Mac, MobileMe, Front Row, Photo Booth, App Store, iMovie, iPhoto, iChat, AirDrop, Messages, FaceTime, Game Center, and iCloud.

Some of the apps you mention have been getting updates for longer than just Catalina. Photos was launched in Yosemite, while Notes and Reminders launched in Mountain Lion.

I am sure we can both imagine people who were disappointed in 2007 when Apple redesigned Mail and were posting on digg about how Lion is more trouble than it's worth.

As for the lack of 32-bit support, this is really not a sticking point for customers who pay to have their applications supported. If a product is no longer being developed, why is it that you blame Apple's software update?

Oh, and another thing that isn't new: initially buggy releases of macOS
How boring it is. Really. The more boring a platform, the more chance it has to withstand emotional hype-and-dip cycles.
The difference between renting and purchasing gets murky (sure, not literally) when you are dealing with sensitive hardware that you rely on but cannot maintain yourself. Such systems usually require frequent maintenance by the supplier. Sure, you could end your maintenance contracts, but then the systems you have purchased will very rapidly become useless. The up-front cost of hardware is often very small compared to the ongoing cost of maintenance contracts, and so the relationship ends up looking a lot like rental.

The parent comment mentions that Delta rents their airplane engines. I imagine that they have the capability to do general maintenance on the engines, but that the engines need to be periodically sent back to the supplier (probably GE or Rolls-Royce) for a teardown, safety inspection, and rebuild. Without regular inspections an engine can't be flown, and is essentially worthless. Not much point in actually owning the engine if you can't use it.
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Does anyone even care about podcast search?
Requests too much PII! Run away!
Thanks for that little tip! It's a constant mistype for me...

$ apt install something
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock
(/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
I entered the industry in 2000, and it was "programming geeks"—people who dug computers and thought coding was fun—who survived the dot com bust mostly unscathed. Dabblers, fillers, talkers, people-managers, org-climbers, etc. had some pretty lean years.

That isn't to say some programming geeks didn't get sacked, but they tended to land on their feet. Also, it was often the hard-negotiating salary-seekers who found themselves in the cross-hairs, and possibly facing a slight decrease in standard of living, because of the big price tags they'd put on themselves.
Yes. The fact that this is considered newsy enough to make it to the front page tells us more about the fever pitch China paranoia in these parts than about the actual news itself.
I am also taking a look at this problem from an analytics point of view (python, pandas, jupyter, dask, etc). My thinking so far is that it would make a lot of sense to offer 1:1 support but also services around a reference architecture made of those components. Then I would pay a cut like 10-20% to Numfocus which seems to be backing a lot of this ecosystem.
It really didn't age well if anyone is getting that itch. The atmosphere is phenomenal but the puzzles can be extremely frustrating. Back in the day, that wasn't a problem because exploration felt like a privilege. Now, the scenery doesn't captivate like it used to and you just want to know how to solve the stupid thing.

Portal 2 is a great brain-teaser if anyone is looking for a constructive use of their time tonight. I recommend the Nyskrte NYS maps if you want a real head challenge.
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Redirects to the pizzahut.com.au main page for me.
Recently watched George Hotz on video announce his latest update for Comma.ai. To sign up for their optional prime(?) monthly subscription account you've got to give them your GitHub account.

Gave a friend anxious to try self-driving a link. He then asks me what is GitHub? I explain it and he tells me, what is this some sort of tech toy? I could tell that he began to lose interest.

I well remember talking to people about getting on the Internet in 1994 and as soon as they found out they'd have to install a tcp/ip stack on Windows 3.1 they too soon lost interest.

I believe against all odds that Comma.ai just might be one of the eventual winners in the self driving market. Which is crazy because they're battling people who've invested billions of dollars. By coincidence the partner who brought Comma.ai to Andreesen Horowitz is Chris Dixon! Coincidence?

Personally I'm just waiting for them to add support for Ford.
So what is the point of his post then?
Currently that signaling is very valuable. The earnings gap between high school graduates and college graduates is apparently larger than it has ever been.

However, universities and banks have figured out how to eat up much of that value by saddling students with debt that can take decades to pay off.
Was sent out to visit a customer- a .com startup.

The week before it had been a buzzing vibrant exciting place. They were using something “new” called XP, extreme programming where you put two programmers side by side for an hour or two and then keep switching the combinations throughout the day.

There were unlimited free snacks and a free wheeling fun atmosphere. A really exciting place.

That day when i turned up, the doors were locked and the building was empty.

I rang up my boss to say the client was shut today. We found out after that their funding had been withdrawn and they’d shut without notice.
Mentioning compilation speed needs solid data to back the claim. This would have delayed the release. To my understanding, there is some work being done on a script that would produce this kind of reliable data and a later post will be made to cover this detail.
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Yeah, I'm getting redirected to the current website too. You can see the page archived here: http://archive.is/https://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/h...
In Canada, it redirects to pizzahut.ca
I was surprised by how many IT employee there are in banks. But please, provide your own estimation.
Sounds to me like a scrappy clone of Codementor.

I think the real way to equalize OSS software is to make it partially OSS ... maybe any company w/ < 10 mill profits it's FOSS, any company over that has to pay in man-hours (contributions) or $$ to use the product.

Amazon/FB/Microsoft and other Faang's could easily reproduce any oss software to meet their needs using their own staff...

Maybe even just have a github like site to host software and each organization pays based on their value, w/ startups/small companies under 10 million annual revenues essentially having free access.

Larger companies would pay a per employee fee, that fee would be divided up among all FOSS software that company uses. They could get some refunds for any contributions accepted to FOSS. It'd basically be like patreon for software in a semi-walled garden.

Small members could also 'opt-in' to pay $x per month that would also be divided up among other OSS projects. Either random, or they could pick by grouped projects or just pick their favorites to receive a % of their monthly donation.
Ask HN: How has learning a new language helped you in your career?
Looking for those who have learned a new language after they were already employed.
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>I basically got stoned and played video games for the next 5 months.

Did you find this 5 month period notably changed your life philosophy/trajectory?
Maybe the point is to be signaling before you start slowing down? It doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all.

When I turn off of rural highways with 50+ mph speed limits, I signal about the same time I let off the gas to start slowing for the turn. Braking is at least a few seconds later, turning is well after that.
China is already Apple's second largest market. Right now China's GDP per capita is about $9,600. South Korea has a GDP per capita of about $31k and Japan has a GDP per capita of about $39k. Assuming that China reaches those levels at some point in the not too distant future (which seems likely given cultural and genetic similarities), China will be Apple's largest market. And they will be where Apple manufactures most of its products. At that point, China will be as important to Apple as the U.S., possibly more so. This is the long game that Tim Cook is playing.
I can't see how Skype was different in 2010 vs 2003. I mean, it provided facility for perfect clarity voice calls over the Internet right away and that never changed (arguably, clarity of a Skype voice call is worse now than it used to be). And it perfectly worked over then-day Internet connections. I had a mediocre quality dial-up in 2003 which was already long in the past for most developed countries, and i used Skype a lot, it worked OK - and when i moved onto 112kbps dedicated line - also considered slowish by developed countries' standards of the day - and Skype calls were literally perfectly clear all the time, every time. Much better than over a landline phone, if you had a headset.

So while agreeing with the rest of the article, Skype sounds like a wrong example. It was a total replacement for phone calls from day one. I never made, and maybe received only about 10, calls to/from my U.S. customers since getting on Skype, PSTN immediately lost me as a long-distance client.
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But I think it's still better than running in FF.
I was on the East Coast, 2500 miles away from Silicon Valley. But we felt it out here too.

It was hard to know if you (as an internet application developer) would ever make a nice salary againn.

I don't think anybody thought that skilled and experienced internet application developers were going to be out of work forever.

It seemed clear that the internet had definitely solidified itself as a part of everyday life. There was going to be an internet, and things to do and buy on there, and people were going to have to build those things.

I think my main concern was how lucrative it was going to be. I briefly made $100K in my early 20s in the early 2000s with just a few years experience. Even at the time that didn't really seem sustainable.

When the crash hit, I soon went back to making $40 or $50K. That was nice enough money but I didn't know how far things were going to fall. Would the market be flooded with programmers? Would I eventually be making $25K as an experienced developer? Would I make $100K again someday?

So I worried a little bit... not too much.

There were still jobs and they were OK enough.
I had around 10 years' experience by then. Found a dream job in London but they imploded two days after I started.

Took me six months to find something else. And that turned out to be an OK job with EDS, but at half what I was earning before. By 2004 when things had started to recover they seemed to get a fright because I suddenly got 3 raises in 4 months which almost tripled my salary. Was too late though, because during that time I was interviewing at Microsoft.

Crazy times.
Me thinks maybe you haven't actually played Nintendo games if you believe they are bland compared to a game with 650 repetitive puzzles that would have been just as interesting (or non-interesting) as a 2D game on a phone. Yes, I get there is a context in the game and a big reveal (and I enjoyed the game) but I don't agree that 650 puzzles is less bland than my time spent in Breath of the Wild.

I also don't agree that "Indie" = "better" or "unique". AAA companies, especially Sony and Nintendo have released amazingly creative games. Just a few from Nintendo include Pikman, Animal Crossing, 1-2 Switch (cow milking), Cubivore, and there are several others. Meanwhile 99% of "indie" games are skinned versions of old games who's best examples are often Nintendo's. How many "Metroid"vanias are there? How many Smash Bros clones?

As one more final point, the games made at big companies are made by actual people who poor their creativity into the games they make. Indies don't have a monopoly on creativity. Being AAA != can't be creative nor does it mean can't take risks on new ideas. There are plenty of examples of new ideas from these companies.
The predators will never disappear in the first place.

The fewer predators there are, the more wasteful defense mechanisms are, and therefore the more disfavored they are by natural selection. The more predators there are, the more defense mechanisms are favored. The equilibrium is neither zero defenses nor 100% effective defenses against predation. It's somewhere in-between.

The predators get to evolve too, by the way. There's no 100% effective defense against all forms of predation.
It's mutually beneficial. The university gains the prestige of having the CEO of one of the world's largest companies on their board. And it allows Tim Cook to be on the board of one of China's most prestigious university. See my other replies down thread for why doing this in China specifically is important.
TL;DR: the correlation is high flux EM (ie radar) exposure being linked with significantly higher rates of [cancer]. The cause may be something environmental also correlated with EM exposure such as industrial solvents (such as those typically used in the manufacture and maintenance of electrical systems like radar) which we already know to be carcinogens.
As far as I know, the US have never investigated a member of their government for war crimes, and have always shielded any US army person investigated in another country. It is a very simple policy: by definition, the US is carying out just wars, so there can be no war crimes perpetrated by the US army. At most, regrettable mistakes can be admitted to.

This applies even when international courts have found the US guilty, since the US does not recognize the authority of international courts against them. See the case of the mining of Nicaragua's harbors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States
the key is money.

google wants to get paid, blog writers want to get paid, manufacturers want to make sales

the people with the lesser interest in profit (or attention $ instead of quality get buried because they dont make anybody else any money
Plus correlation is not causation.
> So why exactly should California spend 20 billion dollars

Because adding comparable capacity to SFO and LAX would be $100B+
Sorry, I'm not sure what step I messed up on?

0. "Most degrees add little value compared to their current cost. We are talking about dollars here. Cost to get a degree vs. premium degree holders command for their labor." (initial text)

1. Most degrees add little [premium degree holders command for their labor] compared to their current cost. (textual substitution)

2. Most degrees add little premium degree holders command for their labor compared to [cost to get a degree]. (textual substitution)

3. Most degrees add little premium [that] degree holders command for their labor compared to [the] cost to get a degree. (add connecting words)

4. Most degrees add little premium that degree holders command for their labor compared to the cost to get [that] degree. (clarify "a degree")

5. [>50% of] degrees add little premium that degree holders command for their labor compared to the cost to get that degree. (definition)
I like your thought process.
"After adjusting for inflation and the time value of money, the net cost of college is negative $500,000, roughly double what it was three decades ago."

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/upshot/is-college-worth-i...

This is a reference for college being a net win to the tune of $500K. The interesting bit is that it's largely because the wages of high school graduates have greatly eroded.
So it's a fail-open design, given the rarity of well maintained networks, and the lability and inobservability of said state.

Never trust the network.
The idea that you speak of, about bug entrenched companies not being able to see new things coming - it's the central theme of The Innovator's Dilemma. I highly recommend that book if you wish to read about this further.