skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price in real terms is much higher than it was in the 1950-2000 era (used to average ~$40/barrel, nowadays it is more like $80/barrel). If every time we double the real price we double reserves, then that just means we're running out. There'll be these huge things called "reserves" that aren't going to be useful to us.

To draw an extreme analogy: We could say that Hong Kong has vast amounts of open real estate because someone could buy sea floor and dredge it up to the surface somehow with modern technology - in theory, yes that is so. In practice, it is not so. Hong Kong has not much free real estate, even though more can be made available at very high prices.

There is always going to be oil available at some price - probably huge amounts in theory. It isn't going to be useful and nearly no-one will be able to use it. Certainly not to sustain what we would currently call a comfortable existence.
It is also possible to land on the Moon, we know that. But no one else tried for more than 50 years.

The barriers to becoming an agile space company are formidable. When looking at SpaceX, we forget how many space startups from that period are now defunct and forgotten. John Carmack founded one, too; it is gone.
OpenAI haven't invented anything with a "competitive moat" right?

They've created a product which uses ideas and data that are largely available to everyone. It's not a pharmaceutical-drug type invention.

If they hadnt been bought my MS, their revenues were going to be in the $20/mo subscriptions. And you'd quickly find a lot of people offering $5/mo for 80% of the quality which would be "just fine" for many cases. (Eg., consider copilot).

The valuation of OpenAI is because it was clear a player like MS would buy it, since the marginal economic value of that technology is to a large incumbent who can quickly deploy it "in the places it's needed". It's that ability to deliver "when needed" which enables MS to draw value from it: ie., MS is just capitalising on it's current position with customers.

The AI bit is actually providing a trivial amount of profit over-and-above MS's existing position with customers.
This page says very little about what this product is and does. How is it different from the code generation that's already possible with ChatGPT?
It means wages and employment are too high which causes inflation. Nevermind the printed trillions, the common employee is the true enemy here.
I'm honestly not sure if this is supposed to be pro or anti USA
I read grimm and andersen when I was young and did not find them especially creepy or scary. If anything, I now feel more keenly the emotional intensity of some of andersen's stories (like the little mermaid and the little match girl).
It's older than this week, but you might also enjoy 'Harder Drive': https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio.
Buildfast: Copy Code and text from videos and PDF's
Does it annoy anyone else that the title says "Musk's Starlink"?

Yes, it was his idea and he is the main driving force and owns half of the company, but any project like this is a collaborative effort between tens of thousands of people.
This would be so awful. Most vanilla services like redis, postgres, etc... would need to deal with the frontend spew directly instead of offloading that to a bridge as an intermediary.
As a personal experience, I'm very sensitive to cigarette smoke, but not at all to soldering fumes.

It's probably better to be an upgrade rather than a must-buy for a beginner. One can invest on the extractors later when he or she found the fume is hard to tolerate, or save for something else if it's not a problem.
> Meh, the EU (where I live) is an ossified behemoth whose VIPs (Germany and France) don't really understand or appreciate tech and cannot innovate their way out of a paper bag.

It's telling that you're lumping France and Germany together that you don't know what you're talking about. France has come an extremely long way in the past few years, with pretty good mobile and fibre coverage (there are villages with hundreds of people with proud signs "Commune fibrée"), and vast government digital services. The last time i had to interact with a government office physically was to file the (online prepared) form for ID and passport, where it's purely done for verification purposes. There's a government SSO which gives access to all government services online, for free.

There's also a very healthy startup culture and scene (check the FrenchTech's Next40).

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

Insulting to companies such as Doctolib (revolutionised health appointments, a single platform to book one, send your documents if needed, have ones online, etc.), Back Market, fintechs such as Qonto and Swile, Ornikar, etc. etc. Real world companies solving actual problems and widely used in France and starting to export (Back Market have an EU wide presence, Ornikar are in a couple of Western EU markets, etc.).
Or maybe it's because HN crowd parrot the same groupthink like reddit? /s
For whatever reason, there is a plague of cheap breadboards which are basically unusable. The sockets require too much insertion force, which intersects terribly with the trend of cheap resistors having very thin and weak legs which bend out of the way rather than insert.

The BB830 from BusBoard Prototype Systems (search BB830 on Amazon) is one which is a bit pricey but doesn’t suffer from this problem.

Tayda electronics is a great source of inexpensive resistors which dont suffer from cheap, thin leads.
SAP legitimately seems to be to be one of the least innovative software companies out there. Are they doing anything even mildly interesting? And it's not like they've found some global optimum - they just benefit from having been around so long that trillions of dollars now depend on them. Not due to any other merit though.
They are magnitudes cheaper i would imagine.
Offering a rebuttal, and then backing it up with a personal experience is a perfectly normal form of conversation.

It is fine to amuse yourself with your speech, but it is worth recognising that it sounds like you are hosting a nature documentary about dumb animals, that exist beneath your own intelligence.

To think this person is deluded, but that you have saved yourself from the delusion all humans go through, is deluded.

> I do not view it. It is. (Speaking on moving from isolation to acceptance as an act of exclusion and chauvinism)

“It is” not. Perhaps it could be, alongside many other things - included in which are the benefits of doing so, such as acceptance, and internal peace. I implore you to go to any community around the world and try to fit in - chances are you won’t. You will then blame that community for not accepting you - or you will otherwise try to change yourself and only ever delude yourself that you are not just imitating them. It’s not racism, or anti-cisgenderism, to feel that you are not accepted where you are.

Maybe OP shouldn’t blanket talk about cis people - I understand your point. But my question is - do you only pick this fight with oppressed people? You yourself insinuate, in blanket fashion, “We have tried to get away from ‘oppression’ by giving the ‘oppressed’ the right to act out their chauvinism in public.”

Your words (and perhaps you, yourself) are very cynical. And it’s worth noting cynicism is a view on the world, not the world itself…
Perhaps eventually Ariane Next/SALTO, with an architecture very similar to Falcon 9?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Next
> you could assume that people of color simply didn't exist back then

Places where people of color have been making art for a few thousand years would beg to differ.
>Europe is also so densely populated that full 4g coverage is totally doable

Whenever this is brought up a lot of Germans will reply that the 5G/4G situation in Germany is hopeless and only Elon Musk can save them. But looking at the 5G/4G coverage in Denmark and the rest of the Nordic countries it becomes obvious that the problem is Germany and not 5G/4G.
The "receiving end" comment was about what happens when society decides that your thought patterns make you a bigot, and you fundamentally disagree.

Lots of older people have this experience as the world changes out from under them.
Agree with [1] in particular and would definitely add Wilson (2002) to the list!:)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12613670/
It is. We can it in mason jars at home. The fat floats to the top and solidifies, so even if the seal on the (sterilised!) jar is imperfect, the fat preserves the broth by preventing microbe incursion. Also helps to make it good and salty, and concentrate it down until it just begins (while boiling hot) to be viscous. When cool, it’s thick and gloopy.

So long as everything is good and hot when you seal, you’re good.

Quite often we’ll can it with a few legs in there - they taste fabulous after a year of marinading.

You can buy it in stores in France, no problem - or duck broth, or goose, or whatever you fancy.

https://www.beyondthechickencoop.com/canning-chicken-stock/
Wow that’s expensive. If you are willing to get away from those highly dynamic providers and commit for a month or a year (which seems reasonable for that sort of thing) I currently rent a VPS at strato [1] with 1.5TB SSD/8 cores&16GB Ram guaranteed for 15€/month inkl an ipv4 and a TLD

[1]: https://www.strato.de/server/linux-vserver/
i can't see why would the market treat this one differently, but if they can keep their costs low they may carve themselves a sustainable niche and perhaps aim for a bigger market in the future
There weren't that many people of colour in Europe back then. Eastern Europe is still 99% white.
Health care industry rethinks obesity
or we need a European chip manufacturer, so we take the most pathetic legacy brand around, and give it billions to build chips from the old generation. Oh, hi Intel!
These stocks are just yeast extract water for taste with chicken residues for marketing. Yeast extract (or MSG, or e621) is the cornerstone of modern processed food. It replaces expensive processes and products aimed at improving taste with a cheap additive that attempts to approximate the traditional taste. Soups, meat products, stocks, potato chips, snacks, sauces, anything that's supposed to have an extravagant taste is generally just a bland tasting cheap scalable filler product with yeast extract for flavor.

And consumers love it. They like the 'punch' of yeast extract flavor in everything. They love the low effort, low price products.
Geeze, that’s not how truth works actually (not confined to the horizon of ignorance), though I accept your skepticism.

Your downvotes are your HYPOCRISY!

I have a whole long list of assertions you will fight me on for the love of your ignorance.

In this moment I cannot fully invest in exhaustive debate.

I will prattle on a little more in an unstructured form for the sake of intrigue.

There are several things going, one being this parallel discussion on quantum entanglement (and the parallel discussion for our minds being hackable for another time.)

I would like to describe to you the technology of consciousness in ways I have come to understand, yet I will expect to be scorned and badgered for the inherently abstract nature of our topic.

Neurons in isolation exhibit a telemetric awareness of one and other

The Cosmic Serpent was inspiring in my youth. The primitive ideas the author discusses relate.

Microtubul structures likely provide a substrate for our experiential being. Electrochemical processes flash these substrates, and then gently and delicately suss the state resolve as though a sieve + stack.

The sieve is the constructive /destructive aspect.

I say “stack” as resolve is apparently pushed and pulled or read/write like memories, yet I believe this is where our non-classical thought strategy arises. The outcome is more like a micro-inference rather than a faithful memory.

Constructive and destructive patterns form an analog isolated holographic “image” (though not merely a picture, in every shade and depth of every experience we are capable of having.)

Any information can be pushed into this stack, yet interference collapses to associations (or novelty) producing a primitive psycho-emotional echo, other parts of the brain process into higher level responses.

Consciousness is not intelligence. Consciousness coopts intelligence as a tool for perpetuation.

How does this not sound like consciousness: “consciousness is the inflection upon the potential of our existential being.”

Existential being is any matter, yet all cold matter is dormant without animation through life or other technology.

The potential is the hyper-dimensional capacity of the carefully arranged atoms in our neural substrate.

Inflection is any perturbation of the quantum dynamic (which is usually pure chaos.) it is the atom in the universe which exists, the living system is a technology which extends and allows the aggregate scope of potential awareness and feedback.

The quantum layer is like an echo chamber for your jelly bag brain. This echo chamber is the material universe (which you are) echoing experience upon its analog subjectively scoped potentials.

See the idea, not the comment quality.
Today we can use very natural sounding TTS. I always validate my text with TTS because any problem just stands out immediately, not just typos.
All the recent major advances in generative AI appear to have come from the US. The US is an extremely innovative country, no matter its faults.
Land based internet infrastructure doesn't solve the problem described in the article.

Specifically:

> It will secure the Union’s sovereignty and autonomy by guaranteeing fewer dependencies on third-country infrastructure, and the provision of secured telecommunications services for EU governments in critical scenarios where terrestrial networks are absent or disrupted, as observed, for instance, in the unfolding war in Ukraine.
> Why should Starlink have monopolistic control over the high bandwidth SATCOM market?

I agree, but those satellites shouldn't have been there to begin with in my opinion. But it's too late now.
I stand by my words, and their tone.

I didn't once get personal with any of these people, as they call for the devolution of cultural touchstones into Newspeak.

> "we just asked you to stop" - Where? I'm not seeing that.

> tptacek's comments to you were probably slightly edgier than usual

It wouldn't be the first time that account has jumped down my throat and twisted my words.
It seems to me that after web3 collapsed, VC is looking for a new balloon to pump and cash out on.
If you’re going to pay, you should also test out GitHub Copilot, which as far as i know is a GPT-3 derivative as well
This is discussed at length including immediately naming Stockdale direcly below that cartoon image.
They still haven't finished Galileo yet; with the project seemingly going backwards ever since the British were forced out. How will they deliver yet another moonshot project like this? They don't even possess reusable rocket technology yet to make such a LEO project economically viable.
Yeah, I think trying to "correct" such "uninclusive" speech is utter bullshit; 99.9% of the time it is just used to add some colour and flavour to the language used and not to disparage any group
Gay people won their culture war in some places. Gay marriage is still illegal in most countries. In many countries even homosexuality itself is illegal.
> The EU is a religion based around big state

What is religious is the outright aversion to state intervention without good reason.

No, it's coordination between aligned states to do what is needed to improve things in general. GDPR wouldn't have been possible if it were a Danish or Estonian thing only. Same goes for DMA and DSA, the rail packages, anti-competitive rulings, normalisation in standards (like Micro USB and now Type C) and a million other things.
> downvotes without rebuttals

you are trolling.

Estonia has high-tech exports of 2.6 billion USD. Germany has high-tech exports of around 200 billion USD, which makes it world-wide number three, with the US being number four. Data from the World Bank.

The city I live in has roughly four times the GDP of Estonia. We have for example one of the largest civil airplane manufacturing sites here. 40000 people are employed in aerospace in the larger region -> more revenue than estonia has GDP.

There is literally two orders of magnitude of high-tech you are ignoring.
I liked this explanation video the best:

https://youtu.be/watch?v=-vU9x3dFMrU

Ref:

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/02/how-heat-pumps-of...
Strongly agree.

Estonia is miles ahead of other EU countries when it comes to software culture and hygiene: other countries (such as France) still mostly see IT as a center of costs / necessary evil.

Estonians think from first principle and bring software early in any new endeavors.

Add to that the “show don’t tell” culture necessary in a world where Estonia is (still) an underdog
I agree, but in the capitalistic economy that we unfortunately live in, competition is the only thing that will lower prices.
I didn't. In fact, tptacek is right above you making a thinly veiled personal attack at me and others here.

What is your relationship to tptacek dang? Every time I see him winding people up, you're there behind him, threatening anyone who stands up.
The satellite orbits decay, they don't stay up indefinitely
Of Mice and Men... Still remember it more than the Shakespeare we had to do...
Well, solid-fuel rockets are a pretty old tech (medieval China) and even if we restrict ourselves to liquid-fueled rockets that crossed the Kármán line, the first German A-4 did so several years before the transistor was invented :)
> Yes, it was his idea and he is the main driving force and owns half of the company, but any project like this is a collaborative effort between tens of thousands of people.

You named the reason. Another is that Musk is incredibly high profile.

High profile individuals accrete accolades and renown. If you don't like it, stop working for someone else and build your own startup. (I mean this in the sense of encouragement.)
You won't find other issues like fluency, repetitions, missed words that way.
Which is a spin on Motorola "HD Multimedia Dock"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G#Accessories
For these (relatively) high speed serial interface, a scope with protocol decoding is actually more suitable.
Interesting point. I wonder if the internet would be an interesting analogy. E.g. during the dot-com bubble, Cisco's stock price rose massively, then crashed -- as I understand, because it wasn't actually well-positioned to profit from the rise of the internet. It's only 20 years later that Cisco stock even approaches its bubble price.
Throttling stuff is another valid use case. I‘ve used a pub/sub for sending e-mail for a newsletter because we couldn‘t send too many of them at once so the consumer would run in a fixed interval and always pick up a fixed number of messages.
That hasn't been my experience with Elixir. I have a lot of options and a lot of decisions to make about concurrency. Do I want this task to return a response later and do something with it? Do I want the task to die if the parent task dies? Do I want to decouple the lifetimes of parent and child? How do I handle the response received later? However, once these decisions are made, it is a straightforward process to integrate the desired functionality.
As the old quote goes - "if you are typing "AES" into your code at any point, and you are not a world-renowned crypto expert - you will get this wrong, guaranteed".
There are so few cases of people who are not seasoned crypto engineers getting everything 100% correct that it's basically a myth, and in crypto, getting things "almost right" is the same as getting them wrong...

I too loved playing with crypto - read a ton of books, attended some crypto classes in University, implemented some crypto systems which I thought were secure, etc. - but nowadays I wouldn't dare use anything that isn't considered secure by a large audience unless I had extremely good reason to do so.
It's honestly got to the point where I barely open comments related to EU projects any more. While most of the time there's somewhat nuanced discussions in comments, once the EU gets mentioned for some reason most of the comments basically boil down to "EU bad, US better", and "Big government bad", completely ignoring the actual contents of what the post it about.
Europallettes, yea
I'm saying it could be interpreted that way by extremely uncharitable individuals that try to make their existence out of being offended and fixing "social injustices", instead of recognizing that in vast majority of cases no actual person was even offended, author didn't mean anything close to offending anyone, and the word was just used to make writing more colorful.
But playing with my brother now costs me double.
I think at this point we have to accept all types of people, even bigots, racists, homophobes and the rest.

That's not to say agree with them, but accept they exist and treat their words as they are ... wholly disagreeable.

Leave the problematic things in books, have conversations with kids about why it is problematic and why it is goods things have changed.

Erasure of past issues erases in some ways the fights won.
> Whatever sells in Czechia, Croatia or Bulgaria tends to be a) more expensive than in Germany and b) less good.

I'm shocked that that is still the case. I remember recurrent news stories years ago on German TV about that exact thing, except with Poland. Poles who lived close to the border shopped food in Germany for that very reason.

I don't understand why food would be more expensive in countries with lower wages. The VAT rates are not that different.

https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-06/v...
I think IRIS² is actually an extension of the EU's GOVSATCOM initiative:

https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-space-policy/...

This means it's for government use, and is not really comparable to commercial end user services.
The most important reason for queues is the variability of job inter-arrival times and service times. If there was no variability there would be no need for queuing.
There are roughly 1500 mid-sized companies in Germany which are among the world-leaders in their tech sector. You may never have heard it, but Elon Musk runs his factories with process automation from Germany (he bought a company) and robots from Kuka/Germany.

Germany alone has roughly half of all so-called hidden-champions world-wide. Many of them are in High-tech.

Europe lacks the large internet and software companies. Though T-Mobile is German and known in the US. SAP provides the software which runs large enterprises. But high-tech is much more, it's factory automation, it's aerospace (think Airbus), it's biotech (think Biontech), ... Soft- and hardware are a crucial factor for those.
If I am heteronormative and I choose to exclusively associate with other heteronormative people, would you not be concerned?

Maybe you wouldn't, and maybe its not actually an issue, but I feel like a lot of the major culture war stuff in the last decade has been because of isolated echo chambers clashing into each other randomly.

If my feeling is right, then this self-selection is dangerous, as it doesn’t feed the other communities with appropriate information, instead it creates animosity to $others.
https://journals.lww.com/cogbehavneurol/fulltext/9900/consci...

Just putting this out there in case anyone has read this and would care to share an informed opinion with a layperson!
Meh. It's like when the title says "X's wife". Yes, it's a bit demeaning, but that extra context is often useful to those who are new to the topic.