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The bureaucracy is a pain... the taxes are a pain... but otherwise, it's more of a cultural issue than a legal one.

Finding people who'll work for free in the begining is hard... unless you're personal friends, no way. Working more than 8 hours a day is a no-go for most people, especially professionals in whatever field you need. 5+ weeks of vacation is a must (both legally and in a sense, that everyone will want and expect that). On the other hand, wages are lower than in US.

There are things that can be optimized.. i'm a coowner/employer in a small eu country, and we require workers to pass a health check to start work + additional ones every 5 years or less (5 years for office work and other "normal" jobs, and less for eg. truck drivers, pilots, etc). But somehow, those health checks are not transferrable between employers, even if it's the same kind of work (eg. office job -> office job), so if the employee of one company went through a check two months ago, changes a job to another office job, the new employer has to pay for a new health check which will check the same things as the previous one two months ago, so it's a few hundred of euros of cost and sometimes even a few weeks of wait time.

Need a really short-term worker (eg. organizing a concert/festival, need someone to work for two days only?)... no way, you can only get student workesrs, because the hiring process is too long, noone will change a job for two days of work, and you can't get the unemployed to do it, because they'd have to restart their unemployment process again (a lot of work), to get benefits back.

etc.
With such wrappers, it should help to have an interface there to interact with the lower library directly, I think.

For example, there is the ziggy-pydust library to write native modules for Python in Zig, and it certainly looks prettier than the usual Python.h import. Still, there is also .ffi to address functions directly that are not yet implemented but are available in Python.h.

If such an option is not available, one often wants to replace such a library and prefer the original one.

However, even this is in a way a wrapper (a native module), and sometimes it is better to use ctypes directly, for example, for the sake of speed of development.
> Make every task you would like to do — including meetings, “to-do’s”, doing nothing, watching Game of Thrones — a calendar entry.

If your stress level is so high that doing nothing becomes a task you have to schedule ahead of time, you’ve got bigger problems than a calendar app can solve.
I don't think Europe should be just like the USA, sorry if that was unclear. I don't feel strongly either way -- I can see benefits and drawbacks of each style, though I moved to the USA.

I just find it amusing that the linked website (and other calls to make "EU friendly for innovation") assume that the EU is like it is because of ignorance. No, it's because people want it to be this way.
>Why does the EU need to accelerate it is fine as it is?

If European companies don't succeed European states will collapse into poverty.
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More people also mean a bigger, smarter pool for recruitment into mental health professions. Again, the key word is massive parallelism: more people working in specialised fields, at the same time. And there are A LOT of specialised fields nowadays.
When people who don't want to be parents become parents out of obligation they tend to f up their kids.
President; managing director.
Not defending isOdd in any way, but the example shows that even something as clear-cut as testing a number for oddness isn't that easy to get right:

isOdd(-1) === false

(-1 % 2 === -1)
Because we're idiots and terrible at forward planning. Currently pensions and retirement ages are based on the idea that there will be some large cohort of people working to pay the pensions of the folks that are retired. In fact, governments are even borrowing against future pension contributions made by that cohort, so it's not even that the future cohort needs to pay for the current cohort, they need to cover it and some to make up for the lending. Realistically, this is never going to happen, and this is where fiscal policy starts to deviate from mathematical first principles.

In case there is some kind of reduction in the workforce, then we do not have a plan to care for our elderly. Already, young adults are finding it difficult to afford homes for themselves, even with a higher proportion of families with two incomes.

We would see an increase in the chasm between the rich and poor, as those able to own property would be able to both look after themselves and their families, and would be able to continue to grow their wealth by charging rent to those who are unable to afford to buy. This especially would be accentuated if population decline were gradual, as then the rich would be able to continue to snap up the homes that come onto the market and rent them out.

A short sharp halving of the population would likely leave a surplus of homes on the market, at affordable prices for everyone, and would perhaps even lead to a better quality of life for most. But that's not an organic process, and certainly leads to a worse quality of life for the unlucky half...
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What do you mean with inpossible? You are aware that what radio equipment does is often equivalent of analog operations like multiplication, addition, etc. just at high frequencies?

Sure accuracy is an issue, but this is not as impossible as you may think it would be. The main question will be if the benefits by going analog outweigh the issues arising from it.
Got it, I think we were editing comments and the same time so it created a confusion. Cheers.
The way they refute it is interesting.

> Those authors observed that fluorescent dyes injected into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) via the cisterna magna penetrated further into the cortex during sleep and anesthesia. They interpreted this as showing that molecular movement into the cortex must be faster during these states. However, the concentration of dye in any brain region will always be the difference between its rate of arrival and its rate of departure and so increased dye penetration in sleep and anesthesia can be equally well explained by a reduced rate of clearance rather than an increased rate of entry.

So the previous paper assumed that the presence of dye further into the brain meant more clearance, but these authors point out that the presence of more dye could mean less clearance (because if the fluid isn't being replaced as quickly the dye can simply diffuse further). The previous authors also injected dye into the CSF, which complicates matters as the CSF is moving both into and out of the brain all the time.

However:

> Our data in Figs. 2 and 3 show that, averaged across the brain, clearance is reduced by both sleep and anesthesia

... if you just focus on average dye concentration in the brain, and you inject the dye directly into the brain (the parenchyma) rather than into the CSF, the mean concentration is higher after a period of sleep than it is after a period of wakefulness. Which suggests less clearance, rather than more clearance, during sleep.
I am European but ur reply perfectly represents why the EU is doomed to fail. The monopolistic super companies will be created no matter what EU does. They are and will be just created somewhere else and EU will be left with nothing just bunch of tier2-3 suppliers to these behemoths.
I cannot tell for sure if units are really all power of 10.

I found some datasheet that states 80GB of VRAM, and a BAR of 80GiB. All caches are also in power of two. The bandwidth are all power of 10 though.

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/gtcs22/da...
I used ChatGPT 4 while doing some freelance projects, and considering the time it has saved me, it's easily worth the 20 bucks a month. It is by no means perfect, but I look at it more like a super powered stack overflow.
At this point most of my cerebrospinal fluid is replaced with coffee, so I don't know what my brain is supposed to clear out during sleep.
by what sense does one 'feel' tired?
I disagree about the "finite number of high paying jobs", and the "finite number of houses".

You can always build more houses.

As for jobs... have you noticed that thing where programmers tend to create work for other programmers? The creation of a database engine means now you need db admins. The creation of an open-source OS means now you have sys-admin jobs.

Docker/Kube get created, now DevOps jobs are a thing.

LLMs get invented, people become 'prompt engineers'...

in a post-industrial society, where you have an entire country being fed by like 5% of the population working in agriculture, the majority of work isn't 'necessary' - if all Rolex advertising executives were to disappear tomorrow, life would go on just fine. But somehow, people are willing to pay for these jobs, which creates a demand for jobs that help the Rolex ad execs live better lives (high end sports coaches, fancy TVs/electronics, annoying smartphone apps...), and then you have demand for those newly created jobs to have their own set of 'useless' luxury goods and services...

so long you have enough people handling the 'basic' jobs - food, construction/trades, clothing, there's no reason I see that would prevent the rest of the society from engaging in self-indulgent, overpaid intellectual work.
I mean there's tons of IDLs, so many no one can agree on which one!

oblig: https://xkcd.com/927/
I suppose it's a subject I've long wondered about - am I just some sort of biological robot fulfilling some pre-determined program? Or have I actually been equipped with some sort of agency? I guess it's the old free will question and it may be unanswerable. That said, I can't say I've ever really felt much instinctual desire to reproduce, and if I have, perhaps I have reasoned myself out of the idea in some way. Either way it would seem that I am an evolutionary dead end. Am I supposed to feel some way about that? It seems like having an opinion on g=9.8m/s2 or the boiling point of water; useless.
I guess I wasn’t sure what you meant by “target”. I agree with you on all counts, except that I’m not sure I interpret the comment as “hateful”. Wrong and offensive, yes.

I think they didn’t really understand the criticism of the ad, and decided that the reason people were so opposed was out of some irrational reverence for the Japanese, themselves irrational due to some spiritual heritage.
Not trolling, it's my genuine opinion, experience. For the spirit of curious discussion, what do you disagree with and why?
If ordinary low temperature (72 C) pasteurization is not enough for you, make (or buy) yogurt. When I make yogurt the first step is boiling the milk.

Pasteurization denatures enzymes, and presumably viral coat proteins, but it's not clear to me it degrades the RNA of flu viruses.
As opposed to optimizing the Genius efficiency by making structural changes.

It’s the most stupid of arguments for growth. Everyone in funnel optimization knows that.
I think these guys are doing themselves a disservice by donning the mantle of Defenders of California-Style Capitalism®, a thing that nobody likes outside of oligarchs and aspiring oligarchs.

Their first project, smoothing out and equalizing the process of creating a new legal entity, seems like an unqualified good thing. Nobody likes notaries, outside of notaries and aspiring notaries. Having Estonia's level of simplicity in business creation would be a good thing for reckless 'disruptive' startups, but it would be a good thing for small brick-and-mortar artisans and shops too.

If one of their subsequent projects is going to be 'let's make tax laws nicer for billionaires', then yeah, screw those guys. But the first one is already a tall order and I frankly think they're unlikely to get political momentum (see: first paragraph.)
You know what would change people's minds about taxes? Actually seeing how those taxes are funneled back to improve the lives of the people paying those taxes in a pragmatic and efficient manner.

What tends to happen instead? The cities/countries with highest tax rates (also in Europe) also seem to have an increasingly high violent crime rates. Public transport gets worse every year. The infrastructure rots and collapses everywhere. The public sector is growing increasingly fat and inefficient (pulling the taxes up with it), the queues for social help programs and payouts grows increasingly large every year (more and more people start depending on government payouts). Out-of-control asylum-driven immigration from 3rd world countries. Out-of-control expenditure on war and arms trading. Currency devaluation and high inflation due to bullshit government policies.

So as a tax payer, at some point, you start questioning everything. What are you paying for? Why? Where is this all going? And once you realize how the system truly works - yes, you start thinking about ways to minimize your tax footprint.
Ah I see now, you took issue with the example specifically, rather than the point. You're right, I see how it's a bad example, and what you've laid out is a very good way of handling dependencies.
Not literally, though 'feeling' does a lot of work in that sentence and rightly so. You don't exactly have a physical sensor to 'feel' sad either, which also happens up there mostly, but still people usually accept that we can 'feel' the experience of sadness.

Becoming aware of mental states influencing perception is how you register events up there (using meditation), which is what 'feeling' means in this context.
German here.

If the way you are building a product requires you to risk the well being of your employees, which these laws are designed to protect, you and your product are not welcome here.

Please build it somewhere else.
The dimensionality of cosine similarity refers to how you describe a given chunk of text, not how long or short the text itself is. It's easy for humans to visualize cosine similarity between two-dimensional vectors: draw two angles on graph paper, starting from the origin and going at some angle for some distance (normally 0-1) from the origin. You can visually understand that a 45-degree angle is far from a 270-degree angle, unless both happen to be very very short.

But that is almost of negative help in describing what's going on here: the vectors in question have hundreds (or more!) dimensions, and are (except very abstractly) impossible for humans to visualize. Cosine similarity only becomes useful, and interestingly becomes counterintuitively useful, when used at these higher dimensions.

My point was that the article doesn't describe the above.
It's nice in theory, but it's very cumbersome in practice.

Some things, absolutely. Maybe you can even schedule most things when the stars align. But not all tasks fit into a calendar (think subtasks in a project that you don't know when you'll handle, if ever).

If all you have is the calendar hammer, then all tasks looks like nails.
I don't really know much about the two people mentioned above, outside of being tech businessmen.

Tax avoidance is different from tax evasion: one refers to not voluntarily donating money to the government, and the other is a crime. The similarity in terms is misleading.

The characterization of the Andreessen quote is 1) inaccurate, as the antecedent in the actual quote is unspecified, and 2) described in the linked article as not being a direct quote.

Eu/acc does not appear to be promoting those two aspects of those two people. All people are multifaceted and flawed. Probably, the website is referencing them because of their apparent success as tech investors/founders.
Mathematica.
You conveniently missed the fact they got entrenched before interfacing with any EU jurisdiction. Can't get any simpler than that.

And what's up with the loaded statement about "tax and compliance laws just for your company to exist"...that's not true, any attempts to censor internet in EU are marginal so they could exist fine without that. But now that they want to extract profit of EU users and businesses, they have to navigate like everyone else.
But you could say the same about the US, it's 50 States with vastly diverse economic outcomes in each.
Goodness. I'm struggling to respond to this without any snark.

The US has how many states? With how many different rules and regulations between them? I'm sure some things are easier in the US than in the EU. But many things are not. There are some regulations, sure, but I can start a company within 2 business days and do business across the entire EU.

There are some differents in VAT across member states, but those are easily solvable by talking to an accountant. And sure, things get a bit more tricky when you grow to a multinational scale, but then I'm sure you can hire a few more accounts and other pencil pushers.

And hey, we've had free electronic payments across the entire area for nearly two decades. No friction of paper checkbooks here.
Screw voting, they need to run for office. I am Gen X and one of the things that bug me is that we (GenX) haven't had a President from our cohort. Bill Clinton right now is younger than both candidates and he was first president 32 years ago... Our generation has been missing from politics and it may be too late for us: Millennials should step up and run for office.
And I am pretty sure this App doesn't mention the carmaker position regarding tracking of its users and the possibilities if any of disabling tracking on said cars.
As a neurodivergent, the idea of scheduling this tightly makes me physically sick. I do need structure, even to the point of "I'm going to veg for two hours", but having it in a calendar entry will make me immediately ignore it.

To lists work really well, but I have to have a (at least) two-tier system. Stuff I'm doing now and a backlog. If all I've got is the backlog, it's too overwhelming
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What are the practical implications anyway?

Sleep is good and lack of sleep is bad, I think that is a pretty established fact already.

And this is important basic research, but I do not see how it would influence me personally.
Like I mentioned in my original comment (weird how many times I had to type this today), we can get by having a smaller population with western levels standard of living; there's a bit more detail on this in my last paragraph of my comment.
And, sure enough, there's a new AI chip from Intellifusion in China that's supposed to be 90% cheaper. 48 TOPS in int8 training performance for US$140.[1]

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
Remember that you are fully allowed to dump your parents. Took me way too long to realize this.
Pasteurization works in this case. Probably worth pointing this out to the raw milk drinkers (there was surprising support for this last time the subject came up on HN, but maybe they're happy to drink bird flu).
Why would these dependent on the speed of light?
What's the difference between a taxi driver and a "normal person" in this story? They're both making money from driving a person from A to B. Sounds to me like they should both follow the same rules.
I have replaced my calendar with todos. But not to the extent of this author.

I don’t fill it with junk — “watching game of thrones” (wtf), but it’s filled with items that generally have a due date.

- due date for water bill

- due date for credit card bill

Then it’s repeated monthly.

I have my creditors setup to auto withdraw from a throwaway bank account (I only keep it funded with the amount needed to pay my bills). Calendar reminder is there to remind me to check if throwaway bank account is funded sufficiently.

I do kind of like the idea of a “done” calendar which will give a better visual indication rather than just dismissing the cal notification
I don't think you were confused, I added the disclaimer after you commented to prevent further misunderstandings.
1) It sounds better if you say you were hacked by spooks rather than a teenager in their parents basement.
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This paints a picture of the future that imo is kind of fatalistic and dystopian. I personally refuse to accept that this is the inevitable end state of our society and markets.
>It gets things wrong enough that I have to manually check everything it does and correct it

Thing is, reading code is way faster than writing code
If that happens with the correct `.Include()`, you really should raise an issue with EF, trying to reproduce it. If it's not a random mistake in your code, that's a really big deal.
I can relate, but I interpret it as mental cleaning. Letting go of garbage thoughts etc, not literal toxins through the blood, but I assume it also helps this process, by relieving of stress. A body under stress works intentionally different, than a relaxed body. (Stress means some kind of threat, not the time to do cleaning)
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Its as if feelings are the driver, and the physical reality follows.
Sounds a bit like you are saying that it would be perhaps better to have European-made social networks instead of leaving up the entire market for foreign companies.
Would you say that philosophical zombie is computable? AFAIK dualists agree that philosophical zombie is impossible in this universe, which means what is computable is a conscious being.
Taxes are very much not voluntary donations to governments. They are enforced by threat of state-sanctionned violence.
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TIL throwaway bank accounts are a thing.
I'm not sure your point here. MS as a company is severely compromised culturally is the root of this discussion, which impacts its products, and you're splitting hairs specific product comparisons. This isn't specifically about "windows" its about a combination of security issues a single company has had and how that will impact all their products.

To compare "Microsoft" the company to individual competitors of its services doesn't serve anything here. Google, Amazon, Apple are its competitors in the relevant space (cloud/services/software) with similar size and scale would make for better comparisons if you must and OS is really one small part of the pie
> The issue here is that how "illegal" something is depends heavily on where you live.

The context of the discussion was the EU.

And the point stands. For 99% of people VPNs offer privacy even against the government, that would need to meet a high burden of proof and require a warrant to break that privacy.
Anytime states point a boogeyman, there must be a power grab lurking.
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Calendar doesn't work for me and since my ADHD diagnoses I know why -- I need a constant rotating set of micro and macro lists to barely keep some perspective of more than 2 days from now and get shit done.

Moving everything to a calendar immediately becomes background ignore noise for me and it's even worse because it comes from that bothersome box the phone
> It's the cheapest way to lay people off, get them to leave. The nefarious thing is it costs you, too.

And best of all, the hidden costs don’t show on the balance sheet for many many quarters, hopefully after the CxO has left and it’s someone else’s problem. It really is a victimless crime!
You mean like "Dicssy"? :-D
Absolutely a hit piece. Practically the first sentence;

“A driver who believed Autopilot could drive him home despite his being drunk. The car drove the wrong way on the highway and killed another innocent victim of Musk's hype.”

An absolutely absurd characterization of a drunk driver who operated their vehicle illegally and, surprise surprise, tried to pin the blame on someone else after committing vehicular manslaughter.
You have the same thing in Kigali, Rwanda. Most of the street names are just KG for Kigali followed by the street number. Google just insists that all of those are kilograms...
No, and we should not

http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html