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People often confuse the long history of low-quality imports from China for some essential quality of China. They don't realize or ignore that the quality was determined by what the people who commissioned the products or built the factory--usually not companies or people in China--were willing to pay for their target margins.

There's a scene in Back to the Future where past-Doc is shocked to learn Japan shed its reputation for poor quality once all the good stuff started coming from there in the 1980s. China is experiencing a similar perception shift as more companies inside and out make higher quality stuff there.

One of the most innovative lens manufacturers is a Chinese company (Venus Optics). I'm probably a few months from buying a flash from a Chinese company (Godox) that by all accounts is 90%+ of the quality of the first-party flashes at half the price. I use a Huion tablet which I have to admit is a bit shoddy in construction, but is almost as precise as the Wacom equivalent it competes with at a fraction of the price. If it breaks twice and I replace it each time, I'm still out less than if I went with Wacom.

I don't care for a lot of the policies of the party, but I still have to recognize when the country makes something good.
Check out Buc-ee's off of 95 in Florida for a gas station done right. It’s a gas station on steroids. It’s almost worth making a day trip to buy gas.
They offer several kinds of encryption at rest, encryption in transit, but I haven't looked further into it yet.
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Mozilla?

They're not the paragon of virtue I want them to be, but it sure fucking ain't Google.

My point is that there are shades and degrees of bad behavior. It's a mistake to handwave every company as equally bad.

That feeling is how you normalize horribly immoral things.
No, that’s just a Western-centric misunderstanding of geopolitics. China promises to not interfere in local politics, unlike the US and their crusade to remake the entire world in their own image.

Ergo in a world of less-than-ideal choices, the one that isn’t trying to destroy your society’s values is a better option. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and all that.
all of those options have been studied for years; how many motors, what they weigh, where they are mounted, blades on the prop, rpm on the prop, any gear reduction.
there is a room of aircraft designers that will show you why the current design is the "sweet spot", and the technical reasons that drove them there.

my point being this was all analyzed ahead of time, in modeling. no-one just said, "lets go with 4 foot props"..
Because they don't want to get worked to death.
> Was there ever a time people would trust a piece of paper in isolation?

Pretty much all of history. We love it when facts supporting our beliefs are isolated in a single source. We also love it when a source is ambiguous enough to let us draw our own conclusions.

The lie of omission has a long track record of being effective. It has the benefit of being useful to the source and/or the receiver. There's redundancy in falsehood selectors. Either the source will lie or we, on the receiving end, will lie. The truth often doesn't stand a chance; somebody is gonna find a way to isolate.

Trust is not a behavior that is reliably rational. One could argue that it always has an element of emotional attachment to the familiar.
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Performance is just fine for us. It's all about scoping for the right things. You are never looking for the whole schema all at once. No one ever said it had to be running on disk either.
Right from the conclusion of the article that you linked:

> Patients who are using their medication for cognitive enhancement or diverting their medication to others present a high risk.

I think the Standford population do not fit with the results of your study (that look at the US population in general).

These people ARE using these drugs for cognitive enhancement.
Now get back to the article conclusion.
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If hn is not the place to discuss web regulation, I don’t know what is. New things pose new and unexpected harms and nuisances. Regulation is the cure.

On the flip side, this particular dark pattern was caused by regulation. As usual, shades of gray
Yes because America, not China has exacerbated the conditions in India to make it so you have no choice to come to America. There won't be a timeline where the US relaxes their immigration laws to make something like this possible.
I would love to see the UK Met Office model in Windy

I don't know why it's not there - I'm assuming it costs money
I was thinking it was going to be about manual software testing.

Instead I spent a few minutes trying to navigate my bedroom by checkbox camera. It didn't go well, but kudos to the author just the same.
You just have to be a workspace customer at all. I have ~80 seats and the feedback menu in the Drive for Desktop interface has gotten me direct replies from the product team, which has helped them collect the info they need to diagnose issues in the app.
Did you have the experience with Modafinil or Armodafinil?
Armoda is meant to last longer; probably too long for some people to take regularly. It's also more anxiety-inducing, so despite being the 'older' variant, moda might be the better choice for a lot of people.
It’s probably easier, fundamentally speaking, than delivering jet fuel to turbine engines without failure over a huge range of environmental conditions. It’s just that over many years we’ve perfected the later and already figured out and solved pretty much everything that can go wrong.
> Consumers are incredibly price sensitive and will drive 19 min to save $0.05/gal

My grandpa would drive all around town to save a few cents per gallon. It always seemed insanely wasteful to me.
Pretty much only modafinil and then armodafinil. I've taken piracetam for a while (because hey, why not, maybe it does something), but didn't get any noticeable effect. The same goes for supplements, no noticeable effect.

I'm far from an expert on any of this. I found something that works very well for me, but I'm not making any claims that it'll work for anyone else. I personally know two others who take modafinil, and while there's some overlap in our experiences, they don't have the same effects I do (they do have effects though, and both take it occasionally, but not regularly).
The article also mentions a lot of things that will make it generally easier for remote attackers to gain a "permanent" foot in the door once they find a way in (e.g. an exploitable "app"), like the lack of "app" sandboxing (for the most part).
Oh that really helped me understand this whole thing.
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I would be surprised by any other result. Android/iOS phones are used by millions of users and backed by huge companies with the resources and strong motivation to make the phones secure. Of course they are going to have fewer vulnerabilities than a niche open-source OS with far fewer resources behind it.
“China’s opening strike in WWIII consisted of a decapitation attack in which the embedded medical devices used by a large fraction of the older political and managerial class were used to mass euthanize them via a software update…”
aren't they all land developers in disguise?
Whatever FAANG companies are becoming, it seems more like digital sovereigns than companies.
I will say this about agile - we didn't get this right the first time. If we didn't plan for a little bit of failure and iteration, we wouldn't have found this solution.
There are workarounds mentioned by sibling comments but the fact is that EVs are, and will continue to be, very inconvenient for those who don't own a home.
"Very few people use signal like that" makes me think you first tried Signal within the last ~year. Why do you think it was originally "TextSecure" and why do you think it, to this day, uses phone numbers as the identity mechanism instead of usernames? It's because it allows it to automatically know when it can upgrade from sending SMS to that contact to sending encrypted messages. And as I originally explained just around the time the mentioned award for the protocol was given (2017) it was still sending the encrypted messages over SMS instead of data.

Plenty of people still use it this way on Android though. I'd say about half my Signal contacts do. I don't but that's because I use Google Voice a lot for texting (mostly as an easy way to receive 2 factor codes for work not actual messaging with anyone) and Signal only replaces the local SMS app.
When you say:

> the Linux phone distros are not there yet

Is there any indication that Linux is going to catch up to Android/iOS in terms of security?

From my perspective, not only has Linux userspace security barely improved at all over the past few decades (almost all programs run as the user with all of their privileges, no sandboxing, barely any permission/access control to speak of (and yes, I know that there are some projects that aim to fix this, but they're all woefully immature and barely adopted)), but the Unix philosophy itself seems opposed to these security measures. Am I just being overly pessimistic?
I saw zero prescription stimulent usage/availability during my college education. Granted, I wasn't hanging out at the library too often but if it was really that common that I'd have seen it at least once in the few years I was there. Maybe I was just super unaware.
They found a known poison in the doses years later. I hardly think a one off study is conclusive for determining that there were no bad side effects.
A good book to get you going is The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Google does have a history of specifically avoiding exposing settings to users.

See: some of the Chrome feature requests about making things user-configurable (off memory, related to download / execute behavior for enterprise web-launched apps), which Google closed with "Adding a setting would be incompatible with Chrome's design goals"
It’s not about disagreeing with them. I generally downvote pedantic exceptions because you should respond to an argument in the most generous terms. largely proving your identity did apply to the examples given but doesn’t address the thrust of their argument.

Showing an ID to drink or get a senior discount isn’t about identifying you specifically just something about you and that is completely accepted by the general public. Show your military ID to get a discount is another.

The issue I take with such pedantic exceptions is they derail the thread.

Edit: This is a far more direct response which I upvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28501323
My question is whether or not Tesla chargers can work with other EV cars. If not, then isn't it that all of Tesla's efforts are just helping their own brand instead of helping the EV push as a whole?
I noticed Docker hub has exactly the same dark pattern
Engineering IRC networks is si much fun.
Yes, the 15x factor (14x in your quote) is what is often cited in discussions, given all else equal. What complicates is that fossil fuels can drive propellers, turbofans, and jets, where as electric motors can only drive propellers -- each technology with its own efficiency envelop.
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If Taliban doesn't spend as much energy curbing Afghanistan's opium and meth production as they do women's rights and so many other human rights issues, then it's another way of demonstrating their clinging onto religious conviction is a sham, and it's all really about total control of the population and inevitably, money.
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That's absolutely true. Academia and education in general is a nonforgiving environment for many people, requires many sacrifices to get through (more in some countries than others) and is generally socially expected to participate in for a "worthwhile" career in life. Needless to say, it's unfortunate that some need — or believe they need — to self-administer drugs in general. The main, root issue has not been addressed in years. I suppose some more people getting ill or developing issues won't change that.
They already do. Online advertising was infamously a race to the bottom, so much so that even in the early 2000s we were complaining about how risque and insane advertisements have gotten. 20 years of big-tech lobbying, Chrome dominance and Javascript adoption hasn't made the business any less criminal.
How do you distinguish between the symptoms of “long covid” from the effects of being locked inside for a year? There have been over a billion covid infections globally (assume confirmed cases are 1/5 infections, which is a low estimate according to John’s Hopkins) so if “long covid” is so real, where are all these sufferers? If 1% have long covid, there should be at least ten million sufferers.
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The 5th and final line:

>Wright will use 10 2MW motors on its Wright 1 aircraft - that's a total of 20 MW, which is as powerful as an A320 Airbus aircraft

The blog also links to a "deep dive" with a few more details.

https://medium.com/@jeff_60994/wright-has-begun-testing-our-...
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Yes, moving to a country is hard when you don’t speak the language. Can I ask, why did your Iranian parents not ensure you learned Persian if moving back was a possibility?
Are you sure about that? because dick cheney has Iran and Iraq in his mind before 9/11.
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That article says that typical stations make perhaps $15k/year on fuel after expenses and occasionally have months, when fuel prices are dropping and customers aren’t as cutthroat, where they make another $10-15k. So perhaps $20k/year and that’s if their operations are scaling well. That’s the same thing the c-store industry is talking about.
> ”Where's the 20MW from?”

Quite a few tonnes of batteries, I’d say. But potentially there are other options like fuel cell stacks.
The usefulness of this approach depends, I think, on whether the apps are actively working against the user's interests and need to be treated as hostile entities.

Putting "ls" in a sandbox would make it much less useful and doesn't provide much benefit. On the other hand, the .NET Core CLI utilities, which collect telemetry on Microsoft's behalf, would benefit from sandboxing.
Word of warning: generally arts pay poorly and may have really bad working environments - like any field with a large pool of young eager candidates who are ready to do anything in order to create a career out of self expression.

For each Stephen King there is a million writers who are unknown to public and struggle to make ends meet.

That's not to say you shouldn't do it - but you should be able to approach the proposition with grim determination or flippant playfulness.

What stops you from writing in your free time while having the CS career pay the bills?
The thing that people seem to be ignoring in all of this is that people like having power.

The vaccines are helpful to the recipient, but unless you are successful at completely shutting down travel to the rest of the world: not really that helpful to the people who haven't taken them. In fact, there is an argument for how over-vaccinating will be harmful to the unvaccinated.

If you're vaccinated, you can still get and transmit covid. You just don't get as sick. The vaccine protects you.

So why these vaccine mandates? Vaccine passports? Etc.

Because people simply enjoy the act of getting to tell others what to do. Anybody who has ever interacted with an HOA will be familiar with this.

The data shows that these do not have a positive effect, but the people enacting them enjoy it, and the people who have found themselves on the enforcment side of the political divide enjoy the feeling of righteousness they experience because of them.

I can’t reply to everybody making the same incorrect point. Here is the graph of Texas’s hospital utilization: https://covid-texas.csullender.com/

(Luckily Texas gives us great data!).

The graph here you are looking for is the one that shows the percentage of staffed beds and icu beds occupied. Notice that it is entirely flat.

Here’s a really interesting statistic that suggests even less effectiveness of these control measures: the vaccines appear to have had no effect on hospital utilization.
I don't. Just a few hours ago I noticed I started getting a bunch of guitar-related ads (like courses) after searching last night for a list of all the existing Guitar Hero guitars.
That’s not true. You can drive a turbofan or jet with electric motors as well. For high bypass turbofans, a prop fan is functionally identical. For jets, the heat increase can be produced by multistage compression (although there’s little reason to do that versus a single stage turbofan/prop fan except for maybe supersonic, and even then single-stage makes a lot of sense).
Hey, I’m in the midst of that - of going from full-time tech work after nearly a decade, to a career as an artist (in film and music, mainly).

I wonder what you mean by “working in the arts.” The examples you offer are pretty diverse! Literature, writing and journalism: on one hand, literature is pretty much only an artistic, creative venture. At the other end, journalism isn’t going to feel very creatively engaging by contrast. But it is working in the arts in the same way being an arts administrator might be.

Your job is to figure out what you need. What’s driving this desire to switch careers? I suspect that you don’t really wanna be a journalist - but that the same pragmatism that makes you worry that you’d be transitioning too late already is also making you pick something that sounds more practical, rather than picking something that you actually want.

In short, you need to find out what you actually need. And it might be that you need to try on the artist label for size. It might not fit, but if you start to feel like you are motivated by expressing yourself, then it might be the thing for you. Also, I’ve learned that there are tons of other creative people who make great things who do not need to do it every day. Find out if you just need this as a hobby, or if you really need to do it once a day.

Working as an artist is tough, but so is anything. I couldn’t really make my career in tech feel okay. It’s been far easier for me to be what I always should have been.

But it took me a decade to realize I needed to make that transition because it also took me that long to accept I was an artist. Therapy helped. Also, actually doing artistic work helped. I learned how to write songs, I picked up other instruments. I started screenwriting, and got accepted to a writing lab.

That last bit happened last year - it’s where I met many other awesome folks who were making their careers work. But again, that happened because it built on this long journey I had to accepting my own self. I was always this creative, but for my own “personal reasons,” I wasn’t allowed to have that as a kid.

The advice I have is that a lot of the cliches are true.

Per Bukowski, you shouldn’t make any sort of leap unless it comes bursting out of you like a rocket, but if you’ve learned all sorts of reasons to abandon this part of yourself, well, it can take a long time for the rocket ship to take off.

That’s when you take the leap. The transition involves so much more work that gets you to that point, by allowing yourself to open yourself up and feel who your really are, and by learning your tools. But one day you’ll know you’ve got to jump. And that’ll be terrifying! But hey, you’ll know it’s time.
You normally take a cloud offering so that you can truly deny that you didn't know it was not state of the art.
> to which region they will forward my server IP.

They're not forwarding it at all. A request from LA will come from the LAX Cloudflare DC, and thus plugging in the requesting IP address into some geoip service will show Los Angeles, California. All you have to do to get this working is to fallback to the incoming IP if ECS is absent.

Or time travel to 2010 and try to respond to DNS queries while no servers are sending ECS.
Aerospace.

If you have a degree that is ABET accredited, don't smoke pot and can thus get a security clearance, and can answer simple programming questions and operating system / data structures question, you have a job.

This industry is hiring every entry level software engineer that applies.

It's not going to be all Rust, and it isn't going to use Redis, but it has it's own technical challenges.

As a plus, you will move up quickly. Very high retirement rate for the next 2 decades.

New graduate pay = $80 - $100 K. Stock is very rare. Moving expenses and a small sign on are possible.
Rigid car phone holders routinely fall off for me thanks to frequent potholes in India. The ones with adjustable shoulder and elbow joint shake violently but don't dislodge, as an inadvertent feature. Its time for new generation of phone mounts.
It's not exactly the same, but a transition to woodworking seems to be relatively common for programmers. Try a search for that, you'll find some personal stories.

My advice FWIW is that if you're determined to make a new career as a creative, to find some low-stress, absolutely 9-5 job that allows you to just do your job and not worry about it afterwards. The government here has IT jobs that are 35 hours a week. My expectation is that the work would be soul-sucking and the pay very low.

But the money, even if 35% of market rates, can perhaps be enough to keep a roof over your head and Corn Flakes in the cupboard. Stress might be good for creativity, but I can't imagine that eviction notices slipped under the door will help you do your best work.

Furthermore, not having to continuously read technical books and blogs trying to stay on top of the latest trends will leave you hours - and even more importantly brain space and energy - to put 25 or 30 hours into your craft. You'll be able to really put the energy into making your art what you want it to be.

My model for this is a sculptor I know - he's very good, he has a few large sculptures in the city parks and has trained with famous artists all over the world. He became a firefighter. 3 weeks on (12h days, 6 or 7 days a week I forget), 3 weeks off. He was able to lead two lives, live in a pretty good house with a nice studio, and concentrate on becoming the best artist he could be rather than carving pokemon figurines to sell at farmers markets to make ends meet.
>Delta has an R value of 8

no it doesn't.
> how is YouTube, with all it's tech and programming resources, unable to solve the problem of spam, bots and impersonator comments?

They're not unable, they have no incentive to. These bots and scammers probably count in their metrics and view ads so it's actually beneficial for Google to have them.

Change the laws so that platforms are considered complicit if they knowingly host/promote scams or don't do reasonable efforts to detect it (as you said, Google has enough resources to do a great job at this if they were willing) and the problem will go away immediately.
Thanks for the information, is there an page with an overview of the SailfishOS security concept and progress somewhere (other than reading the changelogs)?
I find less and less I want to use the internet to browse sites anymore.

Not just because of these dark patterns, but usability is messed up. The web should be redesigned to force standards compliant requiring websites to allow a “no script” support where you just go for information.

Cookies are not even remotely the largest problem on the fucked UX web we have today. It’s less about data delivery and ubiquity of the original WWW concept and more about “how do we force users to stay on our platform” or “how do we extract data on our users and sell it to the highest bidder.”

They also need to pass laws forcing companies who sign up users for services to have a graceful way to sign down and delete their account instead of these stupid cookie banners.