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the euro was supposed to make its constituent economies converge, but the exact opposite happened

the only real solutions are:

full fiscal union (the EU decides Germany/France/...'s budget, with redistribution)

or collapse of the euro
again, on my own very stretchy way of thinking (which involves big leaps in reasoning). you're saying that a company has a right to protect its secrets, but I'm hearing something comparable to (e.g.) "colonialist superpowers have the right to enslave people from Africa". I suppose I may be tuning into a moral ethical-framework from the future when I take 'offense' by the "rightful" actions of companies to keep knowledge bound and locked.

the relation is ideological, cultural (in the sense of being close to the intention of); not direct, causal, material (in the sense of relating to the actual implementation).
It's important to note who/what the AIER is and what biases they might have in this "reporting""

"The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is a libertarian think tank"

Almost none of the things in this article is backed up with any sources, the few tweets linked don't reflect the reporting in this article. I'm not saying it didn't happen but the AIER is throwing around a lot of terms/phrases/generalizations without backing it up other than gesturing at twitter.

Personally I despise most twitter reporting because you can find someone saying just about anyone on twitter and quoting random users that fit your story is cherry-picking at it's finest. That said they don't even do that for this article which, couple with who they are, makes me take this was a massive grain of salt.
> "...Ragnar Sass (co-founder of a local unicorn..."

Excellent nominative determinism here!
I did not think this gets so much attention. A lot of the points you all wrote are correct. But still, if I am looking to fil a full time position (of course this is written in the ad...) and you dont want to work full time than this is totally fine but not a match. Maybe you think you can convince a company that you can generate the same output as other employees who work full time - and maybe that is true. But its insanely hard to do so. To this day (at least in germany in most companies I know) people are just not ready yet to admid that working time != working results. Just the turh for now (I myself hope too that this will change and I do my bits). And by the way I would assume that a lot of people who are active here are above average in there profession. I dont have proof for that but thats what I think. And guess what: a lot of candidates are not above average.
I think rock climbing is the best thing ever. In the long run, the experience of rock climbing will spiritually reinvigorate the public. I want more people to rock climb. It’s the knots that are the problem. They take so long to tie, and every gym you go to makes you take tests to make sure you know how to tie them and then vocally double check that they are secure. Studies show that if people didn’t have to spend time tying knots, they’d be more inclined to try rock climbing. At the same time, studies show that excessive safety standards only save a handful of rock climbers each year. It’s not worth it. We should remove any regulations around ropes and knots for rock climbing gyms so more people will rock climb.
That's pretty sweet, I didn't know C++ could do this now!

Zig's still got it beat handily in simplicity though -- I think what's really cool about Zig's idea of comp-time evaluation is you get something like the power of C++ with something like the simplicity of C.
Configuring a wordprocessor is office work that stands in the way of creative work. And it is the most distracting kind of office work...infrequent, involving opaque mechanisms, and possibly impossible to achieve -- can you even modify it in the way you think you want and are the changes reversible and if reversible are they atomic.

My quest for distraction free writing led me to the Hermes Baby -- an ultra-portable mechanical typewriter.

No internet, no screen, no cords, no batteries. Mechanical clattering instead.

It's not for everyone, and a fifty plus year old typewriter is fiddly and finicky no doubt. But so is my iPhone...may the inventor of autocorrect burn in hello.
I was on a (unofficial but agreed upon w leadership) sabbatical at the end of 2019/start of 2020 and was no longer there for me when I returned. I took a new role with a 40k pay cut so I could pay the bills. I resigned near the end-ish of Covid when I was able to find employment back on a more accurate career path (50k raise).
Yep, that's on my radar definitely, probably in the long-term plans. It's a great idea.
Maybe, but it seems most industries couldn't do it without a massive increase in workforce, but worker shortage is what they're trying to fight. Unless the entire industry switched to a 4 day week, I don't see it working out for most. I'm mostly thinking about places ties to central things like the stock exchange for banks, or that need 24/7 support like police and nursing, or where manufacturing wants the machines to run close to 24/7 to be economical efficient (since we struggle to compete already with LCOL abroad).
> And if your user has the correct runtime for the webview used by Tauri you can just send them a single executable

So does this mean all these comparisons are between a web bundle that runs on an existing VM, and a web bundledthat came packaged with a VM? Because I thought the whole point of Electron was that all the dependencies came packaged together, even if that adds 100 megs to the install.
Holy fuck. I just want stuff. Shouldn't there be an option for buying stuff and not treating people like garbage?
So this is not to speak about the rigged promotional games mentioned by OP but my Uncle won many large prizes in the 80's(corvette, boat, jaguar) through promotional giveaways. I remember my Dad told he his plan was to go to multiple places where a promotion was happening(he lived in LA and there were alot of them in that area) and filling out hundreds and even thousands of submissions to game the odds in his favor. It worked for him and I think others were doing this as well as now most promotions like this limit submissions to one entry per person(or family). And most car giveaways today are scams anyways just to get your info to marketers, but in the 80's things were different and people who knew about gaming probabilities could and did win many large prizes.
Since half the code on the GitHub is in Dart, I'm guessing the latter.
In what regard? They're an invasive species.
I assume you meant "over" then "under" here.
Or the official apps right, that page is just about browsers (and implicitly unofficial apps)? So you could have the Kodi & Netflix apps on an Android TV (e.g. Nvidia Shield) device and have 4K Netflix.
Is there an end to the Data Age ®?

Sometimes I have this interesting thought, that someday, when even the oldest people alive will not know or will not remebered how things worked back then. Then someone, or a group of people, will suddenly rediscover, or reinvent (as we always do throughout history) things that today still exist. Maybe someone will come up with "shops where you are served by real people", or paying for content you watch. Or a "shopping mall, but without cameras" ("but who will be watching me?"). Or a vehicle you can drive yourself.

I know it's a silly philosophical thought. But what it points to, for me, is that data harvesting works because it trades privacy for convenience, and even if it's too little, there are ways to opt-out (the trivial case being opting out of convenience). But it's a much too thin line to thread.

People are aware of the massive commercial surveillance. They just don't care. Human society is built upon trust or its lack thereof. When trust can't be established, surveillance arises. It only becomes a moral problem when it is done asymmetrically, and in an unprecedented scale.

When is too much too much? When your TV starts showing ads, even when unplugged from electricity? When you have to watch an ad to start your EV car (unless you purchase the Quick Start+ package for 9.99/mo)? You can take a break from ads today. That, in a way, ensures that you can consume ads for longer. But industry seems to be moving in the direction of eventually leaving you with no way to opt out. Then, the convenience might not be worth it anymore. That means either a market demand for ad-free products, and a subsequent return to pay-for-content business model, or some sort of social turmoil.

Or maybe that's their plan to get us to consume less: just stick everything with insane amounts of obnoxious ads, so we won't buy anything anyway.
ClickHouse can access non-local storage without issue (or at least, with only issues for some of them - HDFS and S3 seem to work fine, I've had less luck with real-time Kafka). I'm not sure how well it scales horizontally for such uses; you can hack something up with macros that isn't too painful but there may also be better options.

However, it's probably not a great pick if you're already struggling with the operations side of things, which seems to be the main selling point for services like Snowflake.
The alternative is they're not your customers, so what is lost?
Vertex/triangle clipping is quite rare, and mostly used for clipping against the near plane (hopefully rare in practice). Most other implementations use a guard band as a fast path (aka doing it in screen space) -- real clipping is only used where your guard band doesn't cover you, precision issues mostly.

I'm not sure what issues you're hitting, but I've never found clipping to be that challenging or difficult. Also, clip control and clip space aren't really specifically about clipping -- clip space is just the output space of your vertex shader, and the standard "clip control" extension just controls whether the near plane is at 0 or -1. And 0 is the correct option.
I’ve thought about this a bit more.

You can target the UXTO so that their value in crypto starts back at zero. But because they still have the mining hardware, they still control 51% of the hash power that secures the network. They can just mine from a different address and it won’t be clear who to target until they once again begin to produce majority blocks on the chain. This way they can continually attack the chain and render it useless.

When you burn a PoW miner’s crypto addresses, you aren’t burning their capital and stake, because it’s in the form of mining hardware, not tokens. When you burn a PoS staker’s crypto, you are burning their capital and stake which is in the form of tokens.
Because snowflake doesn't build foreign key indexes. Imagine clickstream data where every insert is being checked against an index of customers. This isn't a typical usecase for big data warehouses.
FWIW, if you're comfortable with command-line, here's a way to use QEMU with `virt-builder`[a] and libvirt (the virtualization API):

(1) Download a Fedora image (or any one of the images that `virt-builder` supports: `virt-builder --list | less`)

$> virt-builder fedora-36 --format qcow2 \
-o vm1.qcow2 --root-password secret

(2) Import the image to libvirt:

$> sudo virt-install --name vm1 --ram 4096 \
--disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm1.qcow2,format=qcow2 \
--nographics --os-variant fedora-36 --import

Then you can do various operations via `virsh` (the shell tool). Start a VM, and see the boot process on the serial console:

$ sudo virsh start --console

Create a snapshot:

$ sudo virsh snapshot-create-as vm1 snap1 "Clean Fedora 1"

With this kind of snapshot (called "internal snapshots"), the original and its delta, i.e. the snapshot, are stored in a single disk image file; this is convenient for moving it across machines. This only works with QCOW2 images. To revert to the snapshot:

$ sudo virsh snapshot-revert vm1 snap1

And so on[b].

[a] https://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

[b] https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/virt-builder/about...
ez just use PAM4 signaling

(/s)
I'm over 35 and I don't think things were "better" before social media, but I do think there are aspects that aren't improving with being digitized/VR'd/monetized. And they are things that I suspect people will 'rediscover' over time, without the need to make it part of their personal branding or PR self-promotion campaign.

I think the youth angle has some validity, but it also misses something else. I realized in my late 20s that I was already making more nuanced analysis of 'life' for myself than I did a few years prior. "Experience" isn't an end all/be all, but it does carry some occasionally useful benefits, that if you foster can only improve with age. I like hanging out with people my own age (40s) but also younger and older, because I get different useful/interesting things from doing so, and I incorporate it into the lens I use to make a go of life. THAT only comes from age and experience by and large.

Social media is tooling, which can (and sadly is) leveraged in any number of ways (regardless of age group)...all of which we as a society have allowed. We need to make choices about whether that should proceed as is, or if changes are required.
If you need a social life get in touch with your friends and family! Working from home you will get much more time to spend with them!
Apparently, West Virginia doesn't enforce this. The only requirement is that parents properly secure any child under age 6 in a seat (https://carseattraveler.com/west-virginia-car-seat-laws/). So we should see higher birth rates in that state (I doubt it).
Hum I think I read a while ago an article on how the limited constraints/rules there where in the US for child seats were causing many unneeded death, compared to the EU where we have iSize/isofix/etc. But I cannot find the article now.

Also I'm not sure what this comparison between the number of lives saved and the number of births not happening is worth. Where in the world is it a fine to sacrifice baby lives so that more people can be born? Feels like they are optimizing cattle ^^
Ask HN: What tradeoffs column-oriented DBs do to be “more efficient”?
From the Wikipedia article: A column-oriented DBMS or columnar DBMS is a database management system (DBMS) that stores data tables by column rather than by row. Benefits include more efficient access to data when only querying a subset of columns (by eliminating the need to read columns that are not relevant), and more options for data compression. However, they are typically less efficient for inserting new data.

What exactly happens under the hood? Why the notion of storing by column rather by row increases read and reduces insertion respective speeds?
apple is almost a 2 trillion dollar company, it is not inconceivable that they juat hire PR to defend them in comment sections
It doesn't lower barriers to entry, it's contrary to logical expectations for someone unfamiliar with how BQ works. If the query is limited to 10 results you wouldn't expect it to scan all 2 trillion of your records. Granted there are numerous warnings in the GUI for these types of things but make this mistake in Python and you're none the wiser.
You’re not thinking on a big enough scale. No big tech company cares about “your” data. They care about everyone’s data in aggregate as much as they can get from every location at every granularity. Even thinking of a tech company as collecting all of “your” data to create an ad profile “for you” is rather inaccurate. They’re collecting everyone’s data to create an ad profile for everybody, tailored to what makes the most money in aggregate across all ad slots.

When you think of it like this you’ll stop asking questions like “what would they do with this piece of data?” Because the answer is always that it is a drop in a giant ocean of machine learning data.
So let me bring up some of the exceptions I can think of.

Recently, a woman got an abortion and part of what the prosecution used against her was data collected from facebook.

With google's tracking, is it not unlikely that a government body could subpoena them for search histories? (which, they do already) to look for questions like "has this individual asked about abortions recently?"

Perhaps you view that as moral, but what about other things a totalitarian government might want to control? What about China trying to find the identities of people protesting them? Is it not unlikely that they might have search history data betraying that they are a protestor or likely protestor?

But then there is the question of why they even need that data in the first place. You argue "how else would they make money?" and I'd argue "well, ads?". The reason, the real reason, google collects this data isn't because they have to, it's because it's more profitable if ads are better targeted and more customized per individual. Google would certainly take a profit hit if they stopped the data tracking, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't still be one of the biggest and best places to advertise on the internet. They'd simply be less profitable.
Not only that they stringed me along for the free credit thing and I realized that I started to incur expenses for running some other instances. When I protested they assured me I billing will handle it. Except my account manager just ghosted me and I found out that if I do a chargeback all of my google services could be shut down, not just my GCP related billing.

I've never returned and have been with AWS since. Nobody in their right mind uses GCP and the only good thing they had was Firebase but already Supabase has pretty much rendered that useless.

Fck google cloud and I say that with confidence. If you are one of those shops that require engineers to use both GCP and AWS, start choosing, because new and old are on AWS and will remain on AWS.
Trajectory toward a long, slow population collapse. It's hard to imagine what gets world population back up to replacement rate (2.1 children per woman) once it dips below. Children are expensive and technology makes having them far more optional than it ever has been in history. The world's population is aging out of its fertility years. Once we're below 2.1 the trajectory will be down, short of some severe cultural or societal change.

The environment will be ok. Concerns about overpopulation destroying sustainability are 'fighting the last war.'
I run an hdmi cable from my laptop and have a bluetooth keyboard with a scroll pad on it. My wife doesnt like it. But its so much faster than a "smart tv". My issue isnt even the ads. Its that half of these tvs feel like they are running on low memory because of how slow they are. Add in the streaming apps that crash just often enough to be really annoying...

I wish it didnt have to be that way.
One resource to try is SIGCIS (https://www.sigcis.org/); it's a professional group of computing historians and a number of retired practitioners.

However, historians don't tend to care about specific technology features, so I suspect you may need to treat this more as a journalistic effort than a historical effort -- emphasis on interviews, press releases, user manuals to build up a timeline.

Definition-wise, PLATO is an interesting case and is a useful test of whatever definition you choose to use. PLATO was a multi-site, multi-user education platform, but featured messaging, chat, and multi-user games. You can access a running PLATO system (https://www.irata.online/) and there are a few books that detail the development and user experience.
I worked as a bioinformatician at a medical device company. We did genetic testing on cancer patients, and had huge amounts of private, personal information on the patients we were testing, because it was necessary to provide the correct clinical determination.

We also didn't have bossware. There were access controls on the data itself, audit trails on who accessed the data, but no software running locally on my personal dev machine looking at what I did at any particular moment.

HIPAA governs the storage, transport, and use of that health information, and we all knew we were criminally liable if the information got out.

Bossware in a HIPAA environment (or other environment where not having leaks in important) can be more of a liability than a boon, because it becomes yet another vector for attack or data leakage. You are in effect sharing all data a machine can access, with the maker of the bossware.

Something with the teeth of HIPAA but for other pieces of personal information could go a long way. It's amazing how differently executives behave when the consequences of data leaks change from "customers could be unhappy if they found out" to "I could personally go to prison".
We can have growth, but the growth rate must decline over time. For example the current growth rate of world population is around 1.1% per year. It is easy to see that it cannot remain above 1% for more than 12101 years (assuming FTL travel is not discovered).

Proof: Right now every living human is either on Earth or close to Earth. Without FTL it follows that 1 year from now every living human must be within 1 light year of Earth, 2 years from now every living human must be within 2 light years of Earth, and so on. 12101 years from now every living human must be within 12101 years of Earth.

If you calculate the volume of a sphere of radius 12101 light years centered on Earth and divide that volume by what the population would be after 12101 years of 1% annual growth you get 0.04 m^3 per person.

But the volume of an average human is ~0.06 m^3, which is greater than 0.04 m^3.

At 0.1% annual growth it would take a little over 127000 years to run out of room.

At 0.01% annual growth we've got 1.34 million years.

Of course the actual limits are much lower because the above is assuming that we can pack humans so that there is no space that is not occupied by humans which we cannot do because, among other things, (1) our shapes don't fit together perfectly to allow such tight packing, (2) there isn't enough mass in the 12101 light year sphere to make that many humans, and (3) we would need to use much of that space for the infrastructure needed to support humans.
No, it's not at all actually: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=T1OA
The US wants you to pay taxes on your income. All of it. Not just the part that gets reported on a W-2, but also the amount you won in the March Madness office pool. They (and you) didn't get a W-2 for that.

And then there's the other end. Do you itemize? Do you deduct charitable giving? Do you want Goodwill, where you drop off your still-usable stuff, to have to know your Social Security number so that you can deduct that from your taxes?

If the government is going to do my taxes for me, they're going to have to have a much simpler tax code. I'm not necessarily against that, but it's going to be a fairly big change for a fair number of people, as quite a bit that we're used to disappears. Some of that will help us, and some will hurt.
Yes, we had two move the seats like this:
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Otherwise it doesn't fit.
So far so good?
No! The middle seatbelt isn't long enough so we had to buy an extension, which in theory is illegal in France :-(

And don't get me started on the stupid 'foot trunks'..
Keep in mind that Mesa actually implements most of OpenGL for you. Its not like you are implementing a whole OpenGL driver from scratch, you are mostly implementing a hardware abstraction layer.

My understanding is that this hardware abstraction layer for mesa is way easier to implement than a full vulkan driver, especially since the earlier versions of OpenGL only require a small subset of the features that a vulkan driver requires.
For the more European view of flying an airbus, this also form a real life airline pilot: https://www.youtube.com/c/320SimPilot ; very entertaining and instructive MSFS and Xplane 11)
Provinces and countries that want to encourage them pay parents and/or provide services for them. Quebec, Scandinavia are two that I found quickly. Governments use their spending and taxing ability to generate the environment they wish. And some, it seems, just don’t give a sh*t about children.