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> how do you explain The Marshal Plan?

As in, how do I justify that it happened? or why did it happen if it wasn't "for peace"?

First off, Germany did receive significant help after WW1, especially from the US. That came in the form of war reparations relief (through the Dawes plan), direct financial help and investments. That help stopped as the Young plan fizzled, due to the 1929 crisis. However, it is worth noting that this help was enough to offset the cost of reparations for Germany.

As for the benefits of the Marshall plan, it was not entirely benevolent: the US had to convert their war economy back to peacetime, and that was an incredibly hard task. From a peacetime point of view, army men were functionally jobless, the production system was completely unfit for peacetime, and with out some public help/oversight, the US would likely have suffered the worst economic crisis of its history (see postwar inflation). Helping WW2's losers was a humane thing to do, but it was also in the US' best economic interest to get a foothold in new markets.

> It worked far better than the things tried at the end of The First World War.

It wasn't the single outcome of the war, though. In any aspect but the economic one, WW2's peace plan was incredibly hard on Germany. Way harder than what the UK or the US would ever have allowed in the Versailles treaty.

> What would have prevented the Second World War?

It's hard to do what-if history. A peace plan similar to WW2's (or to WW1's plan for Austria-Hungary, for that matter) would likely have prevented Germany from rising again, but neither the US nor the UK were willing to implement that. Short of that, it's hard to predict what would have happened. Many of the issues with Germany were unrelated to economic problems, and some of them happened before any economic policy could have had an effect. For instance, Germany's student associations voted to ban students that weren't "pure-race" German as early as 1919..
100% agree. I was in Frankfurt last week for the first time in many years (I live in Asia now). Roamed in Germany's largest and most expensive cell phone network, Deutsche Telekom T-Mobile.

In the city centre near Goetheplatz I had... drumm roll. EDGE. 2.5G

In July 2023.

This is the home of DE-CIX, the European continents largest internet exchange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DE-CIX
I know a guy who runs a small company. He contracted a tech wiz to set up the initial infrastructure. AWS, EKS, all built with Terraform modules that wrapped other terraform modules, some of which wrapped helm charts. The "proper" way to do it, right! Russian dolls, each with their own names, pinned version and weird limitations!

Everything was fine for a year or two, but suddenly he noticed a warning message in the EKS console. The latest version available was 1.24. There's an upgrade button. "How hard could this be?"

Well, very hard, as it happens. Time to take apart the Russian dolls! This is where pinning versions and wrapping modules becomes a gigantic pain. To see how one surface level change is made you need to go backwards, one doll at a time, hoping that the important option is exposed as a variable in the smallest doll and every doll that subsequently encases it, and that the name of the variable names don't change anywhere (because sometimes infrastructure engineers wrap a whole bunch of changes as a "set" with one big on/off switch - again, a sensible approach sometimes!).

It looked like every single module and helm chart was badly out of date. If our unfortunate CEO tried to do a terraform apply from scratch, none of this code would work any more. So what do we do?

How about forgetting how the cluster got there, ditching all the decaying terraform and helm crap and simply pushing the "Upgrade" button!? As you might expect, the whole thing fell apart. Time to bring in help!

On inspecting the change logs there were a heap of breaking changes; from renamed apiVersions to removal of deprecated APIs to new requirements for CNI and EBS volumes to entire sections of "we don't do it that way any more". His Persistent Volumes wouldn't attach, Cert-Manager no longer worked, his ingresses disappeared because they didn't specifically name an ingressClass, one pod even had a direct dependence on docker being the container runtime (and that was no longer the case).

Fixing all of this directly, ie: ignoring the decayed terraform code that was used to build it, took considerable time. You need to get new helm repos and charts, inspect successive upgrade guides for breaking changes, extract current helm values for each installed chart and update them, then remove old charts (and manually delete CRDs) and try installing new ones. You can't use the monitoring solution because it died in the fire. Let's use OpenLens to check logs and events. Very slowly put the pieces together: fix Ingress, DNS, TLS, ENS/CNI addons (and the IRSA crap to make them work) and finally upgrade your product charts so they are compatible.

Doing that via Russian doll terraform and helm would have been absolute hell.

Q: Does any tool in existence make this type of problem go away? EKS, GKE, OKE already kinda manage the control plane, and I'm happy to let them do it. FluxCD and ArgoCD (and others) help you manage your deployments. What sews it all up and watches everything, making your Russian dolls go away?
California is considering a driver's license for e-bikes
It is accidental geo-engineering.
> His most recent was titled I Rented Us Girlfriends In Japan!

Even if that title was exaggerated for clickbait, that's disgusting.
> The probe would have reoriented itself towards the Earth in October, it does so twice a year.

I know that's what they say, but does anyone have any more details about that, too?

It's hard for me to reconcile the idea that the probe can automatically re-orient itself with the idea that it somehow got accidentally pointed in the wrong direction. You'd think they'd end every set of commands with instructions to check orientation and fix it if it's wrong.
You are the doctor and the patient at the same time. On what body do you want to practice ?
The behaviour of atomic operations is definitely not deterministic. E.g. if you have a lot of atomic adds, every time you run the code you'll get a different result without a random number generator.
They can certainly do what they please, especially for a gratis service.

There is probably a case to sue for damages if this was run commercially, but doesn't sound like @music was.

Obviously, for whoever hasn't figured it out yet, Twitter is gone. There is a new service being set up in its wake, but Twitter it ain't.
And sulfur leads to acid rain and ozone depletion.
> We are also seeing more and more users who are not techies (but are tech-savvy) becoming members.

I’ve seen quite a few marketing people and researchers in (their discord channel) #introduce-yourself
TFA goes right into the core complexity and misses it.

"Dev environment" depends on what kind of work you are doing. What a web developer needs is worlds apart from what a driver developer needs in terms of capability, resourcing, isolation, and rebuilds. Trying to offer a single environment for anyone who builds anything using a computer, is analogous to a single environment for anyone who uses a screwdriver. An electrician is using the same tool, sure, but they're doing fundamentally different work from a kitchen installer or a plumber and have vastly different needs. The single environment with all the capabilities that any computer developer needs is called a "computer."

IMO this is the genius of VSCode remotes. They built a core capability of running the bulk of the IDE "somewhere else" with just the display layer on your local machine. Then they can allow the developer to choose if container(s), VM(s), and local or remote are right for their case, without having to learn new tooling. They can even let you choose if "owning a computer" is required, or if a web browser is sufficient.
The season ticket only covering station-to-station travel means you're still left with covering the leg at either end. As an example, this is likely still going involve a car journey plus parking costs at 'local' station, and a Tube trip to the office at the other end. I think any potential cost saving quickly disappears, while still being left paying for only a single route.
I feel like we're stretching the analogy pretty thin here.
Hmm...do you think Germany has fewer levels of government and, cough, less regulation?

And of course a lot of rail work now is inter-European, so you get different country governments and the EU as well.
Whoopsie daisy.

Cold acidic oceans, or warm sulphur free ones?
Or about all the stuff we sent to space/other planets.
> they can always pivot in a year

I think you are downplaying a bit the timescale of going from ideation to tape-out in ASIC design.
I knew many developers that used w3schools that thought it was official source because w3c, I know it's not completely the sites fault but they named the domain. That's one reason I dislike, additional the quality of w3schools is compared with mdn for beginners that are not interested into the details.
You have absolutely no idea if the "solutions" we try won't lead to even worse outcomes.

Up until the point climate change is becoming an existential threat, which it isn't yet, we shouldn't go doing anything too drastic. There is plenty of evidence that we can still avert the worst of it without resorting to geoengineering.
They need to get ChatGPT to write a cooler website for them.
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It’s like a startup optimizing Java applet performance as the web was taking off.
That summation is slow and would not be used in practice.

You could use just one thread on your 10000 thread GPU too and it would be deterministic, sure. Completely beside the point.
"Be the compute platform for AGI" and "we target just LLMs" feel to me to be contradicting statements.
>>What dialog? "It's been around for thousands of years, therefore it is the best way to do things" is hardly basis for a conversation.

Is everything traditional automatically wrong and everything modern automatically right?

>> These same people will shamelessly use modern birth control, despite not being used for thousands of years. That's why those ideals existed for so long.

You got all this from the poster you replied to? It sure seem you are doing a lot of projecting and straw man building.
Out of curiosity, which particular edge case was this?

I’ve hit multiple oddities with cognito (only supporting custom claims in id token), lambda (consuming SQS messages without invoking the function when run in low concurrency).

So there are strange edge cases, today RDS and ECS are the services of choice, I wonder where I’ll be in 12 months.
Ain't water neutral by definition?
IP laws strike again. This is like saying someone can't make Lego compatible plastic bricks, or a Torx wrench.

Seem unreasonable to me. Even without a legal protection there is some degree of protection for the original creator something as complicated as a CPU.
There is no such thing. Most things in Germany generally are delayed. Wether it's construction projects, really ANY construction from an autobahn local repair to a house to large projects like BER airport or Stuttgart 21 or Zweite Stammstrecke in Munich to literally every Deutsche Bahn ride.

I've been on a Deutsche Bahn train for the first time in two decades when I visited Germany again last week. I had a short regional connection on an Regional Express train (RE) to make it to the 'high speed' ICE train. The RE train was 56 mins delayed or my generous 24 min connection. So I had to be driven by car instead to make it.
The ICE 'high speed' train never hit more than 160kph and that only for minutes. A long time it was slowly creeping along at 40-50kph. My (on-time departure) 2 hour ICE train got me into Frankfurt 28 minutes late.

The air conditioning was too weak. The train (1st class) was extremely overbooked. People walked through the aisle continuously to try to grab a seat from someone. The noise level as defeaning (even with noise cancelling Bose) and the service was well... not in service. Food that was advertised couldn't be ordered. The internet connection via WiFI wasn't working either.

Hopeless. Next time I visit the country I'll rent a car again.
Then why did I laugh out loud the first time I heard that sorry if true excuse?
Ask HN: Anyone starting business or have expertise in the SD/Midjourney market?
I have an idea for an application that I (think) would make a lot of money. I know how to pretty much implement the entire thing and have demonstrated successful working of the different parts already on my own. I'm looking to talk to an expert in this field to see what kind of viability this idea is.
Even in 2022, gaming was still the largest revenue generating sector for Nvidia...
https://meteor.geol.iastate.edu/gcp/studentpapers/1996/atmos...
It honestly isn't just that. It doesn't 'attract accidents'.

These cars attract aggressive anti social people.

I'm from the central valley. I see a lot of "big Altima energy" although you'll see it in Oakland, San Jose and those types too. Main point, I see tons of them.

They are driven beyond the legal limit of "aggressiveness" all the damn time. Someone speeding through a parking lot.. Altima. Someone running a read light.. Altima. Someone doing illegal crazy uturns? Altima. Believe me, you do not want to start road raging with an Altima owner either.

Obviously these actions aren't the sole property of Altima owners. Dodge Chargers are also maniacs in their own way. But there is definitely something very statistically significant about the insanity of a disproportionate number of Altima owners.
See https://www.w3fools.com/

It's more a historical thing. Over a decade ago they were always on top, with often wrong/misleading/bad practice/insecure/simplified stuff. And lots of people thought of them as some kinde official entity because of their name similarity with W3C / w3.org

It's much better now, though. But for lots of old school frontenders the reputation stuck.
Yes, but 99.9 percent of its users do not know these filters/features exist. Still don't.

Google didn't prioritize it's visibility [intentioally] over the past 2 decades as well. Maybe it's time to do so.

I can't imagine how tedious the process may be to make very small changes on the main google home page.
> I have a theory that I would actually need to do twice as many searches with Google or DuckDuckGo or whatever

FWIW, I counted searches I made with DDG (by parsing my FF history export) before joining the beta, and it was slightly over 1k, with Kagi my searches are in the 700-800 range.
>WSJ

Really? Of course they would say that.
Could there be a connection?
> One critical difference I’ve noticed is that frequently used bangs with DDG, but almost never with Kagi.

I use bangs all the time and wouldn’t even use Kagi without them. It’s so convenient when I know I want results from a specific page.
AI won’t replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without AI
My initial comment on that issue which pointed to that fandom was downvoted. I am truly hoping this turns into something as well, but people need to learn to just stand back and wait.

As if physical reality was something that needs to be defended online and the replication won't turn out well if you didn't scold user asshonker3000 foe not believing enough.

And this happened even here on HN, I truly start to loose whatever little faith I had left for humanity.
I work on spacecraft flight software and I was never worried about this lol

The worst that could have happened is that the spacecraft would have kept the dish in the wrong position until October, at which point it would have re established contact. This isn’t even the last time the Voyager program has had similar outages, IIRC they had to shut down the dish for maintenance for several months and when they re established contact the spacecraft was fine. They should review their MOPS procedures so this doesn’t happen again (it’s generally standard practice to run commands against a simulated version of the spacecraft in a similar operating condition or a replica to make sure it won’t do something destructive) but from the first time I saw the headline for this my first thought was “lmao” and I was never really worried this would cause lasting problems for the spacecraft.
Some indication of where to go for further information is preferable to none.

Consider that HN has ~5 million MAU and that a comment without clarity is confounding many people. Writing and communications generally is a service to the reader not the author.

If you don't have time to look up the precise source, a note along the lines of "I don't have time to find the direct link ..." or "I recall but cannot source ..." would help, along with where generally is the best direction to start looking.

Returning to that comment later to clarify/expand is also useful.

(I do both of these fairly often. And have written ... 612 ... comments with footnotes and references on HN to date: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>.)
Intel has a lot of hidden unemployment, internal politics and people who honestly don’t really like working.

Intel hires about half of the graduates from my uni, everyone who likes coding fled to startups or super specific teams.

There are strong engineers in Intel for sure but it has a pretty awful culture.

Nvidia’a isn’t great but it’s heaps better in terms of actually taking results into account.

My personal experience is only with the local (Israel) branches of both.
I don't want to be too cynical about the state of hardware for ML, but I don't see where this is going. Nvidia does not lack for competitors trying (and sometimes nominally succeeding) to build faster/cheaper/more efficient hardware. Yet still Nvidia is overwhelmingly the vendor of choice because the software story works. So long as Pytorch only practically works with Nvidia GPUs, everything else is little more than a rounding error.

I don't see MatX ending up any different than the legion of startups that have come already - either they get acquired by a bigger player, or they fade into obscurity.
The problem with Breitbart isn't just bias, it's the amount of outright blatantly false claims.

(This isn't to say that other major media outlets don't have problems with accuracy. But the magnitude is very different.)
Sure, but to a certain extent, that’s survivorship bias.

It’s very easy to run something with several 8’s of uptime if you’re not careful.

AWS has good patterns to guide you into the pit of success.
I think they actually rebranded the division as just RAM, which, given the context, may be even worse...
No, don't do it. Practice continuous refactoring.
Agreed. I _still_ don't know what I'm doing most of the time, but there was a barrier that I overcame back then as a young dude trying to cheat at a videogame, that most people don't.

And to add to your point about crosshairs as bitmap files. When you install a game nowadays, half the time you don't even know where the files are, and even if you do, they're in the part of the file system we've been conditioned never to touch (for good reasons). When everything was "somewhere at C:", and you ran games by literally cd'ing into the game's directory and running that one executable there, modifying the game was a lot more "in your path".
CUDA. Jensen Huang saw the high performance computing market so many years ahead that it is built on nvidia's stuff. It is a software victory.
Not to sure why this is news. Seems like a normal asset based finance transaction to me, not much different from your car lease or home mortgage.
My understanding was that butyric acid was a byproduct of the overall process. I am not an expert at all though, so thanks for the correction.

I think that just further reinforces the point though, that the market doesn't correct for a (generally regarded) subpar product, on its own. It requires external influence; whether it be regulatory, cultural, health-based, etc.
Personally, I never reply. I only lurk. Because every time I reply I get sucked into the social media nightmare that is waiting for a response to my reply. So I opt out of that by never, ever replying, no matter how big the urge is to reply. I never do it. Almost never. 99.99% of the time, I skip replying. I think you might lack a discipline.
Yeah I'm not disagreeing with you at all, it's the Christianity and Hong Kong's post-colonial legacy.

The mainland Chinese social order is secular. The technocratic state, the CCP, had a lot to do with that. I would actually argue that technocracy is a superficial form of scientific culture.
I use GNU Units a lot (and have mentioned it fairly frequently on HN -- 37 comments and one story submission: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297219>), and have for a couple of decades now, but not like this, despite what I consider to be some reasonably advanced conversions (e.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8196590> & <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606949>).

This is an absolutely awesome comment. Thanks, kragen.
You obviously don't know what you are talking about on any level whatsoever.
> Not sure which computing analogy

Probably akin to "testing in production". But, as is in computing, it's still done all the time despite the dangers.
We need to uncouple hospitals and critical infrastructure until this whole AI thing shakes out. It’s unacceptable risk to put our entire medical system at risk just for EMR.

Mark my words.
That is completely different. The mini-Natures are still peer reviewed journals with a strict selection process. These journals are usually reasonably high impact, and I don’t think there is evidence pointing towards them having more or less fraud than other journals on that tier. It’s not an amateur slapping a Nature logo on a preprint, which is basically what TEDx is.
> I think you miss he point.

I don't think he did. He did say " it's not at all obvious that it's a good idea for an established search engine targeting the general public"

And looking at the data from the link, other than wikipedia and reddit, all the pinned domains are for developers or technical folk.

So it looks to me that kagi is not popular to the general public. If it was, programming-related sites wouldn't so heavily top the popular list.
https://archive.is/DmqLI
Do you have any reason at all to think they damaged the transmitter?
Also basic stuff like multi theading, 64 bit, etc.
It isn't quite correct that RedHat is saying that, IIRC from the LWN discussions, the clause is about giving someone who doesn't have a subscription the benefits they would have if they had a subscription. So it would be fine to redistribute in some cases but not others. Probably fine to redistribute every update to entities who already have a subscription, or to redistribute one package to a contractor working on fixing a bug for you etc.
This post doesn't have enough information to count as a good HN submission. Because it doesn't have enough information, the comments are almost all generic. Generic comments don't make for good threads—there needs to be specific information for people to sink their teeth into.

It would be be better to write a post about how you're making faster chips for LLMs, that everybody can learn something from.