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This sounds totally foreign to me. In the industrial world, American equipment is pretty good quality. Japanese also. And German, Italian, and French.

Chinese is cheap but their machinery is generally not very good. They screw up all sorts of stuff: wrong bearings, designs are copied but not always thoroughly thought out, weld issues, poorly programmed PLCs, incorrect wiring, poor metals quality control, dangerous safety implementations, the list goes on and on. Some bigger manufacturers are getting better there.

But places like Turkey and Korea have a nice balance of technically "good enough" and cheaper than the Euro/American products, though Korean machines have gotten more expensive and are technically very sophisticated.

The idea that anyone building a factory would turn to China for technically sophisticated machinery is interesting and would be a quick way to get fired in industry. China has gotten a lot better over the years, but I think a lot of people forget that a lot of what happens in China is assembly, not necessarily manufacturing of the subcomponents, which is where much of the actual value add is. If you do get machinery made in China, you look for those who use as much European, Japanese, Korean, or American parts as possible.
Going from being the recommended way to do something into being deprecated in under 2 years is such hard deprecation whiplash they're going to make Google jealous.
Exciting news for Halo: Infinite on this front, the Xbox folks can join you as long as they’re cool with playing against the mice and keyboards.

https://www.pcgamer.com/halo-infinite-will-let-you-use-your-...

And maybe more importantly, LAN multiplayer actually exists in case of ISP problems, server outage, or trying to play the game in 20 years when the official servers are long gone.
You can apply that logic to almost anything people use as a vice or get physically/psychologically addicted to
The simple solution could be that POSIX defines that if the output has a leading slash, it references a path where the command inputted can be found. Any other output is informational in nature only and has no standard texts.
This is the thing that perplexes me with the people complaining about lockdowns as being some kind of evil government control.

Who does a lockdown benefit? People going to work creates revenue for the government, people going to shops creates revenue for the government, people going travelling creates revenue for the government. If people aren't paid or aren't paying for goods/services, they aren't paying taxes, which isn't good for the government. In fact while people are at home (at least in Australia), the government has been paying living allowances, which certainly doesn't benefit the government. No one benefits from people staying at home, other than the people who don't get ill.
Wait, let me get this straight, you're incapable of evaluating a product without holding it in hand?

Something a toddler can do, say select between two cupcakes without eating them, you're incapable of?

Your keystrokes haven't been worth much so far, but I do welcome silence from people who not only lack the faculties to make basic observations, but attempt to find fault in others for doing so...

Of course, you'll reply to this and explain why such a basic shortcoming is actually a good thing! At least that would be par for the course...
> I mean, I too read and like Snow Crash

That's my take on it too. I don't really feel the metaverse in Snow Crash was something that I'd like to replicate. I mean, it's a cool idea, but that world is not one that I'd intentionally try to make.

Whether or not we are on our way that direction is another question entirely...
> debugging undefined behaviour because they used the wrong combination of integer bit lengths.

It's a function of debugging time which is a function of the programmer's skills. I almost certainly fall into the Python subset though :/
That is a bit of a mis-statement. Apple was in trouble at that time, but it was not on the brink of a bankruptcy (despite the constant use of the word "beleaguered' by the press), and Microsoft's investment did not materially affect Apple's ability to continue. The investment was intended as a show of faith from Microsoft (and turned out to be a good investment).

The far more important part of that announcement was the commitment of Microsoft to continue development of Microsoft Office for the Mac. That was the single biggest symbol that Apple was going to continue. Without Office the Mac was likely doomed to an ever smaller nitch, and everyone knew it. That one commitment on Microsoft's part cemented the Macintosh's place as a big player, and kept Apple from dwindling to the point where bankruptcy would have been a real worry.
Curious, what do you find so bad about them?
I wish they would make docker and external monitor possible on an iPad. VSCode for iPad + docker that is shipping with it + VSCode Remote that runs dev. environment in that docker would solve all the developers requirements (except for power).
As I said in another comment: it is like aerospace or automotive. There were barely any regulations in 1950s. Regulators take time to catch up. But they do.

Re Google: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google. The whole switch to Alphabet isa direct result of anti-trust and the risk of forced split. Safe harbor and GDPR are direct effects of regulation. The fact that Google is sending me emails with info about third parties they share my data with is a direct effect of regulation. Google News was on the news pretty often over the years.

Reasonably, digital business can’t anymore be done without worrying about regulation.
> We have general purpose databases. They're called filesystems. You can literally store anything and everything you like, and hardware is ever-shrinking in cost and performance.

And they're even more limited than relational databases when it comes to the ability to scale out, or have good consistency semantics without deadlocks. Just implementing a basic mutex on a (general) filesystem is nigh-on impossible. And while AFS is impressive, there still aren't really any true master-master filesystems, much less filesystems that can autoscale.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!

I guess it's not surprising that one of Zuck's heroes growing up was the first Emperor of Rome. It's true, look that up. It says a lot about the guy. I mean who saw Rome and thought I want to be that murdering little jerk?
I cannot think of a scenario in which the metaverse is a tangible benefit for society and humanity. To me this is highly sofisticated escapism and may seems benign today, but in 10-15 years, if it catches on, will be very scary.

Even tho Mark believe he's doing the right thing here, to me this metaverse thing is evil.
AFAIK, the situation is totally different for non-US tax residents (for those without a tax treaty with US anyway).

Dividends are taxed at a flat 30% rate. Capital gains are not taxed by the US. At least that's my situation.

Companies that pay heavy dividends are a substantially less attractive buy in my case.
I made a tool like this for our team a while back, and made it available for free: https://decidedly.so

Would love to hear your thoughts or anyone else's.

(Fun aside: I ended up implementing the Ford Johnson algorithm to minimize the number of comparisons, explanation here: https://github.com/decidedlyso/merge-insertion-sort )
Meth was legal until the 70s, society functioned. The current problem is another side effect of the war on drugs

https://www.history.com/topics/crime/history-of-meth
The Alpha variant of COVID-19 was strongly suppressed by the vaccines that were approved in the US, and also the others globally.

Since around early Summer Delta has been the dominant variant, which is extremely more transmissible.

Even if vaccinated, Delta still retains effective transmutability, though (maybe?) to a reduced degree even for fully vaccinated individuals.

Since we still don't have sufficient tests to do blanket systematic tests of the entire population on a regular basis, it's extremely difficult to find asymptomatic cases. I've never been notified of an exposure, and have not had symptoms that I could attribute to COVID, thus haven't ever been tested during the entire pandemic.

For all I know, the vaccines could be effective and I might have had an asymptomatic case from someone who's not using WA notify (Washington state's notification app system) and would never know it.

I worry about the risk of spreading the disease to those who are not yet able to be vaccinated, which will soon thankfully include ages 5+ in the US; but that still doesn't allow for providing strong resistance and immune system training to the youngest children.
I've really cut down on paper towel usage and I used to use a lot due to having several small animals who are entirely too prone to accidents. I found it best to keep a box of a few dozen small cloths that I got as a bundle, and a small hamper nearby that I throw the dirty ones into, which also happens to be near the washing machine.

I end up doing quite a lot of washing of said rags, but it's far more economical than the paper towels ever were and quite a bit more convenient in general to boot.
"So this was a once ever event"

Nuclear war is also a once-ever event, so wr shouldn't worry about it,right?
The Flynn effect is now going in the opposite direction and I don't think it was a good indicator of intelligence anyway because intelligence is more than just IQ. [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29033354
Kind of like warming since the end of the last glacial period 10,000 years ago.
In the UK, we like to say it's due to Brexit. Not saying it is or it isn't by the way.
Honestly, everything! I just think that, if it's on your site, it should be in your voice.

I've always wanted to know a bit about the algorithms putting, and then keeping, stories on the front page.

I also understand if there are certain details you don't want to call attention to because you don't want others gaming the system.
FANG was created by the stocks analyst guys, i.e Jim Cramer, to reflect high growth tech stocks. Apple wasn't even in it originally and got added later and became FAANG. So it has almost nothing to with your reasons. Check Microsoft's growth since 2017 and its on par with or exceeds others.
Thank you for such extended answer. I do have HDMI on it, so I guess it will have to wait until next hardware refresh cycle.
I can't believe I forgot that one.
"Ultrasonic" is by definition above 20,000 Hz. According to wiki[0] an ultrasonic toothbrush typically operates on a frequency of 1.6 MHz.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic_toothbrush
> That’s what happened in Portugal, after drug decriminalization — drug consumption there went up significantly (with exception of heroin, which went down, but it also went down in other European countries at the same time which did not decriminalize it). Full on legalization will increase consumption even higher.

...Do you have sources on this? My awareness of Portugal's situation is basically the opposite of that, ascertained via [1][2][3] et al. I'm interested in dissenting information if it's available. I also wonder why it is that the assumption is "more drug use" == "bad" when the range of things that constitute 'drugs' is so wide - from alcohol to cannabis to lsd to cocaine, there's a ton of delta between the effects (sociological and personal) of use.

[1] https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-po...
[2] https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...
[3] https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/greenwald...
It’ll fix itself because capitalism will find a solution to bring prices down.
Scientists have never claimed that survival of the fittest is sufficient for development. bwo.life sets up a strawman to tilt against. A waste of time.
It's also not necessarily competing with meatspace. It's competing with other technologies that connect remote people together where there is no meatspace option. And it's all going to serve the purpose of selling influence over the users.
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IIRC the broad conclusion was that "experts" are really specialized, whereas predicting political developments requires a broader awareness. Hedgehogs and foxes.
There are no bottlenecks. Just bad planning and cost-cutting that resulted in lack of goods.
Power savings is complicated. A Pi board is going to have a minimum power usage with the CPU only being a portion. A lower clocked CPU on a Pi -1 might reduce peak power usage but might not get much savings at idle vs a comparably configured Zero. The Zero would also have the option of underclocking for peak power savings with the ability to spin back up to work faster to return to idle faster. Don't forget disabling board components can yield baseline power savings on Pis [0].

[0] https://mlagerberg.gitbooks.io/raspberry-pi/content/5.1-powe...
Companies should stockpile where they are most vulnerable. I'll give an example. I make (assemble) my own bullets (cartridges) for target shooting.

There are 4 parts: primer, powder, bullet and casing. The casing is the most resilient because I can pick them up and reuse them. The bullet is probably the second most resilient, because in a pinch, I can get molds and pick up and melt down lead and make them. The powder is also pretty resilient because there are multiple manufacturers and all kinds of powder per manufacturer that would work, I would just have to adjust the drop (amount) for the new powder. Primers are the least resilient, because it's hard to replace and also competing manufacturers who make pre-assembled cartridges also need them, so I would certainly make sure I had plenty of those.

Of course, even with all that, there's no way of knowing how long the shortage will last. We're going on a year plus now, and who would have anticipated that?
dogman, thank you for the heads up about this social-cybersecurity group. It does seem related, and I'll be sure to check them out. Lately, someone has also mentioned m3aawg.org, which also seems adjacent.

Personally, I do think the field has a lot to learn from cybersecurity. From my POV, integrity work has three different 90's ancestors: web forum moderation,email/search engine antispam work, and cybersecurity mindsets like risk mitigation rather than risk elimination.

As for the PR stuff -- fair enough! We're all trying to do the best we can with the skills we have. Not every decision will be the right one. Maybe the name was one of those.

I hope you check back in with us in 6-12 months. Once you can judge us more by our work over time, I hope we will have earned your respect.
Why is that? they arent forced to "buy" at gunpoint.
What training, what experience?
Always think burn-out.
Has to be something you would miss if you couldn’t do it anymore
Without commenting on what Debian should do about this, I've pretty much given up using `which` myself.

Since `which` is an external command (it's built into some shells, but not bash), it doesn't know about aliases, shell functions, or builtin shell commands.

I've found that bash's built-in `type` command (with its various options) does whatever `which` does, and often does it better.

I also use `command -v foo >/dev/null` to detect whether the command `foo` exists -- for example:

if command -v less >/dev/null ; then
export PAGER=less
fi

I suppose I could also use `type` for the same purpose.

It would be nice if `type` and/or `command` had an option to check whether a command exists without printing anything, but having to add `>/dev/null` is only a minor annoyance.
> Your drug use can't put me in the ICU.

Take this to its logical conclusion, please. It's the big bang's fault!
Codecademy and Treehouse are both great platforms that I've used and recommend.

If you're looking for a great free intro to programming, I recommend "Learn to Program", available at https://pine.fm/LearnToProgram. It's concise, introduces the reader to a very approachable programming language (Ruby), and geared toward total beginners. Coincidentally, I went on to work at the same company as the author later down the line which was pretty cool.
"mask manufacturing subsidies for masks nobody even bought? Who could have foreseen that demand spike?"

The entire industrial capacity of USA, country of 300 million people, could produce zero Meltblown, so it could make zero masks. Do you think it's acceptable?

People talk about conflict with China while we depent on them for toilet paper to wipe out butts, it's like a mentall ilness.
This looks great! :D
Except new users are coming from other platforms that have a "which", and also new new users have to learn the commands and it helps if they have intuitive terminology like "which" instead of opaque names like "command -v" which at a glance I'd assume fetches version info of the given command.
How is your phone number not a trust-centric field?
Have two engines.
ah yeah, looks like it was that. I never would have noticed.
There are so many problems with this post.

* Implying a connection between IQ and brain size

* Implying IQ is a measure of a person's worth to society

* Implying people below some magic IQ threshold that renders them unworthy are being "given" resources
Sharing Her Passion for Chemistry and Textbooks
The whole point of paper towels, or disposable nappies, is removing the labour cost of cleaning them.

My ex-wife was a stay at home Mom for her religious reasons, and was determined to be the "best" Mom, only healthy food, no TV or devices, cloth nappies etc.

Once we hit kid #3, the time needed to launder cloth nappies wasn't viable with two other kids on the go. I encouraged her to give disposables a go, and she was hooked, but very guilty about it.

But yeah, disposables saved us (well mainly her) many hours of scraping shit, stirring a giant bucket of nappies with Napisan, washing them, hanging them out in the sun to let the UV sort the stains etc.

So while paper towels are technically non-essential, I'm reminded of the old sarcastic comment that "Linux is free, if your time has no value".
A thing on HN you will see frequently is that someone will be told that X happened and they’ll explain confidently post hoc why.

Occasionally, they will misunderstand this as Y happening and they’ll explain that.

In the best universe, they will misunderstand X having happened as Y having happened and explain it even though Y did not happen.

The existence of this last characteristic makes me trust post hoc explanations very little. Explanations should make falsifiable predictions. It is easy to fit the facts with a false thesis.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005765
Skepticism is one thing. But it certainly appears that she continually gets snubbed.

After all this time the media, popular personalities, maker communities that espouse inclusivity didn’t once look at her work? Got the first mass produced Infinite Z printer to market - still skeptical? Got Chinese companies to comply to open source licenses - still skeptical? Makes a bunch of stuff - still skeptical?

Naomi certainly does seem right that all these communities are judging her on her appearance.
It doesn't function exactly like "which" because it's missing two key features: an intuitive name, and a million man-hours of experience being used.
The domestication part makes the most sense in my opinion.

However, I only see attempts to explain that genetically. Aren't there environmental factors that can influence this measure?
So as in “he’s lonely now and noticed that he didn’t learn how to build those relationships”?
Reminds me of a coworker that had a baby at the same time as me and my wife. He was shocked at how poorly ours was sleeping, as his slept all night. Then at the holiday party, we remarked to his wife how nice it must be. She laughed and laughed. Turns out she was getting up multiple times every night while he slept all night, oblivious.
> Cutting-edge (heh) technology 70,000 years ago was the stone blade as well as the earliest known primitive art

I think it's important to remember that technology is highly, highly iterative. It's not like if Elon Musk were born 70k years ago we'd have cavemen with electric cars.

In fact, if all of us were somehow warped back in time that far, I fear we'd be even worse off. We know how to roll fiber optic networks and write ML algorithms, but we'd starve before figuring out how to chase down an animal, or know which berries to eat.
> I'm sure they would have no problem deploying their own police forces and providing basic protections against anyone less than a military force who would try to just take their land.

Sounds like a militia.

Also, you don’t seem to be being taking seriously what it means not to have a legal system.

For example why are you talking about criminals? If there is no legal system, there are no criminals. A bunch of guys with AR-15s and pick up-trucks and walkie talkies really wouldn’t find it hard to displace a religious community who are relying on old hunting rifles, horse drawn buggies, and no wireless comms, especially since the Amish would have families to protect.
Is down regulation a form of protection? Or what is the driver behind the down regulation mechanism?
You're reading way too much into my analogy, but sure, go with your Hawaii version. It's an analogy, they are not exact, just, you know, analogies. To give you a sense of the idea.

Why not? You'd have to ask Frank Herbert for a definitive answer, but the next best is to read the books. There are many factions involved, the emperor is not actually in a position of absolute authority. The Great Houses, the Spacing Guild, Bene Geseret, Bene Tleilax and others also wield influence. There are checks and balances in place (by custom, by law, by force), and one of those is that the Emperor does not control Arrakis directly. It would put him in a position with too much power that the others (envious or desirous of semi-selfrule) would object to, probably violently. Arrakis is also a source of great wealth, and by giving it out to specific Houses, the Emperor is granting a favor (at least on the surface) and buying their allegiance.
I was really disappointed/anxious/upset over Zuckerberg's response to the liability question. As the CEO, how does he not immediately understand the intent behind the question? This is Facebook's most pressing current issue and he chose to stick his head in the sand and pretend that a VR vision and rebrand will whisk the problems away?

Or I guess here's the reality of it: Zuckerberg, I can only assume intentionally, has seemed to master the art of slipping his way out of tough questions non-stop. He lies to governments, he lies to users, he lies to advertisers, he lies to tech journalists; all behind the vail of a vague notion of where Facebook's perceived* value is. I have never, ever seen him get pinned down - this is not a compliment, he deserves to face real and tough criticism (regulation too), but I can only guess that every audience that's questioned him exists on a scale of ignorant to apathetic (on the apathetic side of the scale, see for instance how Ben ends this interview with a quip on touching base in 10 years; Ben's no dummy, he probably just grew exhausted from Zuckerberg's non-stop slippery, indirect answers. Zuckerberg stuck to his ,,human" script.).

* I stopped participating in social media years ago and my quality of life has skyrocketed (I'm here on HN to talk with others in my industry, so I view this as work-related). No one in their right mind can look at their 10-year vision of a metaverse and truly believe that Facebook will be the herald of this new economy.