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Thanks for posting this, it was interesting although I agree that including a trans-train ambulation was cheeky. The author's subsequent post strikes me as extremely valuable given the advent of 205 metre long trains...

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/05/where-to-sit-on-c...
I agree. And it goes both ways.

If you have a guy being paid $100/hour to upload some CSV files and clean their header names and rename them, it is very easy to see just how much you can save by automating that task.

When personnel are salaried, it is easier to forget that their time costs money. Double so for overtime. When salary includes OT, there is no short term reason to have your staff work efficiently. Just have them work another hour - the marginal cost is free!
The main services you use to host your applications, and the core components you need in pretty much every application.

This can mean hosting static websites, applications on ECS, EKS, database, and Redis. Also it includes all the necessary underlying networking set up.

The rest of services are usually provided in their simplest possible form anyway.
Just be glad he didn't name it after one of his many girlfriends...
One reason might be that it's essentially a duplicate of a very big discussion from the previous day (as noted in the top comment in the flagged article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490515
Electronic powertrain controllers make vehicles more efficient and more reliable, it isn't just the power mirrors that need chips.
Yep.From replies:

>This isn't exactly what you were asking for, but Littlewood himself, after overcoming depression at age 72, did good mathematics throughout his 80's--it's hardly a young man's game.

(Littlewood is Hardy's pen name)
This happens all the time in a lot of companies, you just don’t hear about it.
So, who do you think benefits from such a service?
I assume because hourly wage is easier to track and provides a more direct comparison.

What difference would switching to total compensation make?
Replacing everyone's car => electric car is not the solution. Car ownership needs to plummet.
Would it be possible to show the Earth at X million years in the future?
It isn't that surprising. The original tube lines were built just below the surface and they had to go down the middle of the road partly because it was easier and partly to try and avoid damage to old buildings (and demolition although this did happen in places).

When you look at how densely populated London is along with many deep basements, you don't have a lot of options for having these underground malls.
Be interesting to know how many people get that reference. I'd create a poll, but it's probably not worth it.
Whatever you think of it, I think that MS tries to cater for these people with things like Flow and PowerApps with Office 365
I think the only real way you can run make a language server understand comptime code is using the compiler as a library, similar to how Nim does it - nimsuggest (the tool for autocompletion, definitions, etc) is basically the compiler itself with some nimsuggest-specific stuff, so it understand macros, templates, compile time code evaluation, etc.
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Mostly having it snap to anything other than the grid, adding tiny twists on the end of arrowed points that can't be easily removed and overlapping lines show up darker so you can't just leave little tails. And trying to select one of many text boxes is hard because the hitboxes include huge amounts of blank area.
That depends a lot on your definition of empty.
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Two camps of people. People who spend 120k on a car, and have high expectations for what that gets them, and people who spend 120k on a car, and aren't willing to accept that they may have made backed the wrong horse as it were.

I definitely wouldn't consider it normal to be left without a car if your car needs repair (at least with most established car companies).

In the EU, Model S orders have simply been halted, with the delivery dates constantly being pushed back (orders from end of 2020 have a ship date now of some time in 2022H2, but nothing firm). I know a few people who have since cancelled their orders and gotten other high-end EVs (think Porsche, Audi). Tesla absolutely will continue to lose hearts and minds over this.
> And asking stranger kids "Hey kids, want some KFC?"...

This is not donating to the poor.
What kind of treatments? How regularly?
a multi-dimensional vector i presume the OP meant - one value per item.

you can still measure the distance between such a vector (even though you can't really visualize it). This distance is then the change in inflation, and can be compared across years.
Right and how long does it take to charge that 1000 mile range in an average British city? A full year?

And I'm not forgetting it - I'm just saying that the overall gain doesn't seem to be worth it. The cost of solar panels integrated into the car would pay for a lot of electricity from the grid instead.
Manipulating csv has become way easier than it was.

You have:
1. Spreadsheets where you can import this data and manipulate it visually
2. CLI tools made especially to work on csv, with fancy colors, shortcuts, examples
3. Visual tools for data analysis like google data studio, power bi etc. Where you basically dragon drop the data and pick charts
4. RStudio where you can load your data using file->open and then copy some simple commands to work on it
5. No-code tools where you can copy paste the data and add functionality by clicking through tutorials
6. All kinds of online notebooks where you don't have to install pandas...

It has not became harder.
Historically, at least in France post Napoléon and until ww2, the center was the current government, the right wanted to go back to a previous system/societal organisation (at first monarchism, privilege and landed nobility (to some degree, see Montesquieu), then to a parliamentary monarchy, then to 18th century capitalism... Etc) while the left wanted change never tested before (first parliamentary monarchy, then a republic, then allowing women to vote... Etc).

The fact that left and right became more indiscernible might be because nowadays, most politicians wants untested changes in some domains, staying the course in others, and going back to a previous state in a few.

So definition like 'the right wants more freedom, the left more equality' to me misses the point. The real interest of left and right is to discern what your endgoal society is. If you want to get back to guilds and corporatism, you are economically far right. If your policies help get back to the robber barons state by allowing monopolies and stop regulations on natural monopolies, you are right wing, idc if you are a democrat or a republican.

Sometimes, it is just balancing the two.
Speaking about my net postive broadband and 4G experience from the past 4-5 years living in a metro city (Kolkata where its not even BJP) in India is "misleading everyone" and "nationalism" ? What level of mental gymnastics did you have you perform to even arrive at this conclusion ?

To counter your 2 arguments,

Argument 1: Before Jio even penetrated the market we had a bunch of different operators ( Docomo, aircel and even airtel etc ) who charged a bomb for literally 1GB of data, I remember having to shell out a premium on my docomo during 2015 just for some talktime and 1GB which I had to use cautiously for browsing. Even now after JIO incrementing prices its still cheaper than what the operators use to charge before 2015-16. You get a freaking 1GB per day and unlimited talktime now.

argument 2: Growing up we had BSNL broadband run by your so called "elected left government". It was ABSOLUTELY SHIT. Words cannot describe how pathetic BSNL's service and speeds were. But as per your last sentence there was NO other choice, it was a damned monopoly and literally a shit one, people had airtel/docomo dongles but it used to cost a bomb. Then came a lot of small scale ISPs and also JIO/airtel who provided insane speeds at decent prices which the general public had yet to experience and made it accessible to people. I personally use a local one, it says unlimited and I have it pushed to over 2TB in a month by downloading a shit tonne amount of 4K remuxes, installing epics/steams video games. The speeds did not slow down at all. I think I might be in maybe 1%-2% of all people in India who has even gone upto a TB of data in a month. I don't know if there is actually a cap at 3.3TB but your phrasing sounds like every indian household uses 3.3 TB of data every month and cries in a corner about it not being truly unlimited.

I cannot believe the levels of cynicism in your comment, how naive and rose tinted your your views are about India's history with internet services. If you are mad with the insane internet infrastructure advancements this government has brought , I hope you stay mad.
The first poster is clearly talking about local power generation when they say roof, so a building, not the freaking vehicle.
I think you sum it up well. That gap extends to more than JavaScript.

When I was four I could operate our TV: turn on, choose channel and adjust the volume. One device. One remote control. Bach then four year olds could also operate phones and record players. When I was five me and my friends could operate a tape recorder, copy music, record music, create tapes and physically share with friends and family.
>software engineers are overpaid as is with benefits that nearly every other industry can only dream about

Maybe in some parts of America. Even highly paid developers generally do work that not many people outside of the industry can't do (though I encourage everyone I know to try programming).

In my mind software developers and other tech workers are one of the driving forces of human development, though not quite so much as those working on the forefront of technology (ie proper engineering/research and development). The industry I hold in the highest regard is the medical industry; doctors are just amazing and I appreciate what they do and their importance (fair warning that this is a non-American/public healthcare perspective).
>the fact that none of these people were prevented makes me think the mass surveillance isn’t as scary as we thought

This seems to presuppose that stopping the attacks are the purpose of the mass surveillance, and its failure to do this proves that mass surveillance is ineffective and therefore harmless. But one could equally well conclude that the people in charge of mass surveillance aren't trying to stop attacks, and that is not what it is for. This is more scary, not less.
honestly, i've been working with node and npm for about 6-7 years and this is a weekly experience for me.

every time i run npm install i am prepared to embark on a bunch of side missions.
Yep, they absolutely nail the product. One platform for ETL, analytics, data scrience etc in your preferred language. Nice Notebook interface etc. I’m not sure why anyone would try to roll their own analytics stack.
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When I visited Hakata, there were many of these places underground too. The lack of light made it feel like it would be annoying if you worked there but the lack of noise and traffic made it a nice way of walking across the centre of Fukuoka.
They say that Economics is the science on mistaking stocks for flows, and this is a very good example.

Interest is denominated in $/month. Loans are denominated in $. Mixing those up is like mixing up miles per hour and miles. They are different units of measurement - the first is a flow, the second is a stock.

Remember that bankers are people too, and they eat just like you do. Therefore interest is nothing more than the wages of bankers. They take those wages and they spend them back with firms in return for food and shelter. The firms then pay the banks with the money they earn from bankers. Round and round the money goes. Bankers earn on the turn as they say.

The same applies to government interest. It is paid on bonds and reserves to financial institutions who pay people a pension from them. Those pensioners then spend that income, which generates additional taxation (because that's how percentages work), which will then balance the amount government paid in the first place.

Therefore the tax that offsets the government interest payments comes from paying the interest payments.

It's just a way of stimulating output, or redistributing it away from the producers to pensioners and other people with money.

In fact all government spending creates the additional tax that offsets it - to the last cent for any positive tax rate. It's a simple geometric progression. The only question is when. If somebody doesn't spend all their income, then taxes are not collected from the spending, earning and re-spending process that would otherwise occur.

And that's what creates the 'deficit' - people deciding not to spend all they earn.

Also known as saving for a rainy day.

There is no need for government to pay interest at all. It's entirely a policy choice. People can then choose to continue to save for no reward, or they can spend the money, which will stimulate economic output.
Local players mostly would be in bigger cities. My Apartment complex in Bengaluru has Jio, Airtel, Act, Bsnl and local provider. I went with local one and they are very good as well.
I think in this particular case, the problem was just picking the wrong tool for the job. Python is the primary language used for data science these days, but it is not particularly designed for it. It is a general purpose programming language. If they had chosen something like R, their path would have been a lot smoother.
There are some interesting comments on this comparing to the situation in the UK with Openreach and the "market" for broadband. However there's something much more interesting happing in the UK at the moment. We are awash with PE funded FTTP (fiber to the premises) startups, in my town there're two pulling their fibre through the BT ducts and putting small boxes on the top of telegraph polls. We can now get 1gb finer for under £40/month.

It's basically a repeat of the 90s / early 00s, their exit strategy is clearly for a larger player to build a conglomerate out of all of them, just as happed with [lost of small cable tv companies] -> NTL & Telewest -> Virgin Media.
It's built on the experience of the XMPP ecosystem ;-)

But tech wise you're probably right.
Ya let's start programming exclusively in asm again as well \s
I went down to bare basics in my thoughts: what do we need for an exchange between machines and brains: data bidirectional and commands from human to machine. A surface is basically data + commands. Add some minimalistic styling free horizontal, vertical and z-level stacking plus some stereotypes and you can meaningful interact. The trick now is: rendering in fancy UI can be either provided by a designer (the old dream) or by an AI/algorithm depending on the actual UI (voice, screen, small screen, console, ...) either by smartness or by learning from how the users arrange the output. But never by the program/developer itself.

When you look at the scifi designs .. you will realize: very simple UI (ok they never cover complex shit, but at least they have an idea how to simple do stuff)
> said in a lot of places that then went through extreme political turmoil

Well, yes; inequality and shortages that the elite refuse to address lead to a lot of the classic Latin American revolutions, as well as the earlier Chinese revolution and Russian revolution. This is the concept referred to as "redistribution is insurance against pitchforks".

> wilful ignorance on the part of the elites

This really characterises a lot of the post 2016 era. The amount of incredibly stupid and incoherent nonsense. But no matter how comfortable the narrow elite are, no matter how much surplus money is sloshing around for crazy startup projects and asset price inflation, they're not going to tolerate higher taxes.

(I hereby propose the least politically feasible project ever: confiscatory taxes on billionaires, but the money is simply deleted in an effort to bring down the money supply)
Pardon my skepticism but how is this any better than r/podcasts/ - an existing community of ~2Mn+ people?
You've got a few options. 1. Every windows 10 these days will have .net framework 4.8, so you can ship just your app. If you're going core, you could try .net 7 and assembly trying + ReadyToRun - I'm not sure how much that's saving but it's supposed to be much better than .net 6 which failed in that case.
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I'm trying to build a native mobile app that will tackle the major causes of suicide. How do I find a tech co-founder to work with on such a project?
Ford has been EUs top selling plugin for the last 2 years. Their electric transmission is mature now.
I'm literally replying to a comment that is talking about solar panels on a car, did you reply to the wrong person maybe?
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"because you can only keep borrowing money and paying the (increasingly large) interest on it for so long."

Not if you are the US. Because the US $ is a reserve currency needed by the rest of the world (primarly for oil, since most of the oil is still priced in US $). So, what can US do? Well, it can print the $ indefinitely because the countries of the world will always need it to run their economies.

But, lets say that the need for US $ inside a country dissapears. What then? Then, that country is placed under sanctions by the collective West (examples Iran, North Korea and the Russian Federation) or, as was in the cases of Iraq and Libya, bombed to submission.

Which brings us to the answer why the US economy is staying afloat despite an enormous national debt and the obvious "living beyond one's means" budget.
Here in the UK, Neutral is blue, Earth is Yellow & Green striped, and Live is Brown.

Unless... the wiring is over ~30 years old, in which case it's Black + Red for Neutral and Live.
I just had a 4-port USB brick burst into flame. It certainly would have burned down the house if I had not happened to be in the room. It had sat untouched for an hour before the event.
>in what scenario an amish farmer,

I was hoping a young Amish farmer goes on his rumspringa to decide if he wants to continue on as Amish farmer, he likes the modern world well enough but is so scarred by the JavaScript experience he runs back to the safety of the church, never to stray again.
Smells to me like the sort of comment I'd put in ahead of a bit of defensive coding. e.g. I originally made an assumption, but now I realise my mutex enumeration code will fail if somebody actually calls their mutex this one specific thing. So now I have to put in an additional test to guard against that.
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swear to god if one more person talks about the specifics of this illustrative case, and then goes on to explain how they are so silly and should have used tool "xyz" my head is going to explode
I didn't try for a long time I have a hard time remembering. I believe it had something to do about how it handles dependencies.
Emacs packages, and Org specifically, tend to have a hands-on approach to editing files: Emacs' API relies on moving around the cursor (‘point’) and doing stuff in its vicinity, and Org has rather little abstraction on top, basically jumping from user-visible commands straight to this fiddling.

My dream is that Org is implemented in layers instead: a low-level Org API deals with the text and provides concepts of headings, lists and such, the internal ‘business logic’ uses those, and the interface and user commands are built on top. Then extensions to Org, like my personal functions and customizations, can also operate on the higher-level concepts, instead of having to mess with text regularly or to keep in mind how each function moves the cursor.

Another dream is that Elisp is implemented as a standalone embeddable engine, instead of being conjoined with Emacs. Thus, if the two dreams merge, third-party applications could embed elisp, have their own low-level Org API that uses the app's structures, with their own interface plugged into that—but borrow logic from Org and bolt other scripts and customizations onto it. Like, I could just copy my scripts from the desktop onto the phone. That's my kind of PIM.

Of course, there would be limitations, like working with snippets in other languages, which unavoidably relies on Emacs' text APIs. But personally I can sacrifice that on the phone, just as I do now with Orgzly.
The DSL approach is sweet but the key is to get away from styling/beauty in general in developers lifes.
DLS on loops longer than 1000ft/300m is not competitive at all today. 1000ft can give you 70/20Mbps with VDSL2 (dedicated bandwidth of 17MHz) or 120/40Mbps with VDSL2 vectoring (dedicated bandwidth of 34MHz). The second option requires and uses much more electricity in the street cabinet.

Neither option compares to DOCSIS 3.0 (no requirement to update splitters), DOCSIS 3.1 (requires updated splitters in the networks) (shared bandwidth up to 2GHz) and those won't be able to compete with Fiber's shared or dedicated 1THz+ bandwidth.
> In metropolitan areas you can get FTTH (at least to the block of flats) anyway, so you can switch provider and be using different fibre if that's important to you.

Whichever company you choose it's the same physical fibre from the home to the telephone exchange. It's very likely the same physical fibre from the telephone exchange to the internet exchange (though maybe the individual providers have their own routers.)

Edit to add:

> Prices differ, service differs, tiers can be quite different; they're not all the same company.

The different companies can offer the same service in different ways but ultimately there's little difference between them because they're all reselling what is substantially the same thing.

Most fibre internet is just rebranded Openreach (British Telecom) infrastructure. A substantial minority is Virgin (Cable TV only built out to maybe 30-40% of homes.) And then a handful of small local fibre broadband providers.
How do people discuss specific podcasts there? Never visited that subreddit before but the top entries seems to be discussion about podcasts, not discussions about content in podcast episodes.
Because non-wage compensation has made up a bigger and big part of total compensation - healthcare, 401k match, fringe benefits, bonuses, etc.

My dad worked as a teacher and got a super fat pension - that’s not included.

Total compensation has risen much more than hourly wage.
Well, look at SpaceX: he founded it, he remains its CEO&CTO, and in 10 years it has gone from 0% market share to over 50% global market share–which was achieved, not through anticompetitive subterfuge, but simply by building a substantially better product at a substantially lower cost (and whatever government subsidies were involved, were made available in even greater amounts to competing companies which failed to leverage them into the same market success). Obviously he must have some capacity for intelligent thought to be able to pull that off. Of course, he employs many brilliant engineers, without whom none of that would have been possible–but, as founder/CEO, he created and sustained the corporate environment which made it possible for them to achieve that.
> NL was a country of Dutch people.

Ah so then NL shouldn’t allow other Europeans in either? Or is this opinion only about non-white people.

Either way, the Dutch should’ve thought of that before colonising and enslaving other countries. And then importing slaves to their “Dutch only” land. Quite odd.