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World-wide car sales 2023: Around 70 millions
Cars sold in the US in 2022: Around 13 millions.

Even if you are talking only about Light Trucks and SUVs as an exclusively American choice, most customers in the BRICs and the most affluent developing countries now prefer a SUV if they can afford one. The only reason light-trucks and SUVs don't outsell light cars in those countries as much as in the USA is the income differential.

Cars per-capita? Well, the US has more cars per-capita than almost anyone, but not by a so big factor, it only has 2x the number of cars per-capita then, let's say, Brazil.

So, no, for what is worth, people seem to prefer to have a personal car as soon as they can afford one, and as soon as their income increases they also seem to have the same american stupid desire for trucks and SUVs.
I've met multiple customers where time to get a VM was in the weeks to months. (To be fair, I'm at a vendor that proposed IaC tooling and general workflows and practices to move away from old school ClickOps ticket-based provisioning, so of course we'd get those types of orgs).

And more often than not, it had nothing to do with managers, but with individual contributors resisting change because they were set in their ways and were potentially afraid for their jobs. Same applies for firewall changes btw.
in case you wonder what's happening in Dynamicland land, here was the last update from Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/July2023/
I used Auctioneer. But it couldn't do what I needed at the time, or maybe I didn't investigate enough (TBC/WoTLK timeframe). My scripts were no UI, no graphics, it would just output console commands. The Blizzard API was very easy to work with. Maybe 20 lines of LUA for iterating over every item listed on the AH.
Well played sir! Well played!
We're currently going through the largest tech downturn since the dot com bubble. It's not you, it's the market. Tough for everybody who is looking right now.

For the first time in 20 years there are more applicants than jobs again.
Any recommendations on sources? I'd love to jump in but don't seem to be having much luck on sources in particular. Assuming most of them are of the private variety.
Hi, yes 2 credits are free. So you can generate 2 kitchens freely. And since it's using costly AI models and hosting so that's why can't offer more free credits.
i'm more intrigued by the image of the rescue in the article where someone appears to have been riding a quadbike on a frozen lake (?!) and fallen in.

https://www.firetruckmall.com/AvailableTruck/10923/2018-Neot... this would seem to be the source, is it a test? but why would you use a real quadbike in freezing water for a test? Looks terrifying.
Ahem, They are only chosen by the author for the goal of reverse engineering and finding valid ids.

But he doesn't assign ids manually when writing the scripts.

As far as I understand.
Yes max woolf had a post here last week or two showing the differences
Was just there this past year and even as a visitor you can get a 1 month pass for 50% off all fares. I think it was 150 CHF for the pass. Paid for itself in one day with a trip from Zurich to Lauterbrunnen & back.
Please tell me you redefined human editable to suit you :)

That database is only accessible through one tool. Ok, two since powershell, but they probably call the same API so one single point of failure.

And its correctness cannot be verified - or fixed - if that tool fails.
Luckily, we still have Japanese car companies, to put a cultural barrier between drivers and bullshit.
"TORONTO, Feb. 16, 2023 /CNW/ - 407 International Inc. (the "Company") announced today revenues of $1,327.2 million for 2022, compared to $1,023.1 million for 2021. "

So about 1 billion USD annual revenue per year. 99 year lease.

The government of the time sold the lease rights for $3.1 billion CAD. So about $5 billion in today's dollars, about $3.7B USD.
Shouldn’t any Chromebook come with good sleeping/hibernate support as Google has some quality control and its Linux kernel?
Carrera Hybrid: Remote-controlled toy racing cars with AI augmentations
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Not the large state schools, but some that don't get enough students do based on your academic profile. In FL or TX, your out-of-state tuition is removed if you get other merit scholarships above a certain amount, so it ends up compounding.

I think the taxpayers would be pleased to take the $20k I'm spending there relative to the $12k or so that's spent on my scholarship?
I'm just a random dude on Hacker News, but I would suggest college. You can always change your mind and go back into the Industry, and you will be working your whole life. There is also more to college than education, especially for a young man like yourself. Think of it as practicing your professional Networking skills.

> The traditional wisdom that I'd read repeatedly until last year was job experience triumphs college and the opportunity cost is not worth it.

If you were taking on loans that might be the case. But in your case, you have a scholarship that tilts the opportunity cost.

To take a swipe at some conventional wisdom, yes experience does trump college eventually. But like a lot of things involving experience, people (like employers) only value it after you have it. Our profession is unique in that you can hack your way around college, but that is itself experience and you are competing with many others that are hacking that as well.

It is true that after a decade your college degree won't stand out as much, but when you don't have much experience a degree gives you a boost.

> startup

That's all you had to say. That is a large risk in these economic times even for experienced developers. I would look at this job with the same jaundiced eye as Silicon Valley equity options, and have a backup plan when things go sideways.

FWIW, I dropped out of college, worked for a while, and then went back to college. From my perspective it was worth the cost.
This is mostly due to an artificial timeout written within YouTube’s code to act as a laggy internet connection. While this action taken by YouTube isn’t brand-new, more users are starting to see the tactic in use.

Crazy. The ad blocker wars are reaching new levels. If this implementation is client-side the fix should be trivial. Thwarting ad blockers and optimizing ad delivery is the main focus at google and other ad-supported tech businesses such as Meta, not Ai or anything else even if Ai is getting all the media attention now.

Also, if I were an advertiser, I would not want my ads shown by people using ad blockers, no? These are viewers who are least inclined to buy anything. Google should take this as feedback that the ads are bad.
I know of a way to get data out of GCP for free, although I haven't tried it in practice. Wonder if I could find a buyer for this info ;)
Similarly, Resistor recorded a good progressive rock album called To The Stars, about a boy who builds a rocket ship in his backyard.

https://resistor222.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm6WMMgmMpM
> nobody would ever make the argument

> It's obvious that's not what anyone means

I disagree. Citation needed.

Regardless of what other people mean by "hard work", what exactly do you mean by it, and how exactly do the wealthy work harder than everyone else?

> why didn't they start a company like Tesla

Musk technically didn't "start" Tesla, but anyway there are several reasons. For example:

1) They didn't have the capital. Musk himself didn't have the capital to invest in Tesla or SpaceX until several previous businesses were acquired by bigger businesses. eBay acquiring PayPal was the big one.

2) They didn't want to? The smartest people in the world tend not to be motivated primarily by money and greed. Also note that Musk started out working on websites and financial services, which is how he made his initial capital, but that wouldn't necessarily interest auto or space engineers.

Remember that Steve Jobs made most of his wealth from Pixar and selling it to Disney rather than from Apple. Was Steve Jobs "smart"? Sure, but WTF did Steve Jobs know about making films in 1986? Nothing. He was just a rich dude with some capital to invest. Why didn't some indie filmmaker become a billionaire instead? Because indie filmmakers don't have the capital.
You'll struggle to see a doctor in a lot of Europe. The NHS in England has wait times of years for doctors visits. The Tory government are trying to move England towards a health insurance scheme.
that's correct. most beaches in Italy are privately held, with decades-long contracts

it's a huge scandal and yet very hard to solve because of the same dynamics of the bridge above: special interests, and hideous lobbying
Something I found about US manufacturing, or at least non-Software Engineering is that they really like using AI for everything. Esp on Twitter.
> It's owned by Spanish consortium, and was sold by a previous conservative gov't for a fraction of what it's made in profit, since.

It's actually majority owned by CPP( Canadian Pension Plan).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_407#:~:text=As...

> Indirectly owned subsidiaries of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 50.01% Cintra Global S.E., a subsidiary of Spanish firm Ferrovial S.A. 43.23%
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In an analog world, the government used to think that pushing papers around was part of the job they had to do. But with the digitization of government bureaucracy the systems have been outsourced to private entities. The government no longer has the know-how to do its core business, only to operate the system handed to them by these private entities.

Government agencies seem to think they are in control of the IT systems, as they have ordered them according to some specification they made up. They're doing the first step in a waterfall process of software development. But the waterfall process is not a good fit for software development. Sadly the people in charge has not yet learned that.

The IT knowledge and systems development must be moved back in-house, into the government agencies. The government must start seeing software development as part of their core operations.
Microsoft braces for automatic AI takeover with Copilot at Windows startup
There was some truth to that. The 737 MAX is a hot aircraft (a light airframe with new powerful engines) that could quickly get away from you. Most US pilots come from the military and are typically top notch. Third world pilots to be quite honest, don't measure up in all areas.
> Any tool, even if it had near-zero marginal utility must necessarily improve performance, as you can simply elect not to use it.

That might be true for any tool with consistent, predictable output that you thoroughly understand. Someone could easily lose a few hours dickering around with chatgpt only to realize they’re better off just starting it from scratch.
Access management can be harder than building queries if you start getting fine grained.
> He was already obscenely rich, to the level where gaining additional resources must have been useless to him.

You could have said the same thing when he was worth $50 million instead of a billionaire. For people like that, the mindset is endless growth at all costs...that's why they still turn up to work despite having money to live like kings for multiple lifetimes.
Pretty sure some of these laws are illegal in regard to many constitutions anyway. So sometimes these laws exist because they were not challenged yet and as a means to scare people. Switzerland might be different, but another country should and would enact a law that would force the removal of any CA roots connected to Swiss government because those would then pose an extreme risk to security.
https://sequencediagram.org/
> idea of a git branch exists independent of the manner a certain population agrees on its use.

No! A set of bits exists on disk. A piece of software (git) interprets those bits as a branch. The idea of a branch exists in the heads of the users - subject to the usual human limitations. While quite a lot of users will be able to be precise about what a branch means in terms of git blobs, there will be people using the tool and talking about branches who don't know that. But an idea, whatever it is, exists only in the way that people think and talk about it.

Even in this thread we have people fighting about what it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38999486
or garn (https://garn.io/) which is a typescript interface to nix.
Then somebody could maybe just copy and paste two, three of the failed problems into ChatGPT Plus and ask for some code solving the problems? Should only take a hand full minutes.
So is everything, youd be surprised how much time nuclear powered aircraft carriers spend running diesel generators, well, maybe "you" wouldnt. Just saying what you already know, everything the military touches costs too much, im sure hovercrafts are difficult with the skirt and fans, I would just say we dont know whether people would be willing to cough up for it. Crossing the straight headed into Seattle I could see navy guys from bremerton spending the extra money, for instance.
The Canadian government is paying for it in the sense that they're advancing the US federal government and Michigan the money that will be collected from tolls for using the new bridge. Canada will be paid back, as everyone agreed in the first place. Whatever I think of Moroun, he had very little to do with the necessity of doing that when this bridge was being proposed and planned in the mid 2010s, as Michigan had serious budget problems from the 2008 Great Recession.
It’s only a problem if you want to maintain support. If you’re ready to sever your Broadcom relationship, keygen away. I am not a lawyer, and am probably wrong.
His links are broken.
Your experience differs from mine. If I only count major incidents, I've had at least two occasions where a Linux operating system update completely hosed my system. One was a Rackspace VPS I never managed to recover, I had to use their management tools to download a binary image of the unbootable disk and fuss around to mount it and get my files off so I could build a new server.

I'm very hesitant to touch Linux updates, but I am occasionally "forced to" when I need to run a new piece of software that ends up being like pulling on a loose string on a sweater.
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Great article. At 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week - 10,000 hours of practice will take 250 work weeks to achieve. That’s about 5 years of nearly non-stop programming.

Realistically, it takes closer to 10 years to achieve that goal.
Indirectly owned subsidiaries of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board 50.01%[36][37]

Cintra Global S.E., a subsidiary of Spanish firm Ferrovial S.A. 43.23%[36][37]

SNC Lavalin 6.76%[36]

But the original lease sale was far more skewed:

"The Ontario corporation, known as 407 International Inc., was initially owned by the Spanish multinational Ferrovial through their subsidiary Cintra Infraestructuras (61.3%), the Montreal-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin (22.6%) as well as CDP Capital (16.1%)"
there is Hamas in the West Bank. That statement is simply false, Hamas and Islamic Jihad have a strong presence in the West Bank.

https://acleddata.com/2023/12/14/the-resurgence-of-armed-gro...

It's true that Hamas and Islamic Jihad do not fully control the West Bank. But once someone says "there is no Hamas in the West Bank", that's a dead giveaway the person is talking either in bad faith or is simply clueless
I have a relatable path that I hope to help you with your choice. Don't let others influence you too much and make your own decisions yourself.

I'm a foreigner also living in Berlin, I have moved from a third-world country here almost a decade ago, but already had graduated and had worked a few years. Back then, having a recognized university diploma helped me get my visa processed. With the new German immigration reform, this shouldn't be a problem anymore. Nowadays I'm waiting on my citizenship, it feels great!

I've also tried to get into the States, but oh boy, the work visa, the lottery, and the COST suck. My wife wouldn't be able to work there. Healthcare and public services are utter garbage. There are much better immigration laws here in Germany, and you are already on your path to citizenship (in case you want to live in the EU).

You need to decide whether you want to shoot big and hopefully win big (US). I'm supposing you don't have rich parents and kind of need to do most things on your own and support yourself, so failure on those plans would be a big setback. If it isn't the case, I'd favour going to the US.

But if you are kind of just scraping by (like I was), Europe. Europe is the best.

Building a successful life in the US supposes the job market will be good when you graduate as if you can't find a job there, you'll be out. Europe will still accept you, but you'll have wasted some money and time.

In your situation, I'd continue working and attending a Berlin university while you work at night. Go to a private one that offers it in English (I'm supposing you aren't fluent in German), those that you pay some bucks and get a degree.

Take good advantage of this time while you are young(20s) and build yourself a life, it may be 4 years that you need to only work/study, but it will be worth it. It's time to "build your base", doing this is much easier while you are in your 20s, later on, you'll likely meet with people and end up with your routines etc. Take advantage of this time to develop yourself.

People like seeing you have a degree when reading your CV, trust me. And in Europe not so many care if you graduate from a top university, unless you are from Harvard.

By choosing this, I'd sincerely consider asking some help from your parents to foot the bill of living in Europe and studying.
Is it running as a general desktop os or is it for some specialized embedded device?
Working conditions get better and worse over time according to politics and economics. Marx predicted that they only get worse.

Conditions were in some ways better in the 50s. They are in some ways better today than in the 50s. And they're way better today than in Marx's lifetime. But my point is that there's no reason the pendulum can't swing back without the overthrow of capitalism, and that is contrary to Marx's teachings. Therefore it's true and ironic that Marxists played a role in improving working conditions.

In terms of class resentment, I think you're wrong. It's mostly upper-middle class people who hate the "ultra rich". And there's nothing unnatural about extreme inequality, though it's not desirable in every way.
I mean you can call it AI to sound fancy, but in the end they're just using computation to predict the properties of a material and then optimizing for certain properties. If that's all it takes to call something AI then it would have been more impressive to find a new design without using AI.

Basically I'm not sure why this is touted as 'AI comes up', instead of 'scientists use computer to'.
Oddly relevant. A man and his daughter drove a quad over ice and went through it in the Netherlands last weekend, and the girl passed away earlier today. :(
They didn't take control of it, they raised the money and built it because the government didn't want to fund it.

> However neither Ontario nor Michigan wanted to finance a river crossing. Michigan automakers subsequently decided to take the initiative to connect the Midwest to central Canada. After they created a bridge company, the project got into trouble when a Toronto financier hired to sell its securities instead embezzled the money and ran off, before ultimately committing suicide in a prison cell after conviction for murdering a drugstore clerk. The bridge boosters turned to New Yorker Joseph A. Bower, a businessman who specialized in rescuing mismanaged companies. Bower succeeded in raising the necessary initial $12 million. "The only way things can be done today, is by private business," said Henry Ford, who backed the project.[15] The bridge was constructed with investment from Detroit business people incorporated as the Detroit International Bridge Corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_Bridge
> as the noose kept tightening around Russia.

Was it tightening? Or was it looser than at any point in time since the WWII?

What do figures like the number of troops, tanks, missiles, airplanes say? Do they confirm the Russian sob story or do they debunk it?
It's funny, I can say the exact same thing in reverse. My two latest laptops are boring: integrated graphics, intel wifi, run-of-the-mill hp "enterprise" fare. One running a zen3, the other an 11th gen intel.

On the AMD, I couldn't use the webcam for a good six months under Windows. It wouldn't detect some part of the USB tree.

On the Intel, for a good year, I couldn't get 4k@60Hz over DP via the HP dock. Then at some point, installing Intel drivers fixed the issue, but Windows would insist on "updating" to the older, borken version every so often. Now Windows also has the correct drivers. A different dock still doesn't work. Then there's the fact that the Windows installation (11 22h2) doesn't support the touchpad, nor the wifi card. Bonus points for the default install insisting on connecting to the internet for the online account thing.

Linux had 0 issues on both since the day I got them.

As for HiDPI, yeah, the Linux story, at least with X11, is non-existent if you want multiple HiDPI settings. But Windows is a crap shoot, too. It's easy to get a blurry mess: just connect and disconnect an external screen, and even the freaking windows 11 start menu is borked. It looks fine when you open it, but start typing something and enjoy the blurriness. Apps will be stuck with either enormous or tiny text. The context menus of the systray icons will appear all over the place.

Some apps manage to combine everything: tiny text, yet blurry, and displayed in the middle of the screen. To name and shame: Fortinet VPN client.
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Different design goals. While there's tension between Windows/Linux (which, interestingly, has over the years partly been released by each adopting pages of the others' playbook) there are a lot of complex or critical systems in the world, where displaying an error message to the user is clearly not a great design choice.
> Cars keep you much better protected from … traffic;

I think you mean car traffic. Cars create most of the dangerous traffic conditions that exist in our cities and neighborhoods.

While the GP’s post is idealistic, so many places are working to make non-car travel safer, it’s not hard to imagine a future where people choose more convenient modes of transportation as they feel safer doing so. Bikes as an example, tend to be easier to park, avoid most traffic issues (never really get stuck in traffic) and generally don’t have to look for parking at your destination. The only downside is their utility is generally mostly for local travel (last mile) of about 2 miles.

My guess is that for people that live within 2 miles of their work, school, and other needs, you’ll start seeing most households drop to a single car, with electric bikes making up most of the utility needs. It’s hard to predict a timeline here, and is highly dependent on a communities attention to making roads safer for non-car users. But for communities that do make those safety improvements you see big upticks in bike usage for things like taking kids to school, daily food shopping, and travel to work.
Sleep works across all of my homebrew PCs, AMD and Intel, but most have broken login managers after sleep.

It's probably trivially solvable, but I haven't cared enough to fix it when I can just kill/restart the service.