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>Where are this inexpensive accredited universities that charge half the price?

Community college? To be fair, the underlying problem is that everyone is competing for whole "jobs". Since it is a discrete unit you cannot be 95% as good as the best competitor, you have to be 101% as good to get the job. Assuming perfect structural unemployment, it would still make more sense to just let you and the best guy work 50% of the time rather than let the best guy work and let you stay unemployed. Of course the best guy wants moral superiority so he redefines success to be hard work and thus his ability to push you out of the labor market becomes his success.

Health care is a special circumstance. The free market maximalist assumption that the free market and the law of the jungle are the same is actually wrong. The free market is created by denying the law of the jungle (by delegating all violence to the state). With health care the law of the jungle is quite strong. It's easy to extort an unhealthy patient. Whatever benefits the free market is supposed to offer is swamped by our fear of death and the ability to abuse it.
That is… fairly accurate.

It leaves so much to parameters, you could describe practically any universe with it. It’s closer to a a generic virtual machine for universes than an actually useful theory.

That doesn’t mean it can’t be right, but it would be really disappointing if it is. It would imply the anthropic principle really is the only reason our universe looks the way it does. And no, you can’t use string theory to predict anything.
> not all landlords are big evil corps... half of the rental stock is owned by small ones.

Which isn't much better, really. Large companies may have undue, negative influence on society at scale, but individually, it's the small businesses and individuals that screw you over the most. A large company can't afford to casually break the law or generate bad PR, the way a small business can.
I've heard that Italians frown on pizzas that has toppings like pineapple (yuk!) on it. What pizzas would be authentic Italian?
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Do they not still have both modes? I haven't bought a motherboard for a couple of years, but the last few that I have have been both. (And basically I've not known or cared which I used!) Seems an unfortunate backwards compatibility loss if so.
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> Not only is this a big reason of the economical prowess of china in my opinion, i fear that this work-ethic will come back sooner or later to europe to "stay competitive".

We rather will introduce tariffs to fight against price dumping. We have the mechanism for that and politicians are slowly waking up and realizing that China is an enemy that must be fought.
As a side note, is there any possible way to keep chineese products out of your life ?
The decentralized Solana network is currently capable of over 50k TPS 24/7 in the live Beta with a target transaction finality speed of 30ms round trip from your browser/device. Their unofficial moto is "DeFi at Nasdaq Speed." Solana is nascent and will likely reach 10M+ TPS and 10ms finality within a couple years time.

Decentralized Acyclic Graph based networks (e.g. Hashigraph, which are not technically blockchains) can reach effectively infinite TPS but suffer in time to finality.

Solana is a blockchain with zero downtown (and a Turing complete smartchain), mind you-- nota centralized exchange.
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> Well, there are medical differences between races. The problem is, unlike some of those between the sexes, they are largely based on social history, not biology.

And once again, this sort of pseudoscience masquerading as science emerges, simply because it fits the American cultural meme that race should not have any inherent impact on outcomes. Hell, the article in the post contradicts that point too

Race, as it is right now, is a surrogate variable for a number of genetic factors. It's certainly less precise than some sort of genetic marker analysis, but it's low cost and notable improvement in performance means that it still has a distinct role to play, especially since we're nowhere near post-scarcity.

The argument that race is a social construct with no objective source is also not a good counter to this. While true, it also discounts the strong relation between declared race and genetic history. Increasing levels of mixing may reduce this correlation though, requiring a revisit in the future.
Why would it come back? I don’t think any research has ever shown that working those kind of hours in “knowledge work” is sustainable or conducive to high productivity long-term.

I expect the “replaceability” that you mention isn’t just “work long and hard or somebody else will”, but also “work long and hard, because you can be easily replaced as soon as you have a breakdown”…
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Why can't YouTube and Alphabet simply provide a download button or a public API? When you are running the worlds largest digital museum of rare video footage, you have some obligations to the society.
...Every pixel is an Operating System?

This is the kind of madness/genius that'll take us places.
Why does this matter? You cab drine from Kabal to lost of places in 16h. Are tge Taliban interested in this road trip more than others for some reason?
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with using implementation features. If you are writing code for servers or a desktop app... just use #pragma once. Even in the unlikely scenario that you eventually need to use a compiler which does not support this, transforming #pragma once to a #ifdefs is a bash oneliner.
It's an instance of Prisoner's dilemma.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
Less hassle (you don't need to be rich to avoid it), less toxicity, more community.
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>real life experience continues to show ref counting doing better

What experiences would be that? "GC pauses" exist in stop-the-world garbage collector's phase. If you need a concurrent one - they exist just as well.
Sim-city music? I guess it's hard to recreate the classic feel of the era without some actual midi from the time.
I found a very simple (for amateur) explanation for gravity. It's so simple, that it can be explained in just a few minutes. (IMHO, it's just quantum noise + inertia). However, I suspect that someone looked at this already, and found a flaw in this explanation. How I can find "we looked at it, but it proved to be wrong" kind of article or a video for simple explanations of gravity?
I've long known this, but not how they used it to advertise -- was it product placement, pre-roll, being the only mid-roll adverts??
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Interesting. In my experience the one time you are least likely to hear from students these days is during office hours!
They've swallowed an ideological fallacy that simply working your pants off for long hours means you will win. The USSR had the same disease, if they just worked their people 20% harder than the west did then they would inevitably be more productive and economically 'win'. It's variation of the lump of labour fallacy.

Don't fall for it. It's thinking like this that leads to managers optimising for the wrong metrics. Hours worked is clearly the wrong metric. Companies don't exist to simply employ workers for long hours, and thinking that way leads you down the wrong path right from the start. You need to look at where the value actually comes from, and this is sometimes subtle and not at all obvious.

Here's a challenge. A taxi driver in London earns about 4x what a taxi driver in Beijing does, in objective international value terms. Why? What factors might lead to that difference? If your value system can't answer that question, then it's wrong. They do quite legitimately earn 4x as much because the work they are doing is worth 4x as much, and there must be a reason.
> Linux is the OS for people who like tinkering. Tinkering is the point. It's all about building random crap for the sake of building it and hand-editing config files.

I would rephrase this as "Linux is for people who like to customize their experience without compromise". Sure tinkering is fun but its the tool to get to your destination. When I first started using linux I spent maybe a year tinkering and playing with things. This would be along the lines of "XYZ isn't working how I want it to, let's find a way of making it work the way I want" where XYZ is anything from my screenshot tool to my window manager.

Over time this has meant switching DEs, writing glue scripts, swapping out bit and pieces here and there to build the desktop experience I want. Now I have things to my liking I just have an Ansible script which I can apply to a minimal install and have everything just the way I want it in a couple of minutes. I've not made any major changes in the last 10 years. I might add things as I find I need them but that's maybe a couple of dozen minutes a year.

I can however totally understand if people don't want that experience, most people just want to turn on their device and have it "just work" even if that "just working" means you have to conform to the way the developer thinks it should work. This is why people love Apple products, and the reason I don't.
can foresee a knee-jerk vice-versa response from the other side . ban tiktok, ban huawei/zte, etc.

data protectionism: your people data in your boubdary. my people data in my boundary.
Solana has 400ms block times, so I don't think it can achieve finality in 30ms, and the whole comment seems a bit off-topic.
>What i did not understand back then is the absolute replaceability of personel in the chinese market. You work long and hard or tomorrow someone else does it.

That's rapidly changing as the birthrate is falling and the population is ageing. https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2020/
That looks like you're having to make a Weeks class just so you can do the same thing, instead of adding it to Integer and having it available on any int.
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The reality is probably that he has a lot of creative energy inside but by the time the kids, who are probably 3 and 5, are in bed and he's eaten his dinner and spent time with his SO, it's 8pm and he's shattered, but somehow, he's managing to pull what little energy is left and put it into his project.

And for that, I say kudos to him. It takes a lot.
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We have a growing lineup of SystemReady ES certified hardware that will make good OSS upgrades. New platforms on our LX2162A based SOM will be especially good for this application.
This just shows that all the finger pointing of developed countries about corruption in developing nations is misguided.
The only difference between them and us is that our development phase happened sooner than theirs. Our developed nation governments are often just as corrupt but the negative impact of their corruption is waning as individuals get wealthier. Those with newly found wealth then commit their own small time corruption (land is a pretty good example).
> I've heard people tell me that when COVID started the hospitals started marking everyone who died as having COVID regardless of what the real cause was.

From what I've heard, it went both ways, depending on the point in time. E.g. Poland had an election coming up mid-pandemic, and around that period, many people believed the government is underreporting COVID deaths, by making doctors classify them as caused by any of the comorbidities present in the deceased (and past certain age, pretty much everyone had some comorbidity, e.g. a weak cardiovascular system, or cancer).

COVID statistics were always heavily politicized. I think the most reliable way of getting to the truth was, and still is, looking at the excess death counts (i.e. how many more people died in a given month over the average of deaths in that month in last few pre-pandemic years).
Yeah, but in the classical approach your users don't need to have a GPU installed.

This seems to be a case of "if you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
This is silly for several reasons that I will list: *

Programming is not prose, so we can temper our expectations. *

Even in prose, some symbols belong on the left, and some belong on the right. *

The example given is no less readable than the alternative. *

It's more important to be consistent in style than correct to one person's opinion e.g. some people still batch edit source via macros and appreciate when curly braces are not in unexpected places.
There's no reason for a flatpak application to load slower than a 'native' application. It just namespacing[0] to separate the application Do you have measurements?

Snap seems to be deeply flawed however. They use compressed files to store things that need to be mounted when one wants to run an application[1].

[0] https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap
[1] https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/managing-ubuntu-snaps/
The problem with 90% of the free, open soure technology is the lack of a decent User Interface. Want to make a change in the way it works? Dig through the config file to find the one setting you need, or query the DB to tweak that one little thing.

The day something like a pi-hole can be installed as easily as a sim card, and can be left alone running without having to interact with it via the terminal will be the day open source software would have gotten mainstream coverage (No, Linux is not mainstream, unless you consider Android)
please make a beefier SOM that fits the MNT Reform, those would be nice to have in a laptop :)
My motivation to ask is:

1: I really want to understand it. Why does someone say they "finally finished their first MVP" when they already have been doing Show HNs for similar projects for years?

2: I am a bit afraid that we will see an arms race of emotionalized Show HNs if it turns out that these get more upvotes. I wonder if this site would have gotten as many upvotes if it left out the "9-5 job and 2 kids" part. I think it is worth asking if we should allow sensationalized / emotionalized titles for Show HNs at all.
I work in China but european company so 965, pretty nice.

The problem as always is: will they deeply want to solve the issue because they understand it, or is it instead now illegal to say that you work 996? :D It's not the same thing: I hope it wont come to that, but sometimes top down systems like ours create the appearance of the result before the result itself.
It should be remembered that until quite recently there was an extreme lack of office space in San Francisco. Construction of new office space in the city is rationed because of the perception of an imbalance with residential space. On top of that Salesforce was infamous for having an insatiable appetite for office space exhibited by leasing whole buildings before construction was finished. Even a fractional return to normal could quickly use up all of the available space. The idea that it is time to convert office space to residential is not solid and ignores the laws against converting anything into new office space again if the balance changes.

San Francisco has a history of converting office buildings into residential space with some notable examples within blocks of the Salesforce building. The Palms on Fourth between Bryant and Brannan is an example of this. Compared to the cost of housing in the area the complications involved with remodeling are actually rather minor, especially for new modern construction like this recently finished building.
The hard part is that leaders will hear this as advocating for organisational silos. Many, especially Americans, associate organizational silos with the violent deaths of 3000 Americans 20 years ago.
Apparently, copyright law makes this an unwise proposition. But the least they could do is offer the Internet Archive with some privileged access so all this can be mirrored and viewed when it's out of copyright in 80 years.
> The weird GUI is what you get when you can't devote unlimited man-hours and millions of $ to the project.

I will take weird or unpolished GUI over polished, dark patterns, thank you very much.

Because that's the choice that we really make.
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Good move. I wouldn’t play games with this type of work and extended hours. The nature of the business means a lot of the work won’t equate to perceived personal value, and that burnout and depression will kick in hard inevitably.

They don’t want to learn this the hard way, ask those Foxconn suicide jumpers. Nothing is a competitive advantage when you are a melancholic shell of a person.
Any memory allocation scheme faces that trade-off, more or less; especially so in a concurrent environment that also employs parallelism.
That sounds too vague to be considered right or wrong. You could try searching on "emergent gravity" or "entropic gravity" though.
When you have a full programming language at your disposal, you can compile the linux kernel for the same CPU as your game and run it paravirtualised, skipping all the performance cost of having a full emulated machine.
Can't run ads on them, and you risk lawsuits of all kind if you let people easily download copyrighted content. They aren't running a museum, it just happens to be the largest video sharing platform on the planet.
I think scrappy MVPs have their place,it's just knowing when to use one. If you're a very early stage start-up and you're trying to validate your idea, the quicker you can see if that idea is valuable is better than risking time building a clean code architecture.
Column store is just the first step in OLAP optimization. You also need an engine that's optimized for columnar calculation(minimize data transfer/copy, vectorized calculation, etc..). It's the reason why purpose-built columnar DB like Clickhouse still run circle around MySQL/PgSQL in analytic jobs, even when the later use their column store.
Looking past the ridiculous hostility; the case in question is why it’s super rare to target Linux for desktop applications. The example offered has none of the trappings of a commercial offering.

By all means, though, all the best with your startup.
Anyone knows if the verdict says what would be legal? The article only says 996 is illegal.
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Depends on the job. Most manufacturing jobs is done on a conveyor belt. More time is more stuff.

It's different job from software engineering. More time doesn't lead to more stuff.
Wow, that "where do you want to go today" really tripped a strong nostalgia vein and reminded me of the old Microsoft Interactive CD Sampler: https://youtu.be/FrD78hULKIQ?t=234
How does this only have 1+ installs lol
As mentioned in the issue[0], these limitations are not inescapable. It's just tedious to specify the permissions portal and currently there are no other applications that would require such a portal. So, not really a low-hanging fruit but certainly not insurmountable.

[0] https://github.com/flathub/org.wireshark.Wireshark/issues/4
I don't know about MacOS, but I do feel Windows is far from cohesive. The jump from GTK to Qt is no more than the jump from an older native Windows application to something in UWP for example.
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What europeans like me who want to try something else do is simple: we emigrate to China and see how it is.

We dont all need to all do the same thing, and the biggest fallacy of all is that we re in competition with each other. We trade more or less efficiently but since doors are always half open, heh, just jump if you want.

Can even change with age.
Most FMCG companies have their distributor network. The distributors will also have sales team visiting mom & pop stores on a regular basis. So your selling price must be the same or cheaper than the distributor selling price to make a profit which seems difficult to achieve if you're not the distributor. What is your business model and where do you expect to make the money?
I made the reverse switch, many years ago. I made the switch because macOS lets me use the commercial products I need to deal with administrators (MS word, excel, mainly), while also letting me use unix.

As I understand it, modern windows environments provide a linux layer, and so they would be a viable choice now, except if you want your desktop to integrate easily with other apple products.

One thing I don't miss about linux is the level of fiddling that it required. At one point linux was the only alternative to expensive workstations (betraying my age here) and so it was worth the pain of rebuilding the kernel, messing with code to get sound cards to work, etc. But the 1990s are over: you can get good power on a desktop without much expense, and if you know unix, you can hook up to large clusters in any academic environment, for computations that take days or weeks to complete.

Although I respect those who use linux desktop environments, I have stopped recommending it, at least to those more interested in getting work done than in exploring operating system mechanics.
Surely as soon as you have this there'll be a service to leak the time codes to non-subscribers so embeds, yt-dl's forks, etc. can auto-skip.
Gnome is awesome. Gnome 40 brought some nice performance improvements. Using it on a six years old netbook with 4 GB of RAM and i3.
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I actually think in this case CCP is playing the right cards (unlike in the case of tutoring). I also believe that Chinese are quite tired of having to put up with the exploitative work practices and I highly doubt 996 is anything of a competitive advantage.

The whole mentality of 996 goes back to the time when most of the jobs were manufacturing jobs. If you are a garments factory whats the simplest way to increase throughput? Well, make your workers work harder. If you are in a country the size of China and your workers revolt, replacing them is simple enough. This unfortunately does not work for tech companies. Making software engineers work long hours will just piss them of. Also by its nature spending more time on a piece of code doesn't mean you'll be more productive (in fact I've found the best way to deal with a bug is often take a break and come back and reread your code likely you'll spot the mistake far more easily). Also if a software engineer is good enough they may simply choose to work for an American firm which gives them much more free time and are equally competitive. Furthermore, the more turnover there is in a software firm, the less efficient it is as new hires will have to learn the code base from scratch. So now firing an individual and replacing him may not be as easy as before. Hence, I doubt CCP will actually have to enforce the rule, the firms themselves will self enforce the rules.
Work 996 at home ?
Not in Croatia, but I have experienced corruption as a tourist in Serbia and Bosnia:

- Serbia: Driving in Novi Sad, and another driver illegally passed me and hit my car coming back into traffic, causing a few hundred euro in damage to my car. He got out and yelled me and then drove off before exchanging any info. I had photos of his license plates, but multiple Serbian friends advised me to not deal with it because it would ultimately come down to who was more able to deal with the nuance of bribing the police. On the other hand, I once stupidly left my Macbook Pro on a flight landing in Belgrade, and it ended up in the hands of the airport police, who handled everything professionally.

- Bosnia: Driving into the country, with insurance that's valid in Bosnia (and every country in Europe), which it says right on my insurance form. The immigration officer denies this and sends me over to his buddy 20m away to buy "Bosnian insurance". Only €30, but definitely corruption.