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Having lived and worked in the US for a decade, as a German, and having had time to think about many things:

I think a key difference between how the US works and how Europe works lies in the private sector and the people. When you build a new company in the US, you have a lot of private infrastructure and people to be active in all of the states. In Europe, this does not exist in that form. Here, all the investors are focused on their own country. Sure we have plenty of firms active in many EU countries, but the level of support especially for new firms is orders of magnitude lower than in the US. From languages to social issues to attitude and expectations of common people, the EU is much more compartmentalized and it is significantly harder to have EU scale.

So there are two issues, and the side of the government is only one. The private sector and the investors have to do their job too and provide their own side of the EU wide infrastructure.

We also don't have EU-wide media that needs to support the development of a shared EU identity, and many other things that unite the US population as one people. Much of that has to come from the private sector, from the rich, from investors. But apparently they don't think big enough here in the EU?
Hello, I am the author of avante.nvim. Thank you for your suggestion, it's very helpful for avante.nvim!

I plan to abandon nui.nvim for implementing the UI (actually, we only use nui's Split now, so it's exceptionally simple to abandon). Regarding the tiktoken_core issue, everything we did was just to make installation easier for users. However, the problem you mentioned is indeed an issue. I plan to revert to our previous approach: only providing installation documentation for tiktoken_core instead of automatically installing it for users.

As for why avante.nvim must depend on tiktoken_core, it's because I've used the powerful prompts caching feature recently introduced by the Anthropic API. This feature can greatly help users save tokens and significantly improve response speed. However, this feature requires relatively accurate token count calculations, as it only takes effect for tokens greater than 1024; otherwise, adding the caching parameter will result in an error.
Unfrozen Studio was founded in 2016 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
I'm not sure I agree, particularly given that there's some incentive for us to get our relatives using these messenger protocols and clients. The Web made it work because everyone came together and gathered consensus (well, modulo some details) that enforcing HTTPS is, ultimately, a good idea given the context.

So far, I'm not seeing that same consensus from the XSF and client vendors. If the capital investment can be made to encourage that same culture, the comparison can perhaps be a little closer.
> The calculator also gave users a false sense of confidence, which meant they were unlikely to double-check the estimate by reading the docs, contacting the team, or trying it for themselves.

How dare they think that a thing called calculator is accurate and not double check!
Yes, various details depend on the tax juristiction. Thank you for pointing out UK specifics. In the UK, there are also ISAs, which can be used to reduce tax on investments.

For example, accumulating ETFs make sense in many EU countries, because often there is no dividend allowance and so dividends just gets taxed as income.

Several countries also have a system by which the capital gains tax decreases with the length of the investment, which means that accumulating ETFs make even more sense in that case.
It's a matter of degree, not overall nature. They're both imperial powers. Russia tends to be more brutal towards internal dissidents; America overthrows more democracies and is generally more invasion happy.

Navalny was also pretty obviously a western stooge with western backing, made popular by western propaganda, pushing a pro western agenda, whereas Assange was just a dissident who exposed a war crime whom western imperialists tried to paint (really pathetically) as a Russian spy.

It's like arguing over whether the crips or the bloods are different because one had a lower body count this year or something.

The westerners who protest navalny or get incensed about Russia's human rights record remind me of the multitude of Soviets in the 1950s who used to protest Jim Crow and lynchings in America.
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Well its supremely dumb to transport rotten corroded 80 year old munition that will kill you & others if it explodes just by yourself.

I see it in countries eastward from Germany that from time to time some old fool brings such things to police station (either 'heritage' from previous generations or found in the field), with corresponding panic reaction (its not like your local police station are bunch of old bomb defusal experts).
> and for pipes, if both ends support using the ringbuffer they'll map the same ringbuffer

Is there planned to be a standardized way to signal to the other end of the pipe that ring buffers are supported, so this could be handled transparently in libc? If not, I don't really see what advantage it gets you compared to shared memory + a futex for synchronization—for pipes that is.
Please think about context. GP thinks, there was a weak European economy, esspecially about Germany in the last 20 years. This was not the case and even during the current struggle in Germany (not German swiss), more people from the US move here
100%. Stripe is a blackhole.

For my current project, I pay nearly 5-7% on each transaction to Stripe.
For my next project, I'm implementing custom billing and using Stripe just as a payment processor.
> You want your app supported 24x7 then pay for three shifts.

24/7 is typically covered with 5 shifts (3 weekday and 2 weekend).
The artist's idea is that these machines can ultimately roam the beach independently without the need of human interaction. They also don't need fuel since they only move from the wind they catch. At the same time it looks like some kind of weird huge animal (strandbeest translates to beach beast). And it's an art project so yeah I get why he calls it like that.
> The entitlement and refusal to listen to other people outside their direct org is mindboggling

+1 on that. Same with the owner of the CSP mentioned in the article above.

It's weird because it was always only German companies that gave truly unreasonable feature requests AND were extremely pushy, despite not spending much compared to other customers.

T-Mobile is much easier to deal with, but they are also walking with their tail between their legs...
He's right, and I think we're seeing this done across the industry (especially FAANG).

However, just because employees "have to take it" doesn't mean that it's better for the company to have employees that actively hate it and are just staying because of a lack of alternatives. Especially in a field where work output and especially quality is hard to measure, and the success of many companies hinged on motivated employees...
This is a horrible analogy, is your side project giving free cloud hosting of up to 1.5GB files for 900 million users with no moderation? Yeah, if it is you should go to jail too if you didn't address the issue of CSAM there for a decade.
You played Ultima II (1982). It had a "negate time" command to stop time for enemies in combat, but it used "strange coins". I think it only used one, the "two coins to rub together" was just a figure of speech.

Reading the manual would probably have helped but being 6, I understand how you didn't (or maybe didn't even have access to it). I had similar experiences with other games when I was a similar age :)
All right look, I don’t think I made the most useful comment.

I didn’t read the whole article, but this I know about Sam. He took his own money and started a UBI experiment to see what happens if you just give people free money.

Anybody who does that… unless it’s just propaganda, I don’t know how you can say anything bad about him.

People hate on these billionaires, and I get it. They are people like us with mistakes.

But I think we become too cynical at times. Yes we are all selfish. But so what. We can learn to work with Sam and be grateful for the good he does anyway… even if he doesn’t care about us! But he is advocating UBI with his own money so I don’t mind him getting rich.
> perhaps a half a dozen times until you get to today's rust.

Perhaps? It was already more than that in 2018: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/

That was back in 2018. Today mrustc can bootstrap rustc 1.54.0, but current rustc version is 1.80.1. So if the amount of steps still scales similarly, then today we're probably looking at ~26 rustc compilations to get to current version.

And please read that while keeping in mind how Rust compilation times are.
There is no requirement to login. Perhaps you’re thinking of JetBrains products.
This post has gone to the top of hacker news, so I think we should give him some slack

Looks like an amazing article, and so much to learn on what happens under the hood
Exactly, Lago seems like its riding the open source wave. Nobody reasonable is going to self host this.
I would never entertain any "contact us for pricing" offer. It means that they are looking to rip you off. If you can't give a fixed price for bespoke solutions, you should still publish prices for standard solutions, so that customers can get an idea of your rates. Then they will contact you for bespoke solutions.
Most people who have worked both in the west as well as in the country will say there is a stark difference in the superior-subordinate dynamic between these two places. Concepts of professional respect, upward feedback and personal boundaries are less evolved here. It's a byproduct of the region's culture which is inherently hierarchical. While there are places which actively eschew traditional ways, especially those that are part of global orgranizations, given the size of the industry there are many more where a strong hierarchy and subordination is unfortunately the norm.
It depends on the richness of the AI
Survivorship bias may encompass several subtly different cases. I didn't make an analogy, I provided an example.

How do you know the advice to walk from the old person is correct? Because we have studies that conclude walking everyday is good for the health and using the bones actually strengthens them (probably with caveats, where specific people in specific situations should actually not do this for some reasons), etc.

You don't know from n=1.
Yes. Though they increasingly own management as well.

At this point Azure in China and AWS in China is a reskin around Tencent Cloud.
Additionally, there also is a large amount military blogger traffic from both Russian and Ukrainian sides.

Telegram channels are quoted all over the place, even in serious press like Reuters.

France could have demanded extradition for "lack of moderation" from the UAE ages ago. Now Durov enters France voluntarily and gets arrested after allegedly trying to meet with Putin.

Witness protection program? Silly mistake?
great directory
Regarding tailscale, be sure to remove the expiration flag on your server. That's how I lost mine.
the problem is that reaching this level of friendship is difficult. it depends on both people to be open and the ability and willingness to show they care, but also on opportunity. in my experience this is usually connected to some difficult situation that allows one or both to engage. for example of the few close friends that i have, one invited me to a private blog where he detailed his personal challenges over the decades. his level of trust made it easy for me to return that trust, and when i needed help/advice it was easy to turn to him. another i met a few months ago, and he likewise went out of his way to help out in a challenging situation. if he ever asks me for help, no doubt i will return the favor. and if either ask how i am doing, i have no doubt it is genuine. but then, if anyone else would send such a message i would approach it with the same assumption. there was another friend that i met many years ago, where i had the feeling that we could become close friends, but we lost touch. but writing this comment motivated me to reach out. let's see what happens.

what would make chats awkward is if the topics never go beyond smalltalk. if every so often a message exchange is like: hi, how are you? how are the kids? i am fine, kids are doing well. how about you? likewise thanks. and the conversation keeps remaining at that level, then i start wondering, why are we even talking. there has got to be more.
GDP per capita is not a useful measure of living standards. Or most other things, really; it’s a very crude metric.

To take an over-simplistic example, imagine that the cost of healthcare in Mississippi just rose 5k per capita. Mississippi’s GDP just rose 5k per capita (simplified almost to the point of being nonsensical, but increased healthcare cost will raise gdp), but Mississippians got worse off!

For a glaring example, take Ireland; gdp per capita is over 3x Spain. Is the standard of living in Ireland 3x that of Spain? Definitely not; I think you could actually make a case for it being lower, especially for the more economically disadvantaged (wages are much higher, but so is cost of living).

I think where all this comes from is that gdp/capita _used_ to work a bit better as a proxy for standard of living (though still not well) when economies were more manufacturing-oriented.
They are already doing this, without doubt.

They identify thought leaders, analyze their data (who knows what data and how they analyze it?) to identify the best approaches, and have salesfolk and MSLs assigned to specific doctors, all to build relationships with tailored approaches and proven strategies. This is coupled with gifts disguised in various ways.

It bears repeating: submissions to the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion, which regulates consumer and professional promotional material, hit 97,252 in 2016. This resulted in 11 violation letters.

Ninety-seven thousand submissions. Eleven violation letters. No typo.

$20k/doc/yr.

There may be more recent stats; I'm not finding them right now.
Tech companies are getting insanely large valuations (I work in tech, and I think they're absurd). Europe doesn't have many large public tech companies, therefore Europe looks bad in terms of the "industries of the future"

Plus a bunch of angry USians really irritated by the anti-trust stuff the EU has been doing (DMA etc).
Thanks to you, I am!

I hope you have great life. Need more like you in this world.
Not just ICs, microprocessors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubylith
Trammie Surprise, as he was formerly known, also runs the SQZD clan, who are often spotted in the wilds and around their homes, PvPing, thieving, and whatnot. They're one portal for easing into the local communities in Outlands.

Easing into the mechanics, minutiae, and overall obscurity of the game is a different beast entirely, but a lot of things in there, while worn out over time, have a handworn feel like none other, which itch just the right niche.
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It's not a shovel he's selling. It's aching to hosting a gallery portraying disgusting crimes done to actual children. Digital or ink, Durov can't just go behind freedom of speech in this matter.
There is weak evidence that regular exercise beats weekend warrior:

> Compared with physically inactive participants, hazard ratios (HR) for all-cause mortality were 0.92 (95% CI, 0.83-1.02) for weekend warrior and 0.85 (95% CI, 0.83-0.88) for regularly active participants; findings for cause-specific mortality were similar.

But the difference could also be due to higher overall exercise volumes in the regular exercise group.
> Being adult is not a property of the user but of the jurisdiction that the user is in.

It's a function of both. And I'd argue it's really mainly a function of the person: Independently of jurisdiction, there's at least a rough global consensus what "being adult" means, and most jurisdictions set rather similar (many of them, identical) limits.

A four-year-old isn't an adult anywhere; a fourty-year-old is everywhere.
The consensus comes from the people using the clients, not from the standards bodies. It's the same for HTTPs, where the users (in this case the server admins) decided it would be a good idea to use encryption.

There are even apps like Quicksy which have a more familiar onboarding experience using the mobile phone number as the username, while still being federated with other standard compliant servers. There is little reason to use walled garden apps like Signal these days.
That blog is incredible. Thanks for sharing.
If I read the project correctly, all the esp32 is doing is sending a signal to the camera to move left and right plus blinking the led. If that's the case then all you need is a circuit sending "left" and "right" signals[1] on alternate, semi-random intervals. I'm positive you could already do that with the technology available in 1970.

So rather than "waste" a fully-working computer I'd be interested in knowing what a 1970s circuit would look like in the 2020s.

[1] If it's a stepper motor then you need slightly more complex signals that just on and off, but the point is still the same.
> How would the government even know that a big company is transgressing the rules?

By investigating a complaint?

From the article: The Dutch DPA started the investigation on Uber after more than 170 French drivers complained...
CF doesn't use you as the product, a la Facebook, Instagram or Google. They try to lure you in with the free tier, and then upsell.

That's a bussiness model that you might like or not, but almost everyone is doing that one way or the other (first X months are free, free tiers, free Comunity Editions, etc.)
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A/B tests suck because you are testing against two cases which are probably not the best case. If you take your learnings of the A/B test and iterate your design that's a viable strategy but proposing a shit design and insisting on deploying is wrong.
I understand. Problem is this kind of thing is a race to the bottom.

Because of the silly ways humans work (mostly due to imperfect information), I'd feel obliged and will agree to it, despite not wanting to (concerns I will automatically be perceived as a lesser employee).

And then we're all working weekends.
There is no paradox, because there was never a non-chicken parent which was so different that we could consider the newborn chicken a new species. It takes thousands of generations to say such things, not one.
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My father as a kid, when playing in the forest where his aunt lived, came upon a huge pile of WWII ammunition just slowly rotting away. Mortar shell, grenades, tons of ammo, even pretty huge aircraft bomb. It wasn't some fenced area far away with massive warnings and guarded, nope just random place in forest. I mean literally small boy sitting on top of some 200kg bomb. Glad he didn't do something stupid wiping me out of existence.

This was around 1960, former Czechoslovakia, eastern tip where heavy fighting occurred during WWII as soviets were rolling over german army. No idea how locals didn't go there, for small boys such things are like magnets.
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Also please add the context of Operation Condor [0] and the School of the Americas [1].

Also more recently the US participated actively in the coups in Ecuador, Bolívia, Brazil, Paraguay, ...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_condor

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_americas
What a sad way to try to infer this has anything to do with Telegram being so secure Durov has to be arrested, when its really about Durov letting CSAM sit on his servers for a decade.
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Would you consider doubling your prices so users perceive your product as having higher value a dark pattern?
If that shouldn’t be called “technical debt” I don’t know what else.
I designed an internal system that optimises for long term outcomes. We do nothing based on whether you click “upgrade”. We look at the net change over time, including impact to engagement and calls to support months later and whether you leave 6 months after upgrading. Most of the nudges are purely for the customer’s benefit because it’ll improve lifetime value.
A/B testing has something to say about (ideally) a single choice.

It has nothing to say about optimal solutions. Nothing about A/B testing suggests that you have reached an optimal point, or that you should lock in what you have as being the "best".

Now that the button position (or tighter layout) has been noted to have a material effect, more tests can be run to determine any more improvements.
This should be much higher up. Thanks! How about controllers? Playing Archimedean Dynasty with an 360 joypad would be pretty cool once Voodoo/GLIDE graphics is in.
If you look at google maps on images, there is farmland over much of the "red" zone, for example east of Arras.
The rebuilding of Berlin's Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
Great idea! No need to use Hightlight.js, Prism.js or CSS Custom Highlight API for syntax highlighting.

Could anybody make an online tool to choose another monospace font, programming language and color theme, and generate a syntax-highlighted font?
Did you edit with `jet` by any chance?

Lagniappe: https://www.scaruffi.com/history/long.html
Two answers here:

In languages I know well, I use copilot like a smart autocomple. I already know what I want to write and just start typing. Copilot can usually infervery well what I'm going to write
for a few lines of code, and it saves time.

In languages I don't know well, where I don't fully know the various standard library and dependency APIs, I write a quick explanation to get the basic code generated and then tweak manually.
With an LLM integrated into your IDE like Cursor or Copilot, oftentimes the LLM autocompletes the correct code faster than I can think about what must be done next. I’ve been coding for 15 years.
Solid state batteries are the future of electric vehicle. There is no way governments let people buy fire bombs that can't be extinguished, or hardly.

With the ev increase in popularity, it's only going to be more and more prominent.

> Around 18% of EV fires occur while the car is plugged in and charging, but the percentage could be as high as 30%

Also say good bye to your house if you ever decided to let it charge inside... it's incredible.