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Aside from the fact that this paradox is not written in stone...

Just because the efficiency increases and we use less energy doesn't mean that the cost will fall. The cost of energy will most likely rise in the upcoming years due to factoring in the co2 emissions.

At least in Europe and in Poland specifically we are preparing right now for a winter of extremely high energy prices and heating prices. Delivering heat pumps and insulating buildings is on top of government agenda right now. And that is in the middle of summer when temperatures are 20-40 deg C outside.
Thanks for digging this up! Looks like a path forward
An alternative perspective to look at this is that orgs like USPS are services provided to Americans because they're the kind of services that would otherwise be inaccessible to great majority of Americans. For this reason, increasing the wages and potentially attracting better workers and increasing the morale (and thus performance) of existing workers are beneficial for Americans.
I see. Thanks for telling me the terminal career state .
Although desecrating in memoriam, and paling in comparison to, the Temple, with which material it was built. It is a bit revolting to think and compare what went inside the holy temple walls and what went within the colosseum's, so tbat it makes for a poor and sad mediocre thing, if a construction marvel. To glorify it is to exalt a pretty prison or torture chamber, worse yet, because it was for fun. For fun!
Our societies are essentially distributed. You can install the furnace you want, without central planning. A consequence of that is that there's no central database.

For example: A lot of dairies use gas furnaces to provide the heat for pasteurising milk (and much else). Each of those companies decided individually what kind of furnace to get, and each of them individually now has to plan for the winter. The dairy farmers can ask their dairy, and try to find another if the dairy says it may not/won't be able to take their milk this winter. There's no central database that covers spare capacity, whether of transport to the dairy, the various processes to transform the raw milk to saleable products, bottling or distribution.
I have never had this issue, other than with some of its more complicated constructs (like class << self).

And amongst the community, this is not a complaint I hear very often.

I still think of Ruby as the language that maps closest to my thought process when programming.

What is troubling for you?
This is a tantalizing conspiracy theory. However, the event dates do not match up. The conservatives have been trying to overturn Roe for much longer than this year, and Amy Coney Barrett who started serving in late 2020. She was clearly appointed by the conservatives to help overturn Roe. The current unionization push started to really push steam in 2021, which occurred afterwards.
While I do agree in principle that rapidly increasing wages leads to price inflation, your reference does not relate to my experience in Switzerland (most recently was there on Saturday and will spend the next few days there starting tomorrow.)
> some miraculous automation innovations

They don't have to be miraculous. In the UK, Brexit has caused the supply of ultra-cheap East European fruit-picking labour to dry up. Fruit growers are consequently now investing in automating fruit-picking.

Automation is simply engineering; these problems don't require miraculous inventions. Anyone can build a machine to pick a strawberry. The trick is building one to a price-point, that can pick an entire polytunnel clean, without damaging the fruit too much. It's not innovation, it's just applying stuff we already know to solve practical problems.
Hi. Thanks for the list and the resources. It's really helpful!!
> ... and postpartum depression (probably exacerbated by lack of sleep)

I remember back in the early 2010's there was this 'hack' going around where you could manage to only sleep for 2 hours or something a day, but you had to grab sleep every 4 hours for 15 minutes to get the REM cycle in. I'm likely totally off on the schedule, but the gist was very little sleep.

Recently, a sibling became a parent and I was reminded of that 'hack' and told them. My sibling just laughed and said 'Oh, so nerds discovered motherhood huh?'.
By all accounts, a brand new m1/m2 mac is a general purpose computer. It allows arbitrary execution of code, it can be used generally for multiple purposes. This is contrast to special purpose computers, who were designed specifically for a computational task and cannot perform tasks of "general purpose." A Raspberry Pi, a Vic-20, an Apple II, the framework laptop, and yes, the current generation of Macs all qualify.

You're trying to narrow the definition of "general purpose" to mean something else entirely.
They can show ads to users in exchange for the users getting a service for free, without being incredibly intrusive in how they target ads.
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Leave your personal bones to pick somewhere else. You've still got a dozen other social media sites with similar messages to explain, way before 'incels' became prominent.
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> The consequence of such a mentality leads to an arms race that would only allow economic powerhouses and totalitarian countries to even have a chance in the Olympics

The 2022 results are exactly this. Being generous, Slovenia is at the 15th place (before that it is either powerful countries or totalitarian ones (at least from some points of view)). Then I has to scroll down quite a bit to find Belarus.

I did not see Sierra Leone there, nor Cambodia.

> How many athletes are you willing to condemn to an early death for national prestige?

This is a choice the athlete makes. Plenty of people make bad choices in life and nobody cares.

> A good friend of mine once was, at the age of six, a potential future Olympic gymnast. At this age (and many athletes start very young) it's the trainers and sports associations in the background that make the decisions about the athletes' health. Do you really want them to give children all kinds of experimental drugs for a slight advantage to win a gold medal?

My wife was a European vice-champion in athletics. She dropped sport when her new coaches told her that it is either sport, or studies. She dropped her beloved sport in one second to study - because this is how she was raised. She went on to train at the university, then for fun.

When you look at what some children as forced to do in ballet or music - thi sis almost torture but this is for the arts and therefore fantastic.

My point is that people who do sport make that choice and they get into a completely abnormal life anyway.

There is no more "pure sport" at a competitive level, except maybe for some exotic ones like curling or quidditch.
> So. What's your worst project?

The Python project I just deleted a few moments ago. It's intended as a search engine for exported bookmark files, but it goes horribly wrong. The code is dirty and unorganized. Everything is wired together in the most messy way possible, and it takes forever to debug.
I find it somewhat amusing when people talk about a sub-3 pound machine (which a 13/14" MacBook Pro is) as big :-) They're very portable laptops by any historical measure.
'Zero Trust' is not for end users.

For end users you have magic of single sign on - they use login to their work laptop and seamlessly navigate to whatever they need for their work without ANY login screens.

'Zero Trust' is for back-end services where you assume you need encryption at transit and you always need some authorization to check if someone or something has access to other stuff.
That's not how it worked. The union role took a few hours a month, in addition to her para job. A handful of meetings, usually in evenings after a normal workday. It would never have been considered her primary job, more like a task within her job at the school.
From the Scientific American article:

"Currently, GPT-3’s paper has been assigned an editor at the academic journal to which we submitted it, and it has now been published at the international French-owned pre-print server HAL [Link]."

Link: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03701250v1

pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03701250/document
Ruby eventually failed in term of quantity of developers, means OOP will eventually died. It's not Ruby's fault, it's just the failure of OOP in general.

My prediction, in about 4 years or more, OOP is just an abandon concept for all programmers.
No.

I loved Calvin and Hobbes when it first came out, and all through its initial run. When it came back after his time off, it had changed. The initial Calvin was just a random force in the universe, and he happened to irritate/puzzle/astound/infuriate his parents, his babysitter, Miss Wormwood (what a great name). He was just being himself, and largely having fun doing it, and if they didn't "get it", that was just something he didn't care about.

After the break, it was Calvin against the world, with him actively fighting the oppressors, which is good in one way, but he seemed unhappy a lot of the time; the fun really went out of the comic.

When Watterson ended it, I felt it was for the best.
The argument is understandable - if you're not forced to join the union and pay for it, then everyone will just not join and let the union still negotiate on their behalf; and it'll have no money to operate and fall apart.

However, I'm sure there would be other ways (for example, if the union is negotiating with the company, the company can just pay for the union, it does indirectly through salary anyway).
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It's the same picture. Reagan and Bush and Clinton and GW and Obama and Trump have all supported neoliberal trade policies that allowed US manufacturers to move production out of the country to take advantage of cheap labor. The agreements (GATT, NAFTA, WTO, TPP, etc.) were backed by all of those presidents, if not publicly than certainly privately, and now by Biden. Of course they're all just Wall Street puppets, 'democracy in America' is a bad joke, and the politicians are really best understood as little more than corporate middle managers.
You do realize nut milk isn't literally milk?
To begin with, you've got a very narrow set of people who would even discover this project. Now intersect that with the people who will reliably miss context clues ("shitty network connections") to get a joke, and the set becomes even narrower.
It's amusing to me that unions complain about outsourcing as they themselves outsource all their work to some mega-union.
How do you validate the revenue is authentic?
> If the USA is going to allow manufacturers to outsource the majority of well-paid (~$30/hr avg) manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China

What? You think overseas manufacturers are paying $30 an hour?

It wasn't high-skilled manufacturing that was outsourced. Welders and machinists still have near zero unemployment and make about as much as a software engineer. It was low skilled manufacturing jobs that were outsourced to China. Those jobs never paid anywhere close to $30/hour even in the heyday of unionized American manufacturing.
It is but try to explain this to a regular user and they will call you a tinfoil hat nerd
I'm not sure if I've heard RATM but looking at the lyrics to a few of their songs there seems to be a lot of anger or rage in their music.

If that's right, you could actually do a pretty funny American Express commercial with them.

It could show a montage of them dealing with shoddy consumer goods failing shortly after their warranties expire, which keeps pissing them off and keeps them in a constant state of rage which is reflected in their songwriting.

Then someone points out to them that they paid for all those things with their American Express card, and American Express provides extended warranties automatically.

They lose their anger over poor consumer products, and with that their songwriting too loses its anger.

Cut to them releasing a new album, and it is all slow acoustic ballads about true love and togetherness.
That looks pretty cool. I might reach for that next time.

I was hoping for something where sources were more "on the fly" though. Like where I could run an arbitrary command to make a row. It seems like making an "adapter" is a bit more of an investment here.
It is quite common here in Switzerland. Cafeterias serve it as well as regular restaurants but, admittedly, it is not as common as beef, pork, chicken or lamb. Surprisingly, it is illegal in Texas and other parts of the US though it may not be enforced. Texas even bans transportation of horse meat through the state.
Windows on the DEC Alpha was still in support at the time, I think, so someone at Microsoft must have used it.
Even the machine code isn't universal but rather tied to the hardware it's running on.

The short answer is that any "intermediate" form is just another abstraction over machine language. It's turtles all the way down, as the old joke goes. The world of software is one of varying layers of abstractions, each with a specific, constrained purpose and benefits. There isn't one abstraction to rule them all.

Having said that, there are several universal ways to represent the syntax of any individual language. My favorite is EBNF[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur...
I wonder if this is related to why mbasic.facebook.com links are regularly breaking now.
The Fed will keep raising rates, but the reserve requirements for banks is at 0% since 2020, which means even people put money into savings, the bank can loan 100% of their deposits out.

Oversimplified example: So if I deposit $100, and the bank loans my money to someone who buys a car, and then the car company workers deposit their paychecks of, lets say, $100 in turn is re-lent out.. how is this not printing money and creating a deck of cards?

(for the record, Japan's banking reserve requirement is 0% as well. As the article points out, no one is borrowing, but here companies and consumers are swimming in debt)
> Or keep using Linux, but putting more effort on it, e.g. adding better NDK support, without relying in Java at all, a la iOS.

Or maybe a clean slate from the mistakes of existing legacy devices and not inheriting the old cruft found in kernels like Linux or in full OSes like QNX that are not designed or optimised for use cases such as smart-devices, IoT, desktops, etc.

It seems like Google has had enough of tolerating the giant contraption that has strangled them for years with using Linux in Android, and ChromeOS and would want to purse a new approach similar to Windows, and macOS with Fuchsia and creating an ecosystem of apps written in Dart, and using Flutter.
So, C++ and Java have just a couple of years of life left?
> They hold our childrens’ futures hostage and get paid out by politicians buying votes, who pass the bill to the next generation.

Are you confusing the school board with the teachers union? One sets curriculum, class size, and budget. The later really only influences salary, benefits, and working hours.
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There can be a lot of pain and harm delivered before the market becomes rational.
It's lovely to see so much solidarity on this subject from HN. A lot of people are fed up right now, and they're very much justified.
Yes, this is very true - that's why I mentioned my region expecting that lov=cal traditions may be diverse.

Out of curiosity - is rosbif Alsacien something that you would usually buy?(putting aside the price - I am just looking for statistical preferences in taste and provenance)
>Maybe CEOs and executives don’t need to pay themselves such absurd salaries, that would probably help

Can you show your work here? Assume Amazon executives cut their salaries to 0, how much extra would they be able to pay workers?
And buildings designed to trap heat.
I'm going to emphasize this as well. Everything is an object, and everything called on an object is a method. Full stop.

Unlike with other languages, there is no ambiguity here.

In python, you don't know when you dir() an object whether your dealing with a property or method. In Ruby, you are guaranteed it's always a method. A perk is that you don't need parens.
How do you factor in a founders time in that profit equation?

Let’s say the solo founder spends 80 hour a week running sales marketing ops dev and then sells. He could artificially make his profit high if he isn’t billing for his time
What rock are you living under? Plenty of the documented absolute nightmare of working for Amazon in their warehouses is corroborated by their own internal analysis. Unions are for more than just making sure people don't die when doing their job. The union I am a member of more than doubled the wages of its members after its first 12 years of existence. Crucially it also ensures twice yearly cost of living adjustments. It is the only way for labor to have a meaningful negotiating position. There are shitty unions out there, but there are a lot of shitty employers too. Amazon's internal reporting shows they're going to exhaust the labor pool in several areas because they've cycled through everyone who could possibly work at the warehouses and fulfillment centers. People aren't leaving Amazon because they aren't allowed to use the bathroom. They're leaving Amazon because it is dehumanizing and miserable. Funny how the people who make the lowest wages have to put up with the most shit.
Demand for things like horse meat is limited. Even if a butcher gave it out for free, they wouldn't be able to "sell" as much horse meat as chicken meat, at least not for human consumption.

So, when you realize you're already selling the maximum possible amount of your good, you're only option to increase profit is to increase your prices.

If your market reduces even further (say, 10% of the people buying your horse meat die of old age), you will often have to increase price even more to try to keep the profit you were making. Especially with goods like meat, where the supply side is also inelastic (you can't produce half a horse, you butcher a whole horse or you don't butcher it at all).

For niche culinary products, this type of extremely limited market can actually exist. I'd bet if you were allowed to sell mouse meat, you would quickly get to know every single person in London who wants to eat mouse meat.

Of course, I'm not claiming that demand will not be reduced by price. You can't charge a million dollars per kilo of horse meat. But you also can't expect to increase sales volume for certain niche goods past a point, regardless of price.

Edit: this is also often visible in the price of seasonal specialties. For example, in my country, lamb is only commonly eaten for Easter. So, demand for lamb spikes around Easter every year. But, lamb prices actually drop around Easter (at least for consumers) - the rest of the year, lamb is only sold at high prices for the few people who consider it a delicacy. But around Easter, as demand increases for cultural reasons, competing on price starts making sense and price drops just as demand rises.
i highly highly recommend trying Colmap if you like ODM. it's not suitable for drone footage by itself (it works but why), but it has amazing performance for just handheld video walkthroughs or if you have a lot of geotagged photos. basically the next generation / natural extension of the original Bundler that brought open source unstructured SfM to the mainstream. not photo realistic or anything but very usable for most practical applications.
What are usually the solutions to such problems with a two-sided marketplace?
I really couldn’t disagree with this more. Reproducibility is far more important than integrating unknown bug fixes, and upgrading dependencies should be a manual process during which you review the changes and verify that they don’t break your system.

My time and the time of my peers is too valuable to be debugging minor incompatibilities between a library 5 layers down the transitive dependency stack because versions aren’t pinned. It’s too important that if I go back to a 3 year old checkout of the code that it still runs and isn’t a wild goose chase of running down bugs and library incompatibilities.

You can always upgrade overzealously when dependencies are pinned, falling back to the workflow you’ve described, but the inverse isn’t true. If your tools don’t allow you to pin, you’re signing yourself up for churn at unknown and unpredictable times.
>I didn't say that it can't be serious, many cartoons are serious, but even if it's serious that doesn't mean it's like how normal people talk. You do know that Japanese people don't talk like people in anime?

No, cartoons aren't drawn seriously. There can be serious moments with cartoons You can clearly a difference between how a cartoon is drawn and how a realistic anime is drawn.

Yes, you are correct most anime in japanese is highly stylized. Not cowboy bebop though. Cowboy bebop is realistic in terms of voice acting. Many more realistic animes that are more realistically drawn also drop the stylized voice acting.

>The serious parts of Cowboy Bebop came off as serious in the dub for me.

You've admitted there's bad acting. So basically you can take bad acting seriously.

>I think I just have different tastes to you, which you seem to find confusing or difficult to accept. I guess you would prefer a global hegemony of boring humans that have identical opinions to you, but that's not how it is.

There's a concept of bad taste and good taste. Nobody is explicitly saying it but this is what the discussion is about. I am saying your taste is bad. You're saying cowboy bebop is a cartoon, so bad acting is acceptable and therefore you have good taste.

>I've watched a reasonable amount of anime, and I almost always prefer the dub, be it Cowboy Bebop, Welcome to the NHK, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Pokemon, even Steins;Gate

Yeah. I can see that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDtYYrcByNE the person who made this video agrees with you on NGE.
> It's a huge issue. Cartoons are silly. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are cartoons. Cartoons are for kids. Spike Speagal is not a toon. You know the distinction, please don't pretend you don't know.

There are a lot of serious cartoons or comedic cartoons with serious elements. Also Cowboy Bebop is the latter, it's pretty comical in general, even in the sub.

> You see the difference visually right? If not then I can't help you. If you do see that the realism is increased in the second link, then I have to tell you, the voices also need increased realism to match or many people wouldn't be ok with it. I have a friend who is similar to you doesn't even notice bad acting, he likes shows with laughable acting like the flash on the WB. I think you might be like him.

Why does a slightly more realistic visual style mean that the actors must give voice acting that is realistic?

> But even so the stylized voices need a certain level of realism so the japanese people can be drawn into the story. No American dub hits that level of realism at all.

Have you considered that Japanese people and westerners want different things from anime?

If there is an entertaining, hilarious VO with bad acting, and a serious, realistic one with good acting, I'm going to choose the former. I'm watching the show to be entertained, not to be bored.

Why can't you just accept that I prefer dubs to subs and move on? You aren't going to "prove me wrong" in a matter of taste.