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>Personally, I think we're at the point where the US would consider the costs of Taiwan's defense well beyond any potential benefits. It's too economically integrated with China, and the sheer number of bodies it would take aren't worth the moral victory.

It's not merely a moral victory. And while I myself would pick up a rifle for 24 million people, it's not even that.

You can't simply let your allies be invaded. It's lethal to all of your other alliances. America failing to defend Taiwan is the end of the Pax Americana, and America knows it.
Too funny, actually there is a Z chromosome used in sex determination (W & Z are counterparts to X & Y in birds). Also, sex is not determined strictly by genes it's determined by gamete size. And yes there are two sexes and gender is not binary, but it is by bimodal with significant overlap.

https://open.lib.umn.edu/evolutionbiology/chapter/7-4-sex-it...
Would be great if Coinbase also contributes back to the React Native ecosystem, like how Shopify pledged to do. That would be a net positive for everyone involved.
For Valve at least my experience is that’s pretty common. With the way they structure their company everyone works on what they want to. The result is that nobody chooses to work on the boring stuff so it doesn’t happen.

I used to run some of the official servers for CS:GO and L4D2 on behalf of Valve. Mostly it was great but communication was always a challenge.
the damage from 1 excel error can be so risky that its better for the company to pay a person to do the entire thing manually and derisk. infuriating from the perspective of technics, but not from that of incerto
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Files are a great abstraction. They give you ownership, actual one, not the kind sold by apple or Netflix. Files give you freedom to share informatiin instead of being held in a database by some third party with different intentions than your freedoms. Please don't spread FUD
HTML is the best cross-platform document and application specification ever conceived.

It's a product of a very special place and time where companies were not able to succeed in growing their own locked-down fiefdoms. Microsoft got hammered by the DOJ, AOL gave way to better competition. It was a good time.

About the time the DOJ stopped caring and members of Congress became invested in tech, a new device category arrived on the scene. It took over general purpose computing, becoming perhaps the only computer and gateway to the Internet for many.

Two companies form a duopoly, and they look nothing like the web of the 90's and 00's. App developers have to write and maintain two separate code bases, go through app approval, and have to hold hands to get their software released. It's an asinine retreat from the freedom we once had.

The web, too, has come under attack. The most popular browser is controlled by an ad giant that created an advantageous monoculture, removed ad blocking, and embrace-extended into things like AMP.

We've taken the wrong path.

The W3C should have written a native app spec, described native widget tool kits, and kept the duopoly at bay.

We were all distracted as to what was really going on.

Think about all of the wasted human productivity writing and maintaining two versions of the same software. Instead of working on actual problems, we have to doubly employ to satisfy the powers that be. It's so incredibly dumb that so many work so hard just so that two parties can soak up all the benefit. It's a fluke of evolution that wouldn't have happened if the regulators hadn't fallen asleep at the wheel (or bought into FAANG stock).
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-24296544
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That's false. France hasn't exported arms to Taiwan since 2005 according to SIPRI <https://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/values.php>. All Taiwanese arms imports since 2015 have come from the United States.
Rather than that, maybe people on HN want corporations to pay their taxes?
Interesting. I was assuming it was an admin who did it at my place of work.

We moved to teams from zooms ephemeral chats, and I have to say it's nicer in teams with all of the integrations and file storage.
I'd be surprised if you could get genuinely good thermals on an i9 in a laptop. And that's partly on intel - i9s just have bad thermals, especially recently. Besides, if you genuinely need the power to justify using a chip with that kind of TDP, you should be looking into a desktop anyway.

It is worth noting that Apple may have been intentionally neglecting thermals pending the transition to ARM - LTT did a few videos that give evidence to this.
Best: When someone asks you a question always answer something. If you don't have time, say let's reconnect later. But never leave people in limbo.

Worst: Letting toxic people get away with insults because they're good at their job.
Psychology is his field so I would say he does have expertise in that area. Do the others in the group have expertise in genetics and developmental biology? It exactly because they don't that they kicked him off. They could not argue with his correct assertion so they banned him.
Exactly! Yeah I have dozens of tabs open and never fear restarting the session. Hats off to the dev that implemented it--it's a really well thought out and implemented feature.
If I wanted to do android development again, I have no idea which skillset to optimize for

React Native?

Kotlin?

An old version of Java that just got lambdas?

Are we doing Model-View-Presenter (MVP) no matter which? Or are we still doing Massive-View-Controller (MVC backronym)

Are there adequate networking, database ORM, and image loading libraries for all frameworks?

Last time I interviewed for any mobile development role was 2 years ago and every team (FAANG, Fortune 500, Series B startups) wanted something different and acted like that was the normal skillset to expect
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Agreed.

The online outrage cycle has got really good at that ten years' exile penalty phase, we haven't quite sorted out how to allow for individual growth or redemption.

As a species I feel we are still adjusting to this instantaneous global connectivity, and "cancel culture" is an over-correction as we try to define what it means to be part of a polite digital-first society.
>a war game that started with a Chinese biological attack

That's a big asterisk. Biological warfare so far is the stuff of doomsday prognosticators. China isn't crazy enough to use biological weapons because they know we might (possibly even should) consider that a nuclear-level escalation.

And if they did use biological weapons, we might lose Taiwan, but we certainly wouldn't stop fighting. That kind of monstrosity cannot and will not go unanswered.
That’s part of the point. Sometimes you’ll be surprised. If you test lots of hypotheses getting results that surprise you along with lots that don’t increases your confidence that the surprising results are probably real. If you don’t test obvious things you’ll never be surprised by disconfirmation.
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France also sold a good part of weapons that is used to defend Taiwan (the Mirage fleet).
Also surprising is that TSMC was recently hit by water shortages due to a drought in Taiwan. Arizona isn't exactly drought resistant, yet they built there instead of rainy Washington.
This blows my mind. I remember begging my dad in 1999 to buy me a Voodoo 3 3000 and literally crying until he agreed. He wouldn’t let open the Compaq and install it myself, and so I walked him through the installation. It was a big upgrade from the ATI Rage Pro card we had.

All that so I could play Quake 3 with higher detail at 1024x768.
You suppose wrong. I'm kind of moderate. Seeing that I never said anything otherwise but you made a baseless supposition out of nowhere I'm guessing you're pro business in favor of total deregulation.

Make no mistake. The purpose of business regulation is to protect the people. This is absolutely true.

Execution of such regulations has unintended consequences though.

Regulating business harms profits which harms jobs and in turn harms people who could have had the jobs. Harmed profits also harms the owners of the businesses who are also people.

So basically there's a feedback loop here. You make the law for the purpose of protecting people but you are also harming people at the same time.

I'm a moderate or undecided because this loop presents a practical and moral dilemma. There's a balance somewhere but no truly one knows where and the complexities of society make it so that civilization will never arrive at this balance. Society tends to oscillate wildly around this equilibrium point migrating between the two extremes of pro business and pro "the people."

Tobacco is just one example. A lot of people think of tobacco as cookies, so if that's too tame for you then replace that example with Big Pharma and the opioid crisis or The dumping of toxic waste into Toms River by Big Chemical.
The other thing TikTok does well is that it removes choice. On YouTube you look at a dozen videos and think "Do I want to watch any of these, or look at another dozen recommendations?" It's kind of similar to picking something on Netflix. With TikTok you can just mindlessly "Next, next, next".

I am not one to get hooked on social media, but I found myself wasting time so easily on TikTok I had to delete it from my phone.
I've actually always wondered why automakers never try to make consumer electronics. They wouldn't even need to compete with Apple or Dell; would you consider an Audi or Toyota laptop in place of a Panasonic Toughbook?

Caterpillar does it with phones[1], and their main business is heavy industry. Why not auto manufacturers? Could easier access to smaller process nodes incentivize them to branch out into new markets like that?

[1]: https://www.catphones.com/
Telling your rival "I have a weapon but I am never going to use it" is about as useful as not having the weapon at all. Portraying yourself as an irrational actor willing to do anything to get your way is rational when you consider it's in response to China saying theyre willing to invade an island no matter the consequences. If that were true they wouldve invaded already. Both superpowers are bluffing.
The second Pfizer shot made my allergies better for about two days. They're back :(
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What PhD's do you have to make this radical conclusion?
Too much attention and too brazen attack tactics. XSS shut down ransomware discussion and ransomware groups are having a market correction moment as of now. Shutting funds was easier, probably Kremlin asked gents at whitebit to hand off things before anyone loses fingers. Ultimately, this would simply mean that the targets would be carefully chosen, affiliates screened and new ransomware would be announced in coming months (or weeks even) which would target enterprise/ businesses.

Key lesson as summed up beautifully by an old timer in our team "You don't mess with big oil."
I think getting any clear results in nutrition is essentially impossible because you can't conduct the studies necessary to get rid of all the confounding factors. Consequently it's probably a bad idea to follow an extreme diet. Of course that doesn't mean that keto (or other dietary interventions) can't be beneficial for certain illnesses like cancer. I'd be interested to hear about studies.
As a fellow Canadian I'm happy that finally we get some common sense in this pandemic. If we hadn't taken this approach we'd still be heading up on case counts instead of heading down, increasing the vaccinated base is what has turned the tide on the third wave and is what's going to end the pandemic here months sooner than it would have ended otherwise.

We don't have time to RCT test all scenarios. That's how life works. The long term immunity as a function of delta between the first and second shot has not been tested at all. J&J vaccine is one shot mostly because it can only be one shot yet it still works. There are other aspects that have not been tested in the trials. We need to make reasonable decisions under uncertainty in an ever changing landscape.
I never found an RFC documenting an URL size limit.
Bitfinex hackers will need 114 years to launder $7B of stolen Bitcoin
I’ve been using the web since NCSA Mosaic, and regularly have hundreds of tabs open
I think it's a smart trade off. If Brave has to make money while giving you privacy and crapy ads free experience, it has to integrate blockchain and crypto.

So far I have liked what they are doing. The browsing experience is really good if i compare that to Chrome. However, I am also skeptical about the whole crypto stuff and but I think thats because of my limited understanding.
There are just a lot more semi-conductor engineers in Taiwan than in the US. Quick Googling suggests the pay gap is immense. China is luring a lot of Taiwanese talent partly due to the over-supply of engineers.

A similar situation exists WRT to China and US mechanical engineers: in China you can very assemble a team to build physical stuff in ~2 weeks whereas finding the same talent in the US would take months and cost a lot more.
well. it depends.

most people i’ve talked to are not afraid of being old, they’re afraid of all the health issues and poor quality of life that comes with being old.

so, my question is: if you could have the life quality of a 40yo at 80, and live to 105 instead of 80, would you only consider the improvement to be only 25 years?
Does your phone get a better signal when it’s closer to your nose?
I think it was just an observation, not a recommendation. If we can't defend a free lifestyle from within this new, messy, network, then the future is proprietary and rented from the cloud.
I thought generally you tell your rivals that you only use your nukes when they use their nukes first.
> If I remember correctly, ones Rupert Murdoch famously said that it’s impossible to find a phone number to call.

Do the HN rules of assuming good faith apply to him as well? /s

https://europa.eu/european-union/contact/call-us_en

Please don't signal boost easily falsifiable claims like this. The function of it is to sow division and prevent proper nuanced discussion.
There's a bias in HN that favours the simple and clean. But the real world is full of bureaucracies and complications due to legacy and/or politics or some other factors (like momentum).

When HN users argue that certain tools (like Jira) is too complex, they imagine that a simpler tool following a simpler process would've worked. For them, may be it would, as a greenfield project, but not for the enterprise currently using Jira or is going to adopt it.
Novice users use flash drives or emails, they don't set up ssh servers. In fact, I've never seen a non-power user set up an ssh server except maybe if you count a consumer NAS (which usually show up as networked drives).

To that point, I'd be willing to bet money that any user that even has access to an ssh server they'd want to use either has the technical know how to set up those tools themselves, or has an IT person who can do so for them.
React Native or Flutter depending on your desired target.
I could see sqrtf(x) being faster than 1/rsqrt(x). An integer software implementation of sqrt and division will be similar (in fact, I think if implemented with Newton's method, sqrt will be significantly faster), and you still have to compute rsqrt.

But, if you were computing 1/sqrt(x), I highly doubt the quake3 style rsqrt(x) was slower than that. If both implemented with software floats, rsqrt(x) would be strictly less work. They're almost the same computation, except you'll probably get a better initial guess for rsqrt (the "what the fuck" line), and each iteration produces more accuracy.
Of course I am... if I'm paying 5 million dollars to someone, I'm a customer.

What level of support do you get for a 5 million dollar AWS budget?
The Taiwan situation is not the same as Hong Kong's. In Hong Kong theyre merely speeding up the integration of a territory they already have full sovereignty over. The current government in China has never ruled over Taiwan. A lot can happen in 20-30 years and future regimes may be not be as eager to risk war over an island that's never been a part of their country during their lifetime.
In a text editor....
Exactly, and sometimes to fix the issues with the spec you'll have to go far enough off script that it gets very obvious to people you dont want attention from.
Left is space, backspace, command, and a macro for Raycast. Right is escape, enter, tab, and layer switch key for media controls.
The best and worst both taught me to be kind, just... From different directions.
I have no idea why you would assume that I don't know how to change a keyboard layout.

I have my keyboard set to UK ISO so the keys don't match what is printed. I don't understand why you don't see that a company that sells laptops with proprietary keyboard layouts is bad.
From the tweet, it's not clear if he reached a settlement. You're usually not allowed to talk about settlements, but it likely would have had a non-disparagement clause. His last statement, "Apple has issued a statement that clearly implies there was some negative behavior by me during my time at Apple. That is defamatory and categorically false" is the closest to disparaging, but it's limited claiming defamation.

Maybe they reached a settlement, but Apple released a statement he disagrees with, and the settlement didn't cover future libel? Maybe they couldn't reach a settlement, so both he and Apple are trying to do damage control?
In real life, people sometimes commit suicide in what's called "suicide by cop", they attack police so the police kill them.

The idea that we or China can't have a commander in chief who commits suicide by war, or otherwise behaves irresponsibly and takes the rest of us with them, strikes me as a tad optimistic.
It's exactly what you do to give yourself plausible deniablility. You have to play the part.
Not sure Russia, Iran, or the Saudis give a shit about Taiwan.

China only loses its oil shipments if it can't secure shipping through the Indian ocean or build an overland alternative. It won't make a move until those are complete.
From what I understand, it's all stored locally on your devices. IPFS is just used to sync between your devices and to share with others.
The tiny escape key is a defect of the Sculpt keyboard

But I have caps lock mapped to ctrl (I hit it with my pinkie) and the windows key mapped to escape (I hit it with my thumb)

Almost all hardcore Vim users map ctrl and escape. It's standard practice

Also, I use the Sculpt on my lap, never on a desk

The MS Nat Ergo 4000 is too wide and asymmetrical for my lap. Same is true of the MS Surface Ergo. The Sculpt is more symmetrical and narrow, by omitting the number pad, etc., on the right-hand side
no, they can't win.... it is 500 miles of distance, and you need total dominance to get your troops there, and maintain and supply an invasion fleet.

Hitler couldn't cross the 50 miles english channel back in 1940.... the operation 'sea lion' was doomed to fail.
Even the Allies' normandy invasion, was hard and it took total sea and air dominance. China could surround Taiwan and blockade it, but it can't keep that blockaded is itself it would be blockaded by the US and totally sealed internationally.
It will be starved economically.

Also, keep in mind, during the cold war, USSR had to give up the sealing/blocading of Berlin, as the US kept supplying it with food via air.
The US could have given it away, as it was far from the West's border, but it didn't.

The US will do the same this time, as the public from both sides of the political spectrum, are very against CCP. The only people that string along with China, are some elite media companies like Disney, NBA and of course Apple.

The average Joe doesn't like that their job went to china, and they would be glad if the US put up a fight.
Looks like the cdc now disagrees :p
A good tool is one that works, and works predictably. If it can just stay reasonably dependable, I'll come up with ways to use it to its limits.
China is more able and likely to 'take over Taiwan' since probably any point in history. It's a stated strategic objective and there's no reason to think it won't happen.
You could say the same for the US. What checks and balances are going to protect you from a mentally unstable, delusional president who lost an election months ago, is about to be removed from power, and just this morning decided to play a game of nuclear football?

What evidence do you have that similar checks do not exist in China?

It's also worth mentioning that any nuclear submarine commander in the UK can, at any time, order the launch of their submarine's ICBMs. They do not physically require any authentication from Westminster to launch. I'm assuming the same is the case for US, and Russian submarines.
How does the app perform now?
Two things, first readers wouldn't receive that browser security warning (which is a bad experience) and second the transmitted content wouldn't be vulnerable to manipulation (such as ISPs injecting adds or attackers trying to deceive you).
And just to be clear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock

Is an ancestor. He traded in slaves. He renounced it later. The 3/5 compromise was wrong.

620K people, 2% of the population died in the US civil war. Yet today we have George Floyd.

200 years ago you could argue shades of grey, but in 2021 you cannot not.

I stand for Taiwan because today in 2021 I know better, as should everyone.
And a better economy means your stocks and business ventures will do better.
I have never seen so many to say "average" people on tiktok like on any other social platform, in a sense that I can relate to those people and don't feel like a celebrity is trying to feed me some content down my throat. There's so much of normalization of everything that I'm blown away by how normal Tiktok is, you can see teenagers struggling in a school, you can see people hating their 9-5 jobs, you can see crafts and arts, you can see people with disabilities living life at its fullest, cooking videos, etc.

The whole vibe is so wholesome that it's truly the first social network that feels social in a wide sense.
I agree with your assessment. An important thing that you point out though, is that it takes regular use to get a good functional and flexible wrapper.

I occasionally (once every 4 months or so) have to create some plots for reports or analysis, and they are almost always very weird, dissimilar to previous plots. It always ends up being a huge pain, even if sometime in the past I've done something kind of like them (this is especially true for any kind of dynamic plots).

I've ended up building a pretty easy to modify plotting suite out of DearPyGui. I cannot recommend DPG enough, especially for high throughput or large scale plots. Immediate mode programming is a joy to work with, and it's pretty awesome being able to quickly toggle on and off any dataset in realtime.