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D̶e̶u̶t̶s̶c̶h̶l̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶ EU Über Alles ? Digital nationalism?

I don't really get this fragmentation in a free world. Why should i use product that is less competitive just because companyX servers a located in a country that is theoretically more friendly? Even that is a big question.

If you live in Poland or any Eastern European EU member, in this case GB, US do more to protect you from absolutely real War risk.

Germany, France, Austria government is absolutely corrupted they lead to situation when Russia think it can claim rights on other sovereign countries. Half of eastern Europe felt left behind. Same with China relationship. How many people will lose their job because china is building their capital on not fairly regulated market, stolen Intellectual property. EU don't care. No real protection. They afraid tensions(polite form of saying corrupted) even when this tension means protect own citizen.

At the same time ex german counselor works at Gazprom to Lobby corrupt interests. He got an official title. Russia takes this money and execute, poison people, blow up military objects in European countries.

But EU built a nice website to support corrupted governments via taxes. Maybe first get some responsibility and do your job?
Meanwhile the PE firms that owned the bonds are now converting them into equity, dumping it on retail and cashing out.

DUDE WE ARE STICKING IT TO THE MAN SO BAD. SILVER LAKE IS JUST LIKE US.
It was a great product and was the first widely available c compiler for the Macintosh. I purchased it (LightspeedC) for my Macintosh II for $100 in something like 1987. I was coming from Xerox office systems division to grad school and felt it was as good as our Xerox IDEs.

Languages like Apple Pascal had too much of a banana Republic dictatorship underpinning (due to Nicklaus Wirth/European fascism) and didn't allow much freedom of expression. It's why Apple had to add so many extensions just to make Pascal usable and so many people moved to Think C. With a 3-second turnaround compiler and a decent IDE it was a great system.
Thanks, that is a good article. There are a lot of tricks to implementing ECC efficiently (besides correctly), enough that writing a competitive DIY implementation is a lot of work even if you know what you're doing. That's in contrast with RSA, where the work is all in the modular exponentiation operation, which is already carefully optimized in libraries like GMP (so just call GMP and you are done).

Hankerson, Menezes, and Vanstone's "Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography" is very helpful if you are trying to implement ECC for some reason. Most of us are probably better off using an existing implementation.
It is partially you, but not in a general "You are different than everyone else" sense. Nostalgia is powerful - the games I played when I was younger will always win out in my head compared to newer games.
I can't make myself take this question seriously.
Why is the speed limit what it is? Why not focus on driver education? Why not focus on feedback? This topic, where a driver is holding back 40 cars trying to get to work on time while he/she drives in a way to prevent anyone from getting past... People get fed up, occasionally doing stupid stuff like passing on the shoulder. How many accidents are caused by roadrage? Traffic on your bumper - move right. I'd much rather have that guy on down the road instead of in my mirror. I once had a car block me on a near empty road for almost 10 miles. We were trying to make a flight, but this guy was bothered that we were doing 10mph over on an empty road. I read a few years ago about a guy blocking a driver who had an accident... while trying to get to the hospital with his pregnant wife.

We can all coexist on the road. Rule one - use common sense, be polite. Rule two - don't be a dick. Rule three - let the cops do the policing.
Spare a thought for the presidential aide responsible for safeguarding POTUS's poop, so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. I'd hate to be the person assigned to "doodie duty".
This brings back memories. We Frank Wood's BA1 to learn accounting at O-Level back in the late 80s in Malta! I wonder what edition that one was...
If you'd like to see them chant again then just lift the sanctions, same with Lebanon, or Iran, any nation will buckle under the siege of economic warfare even more so nations which have fragility on their system such as these social inclined ones
It's still ai/ml, I'd say.
Schneier is linking two other stories.

The CitizenLab item was discussed 3 days ago, 19 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29588801

The Google Project Zero exploration of the iOS exploit 5 days ago, 388 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29568625
Americans have always done it in larger numbers though, because in times of economic slowdown they don't try and prop up existing business employment using furlough schemes, and it has been extremely easy to move and get a new job throughout the history of the country. (EU freedom of movement was inspired by the US which has always had it at a continental scale, and it's a lot more practical since nearly everyone's first language is also the US's lingua franca.)

This leads to upsides and downsides. Generally speaking, a lot more people lose jobs during US slowdowns, but the US tends to bounce back a lot faster as well since the labor market is flexible and responds rapidly to changes. One concern with furlough-type schemes is that they keep people at "zombie" firms that the economy may be pivoting away from.
That's a lot of words to rationalize away what is very clearly and obviously a cloaking device at work!!
Not so. You ate food to make that CO2. If you had buried it underground instead, that carbon would have remained sequestered instead of reentering the atmosphere.

It's a good example precisely to show that you can spin anything into a negative externality by comparing it to some possible alternative which is better on some possible metric. Then if you want to show that the other alternative is worse, choose a different metric. No thing exists which is more perfect than all other things across all metrics.
> What this vision requires is pushing down a shared library or coordinated behavior into every new language or future technology that requires it.

NO IT DOES NOT. Please do not repeat this false claim.

> This model has been tried many many times

No. What YOU describe has been tried many times. It doesn't work. We agree.

> The architecture astronauts require their language to be guaranteed across wire boundaries

Yep. This does not.

> which is a fancy way of saying that their uber-language needs to be implemented in all the subsystems for guarantees to work.

Yep. Which is why that is a bad idea.
>> people will soon realize that code is a data structure, not text

Are you being tongue in cheek because most haven’t realised it in 63 years!!!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
Thanks! Some screen reader features will work out of the box (thanks to the magic of Flutter!), but we're also going to add labels for actions soon (so e.g. buttons will tell the user what it will do). Adding labels to images is another item we could add to the list.
I don't know, but i'm pretty sure its going to be nothing that's listed here.

Everything listed here is stuff at the high end of the hype cycle. Everyone is already looking at it. The next big thing is going to be something nobody is looking at. If people are already looking, it would have already happened.
Where can I find the source code for flutterflow?
In terms more common to Americans, this is about 49c/kWh. Is this for generation only or generation and delivery?

Here in California I pay about 28c/kWh which is typical (total for generation and delivery), but CA is one of the most expensive states I think.
> Fortunately for us, the realities of flat organizations are pushing them out of favor and lively conversations about engineering leadership as a craft are taking over. Flat organizations are a nice idea, but they just don’t reflect how people behave.

this makes me wonder who "us" means.

i make the educated guess it's "managers", which were dead weight in the Apple engineering scheme I joined, which functioned super efficiently without them, as it was emphasized how flat was a feature, not a bug, for getting things done.
That's still only ~41 clocks per pixel. I wonder how many clocks multiple and add instructions took on a 486.
I would start looking now.

But I would also address the issue of your criteria for a job. The part that concerns me is: 'none of the companies I really wanted to work for were interested in me'. What did those companies have that made you want to work for them?

You need to define what work culture you need, what opportunities you want (i.e. is a job with no growth sufficient), how much money you want or need. I typically put a monetary aspect to each, so I can make a quantitative decisions, and not convinced by a slick HR person.

Definitely, start looking. But start a=by quantifying your need, you might find your current company can fulfill it with a minor adjustment.
> Not saying they don’t add value, but they get hired and rewarded way more than the value they add and ultimately drown the company

I thought similarly when I was younger, but then I became a manager and realized it’s not so black and white.

Going back to IC developer (for a while) was a surprising relief from the stresses of managing people.

I know some companies let managers run wild and make devs do all the work, but most successful tech companies actually have very high demands of managers. A decent manager will be good at hiding all of the behind-the-scenes issues from the team, but I didn’t truly understand the volume of problems managers quietly deal with until I was in the role.
Vanadium flow batteries have gotten lots of interest because vanadium has 4 oxidation states, so the positive and negative electrolyte tanks have distinct charged and discharged chemistries. This adds a ton of flexibility to usage from multiple cycles per day to seasonal storage while the battery is still operating daily.

Manufacturers are advertising 20k cycles vs 6-7k for Li-ion, but in theory, flow batteries can last forever with maintenance.
Elementary OS is ok but I have issues with the stability of its window manager, lock screen, and other core UI replacements that often lock up (on 5.x and now on 6.x) and require a hard reset (or killing X).

On my laptop and even w/ proprietary drivers installed, I cannot get eOS to hardware accelerate videos with either my embedded Intel graphics card or my discrete nVidia card in Firefox or Chromium.

The UI is full of really weird inconsistencies and is extremely opinionated without any way of changing some basic things (previously adjustable via `gsettings` but it seems that has been intentionally deprecated). For example, the elementary File Manager forces single-click-to-open ("web-style") behavior for any folders, but then switches to double-click-to-open for any files within those folders, so you can select a file but not open it but you cannot do the same with a folder. If it weren't for elementary tweaks (neutered as it has become for eOS 6), elementary would be completely unusable.

The decision to not even have an official upgrade path besides "nuke everything and reinstall" makes me question the clarity of vision of elementary OS developers/decision makers. You want to be the macOS of the Linux world but you have a worse upgrade experience than any other Linux distro bar none? You purposely advertise to "less techy" users that are exactly the kind of users that won't be able to handle a "back up your files, wipe everything, and clean install" upgrade path?

They added multitouch gesture support... but the only gestures available are for interacting with the desktop window manager (show all windows, move to prev/next virtual desktop)? Fortunately my `syngestures` that I wrote for elementary OS 5 works just fine alongside eOS 6's so-called "multitouch support" but for something that was going to be their killer feature, you'd think they would integrate some of the TouchEgg configuration into their touchpad gestures control panel UI, wouldn't you?
This is what seems toxic about the entire "enterprise" (i.e. not indie) video game industry.

It's figuratively (and sometimes literally) the equivalent of someone cruising college bars looking for folks "willing to be paid for a few private pictures."

Take someone with hopes, dreams, aspiration, pay them the minimum you can get away with (that due to their stage of life seems like a lot), dress up the entire experience with pomp and fun and free snacks, tell them how they're going to change the world, extract every ounce of profit you can from them, at the expense of their life, health, and career, and then dump them by the side of the road and GOTO 10.

It's a fundamentally exploitive business, and it shows in the salaries (especially vs work volume expectations). At least MAMAA pay sufficiently well that it's a mutually beneficial deal to employee and employer.
They flat out lie during the negotiation process.

You get asked to sit in a room for a "couple of minutes". Ends up being more like 30.

You get there, the people you're supposed to talk to "aren't available", they have some other random underlings talk to to keep you busy.

You're talking to them, they act bored or distracted. They play with their phones, take calls.

They whiteboard you clearly without any preparation. Sometimes pulling a problem more or less out of their ass (logically incoherent and/or mathematically intractable).

They give you lengthy take-home problems, which would clearly take 4x as long to do in an actual work environment. And surprise, they don't set up the environment right, or the data you're supposed to go fetch just isn't there anymore (or has changed), or the requirements are just plain incoherent.

Oh and then they ghost you.
I think the allure here is the same as with ciphers. Everyone can create a cipher they cannot break, but cryptographers can break easily.

Likewise, it's easy to invent another PRNG, but not so easy to figure out that, say, its output always falls on one of seventeen parallel planes when treated as consecutive (x, y, z) coordinates.

If you want random numbers that are fast and almost-cryptographically-strong, you can take some ARX block cipher and reduce number of rounds as you see fit. But it's not nearly as much fun.
> And at no point is anyone in the room asking "Is it fun?"

Would it be economically infeasible or otherwise unattractive to investors to propose a new game development business where "Is it fun?" is the only question that matters?

Presumably, you have access to this entire marketplace of exiled ubisoft/blizzard/et.al. employees, so maybe the formal business plan starts with acquiring some of this talent and determining what projects they might want to work on.
You can render on your GPU to a texture, then stream that texture to these devices. No different to rendering to your screen and then streaming and saving to disk, as you would do if you were screen capturing.
I recently heard a podcast by the comedian Kevin Hart. In the early 2000s, when he was an unknown and social media didn't exist, he would have a sign-up sheet at his shows, where people could enter their names and email addresses. This way, he'd maintain an email list for each city.

Each time he scheduled a return appearance in that city, he'd send out an email letting people know the date and time of the show and a link to buy tickets.

Today, people build their followings on social networks that barely let you even post links to your own site (Instagram). Had Twitter/IG/FB existed back then, people would have no way to maintain independent contact lists.
It's time to stop worshipping the tech billionaires
There are 3 ways you can use custom code for business logic:

- Custom Functions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbNtmue0ZZo

- Custom Widgets: https://community.flutterflow.io/c/whats-new-in-flutterflow/...

- Custom Actions: https://community.flutterflow.io/c/whats-new-in-flutterflow/...

The reason there are 3 different kinds of custom code is so that it can easily integrate with the visual builder ... for instance a "Custom Action" function will show up when you add an action on a Button Tap, or TextField submit. A "Custom Widget" can be dragged in and passed parameters, and a "Custom Function" can be used to set values. Would love any feedback
https://mipmip.org/tidbits/boat-race.html
I don't mind seeing homeless people, I simply don't wish to interact with them in any close or substantive fashion. It rarely goes well.
>That seems to be a strategy that now longer works now that recruiters for all sorts of companies/industries have become so aggressive

Companies are also becoming more and more willing to post salary ranges along with job postings these days as well, which makes jumping ship from game dev even easier. "I could make 30-50% more and only work 40 hours a week instead of 60-80, at the low cost of giving up games to write boring tax software instead? Sign me up"
Seems like it will probably have snowball effect. With this many leaving, the remainder have more work to do than before. And assuming the rumors about game dev are mostly true, the company will react by forcing long work hours and other unpleasant new policies, etc. Which will make more want to leave. Rinse, repeat.
Presumably the owners and operators of the grocery stores are losing, and are constituents of the city, pay payroll taxes, property taxes, etc.
https://archive.md/ReC0d
> will lenders lend at advantageous rates to Beanstalk after it establishes itself as a good creditor? or will lenders demand an outsized return for lending to Beanstalk, on account of their money being locked up for an indeterminant duration?

One would think that once Beanstalk has an even more robust credit history, lenders with lower risk profiles would be even more inclined to lend to Beanstalk! Once you have a sufficient credit history I don't think the "indeterminate" lock up period will be a deterrent (that's what high weather helps mitigate in the near term).

The protocol is in a debt cycle right now (as indicated by the market cap being $50M while the pod line of lenders is $390M), but in the long run the debt level should be much more reasonable and the market cap will be significantly larger than the pod line.

> interesting project.

Agreed! There are a lot of new, interesting aspects to this specific algo stablecoin that I haven't seen before. And the best part is that it's working! All other non-collateral algo stablecoins failed within a month (like ESD, Basis Cash, etc), but Beanstalk has been chugging along for 4-5 months now. I think the Lindy effects are strong here.
It is in Sweden yes, but that is why you have magazines (lakes). And those are emptied during winter when the snow does not melt and the general consumption is higher. And at the end of it all you need to spend it before spring because then they star filling up again.

(Edit) Right now in Sweden the magazines are filled to 70% (or slightly lower). In april they were at 30%

https://www.energiforetagen.se/globalassets/energiforetagen/...

At the bottom there you can see how the water accumulates during different months. Area 3&4 is the southern half of Sweden, area 1 and 2 are the northen parts.
You could start giving away gold for free, but noone will come unless you tell at least one guy about it, but likely he will not believe you. So you need to tell several people, maybe hundreds if it's not easily accessed. But likely you just have a great product, and you are not willing to give it away for free, so it will take much more to attract people! And there is also timing, if for example Google or Facebook would launch today (in their original form) they would have a very hard time acquiring users.
SF East Bay tiny homes lead to big disappointments for some homeless residents
They can also be seen at Hickam AFB here: https://www.google.com/maps/@21.3310109,-157.946255,241m/dat...
Incidentally, the F-117's fighter designation was a misnomer; they were only armed with bombs.
How does all this relate to algorithm theory, Turing Completeness, turing machines, etc?
Fib is a weird case because it's the poster child of dynamic programming. The challenge in this case is that each call spawns multiple recursive calls, and you're ultimately just adding 1's and 0's (so your runtime is comparable to the number you compute). Meanwhile, the DP / iterative approach understands the repeated structure of your recursion and can use that to eliminate redundant computation.

Compare this to tail-recursive functions, where you can basically update the stack variables and jump back to the beginning of the function.

(Note that you can approximately achieve the performance of the iterative solution by memoizing the results if your functions are pure and your input space is small, e.g. via @functools.cache, but you're paying for it with space, whereas the iterative solution understands when you can discard the intermediate results.)
While there are lots of people trying to break into the industry, the real question is how good are they? Building games is hard work.

It's just an anecdote, but one dev told me at the studio he worked on, his project had 22 engineers assigned, but just 3 devs ultimately contributed 90% of the code written. And while those 3 devs were very skilled developers, he claimed they weren't so-called "10x" engineers. They've all since moved on to greener pastures doing work outside the industry making substantially more money.
The conspiratorial tone may be because planned obsolescence is literally a conspiracy - a secret plan by the manufacturer (composed of multiple people) for a harmful purpose - causing the early breakdown of a useful good.

Unfortunately I don't have much solid information to contribute about specific instances.
"The country’s largest retail industry group, the National Retail Federation, estimated in its latest report that losses from organized retail theft average $700,000 per $1 billion in sales — or 0.07% of total sales — an amount roughly 330 times lower than the CRA’s estimate."

0.07% is the estimate for "organized retail theft" which does not include "employee theft, regular shoplifting and fraud". How often did gangs of thieves break into the Walgreens to steal all the cosmetics?

"The walgreen shut down."

There was a restaurant near me, a local landmark. It closed down when the original owner retired, but was reopened by one of his relatives several months later. It lasted about a couple of months, then closed abruptly with hilarious signs on the door about the government stealing all the money---apparently the new operator hadn't realized that employment taxes were a thing. Was it the evil government that killed the restaurant, or the new operator's incompetence?
Ethically, no. They may be sentient and are definitely friendly, even in the wild.

Wild pigs are not always friendly, so I’m putting pork in the “one of us is eating the other” box. But it’s close.
Yeah, that's my interpretation too from talking to and reading about people's experiences in the industry. (Disclaimer: I don't work and have never worked in the computer games industry myself)

Unfortunately it seems par for the course for many "flashy" creative professions. There's a much larger influx of people wanting to work in the industry than actual jobs, so employers take advantage of the situation to press down wages and treat people like shit (say, unpaid internships).
Facebook can afford it.

Very few companies can.
Who said the product is inferior? Have you checked any of these?

More discoverability of alternative offerings is always better, for both the customer and supplier, unless the supplier is a monopolist.

In my experience middle sized companies that still have to prove themselves and build good will offer (much) better servivce / product than mature corporations run by beancounters who are focused on "monetising" their userbase most effectively.