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In which countr[y|ies] does Google not have the discretion to decide that certain sites / pages / etc. "belong considerably further down" in Google's search results pages? Seems to me that sorting the search results to #1, #2, #3, etc. is pretty well baked into their basic product.
Needs [2013] in title.

I wonder what the situation is like now.
Contrast this with the constant flood of HN comments about how every desirable city is morally obligated to become a hyperdense megacity.

I don't know how much food you're going to grow in your 400 sq ft closet in an apartment tower.
As a solo technical founder my idea of hell is kissing frogs, doing all the follow ups, figuring out taxes, doing demos, managing freelancers and debugging code. But 100%, no boards, no arguments is nice. But just last year I've messed up so many things a "real" CEO would have managed...
Those shitty SEO spam sites exist only to serve ads, and Google has a monopoly on internet ads. So there is no real incentive for them to solve the problem.
Ah, if only my "self" would be so docile.

I used to have a few of my vice sites blocked on the "Hosts" level on windows. Unblocking this had enough friction for my self to not do on a whim, but them we came to the realization that Google Translate (with "Show Original") can be used to get Google to show me the site from the unblocked google domain...

To my shame I actually did that absent-mindedly over and over, and that was the end of that little experiment.
I'm still not an iPhone owner, but I'm close. The presence of a do not disturb physical button on the phone, the UI...with my pixel, it's not always a simple one swipe to the flashlight button. Which is amazingly annoying compared to even older phones. I have since bought a dedicated flashlight.
The Ceausescu's were often deemed merely "problematic fave's" of the West. Take for example, this 1970 NYTimes pieces where Nicolae is called a "friend of the US":

> This final touch to Mr. Ceausescu's two‐week coast‐to coast tour served to symbolize his independent role in international affairs, which President Nixon described in a White House dinner toast last night as “rather unique.”

> A friend of the United States, North Vietnam, the Soviet Union and Communist China, the soft‐spoken President Ceausescu came to Washington to offer Mr. Nixon his view of the world from his special vantage position in the Communist community.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/28/archives/ceausescu-ends-u...

Ceausescu was also given an honorary knighthood. I think this article from 1990 (not even a full year after the fall of their regime) gives better context, though it is scathing. In particular, I think it's hard to argue that everything bestowed on the Ceausescu's was "forced". Quid pro quo, more like. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12517004-500-forum-le...

> At the time of the Ceausescus’ state visit to Britain in 1978, the Callaghan
government was anxious to finalise a lucrative deal with British Aerospace
and Rolls-Royce. Like other Western governments, it also laboured under
the delusion that Ceausescu was a latter-day Tito and turned a blind eye
to an appalling record on human rights.

Edit: I've just noticed that this is listed as a source in the OP -- still, I think it's a better source. More context, giving a better understanding. Just a bit less color.
The most expensive (and ridiculous) thing that I've seen in the audiophile world is the Nordost Odin 2 cable, priced at $20k-$30k per m. I would have thought it was a joke until I saw actual people buying it.
They outrank the original content because google is corrupt.
I can recommend a book written by Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood. See [1]. It's a touching autobiographical account of growing up in Rhodesia during a tumultuous time.

I've also found two TED Talks about Africa that I found informative, both from TEDGlobal 2007. See [2] and [3].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24687.Don_t_Let_s_Go_to_...

[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/george_ayittey_africa_s_cheetahs_v...

[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mwenda_aid_for_africa_no_th...
If this is a real concern they can side step it by simply allowing users to block specific domains, like they have in the past.
>Apple's product design and manufacturing is insanely good

Apple might be qualitatively better than most, but I wouldn't call it quantitatively "insanely good". The product design often has major "bugs", like "you are holding it wrong" iPhone 4 or the macbook pro keyboards that stopped working a lot.

I myself had a screen replacement once on a mbp 2015 model because the "protective coating" peeled off... a known problem and Apple replaced it for free even tho I was a few months outside of my warranty.

And the power cable had a tendency to shed off the outer isolation layer and/or "fray", which is by no means a problem only I had given the many "how to fix" DIY youtube videos. Same thing with other cables, like the Lightning ones, I am told.

Cooling in the Intel macbook pros and airs also was a constant problem, and the engineering seems ridiculous at times[0].

That was the product design side... the manufacturing... not really what Apple does itself. The same manufacturers who work for Apple usually work for a lot of other companies as well. It might be that Apple insists on better quality (and maybe even pays a premium). But the iPhones I saw do not look like they had a lot better manufacturing quality than the phones I was using (I am not talking about better/more expensive components, that's a design decision).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCBYAP_Sgg
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Thanks to absurd tax laws, they won’t qualify for roth IRA. I’m in the same boat, have to look at backdoor, but does draw some heat and attention of the IRS doing back doors.
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Vapour phase soldering with a deep fryer
Ask HN: What harddrive brands and models do the hyperscalers like Azure use?
Do they use the enterprise models from Seagate, WD and the like or something different?
You're wildly off. There are billions of people on this planet, there are 10s of thousands of audiophiles who have more money than common sense.

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/
> TLC mode: It sounds like background music, no features and powerless, everything is flattened, lacks extension and density.

> pSLC mode: There is a special natural feeling, it becomes more smooth and calm, the thickness is slightly increased, and overall it is more resistant to hearing but still slightly dry."

Wow, that's incredible. Mmm yes, I love digitally encoded music to be slightly thicker and resistant to... hearing?
Also, in some climates, weather will play a role in IT activities. Even those working from home are not immune from weather related events that might affect their house / apartment. Pipes freezing will end most IT related functions from that employee. People who might have to work regardless of code freeze might have other issues.

The air conditioning in the server room failing when it is -24F is a possibility.
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While interesting, I do have to say the article is not very well written.
The site is not called "asylum" for nothing I suppose...
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Without having read the data sheet… It is probably to keep the devices synchronized. Reading data from an unsynchronized input takes, um, waving hands here, 2 to 10 times the effort and resources.

If you are old enough to remember serial ports on computers, this is the “16 times oversampling!” bullet point. They oversampled and then state machined their way back to figuring out where the sending machine’s clock was thinking the bit changes were.

Bonus fun depressing asynchrony fact: Whenever your chip samples an asynchronous input there is a chance of the logic getting the change just at the wrong time and entering a meta stable state which is neither high nor low for an arbitrarily long time! The best you can do is minimize the probability and probable duration. So, happy new year, all your computers are just rolling dice billions of times per second.
As the article states, there's nothing particular about the papers, it's just that some Romanian scientist teams were required to put her name in front of theirs when publishing.

In essence, if you have power, it's just as easy to get people to call you Professor Doctor Engineer as it is to get them to call you Grand Poobah or Supreme Chancellor.
I agree, though having an abusive boss and being burnt out can really hurt one's level of self respect/image of one's self and what's achievable.

That was my situation for 7ish years until getting laid off in Oct 2020 which was a heaven sent. During those 7ish years I had many interviews, many of which seemed to go very well, but upon reflecting since the layoff I can see that it was likely I didnt project a confident enough image mostly due to the conditioning from the abuse and the loss of self esteem.

It's taken a little over a year now to recover, but my outlook and self esteem are quite bright now and I'm excited for the path I'm on.

Tldr:
Abusive bosses can demolish one's self esteem which has reverberating effects and can lead to failing to gain alternative means of income/employment. Usually takes time to recover and succeed after such shit experiences
I spoke with a very adept founder this last fall, who was looking for a technical cofounder to evaluate and build out the platform for the company. It was a compelling idea with clear need, B2B, well-wireframed, well thought out, and she (the founder) brought a litany of information about funding already in the works, contacts, market fit, and to-market strategy. I was thoroughly impressed, and I was on board.

Unfortunately, we did not proceed. See, I have a family to provide for. I'm in my 40s. I'm not looking for or to build the next unicorn. What I'm looking for is the opportunity to build a consistent, stable, and yes evolving product that produces reliable baseline revenue, targeting reasonable growth. The founder wanted to work immediately towards unicorn status, with cofounders taking in a salary that was approximately half of what my current income stream provided. She is in her early 30s without dependents. For her, this is a reasonable risk that provides a good lifestyle. For me, that was an unthinkable risk to the detriment of my family, including young children in day care. She also wanted to build out a small engineering team paying roughly 60% of market rate - in this hiring environment. What that would mean was a team of inexperience or heading offshore, both of which were non-starters for me.

All in all, I think she got some really bad advice from her SV peers. Her idea could have easily generated 100k MRR with a moderate amount of effort. I couldn't even put a number on the immense value of the data she would have been amassing as a side-effect of her idea. Our personalities were a match, we had the same philosophies and ideology was similar enough as to not provide room for conflict. We both thought the idea had incredible merit.

At the end of the day, it was a generational divide that proved too large to overcome.
There’s a lot of good quality reviews on YT on launch date of pretty much anything these days.

It’s not a problem of doing the review, it’s that there’s not much of a market for written reviews, most people would rather watch a video instead.
So which one was it? :)
... and the moment you gain some traction, the SEO monster will train it's eye on you like Sauron; and without a billion dollar budget, you will be toast.
Some people around me are wine enthusiasts. I once put a label from an expensive wine on a cheap bottle of wine. That was a fun little experiment that works with switches as well...
https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/why-43-of-british-sti...

This a far cry from the constant guilt laid on the shoulders of Germans.

The Germans paid a heavy price but the treasury of the colonies held in British banks went on to pay the pensions of the colonisers.

> As for wildlife, what do you want, the right to drive your wildlife to extinction, too?

If that is how you understood it, you probably need to improve your reading and critical thinking skills.

What I meant is that Europeans whose national boundaries are marked by language, religious denomination, and have (very recent) history of wiping out both wildlife and civilisations should stop being preachy.
Maybe it delays the bits more uniformly. That would be harder to reason about.
It's easier to generate the clock signal, because other wise the little pio state machines in the rp2040 would have to synchronize with the external clock, and that would cut into max clock speed (and probably put something like this outside the realm of possibility). This is because the rp2040's pio doesn't have a way to latch from an external clock.
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The biggest perverse incentive for Google is that making better search results can mean less clicks to ads (clicking an ad because results are crap, going thru more pages of results means more ads). Clicks are revenue which is much easier to optimise for.

Internal Search owners can push for better algos, but what if the algo causes revenue to fall? Are there strong forces strong enough within the organisation to ensure that search quality prevails?

If this is the case, the problem is existential. It can only be arrested at the very top

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
That's what we did at Jolicloud a decade ago to make a better (different? beautiful? doomed?) OS for netbooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joli_OS

The OS booted ASAP to a fullscreen Chromium instance, until we added support for running Linux apps too later on. I didn't work on the windows management so can't say more about this technical side.
I was born in neighboring country - Moldova and we all knew that Elena was fraud, same way fraud as Brezhnev "wrote" Malaya Zemlya. My grandfather was Brezhnev personal chauffeur when Brezhnev was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldova. Brezhnev would get shitfaced at weekend party (banquette) and my grandfather would drive him back home, while Brezhnev was asleep on the back seat and carry him to his bed. Those type of people ruled 1/6 of earth.

One thought that still lingers in my mind after many years: what would happened to Russia, if Russians ended-up shooting the apparatus, the same way Romanians got rid of Ceausescu ?
That's a new angle to me. I rely on pseudonymous content like Reddit and HN. It does make sense to look for people or groups focused on a larger topic like fitness.

That helps a lot! Thank you.
> iPhone does exactly same things (takes pictures, makes calls, runs apps) as a $50 no-name device running Android

Replace «iPhone» with “Samsung Galaxy” and your argument stays true. It’s just that manufacturers created a market for phones with giant screens, 3+ cameras and CPUs that can fly you to Oort cloud.
Almost all of this is inaccurate. You can read about their silicon program in pretty much any trade magazine for details but for example: their main cores have been in-house designs for about a decade, RAM is on-package not on-die, that is probably only a moderate perf win in itself, they have been contributing to and extending the ISA for many years, etc.

What the Apple chips do appear to be is a successful application of the "lead bullets" approach to good engineering. If you compare to Zen 2 it's clear that Apple's designs are not really incomparably better than peers, but they are excellent. With the advantage of better software support and a better manufacturing process than other mobile CPUs they perform really well.

They don't directly compete with CPU vendors but hopefully their new products light the fire under their PC counterparts to build better products. I sure hate feeling trapped in their super buggy software ecosystem.
That's a license for the use of the instruction set, not the design. The design is completely in-house.
> Is it really though? 2mb is practically nothing on modern machines.

In general, I agree actually. I think hemming and hawing over duplicated shared libraries in particular makes no sense for most modern systems. Still, 2MB is a pretty damn big overhead to put on every binary the way Go does. Not that it isn't a considered trade off or anything, I'm just saying.

> And full-fat debug should have as much info as it can, why optimize it unless you're spitting out 400+mb binaries or something crazy.

That's my point: there's no optimization in the full-fat debug and it does contain everything it can and it's still a little more than half the size of a completely empty Go binary. 2MB is huge. For the ReleaseFast version all I did was tell the compiler to optimize for speed and otherwise put no effort into making anything size efficient.
This article seems to equate psychedelics with opioids. While corporate involvement with drugs may be a bad idea, these two classes of drugs are not at all alike in terms of chemistry, effects, or sociology. It makes me wonder what kind of axe the authors are trying to grind here.
This is true, for things like ¼" instrument cables, there is a big difference between the cheapest cable and something a bit better and you don't need audiophile ears to hear it. The cheap ones will frequently start to generate loud crackling noises after a short time of use. Since the onset is unpredictable, there's some incentive to just spend the money to get the more expensive cable so you don't need to worry about a cable going bad mid-performance.
A music lover buys hifi equipment so as to listen to their music collection.

An audiophile buys music so as to listen to their hifi equipment.
This particular rabbit-hole of irrationality goes deep; some audiophiles go as far as to have a private power grid connection to improve the "quality" of their music (paywalled WSJ link): https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-hav...
You say "but" as if Orthodox Christians are contrary to this. Put another way, there is a greater overlap between the thinking (and feeling, and believing) embedded in religions than we can garner just from reading.