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> Upanishads are the later chapters of the Vedas.

They are not a single coherent work of literature. They likely have dozens of authors and were composed over the span of over 1500 years. You can only describe them as "chapters" in the sense of "chapters of history", but not like "chapters" of a novel or series.

In that sense they are like the Torah and the New Testament of the Bible, which are also not books in the modern sense.
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De la Guérinière reports that his predecessor, writing in 1593, trained war horses by "firing pistols in the stables and having grooms play drums at the same that one feeds oats. Soon they will welcome the sounds."

apud
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8454718s/f196.item

original from somewhere in:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9107345v?rk=21459
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Alternatively, it means BitTorrent is now supported by any number of esoteric operating systems, rather than just the ones the developer using Tcl/Tk chose to target :)
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Especially when you don’t have a clue. I had to call mall security to find out that it was closed because 20% of the mall was looted. No local media coverage, and the police wouldn’t tell me why. Can you think of a better way to get the information? It took me quite a lot of work.
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Because we still somehow believe the market is rational, when nobody truly understands whats going on in the financial economy.
> I see a series of small businesses that are more profitable when economies of scale are utilized

That is literally the definition of monopolizing...

> market consolidation

Again, that's just another word for monopolizing...

It reminds me of people who say "I, as a man, like having sex with other men — but no, I am not gay or bisexual"

It's like society has become 'definition phobic'? Or maybe some words have lost their old definitions and have taken on new ones? Or it's just Doublespeak and everyone is fragmented and we lack decent complex adaptive systems?

The rules for what consists of a monopoly are somewhat arbitrary anyway. I think we should have worker coops everywhere, instead of this American/English-style Neoliberal Corporatism, which often takes away people's autonomy and creates a whole array of bureacratic corporate hierarchies. A company in the Netherlands called Buurtzorg is having a lot of success organizing themselves very differently than the hyper-consolidation that we have seen the healthcare systems in the West become victim to. [1]

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> What am I missing?

I don't even know where to start...

Have you been in therapy or sought professional help? Many therapists now have to work within one size fits all models. For example: in some countries patients get therapy sessions in blocks of 12. Regardless of wether they would benefit from just 2-3 sessions. Or maybe around 25, spread out over a year, is what would best support them. This cookie-cutter standardization approach completely destroys equitable and personalized healthcare options, and takes away the autonomy of therapists.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/nov/20/radical-plan...
Flawed response. Every single human in the country or the world for that matter will not get infected by the virus
Internal discussions in Apple, in the hardware division where I was, were obsessed with the Flash runtime (and apps runnning on it) devouring battery. It's worth remembering that, at the time, the iPhone was quite new and establishing a foothold in the cellular product ecosystem, not the app ecosystem, wasn't guaranteed, and as such was very self conscious about battery life compared to things like a Treo.
This past week I set up our project's Azure DevOps wiki, uses markdown and allows you to generate graphs using mermaid.js - very nice, especially since it's harder to blackboard ideas remotely. Although we were initially just using a README file, it's faster to contribute to the wiki and is easier to manage more information with it.

But regardless of whether you have a fancy doc site or just a single README, I think it's important to just get information down that's actually important and written as clearly as possible, and then sorting by how commonly that information may be needed. It's also helpful to put yourself in the shoes of a junior developer or someone completely new to the project: does x make sense outside of this context? Oftentimes when we refer to some project-specific concept, we don't realize that there are implicit mental dependencies that someone must have before they can understand what we're talking about. The best documentation makes the fewest assumptions they can get away with about the reader's previous knowledge.
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I think we're long past the days when working people were trying to "get ahead" and they are now just trying not to fall too far behind.
I assume this is written tongue in cheek, but I have worked with people who legitimately feel this way. I have had quiet parking lot conversations about how "all this automation business" was going to replace work they knew how to do and could do with half a brain while listening to books with work that required them to learn new things. The horror.
My concern is similar to yours. By hacking and subverting everything, the NSA paved the way / "presented a picture of what was possible" to rogue foreign governments. The US was unprepared for this, and once it was realized, we couldn't even morally accuse them of wrong due to NSA past...

I think US agencies have sort of realized this mistake now, and actually for the last couple of years. The former NSA directors have said some revealing comments that reflect pretty authentic looking doubt, shame, and guilt over the various pathways programs took (with the exception of perhaps Admiral John Poindexter).

Perhaps agencies like the DHS, which when it was created was the largest reorganization of government since the Department of Defense was created in 1947, have not yet learned...
The most scary part about it is that people willingly buy and install that stuff in their homes.
Most of the commentators in this topic are probably EE guys, may be I can find my old classmates here, hi guys:-)

Joke aside, AD is probably one of the most profitable companies with unprecedented monopoly on analog components and circuits business. Last week somebody mentioned about Visa and Mastercard duopoly in HN, but with this Maxim acquisition, AD is now the Visa and Mastercard combined while TI is the American Express.

To see how profitable AD is please check this article on the AD's 3rd generation transceiver chip and if you are not reading it, basically it's more profitable than drug [1]!

I am using every single versions of this AD's transceiver chip for my work, now it is in the latest 6th gen. Suffice to say if you're building 5G transceiver you will need AD's 5th gen transceiver. It's probably not an exxaggeration to say that ITU radio/wireless cellular standards' bandwidth actually following the AD's transceiver chips generations since 5G system can be built by the 5th gen chip but not the 4th gen chip (it's for 4G). The closest competitors are transceivers from LT (already acquired by AD) and the Lime Microsystems from Cambridge, UK.

[1]https://zeptobars.com/en/read/AD9361-SDR-Analog-Devices-DAC-...
They're collectable and valuable because of the association with famous players in the classic rock era, and the rarity of examples. A perfect copy of the Mona Lisa would be worth a few $, not a few milion $, even if it were indistinguishable to the viewer.

Many guitarists fetishize the 59 Les Paul because of the sound. The trick is that '59 Les Paul might not sound any different objectively, but the musician knows they are playing an iconic and rare instrument. This can make the musician play better than usual. Guitarists often attribute this to the "mojo" in the guitar; the trick is the mojo is in the player's belief.
AIUI, there’s two separate things happening here. You can ask for “X”, with an inability to find “X” leading to permission to sponsor. But there’s also nothing saying that your visa candidate actually has to have “X”. If they have “X/2”, then they only need to pay the prevailing wage for “X/2”.

Or, to ctrl c/v from Wikipedia, the former is the labor certification and the latter is the labor condition application (LCA). In the US, your employer is required to post LCAs in a public location at the job site. It’s always a good idea to watch those, especially if you’ve been in your position for a while. This is the amount of money you should be getting (at a minimum).
Seems like the price should be much higher as it will validate hundreds of multi-hundred thousand dollars per each guitar.

Imagine owning this ledger and charging per request for validation.
I don't think it was something physically coming dislodged, at least in my case. When in noise cancelling or transparency, and I spoke I would get static in the right AirPod. If I wasn't speaking or hearing any other external sounds coming in, the speaker was fine.
Hi! I'm Celine - a little embarrassed this is trending because it is very much still a draft - please forgive any typos!

I hope this is helpful and always happy to chat biotech startups - just email me - celinehh.com/about
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Really impressive work! Is there any chance this can be used to a create a front-end that can connect to data sources like APIs and databases (almost like a Retool that lets you build a web app instead of internal business tools)?
Next time I will give her spoons.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/milton-friedman-shovels-vs-sp...

Seriously though,
She was super happy. She then pushed for me to teach her to program. So she could do the same things.

Crazy old women, but I had mad respect for her desire to learn.
Better price then I would’ve expected for such a run and contract term.
Thermal mass too, I think - though it's also not uncommon to see a lot of brick construction in areas where timber is in shorter supply (whether that's because it's already been logged, is protected from logging, or trees just aren't very big).
You say inexoribly linked, but I'm certainly willing to bet by the end of my lifetime the US will not even be in the #2 spot globally. Why can't the USD collapse? Lots of things that were unthinkable 6 months ago are common opinion today.
Can confirm it is Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, German general, he was an ardent opponent of Hitler and the Nazi regime, according to wiki.
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These are wired. :)
You're just saying that cuz you heard it somewhere.
I had my left AirPod Pro replaced in the past few weeks. It was straightforward and effortless to get support via iMessage, and I got a replacement in 2 days. It seemed a bit too easy, to be honest, so I figured Apple knows about this issue and is trying to solve it as quietly as possible.

Interesting to see how widespread this issue is.
I had this problem and surprisingly doing a factory reset fixed the issue.
I love buying gear that I can take care of and otherwise maintain. This includes a fountain pen - a Lamy 2000 that writes wonderfully and holds plenty of ink - and a pair of wired Shures.

Previously I had a great pair of earbuds from MeeElectronics (now MEE Audio) that lasted a couple years. The sweet spot for me is to buy quality gear that satisfies my needs; not too cheap and not too expensive.

I fully expect to lose my Shures or my Lamy before they break, and I like it that way.

Edit: maybe I'm just really careful with my gear, but I always coil my cables nicely - over/under or a similar method, and I let them fold the same way each time. My cables last forever, including earbud cables.
I hear this a lot, but headphones and earbuds are distinct products, and earbuds have always been semi-disposable for me.

I've only ever had one pair of headphones, which are on their third (fourth?) cable and needed muff replacement on one side.

Earbuds? The corded ones last me 2 to 6 months before the thin copper in the cabling work-hardens and breaks.

Airpods are semi-disposable as well, and much more expensive, but convenient and nice, while lasting quite a bit longer than corded earbuds. My first pair lasted 18 months, and the battery was fine, I just blew out the speakers. I value not being tethered to my phone.

Your mileage may vary, I'm kinda hard on my stuff.
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Japan is a time machine, showing us the future of all developed countries as their population ages. No country is immune once their total fertility rate drops below replacement rate for a sustained period of time.
At one point 80% of Americans were farmers.

Things turned okay
This reminds me of https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Gobble_Gobble_Go...

Relevant quote: "As soon as the guy walked into the room, I knew it was going to be problematic, because he seemed extremely straight-laced and uptight, dressing more like an insurance salesman than a technologist."

Jobs was an ass, but Andy had a point: dressing correctly depends on the context. The idea of dressing "up" or "down" as if it was a single axis was never correct, and is even less nowadays.
Had the same problem, spoke with Apple Support over text, got a replacement sent overnight to me with free return shipping. The only thing that could have gone better is it never happening in the first place, but overall, I'm pleased with how it was handled.
Why won't the fed just pump another $8T into the economy to prop up the assets further?
>Regardless, I can think of many reasons why a slower walking pace is associated with a higher rate of contracting COVID-19 (age, pre-existing health conditions, obesity, etc.), some of which people have no control over (age, diabetes type 1) and some of which they do (obesity).

It is worth pointing out that the authors attempted to control for the reasons you listed above e.g. ( age, health issues, weight) as part of the covariate analysis. The conclusion is that in terms of risk: obese & slow > slow > obese > Normal
Maybe they eventually they go deaf[0].

[0] https://www.newsarchive.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2002/06...
I hope this post stays at the number one spot on the front page for long enough that a certain satirical HN-review page to pick up, and comment on. :)
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This is a cute quote, especially if one's difficult decisions involve letting other men do the actual work.

It does not really apply to software, where most good programmers are obsessive and hard working. Yes, that also applies to Lisp, where someone has to write the actual interpreters and compilers that others use to run their 100 macros on and pontificate how easy everything is.
Eh, stepping through code for hours is a pretty inefficient debugging technique, so a properly lazy programmer should probably be thinking about why their system's diagnostics suck and if there might be a way to improve them. (I mean, I've done it, but then again I'm not a 10x engineer.)
The tl;dr:

> So now all of a sudden, that “but it’s only 1% fatal!” becomes:

> 3,282,000 people dead.

> 62,358,000 hospitalized.

> 59,076,000 people with permanent heart damage.

> 32,820,000 people with permanent lung damage.

> 9,846,000 people with strokes.

> 6,564,000 people with muscle weakness.

> 6,564,000 people with loss of cognitive function.
And you've picked the wrong ones.
Many older village houses here in Czech Republic are made from compressed earth bricks (using local materials & not fired). As long as you keep them dry, they will last basically forever. If they get wet, they loose all strength and the building collapses, making any floods particularly dangerous for such buildings.
Good point. Tim Berners-Lee apparently put the first WWW page up by Christmas 1990, and Mosaic was released 1993.

Here's the web from 1992...

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
IMHO famous software people have amazing quotes, right from the start, with:

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Babbage

"If I had a little less brains, I should & would be a good Catholic, & cling to that certainty which I do long for. However I don't wish to be without my brains, tho' they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable." - Ada Lovelace

"I do not think that this argument is sufficiently substantial to require refutation.
Consolation would be more appropriate..." - Turing
We're in the middle of a pandemic with no end in sight. We're having a high unemployment rate. The stock market is also at all time high. That's something terrible about this economy. Bitcoiners assign the cause to the monetary system. I think that's reasonable.
A huge chunk of scientific and numerical libraries rely on Fortran, for which 64-bit support is seriously lacking on Windows.

Doing this work is significantly easier out-of-the-box on Mac/Linux device.

Data Science is my main job and the first thing I did at my last job was ask if I could wipe windows and put Linux on the desktop they gave me.
I find it useful and illuminating to just come up with some common large spaces and make a few estimates…

- remember the last time you were at the movies? Three people dropped dead during your screening of Avengers.

- two people dying per subway car on your morning rush hour commute into the city

- seven of the kids in your child’s high school graduating class die. he probably knew at least a couple by name.

… but the points this author makes about problems the survivors face even more striking, so, yeah.
The #1 source of crashes for Firefox 4 was Flash. That is why Mozilla prioritized getting rid of it once HTML5 was capable of most of the use cases.

Chrome similarly replaced Adobe's buggy Flash plugin with a new implementation baked into the browser, to address these concerns.

I think iOS did the right thing for users here.
>Does anyone know the prices that Arm charges for its licenses are set?

Depending on licensing type and Cores. Charge as Percentage of selling price or Per Core. But generally the price of ARM license is sort of like a rounding error in grand scheme of things. ARM's total revenue is less than Intel's Profit.

>They occupy such a strangely powerful position in the global chip landscape.

There are ARM architecture license, which effectively allows a company to use specific ARM arch indefinitely for a large upfront cost. ( Apple, Qualcomm etc. )

Anandtech has a few articles on the subject if you are interested.

>how does TSMC set their prices?

Depending on your node, and are priced at Per wafer or per fully functional chip. Again the Wafer Price isn't that expensive. For example it cost Apple less than $25 to produce their A13.

>There don't seem to be any real alternatives for Apple or AMD to switch it,

This actually has little to do with pricing of the Wafer. The Design of your chip isn't transferable to another Foundry without a lot of work. And the design part is EXTREMELY expensive.

>it seems like they could really squeeze them if they wanted to.

Or risk your customers going to Samsung and not coming back for a long time due to lead time in semiconductor's design. Along with empty Fab capacity which they will have to lower price to fill. A lose - lose situation.

SemiWiki and SemiEngineering has a few articles on the subject if you are interested.
"Gilbreth studied the methods of various bricklayers—the poor workmen and the best ones, and he stumbled upon an astonishing fact of great importance and significance. He found that he could learn most from the lazy man!"

"Most of the chance improvements in human motions that eliminate unnecessary movement and reduce fatigue have been hit upon, Gilbreth thinks, by men who were lazy—so lazy that every needless step counted.”

"Another important thing Gilbreth noted was that the so-called expert factory workers are often the most wasteful of their motions and strength. Because of their energy and ability to work at high speed, such men may be able to produce a large quantity of good work, and thus qualify as experts, but they tire themselves out of all proportion to the amount of work done."

- Popular Science, 1920, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/
He probably didn't[1], but it's a good idea any way!

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/
The NSA was something like 50 miles away from where this data was being hosted. It could have all been hosted in the much better / actually CJIS compliant Azure South at 5150 Rogers Road.

That some random hosting company Netsential, not even a Microsoft Partner was chosen, makes both me and apparently the NSA suspicious.

More than likely DataFoundry is a front company. DataFoundry, which definitely is a real company, was ultimately hosting the Nestential sites. Their founders are former Peace Corps [1] recruits from the 1970's. They look like nice people but definitely not engineering experts. Also everyone at the company has been in place for nearly its entire existence. That is a tell-tale sign of fraud, a tech company should have massive movement within its executive ranks during these last two decade boom years. Also no one I know has done business with them, and even their customer list seems pretty thin when you realized almost all of them have the same one or two Private Equity owners...

[1] - https://www.datafoundry.com/blog/meet-founders-ron-carolyn-y...
I mean, professional in-ear monitors have always been disposable tech, because they’re used by performers who treat them very harshly (which is most of the point of the product category in the first place.)

Insofar as AirPods Pro are “Pro” in that sense, I would imagine their target audience is used to it.
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It becomes far worse than that, as our medical system can't handle 62M hospitalizations.

(Nor 60-70% of that, which is more realistic, as it's unlikely to hit 100% of the population.)

NYC's hospitals came close to the breaking point; Italy's exceeded it in spots.
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A similar weapon used later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoilless_rifle For example: https://www.militaryimages.net/media/jeep-with-57mm-recoille...

[...] lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher [...] elimination of much of the heavy and bulky recoil-counteracting equipment of a conventional cannon as well as a thinner-walled barrel, and thus the launch of a relatively large projectile from a platform that would not be capable of handling the weight or recoil of a conventional gun of the same size. [...]
> forcing everybody to be in the low quality public schools.

Seems obvious to me that the issue isn't that private or magnet schools are high quality, but rather that public schools are low quality. Basically, the goal is still, bring people up. The "bringing down" in this case is not only temporary, it's only actually "bringing to baseline."

A bunch of rich people and state congresspeople's kids being forced to go to "shitty public schools" sounds like a great way to force the issue.
I had this after I dropped my right earbud ~3 feet. There was a click every time I took a step with noise canceling or transparency mode. The outer grille on mine was very barely dented. I think this caused the external mic to pick up unexpected noise and try to cancel noise that wasn't there.

Apple was very quick to send a replacement.