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I think that electronics/computers by itself do not have much to do with with the fall of soviet union. USSR fell because:

1. its economic model was dysfunctional and a failure

2. Its moderate leaders (aka Gorbachev and his allies), decided to dismantle it, as they realized the model was a failure, and their only other option was to become extremely repressive, roll out tanks and kill people. (north korea is an example that given enough repression, even an extremely poor economy is not enough to dismantle a bad government.)

The soviet union was away behind the US (gdp per capita) in the 50s and early 60s, where computers were less developed and less important (to the general economy at least).

The soviet union failed, because centralized, collectivism, and having all the output owned by the state is a failure as a model.... as it goes against basic human nature.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Soviet_U...

Look at Spain's economy, how it is transformed after Franco died and the fascist regime is removed and the country opens up, gets less centralized.

Another analogy is Argentina. Where there was too much central planing, and state dictated economy. Compare it against Canada, (open and capitalistic), and you see that the system is the main culprit, and not necessary computers.
> We fly mail up north.

Does USPS go around Canadian airspace? Do they avoid trucking through Canada to go to Alaska or Point Roberts WA?
https://anaconda.org/shaktidb/shakti/2019.09.20/download/lin...

The k binary in this tarball is statically-linked.
I’m familiar. Note the lack of East<->West transmission capability between coasts (important for solar generation to follow the sun), and the lack of almost anything to the Northern Territory (who doesn’t even expose their real time generation data on the internet!).

Also, there are natural gas reserves, it just doesn’t appear it’s used extensively for electrical generation based on historical ElectricityMap.org data.
Offgasing is common in brand new stores, even Apple ones.
Quite interestingly, Symplectic Geometry is currently under review/investigation for some of the foundational papers in the field having serious gaps and outright errors after closer inspection. These concerns were always spoken of in hush hush tones and only in recent times have people stated their concerns publically. Some of the original authors refuse to retract their papers despite being assured their academic positions (which realistically, came through the reputation built up by these papers) are secure. Here's a quanta article about this fiasco: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-fight-to-fix-symplectic-g...
Translation: comparing apples and oranges.
kOS exists, at least one HN user has used it ('geocar). As a research operating system, seeing it released into the public was never a likely goal, and as far as I know no one claimed it would be..
An interesting technical problem to face, but it had to be solved eventually.

All sorts of solutions need to be combined to upgrade the the grid to something which is ready to accommodate so many renewables. Breakthroughs in battery technology need to happen very soon (globally). Hopefully the push from large nation states and the accompanying investments in it will make this possible.

An interesting problem here is energy security, especially for places like hospitals or the military. You do not want a country who's critical infrastructure relies on the power generation of suburban rooftop solar but unfortunately the large amount in WA, Aus seems to indicate that might be a possibility.

At the very least, a move away from coal is needed. Even though natural gas isn't ideal as a final destination, it might be needed in the iterim. Quick fire up/down during rapid demand change periods is needed to allow the shift to renewables to happen. Sadly, building natural gas generators - even if with the aim of supporting renewables long-term - would probably be met with opposition by some on the eco-left in WA. Worth a shot though.
I’m sure a lot of this will be up for friendly discussions in the next bilateral trade call.
You must have been writing incredibly terrible k, or using a bootleg interpreter.
The article seems to say that they're mainly shifting to HiSilicon, their in house chip design wing.
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... Except that most of the mail going in/out of Point Roberts is probably Canadians shipping their stuff in and out of there because Canada Post is expensive, or US retailers ignore Canada.
After some dental surgery, I was given a prescription for some powerful painkillers, and the pharmacist told me they could only fill all of it or none of it. I literally couldn't obtain a lesser amount. (And thankfully, ultimately didn't need any of it.)
It's worth noting that Chinese smartphones without any US components have been available for a long time, based around SoCs from Mediatek and Spreadtrum/RDA.
> Even so, very few people will be able to replicate that work outside without a very well funded laboratory or collaboration of their own.

That's not a reason to not be open about it!

> What good is a process document for obtaining an x-ray structure if the diffractometer costs a fortune and is a shared departmental or even national resource?

I think it's inherently good! Even if you think can't use it right now, it's good to put it all out there for people looking and into the archives to keep it for the future.

> In your example, how deep does the bill of materials go?

Well if bills of materials are available for your components themselves then you don't need to break them down yourself.
It’s also incredibly hard to sell to enterprises as a startup. Building a better mousetrap is not all it takes, which explains why these solutions are still widely used despite their deficiencies. People are building better solutions all the time that go nowhere.
There's an Android app for that (if the device is rooted)

https://f-droid.org/app/com.slash.batterychargelimit
They're saying that your comment is irrelevant because you're comparing current issues between the USA and China with issues between the USA and Native Americans in a completely different time period. Today's morals aren't the same as they were hundreds of years ago, so it doesn't make sense to excuse current IP theft in China by pointing out historical theft of land by the USA.
Freeze doesn’t play nicely with Vue, in my experience.
The original title is "Magnetization switching by magnon-mediated spin torque through an antiferromagnetic insulator"

From the Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
That's true of the US too. Lavabit got shut down for not being willing to cooperate with the state and be a part of espionage.
You can pick them up in bulk from a wholesaler for under $2/3 a shirt (that is premium ringspun).

Tbh, if you get from a decent supplier then the quality is usually fine. I am not sure why there is a stigma around non-US products. A lot of third-world countries have very skilled labour. And most of the "US-branded" t-shirts today are of very variable quality...but that is the only product these days for certainty that your clothes weren't made by a child.
Another way of looking at things: Today’s phones are quite a bit more capable than the first generation of smartphones, and they only cost twice as much.
"Once bitten, twice shy."

"Never turn away a paying customer."

Once those markets go, they never come back. And you're on the slippery slope to irrelevance.
Does this breakthrough apply to other things like inverters?
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That doesn't seem like a contradiction. The newer phones do not have American chips, which matches the headline that says they have managed to make phones without these chips.
So, "jeopardising" in the seense that, say, me driving west on a road which comes to a north-south "T" in the road, would be "jeopardising" the car's safety...if I don't turn the car in an appropriate manner when I get to the "T". Yes, if you add solar with absolutely no changes elsewhere to accommodate that, you will eventually have problems.

But, that's like saying smartphones jeopardized the cell phone infrastructure, which they did except the cell phone companies added capacity. Bicycles can jeopardize the road network of a city if they become widely used, and you don't do anything (e.g. bike lanes) to accommodate that change. Every change in technology can jeopardize the network it is part of, if nothing else is changed to accommodate it.

But, you know, there are several (already known, developed) methods of handling this (big batteries, utilities being able to turn off your solar like they can currently remotely control my thermostat). It seems a bit of an overstatement to say that it's jeopardizing the grid.
I see it different. Given the importance of The Fourth Estate, the nature of TFE's business is, in and of itself, important. Yet, they bury that lead behind an endless stream of fluff.
I'm around a third of the way through 'The Last Days of the Incas' by Kim MacQuarrie [0]. It's quite a gripping read, trying to wrap your head around how (spoiler? ;) a few hundred Spaniards conquered an empire of millions. Can recommend.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/354038.The_Last_Days_of_...
How much is community college where you are? How much is state?
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Your comment has some validity, but the title doesn't seem false; the key point is that Huawei's new flagship product, the Mate 30...

> contained no U.S. parts, according to an analysis by UBS and Fomalhaut Techno Solution
Google purchased Spyder.io and did nothing with it by the looks of it.

I was involved in the brand safety space (I built ML systems to detect things that are unsafe for the brand). My impression is that even brands aren't really _that_ interested in brand safety. I think they're more reactive than proactive on that end.
Well written. The line between CI and CD has been blurred esp when they’re commonly mentioned together. Many cant tell the difference
I really doubt that the EDA software is really that much of an investment these days. It's the lithography tech that's the real crown jewel, and it is being protected.
I did write what I meant; there's simply no way, on average, fasting has zero negative side effects. That's what I wrote. The fact that you or others couldn't navigate your way to that conclusion is on you, not me.

And I did want to come across as sarcastic and condescending because it's frankly insulting to others when you claim such outrageous and wrong nonsense on the internet. You deserve sarcasm and negativity if you bring idiocy to a reasonable conversation.
Should say better and smarter management. It should not be accusing the solar panel. Computer jeopardising a lot of things otherwise.
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I don't know what they're doing in a bath, but small radar systems have been used as proximity fuses for anti-aircraft shells since WWII.
People are free to say stupid things. Native Americans aren't a monolith -it was never 'their' land - there were hundreds of native nations who were variously at peace or at war with each other over the years.

I wonder how those Natives you know on twitter would carve up the land once they got it back - do Apaches need to go back to Canada, since they invaded the southwest only in the ~16th century and pushed out the Pueblo people?
I would say that responsibility for success in communication depends mainly on intentional aspects of the communication and may fall on either speaker or listener (or both).

I.e., both sides have some level of expected interest/gain in successful communication and that makes each of them implicitly responsible (at least to themselves) for their part of gain from communication.
I discovered Horizon just now from the LibrePCB site and will certainly give it a try. The part management looks so much more sensible than anything else.
Both valid points. I'm pretty keen on the concept of harm reduction, but how much overlap there is between harm reduction and blindly trying to reduce the consumption of opioids remains to be seen.
I've been to Macchu Picchu as a kid and can't wait to take my own kids, probably in their early teens, and then later in life am keen to spend a few weeks just hiking. Would you mind sharing which specific areas/routes you hiked? I'm interested in the northern region around Kuelap too.
I don’t think it played a role here but note that incognito mode doesn’t mask your IP so the results will still be somewhat personalized.
How many people do care about reputation of a news source beyond "it's mainstream" vs. "it's a tabloid" vs. "it's something random I've never seen before"? I think most people these days don't follow news sites, they click through to individual articles from their IMs and social media feeds.
It's not an anecdote about a Twitter comment. It's a nutshell version of American history.

China also has lower labor costs generally. Lots of things cost less in other countries for the same reason.

It's rare for anyone to come up with something genuinely original. We depend on education and culture and many things to develop anything. Then we argue about things like intellectual property rights because such conventions are an attempt to sort out how to make society work given that ideas are easily "stolen" and if we don't allow for some means for originators of new things to profit, we actively discourage our best and brightest from contributing to forward progress.

But this forum skews American. Most people will argue "for" the American side and "against" the Chinese for that reason alone.

I'm only pointing out the hypocrisy and silliness of arguing this as if America has some absolute moral high ground.

I follow Natives on Twitter because, according to oral family tradition, I'm a small part Cherokee. I'm pretty sure most full-blooded Natives would happily ship me back to Europe along with the rest of the whites.

I don't know the right answer going forward. I just believe that you need actual facts to find it.

The implicit assumption that China is The Bad Guy and America is The Good Guy is unlikely to yield a real solution when there is so much low hanging fruit for saying "The two nations aren't all that different."

But it seems my thoughts are likely wholly unwelcome here, as is so often the case.
Sure, but if you actually count out 16 teaspoons, you are likely to lose count :)
The bad part is once they have your name you can't leave the island except for the months when the ferry runs. Ever.
Again. The irony is fitting. The confirmation bias runs deep on HN, even if many pretend it doesn't. The votes either way have no value. It's as if fake fear should be enough to coddle the duped.
There is no contradiction. The title, "Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips", is confirmed by the content of the article, including a quote by an analyst: “When Huawei came out with this high-end phone—and this is its flagship—with no U.S. content, that made a pretty big statement.”

The title didn't claim that Huawei, for all of its phones, had not used any American chip. It claimed that some of its new phones don't use any.

Your claim that "it's (sic) graph shows significant usage of US chips" is wrong. The table shows that for every component that was built by an American firm, they have a non-American alternative. Sometimes American providers are still listed, but the table is not quantitative, so the American chips part still used may be lower than 5%, for all we know after reading this.
It's not whataboutism. So that might be why.
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I agree. Canada needs to start ripping open ever package we can get our hands on in retaliation.
Saying that the bible of a certain religion is obsolete and has been superseded (which is what "old" means in this sense) can't be interpreted kindly to say the least. You have every right to feel that it is obsolete, of course, but you should at least realize that this is not going to be considered well by the people whose holy books you appropriated, modified, and replaced.
Good point. Give Alaska to Canada.
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So your offering an anecdote of two people who tried a strong painkiller, and discovered they only needed a weaker one, as evidence of...what? That nobody every needs strong painkillers?

Paracetamol and ibuprofen are the right choice in a lot of cases, but I don't think any medical professional would dream of suggesting they're the only painkillers that you'll ever need!
From what I gather, Natives don't see that theft as historical. They see it as still ongoing.
Probably Day 15 [0] from last year. It was challenging, especially because there were so many rules to implement (in a short time). A slight misreading of the rules would let you pass all the provided examples, but fail on the real input.

[0] https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/15
Gaffers tape is the holy grail IMHO. So many good uses for it.
When there was a referendum asking the people in all reoublics whether to keep the Soviet Union or dismantle it, the overwhelming majority, 70+ percent, voted to keep it. The leadership dismantled it anyway. When asking why, it usually is useful to ask cui bono.
I think the general sense of people's objections aren't to the medications themselves, it's to the repeated revelations of just how determinedly companies lied and bribed and incentivized the use of opioids.

I for one would love to see pharma marketing info limited to nothing more than summaries of prescribing quidelines, and anything resembling sales pitches or opinion of any sort heavily penalized until the current pusher system ends.
Even humans grasping the concept of solid-liquid-gas is a very recent historical thing, only happening in the last several hundred years after millions of years of human development.

Therefore, I doubt greatly that animals would ever understand that concept. They might catch a glimmer of the truth, in the ice/water model, but not the whole concept.
I'm going to sidestep arguments about its terseness since some people are into that and it's really an aesthetic choice. But for machine learning or numerical algorithms, I found it quite hard to make k nearly as fast as vanilla NumPy code. Overall there's really no good reason for it to be faster. It didn't have (as of ~2011) a JIT or any mechanism for operator fusion, so you end up allocating many intermediates, sometimes using quadratic space which gets immediately reduced along some axis.

Yeah, I know "Arthur Whitney is really smart"...but that's not actually a technical reason why k would be faster. I don't remember the specifics but I think that many of the array operators weren't even multi-threaded and I remember only a few of the array operators getting FLOPs that would correspond to SIMD acceleration. So, for the most part, it seemed like a lot of vanilla single threaded C code behind the operators.

It's possible that the implementation got smarter over the past decade, but when I was working in the space it seemed like the hagiography and actual performance were worlds apart.
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Sorry... by we I meant we Canadians fly postal mail to other Canadian residents who live way far up in Northern Canada. Mainly because there are hardly any roads connecting communities up as far north as I was talking.

As for USPS driving mail through Canada... we probably don't care as much about securing that "threat" and choose not to spend resources on that.

Whereas the Americans do, and that's entirely within their right as a sovereign nation.

They're allowed to waste resources and piss off and police their neighbors to the north if we allow them to do by placing our packages directly into their hands.

We could retaliate and do the same thing, but it's not really in our best interests to do so.
The Northern Territory has a total population of only 250,000, of which 180,000 live in the Darwin area.

There is no way that spending the enormous amount required to connect it to the east coast grid would be an efficient use of resources.
Interestingly, I haven't found pants that I like that are manufactured in the recent era, even with a reasonably large budget, compared to a laborer. (though I guess thatching is moderately skilled labor, so maybe you would compare it to my computer-technician work?) I love my old Australian army surplus wool cargo slacks; manufactured in the early '50s, I can only find them on ebay. They are super nice; the wool is harsher than smartwool (and they need dry cleaning) but they are super comfortable, and come with a pocket for my reading device. The pockets are lined with thick, heavy cotton that keep stuff from falling out way better than the polyester of most modern wool slacks, and they don't have the lining that most modern wool slacks have, either. (I.. have issues with the feel of a lot of kinds of polyester against my skin, especially when sweating, and most of the wool slacks I've seen have polyester linings down the front to change the way the pants hang or soemthing) and these pants are about a thousand times better in the rain than cotton pants.

But I don't think this is primarily the cost of the wool: Contrast this with shirts, where I can buy a really nice modern wool blend shirt for about a day or maybe day and a half of minimum wage, one that has all the moisture management and skin feel properties of wool but that holds up in the dryer pretty okay. I mean, I guess the same company makes some nice tights which make great undergarments for a Californian visiting a place that snows, so the problem is actually, I guess, that I'm unwilling to go out in public in tights without pants over them, and I live in a place where pants over tights is just too warm.
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