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Based on this comment it seems they are implying that we are in some new sort of society: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36767978

Which I find ridiculous to be honest, every generation laments the downfall of society, it's nothing new at all.
The Java analogue of opaque structures is factory methods. Their only purpose is to hide the new keyword. That's necessary precisely because new introduces a hard dependency on the constructed type at the binary interface level, it gets literally emitted into the byte code. The supertypes returned by those methods are just there to serve as compatible pointers to the real types.
Who cares where you are, this is the internet, some people have different ideas and opinions. So what? Deal with it.
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Do people not have to schedule around 15-30 minute drives? How is that any different from “I can be there in 15 if I make the S3 train otherwise about 25 since I’ll catch the 86 bus that runs shortly after”? There really is no defense at all for being car dependent. Literally every other country in the world proves you don’t need them.
Where it gets interesteing is laserdisc, since that IS the same size (more or less) as a 12" lP, play time is roughly 30 minutes per side, and the video signal is full analog. The audio is analog + an optional PCM or Dolby Digital signal.

Both the audio and video are FM encoded.

(Yea, 30 minutes per side is long for an LP, more like 20-22 minutes is typical, but hey, it's analog. To a point you could increase playing time by deceasing volume.

The most extreme case of this I'm aware of is "90 minutes with Aurthur Felder and the Boston Pops", which what it says it is... the first side alone is a hair over 47 minutes).
Luckily most people can't tell if they smell (unless it's really bad). We typically rely on cues from those around us if were bathing right!
Shout out to Namma Yatri [1] app in Bengaluru, India. It is developed by a payments startup called Juspay. It is endorsed by the Auto Rickshaw Drivers Union. It was launched in November of 2022 and has since done about 5m rides and drivers have earned 9m USD [2]. The entire app, backend and protocol is completely open source [3]. Seems like it uses a fair bit of Haskell and Nix!

[1] https://www.nammayatri.in

[2] https://www.nammayatri.in/open/

[3] https://github.com/nammayatri
I swear i read this article years ago but i cant find the history…
I’m certainly no expert on this, but even then surely this was seen as an inevitability? The US scientists knew Russians and Germans were approaching this, did they think their opponents would stop developing the capability just because they got there first? Seems unlikely that they would think that.
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That's a really interesting one for sure, though still it's anecdotal and I at least haven't been able to find a solid study showing a higher frequency of loss of smell symptoms with Covid.
Also, something that is forbidden to talk about in "free societies": by forcefully showing in movies something that contradicts everyday life but is aligned with the woke ideology, you don't make movies interesting, you make them shallow and sometimes even loathsome.

But it's a zugzwang: impossible to avoid woke ideology in movies, because minorities had become such a powerful entity that they have ability to destroy the company or a life of any person if they don't like what you do or say.
The USS Defiant, if we’re counting fictional vessels.
Wait— why are all the stats from the article based on users ‘on android’?

…is that even a reliable metric ? Is android users representative ratio of iOS users and web users as well?
I think the problem with streaming is that there is just too much of it. There is only so much content -- ahem, TV -- that people can watch in a given day. Especially because content includes stuff like TikTok.

How many minutes of TV were produced last year? How many minutes were produced in 1990?

Those legacy salaries are not possible, because if each American TV minute is worth $0.01, they're now splitting that $0.01 across 1,000 different shows, not a couple dozen.

If I'm a young person who wants to perform on screen for a living, I know where I'm going: TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube. There, I can control my own creative output, make my own brand deals, and own my own face.
It's all entertainment industry gossip, but one of the writers for the Witcher show said the same thing:

> "I've been on shows — namely 'Witcher' — where some of the writers were not or actively disliked the books and games (even actively mocking the source material). It's a recipe for disaster and bad morale," wrote DeMayo.

https://www.looper.com/1128621/the-witcher-writer-casually-c...

Maybe he's being paid by the producers to lie about that, but that seems like a strange theory to me.
So they live less and STILL make twice the income?
I actually think it's the opposite, I always see Americans getting really snarky about Europe, I could go back and find plenty of examples but I have better things to do.

Personally I think average Americans have a hard time imaging a world where there is more to life than money.

Ultimately whenever I see these "murica" centric posts, I remember them flying in emergency medical supplies from China and everybody being upset about how the worlds greatest super power didn't have enough supplies for their own medical staff.

Stay humble.
TFA, among other economic articles, statistics, etc support this assertion.
I got one from Discord a few days ago. I didn't check if it was real or phishing, and I didn't check my password manager. I can't remember why I would have created a discord account so I'll let it go. Maybe I was self squatting.
What feels “new” (at least to me) is that we no longer have any sort of large gradient between art house films and “turn your brain off and consume” mass market films. In 2023, you’re probably either going out to see a subtitled Korean drama or a paint by numbers Disney film.

Distribution groups like A24 are still carrying the torch, but the mass consolidation of Hollywood really seems to have greatly diminished the variety of bread and circuses available.
You don’t see the difference between playing Go, a game with strictly defined rules and limited moves available at all times, and the process of creative writing?

I’m impressed by what AI is capable of but it feels like we’re making the same mistake everyone made with self driving cars. It can drive down an empty road in a desert? Well it’ll surely only be a couple of years before they’re everywhere! ChatGPT can generate a paragraph of prose? Well it’ll surely only be a couple of years before it’s coming up with inventive show concepts, developing characters and planning season arcs!
Yes. You don't?
None of the above. The true reason is that Germans are too conservative to invest in tech. You cannot have startups without investors and Germans will keep money in the bank, buy real estate, even invest in index funds, but startups give them too little of a guarantee of a return. You can remove overregulation, whatever it may consist of, but there will still be no funding at least not when compared to the US.

But German economy is actually fine, moving slow and steady is their way and it works for them. I also don't really think universities should spend so much time on "programming", they are not vocational training programs. I wrote software and got paid for it before I studied, and didn't go to a university to learn that. If there's one thing German society can do with young people it's to teach them to take more risks. But programming can be learned from a book.
This is cool . We are going towards future like shown in inception to plant an idea.
that sounds like a fun travelling salesman problem with more moving parts. What is the best route for this drone platform truck, taking into account how efficient it is for each drone to make its delivery, and how the truck’s position will have changed in the time it takes for the drone to return.
Yeah no I’m with you, the attitude is offputting.
As a customer, the app and service works really well. It is now my first choice to look for an Auto ride compared to Uber / Ola.
This is a ridiculous comparison. Murder is criminal law and we’re talking about civil law (tort). The two are handled completely differently, with different laws and procedures.
Can you recommend interesting "unsafe" shows that, but for the money men, you think would/could be made today? Or are being made but on smaller subsidiaries?
>I’m engaging based purely on economic decision making.

Unfortunately the environmental cost of producing disposable junk continues to be externalized and not factored into the economic decision-making spreadsheet.
Yes it is true and confirmed.

Also, this characterinzaction of the Witcher series writing is 100% correct - especially in last season. Going by the comments writer made publicly, she did not even understood events or relationships between characters in books. It is as if she understood adolescents, but had real issue comprehend adults or write about them.
He is not wrong, is he? If you are using null terminated strings that's the thing you need to fix.

I still support this addition. If you are doing methamphetamine with needle sharing you should stop methamphetamine, but distributing clean needles is still an improvement.
You misunderstood what he was saying.
Perhaps working at Goldman Sachs mellowed him out some.
Sorry mate - I think you got that one turned on its head.

The common (and relevant measure) is real gdp growth or growth minus inflation. (And per capita if that is your concern.)
"Only text-based “standard I/O” DOS programs are usable in this environment, so if you run a program that switches to graphics mode or writes directly to video memory, don’t expect to see anything."

OK. Let's test some DOS-based develpment tools (e.g DJGPP) with it...
My point is this car is not much more dangerous than a lot of regular drivers out there.
Can't speak for everywhere obviously but in my area some age groups didn't have to go to any class to get there licence (and not just old people here). We don't all need to be race car pilots but some behaviors I see regularly should not be acceptable on the road. That machine is not something I would be concern about.
This is a fine effort, but FOSS is a minor part of it. The big thing is the money -- how much of the fare do the drivers keep; how many staff are required to run it; is the allocation of rides fair; can customers get what they want; how are drivers hired and fired; how are the executives chosen; etc.

There are lots of co-ops in many different industries. The Berkeley Cheeseboard is a co-op that's existed for decades. A lot of agricultural commodities are marketed via co-ops. It's all in how the business is run.
> Throwing technology at problems is not always a solution

It's a fine solution to the very pressing "VCs aren't giving me money" problem. You can't have a blockchain or AI startup, say, without throwing technology at random things!
Care to elaborate with an example? The point you are making seems quite abstract and incomprehensible to me.
That’s not the point. The point is that at some point there’s a quality quantum jump. If you can’t afford it, you’re always paying more. It's the same thing about buying in bulk. Yes, buying cereal from the warehouse club is cheaper per unit, but you have to be able to afford the 10 pounds of cereal, and the membership fee, and afford a place where you can store the 10 pounds. If you can’t, you’re stuck paying more per unit.

Or let’s take predatory check cashing places. No one should be lose 3% to 7% of their wages to literally cash a check, yet if you can’t carry the minimum savings amount, you can’t get a bank that won’t charge you a monthly “maintenance fee” (lol, like what “maintenance”are they doing? Polishing coins, and ironing bills?), so you lose 3% of your wages as a poor tax, whereas someone with a more lucrative job, keeps all of their take home pay.
Better yet, remap CapsLock to Ctrl.
I agree, it might take some time, perhaps years or decades (although I doubt the latter based on current progress it seems), but it is not an insurmountable challenge, as long as you are a physicalist, I philosophical terms.
Admittedly, their is some masochism there, maybe due to some unresolved childhood trauma.

But it's also about taking something that once had good value but is now old and decrepit and deciding to live with it as it is for what's left of it. The challenge is not fixing it but rather changing ones perception, expectations and behaviours around it, making it a proxy for the real world and also for your own body which will let you down eventually. You could call it a form of stoicism?

It's about a car but it could be about a blender or software with which you have a love/hate relationship and yet decided to keep using as a test of your own emotional, physical and mental resilience.
Where I live, the subway comes every 3-5 minutes, like clockwork. Is that really so inconvenient?

On the rare occasions you have more stuff than you can carry, you can just pay for delivery. It's far cheaper than the ongoing total-cost-of-ownership of a car.
> I'm using the qualifier "true" here, since many modern languages (such as Python, Kotlin) use the term "coroutines" for something that is more like Go's Goroutines than Lua's coroutines.

Python has both true (ish) coroutines (or at least coroutines which are entirely user controllable), which it mostly uses for iteration, and the concurrency specialised “async”.

Initially the goal was to reuse “yield” for concurrency (a big reason why “yield from” was added), but the ergonomics of mixing multiple coroutines uses was found to be awful, at least for the langage python is, and trying to provide relevant sugar difficult.
You’re basically calling them all the adults who read the young adult books
datar effectively recreates a pipe operator and the tidyverse approach.

df >> mutate(z=f.x)

https://pypi.org/project/datar/
Tell me you don't know the meaning of a word without telling me.
Also already done... With some limitations.

LLMs are especially tricky for WebGPU because the good models are so RAM/VRAM heavy.
Reminds me of a movie from the 1960s, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, I was watching recently.

I couldn't help but notice how the wild artistic risks taken in the movie would likely never happen today unless the artists paid out of pocket for both the production and distribution

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Na1h7ozW9VQ

Putting money behind stuff like this is dead.
Kids of the rich don't need to produce anything. Very often, they inherit the sense of entitlement to the riches, and none of the desire to create anything. At best, they are immersed in the lazy loop of self-gratification; at worst they are scheming how to destroy things and grab as much as possible from the ruins.
Not really, because becoming a rapist won't reduce the number of rapes committed by others. On the other hand, inventions can really only be invented once, and successfully inventing or commercialising something _will_ usually reduce the profitability for other companies entering the space (because they'll have to compete, or they don't have the patents, etc).
I have a manual-transmission sports coupe (1988 Ford Thunderbird) and the parking brake is useless for hill starts. It's a ratcheting pedal to the left of the clutch pedal. Releasing the parking brake requires leaning forward and pulling a release lever on the left side of the foot well. I do hill starts by taking my foot off the brake and pressing the gas , and balancing on the clutch.
> It is as if she understood adolescents, but had real issue comprehend adults or write about them.

This seems like a very common problem in modern American entertainment. I think it's because they're hiring writers who are too young with too little life experience. Characters who should be mature adults seem like immature teenagers. Maybe the writers know how to write mature characters but think this is what audiences want... but I tend to think the writers are nepo hire hacks.
I agree with the other posts.

I would also like to add that our taxes are rather high on income but very low on dividends from business. If you own a business you take out a salary which is under a certain tax bracket and then pay yourself dividends using the company profits which is very lucrative. It adds incentive for you to start a business.

We also have a good startup ecosystem, if you are going to start a startup it helps if you have worked at a startup and can bring your experiences. Germany to me feels much more like a country of enterprises compared with Sweden.

For the Americans, we don't worry about healthcare, saving for our kids college fund etc. so we might have more risk tolerance due to this.
The wise man solemnly bowed his head and said “there’s actually zero difference between free exchange of currency for service and fraud.”
You're being unnecessarily judgemental.

The things you do for fun almost certainly has an externality as well.

I feel that, these days, it isalmost fashionable to be anticar to a ludicrous degree.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878489
Just a note that I found this thread valuable :), offering to keep that comment was a good idea.
Given how pervasive money is in everything we do, even just hiking in nature (how much did those hiking boots cost you? Did you get a cheap pair or an expensive pair? How long will they last until you have to buy a new pair?), or just having friends over to chat (their money status has an effect on how they're doing). There's more to life than money, but it's pretty central.
Spot on. “My life is a constant barrage of belligerently fielding foolish questions and foolish answers from comically ignorant children.” I wish I didn’t know quite so many guys for whom this is their main shtick.
IQ is totally irrelevant to this discussion
> It's _historically_ very abnormal for adults to be so fascinated with dragons and other escapist features. We are living in strange times and it's not coincidence.

Note the emphasis on "historically." This implies, to those reading, that you assume the current society is "abnormal" and "strange" somehow, to which I replied that it's nothing new. Now you can take that as you wish and maybe you didn't intend that implication and think you are "precisely" saying what you intend, but it's not so precise when multiple people disagree with how you laid out your comment. It would have been more precise if everyone actually understood you, even if they had disagreed.
What if a copyrighted image or video can be recovered from your brain using external tech like this? That's not fair to the rights holders, what we really need is technology that can clean such illegal memories from the brain; a brainwasher if you will
The pace things are improving is exponential.

You're off your tree.

Coal usage is at an all time high while the climate is collapsing. We're living on an exponential growing crisis is maybe what you should be saying.
So was Drepper wrong? Did he just get worn down? Or did it not involve him at all?
> The tone of this article is always a bit off to me and I can never figure it out. This seems like some sort of bragging, boasting and I don't understand why that is appropriate...

...

> With that said, I'm trying to understand why this article isn't met with a response like "it is extremely unethical to operate a vehicle in this condition..."

Because it's not bragging or boasting. I don't even think it's meant to be taken literally. Especially seeing that the author is an engineer and professor. It's like a car guy pastiche of folk tale/tall tale. Just like I wouldn't respond to a story of Paul Bunyan to criticize him for eating 50 pancakes a minute I don't feel the need to point out that this car sounds unsafe.
The term is not used so literally.
Throw away ID,

as a a peasant who has grown from being very poor in a third world country and currently living in a first world country with acceptable lifestyle, this is poor idea to myself because mid life crisis is only for people who are rich, the poor are too busy trying to live rather than changing it.
Absolutely. Hardened aircraft shelters got a bad reputation after the first gulf war, but considering the tradeoffs, one might easily conclude one way forward is much, much more spread out airbases with many separate runways ringed by aircraft shelters, so that you can at least try some air defense rather than let the cruise missiles rain down unopposed. (If Patriot batteries are a billion dollars a pop, then that's rather contraindicated to do full integrated AD for every roadside apron, isn't it...)

Bas 90 had an extreme amount of dispersion because Sweden's threat model included nuclear weapon strikes with no way to retaliate. If you're a nuclear power and assume that nuclear attacks on military targets would automatically escalate to MAD, then you might feel better about doing a dozen megabases, rather than a gross highway airfields.
If electrical cookers aren't possible, you can get hobs with flame supervisors that cut the gas if there's no flame (in fact these are a legal requirement in the UK for new gas stoves). And there are gas leak detectors.
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This would make sense if the companies in question weren’t making billions and funneling those profits to the execs, and investors, over the people who actually did the work.

Expanding or contracting the industry is one thing. That’s not what’s happening here. This is a shift in how the money is distributed due to a tech “disruption”. Workers deserve to be paid well for the content they make happen.
Dell precision 17 inches with 4k for me.
Lighter than most gaming laptop and comes with powerful workstation gfx card to run LLMs
Ironic, when for the longest time the issue was the opposite, adults trying to write adolescents and failing.
Oh well, not Amazon but I got stuck in the ecommerce of a large shop chain. I can't register because they tell me I already have an account. So I use that email to recover the password but I can't because the account must be activated. So I ask for an activation link but I can't because that account doesn't exist. I guess they have different databases or microservices taking care of different steps of the registration process and something crashed at the wrong time and my overall record is inconsistent. I gave up a couple of years ago. I buy from them when I go to one of their physical shops.
When people use the term progress, what is meant by it? What are we progressing towards exactly? Utopia?
Oh wow. A bit unrelated but 10 MWh is a lot for me. Even the mentioned 6 MWh for Hawaii.

Here in Germany the average (single household) is at around 1.5 MWh.

My first instinct would be "of course, US households almost all seem to have AC installed" as opposed to Europeans. But then again, we're cooking with electricity (at least the majority) instead of gas.

Is there a good resource for a utility breakdown? I would be interested to see where those high numbers come from.
With a car as tiny as the 914, the risk is nearly entirely shouldered by the driver and his (presumably consenting) passengers. I had a 944 Turbo for a long time that had a number of similar... let's say eccentricities. Those unique qualities did not make it a danger to anyone else on the road--quite the opposite. When you sit in a car that old and bring it up just to highway speeds, it is abundantly clear that you are taking your life into your own hands.

Think about people who ride motorcycles, or small single-engine airplanes, or skydive. These are risky hobbies, and there usually isn't a practical reason for doing them. If something goes wrong, yes, passersby can potentially be harmed. Should we judge them harshly for these hobbies?