skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'how' both can be true is by increasing the supply and fuzzing around with the economic 'utility' of goods.

Sure, today's goods and services are extremely mobile - economically viable cross country shipping is basically the norm. This enables your butcher, baker and brewer to be thousands of miles away. By increasing this supply radius, the total number of goods drastically increase, decreasing the price.

A question becomes when do we 'use up' the cost savings of technology and transportation efficiencies through inflationary practices. I'd argue we just ran the greatest real world experiment with Covid, but do not even begin to have a gauge on this metric -- which would allow one to thoughtfully apply 'fiat practices'

But lurking in the background is the 'utility' of the goods and services we use. Many times my well respected economist professor would say that Great Value Butter is as economically equal as any other in terms of sustenance -- which pains me. In a simple function, sautéing vegetables - there's a marked quality difference between GV and 'higher priced' brands, but I'm forced to reckon that, yes, there is buttery flavor in a dish with vegetables, so at base... they are equal.

This is just a long winded way to say that people who have a diverse set of preferences will find inflation to be very real - while those who can live starkly monotone in their utility will have their inflation padded by economically efficient institutions fuzzing and redefining 'unnoticed properties' of goods and services.
If you are working on your own compiler, this may help a lot. Working on TCC is always good experience.
There is an old fart hierarchy. reminiscent of Ford in 1920, timeclocks, bullying, dominance etc who want to be the top bull in the herd, I suspect many fear for their jobs long term? The jobs suitable for online performance are also suitable for online measurement and supervision (the very etymology bespeaks 'overlook'). They fear a disturbance in their force, and many rightly fear having to learn to say 'do you want fries with that' = relearn a new career at their age!
Many can not, but those that can be, should be, from now on. The pandemic simply jumpstarted the process - now is not the time to go back.
https://ethanmick.com/

I've been starting to write more about React and TypeScript. I've been slowly creating a guide to walk coworkers through the technologies.

It's generally a terrible idea to write your own website to do this instead of just using a blogging platform. It's been fun to deeply customize some things (iFrames for mini browsers showing React code), but writing the code to send out half decent emails has been a nightmare (https://github.com/ethanmick/ethanmick.com/blob/main/pages/e...). Anyways, any feedback is appreciated!

Source code: https://github.com/ethanmick/ethanmick.com
Spot/Reserved instances are used.

I probably should have clarified that the extra cost was expected as we did a lot more in AWS than we could in Heroku, we used the switch to start using bunch of stuff AWS offers like Lambda functions, CloudFront, RDS etc. Stuff that we just didn't (and couldn't) use on Heroku, thus didn't pay for it.

As the purpose of the switch was to get more control, features and out of the Herokus "black box", higher costs were expected and perfectly normal.
I'm not a researcher, but I do have some thoughts on this. Some managers assume that if they can't see you, then you aren't working. This is possibly true for some employees, but I believe bad employees aren't only bad if they work from home. They're likely just bad employees all the time and now they can't be monitored.
People want to "get back to normal", which could include working from a shared office. However, there can be disagreement on whether what used to be "normal" was really good for everyone.
Also, managers need to manage. That is, some people think their job is to make up rules, so if they make up more rules then that gives the appearance that they're really working hard.
There are some real benefits to sharing an office. It can make some types of meetings easier to facilitate. It can be easier to get to know your coworkers if you're in the same place.
This is similar to my impression. I enjoyed exploring and looking at the wonderful art for a while, but after a few hours got extremely bored. I do enjoy puzzle games, but they became quite repetitive and uninteresting to me after a while. I guess it’s just not for me, although it sounded like the exact game I thought I would like.
Apparently they lose players when the game receives large updates, so I think this is a pain point for them as well.

https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-warzone-cant-have-more-...
Would you have a write up in more detail of what you did, even high level. Seems cool thing to do
Submission title nitpick: The word "Relaunch" doesn't appear on that site, and they're calling themselves "Novaya Gazeta Europe"...

(Which makes me wonder if they don't consider Russia to be European)
dfox lists some important things, the two most important I'd note are how through extensive use of microcode there was a huge range of systems that could run the same software, and for the lower end ones could also emulate older systems.

Going from memory and not counting the very limited 360/20, from the 8 bit internally 360/30 all the way to the 360/91 supercomputer you could run basically the same software. Which eventually solved a huge problem for IBM and the industry in general because not so much effort had been put into comparability in the early days, and IBM had two major lines of big computers, decimal ones for business and binary ones officially for science and engineering but by then often used by businesses.

Although stuff at the low end which somewhat like the 360/20 remained incomparable, the business 1401 series remained, also see the scientific 1130 which a lot of people including myself got their first start at programming on. It was a very clever design that used 360 technology to make an affordable system, for quite some time they'd put effort into that niche with the 650 and the CADET, Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try, a backronym from how they based it on a big block of core memory which they were very good at manufacturing by then vs. the drum as used in the 650, and and used that with tables etc. to avoid including an ALU.

And leaders of the effort going all the way up to Tom Watson Jr. made a catastrophic mistake in deciding virtual memory, which they called dynamic address translation (DAT) was a bad thing, which hardened so much the first models of the System/370 which used "monolithic" circuits, ICs, didn't have it (and they didn't do right by their customers who bought those first models).

The affordability of the 360 series and their ability to make so many but much less than initial demand rested on their avoiding too new at the time ICs and using automation to manufacture small boards logic boards on a ceramic substrate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_Logic_Technology This was an era in which IBM still massively benefited from its electromechanical wizardry gained in the punched card data processing days.

This lost them the high end computer science community which I believe seriously harmed them in the long term, ultimately made what they now call IBM Z a niche product.
The research cited here seems to follow previous conclusions concerning the fact that the largest groups could go up to 2000 individuals.

In fact, this is mentioned in page 6 of Dunbar's paper[1] so I fail to see how that invalidates anything about this theory. Perhaps have I missed something?

[1]: https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/1993/dunbar199...
As opposed to Rupert Murdoch, Jef Bezos (washington post), and other billionaires. who own and control a lot of English news properties and use this to spoon feed you right wing and left wing populist drivel?

I tend to sample across different media to get an impression of what is going on. Lately, I've been using Al Jazeera, the Times of Israel, BBC News and a few others. They each have their biases. But, if you have Al Jazeera and the Times of Israel agreeing with each other, you are dealing with solid information probably. Often the subtleties in wording, emphasis, etc. is also very telling. Adding le Monde to that list will help me understand how the French look at this world. Der Spiegel International sadly pulled the plug a few years ago but used to be similarly helpful with understanding the German perspective.

If you only read stuff that confirms your own biases, you are probably not getting informed very well.
I agree but this can help to understand and clear the concepts. And trust me gaining knowledge will always work for you.
There's inflation everywhere in the western world, so pointing at a specific Canadian policy for the inflation there is logically flawed.
What's the current price per gallon?
"exist peacefully with your fellow people" is great but first try to exist peacefully with yourself.
> If you don't get much out of it - don't worry, they will.

Im very selfish I get nothing out of helping others but I do it anyway and usually it ends up hurting the person I am trying to help, as the help is unwanted or the way I was helping was unwanted. You would think people would just be grateful for you trying but it turns out they are just as focused on themselves as myself.

It seems most people don't really want help they want some one to boss around and they call that help. I have no interest in being some ones lacky for no ones benefit but theirs in the same way no one wants to be my lacky.

Helping people is easy helping people in a way they won't hate you for it is very difficult.
Amazing work Raphaël! I’ve been showing this to my graphic design students in a code class and they immediately get the taste of editing in the browser inspector.
Yes, I moved from AWS to GCP while a product was in a late release cycle.

I talk about it in detail in a google cloud podcast: https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-265-sharkmob-games-w...

The primary reasons were: Ease of Use, Support and Cost (in that order).

I had a bunch of what I call "3am topics" which inhibited our ability to perform stressful operations in the middle of the night meaning we minimise our opportunity of successful outcomes when on-call... I'm not a fan of that.

I also argued (quite successfully) the case that AWS was not saving us money or much time when the alternative was renting a handful of servers from a provider.

There were attempts by AWS staff to lock us into the platform but those services (cloudfront and ECS being large ones) worked so poorly that caching/reconciliation layers were added into the product to build resiliency: all that was needed was to replace what populated the cache with something else (eventually we moved to Kubernetes which worked much better).

Cloudformation was so hard to work with (at least our implementation) that replacing it with terraform was easy: the hard part was understanding what was needed and what was fluff.

We also had to care a _lot_ about how the network was setup in AWS, there were issues with MTUs not being aligned by default in some cases for example so we had to write workarounds, and the VPCs being zonal by default meant we had much more complex setups.

Another ease of use topic was the sizing of instances, instead of specifically saying what shape of machine most matches your workload in GCP you allocate a number of cores and you're kinda done. Another ease of use topic was that discounts are provided retroactively via sustained use (though, they do have commitments too) where as in AWS you needed to very carefully carve up your requirements to get significant discounts, or write your application to be as stateless as possible (which you can do in GCP too). This is not a lot better than physical machines because the upfront work of trying to capacity plan is still there... at least if you care about cost.

Regardless, our dev cycles are much more streamlined now, it's rather easy to deploy an entirely new environment, the operations can be handled by a single individual on a part-time basis, which in my opinion is the point of a cloud provider: to save you time.

I can go into much more detail if you have any specific questions.
The single level/map of the Witness is rightly considered one of the best (if not the best) game levels ever designed, definitely nothing you can do on a website, but this isn't immediately evident--and for some people (myself included!) it can take quite a while to start perceiving what it has to offer (the game doesn't hold your hand at all). If you're interested in learning more, check out the videos below. They deal with distinct aspects of the game.

By opening these links YOU WILL BE IMMEDIATELY EXPOSED TO SERIOUS SPOILERS. Stop watching if you have decided you want to tackle the game in the future (but you can still repeat the process with the other video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2OT3QdrHLU

https://youtu.be/HWKPOfSjV58?t=1287
Uranium Is Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water, Study Finds
My midwestern farmer grandparents ate a diet not very dissimilar from the farm-diet described here - right up until my grandfather's fatal heart attack in the 90's.
The Final Blow to Hong Kong
imo, yes - the easier you make it for people to live 'ok', without working, the more a certain percentage of people will simply choose not to work - like it or not, we need people making entry-level wages to work, to fill jobs that need to be filled.

If less people are willing to take those entry level jobs, the more those companies need to pay people to entice someone to do that job - so they inevitably need to raise prices to cover those higher costs.
What is your solution for mobile clients? A quick perusal didn't show anything in the docs.
Because, even it is a subsidiary of Le Monde (Le Monde owns 51%, the rest is owned by the Associations "Les Amis Du Monde Diplomatique" and "Gunter Holzmann" which are all the personnel), it has full editorial autonomy and it shows by the quality of their articles.
That's absolutely fair. We forgive and/or forget that arrogance when the contribution is significant.

I will push back a bit and say that the arrogance of current and past scientists and engineers mostly comes across in dealing with them personally and, for the most part, they try to put their egos to the side to better communicate their ideas. Wolfram puts his ego front and center in his more recent scientific communications (the CA collected papers didn't have this problem, as far as I can remember). It's been a while since I looked at ANKoS but, as I remember, the scientific ideas are intertwined with his editorializing. The editorializing gets in the way of understanding what actual fundamental scientific ideas he's trying to push forward.
AWS to Google Cloud. Already mature product (public company). Many potential customers are strongly Amazon-averse. Switching to GCP won some deals that were being lost otherwise.

Anybody's cloud strategy should try and stick to the most basic services/building-blocks possible (containers/vms, storage, databases, queues, load balancers, dns, etc) to facilitate multi-cloud and/or easy switching.

Not that each cloud doesn't have its quirks that you'll have to wrap your head around, but if you go all in with the managed services you're eventually going to have a bad time.
I grew up with cycads in Australia and just contributed the first iNat photograph of a rare wild cycad[X] here in China a few months ago. Once you start looking at biology properly you will note there are endangered species in most parts of the world. It's such a shame. Please, if you have land try to protect remnant vegetation and restore endemic biodiversity. It aint coming back or hanging around unless we all put some effort in. I recommend Alba: A Wildlife Adventure[0] for kids, and iNaturalist[1] for adults.

[X] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105791620 [0] https://www.albawildlife.com/ [1] https://www.inaturalist.org/
I'm pretty sure that B2C is effectively a stand-alone instance of AAD that isn't integrated automatically with other applications and on-premise WSAD.
You're right, I think it's more appropriate to call it an explanation rather than a conclusion
Whats wrong with "starting as a pornographer?"
Or even [currently, if applicable] being one?
Under the hood, odt and docx files are zip files.[0] The “91%” change has nothing to do with rewriting the file; it mostly has to do with zip files and how poorly git handles binary diffing. Plaintext files are rewritten on disk every time you save them in virtually every editor and that doesn’t cause problems for git.

I’ve never tried this, so take it with a heap of salt, but you might have better luck with the diffing if you developed a process that unzipped the file contents into your repo after you’re done editing it, and then zipped the contents back up with the right extension when you want to edit it again.

Alternatively, you could just switch to a text-based format like rtf, as long as you don’t need any specific features from odt or docx.

(EDIT: someone else mentions a promising sounding “flat xml” format, which I’ve never encountered before.)

[0]: https://superuser.com/a/1356829
> that don’t require you to have millions of dollars or to go into politics.

These sound like the same thing to me.
Yeah I think this is a problem with modern life. Our ancestors knew only of their surroundings and their tribe. Helping someone near you was obviously meaningful.

Now the scale that our minds grapple with is infinite: We know we’re a tiny part of an infinite universe, our tribe is billions of people.

My solution is focus. Reduce the scale of your concern to where you can have an impact. You can certainly have an impact on the people around you. If that doesn’t seem worthwhile, try to figure out why the people you’re close to matter so little to you.
There's no time limit on requests, as long as the client is still connected. However, two things you might be thinking of:

* If you use waitUntil() to schedule async work that completes after the HTTP response has been sent, this work is limited to 30 seconds.

* In general, if a request runs longer than 30 seconds, the chance of random cancellation increases a lot. For example, when we upgrade the Workers Runtime to a new version, we will give in-flight requests 30 seconds to finish before the process exits, which will cancel all remaining requests. (Of course, any application that relies on long-running connections needs to handle random disconnects regardless, due to the general unreliability of networks.)
I can't help but add my favorite Tom Lehrer quote:

"It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
Universal basic income will be that much worse compared to this non-universal basic income.
https://rinum.com

If nothing else it's a record of my failures :)
Here's mine: https://www.4fips.com (mostly tech topics, random projects & photography, basically anything I find interesting at the moment, I've been maintaining this page for many years)
In your case, LibreOffice allows you to save the file as Flat XML (e.g., .fodt), and the document will be written as a single uncompressed file. Unfortunately, few apps have a feature like this.
Yeah that’s no good.
The problem with "pay for delay" for government agencies is that it is passed on to the taxpayers. The FAA won't go out of business or face any "bailouts" as such, it will simply result in a higher cost to taxpayers.

ETA: Additionally, I don't believe any members of the FAA are elected, although possibly some are appointed by elected officials? Point being - taxpayers pay more, taxpayers get angry, taxpayers can't vote people causing them out of office for their inaction, FAA continues to do nothing
I mean it is cheap while being nutrient and calorie dense. It makes sense to put on a relief menu lobby or no
>My assumption is that the wealthy do not consume in proportion to their income -- so someone who makes 10x as much money as a poorer person likely only consumes, say, twice as much.

The ratios of the fed at least some years ago was 2x the money you give end in the economy for poor people 1x media income and 0,5x this doesn't include tricycle ratio of the 100k car of Jeffrey (ratio car Cost over income)
https://tabletopper.app/

A web-based VTT (virtual tabletop). Some core gameplay features are missing and the UI is functional but not polished.
You could say the same things about string theory. One could envision an alternate timeline where cellular automata is the darling of academia, and Dr. Steven Ramwolf is the lone iconoclast raving about D-branes.
You're likely going through a Tailscale relay when you're out of your house too. It's still an extra hop through their servers, but yes it "just works".
With the way things are going, it is a relaunch for all intents and purposes. I don't think they'll be able to work inside the country until the regime is changed (so probably not in my lifetime, but who really knows).
>i do not think they really failed because they do what they are supposed to do

No, this is wrong. If they were supposed to be a way to configure applications, they failed because they're actually bad for configuring applications. It's basically putting a giant global .ini file into the X server that can't be read or updated without reprocessing the whole thing. I bet you can think of a few reasons why it's a terrible idea to do that. It might make sense in a motif-only world if all you're trying to do is change some global settings, and you never want to have a GUI that can safely change those settings. But the utility of that disappears when you have more than one toolkit with its own settings.

They're not the same as GetPrivateProfileString, those manipulate individual files. Xrdb would be like if you you were only ever allowed to call GetPrivateProfileString on one file across the whole system. And yes I know apps can put in whatever logic they want to load their own resource files. If you do that then there is no point to using them over some other configuration mechanism stored outside the currently running X server.
Well yeah, but it's still a very shitty practice, and just that is enough for me to not give them any money.
Michael Jordan was a shitty basketball player. That's an opinion, am I lying?
The moment I saw the domain name I remembered having visited it more than once after reading the initial piece "Simplify". I visited that particular post many times, but also really, really enjoyed your photos and the way you presented them.

Was nice to revisit your site after quite some hiatus again. And thanks again for "Simplify".

Edit:
Just the speed your image galleries load and the way you scroll trigger the video in Amsterdam [0] to start and stop. I am really impressed and hope to some day achieve this level of development.

[0]: https://paulstamatiou.com/photos/amsterdam/
Generally a slave is considered, by law, to be property and does not have most of the rights a free person has. You seem to suggest that any contract where a person sells his services to another person, institute or company, is slavery. Are most of us slaves since we sell our time to an employer? Are soldiers slaves? 'Selling' yourself on any terms you choose, should be possible, but unless you become property and lose your rights, it's not slavery and calling it that just diminishes the word.
State media != state propaganda. It's financed by the State but there's no editorial oversight, just a coloration that's inerantly due to the culture it exists in. It's far more similar to DW or Al Jazeera than it is to RT.