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The ETS cost per ton is 90€ [1]. Apparently the budget cost of this program was 2.5 G€[2]. 2500M/1.8M gives 1400 €/ton. The article doesn't seem to comment anything about this poor ratio, did I count wrong or did the article just ignore the 20x efficiency delta to market rate emission reductions?

(Of course free train travel is great and being able to do it while reducing emissions instead of icnreasing them is excellent in itself, but still the reduction headline would call for analysis)

[1] https://ember-climate.org/data/data-tools/carbon-price-viewe...
[2] https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-9-ticket-is-it-here-to-stay/a...
Ok, but Russia invaded Ukraine. Unless the US controls Russia now, too.
Thank you so much that means a lot for sharing that. You are absolutely right, and I'm still just at 1% of what I intend to build if people love what I am doing. The complexity is real.
It'd be interesting to dig further into the details. There are "car trips" that I don't take that are instead replaced by Walmart or Amazon or someone sending a truck to my house to deliver a package.

If there was "free" or "low cost" way to "get into town" perhaps some of those would occur, not replacing a car trip but replacing a delivery.
> I would start by simply putting everyone through a course in deductive reasoning at the earliest age possible

I was taught the explicit premise of deductive vs. inductive reasoning as part of our unit on the scientific method in, I think, fourth or fifth grade. I always assumed this was a standard curriculum module.
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How does that work when it comes to private information like emails, search histories, etc?
Haha, you called it!

I guess we'll have to update those screenshots! :)
The music industry suing customers was actually successful.

When the iTunes Music Store was introduced back in 2003, not only was it a better alternative because it was more convenient. But you also didn’t risk being sued.

Before anyone chimes in, “by pirating I can get DRM free music”, Apple has sold DRM free music on iTunes since 2008.

Also, it’s not like Qualcomm has any alternatives to ARM. No the entire mobile market is not going to move to RISC-V.
Russia’s numbers are only lower because they’ve largely been defeated.

If Russia had not been pushed away from Kyiv as dramatically as they were then their numbers would be a lot worse.

Also, Ukraine has better public transport, etc. and a functional government and support from the rest of Europe for its refugees, which has given civilians time and opportunities to relocate.
Probably not Greenland.
DB is very expensive when travelling spontaneously and really cheap if planning well ahead. I regularly go from Berlin to Frankfurt for 20 Euros, which is around 500km. Often times, they offer me first class upgrades for 10 Euros, too.
Thanks for posting the link, some extra tidbits I saw :

- Feb 22, arm announced to Qualcomm that Nuvia's ALA/TLA licenses would be terminated in March 1st 22 (for the reasons from parent post)

- On April 1st, arm counsel acknowledged the termination of the licenses and that Nuvia was in compliance (aka destroyed the designs under the license they had obtained, which is in the ALA contract)

- On multiple occasions afterwards Qualcomm asked arm to validate "new core designs" to be used on upcoming products (!)

- Qualcomm PR/CEO kept talking about upcoming product based on Nuvia's work, while the license was effectively revoked, and was planning to sample such chips

It will be interesting to see Qualcomm's counterclaims, but arm's factual presentation seems pretty clear and doesn't paint Qualcomm under a very flattering light. Arm's complaint all in all looks pretty reasonable (again, we only have one side of the story, but there's some pretty obvious bad faith from Qualcomm here).
There are reports of around 10k civilian deaths in Mariupol alone so they might be way beyond that already if it’s substantiated.
I think it would be nice to put up an official (or unofficial) registry for owners of this tool, they should put a serial number on it, to be able to track them.

Besides the fact that IMHO a ratchet screwdriver (or more generally 1/4" bits ones) seems like very ill suited for working on computers (too bulky) usually screws on this kind of equipment are rarely very tightened and almost never (unlike in automotive/motorbike/industrial work) dirty/rusted/blocked, so chances of ruining any - if not el-cheapo, "decent" - normal ratchet screwdriver (or its bits) is near to 0.

But if Wurth sells(?) one for US$ 116.60:

https://www.wurthusa.com/Tools/Hand-Tools/Screwdrivers/Assor...

at around 70 bucks this one is a steal. /s
I think there are lots of reasons why.

One possible reason: no one whose job it is to write Python scripts was ever promoted for making an Excel spreadsheet when that is the simpler and more practical approach. And no manager of people who write Python scripts is going to be able to use that Excel spreadsheet to sell "I need more responsibility and head count." People tend to follow incentives, rather than focusing on making wise decisions.
What are the economics here? Can one make more money as a developer or a blogger? Talent tends to follow money, so that should tell us something.
YES. The cameras. At least here in the EU, many don't mind being naked, but have absolutely no interest to end up on a porn (or whatever) website. Basically people do not want to be THAT guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vx008uwMfA

Before cameras and internet, that would have been a fun local event and long forgotten. Now the pictures are everywhere.
I'm operating under the assumption that there is some construct of quality out there than can predict which art pieces will be deemed "better" than others.

I just don't have a good description of what it is.
You are technically correct, but removing a feature for a large number of important platforms is still a weird move, especially in the context of PWAs becoming more and more widely used on all platforms.
With joined-up letters (“cursive” in the USA I guess) different languages have different letterforms, and sometimes multiple systems.

For that matter typesetting rules vary by language as well — not just the obvious hyphenation rules busnspacimg as well. Just pick up a book in, say, French or Russian and you can tell at a glance (without even looking at the letters) that it’s not in English.
I say this about every other day at work (we even have only internal users so it's part of their job to talk to us). So far impact: zero....
Mosul has a population of >1.5M, I think there are comparable and even many smaller Ukrainian cities and towns that have suffered in a similar way, to much deserved condemnation. Russia's war of aggression is illegal, but its tactics are broadly similar to those of other conventional (non-guerilla) armies.

To me, the point is that war tactics are always murderous to civilians, even for "good" wars -- meaning it had better be an actually justifiable war like WW2, rather than an invented threat like WMDs with the US in Iraq, or a sphere of influence war against NATO with Russia in Ukraine.
The idea that religious people don't have bullshit creeds outside their religion is a false one.

Religious people in America act religious on Sunday and like ruthless, immoral "greed is good" capitalists on Monday, flexibly switching ideologies for their convenience.
Same in Austria, and I believe, in the whole EU.
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> If there's only a football stadium and few/no independent small or medium sized clubs, where are these interesting, but niche acts going to perform?

Oh they exist, they’re usually just booked up by boring cover bands.
I'd call it copyright.txt since images are not the only thing affected.

I've been trying to determine if github, which supplies ready-made license files for every repository, enforces these licenses as implemented when feeding co-pilot. It appears that it does not, which is really baffling since there is no excuse for ignoring licenses that they supply as part of the process.

One way I tested was to write a Hello World in Common Lisp and other languages. The code co-pilot generated very often comes directly from a course, and "World" was replaced by the name of the site or book the code was listed in. Did the license allow for this use?

You can opt-out of your code being used by co-pilot, but once it is already in the model, then what? And why require user input when the license file already states whether it is permitted or not?

The other thing is just how much crap code there is on github. What kind of quality should one expect when poor code is copied so much, increasing the likelihood co-pilot will treat it as gospel.

AI has a long ways to go yet.
Here I can get some comments about a piece of my code: https://codereview.stackexchange.com
`precision strike` and 'surgical strike' are mostly marketing terms to conceal the fact that we were bombing civilian buildings just to get one guy.

Like sure, it is better than carpet bombing, but thats about all.It's nothing like sending in a SWAT team.
It's a large percentage of the jobs in the US as well. I don't know why people would find it hard to believe its the same in the EU. Your breakdown is pretty common here despite what it might look like from the outside.
I'm guessing push notifications coming to iOS next year[1] will make PWA's even more popular as a development strategy

[1] https://www.izooto.com/blog/ios-safari-push-notifications#:~....
I broadly agree, though I think you might be under-counting the degree to which accumulated ecosystem value drives this phenomenon, especially amongst a group of languages not known for strong mutual interoperability.

Java is fucking fast, I imagine Cliff Click would like a word with someone arguing golang outperforms a well-tuned JVM. But the language isn’t aging the best and interop with non-JVM languages is, also not the best.

golang seems pretty optimized for polyglot SOA-type setups where a comparatively modest amount of existing code compared to say C++ isn’t a real drawback because you’re hitting that stuff over the network anyways.

Rust is probably the better language in C++ niches at this point when you don’t have a big C++ ecosystem investment and can do a more “greenfield”-type project. That can become a holy war and I’ll leave my position at: “there are good reasons to choose both”.
Tons of CO₂ is maybe the most meaningless unit.
Talking to customers might uncover some things you haven't even thought about.
I think they are orthogonal to value. As for quality, you have to define quality by any specific dimension; that's what the judge is judging. They define what quality is for them and then judge based on it.

If that quality generates value for a person depends on what weight that dimension that was used as quality metric matters or affects the viewer.

If you have a clear perspective of what quality dimension a judge is analyzing and it matches your own attribution of value, then I say, in this case, the judgment is a good proxy of value for you. But this is in individual cases, not as a statement of the intrinsic value of said piece of art in general.

I am using this writing to think, so it is not a formed thesis on art value and quality. But that's my perception of the world.
What do you think Munch meant?

I don't know whether there's more context for his quip that makes its meaning more explicit, but it looks to me as if it means: the painter, unlike the camera, is not limited to neutral depiction of actually visible things; a painting can be fantastical (showing some imagined heaven or hell) or can convey emotion as well as literal photons (enabling the viewer to share the artist's own internal heaven or hell).

lioeter's comment focuses on the first of those unphotographic possibilities, and as far as that goes it's clearly correct: AI systems like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are able to make depictions of things that don't actually exist, so that limitation of the camera has been transcended.

But the same is happening to the second too. Mundanely, if you ask DALL-E for "a man standing on a bridge, expressing ..." you get quite different (and, I think, appropriate) results depending on whether you finish it with "horror, dismay, and misery" or "contentment, excitement, and joy". But that's also true if instead of "a man standing on a bridge" you put "abstract impressionist painting of a city". These systems do in fact know something about mood and atmosphere and emotion, in the sense that if you ask them for joy or misery they do produce images that communicate some degree of joy or misery.

(At least sometimes. I tried asking DALL-E for "abstract impressionist painting of a man on a bridge by a fjord at sunset, expressing ..." and I can't say it made the "joy" ones any more joyful or less miserable than the "misery" ones. Same with "post-impressionist oil painting ...". I tried the same with Stable Diffusion and it also didn't really manage. Score one for Edvard Munch.)

They don't seem anywhere close to being able to do that as well as human artists can, though maybe someone more skilled with prompt engineering than I am could get much better results. But they're heading in that direction.
Who would approve of those terms? A tiny startup that needs an ARM license to create ARM server chips.

Also see a multi trillion dollar company that has to deal with onerous terms for cellular chips from Qualcomm because there is no viable alternative.
Ever heard of Andy Warhol?
He wasn’t known as a famous client, he was known as a famous artist.
For you oldsters out there- how does GFS/Collossus compare to Andrew FS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System
In general extra trips are "good" until the operators have to put more trains on the rails (as the marginal costs of an extra rider are nearly zero when the train is already scheduled).
Any decent CS degree properly exposes students to functional, low-level programming and functional programming.

Even if they didn't, a strong programmer will pick up them up in an afternoon. Ditect memory manipulation is just not that hard.
The loss is three months of salary and the cost of hiring a replacement. Taken en masse, especially for smaller firms, quite a debilitating sum.
That’s a mighty small straw you’re splitting
MDM for laptops? No thanks. It's a world of security theatre - the main purpose of which seems to be to stop me doing my job. Also it invariably means Windows.
I have no real data on this, but I'd assume some of this is also due to fear of skin cancer. I assume less people sunbathe in general and and the less skin exposed, the better. My nether regions have never seen the sun and I aim to keep it that way. Who wants penis skin cancer or breast skin cancer?
That's too bad. I was looking forward to reading about the thing itself. If you end up finding some of those please send them my way. Perhaps my request was unclear?

You seem more interested in pushing a specific account rather than the foundational sources I'm asking for. Is there a reason you're trying to do this?
The smartphone is the new sun (2015)
Maybe, except this isn't "middleware?"

It looks to me like the kind of librar(ies) that would normally be used as an internal aspect of a database or data analytics tools. Data containers / structures, data manipulation operators, and facilities for moving them around.

What this is is part of nice trend to open source some of the fundamental R&D that is happening inside the BigCorps.

Also, this kind of thing (and, indeed middleware as well) has been done in C++ by default inside Google (and probably Facebook as well) since forever.
> Too many people think you can just slap a mail server on a VPS

Depends on how you parse "slap".
WTF Coco – The Weird Images That Underpin Modern Computer Vision Models
But copy & pasting or using IDE features is more about consistency than speed. I.e. making sure you really did replace _all_
I run Home Assistant for various things at my house but I haven't allowed it to be accessible to the internet and I didn't want to pay for "Home Assistant Cloud". I wanted to be able to access it totally free...

I am now lucky and get to work on an open source project that provides a fully featured zero trust overlay network, so I made my own overlay and now I can access everything like I was on my LAN except it's powered by a zero trust network, not a classic VPN-style which I think is pretty cool.

I thought this might be helpful for other people looking to access their own Home Assistant from anywhere for free.
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I've had a Snap-On SSDMR4B0 [1] for at least 25 years now. The usefulness of the ratchet is hard to describe, but easy to recognize after using one for the purpose of driving/removing screws. One big benefit, which only really reveals with longer screws, is the ability to drive or remove much more quickly than a non-ratchet type screwdriver. Also, the benefit is much more recognizable driving screws with significant resistance (i.e. wood screws into hard wood, or concrete screws into concrete or cinder-block). You can keep pressure on the screw, and just rotate the handle back and forth to drive in/remove the screw, reducing the chance of stripping out the screw head by releasing pressure to turn your hand or turn the screwdriver.

If you have ever used a ratchet wrench for nuts or bolts vs. an open-end or box wrench, the difference between the ratchet screwdriver and a regular one is much the same as the difference between using a ratchet wrench vs. an open-end/box wrench to tighten/loosen a nut or bolt.

The ratchet in their screwdriver, from the video, has a ratchet sound very similar to the Snap-On model I have.

[1] Current version: https://shop.snapon.com/product/Standard-Handle/8-3-4%22-Rat...
That's a reasonable caveat but we both know that isn't what these advisors are advertising.
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I’m able to access Hacker News from Germany but my colleagues working in Thailand have been out of luck. We have a product launch coming up and this is causing distress. I understand the need to moderate, but punishing a whole country over a dispute with one user seems draconian. Thanks in advance for understanding.
I don't really understand the point you're trying to make here. Every country could be relatively better off if they had invested better.

It's also hard to invest in education when your schools are bombed and your children are malnourished.
> From an economic perspective the 9 Euro ticket was a disaster.

How so exactly?

subsiding public transit is not inherently a bad thing. If done well, the resulting transit can result in more economic growth in the area than would have otherwise occured, with that growth leading an increased tax base that outweighs the expenditure. And even without reaching that point, it is possible that the net value to the people as a whole exceeds the expenditure making it a reasonably good idea, despite being a net drain on budget. (Most government expenditures fall into this category, and the fact that is a subsidy rather than say a social security program is not necessarily especially relevant.)

But obviously it is equally possible to create poorly thought out subsidies that don't even come close to producing value equal to the spend. I'm assuming you are asserting this one falls into this later category?
The difference is that Russia has really struggled.

And the Ukrainians, who have a rich history of manufacturing weapons, etc. have shown some extremely interesting defensive techniques, many of which would qualify as novel.

The heavy use of drones is the most dramatic example of that.

That being said, the article undercuts itself in precisely the way you’ve mentioned since it recognizes towards the end that urban warfare is not new, and further old school methods work as well, if not better, than newer tech.
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hmm noise added to pictures using AI. Is Midjourney and DALL-E2 not there yet? Just asking. Don't know.
I relocated from a smallish city in Canada to SW Ontario, and my experience is the same.

Halifax' music scene is phenomenal and although most acts are- and will remain- unknown, it has provided a launchpad for some great careers and the energy is unmatched.

I think the punk and metal scenes are better out here because its more urbanized and developed, but of course pop music goes deeper than those.

Toronto, of course, has a good scene, and Montreal speaks for itself. Those cities have 100s of things to do that aren't music though, so it's possible to live your life without ever deviating from the well known arena acts.
The regular ticket system is a prehistoric hassle, if you do not rely on DB-Citytickets. They actually still have those forms from 1990 if you want to close a abo in many places, almost none of them have a webshop, its a embarassing nightmare.
And very expensive to use without monthly tickets.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4760/meet-israels-suic...
If you were a commander on the ground what would you have done to better achieve the objective?
That doesn't follow.

What's acceptable (i.e. It's ok if 1 person dies on this project) is different than what's the potential risk (i.e. There is a risk that 1 person might die on this project).
We've been talking for over 8 years about it in the web developer community. But it's a pipe dream.

We haven't been able to convince the consumer that a website and app are not so different.

I've been setting up Saas tool for fitness apps and its such a pain to deal with the app stores, the reviews, updates, commissions and lack of control.

It would be great if Google could direct their marketing budget to the consumers, not the devs :)
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I can never tell how much on reddit is creative writing for a cause, sometimes those stories sound more like elaborate / sophomoric morality tales / fantasies ... but I don't doubt folks do it.
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AI is supposed to make our life easier not harder. In the second case we may not need it.
It's the equivalent of "memory leak" for a garbage-collected language
It’s been a decade since open access like that was a thing at Google. Some high profile incidents made the company lock it down.

It’s probably one of the most locked down environments now outside of a SCIF.
living in Germany: replaced my remaining car trips with train+bike (bike - train bike) - still sucked, but at least it was cheaper than going by car. I do everyday tasks tasks entirely by bike.

There is a significant risk that you couldn't enter, because there are too many people. Sucks if you have to take multiple trains in a row, then strand somewhere in the middle of the route, and the next train will not drive for an hour or even not before the next day

The trains drive quite slowly (100 km/h?). Overall trip time 2-3 car trip time.

Trains were almost always late. You had to pray to be on time for the follow up train despite 10+min gaps. Often the follow up train was late too, which ironically helped.

Extra bike tickets were necessary, with local rules and tickets.

You don't know if you get a seat let alone a table or WiFi, so productivity is close to zero.
What is the state of the art here in terms of reliable data persistence?

Last I was seriously looking at the PWA route, I understood that they were best suited for apps with always-online access because anything stored locally could be more or less jettisoned as soon as the device felt disk pressure. Is that still the case or did I dream that up?
They banned a 156 TFLOP chip, Apple's relatively pathetic 3.6 TFLOP GPU is safe.

I didn't mean this to snarky, sorry!