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> If you want to understand why india won't be successful, just look at the members of the british commonwealth. You'll see that india is still in it. You'll never see the US in the british commonwealth with the english queen as our head of state.

That's the first time I've ever heard someone say the Commonwealth is an indicator of anything. First off, Queen Elizabeth isn't the head of state of India. The head of state of India is the President of India, selected by a vote of the national and state legislatures[1]. Second, having the head of the House of Windsor as their constitutional monarch hasn't impeded Canada or Australia's development in any way whatsoever.

India's membership in Commonwealth amounts to basically a cultural and educational exchange program. They participate in the Commonwealth Games every 4 years (or however often they occur). There are no trade or military agreements, or anything else of consequence.[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_India

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations#Trade
The whole crux is that it's 'cheating' if you don't actually understand the tools. So long as you don't run into any problems where not understanding an algorithm stops your entire development process, who really cares?
We are not seeing a gradual reduction though, populations in Africa and West Asia are continually increasing, and will drive the population on Earth to 11.2 billion by 2100:

https://ourworldindata.org/app/uploads/2019/07/historical-an...
Thing is, those disks can probably be recovered.

Remove the disc 'biscuit' from the plastic shell or jacket and wash it in warm soapy water. Rinse it and dry it out.

If that doesn't get them clean, try isopropanol.

Then transplant the disc into a new shell or jacket.

Use a good drive (Teac counts), clean the heads first, and read the disc in one shot -- you may well only get one try. Ideally use a Discferret, Catweasel or similar flux-level reader.

This assumes they're not Wabash or some similarly junky brand. For those, you'll need a sacrifice to the data gods and a whole heap of luck... not to mention a box of foam swabs and isopropanol to clean the disk drive up afterwards...

If you see bits of magnetic material flaking off the disc, don't even waste your time trying it. It's toast and will just end up fouling the heads on the drive.

In theory hard-drive-style non-contact reading is possible, but I'm not aware of anyone who's actually done it.
> I've been told if you have mental issues LSD and their like can make them much worse!

I'm not sure why you just believe what people tells you when it comes to illicit drugs. I would advise you ask for sources next time. Bringing hearsay to a conversation about something as serious as illicit drugs seems like it is not a good idea.

Psychedelics and Mental Health: A Population Study, Teri S. Krebs - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063972

> 21,967 respondents (13.4% weighted) reported lifetime psychedelic use. There were no significant associations between lifetime use of any psychedelics, lifetime use of specific psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, peyote), or past year use of LSD and increased rate of any of the mental health outcomes. Rather, in several cases psychedelic use was associated with lower rate of mental health problems.

The paradoxical psychological effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291715002901

> The present findings reinforce the view that psychedelics elicit psychosis-like symptoms acutely yet improve psychological wellbeing in the mid to long term. It is proposed that acute alterations in mood are secondary to a more fundamental modulation in the quality of cognition, and that increased cognitive flexibility subsequent to serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2AR) stimulation promotes emotional lability during intoxication and leaves a residue of ‘loosened cognition’ in the mid to long term that is conducive to improved psychological wellbeing.

To whomever removed my previous comment: So word of mouth is good enough for guidelines on using illicit drugs but not good enough for religious teachings?
Could you elaborate on The Math?
I’m certainly far from an executive, but I figure the best I can do is to always be working on the most important thing.

There’s always too much to do, that’s just part of the background. People in my environment want to see certain things too, but again that’s just part of the background. You’ll go nuts trying to do what everyone wants, trying to get everything done. And I’ve noticed that there is not a particularly linear relationship between how much I work and how well it’s appreciated, so working more (beyond some threshold) isn’t even necessarily rational.
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Merry Christmas from Christmas Island! The connection speed here on Kiritimati is 270 kbps. People here are excited about the Southern Cross NEXT cable coming in 2022, and have no historical objection to it on their land. I'm also hopeful for the new jobs it will bring (anyone want a non-US fast server with a direct link to Los Angeles?).

Everyone here is using YouTube and Facebook, much like in Fiji last week. A lot are using apps (Messenger Lite). People didn't know about https://mbasic.facebook.com. Thank you admins for having a basic site - Hacker News loads very fast.

What other websites/RSS feeds/etc do you recommend that I use and recommend to others on connection speeds this slow? Is there anything else you'd like to know about usage patterns?
No, no. Compilers don’t write (their own) code, they translate (our) code.
“Aural platforms don't have this capability.”

Using 3D sound, you could surface multiple things simultaneously to the user. For instance, a user could instantly recognize three beeps at varying loudness and location relative to themselves.

We could also use simulated echolocation.

There’s many ways to simulate aural perception that mimics visual perpection.
can you still show that dialog after a button click or something?
You should have your full attention on the road, not on your audiobook. I hope that if you ever get into an accident you will be frank about it and tell the other party - assuming they -- and you -- survive - that you were distracted.
> non tangle wires

All wired earbuds can have "non tangle wires" with the correct method of storage:

- Place the buds in your palm

- Make the "rock" sign with the hand they're in, trapping the buds with your two middle fingers

- Wrap the cord around the two outer fingers in a figure of 8 motion

- Pinch in the middle to remove from your fingers and place everything in a pouch of some sort

Now when you want to use your headphones again they will "magically" not be tangled!

Of course this doesn't stop them getting tangled up in stuff whilst in use, and does require that you have a pouch for storage, but it is the best technique I ever learned for saving myself from the frustration of having to untangle a mess of wire when trying to use my headphones.
I thought Newcastle might be near you!

Of course. I'm Jay, and have updated my profile to include my email.

That's good to know and sounds like it was a good degree.
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Problem still is Apple is tasting third party modem. 5G SOC could be more than feasible. Putting it into charging case is piece of cake.
I run a non-profit healthcare IT company in the Uk. We have just signed a customer (hospital) in the north (UK). Send me your CV (in my profile) - would be happy to chat.
> and they’ll make a mental note to not let you handle their devices in the future

That can be a blessing in disguise. :)
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Cool stuff!
I have something very similar built in JS
https://codepen.io/osmanmesutozcan/pen/wjNvvP
My first pair of Brasher boots were superb - possibly the comfiest boots I have ever owned. They lasted about 2 years before the leather cracked and they were unrepairable - but that's with constant (ab)use - my fault not theirs.

I purchased what I thought was a direct replacement pair recently only to discover that what they now sell (following an acquisition) is a poor copy of the boots I had before.
Ah this looks interesting! Gonna take a look at this, thx!
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Here is a new Museum for you, if you ever happen to visit a tiny corner in India. My friend built it with the help of the Japanese Government and funding. I was lucky to have visited it just before it was inaugurated, took some interesting pictures.

Imphal Peace Museum - https://goo.gl/maps/bXs5PU7tvJE3JukA6

Photos - https://photos.app.goo.gl/8SRV9EY6xCRvumzs5
Anyone buying AirPods has already bought an iPhone (a thousand dollar phone), so I think you can replace ‘Johnny Average Consumer’ with ‘Billy iPhone Consumer’ and the rest of their points still hold
A lot of countries apply protectionist measures and have stagnating industries, protectionism is not enough to win the game.
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I got a bit of a "yikes" at reading the parent comment as well but how is it actually any different from listening to the radio, which has been a thing drivers have done ever since we put radios in automobiles?

Unlike "handsfree phones", listening to a podcast doesn't require interaction and full attention (although it does sound like GP is giving too much of theirs).
> No, no. Compilers don’t write (their own) code, they translate (our) code.

No, no. Developers don't write (their own) code, they simply translate the (customer's) specifications.
This might be a little bit too overkill for my current needs, but I'll definitely keep this one in my bag! Thanks for sharing!
Having tried various other kubernetes distributions I can say k3s is really great. I run it on my laptop and work desktop - it is easy to install and easy to remove or reinstall.
From a polemic in The Spectator:

"There is a huge cast of well-paid people, from management consultants to economic advisers, whose entire salaries are earned by ripping out Chesterton’s fences. Interestingly, these are mostly male-dominated industries (men are more prone to narrow systematising than women). Silicon Valley, which is overwhelmingly male, is possibly the worst offender of all. The very fact that a fence is over ten years old, requires atoms in its manufacture or creates employment for human beings is reason enough for them to want to get rid of it."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/09/chestertons-fence-and-th...
If Amazon runs a service they should know that users are going to flood them with inaccurate reports, and so they shouldn't attach much if any weight to those reports.
I spent a month visiting a PCB factory in China. I met the people working with lead soldering.

Seriously, please choose lead-free.

Pregnant women weren't allowed to eat in the cafeteria due to the high number of miscarriages. The people inhaling the stuff all day... let's just say that had a reputation among the other factory workers for being a bit mentally challenged.
That's a perfect example - thanks very much for the recommendation. I've added it to my want-to-go map!
> That's the first time I've ever heard someone say the Commonwealth is an indicator of anything.

Probably because you are from Britain, Canada, Australia or New Zealand.

> First off, Queen Elizabeth isn't the head of state of India, like she is in Canada or Australia.

But queen elizabeth is the head of the commonwealth. The commonwealth is headquartered in london. The official language is english. The commonwealth is the british empire rebranded - and poorly at that in my opinion.

> Second, that hasn't impeded those nations' development in any way whatsoever.

Because canada and australia are descendent nations of britain. India was a conquered nation of britain. Surely even you can see that india and african colonies were treated differently than canada, australia and new zealand.

> India's membership in Commonwealth amounts to basically a cultural and educational exchange program.

A cultural and educational reminder of their humiliating past?

> They participate in the Commonwealth Games every 4 years (or however often they occur). There are no trade or military agreements, or anything else of consequence.

I don't think you understand what I am saying. A truly great nation. A nation that aspires to be important. Cannot think like a colonial nation.

Do you think south korea or taiwan would join a japanese empire rebranded as commonwealth of nations? Of course not, their elites will never allow it. But india is. If the indian elites do not have the requisite national pride needed for india "to be great", how will the nation become great?

All major industrial nations have become great via the top-down model. The people at the top need to have that vision first. India simply does not have them amongst their elites.

Look at China. They've lifted nearly a billion people out of poverty. India is just now working on trying to get toilets for their people.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-05-12/india-access-toilets-...

400 million indians do not have access to reliable electricity. That's more than the population of the US ( 320 million ).

https://phys.org/news/2013-11-rural-india-electricity.html

Both india and china liberated themselves from western colonialism around the same time. China has improved drastically while india lags behind. Why is that? The list of members of the british commonwealth tells you all you need to know.
Would you mind telling How myou learnt fo code being homeless,i have heard a ton of stories like this and was always intrigued how people even learned to code on their phones.

Good luck with your job hunt!
At first I thought the “libraries, not frameworks” mantra* was silly for drawing an arbitrary line in the sand. Over time it’s lined up well with my experiences though.

* e.g http://tomasp.net/blog/2015/library-frameworks/
Is that at the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station on Google Maps? https://goo.gl/maps/wfGRv7QfNtTY33iz7
> simply translate the (customer's) specifications.

LOL no! If I did that my customers would go out of business.
Not sure why fedora is not considered an easy distro really. Seems pretty easy to me. If the criteria is only "large array of software/apps without having to use the command line" I'm not sure this excludes fedora and I recall from the times I used ubuntu I had to use the command line a couple of times to get the rickety mess that canonical has made from falling over. One example is their systemd services calling their old bash init scripts without proper error handling. Maybe that is better now but I don't expect quality from an organization that thought it is a good idea in the first place.

In my experience (maybe 5 years now, switched from gentoo) fedora is quite solid and well put together. I have yet to come across something that doesn't just work and release upgrades also work well consistently which is more than I can say for my experience with ubuntu.

My feeling is that ubuntu goes out of it's way to do things differently - and then end up with some real horror shows below the surface.
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A calculus is a formal system.
Discussion at the time of publication, nearly 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241

(I understand it's not considered a dupe by HN; just sharing for history's sake.)
I remember Keith Rabois describing this to be key to Peter Thiels management philosophy at PayPal:

"So I am going to argue that you need to spend a lot of time focusing on people. This is something I learned from Peter Thiel actually. He used to insist at PayPal that every single person could only do exactly one thing. And we all rebelled, every single person in the company rebelled to this idea. Because it's so unnatural, it's so different than other companies where people wanted to do multiple things, especially as you get more senior, you definitely want to do more things and you feel insulted to be asked to do just one thing." [1]

[1]: https://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec14/
It's a fairly lucrative "business practice". Getting juicy links from authoritative websites can skyrocket your rankings within a few days, even if that. Yet, this isn't a new thing or something that someone just came up with.

Such gamification has been going on since the early 2000s, it's just kept lowkey enough that people don't see it as the biggest deal ever. However, it's a big deal for people who pay for such services.

If you look at certain job advertising websites for bloggers/marketers, you'll find plenty of job listings where the employer is looking for writers with "access to high-authority editorials" -- because naturally, they know that those links are worth a hundredfold more than 50 links from an average blog.

Whether it's a problem on Google's side is up for discussion. Giving sites high authority and then bumping up other sites who are linked from those places is definitely a weird way to implement a ranking system. But rest assured, it's there and it works.

And as for the title, it should read "bloggers are paying hackers to break into websites", rather than blaming one side only.

A lot more could be said on this, especially from experience, but there's really no point. Addressing an elephant this big would require Google to be actively involved in the discussion. And that's unlikely to happen.
Think of your different pursuits and interests as games. Game of your relationship, of making great product or game of making money.

For each of those games you can think about what optimal move is right now. You may not know the truth but you can decide what you think it is.

Now the problem is that if these games are different, then inevitably, by definition you'll come to a point at which given move is great in your game A but sucks in your game B.

And that's The Game. I could write whole lot more about it because I've spend a long time thinking about it, but I think most HN readers can take it from there.

But that's how I see focus. You feel great when you focus on a single game. Then you don't have all those nasty conflicts (which are really the only problem you have in life - not a bad situation - a problem). It's rare though. There are games like social status etc. that you may not even know you're playing.
Aren't you describing this generation's future ? technology is not helping it's obsoleting.
I suppose it's not a commodity PC, but there were PC sized VAXstations.

Netbsd says it supports the VAXstation 2000, which debuted in 1987.
> Most do behave like Scrooge McDuck they park the money in real estate,

Which, besides providing places for people to live, also generates property taxes every single year. Forever.

> bonds,

Which fund our roads, schools, public utilities, libraries, hospitals...

> stock(s)

Which fund the companies that produce all the essential (and luxury) goods and services we need for a modern lifestyle, and provide the vast majority of jobs.

> and gold.

Very few large investors put their assets in precious metals. The prices are quite volatile, and precious metals don't generate interest, dividends, or rents (like the aforementioned bonds, stocks, and real estate).
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I used to think the same with music and programming but I stopped caring at some point.

In my spare time I find joy in writing things from scratch but I see it more as challenging myself rather than "not cheating"

If I write a compiler purely to challenge myself, I'm much more confident in using an existing one in the future. However with a cheating/not cheating mindset I'd be reinventing the wheel every time.
> easier to connect to different devices

Nope. With wired headphones you need to disconnect the wire from the one device and put it into another. You don't have to do that with AirPods.
I agree with the gist of the quote ("you're not a real x unless you do y" is silly). But it lacks nuance. From what I got to see, a lot of programmers never bother what's happening underneath their code. For them, Spring, node.js etc. will always be magical black boxes. Here's another analogy for you: Would you go to a doctor that knows how to remove an appendix, but doesn't know how the circulatory system works?
But if you think about it, WhatsApp needing your sms is a dark anti pattern anyway: the only time it needs sms is to uniquely identify you /provide you with an account. A username/pwd combo does that too. WhatsApp doesn't (or didn't, last time I used it a few years back) need sms access, let alone your phone number.
And of course the fence he's talking about is print advertising. He's pretty selective about what he calls fences, though fences are a universal argument against change.
I work for a Newcastle company - currently hiring developers - who would be more than happy to give you a chance. Our engineering team has people with science backgrounds, engineering backgrounds and people who worked their way in from product support.

I strongly believe that if you are smart, driven and nice then your background and history is of little relevance w.r.t. whether you can succeed here.

Can't promise we'll give you a job, but I can promise we'll take any application seriously and give proper feedback if we don't make an offer.

Jobs live on http://hive.hr/careers or we can chat on here/offline.

Good luck.
Looping isn't "cheating" if you know what you're doing. But if you blindly do that from the beginning without ever learning how rhythm really works, then you're going to be lost when things get more complicated.

And the same is true of the dev who copies tons of code from stack overflow without really understanding it. When issues like thread safety of the app come up, that dev is going to be lost.

Experienced musicians choose loops and samples understanding full well the trade-offs of quantization and timbre. Experienced devs bring in libraries understanding the trade-offs. Answering the question "how well do I need to know this library before introducing it in production?" is a really, really hard problem.

In practice, I see junior devs blindly copying code that subtly won't work more than I see them writing their own DI system because of not-invented-here syndrome. But, admittedly, the latter tends to be more destructive.
So we should then be discussing how this can be applied to the countries who are currently exploding in population.
Quote from the Tweet/thread:

"And even if you turn off location services for an app, the app may still get this data by examining the metadata from your photos. (I’m not sure if iOS13 fixes this.)"

So is this fixed in iOS13 or not?
If you sell your IP, ask for an ongoing royalty, even if you only get a very small one. Sometimes this is called (forgive the phrase) "schmuck insurance". The idea is, if you sell something and it blows up you won't regret it because your small piece becomes meaningful.

I have worked in games a long time and in retrospect I really appreciate how big a difference business savvy can have on your career. Experienced people can't necessarily make you talented, but they may be able to improve your deal choices.
As far as I'm aware, the rule is that you get to ask once. If they decline, the only way to get it enabled is to direct the user to the settings app.
But also people pay dozens of thousands to hundreds of thousands for a vehicle that will last a little bit longer than an airpod (at least from a status point of view).

My point is, a status symbol is something unachievable by most people regardless (like a Yacht or a Ferrari). An airdpod can be bought by almost anyone in the US if that's their priority.
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