skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like climate change, allowing capitalists to invest in foreign countries to build their infrastructure, industries, and workforce all so you can then sell the end product in a fat market like the US for high profit, is fundamentally a political issue. Something that hurts us all long term but is so beneficial in many other ways to us at the same time, and makes lots of capitalists fabulously wealthy.

It’s too late to tear down the current reality because there is no political will to build a new one. Perhaps giving away the long term professional knowledge core of the US to foreign countries so that capitalists could become richer and laborers could have cheaper goods will be what historians point to as the root cause of the decline of the American empire.
It's called Value Engineering.

How do you increase total profit on an item? You either increase market share, or you reduce unit cost.

When you start out, the first of these is the better choice (not least because you're trying to build a reputation). When you're mature, the second is.

There's a guy called AvE on youtube whose tool teardowns illustrate this really well. The top-end tools obviously have different design goals - stuff like easily replaceable sacrificial components that are designed to fail, so expensive components are saved.
I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that no, NFT and copyright are parallel systems. Owning one does not imply the other. But for legal purposes, an NFT is a good way to prove provenance in the event of a dispute over copyright.
Not that fast food is a hallmark of quality but I've also noticed that fast food quality has gotten worse. I may have you matured away from the flavor but I used to enjoy a good Carl Jr/Hardy's burger, a Chipotle burrito and some Mc Donald's menu item. Now it taste like the oils is never cleaned or cleaned with some chemical that leaves an after taste.

This is a good thing because now I gotten pretty good at cooking some of the dishes at home.
I think we're actually in mostly violent agreement,

The ten essentials or whatever you want to call them are probably rather outdated.

I still think throwing a map and compass in your pack and having at least a bare minimum knowledge of how to use them is useful insurance in an unfamiliar area. But understanding mostly simple processes/backups for GPS is quite important as well. Details vary by circumstance/weather/etc. but simple steps in terms of downloading maps/having backup chargers/even a backup device/etc. are useful and I don't think have generally made it into basic hiking safety advice.

It's really hard at this point to credibly argue that "the ten essentials" don't include a smartphone.
Only one year? Was it the compressor or did something else fail first?
This is actually the 19th version of the paper the author has published in just over 2 years: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12546

Being such a short paper if people in this field thought it was close to actually disproving the Riemann Hypothesis likely another mathematician could takes the proofs concept, fix it, publish it, and have it peer reviewed to snipe the claim of disproving the Riemann Hypothesis.
Do you think the AI will become better than the best human artist? In the foreseeable future?
Maybe some do, but I don't think that is the root of the problem. A lot of people would be happy to buy a more expensive product if they knew they would get a better product. But we don't know that. A lot of more expensive brands are just design and marketing. And models often aren't sold long enough so I still can buy something that some reviewer (which I should try to make sure isn't paid by the manufacturer) praise after actually using for a couple of years.

So, as usual, it's an information problem. We don't pay for quality, because it's almost impossible to know that we actually get what we pay for. So it's more rational to buy some cheap stuff and hope for the best instead of paying 5 times as much and be disappointed again when the stuff breaks.
TFA includes a summary of what data apple will use to target those ads and the incomplete extent to which you can disable it, so I would say the common thread is using a users data for other possibly conflicting interests.
Here's a gander.

Just picked up netlify CMS (a static site cms that stores its data in Md files on the same version control your app is stored) because it fills a perfect use case. That lead to me getting a handle on Markdown, showed me into some git merge conflicts I've never experienced , (I mostly work solo). I just built my first edge function in netlify. Basically a tool lead me on a pretty interesting learning path.

In the past I took a Java masterclass that taught me a litt of everything about Java. Guess which language I have no intellectual interest in?
Speed Queen warranty is 5 years and price was 3x LG washer from Costco. Costco gives 4 year warranty with Costco credit card.

So I just buy appliances from Costco and assume I will have to replace sometime after 4 years.

As one data point, all of my LG Costco appliances from almost 4 years ago are still working fine, through very heavy use. We probably use washers/dryers 10+ cycles per week due to babies/toddlers. The LG inverter linear compressor fridge is still as silent as the day we got it.
This. The times I’ve fixed my appliances rather than replace them, the cause was most often a broken plastic part!
How long did it take Oasis boot to have network interfaces ready?
Are iphones cracked? There's a ton of unclaimed money available to anyone that can open them.

Ever look at the list of uncracked videogames and how long the top ones have lasted?
Porting third-party programs to TempleOS
> It will be very hard to extract those keys while hiding evidence of tempering.

Why do you need to hide evidence of tampering? You're not supposed to need the camera to later verify its signatures.

> good 99.99% of the time

That's a bigger disaster than not having this technology at all, because now the 0.01% of forgers will be able to say "look, my photo can't be a forgery, it's digitally signed!" and convince a lot of people who would otherwise disbelieve it.
I have used make extensively for two decades, and every year I come to love it more. It doesn't work well with some language designs, like Java, but Java is its own world and doesn't want to play with anything else, so that's fine.

I use it a lot to make one-off data analyses somewhat reproducible. To make them fully reproducible I use docker run for each command invocation, but sometimes I skip that step. Something like airflow is way too verbose and clunky compared to make for my use cases.
Games, security, finance, and a mindboggling number of companies writing line-of-business software. "Dark matter developers" is a term I've heard used for some of the latter: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...

I would generally say that native Windows development is in decline, but it's a long slow decline and it's starting from an incredibly high base.

"a rounding-error of zero" is so wildly incorrect that it is very clear you are in a bubble of sorts.
People nowadays also don't seem to mind to replace their items more frequently to get newer ones for possibly better features. Being too sturdy is almost a disadvantage.

(I'm not saying it sacrificially; I think both sides have a point.)
What’s the lifespan of modern software compared to a fridge?
Samsung has long been a huge conglomerate before smartphones ever existed. Smartphones just make them a household name in the US.
Well, being part of a universal whole, I can only judge the whole, which clearly ought to exist (not a nihilist).
Boom Supersonic’s jet testing worries atmospheric scientists
They need to do no such thing. They never need to access the key, or anything remotely like it.

They do need to push other images from where the sensor would be :).

And is it better than nothing? I think having having which people may treat ad evidence which is trivial to fake is worse than something which people won't treat as evidence
> Like, would you ever expect a 25 year old guy to command a spaceship?

Charles Darwin was in his early 20s, and the captain of the Beagle was only a few years older, when they blasted off to sea to do their surveys.
Social and cultural benefits are entirely subjective and difficult to see how any large group of people would agree on what constitutes such benefits. I don’t think many people would be okay with subsiding the supposed benefits that theologists percisely because they disagree about the benefits. Economic benefits are much more likely to be widely accepted and understood.
> The Agile consultants somehow convinced a large segment of the industry that they discovered and/or invented the notion of working with users, of gathering feedback from them

even worse, now the specialist Agile consultants have themselves been replaced by McKinsey/PWC garbage

you can imagine how well one of these multi-million dollar "Agile Transformations" go
I once made a girl laugh
Nothing. This story is an opportunity to Apple bash, so they’re doing it.

Personally I’m deep in the Apple ecosystem. I don’t think I’d leave because of this ads idea, but I share would get pissed off a lot because of it.
If you buy something expensive it won't last any longer than the cheap shit. Most of the core components are the same, you just get more features.
From the article:

I decided that the quickest way to port a C program to TempleOS was to compile it on Linux, but arrange for all of the Linux system calls to be translated to TempleOS system calls.

To do this, I compiled a C program against the embedded C library uClibc, generating a position-independent binary file. uClibc provides all the runtime services that C programs expect, implementing functions like "printf" and "malloc".

I modified uClibc so that each system call would be directed to a particular location within the header of the binary. Each instance of the "syscall" instruction instead became a indirect "jmp" instruction.

Then I wrote a loader program in HolyC which was able to start programs compiled in this special way. The loader's functions are as follows:

1. copy the binary into memory within TempleOS,

2. modify it so that all system calls are directed to a HolyC function,

3. set up the environment and program arguments (argc, argv, etc.),

4. start the program,

5. clean up afterwards e.g. freeing memory.

The loader is a 500 line program written in HolyC and x86_64 assembly code.

This approach enables a C program - and, in principle, any program that can be compiled on Linux - to be executed on TempleOS.
right so why aren't you and your family volunteering to become hostages in the hood? there is one like every month in USA
Interesting! Ive never given it a look before. I always assumed it was a "web language" and as none of my work has ever been even peripherally related to web stuff I ignored it. I like the syntax, though the "everything is an object" makes me nervous. I dont like opinionated languages. I use OO when it makes sense for me.
But aren't you dependent from upstream anyway? Or do you recompile from source the broken dynamic library? In my experience, most sysadmins these days don't compile from source.
Sure, but that feels like an equivalence of just saying "people without a college degree are less mentally developed than those who do." Memorizing the street system of a city the size of London is obviously hard. But is it important to actually do so in a world where it's not essential?

I feel like the implication of a lot of these articles is "people aren't learning X thing that's not essential now, and instead are learning TikTok Memes." Which may not be wrong, but how much of a problem actually is that? Obviously, a century ago, there was no slack for almost anyone to not carry their weight in society. Everyone needed to know how to farm and start a fire, and plenty of other things most people don't know any more. Pre-teens had to work important jobs because otherwise people didn't eat. Obviously things have swung away from that, but the question is how far away from that is a good thing vs. just allowing people to indulge in vices.
Speed Queen is worth the money. Happy customer here.
ILM figured out how to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StageCraft
Because everyone buys your product once and never thinks about it again.

Really: I’ve talked to commercial product managers who bemoan the fact that all their customers are perfectly happy with the 10-20 year old instrument they have. There’s no revenue there.
> They're shredded and the plastic/metal chunks separated mechanically for the raw materials.

The plastics recycling industry is over 90% fraud, just like the carbon credits market.

There are thousands of cases of Australian garbage turning up in indonesia with trash bags marked with the name of the local authority responsible for managing it. Plastic from UK is either burned in Poland to power cement production, or is sorted in Turkey and send to the third world to kill children and sea turtles.

I throw plastic in the trash to make sure it never leaves the country, but stays here and goes into landfill and doesn't hurt anyone. And to make sure the true cost of disposing of it is paid.
The app will soon support the ability to back up the whole original email (in .eml format) before any changes are made, should the originals be needed for whatever reason.
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Learn fundamentals.

Learning C is good as it's very fundamental.

Learning a scripting language is fine as that's fundamental. Any of Python, Ruby, Perl, Tcl, etc. are fine. I chose Python over Perl moons ago, but the scripting languages are mostly equivalent. Python has the most momentum for now so I'd probably default to that unless you particularly like something like Ruby, for example.

Learn something that makes your programming different: Lisp/Scheme, Rust, Go, Ada, Clojure ... what's interesting about these is that if you learn them, you will find that, for example, your C programming will also change radically. Functional programming will teach you to use much less global, mutable state no matter the language. Rust will teach you the difference between stack and heap solidly. Go will teach you to think about concurrency differently. etc.

Web programming always annoys me. Pick the fundamentals out of this--generally things that are older and yet still popular. Learn SQL and PostgreSQL so you understand fundamentals about databases. Being solid at SQL can often save a ton of programming in your server language. If you're into front-end stuff, you'll have to learn Javascript and probably one of the neo-Javascripts (likely Typescript). Learn HTML and CSS.

Beyond that for web and you start getting into "frameworks" and things get a lot dicier as to being "fundamental". Consequently, I avoid webby programming as much as possible. I'm a bigot on "Javascript shalt not contaminate the server" but that is by no means either a popular or proven position. But, I also still prefer Django for web stuff (mostly Django REST Framework even more than straight Django) until somebody shows me that it isn't really feasible. Note that both of these positions are quite old and fusty. But, then, so am I.

Phone programming, on the other hand, is something I LOATHE because the knowledge seems to have a half-life of 12-18 months. It decays even faster than web programming. Don't learn it without a solid reason.

Avoid C++ like the plague unless you have a specific goal in mind. Game programming being one of them.

Finally, community matters. A below average solution with a good community beats a perfect solution with a crappy community.

Hope that helps.
> By doing this, they give FedGov the ability to insinuate that Snowden is (and was) a Russian agent from now until the time he leaves the country.

You're right, it cuts both ways.

To go back to ben_w's comment though, I don't think we can make any conclusions about what Snowden is or who he's loyal to; he could be a a patriotic American, a Russian agent, just a guy who wanted to disclose unethical government behavior, or a mix of these things. All seem equally plausible to me, since I don't have insider info.
I am seeing the following trends:

- supply chain is moving to US (ex. Korean conglomerates, TSMC, Japan)

- cost of goods is rising as result of Made in US

- increased number of articles justifying this for improvement in quality
Yeah i have all these ideas for what I would do to market this eventually. Life keeps getting in the way, but because at this point it provides me a lot of utility it doesn't matter to me that other people don't use it (i have stickers on my phone, wallet, airpods, etc. I have iron on patches in clothing items, my backpack, etc)

In a world where I have more time and energy for this, I would implement tipping systems, sell the actual stickers and iron on patches to users, try to partner with schools and PTAs so kids who lose their stuff can recover it, etc.
The mathematical notation is horrendous.
Bull.

They’re already annoying even the faithful with ads for Apple One, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade. It’s been mentioned as garish and obnoxious on multiple relatively pro Apple podcasts.

I don’t the entire fan base would just sit there and take it. I think they’d see a strong reaction.
Surely in this day and age one would set up https, that too on a website related page
The reason I'm personally most excited is interplanetary or even (generation ship) interstellar travel. Fusion fuel is the only practical fuel we know of with enough energy density to provide enough "umph" for long-distance trajectories to be traveled along, at speeds faster than what the Voyager probes had to achieve using multi-year planetary slingshot trajectories.

Fusion rocket information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_rocket

https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3303

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesignsfusi...

A supplement to a fusion power plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magn...

http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-expanses-epstein-dri...

The only fuels that could achieve better energy density than fusion fuel would be antimatter, or maybe some fanciful sci-fi thing we may discover down the line, such as quark fusion ( https://www.sciencealert.com/new-quark-fusion-releases-signi... ) or subatomic compression ( a concept from fiction that involves packing an immense amount of solid electrons together so tightly that the electrostatic repulsion functions as a compressed spring (perhaps using mutual gravitation almost but not quite strong enough to be a black hole as a way of preventing disastrous spontaneous decompression) ).
>> re: fridge, hisense is a tv company

Damn that explains why it didn't keep food cold.

>> e: laundry, did you ever consider getting a second whirlpool? either way, what about the paykel outweighed 20 years of reliability?

Can't recall why I didn't get another Whirlppol - maybe they are out of business now because their products lasted too long? Regardless, no doubt in the 20 years sense then they would have switched to the same cheap crap manufacturing as everyone else.
I made an ultralight tent made with SOL Emergency Blankets that will warm up inside to over 80° in below freezing weather with a small campfire burning in front of it.

I had a lot of fun testing the concept with quick and dirty prototypes and then making one that I could use on my backpacking trips. It's by far the best tent I've ever used for backpacking. And it also provide a cool place to sit when it's sunny and hot because it can be configured to reflect the sun and radiant heat as well.

I never marketed it because there are way too many people who really shouldn't ever start campfires and I didn't want to expose myself to lawsuits.

https://youtu.be/FdekfNtx65c
>Most people value cheapness more than quality, so we get cheap junky products.

Well, it would help tremendously if costs per month/year/lifetime were more obvious. A lot of people just don't know how long certain appliances are supposed to last at what price points comparatively. 7x is only a hefty price tag upfront when you know it will pay for itself over time, but even that is no longer certain.
It's almost like some constant of retail appliances. You pay now, or you pay later. And you might pay both.

The problem is that not only is the longevity hard to assess from reputation any more, it's that replacement parts and labor are so problematic as well.

I (and others I know) have had a simple washing machine circuit panel burn out because of simple overloaded pumps, etc. (or you might experience this with a dishwasher, refrigerator, etc). Just to get the part is now several $100s, and another $150+ for any kind of labor visit.

I am rapidly thinking that home warranties where they cover a certain set of your appliances is starting to be worth it.
I'm not advocating for death marches, but a small project being built in a company that has a money machine printing billions of dollars a quarter isn't reflective of most environments.
Mandela Effect as evidence for shared and specific false memories across people
I had no navigation skill before GPS. Now, I can have no navigation skill and still get somewhere!
Looked into this years ago. 2D barcodes have nowhere near the data density to encode several/multi-page documents that compactly.

But I understand exactly why he wants to do this. 35mm film is commonly available and inexpensive to process. Ilford XP2 would be ideal — black and white film that uses “C41” ordinary color processing.

Set up a stand and lighting, then click away for an hour photographing the printed documents. Send it off and you’ll have a very compact archive result in a few days.

Mount the negatives in slide holders and read with a slide viewer or projector. Or scan with a flatbed or film scanner. Or send them off for 8x10 prints.
> That's a serious exaggeration.

It really isn't. I did all that as a kid and still get hopelessly lost. Source: Experienced hiker, backpacker and mountain runner, over several continents.
>> We have some laws here in Australia that makes them repair things even outside their warranty if their expected life is longer.

I did not know that, and, living in Australia I should take advantage of that!
I think "encouraging" is very much not the correct word. Even "option" wouldn't be right. It's "allowing".
Mostly minor-key modulations of melodies I remember from highschool band. It's hard to play much of substance given that only my right hand can reach the keyboard from my desk, and only the lower registers at that.
> provide a dense and clear message

There is Twitter for that
I read this as a happy take on nihilism by taking awe of the absurdism. It really has been quite a journey, hasn't it? Dig it!
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