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> Making people in developing countries poorer

who said poorer?

> trying to force people in developing countries to “buy an EV!”

who's trying to force anyone?

i'm sorry, but what i wrote has to do with convincing people (via marketing for example) that it's much better to switch to clean energy because of clean air. and i was referring to "developing countries", a huge list: https://www.worlddata.info/developing-countries.php, aka a huge opportunity.
Hey today I learned, thanks! I catch maybe five minutes of General Conference, my wife’s more likely to watch it than I am. I was also very confused about what a tabletop gaming convention founded by Gary Gygax (of Dungeons and Dragons fame) had to do with Mormons at first hahah.
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Correct. Quaternions have 4 elements and a small number of multiplications. G3 has 8 elements and more multiplications. This gets worse quickly in higher dimensions.
I mean, it's his company. Kind of a weird comment to make.
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This article isn’t wrong, but it lacks a sense of cost effectiveness or trade-offs. Lottery tickets also increase your “surface area“ but they are transparently more expensive than they’re worth. Reasonable people can debate whether “build a reputation” or the other vague things this article advocates have positive or negative expected value, but this doesn’t really add to the conversation.
So many words but not one picture of a red bee.
I think we should all have a healthy scepticism for leaders and politicians. We do tend to have that for those in Westminster.

The idea that politicians in Brussels don't have vested interests, are not the result of heavy lobbying, are not seeking re-election, are not corruptible or of questionable moral standing is rather dangerous.
There seems to be a heavy degree of Blue-Washing. Take a politician like Donald Tusk for example, someone who would be in the fringes of the socially conservative right in the UK, yet is venerated during the Brexit discussions. Or Micheal Barnier, again venerated amongst so called liberals in the UK, yet now calling for an immigration ban in France.

On the economic side. Yes everything is very convoluted and remote for a reason. Power structures always get taken over by the interests of capital. The idea that the EU / Euro / European central bank is any different is again rather dangerous. This is an institution with economic interests written into its constitution. The goal here is to drive down the costs of labour added with the maybe unintended or maybe intended consequence that the EU has spend 20 years dealing with the contradictions and artificial constraints on public spending of a currency that it has created, when it could have been using that time and effort to do something transformational, especially in the direction of green technology and energy.
> Gitlab restricts its free offering while Github enhances it. I don't know about instagram, but if you're cheap and want free ride, Github just better.

Well GitLab don't have the unlimited cash of Microsoft, so of course, GitHub can afford to lose money on the free offering. However GitLab have free self-hosted, while GitHub don't ( and as a matter of fact their self-hosted solutions sounds pretty terrible, being months/years behind the SaaS features, while GitLab is the same).
CS is like learning martial arts. You'll never learn it all and you will never stop improving as long as you stay with it.
GitLab's issue tracker, though, can only tie an issue to a single repo.
If it’s a genuine mistake, absolutely nothing. I’m implying that it was far more likely to be intimidation rather than a mistake.
I agree - there are better systems, such as the one for the Scottish Parliament.
There was a referendum on changing the system to a slightly better one in 2011, but that was rejected.
It does get stale and changes per jurisdiction. Just look at how GDPR and CCPA changed the privacy landscape. At least programmers don’t have to deal with linked lists having different time complexities in California.
This is a pattern you see a lot in sechnology. Often the second version of something significantly learsnf rom the first. Take something like C#, which really corrected a lot of the problems Java had.

A more physical example is the rail network in the US. It's often asked "why don't we have high speed rail in the US?" Being a nation of autophiles obviously doesn't help but it's not as simple as putting higher speed trains on existing track. It's not even as simple as replacing the existing track with track that can take a higher speed train.

The rail network we had is an artifact of the performance constraints of 19th century trains for the most part. Top speed is the most visible constraint. But the grading, turning angles, etc are all a function of much lower constraint on top speed.

We'd probably be better off if we had no national rail network at all, which is pretty much the situation China was in. Admittedly there are other factors in China's rapid HSR deployments (eg streamlining planning and acquisition of land).

But I digress. Timing is hugely important in scaling.
No need for the snark, thank you for the clarification though!
A couple of years ago I wanted to put my open source projects on GitLab, as I was thinking... "why is the biggest open source hub not open source". Back then the GitLab CI was much better compared to alternatives, and I had a couple of other features that I liked on GitLab.

I tried for a couple of months, and gave up. I switched back to GitHub for a couple of reasons.

- After some time, GitHub's CI became a thing, it became good enough for me (and other features improved, too).

- Companies want to see your GitHub profile. Publishing your work on GitLab is not going to get you the same exposure as publishing on GitHub.

- Open-source contributors are on GitHub. The majority is not going to create a GitLab account just to fix a bug or open an issue in my little library. If you want community, it's on GitHub.

- Hosting open-source really didn't seem to be a priority for GitLab, so if they don't seem to care, why should I?

- GitLab's quality started to decrease. More bloat (both in terms of UI and code size), slower and slower app whereas GitHub hit the sweet spot of keeping things simple while providing essential features that are fast.
If people want it, it'll be unstoppable. Just look at drugs and sex trafficking. Specifically with sex trafficking the on-ramp is literally kidnapping humans and as far as I'm aware that industry isn't shrinking (granted I know very little about it, so I hope I'm wrong).

Banning it just ensures that law-abiding citizens can't use it for good while you solidify the market belongs to criminals. Who knows what the outcome for that will be, but if the war on drugs is any indicator, I'm not optimistic that would end up as a net positive for society.
Oh please. I live in a 'developing country' (don't like that term because I have doubts that it's actually developing). A substantial portion of the population lives in houses heated with coal furnaces. Except that for the past few years coal prices went up somewhat and many people went to burning trash: rubber tires, old rags soaked in motor oil, pieces of bitumen, old plastic bottles, you name it.

In winter air quality is simply horrible (my Grafana instance shows an average of 240 µg/m³ PM2.5 for January of this year). I have a t-shirt that was hung out to try at the beginning of this year and it still smells of burnt coal and rubber.

The government spent a pretty penny subsidizing installation of natural gas furnaces. Guess what, almost nobody is actually using that now since coal is noticeably cheaper, so people went right back to burning it. I understand they don't care about anybody else, but in winter their own kids breathe air that is literally black and reduces visibility to a few dozen meters. Good luck trying to convince them of anything.
> most of the civil rights movement's goals were foiled or rolled back

Not everything is perfect at all - there are very serious problems - but the country (and world) is transformed since before the Civil Rights Movement, and civil rights have spread to others (LGBTQ+ and disabled people, for example).

It's the people against civil rights who want you to quit, to believe you are powerless, that it is all for nothing. Maybe they want to believe it too! :)
It's not so much about being able to travel to the cities, it's about whether the huge cost of making it slightly faster to travel to the cities is better for the regions, than spending that money on schools, local transport, hospitals, to encourage more people to stay and work in the regions.

Scotland has a population growth issue. The last thing it needs to spend 10bn on, is shaving 10 mins of the journey time to london. That 10bn would be better spend on local infrasctructure.
It doesn’t. This only works once React itself (i.e. the JavaScript code for the library) has loaded, which usually happens pretty quickly. The user-written React components might not finish loading until much later.
Got it, I'll have to dig through the language benchmark game to see if it reflects the best C++ tricks. From what I've seen previously, the biggest perf difference is in native memory management along with easy access to machine specific instructions.

Having recently worked on a large C/C++ code base which had a heavy focus on performance observation, I found myself wondering if tricks like dynamic Code Generation to avoid method overhead and unnecessary branch checks actually had a significant benefit on performance relative to the developer economy impact.
hmm, interesting, i think you're right, but i also think that focusing more on "clean air" than "climate change" in certain countries could alleviate both of the pollution problems you mention.
You should research what happens to "useless" male chicks born in the industry, as they don't produce eggs. Actually watch some videos of innocent animals being ground alive, screaming, because their existence doesn't make financial sense to humans. Wonder what label Whole Foods can assign to that.
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>But the Saturn V as a launch vehicle was simply too expensive.

Sure, at that moment in time. You are, however, discounting the abilities of clever people to innovate and improve the $/kg performance. I prefer to think we engineers are pretty good at reducing the effective cost of tech over time.

However, none of this is about Saturn V vs Shuttle vs some other platform. If NASA remained the sole customer over that period, there would not have been adequate incentives to drive that cost down. In that situation I think improvement would have been slow independent of platform choices.

It is the telecommunications age creating scaled incentives that has led to cost efficiencies and companies like SpaceX (and many others) competing to drive those costs down. Lacking the current scale of global incentives, SpaceX and others still wouldn't exist. They certainly couldn't have acquired the necessary funding back in the 70s.
> once someone is on a PIP, the handwriting is almost certainly on the wall.

My current manager is particularly transparent about this (with other managers, at least). When he puts someone on a PIP, it is a formality. He deliberately chooses a redemption project that is impossible to achieve.

Edit: Jeez, guys, don't downvote -me- ;-). It's not my policy.
They are broadly similar but given the project I presume it just came down to gitlab being "open source" and github not.
The proper responsibility of a concerned manager in this case is to make sure the person knows you have their back in terms of future references, petty resources (one guy I knew was on the hook for >$300 in reimbursements when laid off, as far as I know he never got them - another guy was forbidden to take his personal mouse/keyboard home with him), and similar things.

If a mid-level manager actually cares, and was any good at their job, the best thing they can do is to keep doing it for that person.
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The Seneca quote summarizes luck in my opinion.

> Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Not every opportunity is an open door nor window. Those who can seize the opportunity create their own luck.

Newton said that whatever service he had rendered to humanity was not owing to any extraordinary sagacity he possessed, but solely to industry and patient thought. He wrote "Principia" with great care, and his great love of accuracy appears in all of his works.

In other words, Newton was prepared and took great care everyday to be accurate in the opportunity presented. It seems people call this "luck" like the article, but I think that's the opposite of the definition.

> success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.
Don't these problems also exist for the sender (more time consuming, socially acceptable environment to send, etc). IME I have found texting more time consuming and personally prefer calling people, though that's a bit old hat now.
Can you explain why? Apple did this two years ago and I haven't personally seen any side effects, but Safari's also not my primary browser.
Is this site hijacking just my history or something (can't get back to hn after opening it all the history is spammed with their own domain). Poor quality site this behavior should be discouraged.
We've got a number of solutions in Python that rival Shiny IMO: Dash, Voilà, Panel, Streamlit, new stuff like Mercury etc :)

There's a neat overview of the landscape here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a-Db1zhTEw
I never got over the renaming to Plasma. KDE 3 was great at it's time, but KDE4 / Plasma felt like this bloated, buggy desktop shell seemingly based on QML (not sure, but it looked like it did) with the strange cashew in the corner. Plasma was too configurable, with too many ways to break your setup.

I'm sure it got a lot better, and people have even described Plasma 5.x as light weight. The times I tried it later, I liked it, but for the time being the Linux desktop has lost me and I'm using Mac :-)
While I don't disagree, it's educational to visit a place like Delhi, India or Jakarta, Indonesia, which have terrible air pollution but are not particularly industrialized. The main culprits in both appear to be farmers burning their fields and emissions from vehicles, not factories.
Considering more and more aircraft is fly by wire and most pilots get their "air time" in sims, is there not a advantage in building a mock cockpit at the back of the airline with a backup pilot to take over when other protocols are met?

All this is doing is highlighting how one person beit the president or prime minister of a country, judge's, GP's, practically anyone including a pilot can steal some or all of other people's lives to one degree or another.

Edit. Where I am going with this, is the Space Shuttle had 4 control systems and majority rule or agreement of the 4 control systems made things happen. I dont think more than 2 cockpits would necessary.

Another left field idea, is the cock pit doors could be engineered so that if enough people all pulled on a rope firmly attached to the cock pit door like a tug of war, in order to gain access to the cockpit, then maybe the passengers have a chance. However this relies on the passengers not being deceived by the pilot which is also what is troubling the air line industry and so called psychologists. When you can work out when you are going to lose your temper in the future, let the psychologists know, they might be able to study it....
Yes, exactly. Without any further info, and given the context of union-busting and intel collection especially at this facility, I think it’s unlikely this was a just a dumb mistake, and quite likely it was intimidation, seeking a pretext to fire the employee/organizer.
Amazon did a nice write-up this year related to your comment : "Sustainability with Rust"[1]. The cost savings are there, both for a tiny startup, like you calculated, but also for giant companies with 1000+ instances.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/sustainability-with-...
True, but something being new doesn't make it more worthy. The subprime lending catastrophe was due to a novel, very popular, idea and people got rich off that as well at first.
To be clear, I didn’t mean to devalue the specific book or the effort behind it. It’s just the general thought that came to my mind about the ironical mechanism behind the endeavor.
> you need to let this Russia shit go

Some people certainly would like to silence any discussion of it, and they have every argument in the book. Disdain / contempt are a popular tactic.
The lunar gateway has largely independent goals to the crewed landing missions part of Artemis. IMO only the legally mandatory use of SLS+Orion part is a screw up for Artemis but most of the rest of the hardware and infrastructure will be on commercial models extended from successful ones at LEO, including the at least two spacecraft capable of landing humans on the surface.
The WSJ reported US officials saying it looked intentional based on black box data. The main alternative theory was that someone who wasn't a pilot deliberately did it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-eastern-black-box-points-...
Getting a 504 :(
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Lol, so 18% of their employees have access to personal data.

Ok. I am very comfortable entrusting my data to this company.
I think the point is that the Pilot in the title of that graph implies an on-shift airline pilot choosing to crash the plane intentionally, not a terrorist killing the pilot and grabbing the controls.
Okay but we can agree that your point about there being no Act of Parliament is not relevant then.

It being a matter for debate whether Rwanda is safe is, I think, not something the SC is going to rule on.

It violating the Human Rights Act seems to be the only real issue for the SC then? Again, I just wonder whether this policy is likely to be illegal under that Act given that the relevant clause says "No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment”. I just doubt that deportation would fall under torture, inhuman, or degrading treatment _in the spirit of this Act_. I agree that this policy is immoral but kind of doubt that the SC is going to find it tantamount to torture. But maybe there are other arguments here that I'm unaware of?
> And there are plenty of mini-games within the game (such as Sokoban, potion/scroll IDing, pudding farming setup) that you need to learn well too.

I'm with you on the ID minigame, but Sokoban is very skippable: winning it gives you one of two valuable items, but it's not the only chance to get them. And I've ascended every class without ever once pudding farming. Your overall point stands, though.
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There seems to be a step missing in the logic of many comments.

Russia started a war which helped propel already rising oil/gas prices (due to a resumption of demand at the end of COVID) to rise even higher (due to uncertainty of the war).

So even before they started the war, they were going to make more money on oil. Then they started the war and again, they're going to be able to take advantage of the further price rises.

So if the west did nothing at all, then their oil revenues are going up.

As a response to the war, some Russian exports including oil and gas were embargoed, though not to the extent that other more easily sourced items have been, since they're easier to replace from other sources.

And it seems we're focusing in on one specific factoid, the decrease of oil sales in the first 100 days due to embarfoes, didn't offset the price rises from the the other things.

That seems a weird stat to focus on?

Kind of like if a wife shot her husband and the headline was the husband succeeded in landing more punches during the first 10 minutes of the fight.

Yeah, maybe he did, but she shot him, why are we abitrarily dividing up the different parts of the same fight to suit our narrative?
Most companies with good pay have a decently high median age for senior SWEs.

I'm not sure why anyone 50+ would want to work at the vast majority of startups...
The video games one is funny. The hero text is "Emotion on Call" and the video title is "hearing is Believing". The video is narrated by the most passionless voice imaginable. It barely has question inflections.
Why or? They are entirely orthogonal concerns.
I think people outside of crypto take it seriously because it’s getting to the scale where it will start negatively impacting non-participants or unknowing participants.
> his business as a literal Ponzi scheme

Imagine being this uninformed and wanting to seriously have a conversation about crypto and the underlying fundamentals. We get it, you hate crypto. Why even bother at this point?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-Worldism#/media/File:Col... Canada is first world. Switzerland is third world (an also, on of the richest countries).

Is it imperialistic to call developing countries 3rd world-countries? Then again, developing just means "more climate friendly then richer countries" I guess.
Between hosted premium GitHub, and self hosted GitHub enterprise, I think they're doing fine.
Why would one choose to work in a company (& industry) that's so volatile & unstable, that has gone through 4 major downturns in just 10y?
Ah yeah, like in the article where it says China went "backwards" and cut their pm2.5 pollution gaining an average 2 years lifespan. All those Chinese are now poor and starving.
Sorry, but that makes no sense. You can also wake up to a car with no gas. So your dilemma will be to either get gas to your home (will likely require another vehicle) or to plug in (until you have range get to a fast charge- or just let it charge)

And yes, you can make that cross country trip in an EV. It will probably take longer (2-3 hours spent fast charging).
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I use plasma on debian current stable 10+ hours a day. It works really well except for a few bugs sometimes (diasppearing window decoration after using firefox).

As a user, I like Plasma a lot but what I'd love is even more bug fixes. It's not that bugs are there by the dozen, I hardly encounter one, but I have a global feeling that little details here and there could be improved.

Anyway, thx KDE for Plasma, it just rocks !
Is the article suggesting that they think these amino acids have survived in space for (over) 4.6 billion years? That's astonishing, I'd have thought that over that stretch of time the background radiation would have broken the atomic bonds
From the non-technical side: it isn’t necessarily that dashboards are not useful, it’s just that most people who want them don’t actually know what data is useful.
I distinctly remember the KDE 3->4 transition causing a massive revolt and lots of people abandoning KDE. I also remember personally switching from KDE3 to XFCE right around then (although I cannot quite remember exactly why, or what the specific complaints at the time where.). I wonder if we can still be seeing the echos of that backlash as most of the people who left KDE simply never came back.

That being said, I did recently try KDE5 for the first time in ages about a year ago, and it is now (again) my favorite desktop environment.