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SugarOS is pure fucking evil.

The rich, the Hiltons or the Buffett's or Trumps or any normal Western person would not waste their child's future on SugarOS. They will train them on what matters.

The fact we did this to the poor natives in some sort of experiment says a lot about us.

I'm 100% for testing on poor people to help the rich... with reasonable pay.

But there was no need here. Microsoft was willing to come to the table but was rebuffed.

Much of what you mention simply does not work in a classroom or the real world.

Perhaps we didn't know at the time what works. But OLPC refusal to try and design a system the first world could also use or gave dignity to the poor meant they failed slowly and alone without a chance to pivot to working ideas.
"Designed in the US" is the usual marketing ploy which is marginally more honest.
> The Mandalorian episodes that Jon Favreau directed are definitely top tier Star Wars. Great writing, great acting, great storylines.

> But there are so many lower-quality episodes in that series from less experienced directors with bad acting and weaker storylines.

I feel the same way with “pre-Disney Star Wars films” in place of “Mandalorian” and “Irvin Kershner” in place of “Jon Favreau”.
Good point. But Jobs "predicting" the future of his own company is fundamentally entangled to predicting the future of the industry. It's hard to predict markets 20 years out.
You can also buy air purifiers directly from the manufactures for a few bucks more than Amazon. I’ve done that for both Austin Air and Coway.

Other products can also be bought that way, but of course not all.
With the amount of pigment they used to achieve that level of whiteness there is gonna be no was to clean this without damaging the coating.
I think the thing is that they both do and don't do that at the same time, so they get the benefits but not the blowback.

Sure they take some risk with casting, but they take very few risks in other areas. How many of the plots are basically quipy selfish hero learns to stop acting in selfish self-interest long enough to save the world, well still being a little bit of a dick so as not to be boring? Half. Don't get me wrong, its a good groove, but it doesn't scream taking risks.

Similarly with 2- sure they switch out the genere,but its always using the trappings superficially. Capt may be a spy movie, but just barely and not a very good one. Its a good super hero movie, but i wouldn't watch it if i wanted a good spy movie, and similar for all the others.

In the end, they manage to make it different enough to not feel repetitive, well still being similar enough that the risk of making something that doesn't work is low.
I'm unaware of how they handle warehousing and fulfillment for their marketplace, or parallels to Amazon's Fulfilled By (and if that's the end game...).

This is definitely a plus.
Sorry, I had to dig.

The particular conversation is from this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f8bqYYwps

Around the 30:15 mark. Apologies for my incorrect quoting, I was paraphrasing from memory.
The Magic of Serializing Functions
> Shoemakers are already charging what they believe to be the highest price they can regardless of costs. They don't believe they can raise the price, or they already would have.

The highest price you can charge for shoes made in China is different than that of shoes made in the USA. Whether or not it's enough to support a market is a different question, but it's an undeniable difference.

Personally, I'm willing to pay around 2X to get American made goods, and routinely go out of my way to do so.
Indeed, what perfect poetic irony - Peter was certainly hoisted by his own petard. You'd think that he'd be aware of the CoC looming over him in conversations given his familiarity with it but I guess he was too short-sighted.
I watched a ton of the earlier Marvel films including the first two avengers movies and you can call me closed-minded all you like it doesn't change the fact that they are mostly the same.

I no longer watch that dreck.
>looks like it doesn’t really give resistance for a long time to Covid.

Easy to measure correlates of protection like antibodies wane over time, as expected from any vaccine. T-cells say a lot more about long term protection but are harder to measure. Generally, alarmist antibody research makes the headlines instead. I recommend the TWiV podcast by virologists and immunologists, which notably existed before covid.
Cool we will have 600 new brands on Amazon tomorrow.
I've ordered from Amazon Germany and have occasionally left justified 1-star reviews in English. Amazon took these reviews down but I can see they leave 5-star English reviews up.

Its not just these brands that are fooling with the review system.
A single failure sure, but repeated failures shows that you aren't learning from failure.
>And like any serialized TV series,

I'm too old to care about movies much, but that's an interesting point.

I wonder to what extent high-dollar bespoke TV series are hurting the movie business. Streaming and theatres at home were bound to change some habits, but would people prefer to watch a series now rather than a single work?

Personally, I think it's a shame how much movies (a lot them at least) and video games appear to have merged in terms of pacing, volume, general aesthetic, but you can't expect things to always stay the same.
Costco also sells weird trash products, but a least you can normally tell by the description:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/ojhrts/costco_is_de...
Matt Damon said you can't make non-blockbuster films because streaming eroded the DVD sales that supported those films.

Matt Damon forgets that non-blockbuster films were popular before DVDs were invented.

In the 1950s people went to the movies often, sometimes more than once a week, just to hang out with their friends and be entertained. Today there's so many more ways and venues to achieve that goal, movies get a smaller and smaller slice of that pie. DVDs weren't the solution, they just put off the inevitable for a little longer.
Similar to tech, the founders who walk away with billions start their own funds as well.
I think it's an apt description. "Emergency Use" is different than, "FDA Approved"
You mean https://linux.die.net/man/3/htonl ? What does that have to do with executing binaries on another architecture?
It is possible to configure the SSD as a "cache" of the HDD, so the combination simulates a very fast and very big disk.
Yeah, after wasting eight years of my life doing Latin at school I understand the basic etymology, but I’m confused because the English meanings aren’t very close. Your careful phrasing manages to get the word ‘hold’ into both of them, but ‘someone who holds a lease’ isn’t a very natural-sounding definition of ‘tenant’, and the notion that most people who make this mistake are familiar with the paradigm of teneo feels rather tenuous (plus ‘tenant’ noticeably isn’t a Latin ending, it’s apparently Old French, though transitively descended from teneo). You don’t think it’s more likely, if anything, to be that they just sound similar?
Your Amazon experience depends on how savvy of a consumer you are, just like eBay. Lots of scams and lots of people with legitimate items to sell, sometimes at a discount.
Not sure if they are ready yet, but ref: thehelm.com
Funny enough my DnD group has found that we get fewer Zoom drops when we all turn on our VPNs. It is odd that in the age of video conferencing that video conferencing would be unstable due to... presumably the ISP.
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I thought you were referring to the original issue.

The Wasm module in question here was 2.6MB uncompressed, which we consider quite large. IIRC after enabling liftoff it took about 200ms to load. Smaller modules would be expected to load faster. We'd normally recommend doing some tree shaking to get the size down to something in the hundreds-of-kilobytes range, in which case the load time would be expected to be tens of milliseconds, comparable to a TLS handshake.

The developer who reported the problem here considered it to be fixed, and we haven't heard anyone complain about Wasm cold start times since then, so we haven't prioritized further optimizations for the time being. If current cold start times are a problem for you, though, then please let us know.
Replace my phone about every three years maybe at this point. Blowing money on a phone that really is only marginally better at this point seems both like financial and ecological waste.
But that's the ultimate average number. If you group businesses by stocking costs and materials costs and labor costs and sales costs you'll probably see significant differences.
This mirrors my experience.

Strong investors now will literally assign their voting shares to the ceo and not take board seats even in a Series B round.
I'd suggest shoe[maker] to table to reduce total margins, but that has connotations of Charlie Chaplan.
What you call “a comfort aspect” is something experienced ICs think of “micromanagement.” It does not bring me comfort when a lead decides to “get __very__ specific on what direction to take.” On the contrary, it makes me feel like they do not trust my judgment, which is an uncomfortable feeling indeed.

It is hard not to notice that the entirety of this response is about YOUR personal comfort level and YOUR perceptions as lead, with an afterthought noting that your newest team members seem to find comfort in it. You must recognize that your working relationship with them involves a marked power differential. Your junior employees are unlikely to voice any disagreement with your management style, but that does not imply it is a good style of leadership.

There is no mention of how you manage your more seasoned team members. Is that because there aren’t any left? This style of management often leads to retention problems as employees mature and realize there are more satisfying ways for them to work.
> because it's available and can run without proprietary binary blobs

Which isn't even necessarily true. The POWER architecture is just an ISA. It doesn't specify anything about how the rest of the system works.

(The POWER Architecture Platform does exist, but, as far as I know, it's only used in IBM's POWER servers.)

Conversely, it's hardly as though POWER is the only architecture this is true of. Coincidentally, NXP also sells a line of ARM SoCs (the i.MX line) which can be used in a blob-free mode, and there are already several open hardware laptops built around those parts!
Ask HN: Where is the open source smart TV firmware?
These things have been on the market for many years yet there doesn't seem to be any open firmware. I want to use content recognition capability to auto-mute commercials. I want to disable all telemetry so I can trust my own device. How would the difficulty of developing such a thing compare with projects like dd-wrt?
You're right, it seems to be specific to the .ca website.
> Also, that sentence shifts from cost per hour to cost per pair without an explanation. Is 1 pair/worker/hour a realistic estimate?

I did some work with manufacturers who were in the process of moving manufacturing overseas some years ago. From my experience, the way the article presents the issue is detached from what really happens.

For instance, people look at a labor difference of $3 and $12, and assume that if these things were manufactured in the U.S. they would cost five times as much. But the thing is, labor is just one part of the cost. You also have things like R&D, advertising, raw materials, transportation, machinery, the cost of the manufacturing plant, etc. Some of those (like advertising) are going to stay the same no matter where you make your product, some would probably cost less overseas (real estate needed for factories), some would cost more overseas (transportation cost). There are also other issues that come up (like quality control issues) that come up when moving operations overseas that can be quite costly.

Here's the thing, though - let's say that a manufacturer makes a product for $10 and sells it for $12.50 - they're making $2.50 per unit sold. Now let's say that moving things overseas, when everything is taken into consideration, they can now make a product for $9.50, of which they keep 25 cents and pass the remainder 25 cents forward. Now they've increased their profit 10%, which is pretty big for them.

But what about the consumer? For simplicity, let's say that the 25 cents goes directly to them and the middlemen don't take a cut. And let's say that the final retail price doubles (the results would be even more extreme if they quadrupled like the article says). So the price goes down from $25.00 to $24.75 - they save 1%.

Now, obviously things are a lot more complex, and things are going to vary greatly depending on what's being manufactured. But from my experience, moving manufacturing overseas can often be profitable for companies while being only negligibly beneficial - or even detrimental (for instance, with poorer quality control) - for the consumers.
I really wanted to buy a quality “splash pad” on Amazon. I was willing to pay triple the price of a normal priced pad. But it’s all junk. I ordered the most expensive one I could find, something like $110. It never worked well (the water didn’t spray from all jets), and just died after a month.
Rock against anything: how metal became so fucking reactionary
I agree. I find there are sometimes flashes of Star Wars perfection, and it has all the pieces to be consistently top-tier. The depth they put into expanding upon the culture of the side species like the Jawas was great.

But so much is wasted on bad character decisions, bad dialogue, bad acting and more. Just overall bad writing.

There's so much potential, but it doesn't live up to what I expect from Star Wars. And that's so disappointing.

I hope Disney/LucasFilm does better, because Star Wars continues to be a very important franchise to me and many others.
I think it's pretty clear that Mando is not the brightest bulb in the box.
When you look deeper, the true entire purpose of this deal was not to build subs. It was to "create 3000 jobs" and save one politician (Christopher Pyne) who did win the next vote, then "retired" shortly thereafter and went to "work" as a highly paid lobbyist for EY (who he brokered this twisted dodgy deal with in the first place, when he was a politician).

This is borderline corrupt behaviour IMHO (and many others HO's too). There are "guidelines" for the political class, but nobody ever enforces anything even when the corruption is so blatant.

Don't even get me started on Barnaby Joyce and Angus Taylor funnelling tens of millions of taxpayer funds paying for fresh water runoff that was never realistically ever going to be worth anything to anybody. [2]

It was sent to Angus' Cayman Islands company that he founded, then he claimed he did not benefit personally (yeah right).

Also see Christian Porter and his "blind trust" suddenly donating a million bucks into his failed defamation rape case against the ABC. [3] [4]
He says he has no idea where the money came from. Yeah right.

For more about Christopher Pyne, and how confected this French Frankenstein sub deal was, read the first 3 links I posted elsewhere earlier [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28580443

[2] https://www.michaelwest.com.au/barnaby-joyce-80m-valuation-d...

[3] https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/blind-trust-gift-...

[4] https://chaser.com.au/national/prime-minister-who-said-we-ca...
Recently bought a Switch dock new on Amazon. What showed up was in a manilla envelope bubbled wrapped. The power adapter was hilariously fake to my eye but plenty of consumers wouldn’t notice. Here are images of a genuine Nintendo a/c adapter vs the counterfeit version:

https://ibb.co/qkK3mWm
https://ibb.co/d7qGvLd
It likely also depends on the company itself and where they’re at in their lifecycle when it comes to this stuff.

When I set up my original laptop (a MacBook Pro) for my current job I asked them if I should set up a new Apple ID or what.

They said to do whatever I wanted but that people mostly just used their personal ones so they could easily text and make calls and all that from their machines.

I asked someone in the C-Suite a question about our antivirus and he said he didn’t know, he never got around to installing it (years later I got him to finally encrypt his damn drive).

The same guy got us all to install steam on the company laptop to do a random end of day hour of gaming when it was relatively quiet. That would not fly today.

Fast forward a few years and now we’re less startup-like and more corporate and there are very clear official rules about how to set up encryption, what the mandatory corporate antivirus is, certificates, MFA and password rules and expiration policies, and a Meraki router in each office that is actively and seriously monitored (to the point that I gave them a heads up before wiping and resetting 4 laptops in one day and putting them on WiFi to download what I needed to get them up and running again to avoid worrying anyone).

I’ve always had a personal laptop, but I could’ve easily fallen into the trap of using the work laptop for everything back in the early days.

These days we have real HR, real security teams, serious network policies, semi-regular external pen tests, etc. That makes it easier to remember that this is a job and personal stuff doesn’t belong on corporate hardware.

Back in the day, some people would also clone their work setup (VPN, PKIs, ssh keys, etc) on their home computers to avoid having to carry their laptops home every day in case of an incident.

These days that’s a fireable offense (as it should be, there are times when my work laptop holds many millions of dollars in clients’ IP, plus millions of our own IP, and PII that’s subject to GDPR and CCPA regulations).

I found it easier to be lax with my work laptop usage back in the earlier days when things felt less serious and structured.

These days, I filter my jokes and I don’t screw around on the company laptop, and both feel like parts of a natural evolution of the workplace, if that makes sense.
Source for this? Searching for "Hardest working in show business" without quotes turns up something relating to an entertainer, and searching it with quotes also returns a bunch of entertainment-related matches.
I'm using an old Samsung candy bar phone, with no camera, no internet, and no apps. I have zero fear of it being hacked.

Some day I'll be forced into a smart phone, but it hasn't happened yet. When it does, I hope that phone is running Genode or Fuchsia.
That so? Why was the definition changed after mRNA was being forced into people?
This is perfect. Thank you.
Sorry, I was responding to the “not expressed so much in code I can look at” point. All these things should be expressed in code nowadays. I’m sure some Makefiles are excessively complex - and Terraform and K8s manifests surely as well - but you should hopefully be able to hunt down some good ones.
Alright. I've setup a BTC address at 3DLkSNkWugYUzh5A5WyhB5J9untA9sUrDX.
HI Gus_massa,
I will share the website and video link in one or two days
Highly recommend Turbo Forth when coding on the TI-99/4A.
OK, I'm not a Go programmer so was struggling to figure out what was going on, until reading that the "canonical" date for formatting is essentially:

01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700

I actually think that's a really good idea. Sure, it may easier to remember "YYYY-MM-DD" than "2006-01-02" at first, but I think it helps a lot in many other cases, e.g. you don't need to remember what is exactly meant by MM and MMM and MMMM, you could just create your format string as "January 2, 2006" or "Jan 2, 2006".
It's quite unlikely there's a single link sending the traffic; that would be super easy to block. Most likely this is used to either hide the command server or the actually compromised servers. While symmetrical load can be quite obvious, it's less so if we're talking about 2000 links sending at 20 mb/s each. Especially when those links also have legitimate traffic.
After the second Avenger's movie (Age of Ultron) I found the quality seemed to increase and became fresher and less repetitive (Guardian's of the Galaxy, Thor Ragnarok, Spider-Man Homecoming).

But still if you didn't like the first 8 movies, you probably won't like the next 14 movies.

But I still highly recommend Thor Ragnarok. Even as a standalone movie. Especially if you didn't like the first two Thor movies.
Great read, thank you for posting that.
> This would be cool because you can then apply it to more general sorts of things, like human brains.

I would expect that to fall apart because the underlying mechanics are different; we know what errors converting between base 2 and 10 look like, but I think it's pretty far from obvious that the same principles extend to whatever everyone's favorite biological neural network uses to execute mathematics. You could do the same kinds of analysis, and it would tell you something interesting probably, I just wouldn't trust inferences made on the basis of lessons learned from digital computers.
> Walmart Plus

Is that US-only?
> Personally, I'm willing to pay...

Unfortunately, the consumers who matters is the rather less well off one who is making decisions based on how much money they have in their bank account today. A number which is rarely large, if the stats are to be believed.

I agree with the sentiment. But I'm overpaid. Most people aren't willing to double their expenses on something because they want to support a political outcome. They would quickly run out of money.
Civil and commercial penalties would be a start
It does scale. People have been writing what other people do in books and newspapers for centuries and spreading the info to millions of people

I see it as what right do you have to prevent me from sharing my experiences and memories and what right do you have do prevent me from augmenting that memory?

Taken to an extreme your POV seems like it would ban paper. Why I am allowed to take notes about what someone is saying other than in my brain? We should ban paper! Oh, I replaced paper with a computer. Oh, I used a computer to do speech recognition and record the notes. Oh, I videod the speech. What if I augment my brain. People have long been working on making chips to help people with brain damage. What if they get to the point those chips have flawless memory?

I get those are hypotheticals, but they help to think about what's the underlying principles. Today I can walk down the street and live stream everything I see so it's not like we aren't there already at some degree.

I also saw some people brought up they're in a "consent" state. I don't know of any consent states that prevent videotaping without consent. If they did, all security cameras would be illegal. I do know at least one state prevents audio recording without consent. I suspect that won't last. For one because everyone will have a video camera + mic so at some point the state will catch up to how people behave rather than try to stop them. For 2 because given enough processing and framerate I suspect you can extract audio from video (). For 3 you could use lip readers (or trained AI) to extract conversation from video.

() https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vib...
In Seattle no one dares take on Boeing
As someone who codes stuff by myself a lot and needs to pick up tools I've noticed a lot of the knowledge feels like it might come through oral tradition. Handed from developer to developer.
Places have learned which way through the tools cause the least problems and will have an informal community of practice around tools - where you can just quickly ask someone something that may have seemed too trivial to the tool creator to put in the docs.
I dictated the domain for our home automation system to our early-20s cleaner ("dictionaryword dot dictionaryword"), and after a few minutes she asked me "what do you usually Google to get there?".