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One of the big problems with the US is that unlike any other country they don't have exit procedures, there's nowhere you go and get your passport stamped, if the airline or the immigration officials screw up you have no proof you have left, and no way to know that they've screwed up ..... there are tons of stories of people who have visited the US a second time and been detained by INS ... the whole thing is some monkey-arsed setup
About to do my kitchen too
I favor a market-based economy and I broadly favor incentivizing and rewarding effort and performance.

But you have to consider that no economy exists divorced from politics. So, in the same vein, if too many people are having too rough of a time… your political messaging will get undercut with populist appeals in the political messaging economy.

So, there’s a balance of concerns to be struck.
Reminds me of that time that I was visiting new york for the first time in my life.

I was alone, I took only hand luggage and I was walking through either JFK or Newark- I went through passport control and was walking for what felt like 30 minutes, when I realised that an exit was very visible and there was a cab waiting; the only barrier was one of those clip/pull barriers that they use to segment queues.

I asked a nearby cleaner if it was OK to exit because I didn't “feel” like I had exited the transit zone yet. The cleaner was appalled that I would even dare to ask and indicated that I needed to continue on the path designated.

The thing about barriers of that type is that they're always sort of optional in the UK, its usually a recommendation (albeit a strong one).

I continued as planned and came to customs and baggage claim.

I reflected on the fact it would have been astonishingly easy to just leave.

Another time I was in LAX and Air Force 1 was there at the same time, I was not allowed to hand in my drop luggage to the baggage handlers and instead had to take all of my goods (including a pocket knife and several containers much larger than 100ml) onto my flight- which went through security with no issues.

The US is very confusing to me when it comes to airline safety measures- despite europe following their lead I feel like europe is much more consistent with the level of enforcement.
The hardware we need for our cloud exit has arrived
Then I guess the same is for all these dicts I use in Python.
A solar/wind/nuclear powered Titanic, maybe?...
Depends how you modulate it, but if you went for the widest possible 3.2kbps Codec2 stream and assumed 1kbps is roughly 1kHz of bandwidth (something like a G3RUH modem does about this) you'd be looking at about 60 streams.
No its not, thats exactly my point. You cant make a conclusion like that at all. It just points you that there might be recurring charateristic but not that there actually is one or what it is.
Hm, I don't think anyone is missing the Java ecosystem. It is widely used. In our case there were much better choices for interfacing with eBPF hooks.

I am happy to use Java if I am doing graph database work or forced to interact with an Apache project. It is fine language and the developers are cheap. Often a good choice.
> In practice, what seems to happen is that surprisingly few people in hybrid cars bother charging the battery.

That's just because of incentives. Once gasoline is 5x as expensive per mile than electric, people will charge every night. For the twice-a-year long trip, that extra gasolinr cost won't matter much, and give them the freedom they want. Without driving an extra half a ton of battery around the rest of the year.
Which is why all of this greed-based hand wringing is absurd. Corporate profits went up bc of transfer payments enabled by the Fed.

All of those stimmy checks had to end up somewhere. Classical economics predicted the consequences of the Covid monetary response. It’s been textbook.

And yet we want to blame everything else except the actual causes.
> as it lacks crucial types (datetime, decimal)

Decimal is there, isn’t it, as part of ‘number’, which lumps together fixed-size integers, IEEE floats and doubles, bigints and bigfloats, and leaves it to the parser to make the right guess as to how to interpret them (often assisted by having the programmer specify a target data type)?

Lumping all those together as ‘number’ makes for a much simpler grammar, but I think that’s not worth it for its negative effects on interoperability. How many json parsers can (easily) read a value of 1234567890123456890E0000000001 and write back the same string to a json file?

Apart from datetime, I’d add duration as a basic type, too, even though that has the problem of being imprecise. Users will want to specify durations such as “1m” or “1y” (is that 365 days? 365.2425 to correct for leap years? Does it depend on interpretation by the user? is it a lunar year of 354/355 days as in the Islamic calendar? Etc)
Just look what happened to doomsday cults when the doomsday clock ran out and no doom occured: some members left, dejected, and those who stayed doubled down in fervor.
My display is less than 3” wide. That’s far smaller than my first 10” crt let alone the 17” I had in 1996
The mom and pop grocery stores in your local area do not have massive amounts of capital.
> JFK airport officials and U.S. Customs and Border Protection are reportedly investigating the Norse Atlantic snafu. If the airline is found to be at fault for the immigration check-in incident, it could face robust, per-passenger fines.

Also, a timely Wordle reveal for April 9.
My back-of-the-envelope estimate for how long it would take to construct the 1.5GB string is about 200ms to 300ms (1.5GB write, 0.75 read, extra from growing a buffer for the result, sequential R/W at 10GB/s; copying to resize the buffer at 20). Which is somewhat fast but I’m still surprised that the latency increase wasn’t noticed first.

More importantly, the time and memory doubles with each further navigation which means a user shouldn’t have had to navigate much farther to see much worse performance. Maybe this was a known issue that no one had debugged by then.

My best guess is that screens were arranged in a tree and users would navigate ‘back’ instead of ‘up’ so it was hard to get a long history.
That's a fair point and a trend I have definitely noticed as well. The price quality ratio isn't what it used. The founder died 5 years ago, I wonder if it's related. He was a notorious penny pincher.
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I was in the same dilemma when I stumble on the pwabuilder[1] news a few days ago...

I will use pwa for my next project as it involves the same app for web, desktop and mobile.

[1] https://www.pwabuilder.com/
"Uninhabitable" becomes meaningless if you dilute it to mean "you couldn't build a city-scale population centre here without some infrastructure". All cities need infrastructure!
I don’t see it being trivial. Of course, ‘everybody’ knows the diagonal of the unit square has length √2, but don’t we know that because of the Pythagorean theorem?

Can you educate me?
Webapp beats native now IMO.

The antitrust pressure on apple is forcing the last holdout (iOS Safari) to step into line.

We've got our B2B customers using web apps on iPads managed via MDM solutions right now. Camera, location, push, Home Screen icon, etc all working flawlessly.

It took us almost 3 years to get to this point, but it's very stable now.

I agree you still need App Store presence for B2C, but there are paths here too with vanilla web stacks.
Shame. IIRC the same thing would have happened to Lego if they wouldn't have had branched out into collectables and IP licensing. They were on a steep decline in the '00s and then launched the Bionicle line for kids to collect then started licensing IPs.

Every time I go into a shop looking for Lego, I no longer see many generic sets: castles, pirate ships, cars, trucks, but they're all big name IP licenses: Pirates of the Caribbean ships, Harry Potter castles, Volvo Trucks, Range Rover SUVs, McLaren cars, BMW motorcycles, etc.

Now they're all just fancy collectables meant to sit on display instead of being generic sets where you had to use your imagination to make what you want it to be: that generic looking car could be a McLaren, could be a Ferrari, could be whatever you wanted it to be. Then take it apart and mix it with the rest of your sets to create something original.

And the IP licensing is reflected in the price for the sets. I wouldn't be surprised if many of Lego's customers are just nostalgic grown men with disposable income, instead of curious kids.

Me thinks Meccano should have taken the same path if they wanted to survive but I'm not an executive in the toy industry to know for sure.
- lockdown: some people are able to save money.

- lockdown ends: everything is 30-100% more expensive.

as george carlin said, "they want it back".
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Here’s an analysis of cold starts on AWS Lambda (updated daily) that backs up your claim that Rust has the fastest cold starts - https://maxday.github.io/lambda-perf/. Although to be fair, Go isn’t that far behind on warm starts.

One caveat - these are hello world programs without I/O. The maintainer plans to add I/O to the benchmarked code.
C FFI goes both ways. It’s also pretty easy to compile rust or zig code into a static or dynamic C library. And then that library can be used directly from C or from anything that has a C FFI (Python, Ruby, javascript, Java, etc etc).

I’ve been working on an iOS app lately with some of the core code in rust (shared with other platforms) and the UI in native swift. Changing the API at the boundary is a bit annoying, but the resulting app works great.
It's interesting that the pirate radio stations appear to have been broadcasting religious programmes.

Here in the UK (and presumably other places too) there's an interesting thing that mosques do, that I looked into for a bit about 15 years ago for someone.

Five times a day, mosques must gather the faithful to prayer, so someone climbs up the tower of the minaret and recites the Adhan. There is a different one for each prayer. In the olden days, this would be someone fit enough to climb a long steep set of stairs and then sing at the top of his lungs for ten minutes, then get back down, but these days in predominantly Islamic countries they often just use a bunch of PA speakers and a microphone - or just a prerecorded prayer.

Fair enough, but this won't fly in the south side of Glasgow, where roughly 15% of the population are Pakistani. You'd get shot for making all that noise.

But they still need to broadcast the call to prayer from the minuet.

The minuet, being a big high tower on the top of the mosque, is a great place to put a "four stack" high-gain omnidirectional antenna.

Little cheap UHF walkie-talkies are, well, little and cheap.

There are a bunch of UHF voice paging frequencies around 464MHz.

Sit there and tell me that the Adhan is not "voice paging", I dare you.
> Today is not like 30 years ago.

Same argument applies to someone speaking at the dawn of WW1, the great depression, Roosevelt's New Deal ending laissez-faire, WW2, the cold war, and at the fall of communism.

The first item on that list, WW1, was about 12 years after "end stage capitalism" was coined, while that blues singer singing about "woke" was around the New Deal era.
At least in the UK, it’s for two reasons:

1. Many older terminal buildings were designed without any space for exit controls. By the time they realized they would need exit controls (relatively recently) they realized they could just slurp the data from the airlines’ systems instead.

2. Immigration is chronically understaffed. The government would need to double the number of employees, which is never going to happen.
Just another human being less than humane.

I’ve always thought of crypto as being the best things for machines to pay for things and one way we can put limits on them.
That’s what loans and investors are for. Massive amounts of capital is one of the easiest issues to overcome if the business is actually profitable.
I just see zero actual value in something anyone can make, like midjourney art.
Supply? Like the thousands of vacant crumbling homes in Germany's most expensive city, Hamburg, that are essentially held by investors for the appreciation of land value alone?

Look, I know the economics. I don't like them. Fundamentally. Housing shouldn't be owned, at least not at scale.

My comment was mostly to point how how asinine your "if you are persistent you can do it" point is, being that both rent and morgages are skyrocketing. My rent got raised by 14 percent (it's coupled to inflation, that used to be a better deal) and you'd need about 200k/yr (pre-tax) household income right now to even get approved for a morgage here. It's essentially impossible for a working class person, unless you're on the top few percent of (labor based) income. And those people tend to have substantial capital too. Tech salaries don't scale this far here.
some ppl do enjoy collecting art, toys, coins, pokemon cards. but if he tells you he’s about to make millions, he might just have a gambling problem. Like stocks which can elicit same behavor.
Good lord gonna add this thread as another exhibit for why I sometimes hate HN.
Practically too. The $800 billion clean up bill also comes on top of the already gargantuan cost of building and maintaining nuclear power stations. It's a roll of the dice.

The next nuclear catastrophe probably won't look like Fukushima or Chernobyl but I imagine it will happen partly as a result of skimped/badly done maintenance on a plant whose operating life has been extended a bit too far.
Ctrl-Alt-R on Linux.
Not sure if sarcasm, but I really never got any value from anything like that.
You both have a point, but this formatting issue is because HN doesn't use `overflow: scroll` for pre/code snippets.

Edit: Realized arguing for CSS properties defeats my point on plaintext. You are right, plaintext is problematic.
I'm the opposite. Everytime I'm using Rust I feel like I'm wasting my time not using Go.
> I suggest you do see the original text.

If I could find it, I would have. This discussion mentions https://meetings.ams.org/math/spring2023se/meetingapp.cgi/Pa..., but I can’t find the paper there. Do I overlook something on that page?
On Tom Scott's video, you can see the software is provided by a commercial company "Eagle", and Siemens is mentioned too.
Why are they blaming the airline for this? Where passengers end up is dictates by which gate they disembark at (international/before Customs or domestic), and that's assigned by the airport, in this case JFK.

Edit: Reddit speculation is that they were correctly assigned to an international-capable gate, but somebody -- presumably an airline agent -- opened the wrong set of doors which routed passengers into the domestic side of JFK T7.
from the paper you cited:

"Nevertheless, we should mention that the inhalation dose of commuters could be different from the exposure levels. Dons et al. (2012) found that exposure to BC during travel in motorised transport was clearly higher than exposure while walking or biking (6.3 μg/m3 versus 3.4 μg/m3), but when accounting for inhaled doses, this relationship was reversed. Cyclists seem to receive the highest inhaled PM2.5 dose followed by bus and car passengers (McNabola et al., 2008). However, in the present study we do not examine the inhaled dose of pollutants during commuting due to the lack of studies determining it and also its complexity of interacting factors such as breathing rate, ventilation and/or particle deposition to the respiratory system."

Also, in the study, they said they drove with air-recirculation off, which I believe would mean the outside air does not get filtered. And outside air seems to be a major source of inhaled pollution, since electric vehicles have even higher measured pollution levels than gasoline.
The "airline safety measures" of which you speak are all largely pointless security theatre.
You can always insert irrelevant details into a proof, so it's easy to construct an infinite number of proofs from a single proof.
I can't help feeling a little sad.

Handwriting was such an integral part of a person. You'd almost be able to identify a close friend just by looking at their handwriting and you'd see it frequently enough on letters and things.

As someone who practices Western calligraphy and who carries a fountain pen, i can't help but feel a little sad reading articles like that prove that the written hand is dying out.
You forgot the part where they were given massive amounts of cash.
Keep in mind this is just the price for electricity, in addition you have to pay to be connected to the grid. Where I am that's around 0.5 NOK/kWh.
I assume there is some game theory and psychology going on here. You have to remain competitive and people notice a price hike, but if there is inflation maybe companies can collectively sneak more margin in.
Can you explain what you mean by "how to branch a database" and the ZFS trick?
I thought I will find a hands on intro to Rust for polyglot programmers with code comparison with other languages but it was a long theoretical description
Things like branded food (and other branded items). It's insanely expensive and I absolutely don't see or taste a difference that's big enough to warrant x2 or x3 the price.
The headline is worded pretty terribly as well. Customs controls the flow of goods, immigration controls the flow of people. Skipping customs is hardly a big deal, there’s nothing you can do to fix it at least. Entering a country without being processed by immigration is more likely to cause problems for the passengers. Though probably not in the US, there seems to be little control on outgoing passengers there.
I missed that completely. I scrolled the page and the modal just moved up the screen, so I could read the article without interacting with it at all.

Vile, and badly done. Hmph.
it was end of capitalism, and start of clown capitalism.

when all bad news is considered bullish, it shows how rotten and warped the system has become.
There seems to be a misunderstanding.

The maximum payroll tax is 42% for incomes above 62k Euros. The part of income below has a tax excempt amount of ~10k, then a linear progressive tax. (There is an rate of 45% for incomes over 250k, but let’s skip that for the argument.)

There are also some tax reducing things, but let’s say you have a taxable gross income in the range of 60k. The deductions are as follows:
- 25% payroll tax (which is the tax _average_, only the amount above 62k is taxed with 42%)
- 7.3% healthcare (or 14.6% if you are self-employed)
- some percentage for other public insurances

Gives you around 65% net income, from which you pay 19% VAT for most things you buy as consumer. But e.g. rent doesn’t have a VAT.

If your income is higher (as I wrote in my other comment), the healthcare / public insurance cost is capped, so every Euro above 62k is taxed with 42 (or 45) percent. If your income is lower you simply pay less taxes (relatively) and might have 80% or more net income.

Edit: forgot about tax average …
No, he's right. You want Joules. kW is Joules per second, dividing by hours gives Joules per second per second.
Crypto, and now AI, are likely the great differentiators between those who seek get rich schemes and those who lever up humanity through innovation, hard work and grit.

If I had the ability to migrate to another planet, the last thing I’d take with me would be an NFT image of some stupid primate.
That's pretty much it. The only original Lego stuff left is the city stuff. Even new lines within the Lego world is done as if it's licensed: Ninjago is it's own TV series. Friends also has a TV series.

They've figured out that you sell more Lego with a story behind it.

Does it change much? I don't know, there's still a lot of cool builds.
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That quote is quite interesting.
I went to see if it's any different in other versions is bible, but it's always pretty much the same.

Maybe expressing that you're fasting could be seen as bad. As if you're trying to boast about it, how you're better then others.

Which made me that, if people that eat a vegan diet (or similar) kept it to themselves and not force it onto others, then perhaps there wouldn't exist the culture of "I ate a steak in front of vegans" or "I don't mind if you're vegan, but please let me eat in peace".
Yep.

As of January 2023, the percentage of mobile users who use iOS-based mobile devices is higher in North Korea than in any other country in the world.

This trend is somewhat surprising, as iPhones are not legally available in North Korea. However, iPhones are considered much more secure than the phones which are legally available in the country, which consumers believe are often monitored by the totalitarian government of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. In light of this concern, a robust underground market for iPhones has emerged.
to a lesser degree though, it was > 6% already at the end of 2021, before the Russian invasion began.
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With our air quality sensor, we've noticed that there are good and bad days for air quality regardless of any other apparent factor.

We've been thinking about making the sensor portable so it can alert when it's time to mask up because its often hard to be sure if you're not being unnecessarily exposed.
I use Go for work and Rust for personal projects. I use Rust because it makes programming fun. Programs just work after they compile, and often are fast with minimal effort spent optimising. If that sounds compelling to you, then it might be worth learning and getting over that initial learning curve.

But if it doesn’t, that’s fine too. Go is a great language that works well in many domains. You won’t have trouble finding work in Go for years. It’s unlikely that you’ll have to solve a problem at work that can’t be solved in Go. You’ll be fine. Don’t guilt yourself about it.
I'm not familiar with this result, but this comment is phrased in the language of Ordinary Differential Equations, so I'd look for a textbook on solving systems of ODEs and expect to find a technique that can prove that this is the unique solution (at least assuming differentiability of S(x) and C(x)).
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GPT agent design, deploy, debug and apply a new ability during live conversation
With an extremely simple ReAct agent model (call it a watered-down langchain if you might) and very dev friendly syntax to define commands, the agent (here running on GPT-4) is able to create a new command for itself to do weather forecast, activate it and use it to answer questions, in one uninterrupted live conversation. It even redesigned and redeployed it when features are missing.
A second interesting thing is that, by creating one command that does absolutely nothing, calling it THINK and telling it to be methodical in the prompt, the agent is able to exhibit babyagi like behavior. Think about this as an extremely watered down version of it if you might. Curiously, just having those instructions without the dummy command does not work well.
Biggest takeaway for me from this article:
(a) Huge cost savings ($38K/week) by moving away from cloud,
(b) Using MRSK for web app deployment (instead of Kubernetes).

Question - for folks looking to host a rack in a third-party data center, what are the current top choices?
its possible that the airline agents forgot to set up the gate properly or left a door open, that allowed the passemgers to simply walk out.

the same could be said of the airport crews, but i suspect the burden of this falls on the airline, not airport staff
I don’t think this a solution in a democracy.
> zero emotions

> painful to watch

Choose one
Presumably that explains why they decided to wind it down.
Oh definitely, if you are willing to make it readable you would write it in all caps or even use a printer. It's either separate circles or a Venn diagram with the center containing only dozens of people.
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