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> beating the US on that front anytime soon

Current trends suggest otherwise, see PRC rapidly catching up and leading R&D and innovation indexes controlled by citations or quality in the last few years.

> quantities are incomparable

If anything US is at an substantial quantity disadvantage and slight to modest quality advantage.

While US does absorb _some_ of the best global talent, those are also subsect of best with resources to go to US, and capped by immigration to around 700k, not all whom are relevant STEM talent for high tech industrial competition. Meanwhile rate of PRC domestic STEM talent generation is about 4-5x (rough estimate generously assuming all US immigration is STEM) of US domestic highereducation + immigration is pulling talent even accounting for outbound PRC brain drain. Yes, US has a bigger pool to draw from but their bucket is also smaller. US was projected to have like 3+ million STEM job gap in coming years, while PRC is generating so much talent that there's record unemploment. Which is obviously not good but puts the numbers in perspective - PRC is producing roughly as much STEM grads as all OECD nations combined, while geopolitical tensions is helping PRC retain more of that talent.

Other considerations is that recent trend of PRC R&D and tech catchup is result of highered reforms set decades ago. PRC is still in process of building talent and institution base compared to relative mature western R&D system. IMO trends last few years show it's entirely possible for PRC to be competitive or overtake US in strategic high tech/talent industries in medium/long term, if not the entire US aligned block who are small subsect of OECD countries. But they I think state of geoeconomics will limit their market access and each will end up leading different blocs.
It references Beatrice Kiddo/ The Bride in the Tarantino films Kill Bill. I'm foregoing the spoiler warning for a movie from 2003, but the same music/red color is in the film whenever she recalls Bill killing her groom and bridal party, and shooting her in the face, leaving her for dead.

In 2022, the Mets were (are?) by far the team most likely to get hit by a pitch. It's a commentary on past trauma.
I've yet to see someone be able to handle a delegated subdomain (where you set subdomain.example.com to have NS pointing at the contractor's setup). Too bad, as it's exactly what it was designed for.
This makes me speculate if intelligence was enabled by the slop available from nocturnal animals becoming diurnal. As in, perhaps intelligence would be much harder to achieve in a step by step fashion, but the adaptations to night living left some things on the table that enabled a random walk to intelligence: richer sensory input, and more energy available for processing that input. And perhaps faster and more flexible outputs. If intelligence hadn't come about, presumably evolution would have pushed things back towards faster / extreme sized (smaller or bigger) / more streamlined, basically repopulating the non-mammalian design points.

(Note that by "intelligence" I'm not referring to human intelligence, just the basic form of using mental processing power to facilitate survival. Which is not specific to mammals, nor necessarily strong in all mammals.)
The iOS update is available for me but I'm still not seeing the macOS option to upgrade from 12.5 as of 3 minutes ago.
Why does TDD exist?

1. We want a useful target for our software. You could design a graphical mock-up of software and design your software to fit it. Or you could create a diagram (or several). Or you could create a piece of software (a test) which explains how the software is supposed to work and demonstrates it.

2. When we modify software over time, the software eventually has regressions, bugs, design changes, etc. These problems are natural and unavoidable. If we write tests before merging code, we catch these problems quickly and early. Catching problems early reduces cost and time and increases quality. (This concept has been studied thoroughly, is at the root of practices such as Toyota Production System, and is now called Shift Left)

3. It's easy to over-design something, and hard to design it "only as much as needed". By writing a simple test, and then writing only enough code to pass the test, we can force ourselves to write simpler code in smaller deliverable units. This helps deliver value quicker by only providing what is needed and no more.

4. Other reasons that are "in the weeds" of software design, and can be carefully avoided or left alone if desired. Depends on if you're building a bicycle, a car, or a spaceship. :-)

But as in all things, the devil's in the details. It's easy to run into problems following this method. It's also easy to run into problems not following this method. If you use it, you will probably screw up for a while, until you find your own way of making it work. You shouldn't use it for everything, and you should use good judgement in how to do it.

This is an example of software being more craft than science. Not every craftsperson develops the same object with the same methods, and that's fine. Just because you use ceramic to make a mug, and another person uses glass, doesn't mean one or the other method is bad. And you can even make something with both. Try to keep an open mind; even if you don't find them productive, others do.
I'd say start with industry sector or company size. Go directly to the company rather than a recruiter, a good ol email showing genuine interest goes a long way.

E.g. be the first dev hire, or look for IT related work in Antarctica...heck go all in and become a co-founder with someone.

I think there's lots of interesting work out there, it's just often reverse correlated to your long term wellbeing haha
Apple VR headset? Like an M3? That is my guess. It isn’t early enough for the iPhone 14 which is being released in about a month.
it could have been for different reasons though: it was in an expensive spot with multiple floors, so maybe just had not been profitable anyway.

Within the last year, they opened up a way less nice Nike store about 5 miles away in a different outdoors mall, but it's more like the Nike outlets i've seen elsewhere.
Math. More than anything, math limits what jobs I can get. Math and driving a car seem to be the main skills needed for a comfortable life.

Everything else you can mostly do by googling and doing what the glowing rectangle says.

Math and driving require real understanding of nontrivial things with multiple parts that all interact in different ways.

Math is what makes CS hard, because CS is just math, and CS or EE is what seems to really open doors for a lot of people.

I mostly work jobs where programming is only a small part, and I'll even have to do things like hand crimping hundreds of harnesses.

Everyone is saying interpersonal stuff, but I mostly only work with small companies, where things are a bit different, and there isn't that much stress from that.

When there is, it's almost always from various factors that can cause you to be the only one who knows a certain technology, and the effort needed to prevent that and avoid being on call for everything at all times with no help.

It's not like programmers are any harder to deal with than other people, although talking to some of them can feel really isolating, since so many of them are constantly talking about obscure personal tinkering stuff that I can't relate to, and sometimes it's literally the majority of their life outside of work, and it kind of puts up a bit of a barrier between them and those of us who aren't part of that culture.

Most devs seem to have a very different way of thinking, very first principles focused, always going down rabbit holes, always thinking on multiple levels of abstraction, always looking for a chance to explore. It's actually pretty amazing to watch.

Sometimes it can result in some actual conflicts because the other devs will always want to try something simple and hackable, and I'll always just want to slap a proven framework on it and move on to functionally, but other programmers seem to have a "If you didn't learn a new technology, the project wasn't worth doing" mindset.
Really exciting! I’ve been checking your blog every couple weeks waiting for this release.

Does the global cluster architecture make it much harder to self-host supabase? Not that I plan to, but having the promise of portability is really important.
> Unfortunately, like with all other bookmark-like services I have tried over the years, I did not use it regularly and it faded out of my habits rather quickly.

I think the key is not trying to use it to replace bookmarks. That takes deliberate work and commitment.

I began using Hypothesis to write "replies" where the comment mechanism was non-existent/unreliable/cumbersome (e.g. on very old content or HN threads, or blogs where the author is likely to not tolerate dissenting opinions, or forums where I don't already have an account, etc.), or instances where I couldn't resist jotting down a response that I had no intention of actually posting publicly (because e.g. being heavy on snark). Eventually you gradually build up a personalized data source that is richer than just the bookmark tagging system (and also includes pages things that you would never think to bookmark deliberately but have later discover some need to revisit it despite that—ever fished something out of your past without having bookmarked it, but were able to relocate it years later because you could recall something about an HN thread that you participated in?). I continue using bookmarks and tags—which, like you, I treat it as as close to a zero-friction act as possible rather than meticulously filing it away in a hierarchy. Using Hypothesis, though, is a supplement to ordinary bookmark usage—an additional resource.

> I might move on to a self-hosted bookmark solution in the future that adds the the option to locally archive a webpage

I recommend using Zotero to capture snapshots but otherwise continuing to use browser-based bookmarks. My relationship with Zotero is similar to Hypothesis—having known about it for years, I only started using it recently (ca. 2020). But it's great. I should've been using it all along.
Imagine being asked that in an interview and you haven't caused one before... glad I didn't the job, they used an MS-Cloud stack anyways. I think I'd rather live on Skid Row (just kidding).
Tobbaco smoking does not have any practical uses for us, it's just a bad habit. On the other hand, being able to drive a car is a huge benefit for our quality of life, so we accept that it comes with some cost.
_Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby is what got me hooked. His quirky little foxes made it fun to just burn through the whole book and left me with enough knowledge to be useful, and able to ask the right questions to learn more.

It was just the right kick at the right moment, and he will have a place in my heart forever.
That thread was a huge mess of confusion and misinformation. I hope I managed to dispel some confusions there
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I wished pine64 would make one. I'd prefer that over their phone or tablet with keyboard.
App forces you to submit photo/timelapse proof of your habits or you lose money
Hey Hacker News!

Over lockdown, I struggled to wake up on time and form a routine. I started telling my friend what I was going to do in the morning, and if I didn't send photo proof, I'd have to donate money. This was absolutely bulletproof: I woke up, worked out and meditated before I'd usually be awake, consistently, for the first time ever. I only skipped days due to freak accidents (there was no way I'd stay in bed knowing that I'd lose $20).

I've spent the past year and a half, on/off, building this into a Flutter app. The premise is that you say what you're going to do, the deadline for when you submit the evidence, and how much money you'll lose (70% to charity - GiveDirectly) if you don't submit the evidence. We manually approve the evidence.

Excited to share it with you! Here are some examples of what you can use it for:

1. Waking up on time (eg, a photo of your toothbrush).
2. Working out (eg, a photo inside a gym).
3. Writing (eg, a photo of 3hrs of writing on a time tracker software)
4. Reading (eg, a timelapse of yourself reading for 30 minutes).
5. Meditating (eg, a timelapse of you meditating).
6. Running (eg, a photo of you in your running shoes outside).
7. Finishing an essay on time (eg, a photo of your essay submitted on your student portal).
8. Walking the dog in the morning (eg, a photo of your dog on a park trail).
9. Doing laundry (eg, a photo of your laundry in the washer).

I launched this to the public a couple of weeks ago - would love to hear your thoughts!

All my best,

Josh
RE the GDP's portability: I had a One Mix Yoga (similar form factor) a few years ago and also used a bunch for this reason as well:

> It’s ultra-portable. It resides permanently in my waist bag (a.k.a. fanny pack for my American readers) alongside my wallet and phone, and I carry it around everywhere when I’m out and about. It’s super lightweight for a laptop (I hardly feel the extra grams), and reaching for it only takes a second or so, as does putting it away.

Though I'm pretty biased, this makes me excited for the future of VR computing.[1] Obviously headset form factors are larger than the GDP Micro right now, but there's a lot of appeal to being able to strap a device on virtually anywhere you are (in your background, on the couch, on your bed) and being able to make some incremental progress on some problem you're working on.

[1] https://simulavr.com
Err... Yeah, depending on what you mean by "field", the answer is yes. In one day it is possible to stick 150 fields in an HTML document and apply some CSS to make it look nice.
> longest stretch of ocean without diversions in the world.

I'm pretty sure this is wrong. LAX - Papetee is 8 hours and the only island that could break it up is probably Hawaii.

Not to mention Auckland->Santiago or Perth -> Jakarta.
The Pinephone is only usable because multiple communities of volunteers have created software for it. Pine64 encouraged this effort with the first wave of phone releases as "community editions". Now it appears that they are abandoning this effort in favor of a distribution, Manjaro, which has not been putting in as much effort on writing software as the other distros; Manjaro even seems to be mismanaging their release of software by prioritizing updates over stability.

One could argue that multiple communities of volunteers is not an efficient way to run a hardware and software project, but I think that overlooks some key aspects of how volunteering works.
yes in aware of the technicality but here nobody really cares. if you publish it and its posted on reddit or some other forum all you can do is hope the web host respects your DMCA notice. Often the process is offputting that most would not bother and claiming damages is even more expensive and difficult with very low chance of success.

putting it in public domain or publishing it on the internet results in the same outcome, you lose control over it's access and distribution. its even worse because if you try to censor it or known to litigate, it would cause streisand effect.

you are not hulu and you cannot afford the legal costs. even then it still doesn't stop torrent websites from hosting your content and distributing it.
I've always considered it the European REI/MEC, albeit a bit on the cheaper end.

For some reason outdoor gear in the US seems to go from low quality Walmart stuff straight to high end more boutique brands, skipping a "high volume, durable quality, no need for ultra-technical specs" solid affordability zone that Decathlon seems to operate in.
You're saying happiness and unhappiness exist on independent scales, should we plot them in an x-y graph then? Upper right quadrant: overexcitement, lower left quadrant: boredom. Not sure about the off-diagonals.
>How do you handle the transition at 2:04 where "Last Name" is moved from its own row to sharing a row with "First Name"? Keep in mind I might want to add a third element in that row afterwards.

This is pretty simple with CSS grid -- literally takes a couple of seconds. I am a fan of Delphi, and used it myself in the late 90s, but I think you just might just give it more credit due to familiarity.

There are benefits to a web-app these days, due to the onerous requirements and demands of different operating systems and platforms.
I'm not a huge fan of the web in general, but your assertions here are, plainly, incorrect.
No worries. It also didn't help that, if I recall correctly, clearXchange was also marketed by the different banks under their own pet names for the service. So there wasn't even a single name for it.
That way doesn't scale well. Things become very messy and unmaintainable really quickly. This is how people code in the past, and there are good reasons why people moved on.
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> I dont get the desire to cast light as something non quantum.

Because you can describe it entirely using classical physics in this situation
Relevant: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people
“Traffic deaths surged after coronavirus lockdowns ended in 2020 as more drivers engaged in unsafe behavior like speeding and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, regulators said. ”

“NHTSA released behavioral research findings from March 2020 through June this year that indicated incidents of speeding and traveling without a seatbelt were higher than before the pandemic.”

Hmmm. I get that people like some sort of narrative but I don’t suppose we could start producing the data so we can actually better understand the problem.

40,000 people die in crashes every year. “People speeding, under the influence, and not wearing seatbelts” doesn’t tell us where to start. I’m sure the data has a few more additional details.
And now you have to set up debugging for a Scala backend, a Node application running a GraphQL server, and a React Native frontend running in an iOS simulator.
> Personally, I find it obvious that Republicans have crossed that line. Maybe they will come back, maybe not

And many Republicans "find it obvious" that the Democrats are going to destroy the USA by supporting insert whatever Republicans are angry about today. Gay Rights, or something

As Objectively Correct you think you are, they think they are equally Objectively Correct. You are being equally dismissive of them as they are of you, and therefore you are also part of the problem.

Seeing their side doesn't mean you are obligated to COMPROMISE with them, but as long as you are dismissing them outright as having "crossed a line", you're just as extreme as they are.
> They have a monopoly on providing services within iOS.

This sounds similar to how Torvalds has a monopoly on services within mainline Linux?
Ask HN: Weekly Design Challenges for Developers?
While running a UI/UX design team for B2B startups, I do enjoy coaching developers from time to time. Helping them become better at recognizing why something feels ugly or off and how to find solutions quickly.

I wonder if people would be interested in a weekly UI/UX design challenge over email. And where I pick one or two submitted designs to provide deeper analysis and tips on how to make it better and why.
I love the idea of a bivy for bikepacking - any recommendations for templates/design ideas?
Oh, sorry. I misunderstood you.
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Interac is not really the same thing. It's much closer to Venmo, but with more integration with your bank. Mostly because not all banks are actually in the interac network and the transfers are between interac accounts, not bank accounts. You can set it up to autodeposit but it's still a "third" party layer more than actual interbank transfers.
Which stories did Fox not run?
It may be clear to you, but it's missing some context - it's 11% of the 75%, so really an overall 8% reduction. Using the number of 11% instead of 8% could be construed as trying to hype up the results.
I'd rather just have a good linux phone than have to carry around a phone and PC separately. n900, ye will be missed
My MBP fell off my chair (maybe 18"?) onto a wooden floor and the screen shattered. Not sure what it cost my employer to replace that, but I am extremly unimpressed w/ the durability of these things. It was certainly inconvenient for me to have to switch computers for a couple weekswhile mine was being repaired.
Downvoted because one author has a particular way of symbolizing or relating trancendence? IIRC Hinduism devotes an entire quarter-life stage to time for such focus.
Python I can understand because of the 2 to 3 transition.

But JavaScript that worked in 1995 still works today. All of it.
What do learning styles matter if they're not associated with the learner, but instead associated with the type of task? If the standard she's using for support is the simple existence of different ways of teaching different things, she should be happy because there are different ways of teaching things, and nobody disagrees with her.

If she believes that different types of brains need to be taught in different ways than other types of brains, that's a far stronger claim that deserves some evidence.
I don't read it as damage control at all. He wrote a blog post on this topic 6 months ago questioning Pine64's future.
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So it's clearly a story...
Most of the maps in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Poland or clicking around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Poland suggest Poland has borders about as stable as any country.

Sure parts of what is now Russia have been part of Poland before, but the center is surprising stable.
A great way to spontaneously trigger a midlife crisis, no matter your age, is to watch Youtube videos about the universe, the origin of life, etc.

You'll get this inspirational rush of how amazing everything is, how vast the universe, how incredibly unusual for life to exist and for us specifically as a species to exist. And the advanced state we're in, able to do almost anything.

And then you realize that you're using this incredible and very temporary opportunity to sit in a chair for most of your waking hours, for decades in a row.

You're not exploring anything, you're not celebrating life, not producing any meaning. You just sit there, like a robot, pissing it all away. Not depressing enough? Your existence is actually the top 10% of humanity.

Anyway, have a great day.
If a theory is unfalsifiable, it's unscientific. The whole point of theories grounded in science is they allow you to make accurate predictions about the world.

What can you make predictions about if the matching hypothesis isn't true? What does this actually tell you about the world? Nothing.
Nonsense. What's printed on the bill absolutely proves it. What kind of fantasy world are you living in?
And a lot of people who blogged more now do twitter threads. Or they just don't get started doing blogs.
So it's a story then? People in this thread are arguing that it isn't.
Remembering
That's speculation
Open Notepad, yeah, that classic one from Windows. Look at it, see all its menus, features, behavior. Now ask yourself: How much time would take me to create a clone of it in my preferred IDE/programming language?

Then comeback here and tell me your answer. I will tell you in advance mine: "In Delphi it would take maximum 3 hours". That's the core definition of RAD.
There are countless alternatives - GitLab, Sourceforge, self-hosted GitLab, a tar file on Google Drive, etc.