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>What to do with people who can not read?

They can do jobs which don't require high literacy rates. Farming is such an example. The USA has plenty of Mexican immigrants who don't know English yet are still highly capable at performing manual labor.

Also, as a counterexample to your point about former communist states leaving higher literacy rates: a Marxist-Leninist state existed in Benin until 1990, but they still have one of the lowest literacy rates in the world [1].

>Why should this be the case? The labor is probably lower in Benin. Yet, nobody moves there.

The principle is just supply and demand. If you increase labor supply and keep demand stable, the cost of labor decreases (on the other end of this spectrum, tight labor markets drive wages higher).

But considering why Benin isn't the manufacturing powerhouse of the world (with only 11.3 million people) is tightly coupled with political realities. For example: does their country need those manufacturing jobs? CAN the country support those jobs? Apparently cotton is 40% of Benin's GDP and ~80% of their official exports. Political instability in Africa generally hurts all other African nations. Perhaps the African Union will help them [2].

>All the suppliers and sub-suppliers that can work hand in hand.

Oh, clustering is highly effective. There's plenty of clustering in the USA as well. That said, the CCP has much more control over all industries, so they can force clustering with greater ease. Ascribing economic success to clustering oversimplifies the broader context.

>As a immigrant in both systems and a naturalized US citizen I tell you that this is not my impression.

Well, as a person born and raised in the USA and surrounded by hard-working immigrant family members, I attest otherwise. Mainstream news in both China and the USA is manufactured and does not reflect the reality of how people feel. People here want change, and it's coming.

Sources:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin#Education

[2] https://au.int/
Seems like if it's possible to accelerate JS with a GPU it should be far more possible to do it with a many-core CPU. This bodes well for the likely future of dozens of X64 cores or even hundreds of ARM cores on a higher-end desktop/laptop chip and hundreds to thousands on server chips.
Repeat your exact comment replacing the word “government” with “employer and its chosen for-profit insurance provider” and you’ve described the United States.

My employer can fire me for any or no reason and no notice and I’d be left with a short COBRA runway of suddenly-expensive healthcare, which I now can’t afford because I was just fired.

My employer can (and does) change my insurance provider, add or remove benefits, and I have zero say over that process. I certainly can’t vote for a new CEO or request a different provider from my company. Take it or leave it.

My health and well-being is tied up with the same entity that tells me what to do for 8 hours a day. That doesn’t feel like “freedom” to me.

Universal healthcare as a concept is not by itself related to authoritarianism. Indeed, guaranteeing healthcare (whether it be state-run like the UK or all-private like Germany) and paying for it through tax revenue rather than through employment subsidy is a feature of many Western democracies.
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So get the word out that mail in ballots can be dropped off in person ahead of time.

This is likely the sensible thing to do within a few weeks of the election anyway.

Even without the problems at the post office, dropping it off directly really reduces the chances of it getting lost.
Would anyone have any direction on what kind of projectors North was using for this product? I have no idea where to start searching.

In the same way, I would also be very interested in any further info on Ellsworth's Tilt Five projectors, bottom right-right of [1] (full text of interview [2]). Interesting video with info on the (retroreflective) optics system here [3].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200722042213im_/https://i0.wp.... presumably shows three generations of the product. From left to right board, camera and projector.

[2] https://skarredghost.com/2019/09/24/interview-jeri-ellsworth...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB4NjMWKV0s
Per satellite max bandwitdh, per SpaceX, at commercialization will be a max of 17gbps [1, sorry for the lame source but it's what I could find at the moment].

Depending on how they're measuring that, the actual throughout could be substantially less than that. Given that their FCC filing was 20gbps per satellite, I think that's the raw, uncorrected bit rate, not the corrected bitrate which will be lower.

A coworker and I did a back-of-envelope guess based on their power budget (switching capacity in bandwidth and pps and power are basically directly tied, ditto capacity and spectrum) and that's about what we arrived at as their upper bound (imho, not even half of that will be achievable). Note that this is a double-counted metric (bps total is bps_in+bps_out) for actual traffic volume.

So let's go with that.

The current SpaceX fantasy business model is to build out a constellation of 30,000 satellites, but near term not even close to that. Being very generous, let's credit them with an incredible 10k satellites, pretend they are not power constrained and use the full 20gbps allotted to them, and you get a total of 200k gbps total capacity for the constellation, uncorrected, assuming ample power, or on a good day 125Tbps for real data.

Using a somewhat older core switch, the Juniper QFX10016, can do line rate switching for 480 100GE ports; 48Tbps in a single 21RU chassis from 2017. [2] These are commonly deployed in pops. The next generation will be doing that for 400GE ports in the same form factor, 192Tbps. A Cisco 8818, which is shipping right now, does 260Tbps per chassis in a 33RU form factor.

The point is, anyone claiming we could serve even a large metro with a single one of these switches, let alone planet earth, would be laughed at, yet here we are. A given nation-scale network will have hundreds of routers with these kinds of capacities.

I also don't think Starlink will get anywhere near the estimates I'm using here.

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-upgrade-...

[2] https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/release-independ...

[3] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/80...

edit: moved the [2] to the right place. edit damage.
founders probably made nothing actually. Investors and Debt have priority and they got bought for less than was raised. I definitely still agree the article is garbage.
Very nice work! I've written a small API (https://m8.fyi/chord) to generate beautiful diagrams easily and quickly from Python. It's definitely not making a living from the income, but it is enough for a coffee every now and then.
> That the company may eventually be allowed to tell us after they fact that they surrendered out data to the US government is not much of a comfort.

Did you read my comment?

The request can be fought in court, and the request does not give them access to actual contents. For example, they can NOT get the contents of an email.

Are you not aware that Apple has beaten the FBI several times in court and did not have to unlock an iPhone?

> In any case, I'm not sure that any of the protections apply to foreigners

This has nothing to do with citizens or foreigners. This is about companies. US Companies do not need to comply with US Government requests for information, Chinese companies MUST comply with ALL government requests to ALL information.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out.
Hi, nop, the reasoning behind having a base set of packages installed is that I more often than not use those.
But as I start docker off a particular folder, I could decide not to use that base folder, and then having no package pre installed, or a complete different set.

This other comment [1] clarifies my whole set up, and sheds a lot more light on how it works

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24028953
My two additions:

* Unikernels
* Intel clear linuxOS
I just ran into that recently at my local $ethnicity grocery store. The bottle at the entrance looked like a bulk bottle of Purell/etc brand (though unlabeled), but then I squirted it out and it was a thick, slimy liquid that smelled of lavender. Instantly grossed out and mistrusting the grocery store's hygiene after that.

edit: I find it amusing that people are downvoting me for saying "ethnicity". As if I'm privileged and looking down on some ethnicity.

I'm of that ethnicity, you dolts. I thought I made that clear with the $ sign, following on the OP's use of it. But I guess that was too subtle.
> the refresh rate is not bad at all.

By eink standards.

The issue for me is that devices seem to all be touch, rather than have buttons. The eink lag isn’t suited to this as touch without immediate response is not good.
I’d prefer buttons.

This niggle aside, those are impressive devices.
I'm not so sure about that line of reasoning; you're focusing on the size of the community (and sure, small communities online can be extremely dangerous!) but the nasty examples you're likely thinking of allow self-selection within a larger group. However, the kind of decentralization that follows local groups and families is different; you don't get to ignore that bigoted great-uncle (nor he get to ignore his crazy communist niece). If decentralization followed national or regional control as you'd need to satisfy conflicting courts, you're more likely to trend towards the latter kind of smaller community, not the former.

The size of the community is probably less relevant that how it is grown. Self-selection (like e.g. hackernews) is certainly much more vulnerable to groupthink.
If you have the bandwidth to write a Python wrapper and a Jupyter extension (in JS [0]), you would make uPlot appealing to quite a few data science folks (like me).

0. https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/extending/...
> There is a part of me that wonders if there are things (viruses/bacteria/funguses) which effect human behavior.

Ofc there are. For one, its well known that certain worms can affect kids in such way that they become hyperactive.
I’m really having trouble parsing this bit, could you explain for me?

“Additions I would have I have benefited“
Just read your post and just wanted to say I'm in absolute awe!
Depending on the network topology and number of callers, you could get some benefit from a multiple server model. Large meetings across offices could make use of a server at each office to streamline bandwidth. Not a good fit for today's reality of everyone from home or your scenario of 10 callers. Could still be useful for EU vs US callers to connect locally and only one stream across the atlantic. Multiparty e2e calling is already challenging, and adding multi-hop routing might make it more so, though.
Did you actually read the quote? It said the largest internment of a religious minority since the third reich.

OP was just pointing out that Palestinians are also imprisoned and in fact are a larger group.
If you read that Wikipedia article you linked carefully, you'll find reference to the more recent (last 30 years or so) research made by cognitive linguists in how for example, spatial or colour perception is influenced by the language you speak. One of the most striking examples is that of the Guugu Yimitthir people who don't use terms like "left" and "right", but only "north", "south", etc. [1]

In general, it's not fair to say that linguistic relativism doesn't hold up to modern understanding. The debate is still on-going.

[1] https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525...
Its not a point about government effectiveness or efficiency. They kneecapped the USPS when they forced prefunding of pension liabilities (https://www.cnbc.com/2011/10/24/the-truth-about-the-post-off...).

They had more legislative leverage prior to 2018, so they could have done all this much earlier.

It is not possible to honestly discuss this in a meaningful way without acknowledging it's 3 months out from a presidential election. It the closest thing they can legally do to suppress voting turnout, and it's a deliberate strategy to win the election by reducing the franchise.

This isn't in a vacuum either, it's a coordinated part of a national legislative strategy (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/exposin...). It is coordinated across at the state and federal levels, and across branches. You can see here with the intentional degrading of the USPS immediately prior to a national election, at a state level with polling place closures (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-locations/so...) and photo id laws (https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...), and constellation of Republican judicial appointments coordinated with specially prepared and crafted legal challenges by Republican AGs and private parties at state and circuit levels.

This is how it's being done: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...
Yeah they will work nicely in any "dry" desert. They do require access to significant amounts of water, though with the nice side-effect (for the context) that they also act as humidifiers,.
Game engines are different. It's a tiny market relative to web, and really the only people in the market for an engine other than Unity or Unreal are indies, who have near zero revenue and even less willingness to spend it. Those two are so far ahead in terms of features, support, and battle-hardening that you'd pretty much have to be insane to pick anything else if you had paying users.

Always be wary of any market where someone's willingness to try your product is in itself a negative indicator of ability to pay. Hit-driven markets that attract large numbers of non-serious dabblers are extremely difficult to sell tools profitably to, but it's easy enough to get minor attention that makes you think you might have something worthwhile (music production is another one that scatters corpses all over the place despite seeming large at first glance).
How does that even work? By private couriers do you mean companies similar to UPS and FedEx? Or private couriers like the bike couriers in US cities? If I needed to mail documents to the other side of the country, for example, could I just drop it off at a storefront or would I have to hire one person to take the envelope the whole length of the journey?
I like how they're able to accurately tag translators vs original authors, e.g. https://github.com/GITenberg/The-History-of-the-Peloponnesia...
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> Academics are typically publishing research they think will push their fields forward some day or illuminate something as of yet misunderstood.

Is that the dream or is it the reality?

I think I've heard plenty of anecdotes to the contrary (or is it simply the self-derogatory way scholars talk amongst themselves)
Yes. Just yesterday, I was in the glasses store to get my frames adjusted, and I missed the sign that asked you to sanitize your hands upon entering. The woman at the counter asked me to please go back and use the sanitizer dispenser.
two different issues. Google is not deleting Danish music, just blocking them in Denmark. Because they don't want to agree on the higher costs for the rights. The topic is rather complex but honestly, I think the issue is not really YouTube but the contracts between musicians and record labels, if those were more fair musicians would earn a lot more, even if YouTube paid less to the record companies. But this rather off-topic.
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>[S]ome seem to wrongly assume that most of the content on our services is about politics, news, misinformation or hate

Of course Zucky!, most of the content is actually ads. Only boring content is allowed to make people scroll more and view more ads. It's the most mediocre money printer of all time. And what is actually the hate speech that's on Facebook? most of the hate speech is coming from the left so that doesn't count anyway. You can post about supporting ISIS but not about supporting Trump. What does the MSM want exactly? the Facebook gestapo already bans most people on the center and right. Should they visit everyone who isn't a BLM staunch supporter and kill them and their entire family to make the MSM happy?
I think for the reasons mentioned in the tweets we are all commenting on.
I wonder if there would be market for community clouds, or neighborhood computes? Imagine that a new apartment building comes bundled with a server room in the basement. Every dweller gets compute/storage there. This could serve as edge cache for services like Netflix/YouTube, as well as for the ecosystem you describe.

I once imagined that homomorphic encryption would allow people to store data in their personal/neighborhood clouds and have third party SaaS code operate on that data locally. But I've recently been made to understand that homomorphic encryption would also allow companies to fully close off any access to data beyond what a program/service wants to give out, and unfortunately I get the feeling that the market will prefer the latter over the former.
To be honest most IRL skills improve at a rate far quicker than grinding online games for skill for exactly the reason you stated, games designed to give you a variable (and marginal) reward, just enough to retain engagement indefinitely. Meanwhile many IRL skills and hobbies will have an entry barrier that may require some perseverance, but once you get engaged with it you tend to make big strides quickly and can look back on the massive progress you've made.
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Regardless of the reason for the article, the sheer quantity of links to all the back-office HR-related outsourcing companies is impressive.

One might say that space is over-invested; at the same time, it does make a startup a lot easier to operate.
If the USPS fails financially it just means we pay for it through taxes like every other government service. But in this case the USPS isn’t falling victim to technology it’s falling victim to political sabotage: https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...
Looking at the edit history it seems that someone came in and gave the article a general cleaning.

I wonder if it's a viable strategy to post sub-par, but interesting pages to HN in order to attract high-quality edits...
Yeah, you need a sine inverter, either 24VAC, or 120VAC with a 24VAC transformer.

There might be a way to trick the Nest into running on something closer to DC, but I could only guess.
Scrolljacking, history hacking, background ads play with sound. What a shit of a website.
Not sure about the Android version, but the cheapest subscription option for Carrot on iOS enables selectable data sources. Accuracy will vary for your area but there may be a good replacement.
About Romans, they intentionally put lead in wine for the taste, I am not sure if they also used lead pipes or cups.
This is not true for math and engineering, where most progress is incremental (I put out about 20 peer reviewed publications before leaving academia because it was too slow and dull).
The Earth orbits around the Sun. That is an indisputable truth right?

Except it really isn't quite true and is only an approximation. In reality the Earth and Sun both orbit around their common center of gravity, and both orbits are perturbed by other celestial bodies in a complex n-body interaction. So what is "truth"? If I post on Facebook that the Earth orbits around the Sun should they censor my post for not being 100% true? If not then where is the dividing line?
Theory tells us that you can't get more return without taking on more risk, if the market is efficient.

Of course, the market can't be perfectly efficient, but it's possible that the market is weakly efficient: the cost of information is so high that it, on average, makes it impossible to beat the market.
> I just tried a WebGL demo, and got wildly different results depending on the browser

That's not a problem with the API, that's a problem with one or more of your browsers.

Bench-marking your code during init to choose the best algorithm is a very sane thing to do if you know your users' machines/browsers may have different capabilities. We're talking about extra fractions of a second of load time. The alternative is to expose a bunch of details about what's underneath the browser, which would probably not fit with the goals of the web - it being a sort of abstraction layer over all the operating systems and devices.
Yes, I meant divide by 3 mod 7.
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USPS is not failing financially. It's the victim of a long-gestating assassination and a refusal by the current admin to adapt it to the Covid era of high demand.
What's an "exit plan" in the context of small personal non-corporate projects?
>If anything the USA seems ruled by an entrenched political caste wedded deeply to old ideas and old ways of doing things and much too comfortable.

Replace "old ideas and old ways of doing things and much too comfortable" with "power", and I'll agree 100% percent.

>Most of them are very disappointed and won't be voting for him again

Based on my discussions with Trump supporters, I don't see that. In fact, they're very happy with his performance and feel his job is made intentionally hard because of political opposition. If anything, their resolve to vote for his has been strengthened.

Also, these people will NOT vote for Biden. They watched him during his past decades in politics and can see his mental decline clear as day. Voting for Biden is basically guaranteeing Section 4 of the 25th Amendment will be invoked for the first time ever.
> I'm not a rocket scientist, but as a web developer, I would rely upon that for anything earth-bound, let alone in Space.

...would?
Video is unfortunately a poor substitute for in-person interaction but better than voice alone.

I suspect over time that teams building a defined product will persevere while teams that relied upon to design a product, such as my own, will experience a gradual breakdown of trust as individuals split off in their thinking. It’s hard to find words sometimes for a concept that’s strictly a mental product and not everyone is practiced or skilled at elocution. Strong designers with poor vocal skills will undoubtedly experience frustration with remote work which is essentially a voice-primary medium.
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Vanguard also offers "Tax-managed" funds which have significantly less yield/distributions compared to corresponding index funds [1].

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Tax-managed_fund_comparison
Suppose you were right, and a private service could outcompete USPS. Why haven't they already? There's many delivery services that go to residential homes now, and tons of spam mailers that would love to save a few dollars in those areas where a private service could do it more cheaply. I'd be shocked that if UPS or FedEx thought they could be more profitable than USPS they wouldn't start competing.
The craziest thing about the whole situations is there actually isn’t much evidence that vote by mail favors republicans; and yet they’re willing to degrade postal service to a country more reliant on it than ever, just for a small hope of electoral advantage.

Edit: article in case anyone isn’t convinced (I was skeptical at first, given the tone of the discussion): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/politics/vote-by-mail....