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> Right now is a very interesting moment in that the future is crystal clear and yet so many people of all persuasions don't want to accept it for so many different reasons

Anyone who thinks the future is crystal clear is an extremely arrogant, and the narrative you present is inconsistent in ways which show an extremely poor understanding of the way international economics works.

> The USA is going to claw back whatever economic largesse it has granted to the rest of the world

It hasn't granted "economic largesse" to the rest of the world, and to the extent that that term can be stretched to describe something that has been granted, it can't be clawed back; the (extremely small, compared to the size of the economy) amount of aid has largely been about establishing influence and soft power, and trade isn't largesse, its mutually beneficial. To withdraw from it weakens both sides, and the US generally withdrawing will hurt the US more than the rest of the world.

> This is a net relative win for the US economically because once it claws back what it needs, it has a better ability to "go it alone" than any other country in the world.

The kind of retreat from wide trade to mercantilist protectionism might be a relative "win" for the US (though it would still be an absolute loss for all parties, contracting the aggregate production possibilities curve as well as that for all nations), if the US engagement in "go it alone" idiocy convinced every other country to try the same thing, and if you were right that the US was the best prepared to go it alone.

But, more likely, were it to occur, while it would be an absolute loss for everyone compared to what things would be without it, it would end up a relative loss for the US, because most countries wouldn't try to follow the US in going it alone, and the US's retreat will just be looked at in mystified disbelief by other nations as they continue to reap the benefits of trade and the US fades and falls behind in every way.
It is the parent's responsibility to look after their child. If they're using the internet unmonitored when young, the parent is at fault. This responsibility should not be forced upon the gov't which would have to add any draconian laws to prevent mishaps.
I feel there's a cliff drop of quality in both hardware and software with the release of Big Sur, the version where I believe they rewrote a lot of the softwares. It's very obvious when I replaced my 2015 MacBook Pro with a 2020 MacBook Pro M1, everything downgraded, but now I'm getting used to software being clunky and buggy.

I always really liked a lot of apple software, like Preview.app. It's a viewer for almost everything, images, documents, 3d models, but it doesn't feel bloat at all, I'm glad Apple doesn't seem to change the app much. Also shocked the first time I found out TextEdit.app is also a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
50% of Americans will find out if this is what they thought will "Make America Great Again".

Destroying our relationship with our neighbors and embracing Russia, Iran, and North Korea by assisting them in destroying Ukraine and the Western alliance.
The real issue seems to be that they might kill protected birds more often than buildings or cats, which seem to kill smaller common species (usually of lesser concern).
> Competitive edge for computer programmers going forward: knowing how computers work.

Only if they're young or famous. Otherwise, they're automatically kicked to the curb because the common thinking these days is that anyone with even a single gray hair is "out of touch with technology" even if they've wasted their entire lives staying on the "bleeding edge". Apparently only the young understand technology, and the people who built and maintained it all their lives are just "clueless old farts" like the morons we've got in Congress passing laws about technology.
With recent events I’ve been thinking about Dune lately. Once you start to compare what happens in dune to what is happening now, it's rather unpleasant.

Prescience allows for the complete domination of humanity, but to some degree we already working on pre-prescience. Privatized intelligence companies have grown as part of our corporate surveillance state. These companies, like palantir, act as “truthsayers,” divining the state of reality from incredible amounts of information for those with the money to buy it. America has companies that rival countries in terms of power, and these intelligence companies that service them can act as king maker and influence, subtly or directly, with some very giant levers.

The US government is closer to the Landsraad, each house is a corporation, each CEO a duke or baron.

Peter Thiel is likely the reverend mother architect of a recent messianic rise to power.

I am not 100% sure exactly what the Bene Gesserit were supposed to represent, but on a deep level I think they represent intelligence agencies like the CIA.

Social Media has a lot of overlap with “the voice.” With A/B testing various groups with divisive messages, to see what divides most effectively, it creates a means of control. Nobody was commanded to show up on jan 6, but the “command” to do so was heard. This is very in line with frank Herbert’s idea of what the voice was. A/B testing messages on humans at scale is like learning the voice.

We now have Cameras, RF Receivers (blue tooth/driver's license detection), phone backups, website logs, and a host of other surveillance all centralized, maybe not directly, into the hands of private intelligence. With all these sources of information we are getting closer and closer and closer to prescience. We are still limited by computing power to make sense of all the data, but the god emperor of dune was not. With the rise of AI, we now have the potential for a thinking/processing agent with no sense of morality to be assigned to every single individual, in order to carry out the absolute crushing of any nascent dissent before it can become cohesive enough to threaten those in power.

We are dangerously close to uncheckable totalitarian rule. When our rulers do something we don't like, they will laugh and say "what are you going to do about it?" Every potential weapon purchased will be fed into their "prescient" machine, so will every communication with another individual, and every use of transportation. When your personal AI agent determines you are at risk of "doing something about it," an example will be made of you.
> Is it time for the 3rd iteration of Netscape to happen?

The 3rd iteration is Brave.

Those pursuing the 4th iteration need threat models and defenses to improve upon the results of prior iterations.
This is not the only instance of the software quality crisis in Apple.

<Warning: long and extremely critical rant incoming>

TL;DR Apple just does not have a qualified team (from the top) or the right team size (the one in the company is far too small).

I test beta releases of Apple’s OSes and report issues. I’ve seen a few factors over several years:

* There is not enough QA (or probably no QA at all) at Apple. So many bugs just creep through to release even after having been reported with tons of information and system logs provided. There is no attention paid to any bug report unless it is known and believed (by someone at Apple) to affect hundreds of users. Even then there’s little chance of attention to it.

* There is no feedback loop from Apple back to the bug reporter — you toss your bug report and assume it goes into some black hole.

* The direction of software development in Apple has moved to taking whatever is done on iOS — with a mediocre approach and plan — everywhere else. This includes things like Catalyst (the main reason you’d hate a macOS app from Apple). Try navigating Reminders or Music or any other Catalyst app on macOS with the keyboard — it’s as if the developers have never ever heard of tab order or have never used a keyboard that has non-alphabetical and non-numeric keys.

* Continuing on the previous point, Apple’s own app developers know something about how to create a mediocre iOS app, but over time the developer base has changed such that it has no knowledge of or history with desktop operating systems. I have no idea what top executives like Craig Federighi are even doing and why (I’m sounding generous here) they’re seemingly held hostage to such poor quality.

* When you look at the issues across device platforms and OSes, Apple seems to have one tiny team of software developers who work part time on all of those. Monday is iOS OS day, Tuesday is iPadOS day, Wednesday is macOS day, Thursday is iOS app day, Friday is iOS app day, Saturday is Apple Intelligence day and Sunday is a tvOS, homeOS and AirPods day. Apple’s services get a few hours here and there every few months.
Newsom orders state workers to return to the office 4 days a week in California
Try command + click on the folder in the top of the window to go up
You’re certainly welcome to disagree. But I strongly disagree that it’s not a problem.

If higher learning isn’t the core mission, then there are better ways to advance knowledge and improve the lives of people and the environment.

Per https://jsri.msu.edu/publications/nexo/vol-xxii/no-1-fall-20...

> This has had several consequences for the governance of universities: 1) the role of shared governance has receded in importance in the day-to-day governance of universities; 2) the balance of power and authority has shifted toward administrators; and 3) faculty have been subjected to a series of performance measures that disproportionately values productivity over shared governance participation.

Publish-or-perish and shoddy research is a direct result of this shift in the mission, as measurements became all but expected.

By the time I entered uni the 1990s, things were shifting negatively in higher institutions.
So I guess there is no return to office for appointees.
> why would you not want the strongest military you could possibly muster to defend your nation?

Because it comes at the opportunity cost of other things we could spend money on. For example, you could cut education to fund military even more, but it would eventually catch up to us.
Vanilla GNOME has most of the features you'd expect from Mac windowing. It doesn't go out of it's way to replicate the Mac desktop, but IMO it's much simpler as a result.

Been running GNOME for about 2 years now and the experience is really smooth. If you've got a Magic Trackpad, it works wonders on modern Linux. I also recommend GSConnect or Valent for a handoff-like experience with your phone:

https://valent.andyholmes.ca/

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/
Intel/Samsung are behind. That is a fact.

The question is, is it better to wage a massive war that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and many lives than to make an equal investment into the semi-conductor industry.
i just hope for a sufficiently smart compiler shrug (i'm pretty sure go has some autovectorization)

before jumping to another language, I suggest perhaps examine the memory layout and access patterns.
Cython. Writes like Python, runs like C. Strangely underappreciated.
You had copy and paste? Lucky!! In my day we actually had to type code by hand from books or magazines (or worse yet from memory).
Why would they be deeper, if you mean 'deeper under the surface of the earth'?
Have other countries elected traitors as leaders before or is this a first?
Yes, Apple Finder is so freaking slow, browsing a moderately large folder is challenging, nevermind a network share.
Europe can't cure American political disease. The public discourse, general political education and health of American institutions is alarmingly bad. IMO it's unlikely that these trends will stop. America is suited to isolationism and Trump type views of the world aren't going away from the US voter mindset.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

This is such a cliche, people have been saying it for almost two decades at this point.
Any system you have deep knowledge and experience with makes all the others look like garbage, because you don't know the right menus, can't intuit what you are trying to do and don't know the right workarounds/what the designers intended. As someone who uses MacOS, Windows and Linux on the regular, let me just say, uh... man, Solaris is pretty bad!
> The "clawing back" isn't simply a withdraw of resources back to America, it also requires structural fixes within America (mostly looking at the wealth inequality), as well as properly address the nativist embers that are currently lit.

The political faction pushing this kind of thing (and viewing it as a clawback) is also the one fanning the nativist (and racist!) embers as political cover for while advancing policies that entrench wealth inequality, There is literally no significant faction both interested in this kind of "clawback" and interested in dealing with, rather than exploiting and exacerbating, the other things you point to.
Not sure I even agree about spotlight. Maybe I’m misunderstanding something but can never find what I’m looking for. Even when I’m in the directory, searching for a file in that directory. It’ll just show me random download files.

Granted, I haven’t even tried to use it in years. So maybe it’s not so bad these days?
I recently listened to the audiobook for You Can't Win, by reformed old-timey criminal Jack Black (published 1926). It was amazingly well written (the guy read thousands of books in prison), and showed the underworld in the US and Canada, including the "hop joints".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Win_(book)
Those 'most' Americans fail to vote in sufficient numbers.
Forward Email is a reasonable option. It's fully open source and only $3/mo for unlimited domains. I also appreciate that it supports CalDAV.
So for example, if I do:

static std::weak_ptr<std::array<uint64_t, 125000000>> weak;

std::shared_ptr<std::array<uint64_t, 125000000>> strong = std::make_shared({0});
weak = std::weak_ptr(strong);

That retains 1GiB of memory allocated without any ownership path due to implementation details of std::shared_ptr. Is that a memory leak? There’s no active thread that has a path and yet all of the memory is tracked - if you destroy the weak_ptr thee 1GiB of memory gets reclaimed.
Sounds like an excellent reason to use massive numbers of highly distributed sources that ramp up and down predictably.
Arm is worse or better, in your eyes? I've only used it on servers and aside from build annoyances and slower than x86, it is indistinguishable.
Will macOS and iOS Merge: running iOS binaries on macOS
The last time I had a computer running MacOS, you couldn't even type the directory you were looking for into Finder; you had to use a dropdown menu.
Try VLC, it's an open-source media streaming server as well as a media player.

Linux focused with decent functioning on the Windows version too.

Plays or streams lots of codecs but has many limitations.

MP3's are fairly easy though.

In Windows I suggest carefully installing VLC to a folder you make yourself, such as C:\VLC. It doesn't do very well if allowed to install to its default "Program Files" location, seems it doesn't like a space in the foldername. VLC will want an exception in the Windows Firewall which I enable.

There are extensive VLC settings, but defaults will serve (or play) an MP3 stream right out of the box. In Windows you may not be able to hear anything on the local server speakers without selecting DirectX, but regardless VLC will still serve the streaming files, even without audio hardware on the server PC.

There is a stream "wizard" that can be gone through to end up with a command-line which launches VLC streams accordingly.

There are a lot of options, I narrow it down as follows:

Even in Windows I respect the case-sensitive filenames, always including the .exe extension too:

C:\VLC\vlc.exe C:\mp3s\example.mp3 --sout #duplicate{dst=http{mux=mp3,dst=:8080/mmarRadio},dst=display} :no-sout-all :sout-keep

This launches VLC, streams the example mp3 to port 8080 with a streamname of mmarRadio, and duplicates the stream to the "display" which is really the PC audio since it's not a video stream. That way you can listen to it on the server's speakers simultaneously.

On the main VLC window there is a button to make the media repeat indefinitely too, good for testing.

On a remote PC, you can use VLC to listen by Opening a Network Stream from the File menu, and entering the numerical IP address of the media server:

http://ipaddress:8080/mmarRadio

Windows Media Player plays the stream at this address by "Open URL", in Linux the mp3 stream opens on Celluloid with "Open Location".

There is no file extension for the streamname, the IP address is either the LAN address if local, or the web address of the modem/router whose port 8080 is being forwarded to the mediaserver PC. Web address can be numerical too if there is no DNS. ipv4 is where this is really needed, I disable ipv6 for testing.
The problem isn't knowing how transistors work (although in the old days, you often did learn something about that in the process of learning computers), but rather not even knowing how basic code structure works at all, or simple required math, or logic. Not knowing the absolute basics of code and then thinking you're a "coder" because you can blindly copy/paste code without understanding it on any level is straight-up dangerous.
I think you don't want to see it, but if you were willing to do so, here's the point: each usage is different! Each way a person uses a car has different consequences and implications.

My charging takes less than 1 minute, really. I arrive at home at 4:30, it takes 20 seconds to plug the car and then 20 more seconds to unplug it the next morning.

And what about all the 12 hours between that? Well, I am living my life, I am not charging a car! The car is doing the whole work of charging itself, alone.

That's several orders of magnitude better than going to a gas station.
> It was designed by people who don’t even know what it is for.

> This rings especially true with Windows.

Just take a look at the Windows 11 "Control Panel" or whatever is called and how that looks like just another UI on top of the main system, that does not make sense
just enough to get yelled at, but not enough to get fired. Be an annoyance to deal with, by towing the line.
This is the best comment. I’m far from San Francisco and Silicon Valley, so I end up mostly consuming what the thought leaders there say since it’s easier to access. There’s definitely a tendency for me to lean on that. It’s great to hear more from people who actually build stuff through Hacker News and other ways, but like you said, the real answer is probably for me to stop relying on that and just dive in myself—try things, mess up, and learn. Thanks again.
I helped my little brother put together a gaming PC a few years ago. Before that, I hadn’t even touched a windows computer in a very long time.

I was blown away by how difficult and opaque everything was. I’m sure a lot of it was just unfamiliarity, but a lot of it definitely was not. I actually could not believe how hard of a time I had
I don’t need to ask grok.

Here are high-ball numbers for going off the grid; 2000 sf house in California:

- 30 panels ~ 10kw: $20K

- batteries ~ 10kwh: $8K.

- permits + labor: $20K (California...)

- 100+kwh EV with v2h bidirectional charging: $50K

- comparable ICE car (offset): -$40K

- heat pump water heater $1.5K

- heat pump furnace: $15K

- induction range: $2K

That adds to: $76.5K. Typical PG&E bills are $500-1000 per month. Budget $200 / month for gas. (Again, California prices.). That’s 63-110 months till break even, which is less than the expected lifetime of the panels + battery.

For another $10-20K, you can add propane backup, but I assume extended storms are rare enough to just charge the car and drive the electrons home a few times a year. A fireplace is about $5k installed.

Not going full off-grid is cheaper. So is scaling up to beyond one house.
It's not a systems programming language, but I actually wrote a userland "device driver" in Python, for startup MVP pragmatic firefighting reasons.

It was somehow rock-solid in over a year of factory production overseas. Which might not have been the case, if I'd written it in C and put in the kernel, like might normally be good practice.

(It hooked into some kernel interfaces, did a little multiple USB device management, and low-level keyboard-like decoding with efficient I/O, and buffered and parsed and did something with the output of that.)

I have mixed feelings about Python: it often it hurts more than it helps (if you know better ways to do things), but the ecosystem has some nice off-the-shelf components, and it's popular/employable. However, due to the popularity, the average quality of any article you might find through Web is unfortunately low.

(For an unpopular language, you'll get a few people writing articles from a junior/neophyte knowledge level, as part of their learning, or because someone said it was good for resume-boosting. That can be good. But no one is going to waste time pounding SEO low-quality filler for a language that doesn't make money. Well, at least they wouldn't before LLMs, but who knows how the economics have changed, now. :)
Apple creates excellent hardware but mediocre apps. Look at Reminders app for instance. Try to create a task. And then drag it to another list. Absolutely not a smooth experience. Feels like it‘s not a finished product. Now compare that to another app: Things3, where the drag and drop of list items is rasor sharp: You have the feeling you have full control over the item.

That’s just one experience. Another: Look at Photos app. Apple recently changed it. Total chaos. No lists anymore but tiles. I have to scroll up and down to find out where my lists of photos are. Germans call it „verschlimmbessern“, making it worse by trying to improve.

Or look at Finder app. And compare it to any competing product.

No app created by Apple really convinces me. None of them. Every product by an indy dev is magnitudes better.
I should probably experience the best stuff out there, take it apart, and make it my own. I’m not going to stop, I’ll keep going.
> across the ocean

It is, but it also isn't, given the US forces on Okinawa, and also just generally in the region. The US military is not a force that exists for homeland defense, it's a force designed purely to project power across the ocean.

> engage militarily

This can mean a lot of things though. A steady flow of matériel and intelligence given to an island that's basically a giant and highly-defended mountain-range is going to go a very long way.

> is any US president

I mean in the last 150 years they've shown a remarkable willingness to intervene, more than once in proxy wars against the Chinese.
Fuzztester here is asking about system languages. I see a lot of people suggesting things I'd consider non systems languages.
Seems like a reasonable metric that isn't based on simple gut reactions to anything.
If they are, then they aren't paying enough attention, or are spectacularly ignorant about how dangerous all of this is.
> The whole premise of TSMC is that losing TSMC would cause such a global economic collapse that defending Taiwan is the only option to prevent this from happening.

TSMC just hits the media often. If Taiwan goes the global economy will have way more problems than just TSMC. There is a long list of companies in many supply chains that would be impacted (not just computing).
> The Dutch East Indies was literally "mining" spice ( cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, nutmeg, star anise, clove, and turmeric )

Only ginger and turmeric are found below soil, and even then you wouldn't usually describe farmers as "literally mining for potatoes."
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