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>Germany imposes such high taxes because they have such massive subsidies for producers.

Even without the EEG, the electricity price would be among the highest in all of Europe. Also, given how much public money coal for example receives in Germany, I think it is a very reasonable argument that the EEG subsidy should not really be considered a fixed part of the electricity price that could not be moved elsewhere.
I'm literally in Thailand right now and really can't say this bothers me. None of that info is sensitive
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Prices now are largely based on projections for winter.
Laziness may indeed not exist, but non-strict evaluation for sure does.
> When a person fails to begin a project that they care about, it’s typically due to either a) anxiety about their attempts not being “good enough” or b) confusion about what the first steps of the task are. Not laziness. In fact, procrastination is more likely when the task is meaningful and the individual cares about doing it well.

Very frankly, this is not my experience and sounds like pseudo-pop-psychology. Yes, sometimes the task is too hard for me and consequently I dont know where to start.

But really, I am way more likely to fail to do boring "I know exactly what to do" projects and chores. I know exactly where to start with vacuum cleaning or washing dishes. I have zero worry that I will fail. It is just that, well watching videos is more fun and require less effort. Quite similar to what people normally call laziness.
>Back in the mid-80s, [...] Of course, the word "transpiler" had not yet been coined,

Friend fyi... the word "transpiler" to make a distinction of converting the source to another higher-level language rather than a lower-level machine language appeared as early as 1960s. In the 1964 paper, see the last page and the 2nd-to-last paragraph:

http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/1/28.full.pdf+htm...

>There are also many, like me, who find it to be a distinction without a difference. We call them all compilers. [...] Now if you like the word "transpiler", as many do, I won't try to convince you otherwise. I just wanted to explain why some don't find it a useful distinction and prefer "compiler" for all these cases.

I understand your point of why "compilers" already encompasses transpilers so the word "transpilers" seems redundant. But I'll try to explain why "transpilers" still endures. If you're not familiar with concept of "lumpers vs splitters", take a look at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters

Imagine if we did not have the word "transpiler". Language usage would still evolve to make a distinction via extra prefixes or suffixes or extra adjectives. Examples of alternative history might be:

- "compiler-to-asm" or CTA acronym, or "compiler-to-executable", or "native compiler"

- "compiler-to-another-high-level-language" or CTAHLA acronym, or "programming language translator"

But humans don't like to say or write verbose multi-syllable terminology and they'd eventually substitute a simpler word as shorthand for the distinction. That shorthand word might be "transpilers" or another word to serve the same purpose. And that's what happened in 1964 when AF Parker-Rhodes suggested the word "transpiler".

Similar concept of labeling Linux ext4, Microsoft NTFS, Apple HFS as "file systems" instead of just "databases" -- even though they are all conceptually "databases" which have same computer science concepts of keys, blocks, btree indexes. If we tried to police the language and insist that "file system" adds no useful distinction because it's a "database"... human language usage would still evolve with extra adjectives such as "operating-system-built-in-database-for-documents-and-arbitrary-files-etc" ... which is a cumbersome mouthful which motivates a shorthand terminology... perhaps call it "file system".
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That could work in my favour though. I've got a couple of things I've wanted for a while, that existing projects don't quite work like but I have no time to make myself. Maybe if I publish an MVD (minimum viable demo!) making it look like an attempt at an MVP, people will copy the idea and do it well enough I'll be able to use it…

The main argument against that working is that I'd prefer OSS self-hosted options — no one chasing the quick buck is going to go that way!
If you substitute those quoted words into the sentence I was responding to my meaning becomes less dramatic:

> The driver took over way before the car entered the crosswalk section.

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> "Entered the crosswalk section" is a rather euphemistic way of describing "drove directly through where the people were going to be"
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"The driver took over way before the car drove directly through where the people were going to be."

If you are right that the car stopped itself then it's certainly not as large an error as I had assumed. I think what I was mainly trying to communicate was simply a disagreement with the person I was responding to who implied there was little wrong with this behaviour at all.
Jericho and Tall el-Hammam were destroyed in the same airburst, in the same place (~22km distance, ~same time).

Abu Hereya (several hundred kilometers away, 9000 years earlier) was also discussed in the article, and is a separate impact.
> They pay high wages because back in the 1980s, Danish unions flipped a switch and turned the whole business off, and McDonalds doesn’t want to find out whether they would do it again.

> This is where we need to get to.

A true champagne socialist.
Try not using social media for friends, work, etc. and see how much you got left in a year. I did and there's no doubt many will struggle (lost friends, new job, not possible to have children (of you want them to gave a life or education). The only social media I ever use is HN. Society is broken up in those that use and those that don't.
there are lots of people who are not visual thinkers - see "Aphantasia"
I’m willing to bet there are a reasonable number of people who are willing to pay $10 a month but would balk at a one off $100.
Because it is tied to a specific device and is not global like a password is.
Can you provide a way to export the dataset ?
Well, this scene from Robocop is pretty relevant I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsuo3FnG4g0
It's not an insult to say that work was done bad. Nobody deserves appreciation just because they did something, and nobody deserves to be told to essentially shut up when they give a value judgement you do not agree with.

Thanks for the link, I will read it.

Edit: Given that the ideas presented in the paper are somewhat novel (and there is more than one such idea), I would guess the original post was complaining about the grammatical errors that are in it. I've definitely read papers that purported to be more "important" that eventually (after many words saying essentially nothing of value) turned out to have far less novel information in them, so I would say that in the realm of compsci papers that invent new relevant (as opposed to purely academic) algorithms this one is above-average.
imho NSA people is technically skilled but politically naive... and that's clearly why they work for NSA in the first place...

Technical training can make you good a something, but it doesn't necessarily make you aware of why you are doing something and what are the political consequences.

That's why also social science education and critical thinking is needed... to avoid those kind of situations.
Correct + wanted to mention that "lightweight/point-deletes" might come as a new feature.

Initial discussion: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/19627

Being implemented: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/24755
This is a good approach to many things, computers, cars, phones — there is an enormous premium paid to be the “first to open the box”. If you can rid yourself of that particularly successful marketing trick, you cut your costs boatloads.
> Really, they're nostalgic for an era when almost everybody else they ran into on the internet shared the background of being a white, male American geek

As someone who doesn’t fit into that pigeon hole, and whose friends mostly don’t either, it’s so disheartening to read essentialist assumptions like these. We liked the Internet better back then too!

You’re taking something that’s objectively good, and saying it’s associated with white people, and implying that’s bad. So not only do we collectively lose the objectively good thing (because it’s now guilty by association of racism - the greatest social crime of our day), but you’re also erasing non-white contributions to that good thing. It’s an own goal all round.
Personally I don't like using with prefix in builders, I was simply presenting an example from another comment.

the difference, IMO, is - in Javascript - that this

// The style fetch() uses today
trig({mode: "cos", typ: "hyperbolic"})
^^^

would fail silently while

// The builder refactor
trig().mode("cos").typ("hyperbolic")(val)

would trigger a compilation error

but, IMO, passing objects is good enough most of the times, and I consider it a much better solution over passing boolean flags
Asking for something to be done / law and order in your community is different from asking for a “the war on drugs”. Black communities had problems, the gov delivered racism and called it law & order. Anyway, here’s a source if you’d like to hear more about the racist underpinnings of the war on drugs https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...
You will not be so flattered when you realize they've captured 90% of your potential paying users.
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There was also the Tunguska incident (no city) and a recent near miss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sulawesi_superbolide

They happen every now and again; of course normally they're not close enough to a city to be a big problem, but over ten millennia...

And, I mean, what's the alternative explanation? Bronze Age nuclear war? You'd have a hell of a time making an ICBM out of bronze :)
>it should probably not be countered with nonviolence

Just to be clear - we are still talking about "nonviolent communication", right? Because a careless reading would interpret this as a call to hit people with sticks solely because we hold their actions to be motivated by incorrect beliefs.

In any case, it's still not true. Unless you have resigned yourself to hitting them with sticks, you're still in the realm of communication and persuasion. You'll always get further with that if you try to understand where they are coming from, which is what "nonviolent communication" is all about.
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Traceroutes. Peering information is also often public.

More sinister options like insider information or leaked/exfiltrated network plans are also an option, but usually you get pretty far with standard network diagnostic tools.
In a way, there are. It's theorized to be the ancient city of Sodom which was nuked by an "alien".
Yeah, this is absolutely insane. I worked briefly for an eastern european government (low level person, def not a senior official) and they even warned against having certain foreign apps on your personal/work mobile device. I don't remember them ever explicitly mentioning not to take and use electronics from a foreign government, probably because they thought it was so obvious it wouldn't be worth mentioning!
for me the real benefit of gemini is the separation from the rest of the internet, a part where only the technically savy can go to escape what internet has become
I'd say it's a good thing people don't try to use the feature in a context it's not useful. Don't use the shiny new toy just to play.

Python has to cater to a vast crowd, and geographers don't have the same needs as data scientists, web devs, 3D artists or sysadmin.

So it's logical some tools will be useful in some cases, and not some others.

Amusingly yesterday I was doing something in JS, and though, "ah, I wish I has this new PM feature from python there".

The day before, I had to deal with pedantic exception, and wish I had a pattern matching to make a case depending of the number of errors and their message. I had to do a hacky loop for something that had to do with structure, not repetition.

Just like the walrus, I don't think it's something that will pop up everywhere, all the time. But when it is useful, it will make the code nicer.
Strangely I've noticed recently that I get to stuff a lot more easier then before. For a long time everything felt like a chore, and I could only ever think about forcing myself and it was bloody hard. But a couple weeks ago some things happened that shook me up, so maybe it's easier to e.g. empty the dishwasher than to think about things I don't want to think about. Now I do the e.g. dishwasher in 5 minutes and think -- wait is it done, is there something else there?

People that could see me now would think what a hard worker I am, and three weeks or months ago they would've gotten a different impression. So there I think he's right. I think it's still possible to be lazy, by virtue of not caring about accomplishing anything, but I don't know how possible this is.
One of the authors here.

Just to add: the MLOps ecosystem evolves very quickly.

Tools that were once favored before can become obsolete very quickly. The general philosophy is to keep a constrained and minimal toolset: if we have a general purpose tool that could be extended to other cases too, then we do that. Moreover any introduced tool has tradeoffs not always apparent: additional staff training and maintainence costs.

That being said, it'd be interesting to see how the space evolves over the next few years. I think we'll eventually see best practices arising from the space, but for now it's very nascent.
I doubt it, as puns like this are generally not Lem's style in my opinion. "Tichy Ijon" kinda sounds like tachion, which is polish for tachyon, but I would chalk it up to coincidence.
You don't know what you're talking about :)

In the image: pizza with potatoes, a typical roman recipe

https://i0.wp.com/www.puntarellarossa.it/wp/wp-content/uploa...
That's a very niche and small cherry-pick that you did.

I practically know only 2 people willing to pay monthly sub for note taking or various such trivia. 99% of everyone I know is very conservative about monthly subs. Sure Netflix / Spotify / YouTube Premium / etc. are worth it but most apps out there really are not.

Plus there's such a thing as a "sub fatigue" these days. People feel everybody is after a chunk of their wallet each month and are starting to resist. I don't even mean myself or other tech-savvy people; I really mean mothers and grandmothers who have no clue but still don't want to pay up all the time.
> It prevents other workers from underbidding them

Reread my comment, they were never able to underbid each other in the first place they already had a fixed hourly rate, the strike and subsequent contract negotiated a higher rate so nothing to do with their ability to underbid was changed since it was never possible. So I'll ask again, how are did this specific incident restrict the rights of other workers?
Oh, now that is interesting! Thank you for the very cool history and linguistics lesson, and I stand corrected on when the word "transpiler" was coined. :-)
I get that and I don't expect anything else but I don't really care, as I'm just a 1-man-army with 0 funds.

50 people - heck even 10 - who think my product is worth using and I'm happy. That's how low my expectations are, just to keep myself sane :)

(I'm obv. not counting on this product making me a full-time income. I'm doing it for the experience and to get a feel for the industry.)
I agree with this 100%. Passwords are awesome. I've never had any security issues related to passwords. They are perfectly secure for almost everyone.

Just because a tiny handful of multi-millionaires feel that passwords are not secure enough for them, doesn't mean that the rest of us should be forced to use a dumb alternative which surrenders control to some third party.

Rule-based passwords are great. I never had any issues. If the rule is secret and complex enough and maps to a different password for each service, this is very secure.

I recommend having a separate rule for different security levels. I have 3 security levels.

- For low security, I use the same rule on 100s of different websites. I don't really care if they all get hacked. (Actually I might use password manager for that security level because I'm lazy and I don't care if some employees at some big company install a backdoor in the password manager steal that password. I'm willing to take that risk.).

- For medium security sites, I use the same rule for around 5 different, highly trustworthy sites... There are literally only 5 sites which I consider 'medium security'.

- For high security, I memorize a unique password or passphrase for each service. I only have 2 services which fit this description of 'high security' - They're financial in nature,.

It's not difficult at all for me to memorize 2 rules and 2 passwords. I don't need to trust any third-party piece of software with my passwords except for my operating system and my browser (both of which are open source BTW).

The idea of password managers is idiotic... You're trusting a single entity with all your passwords! You're assuming that they will never introduce any bug in their code which will leak your passwords to their employees. You're assuming that these companies will never hire malicious developers who will add backdoors to the password manager's code to steal your passwords... No foreign state will try to hack that service... Hackers will hack into gas pipeline companies, but they won't try to hack a massive centralized repository containing everyones' passwords? Think people, think! It's basic common sense.

[EDIT] BTW, the fact that this comment is being downvoted suggests that there may be a corporate agenda behind moving everyone to centralized password managers... Why would the powers that be want to do that?
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Good article. I used to love reading Kyle Rankin’s rantings in Linux Journal… good times.
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In the US maybe. I have never in our business seen anything like a chargeback or heard of anyone ever doing something like it. It is a very American problem. Even if people did do so they would be punished quickly. It is only a problem in a society with a high level of crime and little or no consequences. The law allows a chargeback for 12 months here. Not a problem, not even in our webshop.
I don't think that's the only reason people work for the NSA. Lots of people who are patriots (in their mind) go because they think it's a good cause. And I'm sure there are also political operators who do it because they think it's a way up whatever ladder they're climbing.
The Bible is a major force behind archaeology in the Levant. Not only for religious reasons, but also because the prospect of correlating material culture and written documents is always exciting.
Yeah, I'd love it if 10-50 paying users a month paid [part of] my bills. :D

We'll see though, and you are right that keeping low expectations is a key.
Hmm. While this represents a write-once-read-extremely-many (someone here mentioned how there's no FS cache (?) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28588682)) type of situation, I'm curious if bulk updates have brought any FS-specific Interestingness™ out of the woodwork in UFS?

(I'm also curious where the files are sourced from - EC2 would be horrendously expensiveish, but maybe you send to one CDN and then have it propagate the data further outwards (I'm guessing through a mesh topology).)
In Germany, this is actual law - door-to-door delivery services (postal, parcel, couriers) are exempted from the seatbelt mandate (per §21a StVO, https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvo_2013/__21a.html).
Siri is such a security disaster. There's not been a single iOS release in the last few years where it's not caused a lockscreen bypass.

While the security-minded amongst us have probably disabled it on the lockscreen, Apple ought to do so by default until they fix their shit.

Given how often this happens, this seems like some fundamental architectural problem.
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I used to only be able to code, but recently my project has progressed as start up and it has become necessary for me to take on the role of CEO. I also have to convince my colleagues that I will be a good CEO (they're really skeptical about it). Are there any good resources for this?
Not all businesses that use credit cards are in the broken US system. It's not a widespread problem everywhere.
Could it have been ancient aliens ?!!!?....
> Also, that $10 security key is just a step away from being your national ID card. That's how bank logins work here. No passwords allowed.

Er, wouldn't that be a good thing? Identities cannot be linked to the same physical FIDO key across multiple relying parties, so what's the concern?
No, we are talking about reducing security here.
>These types of training tend to be very specific, and certainly do not involve questioning chain of command.

True, but this excerpt was describing his initial interview process with CyberPoint. I agree with the general sentiment though.
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You seem to be taking a highly individualistic view here, which is not an appropriate framework.

Suicide is not an effective way of making the world better for yourself, no. But it turns out that people care about more than that. People do commit suicide for political aims, all the time - including soldiers who sacrifice themselves in the service of some larger cause. This fact seems to confuse you - you call them "irrational" and "incoherent". Since you are the one who is confused, perhaps you are the one whose worldview lacks explanatory power.

You do care about things outside yourself, don't you?
AS3 wasn't too bad, MS killed the initiative to get the changes into JS itself.
Couldn't it just be that resources are more abundant and know-how is more spread?

You have way more designers, software devs, libraries, etc, now in comparison to 2013. The trend will be for these things to be almost "commodities"... even for solo founders, you don't need to know design to copy/inspire yourself from a plethora of examples out there.

With no code tools you can quickly slap things together to validate stuff, before outsourcing the development to somewhere else if you need to get things going, or hire a dev.

Things are just easier and more abundant, so to make the classical "MVP" or a more polished "MVP" probably doesn't require that much extra effort/resources.

Also you need to realize that standards have changed, some small things that were valuable are now taken for granted.
I just keep thinking if the something like the BonziBuddy scandal had been pulled off today, how would anyone ever find out?

Well, actually, we have Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant now, and the pitch is eerily familiar in many ways.
It looks neat but where is the "CSS" part? The animation seems to be done in Javascript:

https://lab.hakim.se/focussss/script.js
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There is nothing Gemini can do to prevent people from adding complexity on top of it.

It's exactly how the web evolved. It did not have activex/java applets/flash/javascript at the beginning.
You don’t need a dystopian AI camera monitoring system to measure seatbelt usage. Plug into OBD-2 and detect the car moving faster than 20mph while the seatbelt is not connected.
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