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I have sympathy for the statement that lifting 500 million people out of abject, generational poverty ranks among the greatest humanitarian successes in history. At the same time local corruption, and the number of protests against those officials was an enormous problem and seemed to get remarkably little coverage.

A mature legal system is the only reliable way to combat problems like corruption. A legal system is much more reliable than a single powerful executive. China could have gone beyond mere convergence in its economic success. Different egos are running things now than during the start of the economic reforms, but in a better timeline I think some successful institutions from Hong Kong would have been adopted in more areas of China.

However, the west isn't in a position right now to say that in spite of it being harder work to run a system where political influence doesn't affect the legal system that strong institutions are the source of our prosperity. We're simultaneously in a period of dismantling established institutions, and less capable when it comes to managing crises than we used to be.
> 1. Forget Finder, it is just bad for any power user scenario, and IMO worst part of Mac OS. Use Forklift or other similar app for all GUI file management operations.

The author mentions this among several other Finder alternatives, of which they prefer Path Finder.
> Furthermore, when consumers are forced to pay for goods and services in cashless transactions, they (as well as the businesses where they shop) are also often forced to incur added expenses in the form of network and transaction fees.

I don’t understand this part. The vendor sets prices and knowingly forgoes cashless transactions. Surely they can be trusted to make an informed financial decision without this regulation (the arguments regarding cash-only customers and privacy are separate issues).
Oh, I wasn't clear: I understand the implicit grant and I indeed worked on the implementation of an authorization server in a past job (we validated redirect URLs, indeed!). My point is that OAuth flows are confusing enough for a beginner that it's important to explain why seemingly unnecessary hoops are there. This article doesn't (as far as I can see).
You don't need a great high school diploma to work in a factory.

Jobs had always been excellent at lying for his own interest.

What he really meant is that US employees expect higher wages but the US doesn't tarriff the dumping of Chinese labor.
I think the onus here was more on the UK than the US because the UK was the one with an agreement with the Chinese government that was broken. I agree that the US response has already been a lot.
I take it you don't remember Flash and how popular it was.
There's a notable lack of refurbishment/recycling businesses in western Europe. The UK is leading here, the Netherlands is also decent, but Germany, France, Belgium are surprisingly behind. Sure, there's quite a few small outfits that do it, but very few companies doing it at scale.

I'm looking at possibly opening such a factory somewhere between FR/DE/BE, though it would ideally need some investment to get it up and running fast.

We need to get rid of this stigma of buying used/refurbished. Nothing wrong with an older appliance that has been fixed, tested and cleaned properly. And the environment benefits.
I'm really curious about the tungsten cube it mentions. Anyone who tried one got some experiences to share?
The specific visual they’re describing, at least if it was the effect I’ve experienced while actually tripping, is you see the same ball forked into a number of balls that end up merging back together. That was on like 200ug, probably with some cannabis thrown in for good measure.

More broadly you are right, they’re not “hallucinations”. Huge pet peeve of mine when people call them that.

I was telling a friend who’s never tripped on anything about seeing faces in the cliffs. They looked at me like I was stark raving mad and I realized they thought I meant I was seeing a photo-realistic face implanted on the cliff face instead of the reality which was like when (sober) people are gazing at clouds and “seeing” patterns.

Most of us when we are new to tripping make it all about the “visuals”. But the realization eventually comes that in order to get the really crazy visuals your whole reality needs to be tripping really hard and one way it manifests is the visual field. There’s no way to experience “just visuals”, it’s going to come with the bodily sensations and altered temporal processing etc.

I’ve always found it fascinating how people interpret the melting away of time. Some describe it as lasting “forever”, but that’s just the word they’re using to describe the notion that getCurrentTime() is returning null rather than a fixed number.
>we can't prevent code being called too late

You can get pretty close in C++. All it takes is for the disconnect method to be rvalue-qualified:

void disconnect() &&;

and to turn on use-after-move compiler warnings. Now disconnecting has to be invoked as:

std::move(db).disconnect();

and if you refer to db after that Clang will tell you to knock it off. (Of course, for a database object, it probably makes more sense to use RAII and disconnect in the destructor, but this pattern can help if you have multiple ways for the object's useful lifetime to end.)

That won't catch users who have a pointer or reference alias to the object, but that's more like a use-after-free risk, which exists any time you have references.
People.com had "Bill Murray’s son, Caleb, was arrested at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest after allegedly throwing a rock through the window of a pickup truck."

So, it is simultaneously peaceful and you have someone chucking rocks through windows (as well as other things, as the article continues).
The White Terror was terrible, but I'd still take that over the Cultural Revolution any day.
> Your phone # is the biggest giveaway

How does that work? (Sorry for maybe a bit silly question)

> setting up a shell company

Can't the doxxers find out who owns the shell company?

Or they won't know about the existence of a shell company? Or how does it work

> use gift cards

One would buy gift cards to oneself, use them oneself, right?
The desired resolution is that China becomes a free country.

When the Nazis occupied France, the world didn't say "oh that's an internal German domestic issue"
Or have the Rust foundation continue to develop Servo, with financial support from corporations and users who would benefit from an independant browser engine.

I'd prefer a new browser that drops e.g. pocket in favor of secure communications features at this point.
The only actual issue listed in this article is a screenshot of a tweet, that says there’s 5 million activation locked iPads sitting in lockers.

I’m a HUGE fan of RTR, but I don’t really see how it helps anybody in this situation. You’re legally allowed to unlock/root iOS devices. Nothing legally stopping you. Now there are strong technical barriers indeed, though I bet most of these iPads are vulnerable to rooting.
They are both NEMA 5 series, rated for 125 V, so voltage isn't the concern here.
Starting a revolution would be next step.

Goes both ways though.
Although it does come from Intellectual Property, they use "IP" the same way game developers and web developers use "asset" for an image, 3d model or sound effect. Sometimes they even say the plural as "IPs".

In semiconductors an IP is often some logic block, often supplied by a third-party to paste into your design, or part of your own company's library.

For example on SoCs a cache, a USB PHY, a CPU core, an AES unit, an Ethernet controller, a PCI controller, a video decoder, an audio decoder, etc.

A design unit you could imagine selling to be used inside other company's designs. That's why you can "release an IP".

I find the use of "IP" for these things a bit distasteful, so I try not to use the term myself, but it's very common in the field.
> Now ask yourself why you assume they'd be unwilling to build structures capable of resisting attempts to take power, when that is basically the raison d'etre for these groups.

Not unwilling. Unable. Fighting against something rarely works to bring about productive change. Fighting for something is harder, but often does.

refs: French Revolution. Animal Farm. Etc.
I’ve been a long time user of Dash. There is a Linux alternative called Zeal for those that use multiple platforms.

I use Alfred quite a bit as well, though not as an alternative to Spotlight. I use it for automations via workflows instead. Turning on or off VPNs, sending files, converting date times, reading 2FA codes off my Yubikey, etc. I haven’t found a great Linux alternative for this. Ideally I’d have something that lasts me reuse my workflows that I’ve written.

Not mentioned in the article is Better Touch Tool[1]. I’ve had this since the original Intel MBP and it’s been incredible for making the fancy trackpads and touch bars actually useful. I’ve got a Pomodoro timer, Dark Mode toggle, Do Not Disturb toggle (also automated by ControlPlane), and lots of simpler app shortcuts.

I responded to someone else about ControlPlane a bit further down, but I have it automate things like DND when I start a call from my Mac.

[1] https://folivora.ai/
It was for a long time. This is why GOP handwringing about our allies underspending on military defense is so incongruent - other countries underspending on their militaries was a cornerstone goal of post-WW2 policy. Complaining that Germany doesn’t have a strong enough military marks a pretty sharp break from prior US policy goals.
It’s how “Institute” is inscribed above the main campus buildings of MIT in Cambridge, it’s done in a neo-classical Roman style where “U” is replaced by “V”.

Basically it’s an MIT in-joke / reference.
What about Debian?
I’m going to see how far I can get never trying to get promoted above lead developer. Or more to the point, trying not to get promoted above lead developer.

Sounds like some of your coworkers thought an EM role was [a lead developer], which it is not. As a manager, being an IC leads to a bunch of structural problems with the code and therefore the team.
How to simulate an LED display in Flutter
In my opinion, the current mess with resolv.conf is a case of accidental complexity. I don't think there's anything wrong with disabling badly designed systems that aren't useful for the problem at hand, assuming the admin is managing an environment where none of those tools are actually needed (which is not at all uncommon in a enterprise setting).
I am familiar with all of the cheats, delaying evaluation, kicking the can onto the network and pretending that everything isn't just being fed into a mutex on the other side.

And for writing to disk, async is basically the only way to "parallelize" such operations

I just think its inappropriate because, if I was looking for a parallelization library like multiprocessing, and I found this, I might waste 15 minutes or so before I figure out that this isn't parallel, it's just async.

Async is okay, but it does nothing to improve performance, like what parallelization does. Async provides good UX, parallelization provides good performance. Conflating the two just muddys the water for the people who like to do high-performance-computing.
Perhaps avoiding Millions be put in camps and used as cheap source of organ harvesting.
What's EM and IC?
Doniger and the publisher were taken to court like any civil society would. Publisher chose to drop the book instead of facing legal consequences.

By the way, another publisher did publish the same book in India. Any neutral sources for the so called "violent threats"?

One of her book titles literally is "Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva" [1] And yet, there were no riots or burning down the publisher or the cancel culture that Hindu-phobes routinely engage in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Doniger
I am mostly writing audio applications where I need maximum performance because the time budget is extremely limited (usually 1.45 ms to compute the whole audio graph). I'm working on Pure Data, which is written in C89, but my own projects are all C++. Things which make C++ much more pleasant than C:

* RAII

* lambdas

* templates

* function overloading

* operator overloading (used judiciously)

* inheritance and interfaces (used judiciously)

* an extensive standard library

* exceptions (depends on the project)

For me, the advantages of C++ over C are obvious and IMO there's no reason to use C except for legacy projects or platforms which don't have a C++ compiler.

Of course, C++ has lots of warts and things to complain about, but OP asked for the positive things :-)
It’s more the point that NOT everyone feels this way and we’re sorting those who like multiculturalism into cities more and more efficiently. So the political divisions are not between nation states but between increasingly aligned urban centers and everywhere else (the hinterlands.)
> Icelandic hadn't really lost that much of the original Norse.

I would say that it did. Besides that loss of vocabulary which I mentioned, the phonological system of Icelandic has drastically shifted since the Old Norse era. Yes, on paper the language might seem conservative, but that is just the result of a conservative orthography. The actual sound of the Icelandic (and Faroese) language today bears little resemblance to Old Norse.

The one big archaism modern Icelandic has going for it is its morphology, but this shouldn’t get more hype than it deserves.
How do you expect an invasion to happen without a lot of destruction? Maybe you should read this: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...
Oh I love the xray snapshot idea!

I've heard of people specifying "hold at depot for me to pick up" on valuable shipments, partly to thwart porch pirates, but more to bolster their case in the event of missing/wrong/damaged contents. Open the package and inspect the goods right there in the lobby, in full view of the clerk and coverage of their security cameras.

I'm realizing that if one has a home security camera that covers one's porch, one could do something very similar (although not quite as airtight) by simply opening the package on the porch in the view of that camera. Hmmmmm.
Is China any more sustainable?
It’s almost always a commercial issue, where you would find yourself in a legal bind.

I do think the “first sale” doctrine should extend everywhere and include tinkering. I understand that would cause a lot of changes in the licensing industry but it’s worth it in my opinion.
I've also written a color picker that uses the Machado et al. method to enforce CAM02-UCS minimum perceptual distance for normal vision and color vision deficiency [https://colorcyclepicker.mpetroff.net/].

That seems like a very useful tool for planning new colour schemes. I wish there were more discussion and tools based on true human perception of colours, not just numerical representations that aren’t necessarily calibrated to how human vision works.
https://thume.ca/2019/03/03/my-tungsten-cube/

Looks like it's just a heavy cube to use as a fidgit toy? I wanna play with it now too lol.

Edit: I don't know how to link directly to a single amazon review but holy shit read the one from Richard , it should be the first https://www.amazon.com/Tungsten-Cube-1-5-One-Kilo/dp/B00XZBI...
Looks like ControlPlane is not actively maintained now. Last pull request merge was a year ago, with many issues and some more pull requests open.
Peasants didn't have much mobility between lords, therefore they were seemingly coerced. Would anarcho-capitalism as stated necessarily play out similarly? Who knows.

The core of anarchism is the heuristic of rejecting hierarchies and coercion. A negative doesn't make for a compelling mass movement, hence all the different flavors are attempts at imagining structures that could replace the current ones. They all have obvious potential failure modes, but the core remains - downsizing the structures of arbitrary authority.
Money donated to the Mozilla Foundation doesn’t actually go towards browser development, does it?
You are extrapolating something out of an extreme situation that only exists where you live. The US is in the early stages of disintegration/civil war/collapse. Who knows what is going to happen, but it is not going to be pretty.

Plenty of peaceful countries do have a "a shared identity or values" even across the conservative/liberal spectrum.
Right, resort to personal attacks when you have nothing left to argue.
Any studies for the Stamets stack of psilocybin, lions mane, niacin?

I’m intrigued by lions mane because it’s legal, of course.
Not to mention they also pay Apple heaps of money to be the default search engine on iOS. Paying Mozilla for the same is perfectly logical.
Well, before my first post I reread the Wikipedia article.

I will mention there's a bit of a dance with definitions with some ideologies which I find irksome. This is true here. Yes, there is some definition which can dodge any specific criticism, but those definitions aren't mutually coherent or consistent. You either get problem A or problem B. You can't use one definition to address one and another definition for the other.

This is common of many ideologies. I've found this to be especially true when talking with feminists. They bounce between a push for equality (for example, abolishing employment structures which favor men), and a push for changes which favor women (for example, feminists in divorce law push for policies which favor the mother). When they get caught in a contradiction, the definition changes like a squiggly fish. That lack of rational, critical conversation translates into ineffective tactics, and a failure to achieve change.

Ya' gotta pick one definition. Then we can talk about it.

Since, ironically, you'd like me to find authoritative references before I talk more, here's one I found on Google:

anarchy

1a : absence of government

b : a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority the city's descent into anarchy

c : a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government

2a : absence or denial of any authority or established order anarchy prevailed in the war zone

b : absence of order : disorder not manicured plots but a wild anarchy of nature— Israel Shenker

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anarchy
There’s no supply shortage of Chromebooks, you can buy them on Amazon and have them delivered Thursday. Maybe schools don’t have money allocated for this, but refurbishing old PCs isn’t really going to solve that problem. A chromebook is pretty cheap compared to the overall cost of education in the US, so a school that claims it has a computer shortage is probably just not prioritizing the acquisition of additional computers, rather than being totally unable to acquire them.
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What about the population?

At the end of the day, prices rise due to demand (and gentrification, or even more extreme, billionaires parking their $ in US real estate and not even living there).

There is lots of cheap housing in the USA, but no one wants to live there. Someone should start a tech hub in Detroit’s abandoned housing regions, it’s a bargain.
Larger countries can, but the political willpower isn't there.

NYC's subway was originally projected (pre-COVID) to take in $3.6 billion in fares in 2020 [0]. Some 8.4 million people live in NYC. $3.6 billion / 8.4 million residents = ~$429/resident/year would suffice to make the subway free of fares.

Note: this would be for _just_ the subway; it does not include buses/commuter rail/MTA HQ expenses. Additionally, replacing just the fares for the subway would not suffice for balancing the budget since a deficit was planned.

[0]: Page VI-123 of https://new.mta.info/document/15221
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I'm not seeing any links to the JavaScript emulator source code?
One wonders why Catalonia, Palestine, and Ambazonia rarely receive the same solidarity from the US in the defence of right to self determination
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You say this like it's somehow going to generate 12000 watts, or that somehow having an overbuilt cable is dangerous? Yes, the connector is way overbuilt for running 15amp 120v loads, but that's a good thing. You don't want the connector to be the weakest link.

I'm not sure why you think wattage numbers are more relevant than amperage numbers? Amps are what heat the cable and blow breakers.

Unless it's fused, absolutely nothing about a cable or connector stops you from drawing excessive amperage through it. You use splitters probably every day, and every one of those receptacles is capable of drawing full amperage. If you draw too much you pop the breaker in the panel. The breaker must always be rated lower than the wiring attached to it. Everyone with an old house who has tried to run the microwave, toaster, and fridge at the same time has experienced this.

14-50 plugs are more interesting than all this because they're two hots, a neutral, and a ground. If you adapt it to 120v shore power (with a 5-15 plug) you are using split phase power, so one of the hots will be dead. In theory you could draw 50 amps of 120v through that cable, but the box you're plugging into will pop the circuit long before then. Also, this is why your rooftop A/C doesn't work when plugged into 120v shore power - rooftop air conditioners are usually 240v appliances.
Well GP didn't specify "without nikkud". Most modern prayerbooks and bibles come with nikkud. Being able to read without nikkud does often require familiarity with the words but there are a limited number of constructions in Hebrew, especially when you remove loanwords in modern Hebrew (presumably GP was referring to religious literature, which doesn't include aberrations such as ווידאו (video) or אמברקס ("ambreks" - a vehicle handbrake)). It's not 100% phonetic but it's a whole lot easier than English, so while a you might mispronounce unfamiliar words you will be able to guess correctly quite a bit, or at least be close.
This looks like what you want.

A couple of weeks ago, the extension Promnesia was on the first page of HN (Haven't used it, but looks interesting)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668507

Its github goes more to the point of what it can do https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme
Lower troll ratio perhaps?
With more than 30% of employees laid off this year, it is going to be extremely difficult for Mozilla to get back market share from other browsers. If they were not able to do it before, how can they do it now with fewer people? And without market share, there will not be enough alternative revenue streams to have a google-free future. Firefox will continue to slowly lose users, at around the current 10% a year, until it becomes too small for google to even pay them anything anymore.
Sad but that’s the reality. Trying to compete in extremely competitive areas like VPN services is not going to work.
Cash has its own problems though - it's much easier to use it to avoid taxes, launder money, etc. when using cash.

Privacy zealots act like perfect anonymity at all times is a human right and we should always work towards it at any cost, when really I think most people agree it's more of a privilege that should only be available under certain circumstances (in your own home, for example).
I assume this is sarcasm because by definition every non modern civilization is no longer with us. Including some of the early more democratic ones like Athens.
The promise of "The Silver Bullet". You'll find an article that will tell you how to be more creative, more productive, happier. You'll create the next unicorn business, get filthy, stinking rich, and have everyone wanting to be your friend.

Of course, your best bet for achieving these goals would be to spend less time reading HN and more time actually "Doing the Work".