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> The comparison between Putin and Hitler is ridiculous.

And yet, here we are with another ultranationalist dictator hell bent on getting back that vital space and dreaming of fallen empires. Hitler had Charlemagne, and Putin has Catherine and Peter the Great. Putin did not gas anybody that I know of, but the gulags remained the whole time. It’s true that he is closer to Stalin than Hitler in many respects, but I am not sure it’s much better.

> Europe’s economy is in shambles, they do not have the power to push back if Russia and the US were to push for détente never mind that the country with the most EU influence (Germany) is a major dove on this issue.

That is a terrible misreading of how the EU functions. By design it cannot be dominated by a single country and Germany is basically following others. It’s not a major dove in any way, it’s just in the middle of the pack and they started from a fundamentally pacifist political background. The fact that they are merely talking about rearming is a demonstration of the seismic shift in domestic politics there.

Détente won’t happen in the current situation, regardless of what the US push for. They simply have no power to force that outcome. What would happen is another Korea, Georgia or Moldova: a country split in two, with one half living under yet another brutal dictatorship.
1 and 4 are the only viable options, full stop. If a business cannot sustain itself without piling on debt or abusing its employees, then it simply should not exist.
I know that the comment is sarcastic but just in case, this will have the opposite effect, yes nuclear bombs will produce a lot of heat but that is for short amount of time and fires it will produce will last for sometime. But on the long time scale (months to years) the particles will precipitate in the sky and trapped and will cover most of the planet by radiation clouds which will prevent most of the sun photons from reaching the earth. So goodbye for planets and it will be the worst winter in earth's lifetime.

Then you say small? But how can we have small nuclear war? The effects of any nuclear exchange will be seen throughout the world (not in geopolitical sense).
Yes, this also happens, the second scenario I've mentioned.

But I've heard about moving away from virtual servers specifically, or only using those for the highly elastic parts when the load fluctuates a lot. Bare metal is simply so much cheaper in the long run, if you know how to work with it. Yes, it's rigid in terms of provisioning, but it's the baseline (all clouds and VPSes have bare metal underneath) so it gives the best bang for the buck.
Seems more like delivery apps can't coexist with a living wage because the cost is too high. If the system only works on exploitation then it wasn't a good system before.

Everyone got drunk off VC backed loss taking to corner and monopolize the market but once they gotta turn a profit AND pay a living wage we quickly realize its never been a sustainable system.
What about this hockey-stick shaped curve ?

https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/07...
Given that every other warm interglacial period since the Pliocene ended in a slow slide into another ice age, a steady warming trend is indeed remarkable. There have been some 18 ~100,000 year ice age cycles since the Pliocene, and each glacial maximum ended about 3X as rapidly as it formed, so the world should be slowly cooling at present - but thanks to Homo ignis burning all the fuel, that trend has been reversed.

If you like, you could argue that human industry has saved the planet from another ice age anytime soon, but the job is certainly done at this point so we should stop burning fossil fuels now and try to stabilize the atmosphere at a constant steady state composition.
I would have if I could think of one. Also anyone would think those rhythms were chaotic if they had no cultural familiarity with them (including myself!), so I don’t see it as a criticism?

Here’s an example of someone with a lot of twitter followers in the tech world using information theory to compare across different types of music:

https://twitter.com/aidangomez/status/1749532024258412740
It really is a choice the writer makes. Stephen King is definitely a pantser...the starts off and knows not where the story goes. I am not sure, though, how much time he spends rewriting to fix plot holes, inconsistencies, blind alleys, etc. to produce a second draft.

Other writers can't write that way. They produce outlines so detailed that the actual writing is embellishment. Sometimes these writers are the opposite of writers like King...they start with the ending they want, and create a story that leads there.
I agree that most people are "average" (truism?), and that some are exceptional. And I agree that exceptional people sometimes achieve amazing feats in their field of endeavour. But what's so special about CEOs?
I personally find it amazing that everything we have made - every photograph, every book, every movie, and everything we will ever make can be given a unique 256 bit fingerprint that has a negligible chance of collision before the heat death of the universe.
It’s only coincidental that companies work in the interest of consumers. Profit is the only real incentive. Often times, the profit and consumer benefit are aligned, but it’s because of feedback systems like public reputation, product usefulness, pricing, and government regulation that those two things are coupled at all.

There’s no inherent reason why any business must work in the interests of consumers. Without social or government regulation, the dynamic reduces to an oscillatory predator/prey system, where maximal profit is extracted at any cost until the consumer base is damaged. The damaged consumer base reduces profits and causes the company to extract less, allowing the consumer base to recover… repeat.
Before the new fees I was only using these services when I had a 50% off coupon. After the new fees it just doesn't make sense outside of being sick or a last minute group event.

It's looking like a gig economy that provides guaranteed solid minimum wages is a lot smaller than what we've had so far. It might be a good thing, though it does feel weird to forcibly be telling people "no, you're not allowed to work like that" when the work is so low commitment.
That sounds true, but as someone who made the same shift, I think it is more likely that the rural people drink themselves into a stupor.

The history of human civilization is told through an ever-shifting lense. A lot of the modern problems have always been there, they just weren't seen as problems, there were no names for them or people hid it better. So if I hear such a claim, I need a good citation. Sure there are many reports of the bad situations in early industrialized cities. But how many reports of rural places that starved before had not been written because there was no one there to witness it? Cities did surely create their own breed of problems, there is no denying that, but cities also increased the visibility on problems that had existed elswhere as well.
I'm saying for mass adoption. I don't think it's going to happen either way, but if Mr. Patel is wanting specially-crafted AR advertising "experiences", I don't think it will be common for companies to invest in that to target even just 10% of the population.
I don't think we disagree on this point.

Externalities are both "a [pricing] distortion" and also "the primary driver of the environmental cost." The former is what allows the latter problem to persist, despite the efficient market hypothesis.
Type certification is a thing that exists, and the whole reason the 737 max is designed in this particular wonky way is so that it can grandfather into the type certification from the existing 737 family.

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

Having to mix and match pilots across the fleet is less efficient, what if you have a 737 pilot but the only aircraft available is an airbus? So, many airlines (eg southwest) will indeed only use one type, or only a handful of types. This also extends to things like parts availability etc.

The economics for switching away work exactly the same now as they did a decade ago when orders were placed: there is a very real cost to operating a mixed fleet and Boeing gets to extract a lot of that value themselves.
https://archive.md/DXY37
On a large enough 4K screen, 720p does not look great, relative to 4K.
> How did people in the 1930s understand this and pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, and yet highly-educated techies fail to grasp this simple concept?

People in the 1930s came right out of the Great Depression with 25% unemployment rate. Stuff had to change, and radically at that, which is why FDR got elected.

Today's techies, meanwhile, are largely decoupled from the actual realities of the people. We live in decent homes with fat paychecks, and despite us working for the same company as the barely-surviving delivery driver, our lives rarely intersect other than at the next food delivery.
The practice is common enough to have its own name: Stigler's law of eponymy.
Apple has the prescription lenses in the stores. If you bring your glasses, they have a device that will shine some lights through your glasses to determine your prescription and pop out the correct lenses needed for the Vision demo.
What happens in Gaza is both justified war and a massacre, because Israel does not fulfill its obligations under international law to protect Palestinian civilians.

More specifically Israel did not:

1. offer a refuge to Palestinian civilians with necessary infrastructure on the territory secured and controlled by its own military (i.e. on its own territory);

2. organize evacuation of people from war zone;

3. ensure safe passage for humanitarian aid in a sufficient volume;

4. start planning reconstruction and aid to help Palestinians building independent democratic state under the two-state solution.

I don’t want to start a long discussion on why this didn’t happen, just to state the fact that it did not and as a result numerous war crimes were committed, which could have altered the relationship with Arab states, but they didn’t. And that is a notable fact to me with regards to the specific person and company.
In NYC, the UI for GrubHub used to default to (I think?) something like a 20% tip; now it defaults to 0% and there's some kind of explanatory text about this.

I think you missed the reasoning though - they don't want customers to feel obliged to tip 20% on top of the increased prices, which they'll do less often or stop doing entirely. It's more like "you don't need to tip because a living wage is baked into the price now".
All depends on the setup. Pizza delivery run by the individual small shop has worked for 50+ years; they pay two cooks and two drivers and a waiter and feed hundreds of people a night while earning just fine. A single place to order all food from all restaurants at any point? Well something needs to give...

Alternatively it's simply time for people to learn to cook simple foods again, a pasta with alfredo sauce, fried potatoes with eggs and a salad, or a spinach quiche (with a 1€ supermarket crust) are all quicker to make myself than I get through any app's ordering process (ignoring here the waiting time for both processes to finish).
2012 is far past the pro police glory days that I think started to end firmly around 2008 with Occupy Wallstreet and Occupy Seattle but I get your general point
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This is a world that I have no knowledge of so I expect my comment is commensurately naive, but it does remind me of the days when I was an avid race-goer. If I bet on a horse to win that's all I wanted it to do; if the horse and jockey expended all their effort and won, fantastic, if they lost, better luck next time. Slow and steady may win the race in some circumstances but it's not the tactic most punters are hoping for. The analogy would be more complete if the loosing horses were sent to the knacker's yard and their stable hands all dismissed with only the trainers living to try, try, try again.
Photonic barrier doesn't seem to be a widely standardized or accepted term. The closest to what you're referring to seems to be something to attenuate effect of light on night vision equipment.

But back on topic: light cannot block light. First result on google. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/456409/can-a-lig.... Though I'll concede you a point in that, if their pupils are contracted more because they're using a brighter source, then the impact of your beam on them will be lower than theirs on you. That being said, I'd wager to say that the difference would probably be marginal, given that we're talking about light reflected at night (which would leave you with a pretty big dilation in both LED and halogen) vs. looking directly at a light source.
Or option 5) restaurants pay for their own delivery people which seemed to work just fine (pizza places have been doing it forever (I’m assuming profitably))
Boo-fucking-hoo.
Precisely what this guy is doing: https://jollyrogertelephone.com/
Ha! NFTs are an application of the Web3 tech. The volume of retail NFT is definitely heavily trending down... But there are other applications! This is good idea to dig into a future post - where are the innovation in Web3. The data suggests that the activity level is definitely going up, but certainly not with NFTs overall. #RIP
First thought I had: Very cool!

Second thought: If I received this card, I would think twice about attaching a homemade USB device to anything. Who knows what it might do? [1]

Third thought: I should let people I know that this is becoming possible.

Fourth thought: Wait a minute, any USB device is potentially risky, not just homemade ones. Carry on!

.. 1. https://usbkill.com/
Yeah, I submitted the article under a different title for that reason. Doing so is discouraged, but it’s reasonable for a case like this.
We share similar thoughts about the core of the auto-routing/placement/simulation issues being UX! We're a bit more bullish on code being able to fix that as well.

Noticing that these tools are infrequently even configured because it's simply too much of a pain to do so for every new design - we're hoping the expressive, reuse-focussed code-based-approach means people need to capture these things once and then everyone gets to reuse them.

This is all a while away, but after we're able to get design currently captured in schematics working smoothly we certainly plan to tackle auto-routing/layout as well
> you don't need to tip because a living wage is baked into the price now

That sounds like a really good change! Tipping is such an archaic mess.
It's a classic fallacy of "the old one may be extremely bad, but it's already there, so it's okay, but the new one needs to be perfect against anything any scenario someone can think about, no matter how far fetched". We have this pretty often here in Germany. The requirements for anything digital are so incredibly high compared to the non-digital version we have currently/had before (depending on whether we finally managed to introduce a digital version), it's just sad.

Let me send you that totally secure fax with my totally secure signature drawn by hand. Far more secure than a digital document signed by this scary, newfangled electronic signature, which could have been hacked and is therefore totally insecure.
oooh, "new Inquisitor books" ?
Will have to go have a look.
Inspiral Web – Gear Simulator
What do you think is the charge? Can I assume copying media without a valid license?
How sure are you that you know the speed limit and how fast you were going? Your speedometer likely read a different value than the police officer's radar. If you tell them you were going faster than they measured you at, which value do you think is getting written down? Also, even though you were speeding and were pulled over, that doesn't guarantee that you actually got radared. It's entirely possible that you were pulled over for something completely different, but by answering that question, you have just admitted to something else.
Yooz nedda'h gotta'h guy.. den, huz?
As a DBRE, I care mostly about DB performance, and not getting paged / blamed for things out of my control.

I fully agree and support that auto-incrementing integers should be used whenever possible. My preference for UUIDv7 over UUIDv4 is solely that they’re less likely to wreak havoc on the DB, if devs insist on having a UUID PK.
It sounds like an award for breaking Goodhart’s law, but it’s amazing how many kids don’t know this one simple trick to getting good grades and getting into a nice university (study for tests using available prep material).
> There is no good way out of the situation where both sides are armed to the teeth. The best bet is a political failure of one of the sides.

Look, we tried normalising relations. In the end, Russia just takes what it can. It’s lunacy to believe that everything would be better if European countries just rolled over, accepted being bullied, and just gave Putin what he wants. It’s insane.
> They actually moved humanity forward.

Yes, that's undeniable, but what I'm saying is I think they did a bad job and that we could be further ahead. As a small example, take the time wasted on developing for IE6 because anti-competitive practices were used to prevent alternatives. What's the opportunity cost in terms of the innovation that could have been achieved if all those development hours went into something more productive than fighting with a crappy product from an entrenched incumbent?

What if Apple would have embraced Java and Oracle hadn't fumbled / abandoned JavaFX? I would argue that developing with JavaFX was a better experience 10 years ago than WebDev is today, at least for line of business apps. Imagine if every technology like that had been allowed to survive (and thrive) everywhere. Developers would have significantly more choice and we'd have much less waste in the context of finagling with the current options to accomplish what we want.

> The whole Unix, designing only for the high-priesthood and everybody else be damned philosophy has probably held back computing more than anything Microsoft or Apple or Google did.

For a long time I've thought a lot of open source projects are "good enough" projects sponsored by big tech to ward off competition from high quality alternatives. As some specific examples, BTRFS with the parity patches that were rejected about a decade ago because they didn't match business goals or the WinGet fiasco that killed AppGet. Those are opinions. I'm not accusing them of anything.
I'm of the opinion that actual database schemas should be a private implementation detail of any given service within an organization, whereas workflows are not services themselves, but instead are clients of the services and so should only ever interact with services via their API (be it a web-service or otherwise (no love for CORBA, eh?) and never directly talking to an RDBMS.

(obviously the rules are different for KV/object/blob-stores and don't apply here).

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That said, if you need a stopgap solution for a problem like that, then take advantage of existing compatibility-shim features in a decent RDBMS: things like VIEWs and SYNONOYMs exist for this reason (and yes, you can INSERT INTO-a-VIEW).

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Another option is to constrain your DB designs such that all DDL/schema changes are always backwards-compatible (i.e. disallow dropping anything, disallow alter-column except to widen an existing column (e.g. int-to-bigint is okay but not string-to-UUID), all domain-model attributes must be initially modelled with a m:m multiplicity whereever possible, etc etc) - and you can enforce these rules using a DDL trigger too - and any changes made by a workflow's DML can be repaired by a background job.

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(Just throwing some ideas around)
Yeah, that's the tricky part that this seems to come down to.

A decision was made that a slave-wage is undesirable/illegal, so the wage-slave job goes away.

The argument is about do you believe people should decide for themselves that the wage-slave job is better than nothing, or should the government dictate that we don't tolerate wage-slaves by slave-wages here.

It gets messy because the "people should decide" message shares the same outcome as "corporates get richer", so strong incentive for the latter to amplify the former.

This whole story echos those union fights in our history textbooks.
Larry Niven's Known Space gave us the Kzinti lesson: "a reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive." -- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaponizedExhaus...
https://archive.is/Q6pYI
You're accelerating at 9.8m/s^2 toward your chair right now, so it depends on how comfortable the chair is.
What is interesting here is not the effort that went into the thing (although I am now planning a rewrite in Rust ;), but the output. Assuming it is true that HN standards for 'interesting' are falling, as you say, clicking on the link will tend to present you with a more interesting edition. Assuming it's not, it's still fascinating to look into a time capsule like this.
The impacts of climate change are nonlinear. For example 100 year storms become 10 year storms, weather anomalies like polar vortices become much more common, and in general climactic extremes become both more extreme and more common. More concerningly, tipping points are reached (in order to rebuild the polar ice caps we won't need to go back -1.5C, but -4C), and tipping point events cause cascades that lock in climate change.

Worse yet, we're exiting the stable climactic conditions that civilization assumes is present. Assumptions regarding maximum temperatures, precipitation, ground water are baked into our reservoirs, power transmission lines, asphalt roads, train tracks, et cetera. Increased extreme weather compromises our ability to maintain society; look no further than the heat domes in the Pacific Northwest or the cold snaps in Texas to see how those assumptions compromise basic societal functions.

0.5C doesn't imply slightly worse weather, it means the additions of staggering amounts of heat to our land, water, and seas -- and the resulting amplifications of storms.
It can be even more surprising when a character, planned from the beginning, suddenly leaps up and demands attention. Many years ago, near the beginning of writing one my several unpublished novels, I created a minor character essentially started demanding her due...she had a place in the story I hadn't anticipated. Eventually she became the protagonist of the prequel.
My guess is that it has to do with the election. Any automated use of Facebook is going to invite unwanted scrutiny, and so Facebook is probably locking down a bunch of third-party automation.
> Hmm... Is China betting on RISC-V chips?

In a word: YES.

A ton of companies are already shipping RISC-V hardware, mostly in the microcontroller sector but rapidly moving to larger parts. (Off the top of my head: GigaDevice, Espressif, Allwinner, WCH, Bouffalo, Kendryte...) These devices are shipping in end-user products right now -- they have a lot more momentum than Loongson, who've been making their MIPS knockoffs since the mid-2000s with limited uptake.