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> Zoho started allowing African companies to pay for its software in local currencies. This decision has been a major reason for Zoho’s success in Africa as it allowed customers and potential clients to avoid regulatory hurdles around dollar spending

> Zoho has also been aggressive with its pricing in Africa. Zoho One, a bundle of more than 45 products

This is a major reason why Western products aren't landing as well abroad anymore.

This isn't the 1990s-early 2000s where your only options for software and hardware were Western (in reality only American and maybe a couple niche European vendors).

American companies need to actually localize and build the "cultural competency" muscle, which I feel a lot of Western companies lost by being overly dependent on China as a singular market.

This isn't 1989 anymore - Levi's jeans and Coca Cola don't cut it. Just about every major country is capitalist now.

American brands, technology, and R&D still have a lot of staying power and brand cachet (there's a reason Asian tourists love taking a selfie while touching John Harvard's foot), but there needs to be recognition that the delta between the US and other countries in R&D has drastically shrunk now that countries all over the world are much richer and have adopted American style innovation systems.

Localization and greater openness to foreign innovation will help boost our own products, economy, and soft power.

If we become too insular, then we doom our larger economy to the same mistakes France, Germany, UK, and Japan made.

Sticking to principles like Data Security, Privacy, and concierge Customer Support are legitimate differentiators that can by justified by customers to pay a premium.
Background: He is wheelchair-bound.
I'd avoid hero worshiping someone's life given how much of success revolves around being smart enough to be able to take advantage of opportunities, whilst also not suffer from physical, mental or familial setbacks whilst being born into a class/race/gender that promotes you. All the while not being distracted by things such as family goals, drugs/vices or commitments and having time, experience and most critically reputation which can be used to snowball into greater achievements.

To take nothing from Ludvig, simply explaining why not everyone can be him.
Indeed. And well put too
That's really surprising to hear! I have bought 100s of the 7.99 larges (don't get me started on the shift to one topping, where a sauce switch is counted), and have never arrived to an incomplete pizza... Though, I don't leave until the tracker shows done as my store is under a mile away, so maybe there's some speculative execution happening?
> With a web-of-trust, friends or family could vouch for your name, age or location; landlords could vouch for your address; employers could vouch for your skills; customers could vouch for businesses; and so on. As it doesn’t rely on government databases, but rather the people you know, it is truly decentralized and accessible.

This is literally how it works in majority of the real world; except for things where government has a role to play; most common case is taxes. If you are a landlord and collect rent from tenant and if either of you want to make tax related claims to the government, then you will have to provide/quote each other's government recognized identity in your tax returns.

For large parts of the population in the lower socio-economic strata, even this won't be relevant. And that reliance on that web-of-trust is the problem for them due to class discrimination etc. Hence, having a government issued identity (as a universal right) which acts as an anchor to which trusted attestations can be attached to is critical to make a difference in the life of the last person in that socio-economic line.

This is in essence the basis for India's identity system Aadhaar[1] – which is super minimal identity system – just biometrics (fingerprint, iris scan, head/shoulder photo, gender) – mapped to a a 12 digit number (basically a unique key in its database); plus 3 additional demographic fields – name, age (date of birth), address – which require external anchor proofs (which are very weak proofs).
Here's the full list of accepted proofs - https://uidai.gov.in/images/commdoc/valid_documents_list.pdf

1. https://uidai.gov.in
Hi there,

Can we use this app on multiple devices and sync documents?
I met a kindergarten teacher who left an ATC job for American public education because the pay was higher.

Let that sink in.
Source for those figures? Do they include suicides?
I think a 3-states scale would be good. Something like “happy”, “not happy”, and ”feared for your life”. You’d want a way to identify outliers. But using a quantitative scale for this is not a good idea.
Needs a rewrite in Rust. PHP is just hopeless
I think it's more-or-less accepted that most extraordinarily accomplished people remained single throughout their lives. Intuitively it makes sense, though it doesn't mean you can't become greatly successful even with family commitments.

Off the top of my head, I can think of at least two people who are very successful and prolific, who also have several children.
Super interesting. How do you approach the marketing and finding the first customers for your businesses?
I still remember the ad before the Simpsons from when I was a kid
Yep, I'm not sure Blow is the person I would take productivity advice from, to put it mildly.
For those with paywall issues.

https://archive.ph/nf6f4
At breakfast so I can't play right now, but those are some buttery-smooth animations on a new Android running Firefox. Nice work.
Read floppy disks and CD-ROMs with Raspberry Pi 5
Sure, but it's still a worthy distinction to make. "rendering the video into ASCII" is hard, but the hard work is generally already done by the authors of these libraries. The top-level comment failed to make the distinction that those libraries took a lot of genuine hard work to do their job to a high quality.
No tight coupling is a strong immutable dependency. That doesn't necessarily mean complexity. It could mean a leaky abstraction around a simple API, like half of POSIX etc.

What does screw you is things that are hard to reason about and you don't know if you can reason about them until many years have passed or you've tried to replace either side of the abstraction.
The quality and depth of Fabrice's output is insane.
So, just an endless cycle of non-economic activities?
This helps to answer some of the questions surrounding the decline of Disney animation after Walt died. In some ways you could blame the decline on him because he built an organization that depended too much on his judgment and guidance.

The fact that so many core competencies were lost over the years is mostly on him. But then he started CalArts too.
Is there a longer story somewhere about this decline ?

This piece is not really clear about the reasons _why_ younger talent wasn't being trained on those techniques. If you read the story it seems that everybody was looking forward at people learning and helping them doing so... so why was it not being done at Disney ?

The link only mentions issues with the union, but it doesn't seem to me reasonable to think that it was the only reason.
You’d probably be able to hire those delivery drivers back as part of the huge fleet of “drone engineers” you’d need to maintain the fleet as they crash, get attacked, batteries run flat…
Its amazing how much people think orgs like the church, government, business are some naturally malevolent or benign thing.

Just because they have been given some set of rights and social power.

Weve seen how they organize and adapt are what classifies the innaye "good"
True, which is perhaps why it's unclear what the difference is between a "skinny waist" and hexagonal architecture, "ports and adapters".
Mutation testing literally has a biological term in its name.
Monte Carlo SIM in the Browser with DuckDB WASM
The thing I find offensive is people defending a group of workers that do not have to work as a gig worker. I think most people would consider 4.9 service as nothing special and just the due course of delivering food, on time, not opening and eating my food, putting it somewhere accessible. We are not talking about a 3 start dining experience. If they are not making enough money to provide the minimum level of service for delivering food then they should do something else.

That is the problem with gig work though. A lot of it is self-filtering, I will see people doing deliveries/uber rides in high-value vehicles or massive gas guzzlers like trucks. A rational actor would realize this is probably below minimum wage when you account for all the extra costs which leaves you with the rest of the pool of potential gig workers that are not doing the math.
Why Effect is more important than ZIO by John A. De Goes (Effect Days 2024) [video]
Uunfortunately, few.projects.exist where.these pods can remain isolated.
>>And it won't.

The issues isn't necessarily software applications, it's hardware and form factor and controls. Noone has come remotely close to cracking that nut, but once they do, the utility seems obvious and inevitable to me. That utility being - I can sit on a plane, have multiple high-resolution virtual monitors open at once, seamlessly interact with my content, in a comfortable form factor.

Apple vision pro is:
-Too heavy, uncomfortable (form factor needs to be a pair of reading glasses at most).
-Video see-through (imaging method should be optical see-through for eye/brain comfort)
-resolution of 44PPD is sufficient for imaging text on a virtual monitor, but Video see-through method makes that irrelevant)
Hadley Wickham says it all

https://www.getdbt.com/resources/reports/state-of-analytics-...
Some people do:

1. If you have the time to cook the required amount of vegetarian food (not easy from experience).

2. If you can digest legume based protein without issue.

3. If you want to participate in social or culture events where eating meat is part of having a social life.

Are you a full time vegan / vegetarian? I did it for 2 years, I actually would call it a "luxury".

I moved to a country where it's not yet "hip to be vegetarian" and it's virtually impossible to survive in that place. There is no "Whole Foods" in many parts of the world.
Are you able to share a concrete example of this process in action to help us 1x plebs understand better?
More than 50% of that 10.84 consists of suicides - a fairly typical, convenient omission for folks with an agenda. "Get killed" would imply that "you" weren't the actor doing the killing.

Somalia suicide rate: 7.90 per 100K

United States suicide rate: 14 per 100K

How many of these US and Somalia deaths are associated with organized crime?
>But there is a vast gulf between humans, even those with severe developmental disabilities, and the smartest animals. Only a handful of animals can even pass the simplest knowledge to other, or learn by seeing others of their kind do something.

You're not doing your argument any favors with this kind of hyperbole. Many animals mourn and communicate that mourning. Many animals have been shown to pass along information to others about helpful or hurtful humans, good places to hunt or forage, even elements of culture like behavior or personal calls. African wild dogs will die of a syndrome akin to heartbreak if separated from and unable to communicate with their group.

It's not too much to say that humans and other animals think and communicate differently. Most do not have the physiological capacity for certain types of advanced and abstract thought that are central to our own experience of reality. But that's a far cry from having no semblance of conscious cognition. Too many animals exhibit behavior indicating an awareness of the self as a separation from the other and the environment for your characterization to be unequivocally correct.
> What's the secret?

Probably just time. If we assume that the time frame for all of this was 30 years, this means that he completed one of this projects aprox. every 3 years. This does not look that exceptional to me. The question is, what else he did during this time. In order to assess his work efficiency, we would need to know how many hours he really had to spend on this projects.
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the same happens for all browsers, Chrome, Safari, Firefox with default settings. but do agree this is not normal behavior :/

actually caching is happening, but it does not follow ETags or Caching policy headers that backends return, instead some in-browser internal caching policy being run
I'm extremely motivated by 2 things: 1) solving puzzles 2) freedom (and by proxy, money)

First, when a puzzle gets in my head its extremely extremely difficult not to solve it. I love architecting solutions to complex problems in ways that are simple and elegant. I find it difficult to sleep, eat, or do anything else.

Similar to when I was a kid and I realized I might be capable of doing a backflip on a trampoline, the very moment I had the idea that I COULD do it, i got sick to my stomach and laid on the ground wrestling with fear, but it consumed me for hours and hours until I just got on the trampoline and did it. I dont know what that is, but the same thing applies to puzzles, just without the fear.

I also have a friendly relationship with money. I absolutely love it, because it gives me freedom. freedom to wake up whenever, focus on whatever, do whatever, travel whatever, learn whatever, help whoever, etc etc.

These 2 things added together I think are a good combo for "success" (by my definition)
Low Level Programming by igor zhirkov
even though its not really about assembler specifically. it has a good chapter on it and teaches good to apply knowledge of machine-code/assembly to an architecture/system (amd64 in this case), and then spends a lot of time to teach how to translate that upwards to higher languages rather than downward. teaches u to find out and research stuff yourself too. he's a good teacher.

know its not about llvm and jit etc. - but imho the basics is first this, and then moving up. otherwise it's confusing.
Yes, that figure is more than 50% suicides - this is a common statistical ruse.
If you truly believe this is the situation, I just don't understand how you can also think that constantly calling them out does anything at all. Its not doing much right now at least.

All you end up doing from this point of view is reinforce the very pessimism you are arguing against by posing this entire aspect of our society as forever broken

Also, is it not "the media" anymore when I inform myself on the internet? Where is the line there?
> It definitely takes some effort up front. It took us a few years to really build up a good list of go-to recipes we like and get to the point where we could wing it in the kitchen without chasing down recipes for everything.

It can take a bit of time to get to the point where you can experiment and still be confident that the result will be edible, but that time investment is definitely worth it. It’s nice to be able to improvise whatever recipe depending on what’s actually available. It’s like a puzzle game, a kind of reverse Tetris when opening the fridge.

(It’s also nice to have a bunch of no-brain required easy and quick recipe for when you don’t want a challenge)
Paying for it doesn't make it a market
It can also use Maildir since quite some time...

Did you try with local mailboxes thus, rather than server-side IMAP?
Why are the Hacker News comments on this so different than when this topic came up a few years ago?

I feel like a few years ago this site was inundated with posts arguing largely "Anyone anywhere on earth should be able to do business in the U.S. and own U.S. subsidary companies, no exceptions."

These seem largely absent today.
Agreed. As a long time Ruby developer, I smack knuckles every time someone dynamically defines methods.

If I can’t find def method or def self.method, your code is not passing my review.
It would be nice to move about my home with computing interfaces arbitrarily affixed to "dumb" objects. Sure, the computer generally comes to me as needed, but as a pacer, I think better when I can move around, attaching different thinking modalities to different physical spaces. If those physical spaces also shared their context, that would be pretty great.

It would be great to ditch the phone, ditch the watch, ditch the laptop, ditch the tv, for mutable device that's whatever I want it to be wherever I am.

The big downside is that I don't want a big sweaty device attached to my head, fogging up my vision.

None of that is really spatial in the way that you're describing, but it's incredibly spatial from a user perspective.
Tesla has been promising full self driving (FSD) for over a decade.

I doubt Musk himself really believes it will happen in the next 5 years. The FSD jig is over for investors, there is simply no credibility left in his (or anyone's) FSD predictions. In current practice, FSD really means "remote backup drivers on standby".

https://spectrum.ieee.org/full-autonomy-waymo-driver

I predict that within 5 years, FSD will still be in limited trials and Tesla still won't be price competitive with BYD. It will become obvious that investing in China was a strategic mistake for this business genius.
Sorry, I was trying to expand on your points, not contradict any of them!
It has got to be more than that. I almost always have an editor open, working on some ambitious project. Without bashing myself too much, I have have 96 original Github projects, 90% of which unfinished.

All the finished ones are either tiny, or in such a small niche no one would ever use them or pay attention to them. Of the unfinished ones, they're all so unfinished that even if there would be something worthy of note in there, it would not be in a state that's marketable to anyone.

Of course I finished everything I worked on professionally, and there's some cool products amongst those, but no one ever paid me to work on something with global/cultural impact.

I'm not complaining at all by the way. I'm always having fun when I'm coding. But there's a definite difference between what I do, and what someone like Ludwig, or mitchellh, or Linus Torvalds, or Bellard, etc is doing.

At the very least, there's some focus and speed. I was pretty close to finishing my non standard conforming C compiler, and then Rust came out and it did everything I wanted to do in my C compiler and more. And then a couple years later I was pretty close to finishing my ECS system in Rust, and then my day job became super stressful for a couple months, making me too tired to code at night, and then SPECS was released which basically did what I was trying to do.

My favourite OSS project I ever finished was a Ruby framework for writing an AI for the Starcraft: Broodwar game. The amount of active people in the BWAPI community at that point was definitely less than 50. Most of them either did it in Java, or just in C++ directly, I'm pretty sure everyone raised their eyebrows at someone going through the effort of making Ruby bindings.
There are some that use the GBA slot for expansion too. The DS browser uses it for a memory expansion, and there's a Guitar Hero game that uses it for some extra buttons. When you boot the console with one inserted in Manual Mode it calls it a "DS Option Pak", and there's a lot more than i thought https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/DS_Option_Pak
I run a corporate blog. I would love it if Google still ran Reader and offered analytics on RSS use. If they were still running Reader, they would be the only company able to provide good analytics on RSS use. Plus they could essentially run ads on other people’s sites by running ads on Reader. This was just throwing away traffic.

As it stands now, the analytics situation for RSS sucks. You can basically track your server logs and hope the RSS bots for Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader etc are kind enough to tell you how many subscribers you have. But that says nothing of what posts are actually pulling people in.
On the same note, the implementation of Stuff in Ruby is not very ruby-like. It could have just used `.each` on the `@a_list` (in that case, you just delegate the implementation to `@a_list`, no reason to use a for-loop.
The only thing I'm seeing is a spinning globe on FF for Android. Smooth, but I guess I'm missing something...
Consider this project the R&D towards a scalable solution, mass production reduces costs. Even more so with automated manufacturing that will soon be possible with the new robotics
You're missing many things, but one in particular: curiosity.

It was an impressive "State opinion as fact, declare victory" mic drop though (the ending in particular, could it get any better). What do you give yourself, a 10/10?

I must say though, I do like the paper you picked as an example!
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