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... which ends the same way as taxation treaties. Foreign countries will happily introduce CO2 emission regulations, then lie about them on a large scale.

See for example China: who have signed plenty of environmental treaties yet are dumping nuclear waste in the oceans on a large scale. Hell, China isn't even protecting their own people or nature just to avoid transporting the waste to the ocean. Rivers can do that for free, you see. To fully demonstrate how governments work, they lie about doing this (despite the fact it can be very easily measured), and secondly they criticize other countries for doing much less (such as China now criticizing Japan being forced into dumping some Fukushima cooling water)

The other alternative is what most tax havens are doing. They are raising taxes on companies ... and handing out subsidies that, somewhat suspiciously, exactly balance the tax raise. This is even done within Europe. This principle can easily be applied to emission regulations. After all, it's always paying to be allowed to pollute. Governments can simply pay that back some other way.
I have tried numerous ereaders over the past few years, and nothing has ever come close to Foliate. It strikes the perfect balance between functionality and minimalism, or to put it in more concrete terms - it's very good at getting out of the way of reading. It has a fully immersive mode and is very customizable.

This Alexendria seems to be similar but is cross platform, so it will be worth giving a go.
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How can mastering the art of merging dictionaries in Python not only enhance your data manipulation processes but also empower you to craft elegant and efficient solutions that demonstrate your prowess as a Python developer?
Some previous discussion from 2019, a snapshot of how things have changed and not changed at all

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21878292
Modern computers are stupidly cheap and fast. Moore's law has given us $2 microcontrollers faster than the Cray supercomputers of old.
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I think it's just a language/over-enthusiasm thing.

As I interpret it, they're pointing to the (interesting and new to me) example of how Pablo Escobar had a prison for himself built to his own specifications:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Catedral

And suggesting Trump Tower might serve a similar role if Trump is sent to jail. And further suggesting televising it as reality TV.
If I had to guess, they were blocking hundreds of people not going to Burning Man. You can't pop onto another road or take a detour in the Southwest, so often times, there will be only one road that goes to EVERYTHING, and if it's blocked off, you'll have to drive three hours just to get on the alternative route.
Yeah, one thing it really shines at is recommending eating disorder content to teenage girls.
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The power dynamics between a corporation and a person are very lopsided towards the corporation. Advice of “they should just quit” seems to assume opportunity elsewhere, and undermines the amount of pain and disruption to people’s lives at the whim of executives who can far more easily weather consequences. Having to have a Tesla instead of a Bugatti or a 24 foot boat is a lot different than someone worried about being able to make their mortgage payment, move their kids to different schools and a completely different social group, or face a multi hour commute. It gets a lot more dicey when someone will lose the roof over their head because someone decided to close a warehouse.
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Oh no, I very agree that the Kindle’s experience just subpar. Although I like it for just very this reason, it helps me to distract less, as it’s so bad for anything but reading that book I have in my Kindle at the moment.
>"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth."

Ironically, this may have been a reaction to an early software management book in the 80s by Tom DeMarco of Peopleware fame and similar books that were popular at the time. It's kinda annoying that the people that are maintaining a website in Deming's name don't reference the first edition book dates for the quote attributions. The original book seems to have been published in 1993 (when Deming was 93...), whereas the quote is attributed to a 2018 third edition on the website.

The reason I find it ironic is that Deming seems to have been critiquing the young (relatively) influential upstarts at the time like DeMarco for over-emphasizing the importance of management metrics, And as it turns out, the nuances in his approach turned out to be more compatible with the approach that came to dominate the post-millennial software landscape (led by Google/Facebook at the time)--ie rigid process-averse lower case agile. It turns out the out of touch senile old guy was more prescient than the new suits.

Although DeMarco started deviating from his early utopian management approach when he published Peopleware, it wasn't until the late 2000s when he did a a complete 180 and wrote a mea culpa, disavowing his earlier management books and the "You can't control what you can't measure" quote attributed to him [0].

[0] https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/172/resources/dema...
In the US, you can only buy new cars at a dealership. Not sure about other countries but here car sales have been declining or at least not rising compared to truck and SUV sales.

Btw, I believe the current generation supra is a bmw. They might call it a Toyota but it is still a German car.
The point is that a test that has a guarantee like "out of 100 people who test positive, only one will turn out to be negative" (99% specificity) can have an arbitrarily high false-positive rate when applied to the whole population: if a condition affects 1 in 10k individuals, then out of 10k individuals that take that test, 100 will be positive, but only 1 will be a true positive. The rarer the condition, the more specificity you need in your test to have a low false positive rate.
Fuel cells and electrolyzation devices also wear out.
Astonishing that after more than 30 years of coexistence of Linux and Windows OSes such arrogant remarks are still being made
Tangentially related, I've written a barebones assembler for Android .apk files once (strictly speaking, the assembler is for .dex files, but it also comes with a set of tools to package and sign .apk files). It showed up to be surprisingly easy. I expected to stumble upon some blocker issue any time that would make it impossible for me to continue — but one just never materialized! It's written mainly in Nim and provides enough primitives to allow creating Java "stubs" for native .so libraries, so that .apk-s can be built in Nim WITHOUT JDK AT ALL. The Android NDK is still kinda needed/useful, though IIRC mainly for access to adb, and especially adb logcat (which you'll need A LOT for debugging if you try to use this contraption).

I'd love to One Day™ Rewrite It In Rust, so that we could write .apk-s purely using the Rust toolchain, just using a JNI library as appropriate, sprinkling the code with some proc-macro annotations where needed by the assembler (for stubs), and possibly adding some lines in a build.rs (for .apk packaging).

The .dex assembler itself is at: https://github.com/akavel/dali — you may like to check out the tests at: https://github.com/akavel/dali/tree/master/tests to see how using it looks like.

An example project with a simple .apk written purely in Nim (NO JDK) is at: https://github.com/akavel/hellomello/tree/flappy (unfortunately, given Nim's poor packaging story, it's most probably already bitrotten to the extent that it can't be quickly and easily built & used out of the box). I recorded a presentation about this for an online Nim conference — see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9X5NCwPlI&list=PLxLdEZg8DR...
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> Those are already minimal. This is too.

If everything is minimalistic, nothing is.
And when they blow up, half of Germany can not be inhabited anymore. Germany is small and extremely densely populated. You can not compare it to the US where nuclear plants are in the middle of nowhere.
> GP did not say that you support right-wing populism but that your post was a perfect demonstration of it.

Sorry, but what's the difference? That's being needlessly pedantic on a technicality.

> Just like you twisted GP words in your previous post.

I didn't twist his words because I was contradicting the political situation in Germany, not his opinion. And then he called my take as being "a perfect demonstration of right wing populism" which reinforces my point that you can't contradict the status quo in Germany and have a contrarian voice, without being called a right wing populist and people immediately bringing up the AFD even though you never did and don't even remotely support them.

But since you all brought it up, the Afd situation in Germany is something that's real that should be resolved through education and public conversations and debates, not silenced and swept under the rug pretending it doesn't exist as that just makes the problem worse.
Maybe I am a canary for a new "feature"? I don't see how it could otherwise break for an individual.

The first app i searched for is shown as installed in the video, but I had the identical issue prior to installation.

I am in the LT store, not that it should make a difference.
Urbit may benefit more from developing a mythos rather than focusing on killer applications.
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Calibre has a server mode that comes with a HTTP UI allowing downloads but also has a built-in reader.
I listened to an interesting podcast about India, and how the relative lack of access to piped, potable water in the home was a significant factor in women not being able to enter into the market economy. You can't live without water, so somebody has to go and get it - that is usually the women of the household who have to trek hours to draw, collect and transport the water back for home use. The opportunity cost of doing this is, is massive. The best thing India can do - if it wants women to enter the market economy - is a nationwide plan to plumb every household in the country
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256484
In IT we (wrongly) use the word "production" to refer to the systems in operation serving customers: ie. the car that has left the factory. I don't know much about cars, but Toyota has a reputation for high reliability there.

In manufacturing, production lines instead refer to a previous step in the lifecycle, still in the factory. That's where you can pull the andon cord.
"specialized hardware" sounds like hardware drivers could be involved, which is out of scope for Wine.
They rewrote, which is known to help too. Going from 30 to 15 instances is not bad but it's very likely that a Java-to-Java rewrite would have helped go down too.

The big one however is going from 200 Python servers to 4 Erlang ones: a 50x reduction is quite something and a Python-to-Python rewrite would not have allowed to achieved a 50x gain:

> All this is possible because Elixir, and the Erlang platform underneath, are fundamentally designed for always-online software with many users. When you use the right tool for the job, the benefits are clear.
> What's written is correct, what's the issue again?

The fact that the feature promised is impossible. I'm quoting some comments from which this whole discussion has started, since you don't seem to be able to follow:

> dgellow: They got lot of push back because what the core devs were describing Vlang to be was technically close to impossible

> amedvedikov: There were no close to impossible/missing features.

Static analysis (autofree) with reference counting, by itself, cannot theoretically free all of the objects during the runtime of the program. And I know that you know that since you've made the decision to switch to a tracing garbage collector.

The choice of tracing garbage collection makes the initial claim much less impressive and innovative - Go already has escape analysis, which is basically an implementation of autofree. But Go used a garbage collection from the start, so escape analysis is just an optimization - exactly what autofree is for the current V with GC.

V promised something impossible, it's not a big deal, we all make technical mistakes and learn from them. What makes it a big deal is your stubborn attempts to rewrite history and gaslight people.
>History is the record of top players completing good quests.

I wonder at the extent to which you have to be insulated from regular intellectual life to write something as silly as this.
I learned a lot from the first few pages but it really escalated very quickly at some point
> Governments, and perhaps Unions, are by definition (correct me if i'm wrong?) an entity that is by the people and for the people

I never heard of this definition for unions! Unions definitely aren't for or by "the people", that would mean everyone. Unions are - by definition - a group of arbitrarily defined "workers" lined up to fight the "management", another somewhat arbitrary group. They are inherently exclusionary and divisive.

Unless you're a communist, in which case you think managers, company founders, shopkeepers, farmers etc aren't really people.
"Moby Dick is a combination of a beautiful story combined with the most boring details imaginable about whaling."

As a Neal Stephenson fan this actually makes it sound quite appealing!
Yes, public opinion is often idiotic.
On Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra_PDF is amazing!
So called "Kleingewerbe"/"Einzelunternehmen" are not limited to the 22k turnaround. You can make millions that way, if you want to.

When you outgrow the 22k though (that limit is called "Kleingewerbe"), you'll have to do advance VAT returns and stuff like that. That's what I meant with much easier regulations when you start/stay small.
From the linked GitHub repo:

> As for the heap allocated objects, they will be allocated from unmanged(non-GC) memory, and will be allocated/freed exactly like in Rust.

I understand this decision, but it would also be interesting to see a version of this that hijacks the global allocator and the alloc types to use the GC instead (while still allowing you to opt-out and use unmanaged memory).

Good work nonetheless!
KOReader with Calibre Content Server does handling the actual content. KOReader also has its own seperate sync feature. Don't think it'll do stats though.
Now they can hire 4 more engineers :P
My only problem with Google Photos is that I can't back it up to my NAS the same way I can easily do with Google Drive.

Currently the only option is to request a Google Takeout every couple of months and manually copy the ZIP to the NAS which is a pain.
That’s exactly the thing? Why would you bother optimizing the code, looking for overallocations, leakage, tweak parameters, when you can just take a friendlier language for the same benefits.
The economy is not going downhill, its stagnating. And this is due to the dependency on cheap russian gas that the conservative party somehow thought was a great idea.

The decision to phase out of nuclear was good, as import of nuclear fuel has similar problems as the import of fossil gas. Additionally, there is the nuclear waste problem and the risk of a major reactor catastrophe which would make Germany uninhabitable. It is debatable whether this should have been done after coal phase out, but this decision has been made by CDU in 2013 and is currently not reversible anymore. There is no fuel, no functioning reactors and no companies willing to operate any reactor and no insurance willing to insure them.
This is terrible, but I relate a humorous misreading of the title that occurred just now:

"The sudden demise of Indian Ventures killed thousands of startups"

Indian Ventures sounds like a legit VC firm in the SW US.

On topic tho, it's so weird that diclofenac kills vultures. It's such a useful and good pain-killer. Vultures are super interesting because they are very hardy and resilient to many shall we say "discomforts" that would be lethal (concession for hovering pedants: "exceedingly harmful") for humans. Makes me wonder if there's not some toxicity with diclo that we haven't noticed yet...

2nd order effect related: this is one of the things I'm so worried about when people talk about deliberately biosphere-engineering the extinction of mosquitoes. I know they 'seem a senseless pestilence upon the good Earth', but I think they're kind of vital in the same way. Not as obvious as carrion mungers, but vital non-the-less. If we eradicate them, I see more pandemics (concession for skeptics: I think it's related to immuno-modulation and horizontal gene transfer).

Vultures are truly the death-eaters of nature. It's weird that a pain-killer kills them.
If metadata like read progress is stored along the ebook files, you could try an Android based ebook + simple file syncing utility, like syncthing.
Interesting that although worker-owned they were still managed by professional managers and had that hierarchy. And it was the hierarchy that failed, not the worker-owned aspect. Managers incentivised to act in their own interests rather than the interests of the organisation is a source of much evil.
Any more links to this / discussion on this?

Would love some talks covering where the adjacent areas are to the cloud offerings - are you thinking at AI inference startups or more dev tooling?

The oddest trend I have noticed (may be selection bias) is how many people build dev tools these days... to the point even non-devs are starting to talk about their no-code builder startups... it's getting crazy.
Yes wholistically this is probably only looking to cover costs. The low volume maunfacturing may be half that but you end up with so many other costs.
Still many many orders of magnitude simpler then the cheeper PI it plugs in to, which saves enough with scale to be viable.
If one was to do this as something other than a "fun project", wouldn't it make more sense to do a CIL backend for LLVM? That way any language utilizing LLVM would get be able to target .NET, or am I completely misunderstanding how rustc and LLVM works?
Building nuclear plants takes forever and Germany has no reliable fuel source. Even Sweden is rowing back from their plan to build 10 new nuclear reactors.
I find it hard to understand how anyone could possibly be this dismissive about something they have no experience of, in public?

OK, so some of it is campy adventure pulp, but fortunately someone's collated the best and most long-lived works into the SF Masterworks series for people to pick from.

Phillip K Dick would probably get the same kind of praise as Joyce if he hadn't been ghettoized as "SF".
What's the connection between your Firefox and VSCodium? Or did your system run out of virtual memory and start killing things at random?
I argue every project has to go through three phases

- no idea what's wrong

- No idea what's right

- We know what was right, but the world has changed now.
I don't think it would be hard to collectively agree to take less money or reduce everyones hours if the alternative is to lose the business entirely. You could use majority voting to prevent a single person from sabotaging the business.

I think the biggest obstacle for worker owned businesses is the funding, not the absence of a hierarchy.
> I'm not sure why you think labor unions would impose them

Because unions have often in the past imposed various credentialling requirements, followed by quotas on the credentials given, as a way to push up wages.

For example the UK health system is wrecked by this. Medical unions insist on very low numbers of school places, too low to meet demand, so the government is forced to rely on immigration to fill the gaps. The unions love this because they're all overtly left wing organizations and want mass migration, also they see immigrants as free Labour voters. But being unable to actually train sufficient doctors is a bad place for the country to be in.
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That problem is not just limited to India - it's just as bad in Africa [1], where it is linked to all sorts of issues ranging from school attendance to violence against women.

[1] https://blogs.worldbank.org/water/closing-access-gap-water-a...
I imagine most consulting is operation specific rather than sector specific. For example, the experience of raising a few rounds of VC money would provide opportunity for financial consulting; the experience of hiring 50 engineers for HR consulting; or spending a few million on ads for marketing consulting.

Disclaimer - I have no consulting experience.
For technical references it's a very sad day if the only thing I can find is a PDF or ePub. It hasn't happened yet. Technical references aren't read sequentially; random access is essential. By far the best technology available for random access is a book. Web browsers are a close second, but only if the content has been formatted specifically for the web.
Yes, that's Russian literature. Even before communism the melancholy is strong.
I'm thinking about doing something like this, but it involves work. I'm going to find native species, maybe focusing on some insect that's in decline, find it's nursery/food plants and fill an area with them, along with any other plants and fungi that have symbiotic relationships with them. Then apply for a grant that specifically targets the threatened species. That way, it's official. It's a ton of work though.
I'd like to second the Culture, but just to add (minor spoilers ahead) that it's also a distopian depending on your point of view, which makes it even better.

In the Culture all real agency humanity has is lost to machines (Minds).

Humans have about as much say in important matters in the Culture as dogs do in ours, when anything really important happens (e.g. the events of Excession) they're not even involved.

For any individual human it's a utopia, I'd probably prefer to live in the Culture, but whether it's a good thing to aspire to is something the reader needs to decide for themselves.
Feels like trying to untangle my headphones (though tangled cords fall under knot theory).

For anyone interested an algorithm for untangling a planar graph is shown at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00454-008-9130-6 (preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0709.0170.pdf).
I am sorry to hear that. Please accept my apologies for a quick and easy sarcastic comment that cut too close.

Good luck with the future job hunt.
yt-dlp which the article links allows for auto filenaming templates that support channel name (or ID though it consumes more filename length) and the service it was from (eg: Youtube, Vimeo, Reddit). If you add the option to save metadata to the video (with the required dependencies) it also saves the full URL to the file, depending on the service.

A more robust method is also saving the full metadata to a separate JSON (though if one likes to rename files then it has to be remembered to rename both the files).
No one would pull the Andon cord if they thought they might get fired for it.
Dark Messiah had unique combat mechanics in hazard filled environments, where you could create all sorts of physics based accidents to eliminate enemies.

Game combat was showcased in the demo which made a lot of people at the time to believe it would be the game of the year. Unfortunately the demo contained all the best levels and the full game fell short with less engaging ones.

I did not play much games since that time so i do not know if some other games outclassed the Dark Messiah combat experience but trying the demo is worth it for a lot of fun in great level design. https://archive.org/details/DarkMessiahMightAndMagicDemo