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>Highly skilled immigrants are especially good for the economy and for the tax base, which pays for social services.

Except they're getting tax breaks, it's in the title of the article. The only winners from this will be landlords and property owners.

This bullshit trickle down from well-off tourists with laptops we keep getting parroted is a scam, that doesn't benefit the average joe there who now has to deal with even more expensive housing.

Why do you think all countries whose economies profit the most from tourists and "digital nomads" (most of Southern Europe), also have the highest wealth inequality, crappiest wages and most unaffordable housing for the locals causing all their youth to emigrate? Where are all those benefits for them you keep talking about? Their economies should be booming by now, and yet they aren't.

If you wanna improve your economy you want to attract companies and investors who fund companies and create well paying jobs in the country for the locals, not techbros who can outspend the locals, as that's just economic colonialism that only benefits the asset owning class. Turning your country into a coworking space for remote workers to party, won't fix your economy or benefit the average locals.
It doesn't directly, on net though, the average tech nomad is coming in with a salary that's 4-5x the average domestic worker, so that 20% goes a lot farther. Add to that nomads are far more likely to need to buy crap (26% vat), and best of all, leave once full freight taxes hit avoiding any long term dependence on the state.

Sucks for housing prices, but it's not a giveaway that it often gets suggested as.
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is half the text blocked out on purpose? i dont get it
Have migraines from childhood(semi regularly, few per month). There have been a period where it stopped completely for several months.
Had medication prescribed, but did not like side effects much (getting high, blood pressure rising, etc), and since ibuprofen usually helps to mitigate it, I stuck with it(I only get a migraine like once a year that is unbearable, to the point of crying).
Few months ago, went on again to "researching" (listening any podcast episodes I could find on migraines) this topic a bit, and what I heard that I missed before - there is a considerable percentage of people who get migraines from fermented foods(or at least a connection they have made). So eliminating such food lowered my migraine count quite a bit (but I still do get them - and I think a handful of them might be stress related).
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> Officials in some local authorities are proposing that libraries can be operated at times without any professional librarians, relying on self-service technology, smartcards for entry and CCTV.

But none of the jobs of self-service technology, smartcards for entry and CCTV are currently done by librarians.
The game also had custom maps that allowed for sandboxed programming / scripting.

A lot of very clever custom maps ("use map settings" / UMS) were made.

MOBA genere spawned from a Starcraft custom map called Aeon of strife. Starcraft also had a map called "the unknown" which is basically Among Us - made years ago.

There were "turret defense" maps, RPG maps, maps where you controlled one unit and tried to dodge things (bound maps) and many other maps that just changed the balance.

In the golden times players didnt have to play the cutthroat 1:1 all the timr - you could spend days playing custom maps (archives have tens of thousands of them), custom campaigns, modes with more players like 2v2, 3v3 or 4v4, or even 8 player everyone for themself.

Apart from "difficult" maps, there was a whole community playing maps with (nearly) unlimited resources - "fastest maps" and "big game hunters" (BGH). Those maps were easier so no "ladder anxiety" by having to play the best all the time.

Starcraft 1 gave a lot of freedom to have fun. You didnt have to participate in the incredibly difficult duels. You could play a custom map, or some 3v3 with your friends - where overall skill level was lower, but fun level was high.

Killing custom maps is in my opiniin one of the reasons why Starcraft 2 failed. Blizzard wanted to capitalize on them, but didnt know how.
In Starcraft Brood War there was this game list - you could select UMS mode and pick from probably 100 open games. In Starcraft 2 you could only play what blizzard wanted you to play.

I guess Blizzard was unhappy that Warcraft 3 spawned the whole DOTA game - which was also a custom map.

Regarding hacking - many people learned java writing bots for Diablo 2.
I would have thought this problem was easy to solve: "Yes, look it up, but remember your source, there is a lot of bullshit on the internet. Especially don't trust AI tools, we know those often return nonsense information."

(Actually, didn't ChatGPT have a disclaimer right next to the prompt box that warns against incorrect answers?)

So I'm more surprised (and scared) that students don't just use LLMs for sourcing but are also convinced they are authoritative.

Maybe being in the tech bubble gave a false impression here, but weren't hallucinations one of the core points of the whole AI discurse for the last 1.5 years? How do you learn about and regularly use ChatGPT, but miss all of that?
> Yes, they can be substituted but they're definitely a staple in good German Hausmannskost. Maybe not so much in the South: Swabia subsists almost entirely on Spätzle noodles and Bavarians seem to prefer various kinds of Knödel.

While the classic northern "Salzkartoffeln" are basically non existent in Swabia, potatoes in general play a big role in traditional Swabian cuisine. Whether its "Schupfnudeln" (finger noodles), as salad, Knödel, fried potatoe slices, Hitzkuchen/Blootz/Dinnete (Pizza with potatoes instead of tomatoe/cheese), Kachelessen/Griebaschnecken/Schlanganger (various potatoe and milk dishes), Gaisburger Marsch (stew), "sour eggs" (potatoes and eggs in a vinegar sauce).

But unfortunately most of those dishes are not really cooked anymore. (For "sour eggs" thats a good thing, this tasteless sour graybrown dish can die in hell for all I care.)
Self-identifying as an introvert or an extrovert is a limiting belief. Free yourself from this pseudo-science garbage.
> Highly skilled immigrants are especially good for the economy and for the tax base

I don't think that this is especially true of the digital nomad laptop tribe. It is, perhaps, true of traditional skilled immigration that's tied to opening a business or working in a target profession.

Portugal, however, is going to get a lot of the former and probably rather little of the latter.
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This sort of "atrociousness" is also why it made the competitive scene work, because it allows skills to show through. If you select-all, attack, the pathing will cause you to lose the fight against someone micro-ing the units.
Cool. Let's take a well-known word prompt and rebrand it to pattern for no reason whatsoever, other than confusion. I know programmers love fancy labels but this is just forced
Cooking something for 15 minutes more or 15 minutes less can cause massive differences in texture and taste, and we are not even talking about the potentially big differences that having slightly different ingredients can cause.
SC was successful in large part thanks to the community, so maybe to replicate the success, game developers need to figure out how to recreate the same thing and coexist with a robust community. I think monthly subscriptions are an absolute blocker for some great community contributions, for example.
... at what point does Believe Music just get put in its own timeout for this shit?
Thank you for this link.

I'm busy reading through the blog and there are some incredible programming insights in there.

Highly recommended.
That definitely looks man made, because of the symmetry and the decorative shapes protruding from it.
This is their youtube page, which might be a better demonstration of what this actually is: https://www.youtube.com/@alien-project
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> If you find yourself in an organization where the cost of engineering is high, consider an investment in your infrastructure.

Whilst I agree with this generally, infrastructure engineering can be very expensive.

Yes, it can reduce costs of other areas - but the reduction is offset by the cost of engineering, maintaining and evolving said infrastructure.

If you want to make engineering cheaper across the organisation, take that into account.

> Infrastructure, on the other hand, is much easier to augment and often times higher leverage.

No, it's not. Infrastructure is harder to augment. The potential blast radius of infrastructure changes is, by definition, much larger than in any other area.

> I view infrastructure as the parts of a system that reduce the cost and blast radius of introducing new or removing existing functionality.

This is the crucial bit. Infrastructure, when implemented well, can have those effects of reducing cost and blast radius of other areas. This is at the expense of increasing cost and blast radius of the infrastructure itself. Poorly implemented infrastructure can be a huge net negative.

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In essence, the post is (relatively poorly IMO) advocating for more and better platform engineering. I agree with the general sentiment, and I even like the proposed "litmus test".

The article itself could do with more thoughtful arguments though.
Perhaps I left out "trying to".. But really it means they have to raise their salaries for all doctors less to bring their compensation for hiring in new foreign doctors up to an acceptable level for some nation's expat doctors.
Javascript is kinda weird as the numerical keys have their own special ordering.

Python is probably the better known one, as it went through "arbitrary but deterministic" (before 3.3) to "wilfully non-deterministic" (from 3.3 to 3.6) to "insertion ordered" from 3.6, the latter of which was initially an implementation detail of improving the hashmap but was then made into the language spec starting 3.7.
On one hand, open source thrives in a very well connected computer world, on the other hand, the fact that programs can phone home and update themselves every day has redefined software entirely, and not always in a good way. We are making much less robust software today. Both because it relies on connectivity, and because we can ship it first and fix it later.
Yes, I really want to be able to release data dumps as this opens up a lot of great opportunities. I'm also worried that people may have lost trust in a service like MLS now that it has shutdown and abandoned all of the data contributors had collected.

At the moment, there simply isn't enough data to anonymise contributions.
I was going to say just that. I think we have this debate for a long time ( at least 25+ years ) unfortunately CS won and CE lost. If only could Computer Engineering course just offer an additional one year materials for all the additional CS stuff.

Big Tech also have a preference on CS as well since a lot of them also came from CS background.
Perhaps it is because of the impossibility of coming to full clarity? It is the process of the truth developing that is more important than any absolute truth, which, it is always clear, turns out to be just a stage of development.
Hope Craig is better.
One thing I’ve noticed, is that at least in the free version, if you ask chatGPT for sources outside itself, ‘can you give me a link to somewhere on it internet where it says that?’, it won’t do that.

It is very much a black box in terms of letting you track its logic.

Seems like future versions should be much more transparent in terms of letting you track the logic of why it’s telling you what it’s telling you.
If I had to suggest where the “combination of four languages” idea came from, it would be from Homeric Greek (the language the Iliad and Odyssey were written down in). This was genuinely a complete mess, formed of a hodgepodge of different dialects.

From wikipedia:
“[Homeric Greek] is a literary dialect of Ancient Greek consisting mainly of an archaic form of Ionic, with some Aeolic forms, a few from Arcadocypriot, and a written form influenced by Attic.”

I’m not sure if this is a plausible explanation as I don’t have much experience using LLMs.
> (The CTO was roaming out-of-country, had zero bars and thought nothing of it... how they had no idea an enterprise-risking update was scheduled, we'll never know)

How does one know ahead of time if any particular change is "enterprise-risking"? It appeared to be a fairly routine set of changes that were going just fine:

> The report summary says that in the weeks leading up to the outage, Rogers was undergoing a seven-phase process to upgrade its network. The outage occurred during the sixth's phase of the upgrade.

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rogers-outage-human-error-s...

It turns out that they self-DoSed certain components:

> Staff at Rogers caused the shutdown, the report says, by removing a control filter that directed information to its appropriate destination.

> Without the filter in place, a flood of information was sent into Rogers' core network, overloading and crashing the system within minutes of the control filter being removed.

* Ibid

> In a letter to the CRTC, Rogers stated that the deletion of a routing filter on its distribution routers caused all possible routes to the internet to pass through the routers, exceeding the capacity of the routers on its core network.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_out...

> Rogers staff removed the Access Control ListFootnote 5 policy filter from the configuration of the distribution routers. This consequently resulted in a flood of IP routing information into the core network routers, which triggered the outage. The core network routers allow Rogers wireline and wireless customers to access services such as voice and data. The flood of IP routing data from the distribution routers into the core routers exceeded their capacity to process the informationFootnote 6. The core routers crashed within minutes from the time the policy filter was removed from the distribution routers configuration.

* https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/xona2024.htm

These types of things happen:

> In October, Facebook suffered a historic outage when their automation software mistakenly withdrew the anycasted BGP routes handling its authoritative DNS rendering its services unusable. Last month, Cloudflare suffered a 30-minute outage when they pushed a configuration mistake in their automation software which also caused BGP routes to be withdrawn.

* https://www.kentik.com/blog/a-deeper-dive-into-the-rogers-ou...
Small engineering teams are usually because there is no architecture team and the organization is “not yet mature enough” or their IT management sucks. Also this is marketing for consultants.
Cool. Lower latency, lower cloud costs, and lower operational costs — I love this product.
The shareholders of big companies are you and me via pension funds.

And of course cities could go bankrupt even if they had their own currencies. Having their own currency didnt protect countries like Zimbawe or Venezuela.
There are lots of great 2d non pixel games, maybe pixels were an overused trend, but it's still a legit art style.
Yes, even the "best" modern web search tools still don't come close to human curated subject headings. Library science survived the blockchain fads, hopefully it will remain resilient to the AI hucksters who already think google is just as good as an academic database, having never actually used one.
The author doesn't seem to have an open source mobile app or anything that would allow them to source the data from devices themselves. I'm curious where the data was collected from, esp. if it was opt-in (at the collecting device)
a few months ago, Japan, in trying to attract more digital nomads, introduced a digtal nomad visa[1].

[1] Japan Introduces New Visa for Digital Nomads https://www.japan.travel/en/ca/news/digital-nomad-visa/
Those sux when maintaining, investigating and debugging code. They break IDE functionality too. You can't put breakpoints in them. You don't see them properly in views.

It is trading off useless aesthetics over practicality.
As we grow older, we learn a lot of facts that we can use to test the correctness of ChatGPT and identify its hallucinations because we have the knowledge to do so. However, a young person who is just starting to understand the world and gather knowledge might not have enough information to notice these hallucinations.
Do you often talk with just buzz words?
You're probably at an advantage now, but I think the effort/reward hardly pays out for the newer generation. They'll learn how to deal with this with less effort & time.

Remember that the new generation doesn't just have different tools; they're also much less experienced & mature, just like we were.You can only really compare yourself to them in the future where they're at the place you're at now.
Something assumed to be true without proof.

Think of it as one layer of abstraction above the model under discussion. Like a hyperparameter. In later years, students get taught the same topics again, with the hyperparameter tuned to be more realistic.
The drama isn’t even done that well. Like you say, it’s stupid; the people are on average just worse than the sort of people who would actually be there.

I wanted the technical sci-fi to be worth it, but it wasn’t. There really isn’t much catering to an engineer audience.
The image in the picture says 130F is 59C, which is of course wrong, the image must have two broken segments and be showing 138F (which is 59C), but that’s beyond the official record, so who knows what the point in that thermometer is

“134F” on its own would at best mean somewhere between 133.5F and 134.5F, so having 5 significant figures on your translation is wrong as it’s implying a precision which simply isnt there.
Show HN: Execute.bot, run code directly with LLM
Run code in your browser with LLM as your interpreter.

Blog post with more details: https://www.neuralnuance.net/execute-bot/
Buddhist philosophy suggests this entire reality is a hall of mirrors.
Thank you gor providing the thousands of hours of fun playing your games!
Wich other countries are offering low taxes to digital nomads?
Not everything, only morphogenesis, which is currently unexplained either way. And it does make sense for cancer to be a morphogenesis defect, because that's essentially what it is, it's cells "forgetting" that they are part of a larger whole that has goals more important than their own ones.
From the millions of tablets the historians have analysed, we know that Babylonian (educated) people loved lists. I've heard an Assyriologist make fun of it in his course. There are lists for everything: events, vegetables, mathematical results, year names, Sumerian gods...

As far as I know, they're always flat lists. Some of them, like some intended for rote learning, have an obvious order. In many cases, Historian don't understand the order. But it may be there, just hidden: e.g. Hammurabi's articles could be sorted by chronological date. Or according to omens...
People are more than their conscious minds. A neural network can compute a linear function with a small domain without having to store each case separately.

I never memorized the multiplication table, because I found it boring and unnecessary. When I had to multiply numbers, some answers just appeared automatically, while I could calculate the rest quickly enough. Over time, more and more answers would appear magically, until I no longer had to calculate at all.

Some other things I had to memorize. Those were usually lists of arbitrary names with no apparent logic behind them. And if I didn't need them often enough, they never became more than lists of random facts. For example, I often can't tell the difference between sine and cosine without recalling the memorized definitions.

Or, to give another example, Finnish language has separate words for intercardinal directions (such as northeast). Usually when I need one of them, I have to iterate over the memorized list, until I find the name for the direction I had in mind. Similarly, I had to iterate over the six locative cases in Finnish grammar whenever I needed a name for one of them.
Here's Stephenson from an AMA on reddit twelve years ago [1]:

Q: My ultimate goal in life is to make the Primer real. Anything you want to make sure I get right?

Neal Stephenson:
Kids need to get answers from humans who love them.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/vdt11/i_am_neal_st...
Maybe it’s the opposite; kids need to learn that LLM’s can bullshit just like every other person and institution can bullshit, and the most important skill they can have is verification of information, no matter where it’s coming from.
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> so having 5 significant figures on your translation is wrong

Probably, I just copied and pasted straight from google.

Edit: thinking more about this, I would throw it back at you - what would you write for converting the Fahrenheit value to Celsius? It’s one thing to say I’m wrong, which is fine, but you offer no alternative.
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Whether foreigners are income-taxed at 20% or 48% cannot be the answer¹. Clearly Portugal's problems are much deeper than that, going back to 1974 and beyond.

To name one, Portugal's bureaucracy is legendary. The Portuguese are not called "Honorary East Europeans" for nothing.

The red tape creates a complex system of inefficiency and corruption. It's like a cauldron – you (the government) plug one obvious hole, only to find the pressure found another, "unexpectedly".

And yes, young people run away in droves from Portugal, leaving entire industries back home chronically understaffed. Construction & health being two prominent examples that need foreigners to keep the lights on. This shortage of labour drives commercial prices up higher still, contributing to the death spiral.

¹ Leaving aside that both numbers are high to begin with; 48% ridiculously so (for anyone above €82k/year). That's no way to treat your productive population. And that's just income; there's additional health and social taxes, some masquarading as "insurance" or "employer contribution". Would you blame the young for leaving?
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You should start a blog... or maybe not - pursue the battle in academia/work and occasionally drop nuggets of wisdom like this somewhere. But do not delete them.
This is a clever algorithm for computing global illumination in real time, for any number of lights. The site shows 2D, but the algorithm can work in 3D, both screen space and world space.

It's based on a penumbra hypothesis — that rays cast for soft shadows either need high spatial resolution, or high angular resolution, but not both at the same time. This means that the storage size for all light probes is finite for infinitely long rays, and that the rays traced at different spatial and angular resolutions can be interpolated and merged without light leaks, as long as the parameters satisfy the penumbra hypothesis.

There's paper that explains it better than my comment :)