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The Con Man Who Invented His Own Country
It's too expensive for what they'd get out of the deal. Buying BB would cost them between 3B-4B$.

They've made less than 10 $B acquisitions, with Motorola Mobility being the most expensive at 12B and was for patents.

I think if Google acquired BB for the QNX business that they wouldn't give it adequate attention and would run it into the ground.
You need people to herd animals. There weren’t nearly the same number of people back then. The people who were around would have been largely nomadic especially if they were herding animals since they would need to move their herds to different grazing land depending on the season. Those aren’t conditions that create overgrazing which occurs when you have a lot of people with a lot of animals using limited pasture land that’s broken up by property lines and agriculture.
Smalltalk uses periods. One thing I like about C is that I can write .1 or 1. , but most languages these days force me to add the zero: 0.1 or 1.0 .
> The CWR is subject to compression loads due to temperature changes, which can cause buckling, or sharp lateral displacement. These phenomena are prevented using reinforced fastenings, sleepers and ballast.

https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr15/f38_tec.html

I found the above, but it doesn't say that much about buckling. I don't think they use slab tracks however.

If buckling is the lateral movement of the track due to thermal expansion, I would imagine the old wooden sleepers would be much easier to pull sideways. Looking at the above link about slab tracks, they look far more secure and less likely to move sideways.
I'd say it's the author who has a misconceived idea of index funds. Many index funds are way less 'passive' than their marketing claims, running non-trivial sampling or swap schemes to replicate their indices, as well as engaging in securities lending (all depending on the exact product and terms, usually buried deep inside the legal documentation).

And there's no guarantee that they will always exercise the voting rights that they control in those companies in a purely neutral manner (if that's even possible). BlackRock eg has publicly pledged to emphasize climate change mitigation in all their portfolios. While we can hopefully agree that that's a noble cause, it goes to show that those asset managers have way more power than the author is willing to admit.
I live in Florida and AC and if I leave the AC off or too high, I'm sweating in my own home.

I'd ofc be thrilled to find an alternative cooling method that works quickly and well in humid climates, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to exist yet (dry heat people apparently have other options tho)
yeah when I researched what cetyl alcohol is it actually made me feel bad but what am I going to do... there's not an alternative that works for me
Article doesn't mention but welded track does have expansion joints. They just exceed their expansion range at some point. Also rails can expand beyond their mounting geometry between the joints, on curves.

I noticed the white sprayed tracks in Italy recently. It didn't prevent the network becoming congested due to speed restrictions imposed as temperatures exceeded 105F.
The only thing I disliked more than moving from Ruby to Python was moving to Go. All the things I love about Ruby are the antithesis of Go.
Excuse me but did you just call me a legacy dinosaur ;)

Anyways, you are right about the fact you don't _need_ IIS to run your asp.net core app. It's just a very convenient proxy to your app, especially if you need things like sessions and, what's that thing called, ah yes, authentication.

>> OpenShift

I mean, if you need a cluster of machines, for whatever reason, then why not use that?
I will make the case that Elon Musk is the premier example of white trash.

We don't call him that because he's rich.
Something like https://github.com/hobuinc/codm ? :)
Have you seen https://github.com/rurban/smhasher ?

So the fastest hash functions on x86_64 without quality problems are: xxh3low, wyhash, ahash64, t1ha2_atonce, komihash...
Mother elephant and calf rescued from drain in Thailand [video]
I don't know about across the pond, but there's definitely a taboo about it in the UK. I had a discussion about it with a gentleman who cooks for a pub and he was going out of his way to say that it's perfectly fine to eat rabbit and there's nothing wrong with it. We were seated at a Spanish restaurant in a town in the South of England, with a plate of kidneys, I believe, in front of us, and the conversation turned to meats that the British dont' commonly eat.
Same way as always, through inheritance.
Obviously not. There are better ways for spammers to spend their time , rather than writing articles on redis and containers
It's not theoretically impossible, yes. It's going to happen at the same time as when requirement gathering is going to be perfect and doable by a computer. In practice, I see this happening, at the same time as AGI, because it's the same problem. As of today, copilot, FSD, and the like are just smoke and mirrors, pretending to be something much more capable than they actually are. This deception is what makes them so dangerous.
This article is so accurate, I always have the same seed but haven't got the right words to express that. I mean how many people in the world work hard, a lot, but only a minor part of them get success stories. In the sport, the same a lot of athletes work as if is no tomorrow but only a minor part of them will get the popularity they deserve. We need to just prepare that hard work does not always get its fruits.
The social effects of this seem to be really good, if you look at quality of life in Switzerland.

If wages at the bottom go up and that causes inflation, the overall impact of that is wage compression, or in other words, reduced income inequality. Which is what we want.
Are you trying to pass "system design interviews" . Those are more about putting on a oscar worthy performance desiging instagram with billion users in half hour.
You just have to memorize all the patterns like cdn, dbsharding, cap theorem , geolocation alogrithms, queues and logs ect.
> it was underpowered because a thin, fan-less, high-performance laptop was and remains an impossible dream for the x86 computing architecture

Eh, Surface Pro (i3/i5 before 8th gen), anyone? From what I heard the machine is very usable -- in fact a daily driver for many people. Is it fair to blame the failure of one Apple product on an entire CPU architecture?
You think of class as layers of wealth. But that's only part of it. The most important part is culture.

>Do they understand how little of their world I’m familiar with? Do they understand how much implicit knowledge they take for granted that I don’t have?

If you have that knowledge, you have the connections to regain your wealth. The people who act trashy, if they would learn to not act trashy, they most likely would change class - have different friends, make more money.
Obama did the same in 2014

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-eu-summit-idUSBREA2P0...

And the Bush administration tried to prevent Nord Stream I.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/russia-s-energy-w...
This not accurate. Eating out, for example, is very expensive there, even compared to major cities in the US.
Probably a good reason to eat rabbit rather than chicken...
hi. interesting stats. Could you please give some references for this? thanks.
> An easy one is to bury pipes a few feet (>3-4ft) under ground and run a fan to push air through the pipes.

You’d be better served running virtually anything else besides “air” through the pipes if efficiency is your goal.
Are we talking about nannies or a sitter for a random single night? Are there no teenagers in the neighborhood who want an “easy” 4 hours work? That’s what we did with my son (late 90s). Same as my parents did with me and my sister (early 80s).
New Orbit Malware Backdoors Linux Devices
I think this will come when they have in house 5G chip, which they’re working on since they bought Intels department. They’re currently relying on Qulacom on the iPhone/iPad
My account was new at that time and HN didn’t allow me to post the article and hence asked my friend. But obviously someone from community flagged. I am happy that community is active but it was a genuine mistake on my end.
I couldn't find details about the logistics and design of the GGW itself. I know the similar Chinese project largely failed because they planted a monocrop of trees in perfect grid formation, which turns out doesn't create a self-sustaining forest.

Is this mistake getting fixed with the GGW? Are they planting a diversity of native drought-tolerant species over a varying timeline to allow for trees of different ages?
The new AMD 6000 mobile chips are also getting very good reviews and seem to be the equal of Intel 12th gen. I'm actually really excited to see what Intel, AMD, and all the other non-Apple ARM chip vendors bring to the table in the next 2-3 years. After the M1, these other companies must all have been burning the midnight oil to try to catch up.
Have you actually tried AirPlay?
> and having meaningful or productive work.

Hah, if only.
Apple is currently developing their own cellular modem chips. The expectation is that once they have their own chips, they will use them in most of their products, including the laptops. They supposedly had a setback this year and the program is delayed by another year or so.
Having an extension or something that removes query string parameters is not an explicit request to not be tracked.
Docker slim tries to solve the same problem with a very different technology. EBF packet filtering doesn’t work for many cases and hence results are sub optimal.
If Facebook engineered this competently, and I’m sure they have competent engineers, it’s either encrypted or totally opaque. If you can break this, you can probably break TLS.
There does seem to be two different mindsets. In most cases everyone has a combination of both of them. The first is the “shakedown” mindset. This is where you are in a situation where you have to try very quickly to figure out what level a person is at so that you can figure out how much info to give them or how to communicate. Some people take the shakedown mindset to an extreme and use it almost exclusively. They tend to by hyper-competitive.

Then you have the collaborative mindset. This is where a person is in a more naturally open mindset and they more readily assume that everyone around them are contributors, people they can learn from, non-threatening, etc. The prevailing mindset on HN is probably collaborative.

One common misconception, is that what would benefit the group is less shakedown and more collaborative. But that isn’t always true. It is possible that we should teach shakedown skills. How to perform shakedown in a positive way. A way that would naturally lead to the collaborative process. Truly everyone has something to contribute but contribution has to be delivered at the correct collaborative level to be effective.
Yikes, didn't know Onyx was that bad about their GPL requirements. Even worse, judging by [0] they're just hiding behind a wall of silence when asked awkward questions about it. I'm gonna go ahead and guess their customer support follows the same pattern.

[0] http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/install-linux-or-alterna...
The users get a share of it by being able to use Facebook for free
Here's how I did that https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/Vrmac/Draw/VAA...

Inexact but IMO pretty good still. With some modifications, the approach can be used in GLES2.
I heard that these adaptors/docks never work nearly as well as native support for dual monitors
I would like to understand what’s misleading. You could download the container and compare sizes and binary with source container.
How SeaFlower installs backdoors in Web3 wallets to steal your seed phrase
Try listed three potential issues with unions, why did you zoom in on just that one?
I've been in unions in some really shitty jobs; where I assume the union had no power.
"... (a TCP load balancer). It does not record any diagnostics about dropped connections, nor does it have a return channel to return diagnostic information to the user (unlike HTTP loadbalancers, which can return a response header)."

And there is no API monitoring apparently.
We deleted files from a pre-built container and not Dockerfile.
Heads up:

> Error 500
cannot import name 'etree' from 'markdown.util' (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/markdown/util.py)
> While I enjoy the intellectual stimulation HN has to offer the tone and malice of activism, for any cause, has made this place toxic for me. The gain is knowledge is not worth witnessing the degradation of humanity.

Ironically, it’s posts like yours that I find toxic.
> In fact, jointed track is at a MUCH HIGHER risk of buckling in heat than welded rails as gaps close and there are 160+ joints PER MILE to maintain...

Why? Don't the gaps give the track some amount of play which would lower the pressure and therefore the risk of buckling?
The so called 'open web' has been a myth for years (and it still is) and the exchange of dominance between Microsoft's Internet Explorer hated by the tech crowd and have now instead cheered on the dominance of Google's Chrome Browser has been an example of not only history repeating itself but also rhyming.

Mozilla's Firefox was ahead of IE at one point, but then they did absolutely nothing to keep it up and stop Chrome's ascension to the browser throne and perhaps they themselves believed that they didn't need to fully depend on Google millions of $ at one point. [0] That was in 2007, it has been 15 years and they are still dependent on them which is a complete failure in moving the needle to stopping and moving away from them.

Mozilla hasn't even been effective at stopping anything that Google pushes into Chrome such as the DRM proposals and they still implemented it anyway despite push back from their 'users'. That decision already has destroyed this 'open web' narrative.

It is not early days anymore and the billions of people do not care about Firefox and even if you gave them that choice on iOS, they are very likely to choose Chrome or a Chrome-variant as their browser; at worse Safari will become their second choice. On Android, we already have seen this browser choice in place and the result? Is is still exactly them same. Chrome wins again.

On the desktop, Brave tried to use Firefox Gecko as their engine years ago but gave up and switched to Chromium's engine. The rest of the other Firefox-derivations are either outdated or dead. Perhaps the problem is Firefox itself not being able to be competitive enough and just got lazy on Google's money.

So here we are once again, Mozilla is still crying to congress about their inability to compete. Sounds like an indication that Firefox is getting increasingly irrelevant.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...
and..... the most unsurprising thing ever.....
That doesn't pass the sniff test.

Amazon allegedly has about 1.6 million employees. Assuming that the "executive" class is a trivially small number of them, and that the average employee works say 2,000 hours per year, you're suggesting that the cost to Amazon of paying those executives is somewhere between $960B and $3.2T per year.

The high end of that estimate is about one fifth of the total earned income for the entire U.S. economy.
> The big HTTP libraries let you opt out (of async)

At least for reqwest it just wraps the async code in something like `block_on`: https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/blob/5397d2cf8eaecc9f...

And as the sibling comment says, you can do that in your own code. It does still add Tokio to your binary size, and add some compile time, and probably start a bunch of worker threads you don't need, but it does work.
And use a pencil instead of inventing a pen that works in zero gravity.
You can find the number of times each is mentioned (3) by using a page search (ctrl+f).
How would this be any better then the video? It would also be much more expensive and complex then what they made.
Demographics nearly everywhere are already trending down. If we're smart about it, we can make it work without destroying all the people on the margins.
Agreed! But by any historical measure traveling and remote working with a single backpack was a no-go, people would carry luggage around if they also brought their computer/laptop or go to a local workplace.

If you carry a single backpack, don't overload in tech and go all usb-c those extra cubic cm and weight of the air vs the pro do add up!

Edit: I also got versions of the pro larger than 13 inch!
I'd instinctively worry about overhead there

Are there benchmarks comparing sync http libraries with block_on-wrapped async http libraries?
Only those that put out 'The case against self-study' essays (of which there might be some, I don't know).
Docker slim would help in limited ways. EBF filtering fails at scale and has I here t limitations.
It is the other side of the filter that was used to select them through a dozen of layers of competitive management (or, in the case of pure founders - through several DDs, investment rounds cofounder struggles, not to mention the market competition).

I too have observed this attitude from tech managers.

Sociopaths will exist, in a Nash equilibrium with their population, just because the genetical building blocks for reemergence of this phenotype continue to float in the general population. Indeed, if one looks for it, one finds that "dark-triad" personality is found to be sexually appealing. What else needs to be said about us?

... The individuals in question will be drawn to zero sum struggles of the power process, just because they are well equipped to navigate this landscape.

The meager expected improvement of having my personal life less influenced by this human type was enough for me to avoid immigrating to the USA and focus on the EU instead. Yes, it is poorer, but the socially-democratic political sensibility doesn't allow american management types to bloom in their full capacity.

At some point of intensity, the zero sum struggle grinds everything into the low-trust cesspool. It is a force of nature to be acknowledged.
> Hah! Ha ha ha ha hah hah! Ah hah hah ha ha ha ha ha hah hah ha

“That…is why you fail” - Yoda
Is the $10B James Webb Space Telescope worth the price tag?
The "taste" changes when you change your diet for a long enough period, which means no more than a few weeks/months.
It is like drinking coffee with sugar, as I used to do two decades ago. After getting used to the bitter, hot reality of black coffee, the absurdly sweet nature of coffee + sugar or those concoctions served at Starbucks and the like tastes terrible, as well as giving the wrong "feel".

Chicken breast with a little flour to help caramelize over high heat and some herbs (basil, oregano, thyme) tastes excellent and feels light and proper.

I am a person with a terrifying appetite if left to my own devices. And if at the beginning of a "diet" the scary appetite and intrusive food thoughts make themselves feel heard loud and clear, after a while, thanks to the physiological changes that occur as the food consumed changes and a mind that is now preoccupied with things and thoughts other than food, as time goes on it becomes much easier to eat fewer and more "healthy" (hard to define, but we know it when we see it) calories.

"Pushing through until it becomes easy" is not a social policy, and other kinds of interventions are needed to solve the large-scale obesity problem.
But at the individual level, it works for me and millions of others.
Tangent but I was always annoyed at how poorly google products work offline. One time I was using google maps to navigate to a remote address. Once I got close to the address google maps crashed and I re-opened the app. I had no cellular service. The app remembered the actual map data but did not remember the address I had just typed in to the program 15 minutes earlier. I had to guess what street address I was heading to! Why they designed the app to store all search history exclusively in the cloud and not keep a local copy is beyond me, but I presume when working at google they always have an excellent connection and hadn’t thought of what would happen if a user lost service. Being able to at least see the search history would have saved me some grief!
Come on, there is no way you can keep your face straight and say a $1,200 laptop is not a "premium" laptop. Who are you kidding? An average college student from a common middle class family is definitely NOT going to purchase this laptop, unless they make an intentional choice.
imo having an open mind means rather exclusively to allow the possibility to be moved by scientific evidence. Not just believe for the sake of it or because of some kind of bias If we don't keep an open mind, in this sense, we'd still believe the Sun rotates around the Earth.
Link to demo please? I grepped both GitHub page and official site for "demo" but came up empty.
The GP's video shows them using a spraying train car to do it much, much faster. It still has people riding on it and walking alongside, but sure looks more efficient.

Meanwhile, I notice that all the replies to the UK video are people complaining about the rail system reducing headcount and mocking the idea that this task could be automated.
but this is the exact multiple most SaaS are using, what makes mine different? I don't get it.

At least mine is making net profit, most SaaS trading on stock exchanges with the same multiples are losing money and unlikely to remain at current market caps if not already.
One thing that it is not mentioned in the article is that there has been another "coliseum" test, built a few years earlier in Capua (currently Santa Maria Capua Vetere). Same architecture, same techniques. Only a little bit smaller to accommodate the most renown gladiator school of the Empire.
I love how this article answers the question in the first couple sentences.
Thanks for pointing licensing issue. I will fix it, this is open source and I am happy to accept and contributions.
> And finally the user interface is much more modern.

I hear you on the pinning, but "UX" concerns like this drive me batty; I just use shell functions for this:

venv() {
. ${VIRTUALENV_FOLDER}/${1}/bin/activate
}

gitsu() {
branch=$(git status | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3)
git push --set-upstream origin ${branch}
}

git_add_conflicts() {
git add $(git status | grep 'both modified:' | cut -d ':' -f2)
}

It's so much easier to add a little function in your shell than to write a new tool.
The AMD 6000 is better I'd say. For example the 6800u trades blows with the 1260P. But the 1260p runs MUCH hotter. And that is not even disregarding the iGPU where the 6800u totally smashes the 1260p.
1.1 degree above pre-industrial reference and it is already a nightmare and yet we drill again to keep the carbon economy running.

not a climatologist (just an interested physicist) but (some of) these heatwaves overshoot models predictions by a fair margin.

can't wait for the fresh papers quantifying that this autumn. it's gonna be bleak.
i am in the market for a laptop for kid going to college this fall to study CS. I am hoping m2 air to be the one but i am not sure if the screen size will be too small or if its going to be under powered for CS work.
Depends on what you mean by "skill". There are songwriters, indeed famous songwriters, who are not particularly skilled technically. Is songwriting a skill? Is it inspiration? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯