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You've shown your words to be meaningless. You said the U.S. car brands were "completely irrelevant" outside the U.S., here you admit that's wrong. You move the goalpost and change your assertion to something entirely different. But there is no reason to think this statement has any factual basis either. You're just talking out of your &ss.
The Western carmakers have been responding rationally to market signals in moving away from EVs, meanwhile Chinese carmakers are responding rationally to government mandates and subsidies.
It's actually the Western approach that is logically more sustainable, modulo global warming impacts. So it's odd to say that selling what people actually want to buy right now is "dooming them to irrelevance." The Guardian and the people it quotes are actualy saying "car buyers are wrong" but by way of blaming the companies responding to their signals. In the absence of, say, a carbon tax, what they are doing is highly relevant.
Fracking led the U.S. to be a net oil exporter, meanwhile EVs have infrastructure costs Western governemnts are not prepared to subsidize any further. Those charging stations can easily cost $50k to install. The batteries are not cheap or easy to make, and the low price of Chinese vehicles is down to heavy subsidies, and much of Western demand was also propped up by subsidies that have been going away. Gas stations are built out, ICs are well understood. Yes the Iran situation has pushed up prices but that doesn't mean they'll stay high long term.
There is very little evidence the market actually wants EVs. They are nice to drive, probably net better for the environment and our health, long term will likely "win," but none of that makes them "relevant" today or ICs "irrelevant."
That’s interesting about Austria, thanks for that! I may have underestimated them. (I did check their growth rate and for whatever reason not as strong as S Korea…)
Post made some good points but in the end it's pretty nihilistic to say that elite spaces shouldn't exist merely because they tend to cultivate elites and other elite spaces. Also very reductive to say that Harvard exists just to perpetuate elitism (no, it has a genuine educational and research mission, whatever its various flaws, that's patently clear).
The world is flawed and imperfect and perfect things don't really emerge from it. Harvard is glorious. Our best and oldest (in the US) university is bad because it's not sufficiently egalitarian, and let's destroy it? It's an engine for our society and other universities have followed in its footsteps. Stanford, Caltech, Rice, Berkeley, the Claremont schools, etc etc - none of these were in the original ivy league, all are imperfect to some extent in their admissions and embrace and fulfillment of egalitarian ideals. They are also glorious though. They make our country a dynamic, innovative, intellectually vibrant place and attract students from around the world. They absolutely are key to our (staggering) economic and cultural success (in the US).
Elite clubbiness is an unfortunate side effect of success, but it doesn't mean we should then intentionally obliterate the engine of that success out of distaste for the cose of it.
The best insight in the article is actually this:
cheaper real estate presents an opportunity for employers with vision
On top of any deterioration in office rents, companies need way less space than they used to since people are working from home many days. This opens up many possibilities that will IMO keep offices in prime markets filled:
-companies take more space per person in office for same cost, providing desks
-companies that couldn’t afford prime markets move in and use them as mainly collaboration spaces (“let’s all work out of Manhattan next week while we finish this project”)
-companies downsize in prime markets but reorient toward specific events - brainstorming, project closings, strategy retreats, get to know each other, cross department workshopping etc etc
No comparison between the excellent economic growth of South Korea and that of Greece, Hungary, Austria, or Italy going back to either cold war or post cold war days, despite this hypothesis of "empire gradient". If you google "World Bank GDP growth <countryname>" you can find charts back to 1961.
South Korea exports consumer goods to the large US market, this has been a massive fuel for their growth. They followed in Japan's footsteps (and China, for a time at least, followed in theirs). I can't think of a single manufactured product out of Greece, Hungary, Austria and few from Italy to the US.
Being on an "empire gradient" is just an arbitrary way to look at a country.
You know who else is on an empire gradient? North Korea. Afghanistan. Belarus. You're not even specifying which side of the empire gradient. Maybe being on the authoritarian, communist side did not work out so well for many countries?
I think what matters for South Korea is moving steadily toward more democratic governance, embracing capitalism, and proximity and historic ties with Japan (not always pleasant, obviously, but ties nonetheless) at a time when Japan was developing robust trade with the US and when Japan's own consumer sector was booming, providing another market for Korean firms.
Korea has absolutely followed the pattern of moving steadily up the value chain, for example in consumer electronics, in autos.
…he says, as his company eagerly does business with Xi in China.
No organization I am part of will ever do business with you if I can stop it.
You fought for Turing but I suppose the Uyghur concentration camps mean nothing to you. They are not British so how could their lives be worth fighting for when there is money to be made (for yourself) without regard to morality or any sense of decency.
But good job doing Cloudflare PR.
You’ve correctly observed that success can bring unpleasant side effects. I think it’s too late to save Linux from this. It is used by all manner of parasites. The tracking bugs that slow down the web and invade our privacy? They are quite often backed by Linux. The Android OS that allows Google to follow users’ every last movement, web search, and email? Linux. Database servers at Facebook, Google, and any number of data brokers? Linux.
I am not saying this makes Linux bad. What I am saying is, making it easier to charge for software is not going to “spoil” Linux with commercial parasites. If anything, paid software could help undermine the surveillance economy by providing a more direct way to support the creation of good software that doesn’t spy on you, like the default Google Android apps or the Google web apps many people use on Linux desktops. All that stuff is commercial too, you just don’t pay for it in money, and maybe the source code is open, but you darn sure pay with your personal data.
It’s worse than birth control. There are concentration camps in xinjiang. Called “re-education” or “vocational training.” There are many places to begin educating yourself on this (not directed at the person I’m replying to, but to the downvoters). You can start here if you like. Hrw is human rights watch. https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/19/break-their-lineage-br...
This has already happened. Chen Quanguo was party secretary in Tibet during a major crackdown there and in 2016 transferred to be party secretary of Xinjiang where he led a very similar campaign of severe repression. He remains party secretary there.
You can read about this any number of places including https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch...
Totally incorrect. The most cursory research (e.g. a Google for “US government”, a search on the nytimes, lookup in the AP style guide) will refute this.
Anyway, regardless of your personal definition of the term, the intent of communication of the person you are replying to is crystal clear and in obvious contradiction to your analysis. (That person expressly uses the word “federal.”)
In open source the trend unfortunately seems to be toward a Readme.md with a couple of simplistic examples, then you’re left to read the source in lieu of a proper API reference.
I still remember CPAN perldocs as a high water mark for docs. They had specific sections for examples, starting with the summary at the top, and another for proper reference. And more importantly a strong culture of good docs. The examples tended to be close to comprehensive, progressing from simple to complicated problems. Then there would be a rundown of arguments and return values for the key methods.
Legal documents do this as well (albeit in different language, typically at the top of the document).
My experience with Apple store is also similar to the experience described (actively making false statements, in my case about a laptop logic board).
OP was correctly refuting the prior post which claimed "US govt" (that means federal) is "mostly in the business of insurance (welfare, healthcare) and 'education'. Defense and infrastructure come some time after those."
It's just not true that the federal government spends more on education than defense, in fact it's very lopsided in the other direction.
The context is a thread on the federal income tax specifically, and someone said the federal govt used to be not very technologically ambitious, and someone else says, essentially, it still isn't technologically ambitious, it spends most of its money on education and social welfare. OP corrected that. The social welfare part has some validity but federal education spending is quite minor.
Yes the total spending by all govts in the US including state + local has a lot more education spending but the thread and the whole article are focused on federal taxes.
From the white paper published on netbsd.org:
“ An implementation that does this ships with NetBSD, allowing the NetBSD drivers to be run in NetBSD userspace… The first major PCI driver developed was the In- tel Centrino 7260 driver developed for NetBSD and OpenBSD by Antti Kantee. The commit message said “This is probably the world’s first Canadian cross device driver: it was created for OpenBSD by writing and port- ing a NetBSD driver which was developed in a rump ker- nel in Linux userspace.”[13]
Further, just another example, from page 149 in the dissertation is an extended many page discussion of how the rump kernel was used to provide usb support in netbsd.
http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2012/isbn9789526049175/isbn9789526049...
“ We implemented a host controller called ugenhc. When the kernel’s device autocon- figuration subsystem calls the ugenhc driver to probe the device, the ugenhc driver tries to open /dev/ugen on the host. If the open is successful, the host kernel has attached a device to the respective ugen instance and ugenhc can return a successful match. Next, the ugenhc driver is attached in the rump kernel, along with a USB bus and a USB root hub. The root hub driver explores the bus to see which devices are connected to it, causing the probes to be delivered first to ugenhc and through /dev/ugen to the host kernel and finally to the actual hardware. Figure 3.24 con- tains a “dmesg” of a server with four ugenhc devices configured and one USB mass media attached.”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe read this whitepaper:
https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/justin/2015_Asi...
“ The rump kernel has been used as a way to supply device drivers in other new operating systems, which do not yet have a full set of device drivers. For example, Genode[4] is a framework for building microkernel operating sys- tems using the L4 family of microkernels. Genode uses the rump kernel to provide file system support, so that it does not have to develop its own file systems.”
Here’s a 362 page dissertation on rump kernels which has a netbsd focus:
http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2012/isbn9789526049175/isbn9789526049...
There’s also the Wikipedia entry.
other major cloud providers catch CSAM content on their platform by inspecting every file uploaded
So does Apple.
EDIT: some people don’t like that answer, but “inspecting” in this context clearly means “digitally inspecting” (Google does not physically look at every file) and Apple does this with files that are uploaded. They do it in device, but it’s still inspected. That’s the whole point of this controversy, that there’s not much difference to people WHERE apple inspects and on device is actually arguably worse. Your sentence does not in any way distinguish what Apple does from what others do.
That is super interesting. I will say the package manager (pkgsrc) seems to be very portable as well. It’s default on netbsd, smartos/illumos, and minix, but also available for macOS, Linux, and other operating systems. I use it routinely on smartos and it’s a breeze.
The risk is real in banking. I wasn't just referring to customers there, but to the whole system, since the criticism of this idea has been quite broad. But there is some real risk for customers. There are caps on FDIC coverage and there can still be significant disruption even if you are insured and will be made whole.
Thanks and be sure to post the distribution here on HN if it ever happens, call recording sounds great (I achieve this only with a tangle of wires, adapters, and a physically separate audio recorder)
My point is, Apple has already crossed the rubicon of allowing users to lock themselves out of their data. On an iPhone, regardless of auto-erase settings, if you lock yourself out, Apple cannot help you.
What initially drove you to Calyx vs Lineage? I'm new to the Android fork landscape. I gravitate to /e/os because I like that it's prepackaged, but have no qualms about rooting a phone myself if the OS is good. My main concern is privacy and with Lineage I didn't trust myself to set it up properly - it seems as much oriented toward people wanting to just upgrade their Android phones or add features as people interested in privacy. So I worried about defaults. Calyx looks a little more explicitly pro privacy?
On laptop I moved to Qubes a few years ago, on a ThinkPad X1 carbon which is an amazing machine. I keep a c2014 MacBook around for miscellaneous things (e.g. syncing Spotify local songs to my phone over local WiFi, which I have not figured out how to do in the Linux client).
For phone I’m very interested in /e/os and the one phone you can get new with it preinstalled, the Teracube 2 (wired has a Teracube review of the very similar previous model).
I am looking at photoprism running on a home server (intel nuc) synced via PhotoSync (can sync photos via sftp). It actually looks really cool and uses tensorflow to do some sort of AI photo sorting locally.
By the way, while there’s a learning curve to this stuff, it feels very empowering and educational once you’ve put in the work. It feels like the future. Compute and storage is cheap. I think hosting things on your own server is the inevitable future. Once you’re set up it just hums along. This stuff will eventually be sold in appliance form (see Helm email server for the model).
abstract problem solving, logic, bigger-picture-how-things-fit-together.
These skills are not unique to programming. It’s true that building sophisticated applications requires skills that need to be developed over time. But there are many many useful programs short of that that can be written with a beginner’s limited knowledge. We see already with python widespread use by non computer scientists in certain fields. I think going forward this will become more and more common across more fields and beyond academia.
/e/os seems reasonably good for phones. It’s far from an iPhone or even stock new Android but not an order of magnitude worse and none of this file scanning.
For users, if you enable this feature, but then lose your password, you are entirely screwed and Apple can't help you.
Exactly the same with the phone if you forget your PIN/passcode. So they already do this.
I think one of the best things the U.S. government could do would be to buy and nationalize 1password and give everyone a license. Canadians too, since it was one of your companies :-)
I am being intentionally outrageous but do genuinely feel that a good password manager is foundational to good digital security and I find it baffling that it does not come bundled with operating systems or in some other way offered for free. It's such a basic thing that could be done to increase collective resilience to digital attacks.
(And if 1password doesn't want to sell there should be funding for an open source equivalent with a default server hosted by either the government or a trusted nonprofit.)
The browser isn’t the only consumer of an api, they are called server to server as well (and this was particularly common when they couldn’t be called directly from the browser). Headlines from other sites, weather, hit counters, all that great late 90s web innovation.
Your first sentence is wrong for many scenarios and is meaningless without a time interval. Over a period of 10 years the risk historically is absolutely higher from inflation than a total market mutual fund.
If people were good at sweeping excess balances into their investments I think this idea would be less appealing. But for a variety of reasons, many perfectly rational, people like having a nice cushion in there. It feels safe. Long term, it isn’t. These guys should lean into that in their marketing.