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The hardest part of successful RPA implementation IMHO is in not automating stupidity.

It’s too easy to send EY or whoever in to replace some god awful process by “Larry in AP” with a “bot” that just replicated what he does - no matter how pointless any step might be.
Not even approximations - they use a bunch of assumptions, many of which don’t hold up over time, so they then proceed to invent new ones as to say “well these assumptions are obviously better” even though they will inevitably be falsified because they share the same conceptual origin error.
It's the same thing really. It's just that Riesz first proved it for the special case and it was then generalized to Hilbert spaces. It's such a huge generalization that it causes a lot of confusion.
It seems absolutely outer worldly to want to optimize the layout of a city to prevent crime. Apart from the assumption being quite questionable that there even exists a connection. People live their lives in these things, they need to be optimize for many other factors to produce a environment enabling a the highest quality of living possible, crime is just a small factor. If one would want to present crime there would be plenty of things to do, changing street layouts might move crime a bit, but for sure won’t enable it.
Not the original poster, but whenever the topics comes up I tell one of the following semi-jokes ( semi, because I am more and more convinced we should try at least one ):

1. Automatic jail time for anyone, who held public office after they leave on the assumption that must have done something. Side benefit: prisons would improve drastically.

2. Absolutely random election for every office in the land. This should spice things up. Side benefit: we would quickly find out what exactly they higher ups want to do about overpopulation of the planet.

3. Term limits for congress. It will never happen, but it is nice to dream.
Immigration policies are never mentioned because they are a taboo topic, which already means we are winking with one eye as we are giving Zizekesque reasonings and conclusions.
Not more demand but stable demand. Transaction demand growth is still vigorous, as any look at gas prices can verify. I'm just saying Hayek might be right, if the underlying GDP is reasonably stable as he assumed.

But fine, I'll admit I have little to go on. Are you willing to admit the same? Because you're even further from the actual data so far.
The article doesn't address grass lawns, which require ridiculous amounts of water, and seem like the more water they get, the happier they are.
I would volunteer LaTeX but that's also 100s of MBs/GBs of dependencies to be fair. Perhaps an SVG rasterizer would suffice here.
World of Warcraft ?
Ok, I kept getting the message on hacker news that housing supply can only be solved with more housing supply. But what can we do as individuals?
Remember the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs? That goose was providing but the farmer got greedy. In real life there tons of stories of people being attacked by animals they fed and sheltered for years.
> I’ve always felt we would be better off querying at a higher level (say the logical db schema) and then the physical db schema is managed for us behind the scenes

But that's *exactly* what an RDBMS does: it handles the low-level record data-structures on-disk and presents to you a relatively cushy set of tables that you can design how you like them.

...otherwise please clarify what you mean by "logical db schema" vs. "physical db schema"?

Your talk of there being a "physical" design harkens back to those myriad "4GL" database platforms but those are all completely obsolete (despite what Progress's sales people will tell you). Y'see, database application developers haven't needed to concern themselves with physical records on-disk since dBase stopped being cool around 1990 (and the poor sods still using 4GL systems through the 1990s and even into the 2000s failed to see the industry shifts towards open databases (hence the "Open" in ODBC) so I don't feel too sympathetic for their cause.

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> I think this is a reason NoSQL became so widespread.

I attribute it to too many CS/SE grads who didn't take database-theory electives and so never got to properly grok SQL (never mind how SQL is horribly, horribly mis-designed!) but they got hired by cool startups but for 90% of their use-cases the notion of a database behaving like memcachd is very, very enticing.

You may have noticed that the hype around "traditional" NoSQL engines (like Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB, etc) started receding probably about 3-4 years ago (and PostgreSQL is cool again!) after all those companies that built their entire business around a NoSQL database suddenly find themselves being mature businesses that now need to hire normal business-people who need to get that business data into Excel, or an OLAP warehouse, or otherwise get real-time views of data in a tabular form - those are all things that will make upper-management decide to hire people to transition the company off NoSQL and back to RDBMS.

This isn't anything new: a couple of decades ago there was (and still is) a popular in-process key-value (i.e. NoSQL) database called Berkeley DB[1] that had plenty of use-cases and applications as a more flexible alternative to some stock dBase library - or as the years went by: Microsoft JET (aka Access MDB). Though in this case, the funny thing is that dBase is also "NoSQL" because application programmers have to query data by manually iterating over fixed-size records at known offsets in a one-file-per-table system - it's really primitive.

[1]Now also owned by Oracle, natch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB
It would also be very interesting to see seepage from say, 1910, predating the 10,000 wells that were built in the area, 1925, at the height of the oil boom, and today, but I doubt this information exists.

Edited to say "area" instead of "city" - there was no city at that time.
> But so far commercial supersonic flight has only worked out as prestige projects, not as commercial successes.

I suspect that further optimizing the fast part of air travel doesn't offer as much gain as further optimizing the slow part, which is between the real origin and the plane door and between the plane door and the real destination.
> I think the much greater disfranchisement happens when all legal votes are "watered down" by illegally cast votes because of lack of IDs.

Can you give some sources where this has happened and changed the election results?

Giving food and water to people waiting in lines for voting protect is now a crime, how does that protect integrity of the elections?

How does closing polling stations in minority dominated areas protect integrity of the elections?

> It's logically equivalent to saying "banks are stealing your money

If the CEO of the bank starts screaming that the money in your accounts was not yours, wouldn't you see that as a problem?

Its amazing that the voter fraud narrative has any legs, maybe you dont see the problem with "disenfranchisement" because I am assuming you are an American but to the rest of the world its very clear that one side is changing the rules because they are losing
Where and when was your graduate schooling?

Assigned reading will frequently be listed on syllabi. Older versions can be found through the Wayback Machine, if posted online (and from the early 1990s through about a decade ago, many were, unfortunately, integrated school information systems have largely hidden these behind registration walls).
We are tool makers and users. We evolved to be this... we are not alone in this, but we are (a lot) better at it than any other animals on this planet. And a tool-maker needs materials, and the best materials aren't available everywhere... any old rock may serve as a hammer in a cinch, but not just any rock can be turned into a sharp hand axe. You need something knappable, like quality flint. Pretty hard to find.

Given this, the story that collecting potentially useful materials is an evolved instinct makes a lot more sense than your story. Some of us have it more than others; I find it really hard to resist picking up something that looks like it might be useful and taking it with me. It comes from a place deeper than my conscious appreciation of beauty. Feels like pure instinct.
links for the curious: https://github.com/libmir/dcompute/
The choice of climate change s the subject of the book, although well founded, distracts from the overall message about using fear and alarmism to control people, which has never been more relevant today. I reread this earlier this year and it's very pertinent to covid. Really an underrated book.

Buy it before it's removed from amazon as "misinformation"
His GitHub says this:
"This might sound like a convoluted way to generate the calendar, but I'm doing so mainly because (i) it's easier to
format the calendar exactly the way I want it using HTML/CSS, and (ii) I can better delink the generation of the
calendar and refreshing of the eInk display. In the future, I might choose to generate the calendar on a separate
RPi device, while using a ESP32 or PiZero purely to just retrieve the image from a file host and update the screen."

https://github.com/speedyg0nz/MagInkCal/blob/main/render/ren...

Its easy to design something nice looking in html and css and compute is cheap. Seems like a fine solution to me. Maybe even better since you can push the image generation somewhere else and just have the RPI update the screen with an image which would save lots of power.

I've tried making nice interfaces with GUI toolkits and its a nightmare.
Yes, LineageOS.
They're astral teleportation anchors.

You meditate (samatha) on one of these until you can visualize it pretty good (each is unique).

Then you can "teleport" to wherever the stone orb is (astrally speaking).

You might want to think twice before you take one home.
Isn't it a paraphrase of Bertrand Russell?

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt" — from The Triumph of Stupidity, 1933.
More information and other great sound captures can be found at The Conet Project via Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/the-conet-project
> We could have much more leisure time, like most other industrialized countries.

Yep, let’s blame others for our woes
It would be slightly more straightforward to interpret a relational system as a hypergraph as a relation can typically be between more than 2 things. It does seem like you can more or less interpret most of these as a directed graph, though compound keys might make things somewhat tricky.
Re 7: But other people also aren't side characters. Especially, your children aren't. (Your wife isn't, either, and neither are your co-workers.)

I needed that to some degree ten years ago. I needed it a lot worse 20 years ago.
I recently read Fire Upon the Deep and I think I'd agree that Vinge is great at speculative fiction. I hadn't looked at the publish/copyright date when I borrowed the ebook from my library.

I was shocked just now to see it's a thirty year old book. Zero signs or hints of it, at least to me. The concept that computers/AIs can be affected by the region of space they're in is a nifty idea I don't think I've seen before, and one can find some parallels today (for example, Siri now on a sufficiently new enough iPhone isn't completely useless, but much more capable when within range of a data connection.)

My only complaint about FUtD was that some elements of the plot, namely stuff going on in the planet, felt drawn out and slow.

Thank you both for recommending another one of his books.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
Oh yes, then I agree. I assumed they meant per week since federal US overtime is defined per week.
> the inflation of the 70's was caused by the increase in the price of a single good, oil, due to the Arab oil embargo.

If the price of a single item goes up, and you buy it, you have less money to spend on other items, and so the prices of those other items goes down. Supply & demand.

In order for a general price increase, the supply of money must increase.
If you want to save society, the mental health of our children, and preserve a sane and functional democracy, etc, etc.

Stop working for Facebook.

Quit working for that leadership.

Let their talent erode and their technical debt lead to atrophy.

Don't expend your finite life living and slaving for this empire of evil.

The next best step is to pledge to not hire ex-Facebookers.
> Great. Let's add more paperwork to the incorporation/reporting process.

Many of the systems required to create a more complete accounting of assets already exist. For example, in the United States financial institutions already generate 1040s for profits/losses/dividends on financial assets; it wouldn't be particularly difficult for those forms to also include the actual assets themselves and their values. Local governments already collect property taxes (which, at various points throughout history have included a lot more than just property - such as cars/boats/etc.; equipment, etc. - so the infrastructure already exists to tabulate these other categories too) - it wouldn't be hard to transmit that data. I'm not arguing that it wouldn't take any work to have a transparent accounting of who owns what, but it's certainly not impossible - after all, we do it for income and no one seems to bat an eyelid. Not to mention that we live in an age of fast and easy electronic communications. Transparent wealth accounts have existed before in much more difficult circumstances (e.g. wealth taxes imposed on war profiteering by various governments after WWII) and it didn't prove to be an insurmountable burden.

> Taxation has a hard time changing the current laws because these are revenue for government. It can't do an overhaul but it can make new rules/regulations. Great, more paperwork.

Taxation is law - in fact, the tax code and how it is structured is probably the most important part.

> More paperwork, regulations, rules and advisors. That should simplify your tax diagram.

There is already an incredible amount of paperwork, regulations, rules and advisors involved in the gaming of the global tax system that already occurs. More transparency around asset ownership would help lead to a simpler global tax regime, not a more complicated one.
Simpler in runtime overhead. Simpler for a developer familiar with the tools used here, but less so with others? Maybe not.

This seems to be a hobbyist project, not a major corporate effort where $100Ks were spent on tech selection.
N^M, clearly.
Frances Haugen reveals herself as the Facebook whistleblower
Living organisms also adapt to their environments and models which understand them.

If you want to get to base levels, look at metabolism, energy inputs, conversion efficiencies, productive activity, and immunity / defence / risk dynamics.

Economic analysis arose out of cost accounting in which those inputs were specifically discounted, under-priced, and/or externalised.
This one might be cheaper: https://github.com/zephray/NekoCal

...from the same guy who did this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140284
Maybe I'm missing something, but I think there is a need. If your code imports dependencies A & B and they depend on C at two different versions, how can you handle this unless C is structured with versioned dirs?
One of the good details about the original B5 was how the Starfury fighters used thrust correctly to orient themselves.
Naw, just burn it down and start anew, that's fine too. It's really not all that special, and people should become comfortable with rebuilding things at the moment.

Don't burn everything, just some things.
New study is very mistaken about what I think. Or, more accurately, clickbait headline writer is...
This was my first thought to be honest.
I've added IMAP email accounts with 17./8 unblocked and then accessed those email accounts later with 17./8 blocked.

Most apps aren't updated more than once a week, some are not updated for months.

There are a few high-quality iOS apps which support NAS (e.g. WebDAV) for local, surveillance-free, cross-device sync.
> funny accounting, and statistical standards of America economists.

China beats the US in funny accounting by orders of magnitude!! China’s economy is a massive works program so a large chunk of their manufacturing ends up being trash essentially as there’s no requirement to produce products that people want.
I mean, it's possible that the optimal position isn't all that far off, but I would need to see that actually demonstrated before I start caring about the national median. It's not like the relevant demographics aren't available for swing voters in swing states - the campaigns already look at those.
There are lots of really cheap homes in the USA they either need work or are in undesirable locations or both.
I’m waiting on the dev board they sell on waveshare. Definitely affordable under $20.

For this type of project the esp32 seems like the better choice than the pi zero.

There’s also the RP2040 if you want work in the pi ecosystem. Arduino and u-blox have those with wifi I think
But that quote is literally from an economist... as is Lucas' critique?
Lowdown – Simple Markdown Translator
Cause EInk display code works nice to just ship it an image type file. So, it's gotta be rasterized before, using Chromium makes that super easy - rather than hand crafting PNG.

I personally make SVG then rasterize but this isn't that terrible.
> I'm just trying to illustrate that some people do extract value from their commute.

There's nothing preventing such people from commuting wastefully to their own home if the value is high enough.

Last I checked there was nothing prohibiting commuters from commuting in loops, and there's nothing controversial about appreciating some time away from the people at home. You can get in your car or board public transit if you want, that nap sounds pretty good from where I'm sitting atm.

I used to commute to a cafe for the separation and enjoyable travel time vs. just staying at home. The salient point is you have options with WFH, it isn't some kind of prison sentence unless you make it one.
> It seems absolutely outer worldly to want to optimize the layout of a city to prevent crime.

It’s ironic that we’re having this discussion around Paris, a city which was deliberately transformed to make it easier to rule. Although the fear was revolution rather the ordinary crime, under Napoleon III grand boulevards were made to allow troops to maneuver, as well as to break up neighborhoods with too strong a sense of identity. It proved rather effective and was exported all over Europe and the world.
https://archive.is/DjgbT

friday 38, sat 39 planes.
I'd rate it a 5/7 book
I pay Spotify $10/month to try new (to me) metal and jazz acts. However, if I like an album I buy it because Spotify exploits artists rather than supporting them. A lucky few make bank, the rest make bupkis, and the house always wins.

This is how Medium and Substack work as well, incidentally. Artist exploitation as a service.
Transcript or link was the request.

There are plenty of cases in which transcripts exist (and they're auto-generated with high accuracy presently). The habit of not providing any direct access to the source where it is trivially available seems to be the one OP is specifically criticising, and I'd agree strongly.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, one of the only powers a lot of have is being able to pick who wins by working for them
On the most basic level databases solve the ACID problem, namely that you typically want data operations to be:

Atomic

Consistent

Isolated transactions

Durable

A database may also provided better options for querying, though you'd have to use a pretty odd data model if that's a true bottleneck.
They actually wanted a way to raise money for war effort to break free from the Spanish influence.

It was a massive public money raising campaign to build war ships, guns and hire mercenaries, all under the guise of "exploring exotic commercial opportunities overseas".
Snake oil needs to be purchased and it has hidden ingredients. Where are those in gun? Free and OSS. If you don’t like it don’t use it but why the hate? Serious question.
Whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public
Cats get eaten by dogs/coyotes/alligators. And if they're let outside, they decimate native bird populations. Sure, the cat will "grow organically" best without outside controls, but it'll also turn feral and potentially die young.

Is there an economy shop where you can go get a new economy if this one gets run over by a car?
I don’t get it. The one screenshot is meaningless to me.
He's more deserving of immortality than many people we keep alive in memory. Why not preserve it somehow?
There is lots of cheap X, it just sucks.
Dune was such an awesome movie.

I'd almost forgotten the feeling of having high hopes for a film, and then sitting in the cinema and actually enjoying every second of the experience. On the way home, I tried listening to my usual music, but it just sounded... too small and like it would cheapen the afterglow. Only a Hans Zimmer mix fit the occasion.
I get your perspective but I feel the situation is more complex than that. Replacement parts _never_ brick the phone. They can disable FaceID, TrueTone and show "non genuine" warnings. They also seem to bug out the cameras but this was fixed via an update on the 12 and seems likely to be fixed here too.

The FaceID one seems legitimate as a malicious faceid sensor could compromise security. The truetone one looks like total rubbish and should be fixed. And the non genuine messages are useful.

The problem is not you knowingly putting in a non genuine part. It's that a disappointing chunk of repair stalls and almost all online parts are non genuine and essentially fraud as they advertise as being genuine and better than the original parts. Often they are recycled parts from used / stolen devices which are worn out before you even get them. There are even stores in 3rd world countries which will remove genuine parts from your phone and replace them with fakes while doing something like a battery replacement.

The non genuine message protects the customer who gets their phone repaired. It also protects the second hand buyer so they can see that the whole phone is genuine and no bad parts are used. It also protects the phone owner by making theft less valuable as the parts can not be used to their fullest.

So I totally understand the issues with DIY repair here, but I also see all of the other issues at play. The main issue I see is that Apple does not do repairs on certain parts of the phone like the lightning port so if those parts break, they won't do anything for you. I'd like to see Apple and governments work together to find a solution that ensures users get maximum repairability while still being protected against part fraud. I'd like to see Apple have some open dialog with the public and governments about exactly _why_ each restriction is in place, what problems they face, and why they have to do things this way.
Yes. Not everyone has to live in CA. It’s a self compounding problem. Build more housing to allow more jobs which need more housing. Maybe let the free market decide and jobs will spread out into lower cost areas.