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I've learned the value of brevity in communicating important points.

I've found that my most-misunderstood communications are when I said way too much compared to the actual facts that needed communicating.

I could see people's eyes just glazing over as they read my eloquent, generous paragraphs of prose.

Yeah, people just want to get to the point and move on.

Then again, I've also had a supervisor who absolutely did not seem to comprehend or register anything I wrote, no matter how clearly or redundantly I attempted to lay it out in an email. It was hopeless. I think there are some people with sufficient power, that they can safely ignore someone else trying to inform them or tell them what to do, and impose their own expectations on the transaction.
> Just need the ability to have one part of the world be able to power the rest of it at any given time...

which we do

> I've had similar conversations before this website.

The meme with Principal Skiner asking "am I out of touch? no it's everyone else who is wrong" comes to mind

> I know what I'm talking about here.

no you don't

> What you're suggesting is the same story of massive overprovisioning.

no i'm not

> Just build making times more renewable energy than we need, and a ridiculously large supergrid to use it all.

not ridiculous; probably politically unviable, but I've done the maths and it's fine from a simple engineering POV

0.5-2.2¢/kWh even if such a grid needs to be given a trillion dollar overhaul every decade, not that you have shown any capacity to integrate new information in this topic…

> The problem ultimately is that it is incredibly expensive, and worse you will end up wasting the vast majority of your energy production.

even a genuinely global (40,000 km) multi-TW grid is cheaper than nuclear, and even bog-standard current HVDC (where you'd be making it of thousands of different segments with combined cross section of 1-2 m^2 instead of a more efficient configuration) isn't a majority of the power being lost, it's at most half.

Also, looking up the best-case efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells[1] and electrolysis[0], you get the same losses as for the dumbest possible HVDC solution, even if h2 transport is lossless (which it isn't).

> The alternative solution, of using hydrogen energy storage, eliminates this problem, and makes any hypothetical solution more efficient.

An alternative solution. One of many.

> Like seriously, why do you oppose a solution that flat out works? Are you really that prideful that you cannot let go of your ideas?

I'm not, you are.

"Look in a mirror".

[0] 84% last year, and higher numbers are misrepresentation https://www.sunfire.de/en/news/detail/worlds-largest-high-te...

[1] 85% when waste heat is captured for use in co-generation, but only 60% directly, which matters a lot for transport
In my opinion actually big tech that has been pushing these boundaries a lot.

A lot of new services are really experiments on society. Tracking, Adtech, A/B testing. Move fast and break things, but don't forget that at the scale these companies operate, one of the things to break is our entire society. Especially social media bubbles have caused a lot of polarization IMO.

I feel the social responsibility in these companies is severely lacking. And because they're getting away with everything, the Overton window shifts in that direction.
> A 23 months old human is generally less intelligent than a dog

Wow. Do you have any experience with little kids? With 23 months my daughter was drawing pictures, singing songs, laughing at my jokes, reenacting scenes from theater plays, etc.
I guess I meant complexity in the sense of symbol resolution in this context. So things like scoped type aliases, expressions evaluated as template or trait arguments, that sort of thing.
The main issue seems to be the cost of the power lines. According to some news articles, the cost for the test tracks was about 3 million euros per km. Cost estimates for the future assume 1 million euros per km if lines are installed on a large scale. I couldn't find anything about the opperational costs. But what I observe is that more and more test tracks open up in Germany. It seems that German industry and government see a realistic chance for this technology. Of course, this does not provide any certainty, which was demonstrated at the time with the Transrapid.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid
Rich optimize taxes due to many loopholes in tax system using insanely well paid consultants specializing exactly in that. While middle class gives at least 2/3 of the pre-tax money for taxes, so called insurances and weird things like petrol tax in Germany.
Those are not workable alternatives. I agree, in principle, that some sites are more bloated than they need to be. But that's like saying "air bags, power locks, windshield wipers~ somehow the auto industry has convinced that all cars must have these features"...

People want them. So we have them.

Dillo, NetSurf, Links, Lynx... also do not sync browsing dasta.
Like VHS vs Beta, the real answer is "just pick one already!"
A simple answer to such thought experiments is that actual consequentialism has to operate in the real world, not on carefully constructed hypotheticals.

So for instance, in the real world you can't guarantee you will get away with it. Real surgeons operate in teams, not alone, and are surrounded by other well trained professionals. Real people have loved ones that may press for an investigation of what happened, especially if the patient's death was suspiciously convenient.

So now the real calculus is more complicated. Your calculus isn't nearly as simple as "1 patient vs 4 recipients". You could get caught. The organs might be unusable. The transplant might get rejected. Investigations may result in enormous negative consequences. Etc.
You’d think if you pay more you get quality. I paid 280€ for the Microsoft Surface Headset 2 when they came out. After a year and a half, the plastic head band cracked in half. The part of the device that is stressed whenever I put the headset on or take it off was cheap plastic and just broke with regular use. 280€ down the drain because some MBA or stupid designer said hey let’s use cheap plastic.
> there’s little of that actually happening (at least with “current” languages, “next” ones seem to fare better).

I'm not too involved but I think the languages that actually develop the tooling as part of the language design have traditionally done quite well at it in language design. Delphi/C#/TypeScript all had tooling built alongside the language and it shows.

Rust sadly made a ton of choices in the language that just make a lot of things hard, but enabled the type of ecosystem that exists today. So it has different tradeoffs. I'm quite amazed how well RLS is doing considering how hostile the language is to fast iteration.
Ask HN: How well do Linux and Windows handle variation in CPU core performance?
These days CPUs can have multiple cores with different performance specs, some slower, some faster.

Until now I’ve just trusted that the OS Kernel knows best how to balance the load. But that was when all cores had the same performance.

So I’m wondering how well do Windows and Linux handle modern CPUs?

What challenges are there to tasks scheduling on modern CPUs?
I had the exact same experience.

The company in question is Epic Systems, maker of very popular medical records software.
This isn't the case for Zig, because the compiler works off a graph of declarations. You only need to compute the declarations referenced in a code block (which have well-defined sources, since you cannot create new decls at comptime right now) in order to compute the function itself.

>What if the completion source is in a different file altogether?

Well, yes, this is a very common case. I don't believe matklad is arguing that the computation should only be restricted to one file. From what I can gather from the article, these "working" and "ready" copies would be per-file as well and the "ready" states of each file would be invalidated as a referenced file gets edited.
The main reason I'm ok to have low/middle class pay their fair share of taxes and not have "Schwartzarbeit" is that that's not fair to other low/middle class workers who cannot as easily avoid paying their taxes
Just FYI many of the "Source" links lead to a 404
That’s definitely not true, feeding us fed is definitely more work that just letting us starve, for example
To the downvoters: do you have any experience with little kids? As a father of a 2 year old, it is pretty obvious what's wrong with infanticide...
Trying and failing still is growth if we can learn from our mistakes. I don't think it's wrong to try, rather we must try our best to learn and grow, and that includes as a large scale organization such as NASA.
I could see that working well for emergency ssh too
> The rich already pay a disproportionately large amount of taxes

INCOME taxes.

Which is NOT the same as WEALTH.

If you're going to talk about "the rich" then you need to differentiate between the wealthy ownership class (the people who own things like the debt for our 20 trillion dollar illegal wars, or your mortgage), and the software engineers and doctors who get spooked by any talk of raising taxes.

This guy explains the issue in simple terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXP8gH0wddE - He's British, but it applies to the US also.
Don't use TikTok, so can't say, but never had an Issue with these types of tracking links.
Shit I would be on that in a heartbeat. But it can’t be free in todays world. Pay to play, so to speak, and I would happily pay a hundred a year to do so
What is this? Ode to poverty? There is enough stuff in the worlds for everybody to have 10 houses, 10 cars, enough water to waste, etc. We just need to make some effort to organize ourselves (and of course stop using fossil fuels, they are not enough).
No, I'm entirely getting the intended point of the essay, I just think that missing the 101 stuff makes the point that the author doesn't understand the subject matter he's attempting to do a hatchet job on.
How's that not an actual leak?

But I think you mean it's not a hack.
My understanding is the most dangerous pathagons are not the ones evolved for humans, but the ones that jump the species barrier.

Still have the problem that the moon is a barren rock with no life at all.
There is a market for his ideas and he is selling to it.
If they really want to be dicks they can limit it to only accept connections from their official signed app.
I wonder if we can fine tune a language model using this and then get infinite emoji mixes…
Could be a fun weekend project. If SVG of those icons exists somewhere it’s possible to find tune GPT with it too
“My current thinking about Python asyncio & why I hate it”
Also hyperscaling is a bit of a lie. You have a trillion invisible limits built into your account, you have to talk to support to raise, if you try starting up instances by the hundreds, you'll be throttled.
There's zero transparency on what types of instances are available and how in-demand they are, meaning trying to scale up capacity 'on demand' is a fool's errand.

Yes, I'm speaking from experience.
The outsized role of commodity traders in geopolitics
If you want it to be the Delorean of Tesla it needs somebody to fund it with cocaine trafficking.

Much though I dislike Musk I don't think he has John DeLoreans desperation and need.
I don't want to be snark about it, but why not make a SAAS or product out of such loopholes? Commoditize them, and have economies of scale work.

Of course, my first thought as to why that hasn't been possible is because there is a "lower bound" cost to such things that on a meta-level only really works if the rich do it. E.g. the $5k cost and $100k minimum bank balance to have a bank account in tax haven country X, and the $1600 yearly company registration fees to maintain a shell company in country Y.
He didn’t get it for ‘free’, a lot of poor people subsidised him, while exporting their jobs, with increased emissions, to China.
Are you really trying to ‘both sides’ WWII?
Ahrefs saved $400M for not going to the cloud

https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-...
My number is tied to my government issued ID. If I lose the SIM card I can get another one simply by showing my ID. If my ID gets stolen I can get another one by visiting the Police and so on.

The point is - I have some kind of an enforceable legal right to that number, whereas I currently have no such right to any particular account (and such rights can't be practically enforced for physical objects such as devices)
FTA:

> The lack of home-grown cloud providers in Europe

Not accurate. OVH (France), IONOS (Germany), Scaleway (Sweden) are few examples thar had been serving customers for years/decades.

On lower end there even more competitors like Servers.com and Hetzner.

The reason AWS is such prevalent is not lack of options. It is VCs pushing "free" credits on their portfolio companies till it became synonymous with cloud for some engineers and founders.

Most are already carbon neutral (nuclear) or renewable powered.

OVH even has patented highly efficient water cooling used on large scale.

Rather than announcing US cloud rivalry, we should make community aware of better, cheaper solution at "home".
Yes, and it's named after graduate student Huffman (at the time) instead of after his supervisor/teacher Fano.
I don't think it is a given that it is difficult not to be a misanthrope - not everyone views the world through the same lens.
Some countries charge a wealth tax on your total worldwide assets.

Here in the Netherlands that amounts to over 1% of total wealth.
You forgot jet flights because, you understand, there were no business class seat available on commercial flights at the right time. I thought it was an isolated incident (the random undersecretary who otherwise couldn’t have made it on time for the government’s school book picture), but it appears to not be so isolated [1] [2].

On some random weird "missions" [3] paid €9.000 a month, or life-long supposed "postings", granted at the discretion of the government, such as our dear ambassador to the penguins [4] [5] (lovingly called "ambassador to the poles", although the previous one, "Michel Rocard", a life-long politician, was apparently also known as "Rocky the Penguin").

And that’s just off the top of my head.

If we were to focus less on the rather questionable spending, and more on the doubtfully useful, we could cite the public health system, where it seems that more than a third of the money goes to the administrative side, and not actual healthcare workers [6], with a significantly bigger share of bureaucratic employees than most European countries.

And I’m pretty sure starving the state of revenue will not curb any of this. It’s not like they’ve shown they were sensible, or acting in good faith.

[1] https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2010/03/29/806733-ministre-...

[2]: https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/vol-350000-euros-autres-gouve...

[3]: https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/06/09/boutin-c...

[4]: https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/frais-d-ambassadrice-des-p...

[5]: https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2019/09/18/est-il-vrai-q...

[6]: https://www.challenges.fr/entreprise/sante-et-pharmacie/a-l-...
I opt in to JavaScript—not fully disabled. When there’s a compelling reason to enable it, I do, but if a site shows me nothing, it gives me nothing to work with. I run TUI browsers semi-regular though and they’ll never show me anything. Slap on that non-Google web crawlers aren’t executing JS & your site will get worse SEO too.
Step one, then, is to have something interesting to say.

Unfortunately it isn’t generally the case that people have something interesting to write at length about, and even more rarely do they have something interesting to say about the specific topic assigned.
Doesn't seem to work for me, I used one of their example logo qr codes on their website and all give the error "Cannot decode a function pattern"
Oh, that’s interesting. I’ve met this particular delusion before: someone who was bullied by a teacher or something and now they think they have it all figured out.

I’m sorry you experienced this trauma or whatever. It has damaged your worldview to the point where someone calling you an idiot once is irrefutable proof that we should shun and discriminate against an entire group of people. Usually we call that bigotry though, and we don’t feel sorry for people who practice it.

And while we are throwing out FWIWs, I myself am not religious.
This degenerates into worse subjective and discriminatory systems

Just think of traffic cops on the highway in the US. If you have big tits and a pretty smile you get off with a warning, but if you're black with resting bitch face then you'll get a ticket or maybe even some K9 action

Either enforce laws or get rid of the laws. If you don't have a system to track swimming pools then don't tax swimming pools.

In the worse dystopian case (see Russia and a lot of the third world) the endless unenforced laws become a means for the govt to harass people they don't like
Iterating on Testing in Rust
for the last point, i knwo that other mediterranean countries are copying that taxation on pools , even if AC is very common and very heavily used in the sommer, and even if there isnt a water shortage

The rest is the same tired usual drivel
Can you name those things? Where are we supposed to get our clothes?
> I'm not into types [in Python]

In Python type hints are just that: hints.

mypy is a very poor static analyzer, and a lot of Python code (especially in frameworks like Django) is inherently dynamic and cannot be type-checked. And that's ok.

Though, documenting your API with type-hints really helps, especially with VSCode (via pyright) popovers when you hover a symbol/function.
Funny thing is that things started to go bad for Mao when he suddenly started to have ideals.

Luckily Xiaoping entered the chat and the rest is Chinese history.

(I have always liked the Chinese for their pragmatism. Americans are too far up their own ass).
<groan>
> The only interesting thing here is how this rule was simply not being enforced by anyone.

Turns out that not even the notary, whose job is to check these things when a property changes hands, does it. I am in a local Facebook group and there are multiple folks saying they got a bill from the tax office for an undeclared pool. They bought the house recently and thought that everything was fine and now surprise.

Even worse, some of them don't even have permits, so on top of the extra taxes they have to go through the town permitting process from scratch.

It seems that the program mentioned in the article, which is from 2022, has now expanded nationwide. Would be nice if the French govt would publish some stats once they are done with it.
It really depends if your corporate environment is toxic or not.
The first option has the same problem I mentioned, while the second sounds much less practical than SMS.

Each backup might decrease the overall security, but while theoretically you can still remember TOTP tokens or write them down and put inside a safe (possible but impractical), with passkeys that's no longer possible.
So many prime children!
Plug for my VS Code implementation of the same: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jaaxxx.l...

What’s nice with it is both the input and output are modifiable text areas, so you can tune the angent’s example responses to be exactly what you intend. And the on disk format is just the message and parameter JSON, so you can tune your prompt in a live notebook then consume it directly from anything that speaks JSON (most bundlers, for example).
> > why don’t devs put in the minimal effort

You left out the noscript part. I’m not implying the project as a whole is minimal effort.

It would be nice to at least see a small explanation of what I as a user am missing out (one or two sentences), or the bare minimum is to at least name the application in the noscript instead of leaving the default text of create-react-app (or similar project generator). It could be as minimal as adding the name and repeating the meta description.

<noscript>
<h1>Emoji Kitchen requires enabling JavaScript to run</h1>
<p>Unique illustrations of combined emoji, cooked up in Google’s Emoji Kitchen, and comprehensively available on the web.</p>
</noscript>
You is plural.
“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.”
> China had a demographic collapse problem that can't be remedied and can't be squared with their doctrine of racial superiority.

It's amazing how many racists come out in these threads.

China's population is projected to peak at 1.7B by 2060 and then fall to 1.5B by the century's end: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2023/04/24/c...

If anything, China is leading the world at trying to live with a static population numbers (and EVERYONE will have to do it eventually).
What you are suggesting won't run efficiently on GPUs. Perhaps once the 144+core CPUs are more widely available these ideas might gain traction.
Wheeled carts predate spoked wheels, chariots, and wheelbarrows by thousands of years. Those could get pulled by people or animals.

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

Why do you think ancient farmers cleared fields of rocks to plant or graze? They didn't have machinery that would break. Farms were small. They could just avoid or work around large rocks, and throw the smaller ones to the side to make walls or rock piles. The plow was invented long after agriculture began, and a plow pushed or pulled at human or ox speed wouldn't break on a rock. I agree that moving lots of heavy rocks off of fields would be back-breaking labor, but why would ancient farmers choose such sites to plant? Just because modern farmers clear fields to open up more land to farm doesn't mean ancient farmers had to do that -- they could plant and harvest where the wild grasses already grew.

I don't know why the wheelbarrow turns up so late in history. Perhaps they were made entirely of wood, left no artifacts to find, and were common and unremarkable so don't show up in art or monuments. We don't find many spears for the same reason, only the spear tips. Wood gets recycled, burnt, and decays.

It's an interesting question but since people invented spoked wheels and chariots quite a long time ago I don't think no one ever thought of making carts or wheelbarrows.
> which was architected and coded by an intern with a liberal art diploma

What?
I tried to look it up, no luck. Do you have any link that goes into more details?
Because middle-to-lower-class people aren't the ones I want paying more taxes.
>> That USA would in fact tolerate chinese military in mexico?

This is such a poor rhethorical question. Why play with hypothethicals like Mexico and China, if Europe already has direct Russian nukes in Kaliningrad enclave in the middle of Europe with constant threats of destroying Warsaw and London? And yet, that's tolerated, unlike what people like you suggest and imagine.

Relevant maps: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/23...