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I'm sorry to say that. But you're wrong. Yes and no. It just the one side of the penny the author describe.

It's true. They have a lot of output. But, they are a lot. Just scale to this enormous count of students. If the author would just assume 2 percent of one year's graduates are good, it will be still more than with us here, where we also can - and fairly have to - assume these 2 percent, too.

Also, the author didn't consider the fact, that the pupils in schools are under such a pressure, they LEARN. They really learn to be able to study. They learn a lot but, they just memorize quite a lot without properly being able to transfer the gained knowledge into practical doing, because they are trained from the smallest on with memorizing the Chinese characters. They have a magnificent visual memory.
That's a problem, as it has been pointed out by the author.

But:
The author should have considered the massive amount of students abroad. They are doing very well abroad. They are used to learn and get everything memorized fast and see & learn the way western students work & learn. Been skilled the same things, they're are faster with memorizing.

When they finish here, a few stay, a few go back. The ones returned home, maybe go and teach others with their skills unintentionally in higher schools/universities.. or just go on and start working. They have an advantage against the ones who did not study abroad.

And so it goes. If you have a Chinese boy/girl, who did it in the exams and has the possibility to join the jin hua university - may be join it for a few semesters - and then go abroad for studies.. you will have a killer - one proud to be Chinese.
Of course... here too that 2 percent...

Just have a look at the publications.. authored or co-authored at least by one Chinese student (judged by name) or professor. From the bests of educational places.

They already have the supremacy in fastest knowledge generation and made it an "import" thing, or just took it by espionage/do-not-so-good where they had the possibility to. They just don't tell it.
Just think of the ban of US to the silicon market. China started to develop on theirs own. And.. they have build like 2 exascale supercomputers which are both faster than the top 500 without any US technology. You can't do it without deeply understand what you do, or, do not have the money to get the proper people together. No matter where they come from. I think it's more to the direction of the first point "understanding".

And yes. There is a lot of furrr flying around. But in the end, it's the same with us.
I work with students, they become dumber and dumber from year to year. May be it's a symptom of Facebook usage.
I'm not a kernel developer and know very little about OSes. I watched this video thinking I woulnt get it and would find it boring. Within 2 minutes my mind is blown. Amazing Job.
That’s the beauty of custom keycaps and boards with customizable firmware! Almost every premium GMK, ePBT, etc. keycap set will come with a Caps Lock replacement key labeled Control. It’s lovely.
> I don't think it's expensive or a luxury item at all.

It's elite/niche so it costs more that regular things you can get off ebay.

I got my last TrackPoint Keyboard II Bluetooth 4Y40X49493 openbox (like new) for $40 shipped. It's silent, battery powered, slim, travels with me all the time.

At this pricepoint, I've a few similar ones, for when I need (say to use with my tablet) - quantity has a quality all its own

> or pay someone else to do it because otherwise it feels and sound like shit

I didn't waste more than a minute when I removed my $40 Thinkpad keyboard from its box.

> it works great, it feels great, it looks great, all by default.

Same, but how much did you pay? And how reasonable is it to get one for your tablet, and another one you'll leave in your car?
Could be. I don't believe the old fobs were bluetooth.

For what it's worth I also didn't mention that at least the old fobs also had an RFID in them that if the battery was dead you could just hold them up to certain spots on the car to open/drive it.
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allows farmers to save 20-40 hours per week and increase pasture utilization by up to 10%.
About the only things I care about in keyboards are:

1) Curved ergonomic / sculpt please. I am really shitty typist. Ergonomic however makes me suck less.

2) No funny layouts. Basically it has to be faithful replica of that old IBM keyboard.

3) It is full size with no small keys. Can sort of tolerate smaller F-Keys

I got no sense of satisfaction from that loud mech clicking. Tried it and gave back.
The gaming keyboards are a good choice because they're cheap. Sure they're ugly sometimes with annoying LED effects, but they're good for getting started before you decide to invest in something more expensive/fancy.

In my case, I've fallen in love with my Corsair gaming one with blue switches. The red backlight is ugly, but it's actually comfortable when used in a dark room.
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Holy cow - I had no idea what a mess the Tether situation was - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
This is how openbsd binary patches for the kernel work. The changed object files are shipped; the end system relinks a new kernel.
It's very odd, here in Australia they're very effective at it, very rarely do I walk past garbage piles.

I guess people in San Francisco just don't care enough to really push the council to solve the problem?
Who's desperate? Anyone can have the image whenever they want. The receipts, who cares? I don't want some crappy monkey profile pic haha. I was just speculating about the check mark.
And they won’t be for a while. That’s why he’s working on it still.
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In Canada they clear the snow/ice from the pavement in front of their own house. I've since heard it's (in at least some areas?) required though, which ruined the image a bit.

(And sort of odd isn't it? Instead of taxing you and providing you with this service, we'll require you to do it? Seems inefficient.)
> There is low demand for these boards, which means the price doesn’t need to go down at all.

Low demand keeps prices high? I guess I kind of understand what the author's point is, but that's a somewhat counterintuitive argument. It's not so much the low demand that keeps prices high; it would seem that low demand prevents the product from reaching a level of mass production that would exploit economies of scale which might lower unit costs.
Its sad that 1) so many people just throw trash on the steet, 2) there is no law enforcement preventing this behavior, 3) the city isnt paying any people (in my area the prisoners do it from the jail) and then 4) that it has come down to the residents to come up with their own pool of money to pay for this... every week you read stories of the human feces on sidewalks, public urination, needles left on sidewalks, public drug use, all this is without law enforcement action to stop it. Its up to the leadership of elected officials to allocate money and make decisions to stop this type of behavior, but from most of what I have read about the subject it seems that the elected officials want to condone and even encourage this type of plague going on in san francisco. Its up to the voters to vote for the right people to make these changes, but I would never want to live like that or in that type of environment personally. I think thats why you see an exodus of families leaving san francisco. (I lived/worked there for a year)
The letter M comes from the Egyptian "water ripple" hieroglyph: 𓈖
I wonder what it thinks of its descendants.
>> Coz it's my own money at stake I bill by the day.

That's orthogonal to what the parent was talking about.

You can't just say "I bill by the day" until the MVP is complete. Whoever is contracting you out will want a ceiling on how many days it's going to take. They don't have unlimited money or time. And once you give them that initial number of days for the MVP, congrats, you just made an estimate.
They make sense in an office setting : I have RSI, and random rubber dome keyboards in the office are painful. Some of them are good, some of them super bad, and to me, bad essentially means painful. So, I found one I liked, and stuck to it, until it started having problems. Then I tried to replace it.

Unfortunately, this particular model of noname office keyboard was no longer available, and out of stock at my office. I realized that I had to do something : find a keyboard which would last a very long time, and with known physical properties ( actuation force, travel distance, etc), so that if I had to replace it later, it would be possible, and very easy.

In the end, it seems like I want mx red(45 linear), a split keyboard, flat (no angle) , silent, and as low profile as possible. Problem solved, there's plenty of those on the market!
I just don't understand why throwing trash on the ground is tolerated. There is virtually no argument for why someone should need or be allowed to throw or leave their trash on the ground.

Most of us manage to get clothes on before we leave the house each day, and that's a lot more complicated than just putting trash into a bin (or god forbid, carrying it until you reach a destination which has a trash bin). So there is no excuse for littering.

I would impose very strict penalties for littering - namely forcing the one who is caught littering to spend two hours every day for a week, or even a month, walking the streets (and beaches or riverbanks or parks) and collecting trash.

If an alternative punishment must be provided, they could instead sit on the spot where they littered for a day, holding a sign which says "I'm a poorly trained human, and I throw my trash on the ground."
> If politics was a game of rock, paper, scissors:

It isn't, not even at a level of it being a useful metaphor, so anything based on the premise given is inapplicable to reality.

> Keep hoping some one, some where has some ideas -- actionable, reproducible, sustainable

Political organizing and policy entrepreneurship is highly context-dependent. Actionable ideas are plenty, but reproducing success with carbon-copy tactics, or even sustaining success with them, isn't all that likely. Deep knowledge of the decision-makers, stakeholders on all sides, and the respective interests, resources and constraints of each are needed, for any specific policy issue.

(If you have lots of resources yourself, you can avoid some of that by being less efficient but outgunning the opposition, of course.)
Crazy thought I has was what if you could make a supercooled wall to the point you could see through it then you could realistically only see it if you perturbed it and what you'd be able to see is the "wave" as the energy travels from the perturbation. Kinda like those anime shields. Maybe a little too crazy of a thought.
Parties don't just float candidates in elections. They also form policy, endorse, fund raise, lobby, etc.
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That's what happens when people just vote for their party for local government—politicians don't have good ideas or successful policies cause they don't have to to stay in office
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This resonates a lot with me. There will always be people smarter, richer and prosperous than you. Appreciate the fact that you are always going to be in a line where you'll have people better and worst than you.
Being able to motivate and make small consistent improvements is the key to being a better yourself.
Airline check-in desks, I think, is their reason for being. A lot of typing done there, 24/7, with customers that are about to miss their flight waiting in line. If the keyboard goes down, money can be lost. So they use keyboards that don't break.

The reliability of the keyboard doesn't matter for software engineers. You just get another $20 one out of the supply closet while you get your next cup of coffee.

(I used to be a big Topre keyboard fan and owned quite a few. I didn't buy them for reliability, though, I bought them because I liked them. That's not a good "enterprise" reason, though, which is why they're not standard-issue for software engineers.)
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You're not going to stop a junkie from shooting up (without a comprehensive, life-changing program). So barring that, you might as well teach them how to be more safe so they don't end up in a hospital spending your tax money for emergency care... or worse, dead somewhere and likewise then consuming public funds to deal with it.

[added] Since this is such a controversial topic, I would recommend reading about Portugal's approach to solving drug problems (hint, it has been quite successful(): https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-po...
Not to nitpick, but why does the coding language jump from Scratch to C++ ? Wouldn't kids find Python less infuriating that Scratch and less intimidating than C++ ?
Without more information this mindset is stuck where the web platform was maybe a decade or more ago. Roughly a dog or cat lifetime. Consider the list APIs at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API I'd be curious to know if anyone active on HN could actually say they have proficiency with the entire list. Professionally speaking I wouldn't call that a mess. I'd call it a largely unused and unexplored opportunity.
Heh, they do. Thanks a lot! I've read one or two years ago in a newsletter from him that they were running the last batch ever of RF cases.
VLC can stream the playback to my chromecast plugged into the tv perfectly. Streaming to the smart tv device itself is more hit or miss.
Could be vs. Is
> What I’ve discovered over time is that I’m some kind of peasant when it comes to typing.

You and me both. I love low travel keyboard that make little noise. I've learned to accept my personal tastes, even if they don't match what's expected of me.

BTW I wonder how much of a learned preference mechanical keyboards are? At first, I thought they were preferred by older geeks because of a nostalgia factors, but they also seem popular with gamers.

I just don't understand. I have a friend on the spectrum who's (the best I can say) "physically violent when typing on his keyboard", to the point I wouldn't let him use my laptop as I'd fear for my keys.

He loves mechanical keyboards because they tolerate the abuse, and I just don't understand that: Isn't it better to not have to use that much force, and to not feel pain in your wrist and fingertips?
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Singapore generally has very clean streets, but the price is very high fines.

I like the idea of a $1000 fine or community service spent cleaning up trash.
> It's also yet another example of NFT sellers taking something that costs $0 (or near $0) to create

Without commenting on the NFT aspect, a good community is worth its weight in gold, and so are community managers. Companies looking to open source pieces of code continually relearn that lession - open source communities don't "just happen", there's a ridiculous amount of work that goes into creating a viable one, even (or especially) if there's a closed source company backing it. That NFTs have chosen to have discussions in private is their prerogative (and I can't blame them either - NFTs still face questions of legitimacy like the above, and whether you believe in them or not, having to answer the same FUD again and again from users just trolling and calling you a scammer must be tiresome when trying to build things). What exclusive NFT communities are worth, I don't know, but charging a fee to join or a monthly fee for access to some group of people is worth it in many contexts. It's not remotely "near $0".
Isn't it that they're also saying 'it's too expensive to live here, keep taxes low' or 'it's too expensive to live here, I won't, I'll consume things and leave rubbish and them go home [and pay tax] elsewhere'?
I found this article kinda interesting to browse: see which ones I know, which categories they fall in (some asian ones for example (I'm not from Asia) and then I didn't know various western ones)
Quite likely you only need to train the leaders in each herd of 100 - 200. The leaders will keep the rest in line.
which is an important, proven way to save lives.

responsible treatment of drug addicts =/= the government somehow telling people to throw trash in the streets.
I'll pay $1000 for the Mona Lisa. Just like that, theres a market for it now.
Which is why the government mandates it because drivers should not get to pick the safety features that stop them killing others.
You can stop a junkie from shooting up by imprisoning them, or better yet, putting them through drug rehab.

Everything else is not a solution and only exacerbates the problem.

There's nothing safe about staying addicted to drugs.
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Long version is mentioned in the article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29280317
How are those things related?
The author discusses PoS in the long version: https://antsstyle.medium.com/why-nfts-are-bad-the-long-versi...
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This is true in most of the U.S. as well. If you've got a sidewalk in front of your house, you'll get a fine if you don't clear the snow 24-36 hours after the end of a snowstorm.

A workaround is to buy your home in a neighborhood without sidewalks.
More likely ease of implementation. The use case shown here is an interactive UI element, so performance isn't really a concern.
Big plus one. In order to encourage (what I strongly believe to be much needed) experimentation with personal messaging we have to break away from having each. new. client. establish it's own network. Otherwise competition in this field will always be limited. Matrix I believe is currently the most promising answer to this problem.
You're talking about phrasing producing evidence. I'm talking about phrasing in examining the problem.

That is, no one believes that Google's AMP push was primarily about the best user experience. Just proving it in a court of law. What they call it is irrelevant to the moral question. Similarly, everyone knows that Amazon's lobbying is about protecting Alexa. I just don't think that's immoral.

It's strange that you would call it a moral or ethical difference. Legally different, maybe (in other cases, this is obviously legal).
Finally we can basically just search for "Title streaming" and google will tell me which services I can find it on, but before then it was such an annoying crapshoot to try to find where something actually was.
This is only half right. IE was not a decent browser before IE 4 or 5. At that point it became superior to Netscape.

The application integration with IE was a mixed bag. Yes it made some cool apps but like the alternative (Java plug-in) it was ridden with bugs/security holes. Maybe even more so because of how tightly it was integrated into the OS.

Let’s also remember how Microsoft wanted you to buy their web server that had certain features that would only work with IE.

I had hoped that MS was past this kind of thing but it looks like history is repeating itself.
So "the government is legitimate, problem solved." All good then, I simply do not understand why there are social problems and resistance movements worldwide, it is childish! The governments are legitimate!

If these governments actually represented the will of the people, the people would not be using bitcoin to send money home. Or smoking weed for that matter. There is a giant blind spot in your worldview IMO.

There's a whole host of other problems with your point, such as who decides whether a government is legitimate (you? Some "democratic committee?"), whether people in China or KSA can rightly disobey laws because they're not democratic, whether you have the right to force me to be one of your people, and probably more I didn't catch, I'll let you bring them up if you want to talk about them.
I think ambition is motivated by a variety of things, one of which, is by comparing oneself (or having others compare them) to the accomplishments of others. While OP is pretty critical of themselves, they’re also reflecting and asking for feedback. Sounds like they would like to be more ambitious, but need some self-confidence.

To your point, I agree with you that advice like “be true to who you are, don’t change” may be the exact type of advice to where someone would be content with where they are, instead of striving to grow and try something new.
I must have completely misunderstood the problem because none of the "solutions" proposed occurred to me. Simplifying the goal to be "don't die" why not just pay the doctor a flat rate for every year I'm alive? Then they will (presumably) give me advice that is likely to keep me alive?
> A workaround is to buy your home in a neighborhood without sidewalks.

...or where it doesn't snow.
My guess why Intel added hardware JPEG decoding is HD webcams. Most of those do MJPEG, so with a hardware JPEG decoder and a hardware h.264 encoder videoconferencing can almost completely avoid the CPU. Most external higher-res webcams also only do YUV (for low fps / resolution, as it quickly exceeds USB 2.0 bandwidth) or MJPEG, some newer ones do h.264 though. Incidentally, all those cheap HDMI USB capture sticks (I think most have the MS2109 in them) also use MJPEG.
I'm not convinced that a fine is going to change someone's behavior. It may put them in a regretful financial bind, but it's really a short-term pain. Spending a week cleaning trash is definitely something they will remember! (and for sure they will complain to friends and family who will then maybe be less likely to litter themselves)
Agree brown cherry keys are the best, and the Happy Hacking keyboard is probably overrated (never used one, thankfully never gave into the minor urge to buy one years ago).

I use a ROG Claymore now and it's great, the only real disadvantages being that the key caps are pretty flimsy, and they also come off too easily.
I second this feeling.

MK are all hype (I own a Keycron and use a Fnatic gaming kb as daily work kb) but I would pay to have the feel of good old 20 years old rubber cheap keyboards again.
I'm limited by typing speed. I can type about 120 words per minute, but there are still times when my idea is not instantly conveyed to the computer. In that case, I'm forgetting new ideas while interfacing with a piece of machinery.

1000 lines of code per engineer per week is probably a factor here. Think about a flow where you're bottlenecked by typing something. You then don't finish the thing because you have a sprint planning meeting. You come back and forget where you left off, and never check in the code you half-wrote. If you finished before the meeting, then your line-modified count would have increased by 50 lines or something. But now you spent an hour doing nothing, as far as the lines-of-code counter says. That's a problem!

Typing speed is back pressure on ideas. When a system is overloaded, it should apply back-pressure so that the producer produces less. That's what your keyboard does. The question is: do you want back-pressure against your ideas? If not, you need to add a buffer that can account for the bursts. Typing faster is that buffer.
I love brown after awhile of using blue. Blue feels great but is loud enough to wake up the neighbors.
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It feels more like a hybrid model these days, with a mix of pirating and, well, sharing, but some companies might want to call it pirating at this point. I pay for netflix, and share it with friends, and they reciprocate with HBO, Hulu, and Disney+. It's a solid setup, and whatever I can't find on any of the above, I turn to the old standby.
They do a pretty good job in the areas where there are tourists and businesses in all but the busiest times. No so much in residential areas.
The difference being that neutron stars can revolve tens or hundreds of times a second and have a surface temperature of ~600K degrees.