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> This kind of incremental development has been criticized a lot, precisely because it discourages scientists from trying anything audacious. Developing a slightly more efficient telegraph line every year still does not beat inventing e-mail.

I’d be surprised to learn that it would have been possible to run packet data on the original telephone system.

I’d be less surprised to learn that decades of incremental improvements ultimately enabled packet data to run on top of telephone lines.
Indeed, and this is what I meant but worded poorly.

Obviously you don’t want it to be 100% full, but you do want it to be the kind of full you get after a nice meal but you still have room for desert and a coffee.
Does well-made stock actually have significant nutrition in it? Serious question.
There's also Herzner storage share with is slightly more pricy at about 5 EUR but they manage nextcloud for you.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

Although, as I understand it they don't actually financially support nextcloud. If you want hosted nextcloud that sends money back to development https://thegood.cloud/ or similar would do it.
Maybe these parents should do the hard work of teaching their kids about historical context surrounding this instead of simply censoring it?
Keynes divided liquidity preference into transaction demand, precautionary demand and speculative demand.

Transaction demand refers to earning money with a job or business and then spending it. Precautionary demand refers to demand for money based around uncertainty in the future, you keep some money around because you want to insure against losing your job (rainy day fund) and finally, once you have so much money you satisfied these two, there is still the fact that money is the most liquid asset. Money can be traded into other things faster than anything else. So this is basically day trading, buying low and selling high. The problem though is that at some point the Keynesian beauty contest begins. People not only react to fundamentals but also the reactions of other investors making investment decisions. Someone invests because they genuinely believe in the stock,

then people invest because they think people believe in the stock,

then people invest because they think people invest in the stock because people invest in fundamentals.

This is a rationality trap that doesn't end until the bubble pops and then people move onto something else.

What you are concerned about can be explained by a weakened form of a liquidity trap. The problem with the liquidity trap is that it is pretty theoretical in the sense that it is absolute. Like getting 100% efficiency. But in practice a liquidity trap can also be in the form of trapping liquidity in specific economic sectors and that can be described as a continuum.

For example, we separate the economy into the real economy and the financial economy. The financial economy is just a model of reality, but it is possible that messing with the model of reality is more profitable than actually doing something in the real world. This means money is allocated away from the real economy and into the fantasy of the financial economy. People do sell their financial assets but only to buy something else in the financial economy. It is a one way street of money flowing into the financial economy but never back and this is why you need constant government intervention that reinvests the money back into the real economy. It is obviously an ugly solution but what are you going to do? Introduce a wealth tax?
You could go back in time 90 years and toilets and sinks would still have basically the same UX as today, although IMHO it feels like there's something indescribably more artistic about early plumbing fixtures.
I know, I have been visiting Italy since the 1990s and the change is heart-wrenching. It used to be a much more dynamic and optimistic country. Now it feels ... drained and exhausted.
Regarding the WhatsApp point: I recently archived all chats except the one with my gf. Now I don't get notifications but can opt-in to read stuff if I want.
> If you aren't multi-homed that doesn't matter at all though.

The parent I was responding to was explicitly claiming no downside to being default-only while multihomed.
I found Cline's theory intensely irritating.

He throws together everything, calls it "systems collapse", and ends up with something that's untestably complex. It's more a throwing up of hands in defeat than it is a useful explanation.

In contrast, Robert Drews' theory is much simpler, and therefore more testable. Even if it's too simple, that's a good thing! His theory is that there was a realization that infantry, properly organized and even with bronze weapons, beat chariotry, and as this realization spread the existing civilizations became indefensible and collapsed. Only two survived (Egypt and Assyria) because they managed to adapt in time with their own infantry.

(For some reason, Cline ignores this theory, not even mentioning it to refute it. I find this peculiar.)
Because you don't always control the backend used by client apps. The "Use cases" section provides examples of this.
> I don't agree. These version are obviously new and not the original. Changes are often made to books in never versions. Most people who are used to reading books will know that.

Sure, even Roald Dahl rewrote his stories to remove insensitive language. The key is he was the one that did it. It matters. Massively. And what makes these versions “obviously” new to a reader? How will they know it’s missing entire sentences?

> This seems very contrived to me. You are expecting children to read these books, ask why the moral is different, then have their parents tell them that the world changes, or derive that themselves?

Yes. Many books I read as a child in school had the language “of the day” in it and the teachers were clear to point out and discuss why we don’t see that language anymore. I came away more educated as to the injustices of the time the book was authored. If I had got an edited version without any indication that it was an edit, then I’m being deprived of that knowledge.
It's "leaked" these days, not pirated?

Is the game any good or it just made HN because it generated buzz about the current events?
Author here - the specific use case is when you _don't_ have or want server-side logic or a DB. For example on static hosting (hence the name StatiCrypt) like Github pages, Netlify, etc.

That means nothing to maintain, no server cost, no serverless functions to rely on, etc.

But when that's not a constraint there are many different options that might make more sense.
That is unfortunately not a tiny sample size for an exercise study..
> but planes are usually a better solution than high-speed trains

I was traveling this week with both, an Airbus from Lufthansa and high-speed trains from Siemens.
Broadband via fiber (fine, let's save money and use VDSL for the last mile) is totally doable for the population centers.

Why VDSL and why only population centers? 50% of the households in The Netherlands have access to fiber internet. My parents live in a small village and have fiber (their village is about as remote as a remote German village). Heck, they are even hooking up farms out in the fields to fiber. It just takes some subsidies from the government, but it'll last for decades, so it is well worth it.

In Germany, mobile internet of any speed gets spotty once you're outside of the cities. It's just a sad state of affairs.

Internet is just hopelessly behind in Germany. We have lived in an economically strong area in Southern Germany. But wired broadband was deplorable (slow on paper, even slower and less reliable in practice). And mobile internet is not only spotty, the pricing is insane. E.g. unlimited 5G was 90 Euro per month last time I looked (I pay 25 per month).
What did I just read? Is this satire?
> We will see improvements but they will be very incremental, like GPT-3 to ChatGPT was barely noticeable and took years.

This was not my experience having tried GPT-3 before ChatGPT came out; and likewise people who have tried Bing Chat report it seems to be significantly more capable than ChatGPT.

Also, while it is clearly limited in competence, for breadth of information and speed and price it is clearly already superhuman. If that's useful or not remains to be seen, as the self driving car analogy is that the reaction times being effectively instant doesn't help when the perception says "what stationary truck?"

I kinda hope this won't be taking over for a decade, and you're not the only person who is suggesting we need multiple new breakthroughs on par with transformer models, but as the saying goes, predicting is hard, especially about the future.
National Geographic's Kissinger is also a great one.

And i think that Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove was a good parody of him.
Just in case you don't know it, you may be interested in the videos about heat pumps, and other related technologies on 'Just Have a Think' channel https://www.youtube.com/@JustHaveaThink
For code, I review my solution both in the IDE and on the review page (e.g. In github). The different layout and font helps me better spot errors/typos.
Positive affirmations, positive thinking like I will solve this bug and this project will be finish nicely. Reducing negative news, content and ppl
> the issue here is that invading Ukraine doesn't really make any sense from the Russian perspective.

It makes perfect sense for Russia to invade, what are you talking about? In one sense its the death throws of a dying nation, in the other its logical national protection of a vital resource - energy. A few questions for you:

- Did you know in 2012 lots of oil and gas was found under Crimea and Donbas? And that US company Shell was preparing to extract it?

- Did you know about the vicious fighting at Stalingrad in WW2 and why the fighting was so vicious?

- Have you heard of "the Volgograd Gap"?

- Have you heard of South Ossetia (and the one next to it, starts with a) and why there was a proxy conflict with the USA in the 2000's there?

The Volgograd gap is the bit of land between Ukraine and the Caspian Sea. All of Moscows energy flows through there. The city used to be called Stalingrad.

It also allows Russia access to its separatist regions in its neighbour Georgia. Those separatist regions put Russia within striking distance of a) the major Georgian port and b) the Georgian capital Tblisi. Guess who tried to join NATO in the 2000s? Georgia.

Zelenskyys second in command is a great geopolitican and he knew this invasion was coming because he knew it was inevitable. There is multiple interviews with him saying as much, and also that they pooh-pooh'd the idea of a Russian invasion to buy time. He knew part of Russias plan was to scare the Ukrainian populace eastward, frustrating the Ukrainians armies effort to reach the front, hence they had to keep even their citizens in the dark to have a fighting chance.

There are other reasons that make this make sense, such as the fact that Russia is facing a demographic crisis thanks to communism gutting it, the Minsk accords being broken, and some other stuff.

I recommend you watch docos and info pieces from the following people to avoid making such silly remarks again:

- RealLifeLore

- Whatifalthist

- CaspianReport

- Good Times Bad Times

- S2 Underground

None of this makes what Russia did and is doing OK by any means, but it explains why they did it.
I've been using CL and SLIME for over 10 years and had no idea about special meaning of "/"... TIL.

Anyways, the problem with handler-case still stands, as well as the other aspects s.a. chunked output, tee and redirects. It's something that would have to be programmed on top of the existing stuff, which was my point originally.
I would love a slimmed down version of nextcloud, as it's php base make it very easy to install on cheap shared hosting.
You are playing into my hand.

Most of the groundlaying work on mRNA has been done by Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian scientist who moved to the US to continue her research in better conditions.

The history of mRNA research is pretty tangled, but its majority took place at the American side of the pond. Unless you want to cherry-pick one particular moment and disregard all others, then no, mRNA technology is not a European, or even majority-European invention.
> The vast majority of information cannot be compressed and the proof of this is trivial by a simple counting argument

It doesn't have to be lossless compression. Intelligence is also about being discerning about the information that's relevant, although that's basically the same point.

> But it's not my ego speaking to say that there's no hard proof to say unequivocally that intelligence is equivalent to compression.

Actually I think it's kind of trivial to see that intelligence is a necessarily form of compression. Abstractions, concepts, theories, these are all lossy descriptions that discards irrelevant details and capture only relevant details to make problem solving via deduction, induction or abduction tractable. And yet, using those concepts, theories, abstractions you can reproduce/predict observations with very high fidelity. That's compression.

Do you have a counterexample of something that we consider intelligence that doesn't fit this model? I suppose it depends what specifically you mean by "equivalent".
SD-WAN technology also creates a number of new ways for unthinking people to shoot themselves in the foot.

Noction is a wonderful example of this. It has sane defaults, but insane customers, who think that it’s a good idea for them to originate more specifics for other outside networks, because they’ll never leak them outside of their own AS (narrator: of course, the prefixes leaked).

I think the most notable example of this recently was Verizon (the insane customer) using Noction (the SD-WAN technology) and doing exactly that, causing mass traffic disruption as they announced more specifics for other peoples prefixes, drawing all that traffic to their own network instead.
Antifragile reduced to 600 words (2012)
It doesn't matter whether diffusion programs or even more rarefied approaches to solution spaces can capture the essence of human-produced art.

Markets are fundamentally about perceived value instead of actual value. Algorithmically generated creative works do not have to compete in the field of actual value; they has to compete in the field of perceived value. Let's be real, almost all customers of art - whether they pay before or after the production - are pretty bad at estimating actual value.

More philosophically, it's not possible to empower humans above human superorganisms. You make a successful walled garden or you fail to reproduce your ideals into the future.
SOFCs use zirconium or cerium as well as nickel conductors. To be efficient, they need to be the topping cycle of a combustion turbine, so they also need strong turbine blade alloys, which involve nickel.
> this makes OpenAI a kingmaker

Among those dependent on its models, yes. But this is just deeper monetisation. What I’m looking for is the moat.
You are reading too many coffee table books.
> too expensive

What's your source for good cost of launching satellite communication networks? Would you like to show us the reasoning here?

> it should have invested proactively in next gen satellite direct to device tech

If the current one works - why would they? For defence usage, reliable is better than next gen usually. (Something something next gen F35 still not usable)

> I wonder where cost competitive launch capability is going to come from

French Guiana and other places like most previous launches? https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Pr...
Will India's 60 Year Semiconductor Struggle Finally Yield Chips?
> In practice, there will be a flow of taxpayer money into something highly subsidized that no one will ever use.

Given that despite the comparison to Starlink, the article focuses on defence and crisis response considerations after Ukraine, I don't think the people behind this proposal are really that concerned about widespread peace time use.

> Entire huge countries such as France and Italy produce basically nothing of value when it comes to tech

A small subset of well-funded companies started in Paris and immediate surroundings alone in the last 20 years (most of them much more recent). Most of these have raised between $100m-$500m, and several are unicorns:

Ledger, Deezer, Shift Solutions, Malt, Agicap, Back Market, Ankorstore, Vesitaire Collective, Virtuo, Sendinblue, HiFiBio, Aircall, Mirakl, EcoVadis, Criteo, DoctoLib, Voodoo, Qonto, BlaBlaCar, LumApps, Lydia, OpenClassrooms, Shift Technology, PayFit, Meero, Ynsect, Scality, Ornicar, Wynd, HR Path

Paris has similar levels of (some estimate more) tech startups than London, and overall France is at a similar level to the UK and Germany in terms of tech startups.

Europe ( haven't looked at numbers for just EU) is lagging in terms of VC funding relative to the US, sure - according to McKinsey, in 2019 Europe accounted for 36% of VC backed companies that raised funding in the preceding decade globally (vs. 45% for the US), and just 14% of unicorns (vs. 50% for the US), but from working in the VC field for the last 5 years, what we saw was also that capital inflows in Europe were growing rapidly as attitudes to risk have been changing, and more founders achieving exits are turning around and feeding capital back into VC funds.
I think the implicit assumption in the comment is that it would be possible for readers to understand the underlying idea of the comment rather than only see the specific example. “resource cost per minute” is not the only thing helped by a non-empty queue.

Also please don’t accuse someone of not “responding to the content of the article” when the content is a bog standard list. If you want my response to that: “yes, that is indeed a list of 4 things queues help with”. Not sure it adds much to the discussion.
I have never heard this to be a problem for classic water water heatpumps. The hole goes straight down so the area impacted is quite small and the first part is isolated anyways.

Dunno how far down insects and mouses live?

In the article they mention heating the ground with 1.5m deep holes. I guess that would annoy the local life?
> - Emacs buffer, window and project management. I wasted so much time in vscode navigating across projects and windows

This. So much. The number of times I have seen people fumbling around with multiple VS Code windows and closing and opening it again in another directory, because the working directory wasn't right and switchting between loads of tabs they opened, overflowing the tab bar ... It isn't even funny any longer.

Another point to that is, that in Emacs I can press `C-x 1` at any time to get everything except the current buffer out of the way, using all the screen estate I want for some buffer, be it a shell or a code buffer.

> - That I don't need to switch out of emacs for git (magit is great), complex file operations (dired), and other things like repl/shell/complex rgreps/etc

Same here. I feel like I get things done in git 3x faster than what I see people do in VS Code or IntelliJ based IDEs. I just know my keys and do it much faster, which leaves me more time for the actually important thing: The commit message. Also being able to copy commit ids and branch names out of the magit version of log (M-x magit-log RET -c b if my favorite) avoids typos and improves my speed. Add to that the fact, that of course Emacs stores last used commands of M-x. Or interactive command input history, which one can cycle through easily.

On occasions, when a refactoring is needed, most of the times I can do it quickly via opening dired, moving the point to the directory I want to replace in and pressing Q. This basically always works, but does not have knowledge about the programming language. On even rarer occasions, I can feel a bit of regret of not configuring my Emacs even more, to support refactoring for Python. But I am sure, if I had to do it more often, I would put my mind to configuring Emacs and would configure it to have better Python support. Probably I can just find a tutorial in 1min of searching for it.

So people can tell me stories about how their IDE is more efficient all day, until they can show me they are up to speed for all the other actions besides refactoring with language understanding, which only happens rarely, I will not be convinced, that it would make me faster.
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A whole lot of US unicorns haven't even tried to crack markets outside the US.

That the US by itself forms an easily accessible largely single-language market is one of the reasons they do disproportionately well.
>Consciousness, or life, is an emrgent property that appeared due a collection of cells working together, it's more than the sum of its parts.

A singular cell very much is a "life".

>They feel pain, which is a property of the neural system.

We know for a scientific fact today that plants can detect and even respond to stimulants like "pain", just not in the same way animals with nervous systems do.

Honestly, the only thing we understand about biology is that we understand almost nothing about it; and it's not for a lack of trying either. We really haven't gone beyond a very basic, distinctly human understanding of biology yet.

Basing judgments of cruelty on what are obviously just human biases with no objective basis serves to benefit nothing other than some humans' need to feel good about themselves. Saying we shouldn't test on live mice because its cruel but that testing on live cells isn't cruel is hypocritical and belies the vapid nature of the argument.
If one is making biofuel based jet fuel, one can roughly double the amount of fuel per unit of biomass by adding extra hydrogen. Cellulose is basically (CH2O)n; the overall reaction is (CH2O)n + nH2 --> (CH2)n + nH2O.

The carbon in existing waste streams in the US would be more than enough to satisfy existing US jet fuel demand.
You are discounting fiction then. Lots of art describe or depict things the artist never personally experienced.
> You might even challenge the mutable dictionary for performance!

Don't tell me that, I'm an optimisation nut, I might actually do it! ;)

I woke up this morning with a clear understanding of what your optimisation is, so I guess I just needed to load up my brain with the details! It's definitely a super interesting approach and one that I'm surprised I've not come across before.

I'm definitely a bit wary of changing my current implementation, mostly because it's been battle hardened, but I'm sure I won't be able to resist having a go at some point. Thanks for the tip!
a) Copernicus program is bigger than just the satellites themselves.

b) What does a meaningless comparison with the US have to do with whether launching a bunch of extra satellites is considered a moonshot or not ?
The odd part is that these bad takes seem to typically come from people that don't even live the EU, and don't understand how it works.

They just don't like that it exists.
You’ve got a point, however almost every native app out there that constantly interact with a web api is likely written with web technologies and shipped with Chromium / Nodejs.
Depending on your perf requirements, you could use one of those S3 mounts and put stuff in Wasabi or Backblaze.

Also, a minute on DDG brought me to AlphaVPS[0]. No idea if they’re any good, but the point is there are cheap storage providers out there. It’s a matter of spending the time to find and vet them.

[0] https://alphavps.com/storage-vps.html
I bet this is much more becase red tractors are easier to convey in the inevitable cartoon adaption. Or the hope John Deere will pay for them to be green.
Thank you for the reference, I know about the dangers of chatgpt and some skepticism is certainly warranted.

However, dismissing anything produced by chatgpt simply because it was made by chatgpt is not right, which is why I was asking an opinion about that passage: if the text is accurate, it should not matter who or what wrote it.