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We literally went back to cable because other than the ideology, it wasn't beneficial. For the streaming services I do want, I can actually order then through Xfinity and keep things simple.
I read that as 'genetic' and thought 'nepotism'?

Which might also answer your question (though it's not a reliable algorithm!)
>asking a woman if she prefers Ms, Miss, Mme, Mrs

This was at one point a controversial topic. Conservatives objected to the new construct of neutral meaning "Ms" and feminists objected to "Miss" and "Mrs" because they indicated marital status. The argument being that viewing a woman's name with those titles was reducing her to an object who's worth was determined by if she was available or not to men.
Peter Thiel (gay man), Caitlyn Jenner (trans woman) and Kanye West (black man) all publicly support Donald Trump. It's not identity that's the issue, it's economic inequality. Even as part of marginalized groups, these people's vast wealth allowed them the luxury to support a man who did not have marginalized group's best interests in mind.

If I was rich and wanted to take over a local government, I would channel my efforts toward dividing people on everything except economic class. Yeah, you're both poor and live in squalor next to the train tracks, but you're different races! How could you possibly get along!
They are normal, though. It doesn't mean folks are ignoring everything, it means they are normal. And honestly, I could argue about the abnormality of exercise since our ancestors weren't spending daily time running for the sake of running. The comment about shoes was displaying that folks have different sorts of battles to get these things done - more offering an alternative to the status you gave folks that do these things.

If you don't like it, don't do it. It doesn't make other's lifestyle less normal.
Also Spanish or Portuguese adjective in feminine form, meaning: "hard", "resistant", "harsh" etc.
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Kind of, while more powerful and proper native code, it lacked the drag and drop experience.

Even Turbo Pascal for Windows with Object Windows Library lacked it.

Only with Delphi did Borland properly surpassed VB.

And with C++ Builder they provided a similar experience for C++ that remains quite unique.

Sadly their mismanagement scared many devs away, including their own.
Clearly they didn’t watch the episode because it wasn’t anti vaccine at all.
Netflix will have the most competitively difficult path forward, with massive and aggressive competitors swarming in from all sides. You've got the recently-awoken content giants (Disney+, Paramount+, HBO Max, Hulu, etc), and then you've got new players like Apple and Amazon with deep, deep pockets.

Google can take a lot of criticism for being relatively complacent and without much visible innovation lately, but they'll coast on Google Workspaces (G Suite), search/advertising, and their OS marketshare just like Microsoft did for decades. They have ample time to make and correct mistakes. I've also noticed that whatever products their intense focus is on often see rapid, high quality improvements (like when Google Meet development accelerated after the pandemic started).

Facebook could go either way. It owns Instagram, of course, and I think they know the social media business well. WhatsApp will never go anywhere, it's entrenched. They're big enough to copy novel new social media ideas quickly. A highlight is that they truly are a leader in VR, and the Oculus Quest is clearly a hit in that category. If VR and AR truly become big businesses (skeptical on that but we'll see), Facebook will be growing.

I can't see Amazon declining due to their dominance as a logistics company for everything. They can become truly awful any everyone will just keep using Amazon.com and AWS.

I don't know if this is a bold prediction, a safe prediction, or just one that will get me accused of being a fanboy, but in this list think Apple is the least likely player to decline in the years ahead. They have shown time and time again that they have good management in place that has a long-term vision in mind. A lot of people say that Steve Jobs was the greatest and Apple isn't the same anymore, but they've taken advantage of every possible high margin business with their newest products in the post-Steve Jobs era. Apple Watch with its accessory ecosystem (like $400 Hermes watch bands), headphones and audio, and all the subscription services.
My first job out of college was working on BTOS! I worked in the file system, the video driver, the kernel, drivers (keyboard/mouse/card scanner), network, cache and on and on. My favorite job ever!
This. The crowd that replaced suits and ties with jeans and t-shirts are now nervous that someone is coming along to upend their status quo of culture and norms and they don't much like the idea.
This is totally wrong. At private law firms it's the tech clients more than any other hammering diversity quotas (literal quotas) in the racial composition of their outside counsel.
I've heard it said that frugal home improvement is a very good reason to stay on very friendly terms with an electrician. You can frame and wire a new room in the basement, but not attach it to the mains, then have them come out and tell you if you did it right before anyone dies or burns the house down. You pay them for a couple hours instead of the whole project.

You could try chatting up your electrician on a simpler house call, or you might be able to chum around on a Habitat for Humanity project and get a hook-up.

Most people try to avoid electrical wiring or plumbing repairs (other than faucets), because the blast radius is so high. The bravest I've gotten is rewiring a light fixture, and I went extra slow to make sure I didn't end up flying off the ladder. I taped a cup over the light switches so nobody could help, and it still felt like when you're trying to fish something out of the garbage disposal and keeping one eye on the switch to make sure nobody even looks at it.
I tried creating a search engine for recipes. It works well and people like it, but the struggle is no one remembers that it exists and Google is just their default for search.

So from an individual developer perspective, it's very hard to get people to change their habits. And Google/duck/Bing is the one stop shop.

It's still out there, but I haven't worked on it much lately. I always think that if I had some good advertisers, a better UI, and a salary coming in, maybe it could take over some of Google's usage!
I don’t really see that as a straw man, there is significant cognitive dissonance where the same movement seems to be both for and against putting things into categories like “race”. Like we should all be blind to this artificial construct but also classify everybody and every thing with it and all “stay in our racial lanes”.

Observe and it seems to be a real phenomenon and not just an invented opponent.
It depends on whether the change is split up into nice units or not. In this case, despite being a 250,000 line change, it's split up into 2300 patches. That's much easier to review and look at than the equivalent change in 5 patches. And I've seen the latter, it doesn't make me want to merge anything, it makes me want to kill someone.
So, to be clear: "end of barter system" -> "steady paychecks" -> "death of innovation in the West" -> "bitter people seek to create division"

That is an absolutely wild series of logical leaps and generalizations, each sorely needing any kind of evidence or even intuitive explanation.
Is the issue that all the people they talk to for stories is white?

Or is that a symptom of the real issue, which is something else?

And if it is something else, is there a better thing to track?
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If this were some strictly academic or political debate, i'd completely agree with you. But these ideas and policies are having a pretty major impact on employment and hiring in the tech industry, which obviously directly impacts everyone here, and the culture of the industry. If HN isn't a forum where those sorts of issues should be discussed, where is?
Broadly speaking, the left likes to go come up with new ways of doing things, the right likes to implement the "tried and true".

Almost by definition, this means the left is always trying many things (always need the next new thing) and the right is consolidating on what they perceive to be the best of the tried and true.
It's the "required pieces of flare" problem.

You can be left as all get out, but if you don't speak in the stilted expected movement oriented language, and swallow the whole enchilada - and sign on to every policy no matter how worthy or good, you don't have the required pieces of flare - and even though you want the same things and would vote for 95% of the things they support, you're thought of as at least suspect if not outright as one of the enemy.

Like I have a focus on broad based poverty reduction, but because I'm not focused on poverty for urban poor people, or BIPOC people, I'm suspect in their head - I support broad based poverty reductions because they create durable electoral coalitions, just focusing on one group or another does the opposite. I have other similar "problematic" perspectives.

Outrage politics works great for winning social credit on social media, but it does very little to solve actual problems.
Skepticism is definitely warranted, but the car in question is a Citroen 2CV which is basically the French equivalent of a Volkswagen Beetle. It's pretty much the minimum viable product of automobiles and quite amenable to DIY. Honestly, all the supply chain shocks of recent times have turned me into one of those old greybeards who waxes nostalgic for cars like this (except for their safety records).
Clint Eastwood did like 90000 movies, why are there only like 3 on Netflix? That but for every actor. Its like on-demand now rather than a catalog you rent.
Unionization is no threat to Amazon. Their margins and hence their shareholders maybe (briefly), but that's just fine and won't affect their ability to be successful. It'll also push them towards further automation on the medium and long term time horizons.

That would in turn alleviate a lot of the governmental attacks and bad press. I can't think of anyone who hates Amazon the service - they hate Amazon the pee-bottle-broker and tornado-warning-ignorer.

As for other e-commerce sites, they'll probably just buy them, crush them, or if they can't do that - sell them logistics and infrastructure services.

[edit] Consider FedEx vs UPS. FedEx can't hire staffers right now, while UPS, unionized, saw basically zero attrition. FedEx is suffering right now. UPS, crushing it. [1]

The massive labor shortage that’s rocked the U.S. since the pandemic and disrupted long-established employment relationships hasn’t had much impact on UPS, which pays its unionized drivers the highest wages in the industry. That’s helped it maintain a stable workforce and rising profits throughout the current disruptions. Meanwhile, lower-paying, nonunionized FedEx racked up $450 million in extra costs because of labor shortages. And while UPS easily beat earnings expectations and predicted a rising profit margin in the U.S. for the fourth quarter, FedEx signaled that its profit margin will fall further.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-04/labor-sho...
>But everyone over 30 I know uses Facebook, heavily

everyone over 30 i know are past facebook and realize Instagram is adware/spyware.
FWIW, I joined HN 14 years ago (wow) and there's never been a time in those 14 years that HN wasn't convinced that facebook's demise was just around the corner.
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Netflix is also the most expensive service that I am subscribed to. Netflix is €14 and Amazon Prime is only €6. I basically only watch Netflix for a few of their originals (which are arguably aren't that great).
In that instance though its not that you need to do more than the job, its that the job also involves doing multiple things, some of them you might have never done before, thats totally fine. If doing the job isn't enough, change the job description. In my opinion, just expecting people to do more than their job, even if its a start up, is toxic and exploitative. There are tons of generalists out there, hire one if thats what you need.
Old cars were serviceable and had decent tool sets inside compared to single screwdriver nowadays. So having the tools does not look like a problem. Old cars were also much simpler to work with. Especially no problems with electrical components. Why he choose not to hike is another question.
Seems like he's a crackpot who, like so many other crackpots, claims to have all these super-secret truths that are somehow amazingly known by him, but are ignored / rejected / unknown / whatever, to millions of other scientists all over the world.

I don't know if he should have been kicked off Twitter or not, but I personally don't see any value in listening to the guy.
It isnt voting that kills off these things. It's campaign financing.

Profit friendly "solutions" tend to get given prominence (e.g. a new mental health clinic or two) over profit-unfriendly solutions that actually work (e.g. rent control, building competing housing that decreases the value of existing stock).

It's not really about voter preferences, though. It's about $$$.

If you genuinely believe that homelessness is primarily solved with obviously palliative solutions like mental health clinics then you're probably quite a credulous person. The people touting these ideas certainly know they dont work and if there were more money in actually building housing they'd guide you to believe that instead.
> The model S/X were crazy complex, CPUs for each door lock, each window motor, each windshield motor, etc.

A lot of ICE cars have similar complexity in these systems. It's much easier to put a module in each component and just send messages on the bus to control them. Most newer cars also detect objects in the path of the window and will stop/reverse the window to prevent pinching.

While EVs might have more $ in chips, I also suspect they have a lower chip count as more indicators and interactions are handled on screen. Meanwhile, most ICE vehicles still have analog gauges, analog gear shifters, physical gear selection illuminators, etc. and all of these need chips.
Agreed. My grandfather raised 20-30 dairy cows on 200 acres. Horse and plow. Little fertilizer. Crop rotation (pasture/clover/hay). Lots of child labour. Wood lot for firewood at the back.

Better for the land, but I wouldn't be that kind of farmer for anything.

Now large dairy farms are running hundreds of head of cattle with only a couple of full time workers but tend to use quite a bit more acres per cow (or just plain buy hay and other feed from other places).
Amazon, Apple (3T MCAP!), and Google for all their faults and frustrations are highly diversified and incredibly wealthy to stagnate themselves into a decline. And I'd argue they each have the collective brainpower to know the criticality of innovation to a company's survival.

"Teenage users of the Facebook app in the US had declined by 13 percent since 2019 and were projected to drop 45 percent over the next two years, driving an overall decline in daily users in the company’s most lucrative ad market."[0]

Sounds pretty dire to me. Dire enough to prompt the rebranding and pivot into Meta. They'd be my first choice. Netflix, 2nd, is just content (with some great tech under the hood), but just content paid for by a monthly subscription.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/22743744/facebook-teen-usage-declin...
Also, to answer your other specific questions…

1. Yes, everyone cancelled orders and idled capacity. Everyone was anticipating a deep and long recession until the fiscal/monetary bomb of March/April 2020. See #7 above.

2. The 120nm legacy nodes and similar are right at the center of the whole shortage. This has been underinvested for years because it has been low demand growth and low margin. Automakers are particularly vulnerable, because for years, every new feature has gotten its own cheap microcontroller to run it. There are now dozens in new cars.

3. Graphics cards have been affected by crypto miners sucking up supply at any cost, and everyone not named “Apple” competing for TSM’s top end processes.

4. iPhones don't just come with Apple A-Series chips made on TSM’s top-end node, but a host of others, some made on legacy processes where the shortage is. Likely we are talking about some cheap analog power chips or something like that. Apple has decided to push as much supply chain problems to iPad as they can.

5. For the vast majority of what automakers want, 7nm is overkill. Once there are more high end SoCs running multiple systems including self/assisted-driving, that will come into play. But that is not where the shortage is concentrated.

6. Apple was Intel’s 4th biggest customer before they left, so it has had a small impact, but only at TSM at their top node. Samsung has picked up Qualcomm and AMD as a result.

Crazy times in the semi world.
Microsoft comp is bimodal. They will compete with the best in some cases.
Will the fabs have the discipline to actually use the extra cash injection wisely?
Luckily none of my jobs have forced me to install something like that. In general, SWE roles in the US don't require that much micro management. I would probably leave and find a new job if that was the case.
I did not see the film in theaters as I was 12 at the time, but I racked dozens of plays of the DVD version, which has the green tint and looks "correct" to me.

(Edit: Apparently the 1999 DVD did not have the tint, but I that's not what I remember...)

It would be interesting to do a comparison between the green tint version and the "untinted" / neutral without the issues with highlights/whites.
I might be missing a nuance in what you're saying, because it seems like the way you are describing Zen is indeed similar to what Tarkovsky is describing above. Specifically, he says, "If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens. Thinking during a film interferes with your experience of it." As you describe Zen, it is "freedom from the constant need to assign meaning and experience feelings about where you are right now". I.e., not interrupting your experience of Tarkovsky's films by attempting to assign meaning.
Elusive atmospheric molecule produced in a lab for the first time
Personally, I think FB is in trouble because it became 'your grandmothers social media'...

the youngsters seem more interested in insta and tiktok
Download where?
Clearly Ingo is just an inexperienced developer who struggles to do this simple task. Maybe he needs more training?
My thought process on Facebook declining isn't about perception. It's that they are putting a ton of capital into and taking a huge risk on the Metaverse. If it fails it could mean a major decline for Facebook.
I see that you complain about the quality of the debate on HN but at the same I time I still have interest for political debate here.

I know it's not the main goal of this site but at the same time, the usual culture here makes it interesting to see how it unfolds.

I wonder if the drop of quality from those subject is because they get flagged fast.

Anyway, sometimes I wish there was a website of the same quality as HN but for politics.
Do they really? It seems to be blown up by media. Talented people are still applying in droves for a job at FB. The competition has definitely increased with good options out there for candidates but hiring trouble is bit preposterous.
Edit: never mind, there is a slight difference there.

Twitter also annoyingly crops image previews.

Car appears to be the same if you click.
>>That doesn't seem to be the case

Correct, Seinfeld is cropped to make way for the 16:9 aspect ratio. However it was one of the few sitcoms at the time shot with 35mm film (but with 4:3 aspect ratio.) The resolution was high enough that later, editors were able to crop to 16:9 and maintain acceptable picture quality.

They had to make some interesting framing decisions along the way.

This is how Seinfeld would look if it wasn't cropped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9LcyglcXE

This video explains the cropping process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFIrsitJW5M
For me, overwhelmingly the strongest signal is that they appear to be going all in on what is to be a widely used social interaction platform that's more-or-less explicitly banning sex; when that's been a primary or secondary driver for so many new internet/tech platform things.
When I looked into this previously I wasn't able to find a suitably sized boost converter but it seems like there are higher capacity ones cheaply available now. Thanks for the suggestion I may very well end up doing this.