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This is pretty much what I wanted to write. How come productivity is measured in dollars when exchanging goods/services, but constant units when this Baumol thing comes up?

The simplest way to resolve the paradox is that you have a society that becomes more productive over time, and that everyone shares in the increased productivity due to the negotiation process. If you can fish and I can cook, and you discover how to 10x your fishing output while I sit on the beach, you are still going to give me more than whatever amount of fish I got before.

The other thing about Baumol - not his fault - is you often see it quoted as a sort of club to beat people with if you don't like how they make their money. And the fact that it's an economist gives it a respectability that makes people hesitate before asking more.
You should mention it somehow, would be good to plant the seed that the organization may be able to solve the counting issue in the next decade, then they can move on to other labels to focus on.
Right, exactly that, thank you!

Yeah, looks like that it's not a global setting. Well, I'll see if I'll get used to that and in the worst case there is at least the possibility to create a custom driving mode :)
>...I had assumed that their account creation method was motivated by avoidance of creation of spam accounts..

Me too. But it seems that, at least some of their members [viz. the person I chatted with on IRC] are using their ability to hand out invitations as a bit of a power trip and to mess people about.

To expand on what I wrote before [I was on my phone then, so keeping the typing as brief as I could]. My IRC conversation with the Lobste.rs person, who I shall henceforth refer to as 'XXX' [not for any reasons of anonymity --I've just forgotten their IRC handle!] took the form of:

* Some discussion about the lobste.rs site [presumably to show I actually knew what it was about] and had frequented it.

* Some discussion as to whether I had any examples of 'stuff' I'd written to show them. I posted a link to one of my blogs and XXX disappeared for a few minutes, then returned and said something along the lines of "You have some interesting stuff there".

* XXX then asked how I could prove that I was the author of that blog. After a bit of back and forth suggesting different possibilities, we agreed I'd put a message on the blog in some way.

* So, I went off and updated my blog, adding a "Hello lobste.rs!" message in an X-Header

* I then asked XXX to check the blog again and look for the message in the X-Headers, which s/he did.

* XXX then [as mentioned before] then returned, thanked me for the conversation, added "..but I'm still not giving you an invitation!", said goodbye and left the channel.

I felt a bit humiliated. Almost like I'd sat through a job interview and then been rejected without explanation. I also felt annoyed with myself for having jumped through hoops to try and persuade some anonymous person on the internet that I was good enough to join their club.

On the face of it, the concept behind Lobste.rs seems to address some of the shortcomings of the "benevolent dictatorship" of HN by giving admission and moderation power 'back to the people'. But, in practice, this also gives significant powers to every member of the site, irrespective of their being mature enough to be worthy of this trust.
why Brazil? The Democracy there works fine. There was a change in the power, which brought new dynamics to the Country, but IMO their democracy are eroding much less than in US, France and Germany

Disclaimer: I'm German/Brazilian who lived 10 years in US.
> You literally can't go 5km from your house

I live in Rome, near the Colosseum, I never travel 5km from home, unless I have to. Being stuck in the traffic jam in your car is not a nice experience.

EDIT: maybe I should add as a disclaimer that the post tone wasn't obvious.

it came out bad.

My fault.

As someone else said after me, lockdown in Italy meant "stay home, don't leave your neighborhood"

I couldn't even go to visit my parents that live 4 kms away.

So if in Australia 5kms look bad, what would they think about staying confined in your homes to live and work, while also trying to keep your kids happy and motivated, because schools are closed?
Well thats true, to stop nuclear and restart coal was an incredible stupid decision...
Australia doesn't.
Replace a breathalyzer with something that's less intruisive (like a camera with AI that would observe the person, AI with thermal imaging or air quality sensors, or another possibly-fictional-yet-believable piece of technology) and suddenly, in my eyes, the technology in this thought experiment becomes a no brainer.

If there was more of a cultural pressure against drunk driving and actual mechanisms to prevent it that aren't too difficult to maintain and utilize, things like the Daikou services ( https://www.quora.com/How-effective-is-the-Japanese-daikou-s... ) would pop up and take care of the other logistical problems of getting your car home. And the world would be all the better for it, because of less drunk driving and accidents.
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The cost of various storage technologies is declining, and should be quite affordable by the time they are needed. This retro shadow being cast back from the expected future is among the reasons nuclear cannot get investment now.
You'd think that if this was an easily solvable problem, the great engineering nation of Germany would've solved it, instead of just firing up the coal plants.

To store just a fraction of the needed power would require millions of large expensive batteries, whereas pumped hydro storage requires geological features that are in limited supply.

Once you factor in all these costs, suddenly the "cheapest electricity in history" becomes really expensive.
> As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. No new changes are expected to land. In fact, none have landed for some time.

Odd they put request on the list.
Butter is so pricey in Japan that you would not risk eating much of it. Most pastries are devoid of it (even croissants, which make for a surprising taste when you know the real thing).
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Only thing I'd ask is to include the other visualizations available in Battelle's CantorDust so we can use them without needing to load GHidra.
The format of the butter in Japan is similar to the European one in shape, but not in size. The typical size is Japan is 250g which is much smaller than what you find in Western Europe, and way more expensive per gram as well. Also, butter is regularly out of stock because of the JA mafia.
Wind becomes a very attractive option at high latitudes. The site I point at for simple energy modeling:

https://model.energy/

uses real historical weather data, and surprisingly the cheapest energy systems it models for synthesized baseload from renewables + storage is in... Greenland?! I'm not sure I really believe that, but it made me sit up and take notice.
The only thing that drives value for these kind of certificates is enterprise consulting.

Many RFPs and consulting partners do gatekeeping where certain deals or access to products is only available when those doing project delivery have a certain amount of certified people on the company or delivery team.

So in these cases, one can have a degre from number one top university, still won't win the project deal or be allowed into the products developer portal.
Just to note, America has been doing this since Obama (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-build-cages-immigran...)
That must be a joke.

Bolsonaro endorsed the protests of a far right movement that literally wants to "return to military rule under Bolsonaro"
US joined WWI rather late. It was not fighting for 5 years.
In that case, let's make the bible our literal guide and get it over with.

Of course you can learn something from people writing on timeless issues. But by making them the dogmatic truth you get locked in.
250g is the standard size in Europe too, at least in Germany

https://static.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/425/036/590...
I'd be interested, what sort of fantasies do you have about rising CO2 levels and/or temperatures on this planet? What do you believe is actually going to happen?
Maybe it helps installing the chargie app which limits charging during the night - and at the same time enhances battery life. There's a lot of existing stuff just waiting to be re-purposed. Also the Tesla cars are since this year electrically able to provide power for a Smart Grid.
I love embedded and I love functional but never shall the two meet. :(
Well, the great engineering nation of Germany brought us the Dieselgate.
> Even when it was a suicidal pilot flying the plane into a mountain on purpose. Someone had to supervise him (there are two crew members in the cockpit for a reason), someone gave him a medical, there is automation in the cockpit that could have at least caused an alarm, etc.

There was indeed a suicidal pilot that flew into a mountain, I'm not sure if you were deliberately referencing that specific time. In that case he was alone in the cabin – this would have happened briefly but he was able to lock the cabin door before anyone re-entered, and the lock cannot be opened by anyone from the other side in order to avoid September 11th-type situations. It only locks for a brief period but it can be reapplied from the pilot side before it expires an indefinite number of times.

I'm not saying that we can put that one down purely to human action, just that (to be pedantic) he wasn't being supervised by anyone, and there were already any number of alarms going off (and the frantic copilots on the other side of the door were well aware of them).
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I think you missing point, I love the idea about "bringing aviation methodology" to lower error/f-up-rates" for the software industry.

No one is not saying don't take responsibility, they are saying - as I understood it:

Have a "systematic-approach" to the problem, the current system for preventing "drunk pilots or the wiping of production db's are not sufficient" - improve the system ! ! All the "taking responsibilities and "falling on one's own sword" won't improve the process for the future.

If we take the example of the Space-Industry where having 3x Backups Systems are common (like life support)

It seems some people's view in the comments stream is:

"No bugger that, the life-support systems engineers and co should just 'take responsibility' and produce flawless products. No need for this 3 x backups systems"

The "system" approach is that there is x-rates of failures by having 2 backups we have now reduce the possibility of error by y amount.

Or in the case of production-dbs:

If I were the CEO and the following happens:

CTO-1: "Worker A, has deleted the production DB, I've scolded him, he is sorry and got dock a months pay and is feeling quite bad and has taken full responsibility for his stupid action this probably won't happen again !"

VS

CTO-2:
"Worker A, has deleted the production DB, We Identified that our process/system for allowing dev-machines to access production db's was a terrible idea and oversight, we now have measures abc in place to prevent that in the future"

I'd go with CTO-2 EVERY day of the week !
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> Bolsonaro endorsed the protests of a far right movement that literally
> wants to "return to military rule under Bolsonaro

Please, add reference for that.

The democracy is working as usual in Brazil, nothing changed. No rights was taken away from the people and no riots or civil conflicts are worse than before. Look America, France and Germany where the social fabric is partially destroyed.
A similarly curious case is Moldova, Romania's neighbour.

I grew up there, I remember dial up and wasting a lot of my mother's money on it. Then the state run ISP rolled out ADSL and it got way better. In the span of 2-3 years, I went from 64/64 kbit/s to 6/1 Mbps.

In another year, it was 24/1 Mbps, and yet another year or so they started rolling out fiber, with free upgrades for everyone as long as you renewed the contract. 30/30 Mbps, then 100/100 Mbps, now you can get 1000/1000 for $20 or 300/300 Mbps for $10. Upgrading to a higher speed is still free afaik, but your contract gets renewed for 3 years.

Interestingly, it used to be possible to get multiple connections at the same house (like, literally, multiple fiber cables). Not sure if that's still possible and what the limit was per individual/house, but I always wondered if one could get something ridiculous like 4000/4000 Mbps aggregate speed.

And yes, the upload speeds are true, although their own routers won't reach them.

But good news, you can use any router with an SFP transceiver.

I am not aware of anything like the private networks created in Romania by individuals. There are a few other ISPs that started early, and technically competed with Moldtelecom (the state run ISP) with their own cables, but they did not operate outside the capital for a very long time. Moldtelecom had a monopoly.

There used to be a lot of Internet cafes that everyone would use for LAN gaming and Internet browsing, it was fun.

This might be the best thing the government has done in the country since independence, I don't know what motivations they had, they didn't seem to be lobbied by anyone since there were no Internet startups with significant influence. They just sort of... did it.

If anyone knows more about the history of Internet in the Republic of Moldova, please comment.

Now there's talks of selling Moldtelecom to Huawei, which might be a bad idea. They already use Huawei equipment, just not sure what they would do if they buy the whole company.
It's not just-in-time compilation. Maybe he wants a kind of REPL for Rust - I guess?
What is the future value in that ? From a system and reliability point of view ? Genuine question - not trying to be a dk
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I feel like this is Christmas. Thank you.
I believe it’s a bit unclear if all this spending makes much sense. On the other hand, money seems to be pouring in and you need to spend it somehow. Not spending it and then loosing would likely make many angry donors.
Same here! I have a Pentel P209 right in front of me. Not sure where my P207 has gone of to.

The 5mm Kurutoga is my main pencil of course. I have a nice aluminium one ever since my first plastic body one cracked (after many years of use).

One really nice benefit of the Kurutoga (5mm) is that your writing is really neat and fine as if written with a 3 or 4mm pencil.
Sadly, the paper seems to be missing compiler versions and compilation flags.
when the concerned ARM instruction is doing something perfectly capable by the software to just score 1-2% performance improvements, it is definitely CISC based on the definitions you listed above.
And we're doing exactly that: Putting a price on CO2, and also subsidizing renewables to kickstart the industry and get some production scale going. Seems like the fastest route to full renewables. You can even see the effect of the market manipulation starting in 2008: out-of-pocket costs on solar have dropped 8x since then.

No problem of this magnitude is ever solved with a single-prong approach. It calls for some far-thinking: Figure out which energy sources will eventually be the cheapest to harvest sustainably, and then take a financial hit now for a bonanza later. Complaining about the price comparison today is just silly, considering that people in the industry only look at out-of-pocket money when making their decisions.
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Non graded bolts you buy from the hardware store are usually built from cheddar cheese. But they're also used for super low loads so...
Your statements need some serious evidence to back them up. Even if one concedes that the goal of "the ruling class" is serfdom, you have brought no evidence that this is related to the amount of taxes and that taxes somehow would grow to 100%. In fact looking at the history of the US, inequality has grown as tax rates have reduced. Similarly in worldwide comparisons countries with higher tax rates are generally more equal, in other words they are less likely to have an underclass of "serfs". "Financial privacy" and ways to hide your financial transactions almost exclusively benefits those with capital, what I would already call the ruling class, as evidenced by e.g. the Panama papers.
GNU AWK User's Guide is reasonably succinct, while being fairly comprehensive.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html

The manpage alone is quite useful, though lacks some useful details.

The awk FAQ provides general background, including diffeerences between implementations:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/awk/faq/
250g is the standard weight of a piece of butter in Germany.

Btw, our German butter tableware is nothing to be sneezed at, either. Here is my butter dish (to be fair, designed by an American):

https://www.pinterest.de/pin/396527942192892955/
Others have basically made the same argument, but to me it comes down to power. Does the government need to know every financial transaction you make? For hundreds of years they couldn’t for technology reasons. Now they deeply desire it and have the means to do so. Would you want the government to have direct access to your brain and thoughts? I assume not. But if you have nothing to hide, is this really a problem? Why are you so worried? It’s why I don’t want the government to have instant access to everyone’s google searches. People use google as a quick extension to thinking, and if the government could see everything I’ve googled in my entire life I’m sure they could paint a picture of a crazy person.

Transacting in commerce is equal to freedom. I don’t want the government to instantly know everything I have ever bought in my life. And if you accept that under some threshold ($100? $1000?) the government should not instantly be informed, you’ve opened the door to (insert terrible thing here)! So either we give the government access to everything instantly or we restrict it for some reason. I am in favor of restricting.
The old "they write the right stuff" essay on the On-Board Shuttle Group also talked about this mindset of errors getting through the process as being first and foremost a problem with the process to be examined in detail and fixed.
Almost all Lobbying is not bribery. Lobbying means using your resources to influence politicians by campaigning and meeting up with them. But there is no direct exchange of money, which would be bribery. Actually lobbying can be a useful part of the democratic process and it can also be done by civil rights organizations or environmental organizations that are non-profit.

I know it can be comforting to simply say "all those politicians are corrupt" but doing so will only help those who are actually corrupt.
This reply is embarrassing. It's a person working on their side project. Have a glass of wine mate.
Presumably you're being downvoted because reddit-style memes are generally not appreciated here.

That said, my understanding of the meme is that it's a commentary/exaggeration on a nation state where the state controls all aspects of your lives.

I don't think it's terrible to highlight the parallel to the way private businesses are actively profiling all of their users in order to manipulate their behaviour through advertising.

While the state has the ability to remove your freedoms, incarcerate you, or even potentially execute you (depending on which state you live in, be it a US state, or a different nation state) that private companies do not have in quite the same way, think about what the implications of losing access to their Google / Apple account would have on the average person, and what 'crimes' are required in order to deliver that 'punishment'.

Algorithms or not, we now live in a world where punishments in the form of loss of access to vital services are dished out randomly, by the same people who are profiling and controlling our behaviour. Whether or not this is by design, it's also supremely effective in ensuring compliance. When the exact rules and limits are known, they can be worked around and/or contested effectively. When they are unknown, a wider berth becomes necessary in order to reduce risk.

This feels like it could be subject of a more light hearted academic paper investigating if there is a juxtaposition between "In Soviet Russia" memes and the FAANG world we live in today, or if they're similar than we would generally/comfortably like to think.
Why does this have to be behind a paywall?
IBM already has this capability, and anecdotally, it seems quite accurate given 1-2k words of text.
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Anything by Sidney Dekker. https://sidneydekker.com/books/ I would start by The Field Guide to Unterstanding 'Human Error'. It's very approachable and gives you a solid understanding of the field.
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I like the french butter dish:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_butter_dish

Takes advantage of butter being hydrophobic, and stores it upside down!
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Same in France. Both exist but clippers are more common.
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I don't believe for a second that Elon Musk works 100 hours a week plus hobbies and free time in any conventional sense of the word work.

I don't believe that every random set of 40 hours in his 100 would be something that he would be happy to pay someone else to do.

Successful people lie to themselves like this all the time.
Here’s a recent discussion of the paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24642134
It's originally from Brittany, but salted butter is very popular in all of France.
I have to say this has been the only satisfactory answer in this thread.
$250K is lunch money for Larry Ellison. The _truly_ sad thing about American democracy isn't that the government can be bought; it's that it can be bought so cheaply, relatively speaking. If you want the government to hand over a whole new business line to one of the already-largest and most-successful businesses in the world, you'd think they'd have to drop an amount of money they might actually notice.
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Raqueteering then. "Hey pal, help my campaign I'll help you close your deal wink."
You were probably not in Northern or Western France then. Salted or unsalted butter is highly dependent on the region you are in.
I think the risk of laser-induced mortality would be too high.
True. It depends on how exactly those repositories are structured and managed. Hopefully it's not quite as bad as I imagined.

I still think that database size is not the only consideration.
What is the best storage for solar? Batteries, molten salt or pumped hydro?

Is anyone using excess solar energy for desalination plus pumped hydro?
Why would they bother with that project when mods are already so good at that job?
Same in France and Spain. 250g is the standard size.
This is not mutually exclusive though. When the incumbents are poor to start with, it does help them from not being gentrified out of their homes.

Between scenario A: rent control, some poor people are helped, others are not and scenario B: all poor people are forced out of the neighborhood, A starts to look acceptable.

Until that is, someone comes up with a workable scenario C that helps even more people than A. (UBI looks great in theory, but I think the "workable" part needs some more work.)
Your critique would be a lot more valid if you would admit that nuclear power proponents also usually "forget" about the systemic costs of nuclear power, such as the incredible costs of deconstructing old plants, the costs of storing the waste in a safe place for thousands of years, and the costs of insuring against catastrophic failures in plants that might make wide swaths of land around them uninhabitable...oh wait, that insurance is so expensive that effectively nobody provides it at any cost. Nuclear power thus can be regarded to have infinite systemic costs.