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> > I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insance.

> They start at $400, right? Only really, really budget Android phones come in much under that.

More like 489€. I don't know what's apple most sold devices for this year though.

I have an old not-budget phone (z5c) from 6 years ago that is still going strong. Stuck on android 7.1, bought used for 250€ 4 years ago.

I am still living in a world where a 200/250 phone should be okay, things might have changed.

But we were talking about the whole offer, not the least expensive phone.
I recently built my latest server in FreeBSD just to get some hard experience with it...

...and I love it! Documentation is generally excellent, readable, and centralized. There are only a dozen or two processes running on a fresh system without much of anything installed, and idle CPU usage is the zeroyist zero I've ever seen for a server OS. The directory structure in `man hier` is actually used, and it feels like the surface area of what I have to learn to be proficient is sooooooooooo much smaller. It's not perfect (home and end keys don't work consistently) but definitely a breath of fresh air.

Plus, many programs (ezjail, for example) integrate tightly with ZFS, which is also awesome. I know linux finally got quality ZFS support but BSD (along with solaris) are OG

Plus, now I am learning a great deal about how MacOS is built.

Funny enough, I have a DJ controller (Pioneer XDJ-XZ) that uses BSD for its operating system. So it seems to be a great embedded audio OS as well!
> Legislation to bar internet companies from favoring their own products on their platforms is gaining more support, in what could be a potential threat to the business models of tech giants like Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.

> Bipartisan Senate legislation set to be unveiled on Thursday would prohibit dominant platforms from favoring their own products or services, a practice known as self-preferencing. It would also bar these dominant platforms from discriminating among business users in a way that materially harms competition.

Non-paywalled link: https://archive.is/ebuNh
People keep saying we can feed 10 billion people. We can. But at what cost to the diversity of biological systems?

It’s not popular to say but we need to stabilize population growth and stop encroaching on natural habitats and put a brake on consumerism.

The developed world has in many parts allowed previously used areas to revert to a natural state. However in high pop growth countries the opposite is happening as both thd developed world and developing world both need as well as demand more resource extraction. We're depleting ocean fisheries, contributing to soil erosion, having water shortages, etc.

Stabilize populations to 1960s or whatever, but we need to do the same as we’re doing for pollution set a benchmark and aim for it. Get those people educated, provide them with prophylactics and get them out of a pop explosion curve and get to ZPG like Italy and Japan (US as well if we didn’t import pop growth).
but is he channeling his Rich Dad or his Poor Dad?
And then you get far less traffic than you would if your product was listed on Amazon.

In the traditional brick and mortar situation you can open your own shop next to the Walmart or Target or whatever and have roughly the same visibility. In the online space though rolling your own shopify store is a massive handicap similar to if you weren't allowed to build within 5 miles of a large box store for fear of competition.

A huge number of people literally only shop on Amazon or at least look at Amazon before other locations because they believe it to be representative of the marketplace at large. Maybe that's their loss, but when you also consider Amazon's huge logistics network that nobody else is allowed to use.
Would anyone who downvoted this comment please write why you did? It seems well-reasoned, factually correct, and does not violate any of the HN guidelines.
ECS and OOP are sides of the same coin, although apparently it is only visible to those that read SIGPLAN papers.

"Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming"

https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Clemens-Szyperski/dp/0201745720

One of the first publications on the matter.
True but mostly meaningless. XSS and MiTM allow attackers to take over and pretend to be the user after a legit user logs in. The attacker cannot store the credentials and use them later, but they have full access in the moment.
I still can't believe people actually click on affiliate/tracking links. I get things based on Wirecutter reviews occasionally, but I always go to the product separately so it's not tracked.
No nation ever defaults on sovereign debt, not in the age of Fiat (aka fake) money..

They just create more of their fake err fiat money to cover the debt, sure it is worthless but they "paid it off"

See: the 1 Trillion Dollar Coin....
Michelin Airless
Probably doesn't have Firefox's infuriating tab manager that throws an idiotic "well golly you closed a tab!" popup over the next tab you intend to open.
You mean all of those houses that need to be tear down as they deteriorated to the point of ruin?

China has so such vast reserves of dollars that they can crash US $ value and cause international panic. Meaning that at any stage you $ saving have chance to be worth nothing.

The BTCs do have value and its a cryptographic promise that cannot be broken. People forget that when using all of those tired old arguments.

BTC is also a sign of new generations knowing that the game is stacked and unfair, and they refuse to play it. BTC is no a problem is a sign of broken system.
>As a brazilian I don't believe for a second that these are actual efforts unless Brazil (holding 1/5 of all planet's biodiversity alone) is held accountable enough to see economical sanctions being enforced by more developed countries. I can't think of other last resorts efforts other than economical ones and Brazil would surely listen to those if they were enforced right.

How do you feel about external countries dictating your government policy? Often this won't go the way you want.

Is Mercosur unpopular in Brazil? Eliminating it would be quite costly to the world.
https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/339104
Three and a half ways of running Docker on Windows and macOS
While I get your argument, Apple probably just doesn't give a shit about competing in the ultra cheap phone market, they've found their "niche" (for lack of a better term) and will probably stay the way they are for the foreseeable future.

Also, nowadays, most people (the vast majority of which don't think the same way as people on HN do) see a $400 phone as a compelling budget option[0], maybe even "low-end" if you'd go so far as to say that.

0. from personal experience with the iPhone SE2, it's a genuinely amazing phone for the price (sporting the same processor as the iphone 11 pro!) and suffers only in the battery department. Touch ID is also a great selling point for it.
Wasn’t there a vitamin that humans produce when exposed to UV light that seemed to make the chance of getting infected a lot smaller? But hey, that’s not expensive patented unavailable medication.
Skin cancer typically hits way after the age that most people have kids
I love reading all the speculative answers you're getting. Can anyone give something more solid? Like maybe an anthropoligist's POV?
People did and do wear clothing that covers all of their skin when outside for any period of time.
KeepassXC has built in db file merge support! It's hidden somewhere in the menus. I've never personally had to do something more complicated than "I added a new entry on two different devices before syncing" but it's worked well for me so far.
Always interesting to see the things hidden in games. When I was in the biz I was aware of many easter eggs, a lot of which are still unknown to the public.

For instance, this sign in GTA:SA has the word "TFT" on the back which is a reference to a secret video game "Illuminati": https://gta-myths.fandom.com/wiki/Signs_(GTA_SA)?file=Egg_8....
Chatting with Gandalf Using GPT
A tenured faculty member can still be fired for cause. I wouldn't assume that guy's job is safe.
Samsung has been experimenting with "stores" they have entire sections in a few Best Buys called "Samsung Experience Shop"

https://www.samsung.com/us/samsung-experience-shop/index.htm...

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-store/samsung-experienc...

Opening retail stores is a huge commitment and takes years of investment before you "might" see any returns. Samsung doesn't seem to want to take that risk. But I do agree, I recently switched most of my devices over to Apple products because they take care of their customers. And if I ever have an issue, there are 3 Apple stores within 25 miles of me.

I was recently on the Galaxy Fold subreddit and there was a user who had his $2,000 device fail. Samsung had him mail it in. It had then been two weeks with no communication at that point. Other users had the same experience with Samsung denying repairs for some of them after keeping the device for several weeks. That is completely unacceptable and slightly terrifying.
Hi HN, I made this simple interactive visualization using R package Highcharter which brings JS library Highcharts to R.

Robert Kiyosaki has been warning about an imminent market crash for almost two years. He is an influential person so many people tend to follow his advice. Unfortunately many of his market crash predictions were made at the bottom of the market. Perhaps this can be used to time the market? :)
The most important part of a developers job is not "create a business model", "figure out distribution" or "motivate founders to work harder". It is great if you can do those, but nobody expects a developer to do any of those things. If you feel the company is lacking in those aspects when you work there as a developer it means the rest of the company isn't pulling their weight and you ought to leave.

Of course if you want to run a business then all of those things are more important than knowing how to code, but for a developer they are not. Instead you should look for a place where those issues are already solved so that your work gets put to good use.
Do you mean, as in turning their broken rating system into a strategic advantage? Damn, that's pretty brilliant actually.
As commenters have noted this has been done before. Likely, the reason why this can't be "fixed" is that it's a result of the curse of dimensionality [1] in the statistical sense: more dimensions make it exponentially easier to separate the space.

This quote from the research suggest it as well, the error rate keep being divided by two while adding dimension (=interests) linearly:

> the formula estimated that ’12, 18, 22, and 27 random interests make a user unique on FB with a probability of 50%, 80%, 90%, and 95%, respectively’.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
Accountable to whom? To unelected bureocrats in administration?
With actual land use planning, the tension between production and conservation is a false dichotomy.

Second, agricultural products are already produced to meet needs

Third, the "reduce people" argument is almost always a losing one
Samila: Generative Art Generator
Why is that "the way it's supposed to be," and how is it going to improve my user experience? It just seems like unnecessary complexity to me.
Ventilators are nasty. Lots better than death, but they don't use them until that's the alternative for really good reasons.
Google is actively trying to kill the URL[1]. I'm not sure whether it's good or bad, but it is a goal of theirs to fundamentally change or eliminate the URL entry bar, yes.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/google-chrome-ends-i...
Also all kind of hats and clothing to protect from the sun. Desert dwellers wrapped themselves as best as they could.
CNN deliberate misinformation (Twitter thread)
> Not sure how that ties into the conversation?

Apologize, I mis-interpreted "speculators" as "investors".
I guess if you're interested in the opinions of college students and 23 year olds.

The real trick is finding an obscure forum on your topic. That keeps off the kids and the astroturf.
Seconding Carroll's "Biggest Ideas" as hard as I can. Really a fantastic gift to the world. Make sure you don't miss the Q&A videos; there's one for each regular installment, about equal in length and content, and in addition to clarification he'll discuss more speculative ideas and some very interesting tangents for each subject.
> Now the only advantage of a university is signaling where you got accepted, networking with similar people for future jobs, becoming socialized by a culture of university-types, and showing you have the discipline to jump through 4 years of fairly arbitrary hoops. There is value to this, but is it worth $200k+?

Yes this is absolutely worth 200k if you do it at the right school. Getting the signals and network is the only way to get a white collar job.
I rarely (maybe never?) saw any journalist say that all ivermectin is horse medicine. However, people did take horse medicine because of the similarly irresponsible use of ivermectin as another weird political side-taking thing, the same way people bought UV products to use on themselves or ingested disinfectant. So, I think the criticism is mostly fair.
iMessage and sms are the same app though, my android using friends can text me all the same
So is esbuild vs parcel a bit of an accidental proxy battle between go and rust?
"dictating" is a landmine word, and almost certainly causes an arguement
> Half the reason people buy iPhones is to show other people they aren't poor

While I'm pretty sure you jest here, this simply isn't true. iMessage, FaceTime, consistency with family and friends, and the (whether founded or not is up to you) trust in a machine that'll last you quite a few years and "just work" is the main reason people buy iPhones.

Not saying that this is my thought process (i have my own reasons for owning one) but it pretty much sums up what the majority of people think.

That's just accounting for people who actually care about what phone they own, which you'd be surprised to find is actually a quite small percentage...
A SIER model for simulating ransomware attacks and recovery
This is a good analogy. Quite frequently I think "if only more companies did a better job at educating users instead of dumbing things down." But then I remember a lot of users don't want to be educated about things they're not interested in. They just want things to work so they can move on to whatever else they have going on in their lives.
It's not a false dichotomy, there's just some slack in the current system. Eventually, no matter how hard you try, you hit a point where population and conservation are incompatible. We just don't know what that point is.
Or easily write your own dev server. Once you use the API instead of the CLI, if you have any experience with Express or Connect it's trivial.
In addition to what other commenters have said about not throwing your vendors under the bus this kind of hand wringing is why they don't trust the public with the more specific info.

If they tell you that the some part will wear out 5% faster on the planes with out of spec parts then every two-bit who took an engineering class once upon a time will be writing medium posts and creating youtube analysis videos with clickbait titles that overblow things and make it look like the world is ending when in reality it just means that the plane operators will have to inspect the part more and the end of life operators will have to replace it more.

From the Pinto to the 737 MAX the lesson that the public has repeatedly taught corporate America is that when there is a problem the narrative matters more than reality and it is to their best advantage to control it as much as they possibly can and because there are big bucks at stake they learn the lesson and do just that.

We reap what we sow.
I think it's really hard to properly define "functional programming" concretely, but I'll partially agree. If all a language takes from FP is:

- make composition ergonomic, idiomatic, and easy (including the usual iterator map/reduce, etc.)

- let the type system protect you (including nullability)

Then you've already got the most important strengths, in my opinion.
Interesting question! Stumps me tbh. But sounds more like a "get rich quick by screwing others" dad :)
I will give my own : I believe skin cancer and hayfever are diseases of 'modernity' ( I don't have the proper English term right now ). Office life.

If I just go outside often enough as soon as it is nice ( March, April ), I get no sunburn nor hayfever.
Dark skin gives you some protection from sun, but not nearly enough - somewhere around SPF 10 IIRC.

Increased melanin level helped, but didn’t solve the problem. It’s evolution driven, so it gave people living in more sunny places enough of protection, so they can reproduce.
I don’t remember the details, but based on my skill level I know it wasn’t anything novel. At the time I was learning my first programming language, Perl. IIRC I had a Perl daemon running on my computer that accepted an http request, did a reverse dns on the origin and sent the hostname in a net send message. Some of my coworkers used Sun workstations. I could get notifications from them but obviously couldn’t send them a net send message in response.
>> who if push comes to shove will just have to accept that their bonds are worthless if it is ever legislated to be thus.

Yea, the history of the world is full of populations just accepting their governments new policies to screw them over..

There are never any consequences to that, the people just shrug and say them the breaks and go about their day

<<sarcasm>>
GitHub's CI pipelines are behind GitLab? My lord, here I was thinking about moving to GitHub Enterprise when our subscription expires because everything in GitLab feels like an unfinished weekend project. Seems like nobody can get anywhere near the functionality of Jenkins.
> If we can train a car to drive, we can certainly train a computer to find and click faces in cod.

But we can't really train a car to drive yet, and it seems unlikely that the full problem (i.e. Level 5) will be solved in the next decade or so.
Who wants to live forever? Big tech and the search for eternal youth
You're absolutely right! I could be paid to recommend Mullvad and my praise of it should be taken with a grain of salt!

The point I was trying to make is that it is not a small provider, it is well rated by reputable privacy reviewers such as privacytools.io - who do not use affiliate link or take payment from providers - so there is no reason it should be ignored by Sven Taylor. I'm less trying to praise this particular VPN than to show that that review website is somewhat "provably" an affiliate link farm.
We could handle 10 billion if we consumed as people consumed in 1901, but not at the rate middle class people consume in even middle of the road developed countries.

Japan, Italy and the US are "reducing the people" naturally. We're there already. Yes our pop happens to be "growing" but that's due to others exporting their excess to us.
Yeah, we actually went through this with Redux itself.

When Redux was first released in 2015, it was deliberately designed to be minimal and extensible. Other Flux libraries at the time had various forms of async handling built in (support for dispatching actions via promises, etc). Dan and Andrew wanted to avoid locking users in to any single form of async handling [0], so the middleware API was designed to let users pick their preferred async approach and syntax.

Similarly, the store setup process was entirely left up to users to add whatever middleware, enhancers, and other configuration users felt was appropriate. The docs were also always unopinionated about preferred file structures, how to organize logic, etc.

Over time, it became very clear that users _wanted_ more specific guidance about how to structure their apps, and wanted Redux itself to build in default setup and configuration.

As a result, we wrote a "Style Guide" docs page [1] that lists our recommended best practices, and created our official Redux Toolkit package [2] as the standard way to write Redux logic. RTK was designed to solve the most common problems and use cases we saw in the ecosystem [3], including store setup, defining reducers, immutable update logic, and even creating entire "slices" of state at once.

RTK has been extremely successful - we routinely get users telling us how much they enjoy using RTK [4], even if they disliked "vanilla Redux" previously.

We also recently released a new "RTK Query" API [5] [6] in RTK 1.6, which is a built-in data fetching and caching API inspired by libraries like Apollo and React Query. Again, similar theme - we looked at what users were doing and what pain points they were running into, and built an official API to help address those use cases.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/09/presentation-might...

[1] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide

[2] https://redux-toolkit.js.org

[3] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/10/redux-starter-kit-...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/px6kxy/redux_toolk...

[5] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/rtk-query/overview

[6] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-7-rtk-query-b...
Fair enough. He suggested that injecting bleach could be a good idea.
That's an uncharitable view of "controlling". Is the guardrail on a highway controlling you?

Any form of media past a certain size can be used by enemies of a country to influence elections. The internet just makes it easier to do so without a physical presence.

I don't see why Facebook wouldn't be expected to make some attempt to avoid that.
Clothing. Part of the issue is we have a bikini-body culture and the money to spend on sunscreen.

But if you look at people who spend a lot of time in the sun professionally, they rely on long sleeve shirts and pants to protect themselves.
This could be the difference between suicidality and completion of suicide. Firearms are linked to an increase of completed suicides but not attempts, which could explain the US's higher rate.
nice try, hacker!
Yes, I suppose it implies that gigantic wealth gaps in a single society are a negative thing.

You are imposing your moral model on the world. Your moral model is "the system works fine and anyone suffering from it should not try to alter the system in any way".
> People will pay more if it’s a better experience

Luxury does not mean expensive, though $ can be a proxy. It often is much more about feeling (relaxed, comforted), experience (end-to-end, straightforward), and status (“high-class”).

Samsung sells better phones for more $. Apple is much more about “if you don’t mind the price, we’ll take care of everything and it’ll be simple, comprehensive, and your friends will respect our product.”
I don't think most non-rust programmers know what ECS is.

ECS is a pattern to manage composable logic and shared behavior. very very loosely like splitting logic in to class level and object level.
I get the idea. I am not sure about the practical implications outside the individual advancements.

I have somewhat anecdotal evidence that the best production environment is composed of different people, in some part of your production you need "worker bees", and in architectural and research processes you need people with natural curiosity and experimental nature.

Even the author has some doubts of his argument in production.

>Shirking our Normal Work in favor of Extra might be more interesting, but it makes us shitty teammates at best, and unethical at worst.
I'm sure there are positives, but the UK's history is clearly not about freedom. The UK's history is subjugating a massive amount of people. So claiming that the UK has its historic achievements because of freedom is just blatant revisionism. You could definitely find some good things though.