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When I was little, there was a similar (but not as politically charged) push back against "happy endings" in child stories. And, indeed, if you read unadulterated brother Grim or H. C. Anderesen... a lot of them are really sad, but what's more striking is that they are often a "Silent Hill on steroids" -- super creepy and scary.

Another aspect is that the morality of stories would often seem questionable nowadays. I have a collection of fairy tales from around the world, and I remember trying reading some of it to my son. Randomly choosing some Indian story about husband pressured into deceiving a bear to work for free and then stealing some pears from the neighbor's garden. The bear was later serendipitously scared away by the the couple and received no reward for doing the chores (the bear didn't do anything bad to them). That whole story just got weirder at every turn. I was waiting until the end, I was hoping the author would make a sharp turn and rectify all the injustice, but it just ended with the perpetrators celebrating their ill-gained profits.

Well, this story is from a different culture, different time... but, I also have Beatrix Potter's collection of short stories for children (which is only some 50 years old and is definitely from the Anglo world), and uhm... I do struggle to explain some "turns of the tongue" used in these stories to my son. And it's not because I don't know what the author meant. It just makes me feel uncomfortable that the author thought that describing someone as fat was clearly intended to portray them as stupid. Or how whipping mischievous children was seen as a virtue, and that the character suggesting this be done to Ms. Muppets' kittens was the virtuous one, whereas Ms. Muppets was a lousy parent (for failing to do so) in author's opinion.

I'm still against editing the old books, but I'm also against using them in the same capacity as they were originally intended. I'd rather have them as historical artefact presented with modern commentary.
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> Metabolizing fructose and its byproduct, intracellular uric acid [...]

Fructose DOES NOT metabolise to uric acid. This means the whole article is fake/scam.
There's no reason for the delay though. They get you your refund sooner, so they have the past year's data.
Or just sell it as a frozen good. Even the author mentioned freezing homemade stock for later use.
My experience as a back-end developer was that although it makes quit a lot of mistakes but if I put a medium amount of time dwelling on it, it can give me a full webapp. I was always afraid of front-end development but now with the help of this guy I'm making mediumly complex websites in 3-7 days. and thanks to its wide range of knowledge on almost everything, I can run a few full online businesses solo and see which one turns profit. it needs a LOT of improvements and there will be alternatives in the coming months but one thing for sure is that the future is for those who capitalize on it.
> unrealistic

Transversally realistic: it is a "world" in which exploitation of "seismic cultural tosses" is frequent. Meta-satire, or involuntary satire.
It's really quite difficult to lose weight and keep it off. Certainly cheaper than dentistry, but still difficult. I read a book called 'Fat Chance' that goes into the science of why it's difficult.
> In practice, I think a lot of people want every individual thing we do to follow some kind of exponential or even linear growth curve,

Greed.

The stakeholders just want more.
I certainly do believe that there will be initiatives, but I am really curious about their results.

One of the necessities is cheap access to the orbit, and I just cannot see the national behemoth space agencies developing economic, reusable rockets. The traditional rocket industry in the US was unable to do that either.
alternatively you could also tell your clients about how costly that is, which cheaper and more user-friendly alternatives exists.

also if you stop using analytics and do this right, you gain performance and visits and keep your site on the right track. but that's an art, not a product to sell, sorry.
If you read my comment rather than have an already entrenched position the message is that is has already happened.
> why is there no meaningful alternative to openai now

Is GPT that far ahead of other LLMs?
Steinbeck was on the English lit syllabus when I went to school in Britain in the 90s.
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Too bad they want to stifle its potential. It’s already much less useful than it was a couple months ago.
To quote "Yes Minister" (British political satire from the 1980s):

"You know what they say about the average Common Market official. He has the organising ability of the Italians, the flexibility of the Germans, and the modesty of the French. And that's topped up by the imagination of the Belgians, the generosity of the Dutch and the intelligence of the Irish."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYuoWyk8iU
Close! Booby trap is the one you’re thinking of. Galaxy’s child is where he meets the real engineer from booby trap and Geordi is sad/surprised that she’s nothing like the hologram.
The disassembly and analysis itself is impressive enough but the things he's done with it since are simply incredible for anyone who grew up playing the game... i mean a teletext version!! just ridiculous
> why is there no meaningful alternative to openai now

Alternative to do what, exactly?

Were people asking each other "why is there no meaningful alternative to tulip bulbs?" early in the year 1637...??

Can't help thinking that the people getting rich off gold rushes are often the ones selling shovels...
No they shouldn’t.

The way I see it is that there are two opposing things you can optimise for that depend on queue depth: utilisation or latency.

If you care about processing each message as quickly as possible then queues should be empty. This often requires a higher cost and lower utilisation as you inevitably have idle workers waiting for new messages.

If you care about utilisation, then you never want your queue to be empty while something is polling it. This might be some background task that runs on a GPU - every second that sits idle is wasted cash, and those tasks usually benefit heavily from batching inputs together.

In this case you want it to always have something to read from the queue and shut it down the moment this isn’t the case.
I hope it gets a bit better now that Germany got rid of it's conservative government.
All of those Uber but for X type ventures coming out of it maybe, but as a technology I doubt it is a bubble.
Europe bashing on HN is so lame. A German start-up developed a working mRNA vaccine the same time an American start-up developed a stupid blood test fraud. You wouldn't hear the end of it if it was the other way round. What big tech came out of the US the past decade? The juicer? If it's about Europe, every quibble is used for sweeping blows, when it's about the US, the failures are all swept under the rug.
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Neither biofuels nor batteries will ever make sense for airplanes. In the former, it is because it is basically an inefficient way of turning carbon dioxide into fuel. If we need liquids for airplanes, it will almost certainly be some kind of e-fuel or synfuel.

In the latter, it is because the energy is well over an order of magnitude too low. It's pretty much impossible for something that resembles a conventional battery to work. Not even the theoretical limits of conventional batteries will make for a worthwhile plane. So battery planes will pretty much always been short-ranged aircraft that can't replace jetliners.

As a result, the future of air travel is guaranteed to either be some kind of e-fuels/synfuels, or hydrogen itself. There are no credible alternatives unless you're imagine nuclear powered planes.
Since Meetup's pricing change I moved to using https://kommunity.com/. Looking for a good solution to no-shows for free events in all these platforms
There was little demand for non-GPS satnav.

There is plenty of demand for non-Musk satcom.
FreeCodeCamp Chapter https://github.com/freecodecamp/chapter is open source

Neither the OP nor FreeCodeCamp Chapter have any easily findable screenshots
There is no country called EU and there is no single market in that a startup could scale seamlessly in all 27 members - it'll still have to follow local laws. So it's mostly a matter of scale - if you can't outscale US/China/India, you can't compete with those that can.
> satellite internet is cool, but it doesn’t serve a real need

Starlink’s 100 Mbps [1] is faster than many European countries fixed averages and most’s mobile medians [2].

Also, the second sentence of this article cites the need: “critical scenarios where terrestrial networks are absent or disrupted, as observed, for instance, in the unfolding war in Ukraine.”

[1] https://bigtechquestion.com/2022/01/10/broadband/how-fast-is...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_...
Just finished my learning Rust project (very basic version of minecraft). It's great for writing highly parallel high performance code.

At no point was the memory of my program ever replaced with the number 53 nor did memory become corrupt due to multiple threads accessing the same areas at the same time. Much better than C++.

Did my Rust project suddenly contain no errors or did it never crash? Well no. How did it crash?

Array indexing (called default instead of new which created an invalid version of the struct)

Infinite loop (logic error causing it to add the result each loop to the input vector rather than the output vector).

That said Rust is almost certainly going to kill C++. It's a lot better.
Seems kind of unreasonable that one can go from "normal" to "obese" by putting on 10kg. Feels like that's just removing the entire overweight range.

The idea that 25 should be where obesity starts is frankly absurd.
> and if it wasn't for a few outliers in Scandinavia and the Baltics, it would be negligible

I agree that Estonia is doing great and a role model in many ways, but the by far biggest EU software company is still German: SAP

Also, have a look at the very successful ELISE AI initiative: https://www.elise-ai.eu/
And since Intel acquired CodePlay, it is pretty much an Intel thing now.
> Every CEO and CIO worth their salary must be looking at how to incorporate this stuff into their business

Those of us old enough to remember recall exactly that phrase said about other stuff, too.

> And we can say that with a straight face unlike some of the other technologies which the tech industry has pushed.

Those of us old enough to remember think this might be exactly like other technologies which boomed ... and then busted.

As John Naughton wrote in The Guardian a month ago[0], "if we know anything from history, it is that we generally overestimate the short-term impact of new communication technologies, while grossly underestimating their long-term implications. So it was with print, movies, broadcast radio and television and the internet."

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/07/chatgp...
The SPD is every as bit as psychologically conservative as the CDU/CSU, a party of the 65+ electorate and 65+ membership.

The FDP and the Greens are the more modern ones, but there is an anti-tech undercurrent in the Green party that distrusts anything industrial. The space industry has a nontrivial carbon trace; its development in Germany would be, at the very least, pretty controversial.
Antidote is a great commercial product for that, it's the best I could find in a the market and professionnally the ROI is fantastic.

But if you don't want or can't pay for it, gpt3 is actually also a good proof reader!
If there was no censorship it wouldn’t be a bubble.
* > It's my considered opinion that some hero needs to step up and build a browser that exists to render one tab and nothing else, shelling out for everything more complex than scrolling.*

Is that not what your OS's 'native' web view API is?
My latest smartphone is mostly EU with Taiwanese manufacturing. It's the best phone I've used yet. The only thing Google adds is branding. True enough about search engines though.
I'm drawn by media featuring stuttering. One of my favourite novels, for example, is Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, a book about a 13-year-old boy growing up in 80s Britain and who suffers a stutter. It captures wonderfully the silent struggle, the desperate attempts to conceal a condition.

I'm not a stutterer myself, but expressing myself verbally has always been challenging, so I can empathise with at least some of the difficulties those who stutter face.

Being able to speak fluently and easily is precious.
> The main issue I have with this is that they present it like "evil Russians are kidnapping children", implying that they are better off dying in a warzone instead of getting actual education and a chance at life. This is very one-sided and politically engaged.

Maybe they are better off fleeing to Europe or safer cities in Ukraine and not being captured, forcibly deported, forcibly adopted to Russian families and 're-educated'.
Again (different but similar observation just made - about different ways of representing sides of reality):

> the perpetrators celebrating their ill-gained profits

is it possible that some authors intended to teach children what reality is?

Some have no axiology evident around them, and call for teaching them that e.g. "there can exist good behavior";

some live in a world faithful to its crudeness, and call for teaching them that it is something they should digest soon.
Oh I agree. But now the situation is quite different: the impractical became necessary, both in cheap launch capacity and leo comms infrastructure. They must make it happen.
I think you’re confusing consciousness (qualia, the subjective experience of being you) with awareness.
> Europe is also so densely populated that full 4g coverage is totally doable.

Broadband via fiber (fine, let's save money and use VDSL for the last mile) is totally doable for the population centers. But we can't even manage that reliably at scale.

In Germany, mobile internet of any speed gets spotty once you're outside of the cities. It's just a sad state of affairs.
Let the fucking genie out
>The only thing Google adds is branding.

Which phone is this?
My previous company managed it with the expectation that people take regular breaks and pick someone to take that break with.
Apple gave OpenCL version 1.0 to Khronos, while they could have helped, it is not their fault that Google (on Android), Intel and AMD couldn't be bothered to actually make something out of it that could compete with tooling, libraries and polyglot infrastructure from CUDA.
There are a lot of places with surprisingly poor mobile coverage even inside the Berlin city limits.

I think one way Starlink could massively improve the digital infrastructure here is to be a demonstration that it's possible to be better; the existence proofs of other nations doesn't have the same emotional valence as the existence proof of your coworker.
Neat! The implementation is simple, clean and well structured -- a good way to understand in more detail how a FUSE filesystem is implemented.
> This is due to massive, shaping French influence on the EU.

True. I still think Thierry Breton does a really good job, though, despite being French. Sylvie Goulard would have been a disaster -- she couldn't even speak English!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_Goulard

(The wiki page lies and says she speaks English -- no, she really doesn't. Her German is pretty good, though.)

I think a modest proposal for curb stomping the bad French influence in the EU is to have all EU civil servants retake their entrance exams in another language if they originally took it in French. We should also form an alliance to automatically reject Commissioner candidates who 1) don't speak English and 2) speak French at the confirmation hearings in the European Parliament.
I still have one of those superbooks. They did deliver mine but it never worked properly. You're not missing anything, sadly.
The moment a legitimate website being granted these permissions by their users is compromised, its users become part of a botnet.
There is always bashing if there is something about the EU and its national projects, not always deserved. However sometimes I wished HN showed more of local projects. For example: has there been a post about the European AI?

https://www.aleph-alpha.com/
SAP is also 51 years old. There is no shortage of big, old companies in Germany. There is a visible shortage of successful young companies.

In my comment edit, I mentioned the 20 year limit specifically, because the ossification in last decades is real. The US generates a lot more startups, even the London scene is livelier than the rest of Europe taken together.
Just need to use it with a thunderbolt to pcie adapter and a graphics card, put swap on it, and you can finally have external RAM.
Thank you. The way they are talking as if to someone else about me while pretending to reply is really patronizing, and I appreciate you pointing that out.

Also this person has assumed I’m trying to fully isolate and that’s not even true. I’m out on social media and I have many cis followers.

Everyone needs to have a refuge and I share who I am when I want to. But I also want people who see me without needing an explanation.

Anyway I appreciate your support.
I don't like putting more junk into LEO than we absolutely have to because it disrupts our space telescopes (which the EU has also invested over 1 billion euro in). I much rather have the funding go to improving land based internet infrastructure.
Well, grujicd considers Steam Family Share to be so broken that he no longer wants to buy games on Steam. That’s fair. What doesn’t make any sense is why he just doesn’t disable it if he hates it so much?
Probably some kind of privacy phone. Seems like every EU country now has privacy-focused smartphone startups.
I think it's similar to the sub-5 minute mile in the sense that once something is shown as possible, others will achieve it as well.
Or just changing the textbox width (if possible) like changing the window width.

I noticed this mainly with emails, where after pressing send I would quickly read it again and spot errors that didn't catch before. If you read a text several times your brain "learns" the position and pacing of the ideas, so it skips words. By changing the layout (on emails this happens because the "write" screen is different than the "read" one) the brain treats the text as new.
Given how many people in this thread don’t seem to grasp the idea of qualia, and think the hard problem of consciousness to be easy, I’m not entirely unconvinced I’m surrounded by a bunch of imperfect p-zombies.
Lets think what came out of the US - social media, big data, adtech, EVs, cloud computing, XaaS, machine learning, military advances.
HP made a really nice dock for their Windows phone back in the day. Many people still use them with DeX, the right hardware version can do it. I wish they still made them.
I would humbly suggest that you shouldn't be unpleasant to people because it amuses you.
> Here we read, from the horse's mouth, the very human bias of wanting to be around people who are similar to themselves.

What's wrong with that bias? Let people associate with who they wish. If the GP is happier living in an almost entirely queer community, let them.

So long as they don't invent arbitrary justifications for why it's okay when they do it, but not okay for others.
>Do you run it at your home or on some VPS?

I run it on a rented dedicated server. Yes, it's pretty expensive, but I also use it for other stuff and this is a hobby for me.

>My current VPS is on DigitalOcean, which asks for $100/month for 1TB storage

Some VPS providers let you attach HDD based storage to a VPS, that's a bit cheaper. For example Upcloud (https://upcloud.com/pricing) prices HDD storage at 0.056€/month. Which is not exactly cheap, but not terribly expensive either.

It seems to be hard to beat big cloud services like google drive in storage pricing. I haven't tried this myself, but Nextcloud can use external storage like Amazon S3 (see the link below). But even then it's hard to beat 2TB for $9.99

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/config...
All structures are trees if you squint hard enough. Of different shapes. Maybe with some interlinks.
They often describe eye color and hair color, which is very rarely pertinent to the plot, but nobody complains about that.

Weird how people love to complain about non straight people existing in stories though.
Wait, this scenario is real and they haven’t fixed it yet?
I think the comment you wrote is better served to you.

You ask for empathy and compassion where you offer none.

I don't think you understood what is being written, and went for wiritbg a comment attacking rather than exploring.
I think the title is meant to be:

“Error queues should be empty”
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That is somewhat of an indictment of the "single market" idea, or, more precisely, of its implementation.

We still have shocking differences not just in tech, but in food quality across the EU. Whatever sells in Czechia, Croatia or Bulgaria tends to be a) more expensive than in Germany and b) less good. I can't imagine the same happening in the US; Mississippians wouldn't tolerate being fed with worse cheese than Newyorkers only because their different economic power.

To some degree, this is caused by the babel of languages and resulting cultural barriers. I am not parochial, and yet I am totally ignorant about who is a popular singer in Hungary or a popular writer in Belgium. The same barrier influences businesses and consumers.
Maybe because it's always in response to, and generally a failed copy costing billions to Europeans because of bureaucrats?
Putting more junk in LEO is a serious problem but SpaceX started this and now others will also enter the market. Why should Starlink have monopolistic control over the high bandwidth SATCOM market?
Germany's problem is German, not European. Germany also used to have waiting lists of many months for getting an extra line (+ they were expensive). Apparently, that was a Good Thing because it was because the state monopoly was protected against competition from Evil Capitalism (usually Foreign as well).

Allow competition and good things will happen.
You're reading it today, when big noses don't immediately make you think of antisemitic stereotypes, /because that's not what antisemitism is today/. When the books were written, it was.

The thrust of your argument is, Roald Dahl "turned off" his antisemitic thoughts then wrote a book with all these antisemitic tropes in them?
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dont have kids, pets or a tv.
my phone is with me in the office.
chores are taken care of in short breaks which i need to take anyway.
not sure how neighbours would distract me.

dont assume everyone else lives like you
You know you're living far into the future when you hear "traditional rocket industry" said unironically.
2.4 billions is not enough for such a project given the EU overhead in cost. Espacially since the deadline is 2027, so 2030 with delays really, that means 350 millions a year for paying satellite design, build them, send them to space.
By that logic their claim could extend all the way to Turkey.
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> I find reading the text back in a different font often helps, particularly switching from mono-spaced to variable or vice-versa, though I'm not sure why.

A related technique I use with LaTeX documents is to proofread the output PDF. Of course, that only works if you use LaTeX or similar.
Yes. It's like trying to describe a house that you can't leave.