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Ubuntu is certainly for the average user. I just installed 22.04 on my mum's ancient laptop after she's been complaining for years about it being too slow to use. No tech support so far, and she says it's blazing fast compared to the old Win10 installation. She's used Windows since the 3.11 days, so finding the "start" menu and a browser must've been a cinch. GNOME is probably less of a UI shock than Win10 was.

Asking her to install Ubuntu herself, though, would be another matter entirely. Installing any OS (including Windows, since it's about as complex as Ubuntu these days) is way beyond the skill level needed to actually use it.
> and you're out here in 2022 unironically saying "It's a gay man's disease", seriously?

I'm out here unironically showing you data on the CDC's website: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/riskbehaviors.html. Anal intercourse is far likelier (18x the risk from vaginal interourse per encounter) to result in HIV transmission from an infected partner. Internal tearing is likelier and hence contact of other fluids with one's blood stream.

In Africa, HIV is especially prevalent in South Africa, which happens to have a practice called "dry sex" [1] which also leads to similar internal tearing for the receptive partner.

Behavior that involves having these sorts of risky sexual encounters with multiple partners only compounds the likelihood that one will contract HIV. Not all groups engage in these behaviors with equal likelihood.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_sex
This "formula" was what big banks used to solidify their mortgage backed securities 12 years ago. Instead of letting houses default, they would buy them up.

So imagine you're BoA and in one town you back 5000 mortgages. Let's say 500 of those are about to default. You've already sold "paper" that includes all 500 of those loans, some of which may have been in the AAA tranche. In order to keep your AAA tranche from collapsing, you buy those 500 houses outright and sit on them, providing the illusion that your securities are healthy. It's cheaper and simpler.

The downside is, when the market collapses, BoA is still stuck with 500 houses and will have to sell them eventually. They don't care. They're just trying to hold on to them until the securities they sold mature. Once that happens, all bets are off and they dump the houses into a depressed housing market.

Housing prices are going to collapse. Badly. You can bet on it.
Yes protests happen and I’ve seen the videos of the students who protested the changes to collage mergers get beaten by police and social media posts of the violence getting censored from Weibo.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinese-police-squ...

Censorship happens on a daily basis.

I guess all the leaked photos and videos of the Shanghai lockdown that were censored and removed from Weibo never happened tho. The animal abuse. Staged food supply videos. Suicides. Forced removal. Covid camps partially built with no beds or showers. Office buildings converted to covid bed. People stuck in offices and restaurants during lockdown, delivery drivers who refuse to enter Shanghai for fear of being forced to stay once they deliver supplies. I guess because it was all removed from WeChat and Weibo it all never happened.

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Of course some people have to be dissatisfied. They can’t have a report that states 100% love for the CCP. You make it sound like I think the CCP is stupid.

The survey being anonymous doesn’t change the fact that company doing the survey is beholden to the government. The survey cannot occur without government oversight. And it’s done by a Chinese company. That means every piece of information goes over the desk of The Central government before it ends up at the ash center.

The Central government doesn’t care about the lower government. The lower governments get thrown under the bus all the time. It’s about protecting The Central government.

Anyway it’s clear that you’re pro CCP so there’s no point in debating this with you because you’re just going to use any excuse possible to justify the actions of the CCP.
This is a super-contrived example, but I could still fix the bug, just not specifically for you, on your schedule. The odds that you'd find an issue that impacts more than the odd crank are so thin that this isn't anywhere near a top concern.
While I don't think a fully self sustaining RV is practical for many use cases, it does open up some interesting possibilities- even with the relatively slow charge is enough to add maybe 30-50 miles of range over a weekend. That should calm range anxiety as there are going to progressively be less and less places more than 60 miles from a charging station.

Cost is a problem. Batteries are expensive - I saw $132/kwh as a low point, so at least $60k just for batteries, and maybe $3-6k for the solar stuff. That's half the cost of a low end class A already.

Charging even at normal stations will also be interesting. Will you be able to plug in to multiple chargers at once? If not, even most "fast" chargers are going to take hours.
>US has been totally subverted and is now falling behind Russia and China in conventional weaponry, and falling way behind Russia in missile defense and offensive hypersonic missiles.

It's obvious now, In a conventional war, the US would obliterate Russia in weeks. So could western Europe, even if the US didn't lift a finger to help. Russia has been revealed as a paper tiger.

As far as China, they're probably more of an actual competent force than Russia, but what large-scale military actions has China done in the last few decades?
Roe vs. Wade being overturned means that the policy on abortion reverts back to the states, the way your constitution states things which are not regulated by it are to be decided. Some states will continue to offer late-term abortions, some will move to a model more comparable to that in much of Europe with 1st term elective abortions being legal, others will move to ban elective abortions altogether.

The emphasis on his is not as telling as you make it out to be given that fathers also play a role in the conception (by definition) and raising (hopefully) of children. Some men will see what they considered to be their "right" to skip the consequence of them having intercourse without contraception taken away. Those who consider elective late-term abortion to be an essential part of life may move to those states which continue to provide this - New York and California seem to be poised to become abortion 'free states' - while those who consider abortion to be an abomination/against their religion/... may move to those states where it is limited. As far as I know - and correct me if I'm wrong - there are no states where abortion in case of rape or incest or in those cases where the life of the mother is directly threatened is forbidden.
I am that person and I’m very disappointed in myself for it.

But the idea of someone buying twitter against their will just cracks me up.

Also really punctures the visionary genius narrative.
The interesting part is that the car stopped instead of moving out of the way.

A human has an instinct to avoid collisions that evidently is absent in their model.

The question is how long is the long tail, and how hard is it to instill common sense things like crash avoidance in unusual scenarios.

Humans benefit from a few hundred million years of training on “run away when things fast approaching”, even if “thing” is totally outside our training set.

Gradient descent doesn’t really have fear / self-preservation, and adding that in runs into Asimovs laws immediately. Interesting stuff.

Also - there are better and worse ways to get seriously injured. Something about the total lack of autonomy in current self driving cars is both horrifying and infantilizing. Sitting in the middle of an intersection with oncoming traffic and having absolutely no control over you own imminent death or injury would certainly make me re-evaluate categories of risks.

With an Uber driver I can yell “GO!!”
HBC (which is now a department store) was still required to give the crown 2 elks and 2 beavers whenever they visited Canada up until 1970.
They use screenshots to give an idea of the visual output.

It's truly astonishing!
Elon says a lot of things that don't pan out. Unlike a TED interview, buying Twitter was made into a legal obligation.
That's crazy talk.

It would've been arguably true in 2015 or so. But then we had years of high job growth, high median wage growth, and generally great economic conditions, right up until COVID, and then we actually recovered very quickly from COVID.

Like, is inflation high? You bet. Could we go into recession? We absolutely could. Did we have the last 8 years of costs going up and raises only happen to slightly offset cost of living? Absolutely not.
Also a Ubuntu user here, and it has been my daily driver for the last 10 years.

I ditched the M$ gaming partition in '19 and moved completely into Linux. Apart from occasional issues, it just works.
That's a stretch. I guess it depends on the dev team. Everything you have in Rails you also have in ASP. You will probably encounter a hiring problem.
If people in tech aren't able to afford houses then who the hell is buying them?
>They're only selling planes because AirBus can't build enough for all customers.

That certainly wasn't the case for the A380. A380 is my favorite plane to fly on, but Boeing beat them badly in market analysis.

The company sank 25+ Billion in A380 development and cant even cover the cost of manufacture so they shut it down. AB also received 9 billion in EU government aid for the AB380.

When it comes to too big to fail, it certainly goes both ways.
Canadians like to complain about the lack of competition.

For wireless Freedom Mobile was independent from 2008 to 2016.
Mobilicity was independent from 2010 to 2015.

They were always cheaper than the incumbents. However, they struggled to get customers because their coverage and speed lagged and they were eventually bought by incumbents for their wireless spectrum license.

The government tried to foster competition by letting them bid on spectrum set aside for new players. And removing strict foreign ownership rules.

Canada is a small market. Geographically larger than the US with the same population of California.

It's just not an attractive telecom investment.
Anyone can have Google levels of complexity, it just requires a dedicated engineering team.

Having Google levels of traffic is another thing, but it's easy enough to get Google levels of complexity.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03626-1

> In particular, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was launched in 2017; its goal is to create the technological infrastructure needed for rapid and affordable development of vaccines against several of the viruses known to have epidemic potential, including MERS, Ebola and Zika. CEPI has partly funded work on SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, including that by Moderna and at Oxford.

CEPI is where the idea for Operation Warp Speed came from...

More generally though the article I reference is chock full of instances where without government funding and help we would never have had vaccines so quickly. The crackpot poster I replied to was trying to insinuate government did nothing and could do nothing to help. This is an absolutely incorrect assertion. We have vaccines because of government help and response in the early days (and years preceding!) of the pandemic.
Technical arg: People will just make/sell/buy fake accounts like urine to pss drug tests. Fake account generation is already abundant.

Psychological arg: Self-repression in society is already a cause of widespread alienation. How about bringing people into society and treating them well instead of subjecting them to chronic invalidation?

Political arg: Any party could use this to disempower other parties. Foreign actors, already shown to have powerful influence within our borders, can use this to disempower and weaken us.

Personally:
I'm center-left and don't see a chance in heck of prohibition solving our problems. It's all about giving us the leadership, examples, and space to live out our values. What politician do you actually respect? Chasing wealth has occluded all of our values. Financial and health insecurity has dominated our psychology leaving us emotionally stunting and living in fear. Our founders weren'y perfect but their goal of a free, safe spirit should be persued by a trusting, cooperative, respectful society, not by forming a hierarchy of wage slavery.
Microsoft delays controversial ban on paid-for open source, WebKit in app store
Cal FIRE conducts their first night-flying helicopter mission
The book “The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains” [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book)] by Nicholas G Carr discusses this as well. Essentially, the content we consume is just one part of the picture if you think about how our minds are shaped, the medium we consume that content through also shapes how we think.

Many of us don’t read left-to-right top-to-bottom anymore, we skim over blog posts and articles looking for keywords and then read the paragraphs or sentences around those keywords.
Many people who don't win the H-b lottery, or who do win the H1-b lottery but get turned down for an H1-b for other reasons, end up heading to Canada. Canada has a simple points-based residency system and it is very easy to get enough points if you have a bachelor degree and speak english fluently (already gets you a TON of points).
I have zero expectation that you’d reply. Most conservations on hn don’t end because they wrapped up neatly but because someone had something more important to do and walked away from the conversation.

There are obligations other than money, but none of those exist here. There’s no contractual obligation. He put out something for free and doesn’t need to take an iota of criticism on it by people freeloading. He obviously can, and if he wants certain goals like increasing his user base it might be the smart move to respond to these type of people, but there are no obligations.
I mean that it's a variable in the equation. Sick leave happens a lot more often as people get COVID once every 6 months and need a few days off. This is an additional strain that continues even as restrictions lift.

During the lockdown, the economy boomed, the War in Ukraine from my vantage point seems like a much bigger catalyst.

Lockdowns did put a strain on production, but that should catch up again.

And what I find is the most difficult to know, is what if we hadn't lockdown, the original COVID and Delta were quite deadly and problematic for unvaccinated, had we all continued as normal we don't know the effect it would have had, could have been better, maybe worse.

If another pandemic happens, I hope we don't think what we did for COVID was too much, we lucked out a bit with Covid and it not being as deadly as it could have been, I think the initial lockdowns when people didn't know the virulence yet in some sense were a justifiable decision. You have to make a trade off, and a gamble. People rarely like to gamble with sickness and death.

Now I'm with you on lifting restrictions, doesn't seem needed anymore, people self-regulate now based on their own comfort levels. Though I'm a bit still surprised how many deaths are still occuring due to Covid, but finding good information on it has become so hard.
We've had the Teflon Don, now we have the Teflon Elon.

I'm sure he'll be able to weasel his way out of this. He'll spend a crap ton of money to lawyers just to be able to say he doesn't have to pay for it, but he's still paying for it on a smaller scale and not in public. Anything to put up another W on the scoresheet.
We could have universal Covid vaccines soon – if we reform the process
Selling to pay taxes doesn’t spook investors as much as a CEO selling stock in their own company just to hold the cash.
I don't think "you can just shoot anyone for whatever deluded reason you want" is a valid rationalisation of the second amendment, or a reason to have a gun.
>the housing bubble was caused by too much demand from cheap debt

Isn’t too much leveraged speculation what causes every bubble? Cheap debt fuels leverage and speculation/FOMO foments demand.
We also have national and provincial parks, Crown land is different. A national park is maintained for visitors and for nature, crown land is closer to unused or unclaimed land, generally nothing is done with it unless it's sold off. You are free to camp on crown land, but it's nothing like going to a park, it's full on wilderness camping with no amenities, sites, or anything else.
What did they do to suppress it? Everyone who read anything about politics, trump etc heard about them and could find them in a second via a web search. This stuff was widely available.
Is it helpful to point out the same issues that have already been pointed out and discussed many times before yet again? No.

Is it helpful to have this come from someone who is a reactionary fascist like Lunduke? No.
> Never mind just TikTok, why did the children have access to smartphones at all?

Perhaps because public telephones have largely disappeared?

I remember when I was a kid, before cell phones, and our parents let us do things on our own we'd make sure we had some change so that if something went wrong we could just find a payphone and call home for help. Same if we had a change of plans and needed to let our parents know we were going to be late.
was... was it twitter?
Japan's stance of war crimes has been a point of tension between Japan and its East Asian neighbors.

These are matters of nationalism and affect forward looking geopolitical outcomes.

Following WWII, a tribunal was held in Tokyo along the lines of trying German war criminals. You can imagine how celebration of what others perceive to be German war criminals could lead to conflict.
I love my M1 for development, I have a work M1, and I like it so much I am getting M2 for person use.

I had 2 main issues at first, but they are both resolved. One, if you want to use arm native Python conda now supports arm which is great. The second issue was docker, but it turns out that docker has qemu built in. here is an example of how to use x86 docker images on a M1 Mac.

docker run -it --platform linux/amd64 ubuntu bash
HN is one of the best places on the internet to politely post a critical or opposing view and get a reasoned response though; doesn't that strike directly at your point? Perhaps that's exactly what I'm doing righbt now, because you weren't a rude jerk? ;)
Apple and Google turn over data without subterfuge under FAA 702. That's what the Snowden leaks were about. There are APIs for the IC to fetch this data directly from the servers of Apple and Google without a warrant. They don't need to hire anyone.
5G and Wi-Fi don't use MIMO for terminal side spatial multiplexing though, as far as I know.

In MU-MIMO (available in newer versions of 802.11, for example), the base station transmits to and receives from multiple mobile devices that are located at different spatial angles. But in the mobile devices themselves, the gain from that steering is not high/fast enough to allow for multiple (relatively) fixed base stations in the same space.

In other words, a stationary/slowly moving antenna array on one side of the channel can target individual moving users due to angles changing slowly over time and the antenna array being quite sophisticated, but moving users with smaller antennas and angles varying over a much shorter period of time can't do the same.

Think about it: From a satellite's point of view, your angle varies much more slowly and predictably than the other way around, e.g. when taking a turn in a car or on a rocking boat (that's why high-gain antennas usually have to be gimbal-stabilized).

Starlink's orders of magnitude higher bandwidth, as far as I can tell, stems from requiring slowly and predictably changing angles on both sides, giving it m:n (relatively) independent spatial channels rather than just 1:n as is common for a one-sided omnidirectional approach. (That's also why Iridium and Globalstar wouldn't be able to scale significantly better in low-gain mobile-client applications by just launching more satellites.)
I like how this guide also takes Windows into account, it has some unique challenges.

I have written some notes especially on SSHFS (also for Windows!) and tunnels with SSH (e.g. SOCKS proxy) as an OrgPage: https://www.orgpad.com/s/wRIx3rNLZ6y
These tricks saved my bacon so many times already. Most of it can be used with the FUDO PAM jump host appliance (https://fudosecurity.com/fudo-pam/) that is based on FreeBSD and one of the developers spoke about it and other things on https://www.bsdnow.tv/ I think. Some of it works with OpenWRT's Dropbear nicely as well.
Look up Matt Levine’s newsletter, he’s been covering the whole saga and is an expert on M&A.
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> I would have thought they have custom ASICs in their products

That's a very 2001 way of product design - the vast vast majority of networking hardware (even the super expensive and complicated security stuff) uses off the shelf chips from Cavium (for CPU), Xilinx (FPGA), etc. packaged up in a manner optimized for it's purpose.

Almost nobody is spinning custom ASICs for network hardware these days - the cost/benefit over an FPGA just isn't there.
The "massive rocket" is also an issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-tpiAiiHo
There is a way. Twitter has rep'd that their SEC filings are filed and materially comply with SEC regs. If the bot number is wildly off, and they knew it (or reasonably should have), then he can walk.

I doubt this is the case but it could be.
How much storage does Wikipedia take up?
My M1 Air is the best computer I've ever owned. Handles everything I throw at it.

My M1 Pro (work computer) is such a leap from my old intel machine. It's wild to be running our services locally with Docker, install Xcode, and take a Zoom call without so much as hearing the fans. Battery lasts all day. Don't know if I'd fork over that much money myself, though.
If he was able to exit his Twitter stock position after the jump in price he created it would wash out the $1B.

If he exited TSLA to the tune of the remaining $10B or $15B, staving off a 50% decline in that value then he came out way ahead.

It seems very likely to me he will find a way out of the $1B fee and end up settling for some fraction.

Of course if he just borrowed against his TSLA to facilitate this deal, as I have read he did, then his profit on the move depends on the terms of the loan.
You can certainly use generic parameters in methods—the [T any] just has to be on SomeNonGenericType, even if it's not used inside the type itself https://rakyll.org/generics-facilititators
> Linux desktop experience does suck

Hard disagree.

I author multimedia documents, play AAA videogames (on Steam and GOG), watch videos, access my gadgets and devices, organize my ebooks collection, print documents on my wireless laser printer, etc.

There's not much desktop Linux cannot easily accomplish for me.

This "bad Linux desktop" meme needs to die.
I think that is why he posted on the birdsite, he was making an excuse for getting an employee pregnant. He is not making an observation, just providing an excuse for his own behaviour, in the manner of the robber who robbed the rich and gave to the poor starting with himself.
I get the sense that the majority of people are using their computers in a far different way than I am. For me, my computer is a terminal first (I don’t even start X11 on startup!) and behaves as a text editor, web browser, and a way to execute my software development tasks. Perhaps it’s not the glorious graphic experience most people want, but it is what I want.
Brazil is a gem.
> I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design

Or so we tell ourselves.