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The UK is exposing very little of its workforce to great tunnelling projects, because very little of HS2 is about tunnelling, and most of the rest of the technology is being bought in anyway.

This repeats an old pattern. The UK used to have a nationalised rail system with world-class R&D. The R&D was effectively given away when the system was privatised, and then the technology was bought in when it was needed later - from foreign companies which were now charging the UK for IP it had developed at home.

Even if that weren't true, the UK would be competing in a tiny space with even larger projects - like the Brenner Base Tunnel, which is currently burrowing through 55km of solid rock under the Alps.

The reality is there is very little real payback in terms of jobs and future opportunities - certainly much less than spending the money on world class broadband infrastructure and technology training.

The infuriating thing about HS2 is that it's basically just pork for party donors dressed up as a strategic and patriotic wonder - because the ruling class just can't deal with the fact that the 19th century is over.

Meanwhile the strategic areas the UK is actually a significant player in - including plenty of science and technology, and not a little engineering, but also the arts, finance, and law - are being starved of investment, opportunity, and effective management.
Such words are the nightmares of people who translate fiction.

Translators that work dubbing movies have harder constraints and seldom fail to make sense, only when there're wordplays or words that sound similar to others...
Bash has arrays:

var=( a b "c d" )
ls "${var[@]}"

POSIX shell can get you what you want with eval:

var='a b "c d"'
eval "ls $var"

There is also one array variable in POSIX shells, the argument list:

set -- a b "c d"
ls "$@"
Why not just block it out instead of blur? Like all out white or black block, or any color, or a 'redacted' button?
> For other jobs outside of software, it is even worse.

My understanding is that it’s the opposite. Software is significantly underpaid but you can do quite well with a typical paper-pushing bullshit job.
Do you have a source for the claim that this has happened at protests in Hong Kong? I haven't heard of anyone being arrested here on the basis that they had Signal installed.
But don't forget that these methods use class-averaging and each class represents members of a frozen structure. One of the beauties of cryoEM is that if your structure is dynamic, cryoEM will actually capture the ensemble in each class, which if you have enough images of each class you can solve each states' structure. One caveat is that if there are no local minima, you may have a huge number of states which means you won't get high resolution structures of each, but typically you'll have a few conformations that are reasonably stable. The other cool thing is you can throw in literal cell lysate and let the computers "purify" the sample for you. This allows the native environment to participate in the thermodynamic landscape of dynamic proteins, possibly showing more meaningful dynamic states.
You're right! I was planning to tell a story about some bulk file changes using dd, but then I saw it was a giant "you had to be there" story so I posted with half a context.
Comp.lang.lisp was awful, and the trend somewhat continues even though it has gotten better. Looking through newb threads on various lisp forums there are a few people that always seem to try their best to be mean or funny on someone else's expense.

It is not that hard: if someone writes awful code, point them in the right direction. Don't claim they have malfunctioning brains.

I stopped writing CL a few years ago even though I enjoyed it. For my personal stuff scheme is even more fun, and the communities are a lot more pleasant.
Acceleration continues down the slippery slope many say doesn't exist for private businesses.
I saw in a paper that gave reasons tunneling projects were expensive listed labor as a larger fraction than you would think. Consider cars. Your $30,000 car probably costs $60,000 to operate over it's life. Likely more. Not surprise me if tunneling is the same. Operating costs dominate.

Then consider the Bertha problems in Seattle. Two year delay because they needed to dig a rescue pit to get at it after it broke down. Ask would you want to start a tunnel project with an 'used' TBM? Likely not.
I use name.com for my domains, cloudns.net for DNS, fastmail.com for mail/calendar/contacts.

Currently don't have any hosting requirements but if/when I do, I either use AWS or digitalocean.
American internet companies can address a large, relatively homogeneous market of 300 million people that all speak the same language. This alone is a big competitive advantage over any European company.
I was just commenting the same though, I like your ideas more too. I guess for most people it would look more aesthetically pleasing as you point out.
Yeah, there is a great difference between morocco and occupied western sahara.
My morocco experience started in western sahara - and it was interesting to watch, but no fun, to be bothered by secret police all the time. I had intentions of traveling around there and meeting local population and getting into the sahara, but this was not really possible in a way I wanted. I played the naive tourist quite well, so I was not too much pestered, as being a european tourist, because the king himself has ordered to all police to be nice to tourists. But they really do not want journalist, I had to convince many slimy assholes where I felt dirty to shake hands with them, that I was not a journalist, nver were and no intentions of becoming one. And since I really was not a journalist I decided to be it not worth it. But I have friends who drove around with a bycicle there and camping overnight, so that is possible, but not peaceful. And dangerous if you come too close to the border.

Morocco then again was really different, full of hippies and other tourists. It surely has dangerous spots as well, but I felt quite safe hitchhiking there and I even met young women, who did hitchhiking there, without being kidnapped or raped, but that can happen.

And the real dessert experience, well, I was south-east of Zagora, wich was quite touristic - but to me it seemed the "real Sahara" did also start there. I met local beduins who felt that way too, but yeah. The border to algeria was too close and too guarded. And in the real dessert there are no nation borders, who pester the nomad.
A metric is supposed to be applied to results.
"Good for you" I think sounds ridiculously sarcastic in British English, fwiw.
I think we need to be clear, there's two issues here.

1. Receiving html emails in emacs

2. Sending plain-text emails in emacs

I personally do not find 1. to be a problem at all. If the html gets garbled in my automatic html2text conversion (I use html2markdown) then opening it up in Firefox is just a keypress away. Easy.

I agree that 2. is an issue, however in the rare occasions that I do need to write an html email, I just open up Outlook or Gmail or whatever. We don't have to be Richard Stallman about this. You can use another client when you need to. For me, 99% of the time emacs/mu4e is absolutely adequate, and better than the Outlooks/Gmails for a host of reasons. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Yeah disk destroyer or data deleter or whatever is the old joke, not it's actual name. For those unaware, dd has often been used for stuff like overwriting a file with random noise as a homespun secure delete function, and it can do a lot of damage with small typos in the command.

Could have used a \s or something to clarify.
> If they want Competition to "HyperScalers" then why not just use OVH?

They do. OVH is one of the biggest actors in Gaia-X.
Interesting. I've long been interested in ways to make systems more pro-social, but I hadn't previously thought of UNLWS in that context. Thank you for giving me a new idea to mull.
The article contradicts itself.

The first half talks about how to treat mental health like we treat physical health, and we treat physical health in a transactional "businesslike" way.

The second half of the article proposes doing exactly the same: extreme measurement of pathologies and solutions instead of going for what feels right to your body.
Yup, me too. I can count the number of times I had to work late on two hands. I live in Europe, though.
Sorry but this is nonsense.

You're suggesting that I shouldn't get the same chemotherapy for relapsed cancer or that my relapse is because of "something in my life is terribly wrong".

Because the treatment worked to get it in remission, fuck me for wanting to take the same medicine again?

Lots of people suffer from poor health through no fault of their own. Arguing that their ills must be because of poor life choices is victim blaming.

Just because you're lucky enough to not have suffered chronic ill health doesn't mean others have been so lucky.

Take pleasure in your fortune, but don't try to take all credit for it.
I didn't say "short term profits".
There is a really interesting discussion to be had here about if and what the EUs past policy failing was. Is the issue that they were insufficiently capitalist and drove all their innovators to the US? Is the issue that they let their markets too open, and should have copied the Chinese approach? Is the issue that they shouldn't be concentrating on tech at all and should be leaving it to people better at it than Europeans?

There is a real litmus test of something in the EU and their technology situation.
But that's true for literally every issue. Rural voters are equally less aware of city issues. White voters are less aware of issues faced specifically by minorities. Men are less aware of female health issues. Skewing votes in favour of one group or another is never going to fix that.

The only way to fix it is to ensure that all opinions are represented. A multi-party system with proportional representation will accomplish that much better than a skewed and polarised two-party system.
Maybe they would have bored each other ?
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Rubbing ones hands together to stave off the chilling effect.
> Yeah I totally want to spend my time digging around in there for "which random company can I get a crappy version of AWS Lambda from?"

Or seen another way: "where can I get a better alternative to the suckish and overpriced AWS lambda, which also respects my data?".

Perspective. AWS is not the best everywhere.
I have a feeling my comment is being downvoted by people who didn't read the article. In retrospect, I can see where someone might think I'm advocating a quack antioxidant treatment for sleep disorders, or "just asking questions here," or something else besides asking a specific, valid question about the studies.

Oh, well.
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HS2 isn't just about connecting cities it's about releasing capacity for more local services.

Midlands Connect say HS2 will improve services to 73 stations, 53 of which aren't connected to HS2 [1]

It also introduces capacity gains for commuter lines into Euston (can't find the link for that)

I'd encourage everyone to read Rail Magazine's take on why we should build H2S [2]

1. https://www.midlandsconnect.uk/publications/hs2-released-cap...

2. https://www.railmagazine.com/research-hub/comment/comment-sp...
There's a book written by Ronald E Purser called "McMindfulness: How minfulness became the new capitalist spirituality" that tackles this very question.

Certainly very enlightening.
Yes I agree. I think it is just a statistical coincidence
People want to help each other when they shoot each other in the face?
This article contains inaccuracies and says almost nothing novel for your average hacker new reader.
'Players have an intuition about where the ball is going to go without having to look at and analyse the flight of the ball.'

This is pretty easily observable with baseball players as well. After playing thousands of games while standing in the same (relative) place on the field I/they can anticipate where the ball is going to go based on a variety of variables in real-time... instantly.
But will it make for good chips and fish?
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This was published today: https://www.ovh.com/blog/gaia-x-catalogue-search-engine-unde...

Apparently more posts are coming.
One kind of efficiency which hasn't been talked about is the energy loss of things like state switching and keeping the current state enabled. I think that brains build on much more efficient primitives than the silicon transistors computer chips use and thus can perform far more computations for far less energy than a desktop CPU.

Another difference between CPUs and brains is that brains are much less general purpose. CPUs do run-time interpreting of instructions while brains process data in a more straightforward way like GPUs do. Many problems can be implemented into GPUs and they will run much faster. I'd argue that brains excel at such tasks while being harder at tasks that require lots of state to be kept around as well as conditional jumps like computing a hash function or compiling a program. CPUs excel at those tasks.
Not the full contact list, just hashes.

That was exactly my point: few people know about this.
This is basically the same line of reasoning used by people that say you could replace your corporate slack with IRC. Of course you could, but there's a good reason that people don't. If you just want to compare one VPS to another, the only thing you're comparing is cost and availability. But really there's many more factors that people are interested in considering beyond just that. Even if the only service you're interested in using is a VPS, using an AWS EC2 would have so many benefits over a Hetzner VPS that I'd struggle to list them.

Amazon, and Google, and Microsoft... don't win cloud business because people are dumb, they win it because they offer a better product.
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There's definitely an IT brain drain in France due to low salaries, very few people of my former school actually work for a french company anymore, they almost all went somewhere else to get a better pay.

In the post-covid world of increased remote working, the brain drain will likely increase tenfold since developers won't even have to leave the country anymore.
You can run inside any hypervisor that supports nested virtualization (eg hyper-v, vmware esxi, etc in addition to kvm).
50% of the time it works 100% of the time
Messing about with a car can kill you. What's on your phone that your life is less important?
Because when your guy gets in you want them to have power to make real change.

That's the idea anyhow. If we nerf the powers for one side, when our side gets in they will be nerfed also. Other systems do things differently of course, but every system wants to maintain itself.
To counter the flood of 'you sound reasonable', I think you are probably being unreasonable.

The hint is "spaghetti code".

What might have happened is you started slagging off everyone's code as soon as you've come in and now you're plucking at straws to justify it as you're getting ostracized.

Also, objectively speaking, how can writing MORE code and spending MORE time talking to people be faster? Your argument makes no sense. Tests and reviews are a massive drag on development, also more code means more bugs. That we know.

It would take years to get full test coverage and somehow you think that makes everyone inherently faster?

Also, ask yourself this, how much money have they lost so far by doing this? Is it perchance $0? Zero downtime? As you've not listed a single actual COST of what they're doing.

While direct to prod/connect to prod db is nuts and not normal, you also haven't given the context of who did that and why they did that. Is there really no staging server? No Dev branch?
It is certainly not an overstatement, and the issue of tax goes far beyond what you may see as an individual (for example, overall labour costs [1]).
France is not an exception in its organisation, in fact its health care system is LESS state-owned than, say, the UK's. But it spends a lot, taxes a lot, and, to compound the issues, is not flexible.

You seem to actually agree that France has problems with its legislation and tax in the rest of your reply...

Edit: The graph that you posted in you reply below is obviously not the same metric. It states it is "general government" spending while I mentioned "public spending". But even so, your graph shows France ahead of Germany and the UK.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
In direct response to your first point, I would argue that it is you right to not vote. That being said, as it is THE fundamental right in democracies, you should not need to jump through any hoops whatsoever to vote. Especially as evidence suggests this leads to the people in power making use of that to stay in power.

On a side note: the idea that felons are unable to vote strikes me as totally wrong. What's the reasoning behind that? Why on Earth would you do that to a person? I cannot think of any scenario where this does not only have negatives consequences (alienating convicted felons even further from communities etc.). The only upside is pandering to those who feel that punishment is an important aspect of criminal justice. (This in itself deserves debate.)
Your standards seem fine. But for a lot of companies the initial techies set the approach and a lot of people find the thoight of these practices stifling. Not necessarily in practice but it can sound very heavy. I'm self-taught and I have a fairly sizeable mismatch with enterprise OOP-focused engineers when it comes to testing, overhead and process.

I think it's hard for people to appreciate thw other side of these argumenta without having lives through some consequences. I firmly believe in automation and testing. I believe tests must be pragmatic to not be overbearing. I mostly believe in code review for teaching. The research covered in the book Accelerate (subtitle something something devops) made a strong case against code review and change control for most software development.

So yeah, your standards sound reasonable, if maybe a bit much for my taste in some aspects but I know lots of shops that wouldn't be anywhere near. And this is a skillset and know-how you can provide. Hope that's a useful perspective.
> Overall I'm enjoying having more time for projects, though I do miss some things about very little kids.

I might have an idea to solve that one!
I find articles like this one where 100% of the onus for coping with mental health problems is put on the individual quite annoying. There's nothing in the article about getting help from other people, or how to cope with problems that you can't fix easily. It's kind of a toxic attitude because it makes others believe people with mental health issues just aren't trying hard enough and completely ignores individual circumstances or our ability to help ourselves. It's all very well to tell people with mental health problems that they should sleep better, eat better and get some exercise, but that ignores the fact that mental health problems can physically stop people doing that.

If fixing your mental health was simple then it wouldn't be such a prevalent problem.
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PS I really like the garden vs stream metaphor for UNLWS-native "conversation". I agree that it's very apt. It nicely captures the spirit of non-linear interaction.

Thank you for this new way of looking at / describing it. We may borrow it for the UNLWS documentation. ;)
The current mainstream approach of western medicine does not follow this - eg. there is little evidence that anti-depression drugs actually cure depression, and the side-effects are horrible. Yet the pharma industry profits greatly by selling snake oil that just makes people more sick.
Well but Qwant has its core product in its infancy, if they can't even manage that, you tell me.

The problem has many layers, Europe is not really united, which makes most markets small, the governments are pretty bad at managing investiments in tech fields, and there's not enough private capital going around pouring money into this.
And you cannot please every irrational user. There just no good way to show wide tables on a narrow screen. It’s like trying to transport a load which exceeds the dimensions of its truck. Sure you can in theory drive it if it doesn’t collapse right away but that doesn’t mean you should.
Ask HN: What if your DNS provider is a honeypot?
I started using nextdns.io recently and pretty happy with it until I got this thought of what if they are a honeypot? How can we validate it, for any DNS provider?
How are crates safe?
Do you mean that modules are like splitting code in OOP without objects?
I tend to lurk and enjoy reading things here. I've been here almost 5 years and have less than 200 karma. That being said, I give out upvotes like candy.
Counter example: Lidl tried SAP and scrapped the project after they already invested 1 billion Euro.
More than that, if a service is created in the US, then it's much more than 300mi people potentially using it.
They also have much more context to work with.

Compare "Fuck" said with mad, resigned and amazed voice. It's 3 different words in some languages.

Or compare a line "Our hero heard someone crying 'I loved her' from the crowd". In some languages depending what grammatical gender is the person shouting the word ending in 'love' is different.

English books often skip that information, so the translator has to deduce or ask the author who was shouting that line. In a movie you know because you can see that person or hear the voice.
I know plenty of really capable and smart people in France that doesn't want to leave the country. Living somewhere is not just about salary, and quality of life as a software engineer is quite good in France.
This looks like a cultural problem where the top brass either believe in strong-arming developers or aren't aware about the dreadful impact of not following processes (code review etc.)

Your expectations are perfectly reasonable. I think you should consider explaining to everyone (including non-developers) how bad things can go if these practices continue.
Sure, I tried to make the focus of my comment on the rarely talked about benefit of skilling people up as a positive externality, rather than to give credit to HS2 specifically, but I probably didn't do this well enough.

Skilling up people in the world of STEM, finance, arts are all as important, if not more so than tunnelling.
One problem that I think is somewhat related to the top-down, bureaucratic situation is that whatever big project they try to do is a copy of something else.

They didn't want to build Google / Facebook / Whatever before those existed. Instead, they want to build a "French Google". Qwant is an example of that. Whatever they're trying to accomplish with Orange in the cloud business is just a "French AWS".

During the lockdown when everyone was using Zoom, some politician was unhappy that EU countries would depend on foreign technology. Solution? Build a European Zoom! I find this kind of ironic, seeing how Skype used to be European...
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The Brits made it dig it's own grave...
Thats not really specific to France. Any large government contract in any country will go to bodyshops like Accenture, Cap Gemini, IBM, TCS etc. The difference is that the French government keeps thinking that innovation is a top-down process that can be managed like you would manage an aircraft program or a nuclear power plant