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> Irrelevant

What the actual fuck? There's an embargo, limiting access to most of the world's products and markets, imposed for 66 years on an island nation, please do spell out exactly how irrelevant is that...

Even with that they still managed to survive, and while surviving also educating the vast majority of the country, up to the point where they export doctors since that kind of labour is not under embargo from the USA.

> Just ask cubans, don't argue with me.

I have many Cuban friends, I'm originally from Latin America, and they absolute hate how unjust is the embargo being kept for so long, as much as they blame the Communist party of the 60s they hold a much worse grudge against the USA for destroying generations of Cubans that had nothing to do with the Missile Crisis.

By the way, your whole comment is irrelevant to my question, what the actual fuck does Cuba have to do with the EU and the linked article?
SNL’s intent is not to “light a fire”, it is to be funny, which shaming the wrong party makes it not funny.

And I don’t see how lighting a fire under the wrong entity’s ass helps anyone other than Boeing.
A long time ago, my grandmother got a call one day saying that I was hurt badly and needed money. That I was afraid to contact my parents because I had been doing something I shouldn't have, and all my grandmother needed to do was send money to this hospital, which was just some scammers fake information.

I hate scammers. The idea that now you will be able to create videos, that interact and respond to questions, as if there is a real "grandson" on the other end of the video call is disturbing. I don't know how we deal with that.

Legit question... how do we deal with that?
Maybe the citizens voted like that because of things like this:

> As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/05/amster...
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off topic: It's always fun reading the writings from Englanders about topics that are not foreign to America.

I understand the vocabulary that I've never read before but it's like reading a passage from the 18th century. :)
Alternatively, Europe continuing to value the rights of its citizens over those of corporations is a great thing for Europeans. Thanks guys!
"Efficient" here is amount of CO2 captured by area. Not energy input, and certainly not by capital invested, but possibly by labor too.

For energy conversion, both by area, energy input, labor, and quite possibly by capital invested too, but both are close on that last one, so there's no clear win.

Both carbon concentration and solar energy capture are improving really quickly, so that picture may change soon.
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That’s not true.

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

Population of the Netherlands by country of birth (2022)

Dutch (74.77%)
Turks (2.44%)
Moroccans (2.38%)
Surinamese (2.05%)
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Energy use for AI is interesting due to exponential growth. Most energy spent by these companies falls under existing categories like office HVAC which isn’t going to change much globally.

However AI as an emerging technology could quickly go from irrelevance to significant in a fairly short period and some lead time before the actual impact is useful.
It's not that they won't sell at a loss.

It's that they won't sell at a loss AND take on a new mortgage with a rate that is 2-3x what their existing mortgage costs to service.

Owning a home creates losses of its own. I'd know, with my water heater going out, furnished basement flooding in a freak incident, and a tree falling on my roof, all in the same year. If I could get 3% on a different home, it wouldn't take a ton of enticing. Not doing it at 7% for anything though.
Monitoring is invisible control.
Was that ever the case? Even if you rent a storage unit for instance you need to insure it.
There is an actual market for buying IPv4s, meanwhile you can get millions of IPv6 addresses for free. This means that connecting the next billion will be much cheaper if they don't have to compete with companies with far more money.

So no, it does not mean screwing over the poor.
We averaged about 1 bomb explosion a day in 2023.
Complying with subpenas sure, but AFAIK 23andme et al. voluntarily sell access to searching DNA data to law enforcement agencies. Does Nebula do this?
> C can teach you useful things, like how memory is a huge array of bytes

Careful: In C, memory isn't a huge array of bytes.
iirc, a rogue wave is 2x the local max. 2x or greater, yes, but 10x...i'm unaware of recorded examples.
From memory. And this could potentially be wrong, but I thought that a police officer explained to me once that for video evidence to be valid in court it had to be seized and not volunteered. So that this means in this context is that it's not personal, they just want the evidence to be usable in the end therefore it has to be technically seized, i.e. forced from you with an order. Even if you were volunteering it.
detailed steps: https://www.secondstate.io/articles/wasm-runtime-agi/

or run with a single command: https://www.secondstate.io/run-llm/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQuY7dHfWrM :)
Please let us know if you have other concerns or bump into any issues? There is a different LLM based article for each model, like the Mixtral MoE https://www.secondstate.io/articles/mixtral-8-7b/
Slightly off topic and maybe better as an Ask HN, but here goes.

There are apps for updating OSM that will let me put in the information for the houses in my neighborhood, for example, but that gets tedious. Are there any scripts (python, shell, ?) that would make that easier?
Good catch, I didn't notice that or the safety brochure title.
Immigrants and people of migrant backgrounds (2022)

Nationality, Population

Turkey 429,978
Morocco 419,272
Suriname 359,814
Indonesia 349,301
Germany 342,925
Poland 220,980
Syria 126,260

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

Every non-European country on this list besides Suriname is majority Muslim.

Also, note that your data appears to reflect only registered immigrants.
Relevant: The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...
It's the standard developer story. 50 hours into development, you're like, wait, how long would it have taken to go to each album and click Select All->Download?
More like a big truck?
How have I not seen this before? I love the versions where it's slowed down, but that's something anyone can do. This. This took effort. And a hell of a lot of creativity.
It's 996 system, from 9AM to 9PM, 6 days a week. Not that it really matters that much, but it was found illegal Supreme People's Court in 2021.
I think this statement was long ago amended to:

"you should learn a systems language, if you want to be a 'complete'/'well-rounded' SWE"

C was never the point (it was just the common low level language), the point was that just learning PHP/Python/JavaScript/Ruby wasn't enough to get a full grasp of everything that's going on, since they hide a lot of the warts from you.

I, personally, still believe this. That being said, you can definitely make a career out of doing nothing but JavaScript/TypeScript/React, PHP/Laravel, RoR, etc.
Apropos the discussion of the warning lights, it sounds like there may be some human factors engineering issues as well.

https://youtu.be/5FcyvFfHsjQ

It would be nice to get the black box data, but Alaska mishandled the box and allowed it to write over data from the flight in question. Oops.
Ah, I see. On my screen resolution, this image was hidden in a carousel.
Not being able to drag items onto the taskbar is the reason that I refuse to "upgrade".
It's great for business that America is business-first, citizens' quality of life... Come maybe third or fourth in your priorities?
Help us understand: what is the model of memory in C?
Author (probably) needs to learn C.
When lax QA testing / engineering practices / boost the share price strategies from move fast break stuff e-commerce/social media practices seep into real world systems companies.
One reason to learn C is to grasp the basic syntax and control structures that it shares with many languages in the same family.

For me, awk, PHP and JavaScript come to mind, but the list is rather long:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-family_programming_l...

The 40 pages of Chapter 2 in The AWK Programming Language (first edition) is a superb introduction to the syntax and control structures in this family.

https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_P...

Other reasons to use C are speed, control, and systems programming.
I wrote https://github.com/twpayne/osm-extract for exactly this.
Look at the numbers, not the colors.
Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet
I think this accountability is a good point… if someone told me absent any other information that a company had the issues Boeing has been having, then I would assume they get shut down or forced into a restructured management with hugely increased regulatory oversight.
Seems fair. Right to privacy seems more important than a package.
Police could still investigate if you hand the video to them and not the public.
Truth is irrelevant to extremists.
That comment thread is wild. Do you think it is genuine?

If what that commenter says is true, the whole company ought to be shut down.

It’d also be an easy sell for either of the two presidential candidates - one can say he’s clamping down on incompetent elites who aren’t that elite after all; the other can talk about a profit-seeking company killing Americans.
That will depend on how easy it is to get visas to countries with more desirable regulations.

As for the other point, I still don't think Anthropic is available in the EU. Bard wasn't available at launch either.
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I agree with the comments on Reddit. It’s gonna be an interesting decade.
Nah, they'd live in a house that they rent from Blackrock. Possibly at a lower rent due to reduced demand without small landlords in the fray, and due to a lower cost of financing for Blackrock, but it'd take actually banning residential rentals to seriously move the needle rather than just change who the landlords are.
Would knowing the energy use of an ai product influence you to use it less than if you didn’t know? Or is it simply a curiosity?

If the latter, this regulation seems useless and performative.
Memory (i.e. the totality of the machine's RAM) isn't, but the subsets allocated to you are. Iterating a pointer on an array certainly will give you the next item in said array; it'll also give you something random should you go out of bounds.
>It's a good thing I wasn't making airplanes!

Although it appears you would have been immensely qualified to do so.
I spent 15 years of my career working in contract manufacturing, building and managing engineering teams building manufacturing & quality systems. A lot of what our company did was for regulated industries (defense & medical). What's not surprising at all is that Boeing customers would have conducted independent audits of the materiel being delivered to them, either while the planes were on the line, or post-delivery. That's to be expected, as is periodic external audits by regulatory bodies. What's mildly more interesting, but still not surprising, is that Spirit was so consistently upset with finished product quality that they contracted with Boeing to have Spirit employees colo'd at Boeing shops to inspect and warranty repair their planes. This is also not remarkable in electronics contract manufacturing: very frequently there are OEM employee squads staffing QA & Repair/RMA benches at contract manufacturer factories, for two reasons. 1) The OEM knows their product better than the manufacturer, and 2) Risk. Ultimately the OEM is accountable for quality to the consumer, no matter who the constructor is.

It mildly more interesting to learn that Spirit was not granted access to Boeing's MES, which leads me to believe that Boeing's stance toward Spirit is more like "they're our customer and they insist on on-site inspection & repair so we'll begrudingly allow it" than "they're our customer and we have a shared interest in quality manufacturing so we'll partner with them to ensure that happens." This is a failure of leadership and extremely short-sighted, and is virtually guaranteed to result in the sort of process failures and outcomes the throwaway describes.

It's not uncommon for OEMs to take over contract manufacturer's sites, either because of a strategic decision to conduct manufacturing operations internally [again], or due to persist or pernicious quality issues arising from specific partners' operations or at specific plants. This is relatively feasible in the case of most electronics and smaller mechanical devices, and contract manufacturers operate in a state of existential fear most of the time, knowing their destiny is in the hands of a small handful of OEM customers (just look at the impact Apple's quarterly reports and projections have on partners like Foxconn, Jabil and Pegatron). It's not practical -- or even really possible due to capital expense -- to do this in aerospace. For that reason primarily, I see no alternative than for Boeing (and others) to be forced into 100% process compliance by presence of permanent external audit teams based in corporate offices and every manufacturing & assembly location. I wouldn't be surprised, too, if Boeing were forced (for political rather than anything to do with quality) to onshore more of their supply chain[1]).

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235197892...
Seems quite shocking that an audit of structural integrity of an entire plane down to the bolt level takes only 4 hours in anyones estimate
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I didn't really vibe with this dichotomy but I did get the sense that both of them seem like a symptom I have seen often:

Too many chefs, not enough cooks

In general this happens when companies over-value management. If you find each "team" of 3-7 software developers have at least 3 "managers" on the team (in addition to the visual designer and other folks in productive roles): you've got too many chefs. Decisions have to go through the committee, the process, etc. Software developers that are making the product itself are rational, intelligent, capable people whose hands become tied behind meetings, documents, and permission-seeking. Too many chefs make for busy work and they focus on the wrong work.

One manager for 5-8 software developers is often good enough. Someone who interfaces with HR, handles administrative tasks, and is the voice of the team to the rest of the company at meetings. A good manager enables the team to do their best work and stays out of the way.
"Follow the lead of the FAA" is a laughable claim.

After the autopilot crashes, the FAA grounded the 737 until they all had safety upgrades. Boing threw a pile of money at congress, and the FAA was overruled.

This is textbook regulatory capture. They will bribe their way out of this like last time. Boing is /too big to fail/, which is the penultimate pathology before /too big to keep alive/.
That kind of thing is easy to handwave away when it does not affect you personally.

No, our justice system is probably not that effective either. But that is also a problem, so why should we create more problems like that instead of fixing the ones that we already have?
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Why is Alaska doing this? I agree, the FAA should absolutely ground them all and white glove everything.
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These days, to be "complete" wouldn't I need to know frontend JavaScript, neural networks, and a dozen other things I don't know? What does "complete" mean?
same result from what I've seen, but not scalable for larger amount of pages
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C might not be strictly necessary as a language one would write in.

But all of those problems that C++, Rust or Zig solve - these all are discussed in terms of C. Toolchains, OSes, concepts of static and dynamic linkage are all defined in terms of whatever few abstractions C provides.

And sometimes all you have is a good old C compiler. Because C is everywhere.

It is not necessary to know the language but it sure is useful to see beneath and beyond.
ExpressCard to M.2 NVME, https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/10/04/testing-expresscard-nvme...
“ It's to the point where every journal publisher and every editor will tell you, if they're being honest, that they have been and are continually being offered bribes. I would be very suspicious if someone tried to act shocked at the question, as if they'd never heard of such a thing. This is the state of scientific publishing in the 2020s, and we have to realize it. What we don't have to do is accept it.”

Well… then start reporting it with names publicly and to authorities…
that's not much of a defense

"Another problem with the claim that Chomsky’s theory of language “is being overturned” (as if it had ever been accepted, which is not true), is that it’s not clear what “Chomsky’s theory of language” refers to. He has proposed a succession of technical theories in syntax, and at the same time has made decades of informal remarks about language being innate, which have changed over the decades, and have never been precise enough to confirm or disconfirm."
My point is not about users but the electric grid. You need to start planning capacity long before the actual demand shows up.
I guess Airbus won the war.

There are passengers that don't want to fly on a Max plane, never heard of anyone that doesn't want to fly on Airbus. This might just be one more tiny reason for airlines to buy Airbus.
In the open source world, I think the equivalent here would be to export an internal function in the desktop environment so you can call it with a third party extension. Open source might help you choose the function, but that's not a ton of help if the project owner rejects your pull request because it doesn't mesh with their worldview.
Is this any different than what a virus would do?
Just put this out there:

The higher the stakes, the less we should trust what we're "told". Esp if we're told to "believe and don't question".

It won't always be obvious to you directly, why something is wrong or corrupt, rather this is a sense we have to develop over time: question the people and ideas that we're supposed to "trust".
I’m pretty sure Ned knows C. He’s been around for a while. He’s a name in the Python community. I’m reasonably confident he plays in the CPython interpreter when he needs to.
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This is pretty intellectually dishonest. Doubt the ad boycott wouldn't have been nearly as large - or maybe even happened at all - if it weren't for Musk letting Nazis have a field day on Twitter again.
Why would Youtube care to police bad actors? They are taking this money directly to their quarterly revenue.
I think I've adequately explained what it is that bothers me about it, and it's not them getting points.
Nice, the ad hominem begins. I maintain software written in C.
If the car crashes without being your fault (or when the car crashes in self-driving mode), the insurance will claim it is your fault.

The ability to disconnect wireless should be mandatory, and done via a hardware switch.
Sorry, but this is misleading at best, and an outright lie at worst.

The majority of immigrants is from the EU, directly followed by European descend (Ukraine). There are those from "western countries" like the US, Canada, Australia and so on. The vast majority actively recruited to come work in IT/startups, other knowledge-jobs, healthcare or "logistics". Farm work too, though that's seasonal so more complex to calculate.

The amount of "muslim immigrants that cause problems" is in the hundreds, at most. It's truly insignificant, unless their "ideals" are so opposite to yours that every individual becomes a problem. But that says more about your personal stance than about the actual problems.
I work as a software developer but once trained as a barista when considering opening my own coffee shop. I can offer some fact-based reasoning as to how different coffees have the capacity to taste different (whether people have the capacity to discern the difference is another matter).

The dominant factors in the flavour of coffee comes from the preparation, both the roasting and the brewing.

Roasting reduces the acidity of the beans and draws out oils towards the outer surface. Both the acidity and oil content of the affect the flavour, with the acidity directly impacting bitterness and the oil impacting the smoothness.

The amount of total acidity contributors and oil contributors that are drawn out of the bean when brewing are a direct function of water temperature, water pressure and duration. Too low a temperature and the resulting drink is more akin to watery coffee dust. Too low a pressure and you get sort of the same results.

An ideal temperature and pressure combination, given a fixed duration (let's say 30 seconds) draws out enough of the oils to balance the acidity to get a good strength coffee (optimal bean to drink yield) that doesn't taste horrid. The acidity takes longer to draw out such that too long a duration results in a more bitter (and generally less acceptable) flavour.

That's a rough overview meant only to highlight that it certainly is possible, from both roasting and brewing, to significantly alter the flavour of coffee. I've oversimplified for brevity.

But can differently-grown beans of the same type affect flavour?

I don't grow coffee beans but I do grow tomatoes. From personal experience, the length of growing season, the amount of sunlight and the average temperature across the growing season affect the quality of the fruit. I find the same for sweetcorn, squash and many plants that grow above ground.

I don't think it is a stretch to suggest that the same factors have the capacity to impact the oil content of coffee beans if nothing else.

If growth conditions impact the oil content of the beans and the oil content of the resulting drink impacts the flavour, it seems plausible to suggest that the growth conditions can impact the flavour.
They're also the airline that skimped so much on maintenance that a stabilizer jackscrew nut was stripped bare and killed almost a hundred people in a crash off the coast of LA. https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-price-of-an-hour-the...

They also fired the mechanic that raised this issue before the accident. It could have been avoided if they had only listened to him.

It is indeed a bit ironic.
I doubt many advocates for htmx (or Hotwire) believe React is being abandoned right now. However, they do represent a serious challenge, because they’re not just marginally faster or more ergonomic like, say, Preact or Svelte - they represent a complete paradigm shift from how we’ve been building Web apps for the past ~decade. Being able to have over 80% of the interactivity you can get with React while expending perhaps 20% of the effort (no build step, no client-side data modeling and routing, no client-side state, easier for server-side oriented devs, use a language you’re already proficient in, reduced cognitive load, etc.) is huge.

Many pioneering technologies are initially met with skepticism. A decade or so ago, jQuery was the clearly dominant client-side library. Very early adopters of React and its siblings were swimming against the tide, but eventually they made jQuery much less relevant.

I’m not saying htmx will definitely become what React is today, but the belief that a dominant technology or paradigm is safe from disruption has been repeatedly proven wrong.
so, you're off the grid?
Not directly but it makes the price go up so the company can raise money easier, issue new shares at the higher price, etc.