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Maybe the underlying reason is that there is no more common interest between groups that fight each other? That is, no more "society" as something common, most importantly, right-wing electorate can't benefit from what can benefit left-wing electorate, and vice versa? Indeed, the discourse has become quite ugly, but maybe the reason is not the form, but the substance: that it's no longer about arguing about what's better for society as a whole, but winning over the other side to achieve what's good for "us", by defeating the interest of "them".

I believe this is the case, and core reason is that we are increasingly in the slow-growth world. Most people will not benefit greatly from overall progress of economy in their lifetime, just because it is now too slow. It's more and more about taking over something for "us" from "them" as opposed to "making the pie bigger".

Same is the reason for rise of dictatorship. In a slow-growth world, there is no way a democratic government or leader can achieve any tangible goals in one electoral cycle. So they have to resort to bullshit of one sort or the other - nothing which is not a deliberate lie, can be attractive enough to their voters. Only a lifelong dictatorship can hope to get things done.

One hope is that once the renewable energy takes over from the fossil fuels and we start seeing our worldwide energy base grow exponentially again the way it did through mid-1970s, quicker growth will return and things will gradually fix themselves.
Wholeheartedly agree. After my cloud storage costs exploded (mostly S3 egress over to Hetzner/OVH), I noticed that renting a 1GBit/s fiber connection to my office is actually quite affordable at $80 per month (in northern Germany).

Of course, it's not globally distributed and there is no fail-safe, but for the work we're doing, that is no issue. If we employees are offline, it doesn't matter if our tools are offline, too. And now that all AI storage is local anyway, building a GPU compute node is easy. I'm still waiting for 3090 prices to drop further, though, in contrast to the article. But I also went with Ryzon 5950 and Linux. I was positively surprised that 10G fiber networking is now down to $70 for a PCIe card + 20m cable kit. My workstation now has 1010MB/s 4k random write on the network filesystem. (We used SAMBA 3.1 and CIFS mounts)

I also grabbed the python/ubuntu package lists off Google Colab and created my own Docker to imitate it, and now data processing and AI training is fast (I always get the good GPU, no luck involved) and dirt cheap. Originally the idea was to run it on OVH, but I'm now also running it locally.

https://github.com/fxtentacle/ovh-colab-sagemaker-compatibil...
Not always, Russia lost war in 1920 with Poland. Russia was trying to give military support to communist movements in Europe going across Poland. While Poland was trying to restore lands occupied by Russia in partitions of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772-1795 that lead to Poland not existing for 123 years.

Russia lost that war and had to settle borders with Poland in the Treaty of Riga.
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> China won't be the economic force it could be anytime soon.

What do you mean? 90% of stuff we have is with Made in China sticker on it.

> And it's not scaremongering to say that Russia wants to remove Ukraine from the map,

I didnt say that, I said that russia can only dream about it, since they are clearly not able to do it. As a matter of fact they had everything prepared to suppress population and purge the leaders of Ukraine after the blitz. So their thankfully failed plan was to crush and dismantle Ukraine.
Worth noting that using a gaming card for workloads like this would likely void the warranty.
Meanwhile Ukrainian enrolled 20yo drone racers to monitor city outskirts and locate hidden russian position in the woods. Probably 500-2000 (max) devices. That said range is minimal.
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It's inconsistent compared with alt-tab behaviour.

cmd-tab switches to the last used application (assuming you don't hold down), right now for me that switches from Firefox to Slack.

Pressing cmd-tab again switches from Slack back to Firefox.

However for window switches

cmd-` switches from my HN window to a jira window. cmd-` again switches to a webmail window. To switch from jira back to HN I have to press cmd-shift-`
The dot-com bubble wasn't about SaaS companies but internet companies as such, basically everything with a .com address. Hence the name.
It was more about e-commerce than SaaS.
Especially because of the internet data rate in the late 90s.
The chicken or the egg? Without people nearby, you’ll have no offices/jobs. Without jobs, you’ll have no people is your argument. I prefer the former cause and effect as more plausible mainly due to simple financial returns. Who is going justify from a financial returns perspective building an office where there are few people? Nowadays offices are even less impactful with technology and a worldwide, scattered workforce facilitating working in homes and/or smaller satellite offices. Large, central office hubs are in big trouble.
> An alternative theory posits that these massive corporations in fact depend upon the centralization of governmental regulatory and fiscal powers for their very existence.

Very well said
That’s half of it. To get the full pilot experience add “and what if when senior Google engineers left for Apple or Microsoft or Facebook they had to start as junior engineers again at junior pay and could only be promoted back up after the junior engineers already there were promoted?”
What if you have defined a "help()" function though?

REPL should be as dumb as possible. That's a feature, not a bug.
That's funny because I don't see saving my money in Bitcoin as "speculative" at all.

I see it as long-term savings for retirement and inheritance. There's no trading going on.

As they say, time in the market is better than timing the market.
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RPi1 was also built around a surplus SoC that was originally targeted for a set-top video player platform but failed to get any buyers.
Nonsense. There were plenty of SaaS startups.

I started an ISP in 1996 and had the same reaction you did to that statement in the article.

The only thing I’d add to what you said is the article said what drew them to the cloud - hefty free credits.
LLVM, GCC, MSVC - all are complex enough that you run into internal compiler errors from time to time. Maybe a bit less for MSVC since you don't get to run random development snapshots, but still above 0.
Which is also confusing. What IP would Broadcom be "losing" by not releasing the driver code but still making the specs and implementation documents public? Is it just an out-of-spite decision, something like "I'm not gonna help a potential competitor that much"?
Unless, like OP, you work in a high compute field. High compute and the cloud simply do not mix, because the cloud is optimized for web apps, which require practically no real compute power. The cloud has it's purposes, as does the web, and they are not the only game in town.
Heavy Mac user here for many years, and I agree. I can't even think of the last time I "maximized" an app. All my apps sit around in a pile and I switch between them. If I were on a tiny screen, maybe I would dislike this, but at 27" a maximized app would be a pain in the ass.
I think that's a saying for the stock market, not commodities.
You can't buy residential property as a foreigner in Fiji in urban areas and for the land you can buy, you can only buy freehold land, which is about 8% of the total land.

Most small Pacific Islands, for good reason, ban non-citizens from buying land.
So animated mouse pointers are OK, blinking cursor in command prompt is OK, Teams starting with the system is OK, but counting seconds is overkill for Windows?

I would probably not display seconds anyway even if I had a choice, but this explanation seems strange.
This is what I've come to realise too, as long as you can and do stick your workloads in Kubernetes it doesn't really matter what he logo says.

EKS, AKE, GKE, LKE, DOKS, OKD, Rancher... Whatever they're all compatible with what you want to do. There are definitely upsides to the cloud, but Kubernetes is the common denominator everywhere.

Wanna run GPU workloads on-prem? Buy some servers and do so. The only hairy thing is managing your own storage, quite the responsibility. (Look at Atlassian right now).
Hope he's prepared for a letter from nVidia's lawyers for breaking their license agreement for the RTX3090's.
195€-680€/ton is what the German government believes[0]. Who is advocating for significantly lower estimates?

[0] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/14...
Sure, but wait for certain HR departments or RFP documents requiring specific certificates as gatekeeping job or specific product deals, and so the business of cloud architect certification goes on.
Command-shift-6 to take a picture of your Touch Bar, if you Mac has one.
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Numeral vs number.

Numerals are symbolic representations using digits, but may or may not have numeric properties.
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These are three German projects, two of which are unrelated to rail, tunnelling or transport in general. And they're meant to be an example of why a tunnel in Austria and Italy would overrun by a factor of up to 3x?
But that documentation admits it simultaneously kills everything immediately (not great) yet you may get billed more anyway (even worse).

It's notable that Azure can do better here because they have to (the expensive Visual Studio product comes with "free" Azure credits, you aren't paying for them so there is nobody to "bill" if you run out, they just shut stuff off). They appear to do "better" by just eating the extra cost after shutting off. That's still a better user experience though.

This is a real problem. You set up a cloud service on Friday. You believe it should cost about $10 per day. On Monday you discover it already cost $500 so you switch it off immediately. Oops. Still, only $500 not a big problem right?

And then on Tuesday the billing software explains that ah, there's $1800 extra for that service, we calculate it eventually but we don't promise it'll happen immediately. Now you're $2300 down. And this can continue for several days at big cloud providers because "eventually" is apparently good enough.
> Also, there have been plenty of Google products with paying customers that Google has shot down.

I highly doubt they will shut down a $5.5B business. Either way, because my applications are cloud-ready, it's easy to switch to another cloud provider again.
This phrase is frequently misunderstood, because people treat it as a truism about government, rather than the method by which to identify the government. It is not the case that the officially recognized government has a monopoly on violence. Rather, whichever group has a monopoly on violence is itself the government. If multiple groups can use violence, then there is no monopoly, and therefore no overarching government.
Ben Upton worked for Broadcom during the time of the creation of the Pi. Broadcom gave them a sweetheart deal on the processors, they took it.

The Pi was initially created as a cheap way to get kids into computer science, they didn’t foresee the closed off parts of the processor being an issue towards that goal. They just wanted a cheap computer for kids to learn on that wouldn’t be the end of the world if they broke it. I mean who is gonna want to run an Open Source VideoCore?

THEN, us “grown up” geeks came along and was like “OHHHH, a cheap Linux SBC… Yes Please…” and brought out the initial run on day one.

So ever since then they were kinda stuck with Broadcom unless they wanted to redo a ton with another manufacturer.

To Bens and Raspberry Pis credit, they have managed to get Broadcom more open than they were, Initially we didn’t even have a data sheet for the processor.

Edit: Pre-coffee brain even more prone to typos then when I’m caffeinated…
> Still, so far the Buk that fools used to down the Malaysia MH17 is the only actual case we're talking about: misguided killings inside the aforementioned "sphere of control", more like sphere of complete corrupt incompetence if you ask me.

This is what western media would have you believe.

However, the Western Ukrainians have been attacking the Eastern Ukrainians for half a decade now, bombing civilians much of the time.

Similar to what happened with the Buk, is the new Kramatorsk situation.

Western Media reports it as Russians killing Ukrainians
https://nypost.com/2022/04/10/liz-cheney-says-ukraine-train-...

Russian Media reports it as Western Ukrainians killing Eastern Ukrainians
https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/151053-kramatorsk_ra...

However, we know that Russians claim to be only using Iskandar missiles these days. Iskandars are more powerful, more accurate, and significantly longer range.

An Iskandar is distinguishable via the tail fins
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/photos/iskander.46333/f...

Tochka-U missiles don't have tail fins in the same position, as they are more centrally located
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPz-Oy6WYAQ07Ko?format=jpg&name=...

Russians fired a Tochka-U at an exercise in '22, and there is alleged film of a Russian unit having a Tochka-U. Whereas, the Tochka-U is the only Ukrainian missile of the type, as they do not have access to Iskandars

What landed at the Kramatorsk train station was clearly a Tochka-U.

So, I guess it is in the realm of possibility that it was either side.
> In a way I sympathize with Google, Youtube, Facebook and all the other companies operating as mass scale. On the one hand their algorithms suck for moderation, but on the other hand they are the most advanced created yet and there is simply no alternative.

I don't. There's another alternative.

If you're growing too big to moderate, stop growing. Turn off signups. It's irresponsible to do anything else but, and "but we'll make less money" isn't a valid argument to this.
It has been quite instructive to watch what Russia has said and done about the war. Various tactics in their media, that once you think about them, are more common in every day use.

1. Euphenisms: "Tactical military operation" invent all kinds of word games that hide the true nature of actions committed.

2. Mirroring: Blaming the victim for doing the same thing you are already guilty of.

3. Hate speech: Saying you are a Nazi (or otherwise a bad person, insert any emotionally effective, hard to defend against bad word here) and therefore deserve to be murdered/silenced.

Which also makes me question which comes first: authoritarianism and oppression, or the collapse of speech to these kinds of low levels.
As I understand it, it was a SoC that was already in production by Broadcom for set top boxes so using an "off the shelf" SoC would reduce the time/cost required to bring the original Pi to market. I imagine there would be less risk to the manufacturer in this case since, if the Pi proved a failure and didn't move the expected units, the SoC could be repurposed for STBs.
I have written some articles for draft.dev and have to say that it is a wonderful side-income and learning experience.
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It is not just The Economist, if there is geo-based pricing, we in NZ usually get a raw deal. For example video games.

Tax is not enough to account for it. Our sales tax is 15%, so twice California, but we are paying well in excess of the difference and we did before the govt. started levying tax on overseas online sales.
German trains rarely go 250kmph, let alone averaging that. Between Cologne and Frankfurt, sure. But most of the country, no.
It's called destructuring assignment, it's not just for "in-place swap", and more over, it's about syntax, not performance.

That article is talking about performance, and as many have pointed out, it's better just use a 3rd variable(when there's no destructuring assignment) to swap and let compiler do its work.

I'm not saying syntax sugar is a bad thing.
the only problem mentioned was video stuff. does this mean that for a headless server use case it's usable?
I'm not making a value judgement, but I thought that the parallels with your last suggestion, and the 'blind cancel' idea in this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30906621 were kind of interesting. I don't know what that means, I'm mostly just free associating
Could be a case that Broadcom bought the software blob (in whole or in part) and don't have the rights to release is publicly.
So basically the same length as the Channel Tunnel, but bored through much harder rock.
It has me doubting its accuracy when it calls Element "Riot". I'm also not quite clear why it splits up encrypted vs P2P messaging when encryption and decentralization are two separate concepts.
Autohiding the dock on the bottom works for me. Don’t need it showing full time - mostly use CMD-space to launch apps.
I've been using a Fossil HR since it came out and I love it. Battery life is indeed 10+ days, probably depends on how often it has to show notifications.

I live in northern europe so the sun exposure does not compare to places like SF but so far so good. I never even heard of the sun exposure thing before now.

App support has progressed so I really have no complaints about it anymore.

If anything I think it's better than my old Pebble Time because it looks more like a classy watch. Oh and because it has actual hands instead of a screen to show time.

I've replaced the strap though, it broke after a while.

The app from Fossil is a hot mess but I rarely go into it.

My use case is mainly show time, show notifications, control music. I bike everywhere so it makes things more safe to have a watch and not have to fiddle with my phone. But at the same time I think charging a smartwatch every day is ludicrous.
Previously they wanted to do the tunnel between Finland and Estonia, but it seems to have been going nowhere.
What percentage would say there never WAS a crisis (just political bs)? 10? 25? 40? Remember, wishing doesn’t make it so.
Hilarious.

This is like DALLE-2’s 18 month old little brother who found crayons.
Theodore Dalrymple's article on Le Corbusier sums up the hubris of modern architects & modern architecture: https://www.city-journal.org/html/architect-totalitarian-132...
> Why is nobody ever trying to bring criminal cases against the US government in the ICC?

The USA are not party to the ICC treaty, simple as that.
GCE https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/c...

GKE https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/cluster-autos...

AWS https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

Azure https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

Alibaba Cloud https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

Brightbox https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

OpenStack Magnum https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

DigitalOcean https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

CloudStack https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

Exoscale https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

Equinix Metal https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

OVHcloud https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

Linode https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

OCI https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

Hetzner https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

Cluster API https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

Vultr https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

TencentCloud https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...

These are all cloud providers that invested into their own managed Kubernetes, I'm certain all of them aren't as sleek as the big three, but it shows that there's definitely momentum behind sticking your workloads into Kubernetes.
for me it was always 2 different formats (db-dump, vm-dump) because i trust (good) storage-media more then backup-software, for example old veeam-backups cannot be restored with new version, old veeam-software runs not on new esxi etc...
> Nice up-to-date collection. I'm tired of finding old lists like this but filled with legacy, unmaintained programs.

It doesn't seem very up-to-date even if the last update was only three hours ago. It still describes Element as 'Matrix + Riot client' even though this changed in 2020. [0]

> I like these little interjections to explain things for beginners.

These are nice, however a proper criteria would be even nicer. Currently it is just a list of vaguely private and open source software.

0 - https://element.io/blog/the-world-is-changing/
totally understand the point. I guess it's about the expectation. If you're going to "make the HN equivalent for game dev", you're bound to fail. If you're approaching this to "try to make a HN-inspired platform for knowledgable people about game dev", some interesting place could arose. Given you put time and effort into it.
Saudi is ideal, but a Nigeria is better than a Norway. You can't always get to a Saudi.
I agree. It's actually quite clever, because technically it's correct - it does enable a rail link between Scandanavia/Italy. But your average user is going to see the headline, think "WHAT? Surely that's not right, let's just click and see what they mean..."
The first one, "Stuttgart 21" is very much related to rail. From the referenced Wikipedia article:

> Stuttgart 21 is a railway and urban development project in Stuttgart, Germany. It is a part of the Stuttgart–Augsburg new and upgraded railway and the Main Line for Europe (Paris—Vienna)

Regarding tunneling:

> The current 17-track station is to be replaced by an underground 8-track through station.
Very true indeed, build loyalty ties with team members, you might find them again at other places.

The company, not really. Beyond startup size, every employee is just a number on some spreadsheet.
The rolling resistance of steel wheels on steel rails is much, much lower than rubber tyres on an asphalt road.

From [1], the only comparable figures are the American train and the American bus. The bus is about half as efficient as the train.

There are similar figures further down the page ("German environmental costs") -- 0.25MJ/passenger-km for long distance rail, 0.85MJ/pkm for regional rail, 1.14MJ/pkm for bus service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport...
For someone with a good general understanding of systems (distributed systems, operating systems etc), but perhaps lacking in hands on experience of deploying in a specific cloud, what would you say the key things are to learn? For me they almost seem like trivial things you could pick up in no time on the job.
Is all commercial use of the consumer grade nVidia products prohibited under that license? I thought (and this seems to agree: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/geforce-license/) that it was just use in a datacenter that was prohibited.
I’ve heard a lot of smears about Federalist Society but “lowbrow” is a new one. I’ll have you know we drink our tea with our pinkies in the air. :D
I kind of gave up on non-US keyboards.

The Portuguese layout sucks horribly for programming, especially on the Mac (brackets in horrible places), and the U.K. layout (where I’m based) sucks horribly for writing Portuguese in. The US international just works for all my purposes (including writing tiny amounts of other languages besides Portuguese and English)
So, a) it's click-bait, and b) it's not even true, because in that technical sense the two are already connected. Not clever.
The Chinese are not a party to the ICC treaty (the OP article above even mentions this, they are just "establishing ICC jurisdiction" e.g. coming up with an excuse for hostile actions toward China)