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While yes, I agree that governments tried to control population, I disagree that this is the outcome they were looking for, and disagree that planned government policy is largely responsible for the current situation.

To break that down. I agree people would be a fool to think that governments don't have population objectives and act on them. The part I disagree with is:

1) What those objectives were. No government wanted to create a population bubble.

2) The impact of government reproductive policy relative to popular culture. I think these impacts are tiny in comparison to (other) economic policies, and general culture outside of the government.

3) The idea that policy on population size is treated as an end in of itself, versus a means to achieving other policy goals, such as economics and stability.
The USA has 700 military bases world wide. Russia, China, India have 15 bases. Who's spreading their tentacles around the world?

Iraq invasion? Syria ongoing occupation? WMDs? Assisting Israel's War in Gaza? Come on. Please stop this Western bias nonsense.

And the Ukraine Conflict didnt start in Feb 2022.
I gave your example the instruction "Reformat in two-column format, with the ingredients listed on the left side as they are used" (i.e. the style used in Julia Child's _The Art of French Cooking_) and chatgpt failed horribly.
I'd love to see a button added to show what pieces are wrong. There are a couple of images with heavy vignette so the edges are pretty indistinguishable. It'd be cool if I could get the incorrect pieces bordered or similar.
What does “slipstreamed” mean? Upon first look this just looks like a really lazy attempt, but maybe there’s something I’m missing. Jia Tan was at least clever about it.
We should automate the trains and repurpose the train staff to be conductors patrolling the trains to assist individuals in need and help in an emergency. That way, the jobs are saved, and the trains get more pleasant to ride!
That is a reasonable question. I think the answer has a lot to do with why the dead are being dug up. If the dead are being exhumed by archeologists seeking to make information about our ancestors available to everyone, that's very different from grave robbers looking for gold.
yep it should be possible. check this out: https://terraformindustries.com/
I love Swarm and don't see the appeal of K8s when something as simple as Swarm exists. I do however run K8s in prod for work and would never run Swarm in prod due to Docker seeming to have its days numbered. Idk where that leaves us aside from ECS. But I also have no need to run something any more robust than ECS in AWS for my workload.

We are moving our EKS workload over to ECS over the next year. I expect needing to down size my team because of it.

One thing K8s is not is cheap. That shit takes a well oiled team or a couple of hot shots so do right. We probably did a lot of what makes it expensive to ourselves by not switching to managed add-ons sooner and never evolving the apps that run in the cluster. I've only been lead for about 5 months now, but I'm finally able to start making significant progress on the necessary evolution that I've been trying to make happen for 2 years before my promotion. The enterprise is a big ship. Takes time to turn. Thanks for reading what turned into a rambling vent session.
lol, the Japanese tourist I met in the US had "trying a hotdog" high on his must-do list
Yeah, you can do this to make your commits cleaner, but I find it easier to just manually edit the file and then undo after you add the patch.
If telemetry (in the context of software that’s already is making web requests to my server) if somehow at all a privacy problem, then it’s not anonymous telemetry.

Anonymous telemetry is be a non-issue for privacy.
Ignoring the fact that launching stuff into space is quite expensive, the failure mode of a rocket full of nuclear waste blowing up is also rather bad.
If you suggest a language here where nothing weird can be done, I bet someone will reply with something weird done in that language.
Ok, we won't confuse you with the facts, as your mind is already made up.

You've a victim of Western propaganda. Can't you see that?
> If that energy isn't carbon-neutral, you're just spinning your wheels.

True, but the "long term" angle here would be to supply that energy from, say, excess solar generation during midday after the overnight storage batteries are refilled.
awesome, happy to answer any questions and would love any feedback!
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret.
This post compares prices in LA: https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/s/sU6l51A0XD. It's inline with what I mentioned above.
> > The full cost of existing nuclear power calculated by the CRE amounts to respectively €60.7/MWh over the period 2026-2030

Assuming that price is with a 77% capacity factor there is an easy way to reduce the cost per MWh; get them to run with a higher capacity factor. Finland has achieved 94% over the last few years, and the US is up at 93% I believe. https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails....

Assuming that this is mainly fixed costs the price could be down to 60.7*.77/.94 = 50 EUR/MWh; fuel is a minor input and might bump the price up to perhaps 53 EUR/MWh.
Suggestion to put a screenshot or two on the main kongabeat page, there's seemingly no screenshots unless you exit to the itch.io site and was curious about the UI. Nice work!
Did the article change? I see priestess, not princess.
Ask HN: Small-cohort based "MOOC" like the original YC StartupSchool?
I still think back very fondly to the original YC startup school experience, where groups of around 10 startups were paired with a mentor / facilitator from a previous YC batch and met once per week through video chat to share updates with each other for around 12 weeks.

I found this really helpful and great for learning and focusing as sharing progress with the group kept you accountable and sharing your struggles and tips with others made for accelerated learning.

I haven't found anything like this and I want to create something, not only for startups but for other types of learning. Would that be something people here are interested in? So an online tool where you don't mainly watch videos or get assignments but where you can socialize and work together with others and keep each other accountable.
I like generative art! And that seems interesting! But it seems totally broken on my computer - it flashes with random frames at 6k jump days for a few seconds then stops. The stop button does nothing, there's no way to restart it, the cursor can't be modified, etc.

I assume it'd be a smoother animation at a smaller number of jump days, I'd like to see that.

Edit: I finally got it working by changing the parameters, going to the order page, then clicking on the qr link. I did it with 1 jump day. But it still flashes like crazy (colors inverting ever frame) and there's massive moire patterns, among the low resolution and other graphical glitches. I think the idea is cool so I'd like to see something more fleshed out. Is this something you could do on e.g. shadertoy?
Pressure is only part of the equation. The pressure gets it to the field economically and does boos reservoir pressure, but co2 injection has more to do with miscibility with hydrocarbons at relatively low pressures. Miscibility yields viscosity reduction and swells the oil to improve displacement and mobility, particularly in heavier crude. Couple that with pressure and you can dramatically improve recovery factor.
> Most people dont need rolling release, 24/7 availability, auto scaling, etc..

That's perfectly fine. That's not the reason why you are better off running your apps in Kubernetes though.

You are better off running your apps in Kubernetes because it handles everything you ever need to effortlessly run containerized apps. You don't even need to install tooling or deployment tools or anything at all. You can have a single kustomize script that defines your services and deployments, have in place an ingress and Let's Encrypt, and you're done. You don't need to bother with anything else. Just run kubectl apply and go grab a coffee.

Is this something no one would ever need?
The benchmark where Japanese software allegedly fails (user experience) rings true especially in their video games. One of the major reasons Xbox was so successful in the mid 00's is because the Japanese companies were far behind on online user experience. Japanese video games tend to have really great gameplay, but the menus and settings are incredibly lacking. Japanese PC ports were all around terrible up until a few years ago. Elden Ring launched on PC without an "exit game" button in the pause menu, for example. Nintendo's settings menus only having one option (rumble on/off) is a running joke at this point.

I think the "design to meet spec, not to anticipate users needs" philosophy is also apparent in the game design. Western RPGs are characterized by their sandbox/do anything capability. Create a character, choose your class, pick your allies, kill any NPC, choose your ending. Japanese RPGs are structured with predefined characters, class roles (with a bit of customization sometimes), narrative, and ending (and maybe a "bad ending" if they want to punish you for not doing all the side quests).
> From a slightly pedantic point of view that misses the point of cooking or baking, I disagree about the ability to re-use nodes.

For example, if you make the "Lobster, Poached with Shellfish, Pear, and Kale" from the 11-madison park cookbook, you will make a "white balsamic vinaigrette" which is then used directly to make the "Pear Glaze", "Pickled Mustard Seeds", and "Pear marmalade" components. (The pickled mustard seeds also go into the "Pear marmalade" component.)
It the example you give, CO2 gas is not really a valuable commodity. Pressure is the valuable commodity in that example, and so it's kind of irrelevant when discussing carbon sequestration solutions.
So the real title of the article was "Argentinian Farmer Finds Family of 20k-Year-Old Car-Sized Armadillos Purple Monkey Dishwasher"
Really impressive. He has several other similar projects on his site as well.
"first there is a massive market. then there is no market. then there is a market"
Consultancy is personal, typically scaled by adding more (capable?) people

(capable is the hard part)
But is it ok?

If an archaeologist goes down to the local cemetery and digs someone up, runs a DNA test and publishes the results (‘oh, and I found a gold ring!’) it’s clearly not ok.

The line is there somewhere, I’d suggest it was seen as ok from 150-200 years or older.
Zero free time but I do at work what I would have done on my free time.
> bad behavior stems from the drive to make money

“The only moral income is my income”

It’s definitely an interesting POV. A lot of the way Google works comes from the fact that people use Google at the moment they’ve already decided they want to buy something. Versus say Instagram where you might see ads but you haven’t decided to buy something and then use Instagram. It comes down to what people other than you are using search engines for.
Caring about seat size makes sense, but power outlets - for $30 you can get a good quality battery that will charge a mobile phone multiple times from its capacity, for $100 you can get one that'll fully recharge a laptop once or twice. So unless the price difference for flying is tiny, it's really not worth paying more because a plane has power outlets when you can pay less to get a device that's not only just as good for the one trip but that you can then use on future trips without paying more (except for the tiny cost of electricity to recharge it before the flight).
Seems like the next priority would be to make your product reboot just as fast if not faster then theirs.
God i detest that attitude: all software sucks because it makes assumptions instead of as many options for the user as possible.
> You compare apples with carrots

This analogy, I swear. Yes, I do, and this is an entirely reasonable comparison. Both are foodstuffs, and you can make pies out of both. But which pie would be healthier, and/or more nutritious? Now take the relative prices (or comparative difficulty of growing your own) of the ingredients into the account.

> 68k series have just 8 registers

Didn't they have 16?
That may be true, but that does not mean this is a case of that.
IBM Quantum delivers on performance challenge made two years ago
I just want to point out that for years Microsoft told us to abandon WinForms and jump on WPF. Now we're years later and Winforms keeps getting new features.
Ads just make money out of people, why not cut off the middleman?
Many high quality youtube videos on e.g. wristwatch repair have lots (sometimes dozens) affiliate links to every tool used, which is just an additional way for the author to make some money. If your search engine filters this out, it's worthless.
so far the only, like ONLY, valid benefit i've gotten from Copilot and AI in the workplace is some basic syntax checking for scrips, and improved search features for internal documents.

The former is mostly a parlor trick, while the latter is a massive improvement over Confluence and Sharepoint's search. That's not so much AI win as it is how crappy their built-in search is.
They've heavily invested in moving a lot of their game production to US and making more western-style games. They only have a few game developers in Japan these days since closing Japan Studio.
There actually have been several solutions and some proofs of concept offered. However except for things like batteries, the purists object to all of them as green washing. Why, I don’t know.

Off the top of my head, I believe someone demonstrated you can add thermocouples to your water to generate electricity. The idea was that during excess electricity generation during the day by a homeowner’s solar panels, use that to heat up the existing water tank. At night, use the thermocouple to generate electricity from the hot water. Granted the efficiency is abysmal. But 5% of something is better than 0% which is what happens when the electricity is thrown away.
I don't get it. This doesn't net you additional days of vacation. A day off in the middle of the week is still a day off, and rejuvenating.
Am I the only one that was disenchanted with the article? It was basically and advertisement for Elmor Labs and everything was “swap out a part for an Elmor part configured to do the same thing”.

The cooling was basically for show given the temperature- and voltage-independent scaling wall; the proper place to go would have been an ARM-based development house to use the debug tools, they’re certainly available.

I’m not a Pi guy and I don’t know if the dev samples/hal/device trees have been released yet, but another option is to set up a bare metal environment and bring up the clock buses one by one to a different multiplier and see if you can reproduce it manually executing neon instructions in a tight loop.
Bat echolocation is a topic that's very personal to me. My grandpa worked as a researcher in telecommunications and fibreoptics in the 1970s, in East Germany (GDR). This being at the height of the cold war, it was completely prohibited to publish anything relevant to their actual work, so that the "class enemy" wouldn't be the wiser of what they were doing in the lab. When publishing anything, they had to water down the content so much that it became useless to anybody reading it. Also, publishing on data transmission with fibreoptics, while nobody in the country is able to get a telephone line in their homes, wasn't seen as helpful.

It was sometimes possible to travel to western/international conferences - of course only after the Stasi gathered from interviews with all your colleagues and neighbors that you loved your children, and were likely to come back. And even then they were not allowed to make any contact with western scientists at the conferences, making any kind of useful exchange near-impossible.

After finding and reading a book on Bionics, which was a bit of a hype topic at the time, he noticed that the biologists were talking about the inexplicable nature of bats' echolocation. As he had experience with code multiplexing, he wrote a paper on the signal theory behind that, in 1974 [0]. As this topic was considered completely harmless, it was no problem to get this published in the GDR. After a request, it was even published in a journal in West Germany. But then being invited to give a talk on it in Frankfurt/Main, the authorization was given three times by the institute, and then revoked again each time (by higher-ups/Stasi). He was then asked to cease any communication with West-German researchers (who had sent him a book manuscript to review). It was a bitter-sweet thing for him. In later years, he was often asked about bat echolocation, as it made for a good pop science topic. But of course he would have loved to publish, and exchange, on his actual research topics at the time much more.

My grandpa died a couple of years ago. When I travel to international conferences now - being able to present whatever I like, talking to whoever I choose - this history often comes back to mind. Sometimes these stories feel like a very distant past. But then I read about how Linux maintainers are removed just for having a Russian email address, as happened recently. So maybe we haven't come as far as we think. I believe it's important to be conscious of the great freedoms most of us currently enjoy, how precious they are, and how brittle they can be.

[0]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00611870 - paywalled, unfortunately. And German!
It was the mental health crisis team who made that decision to remove him. I don't think it's fair to blame OP - who presumably called out of concern. If that is your take then you are suggesting that nobody call for help in a mental health crisis for any reason, which I don't think is a valid take.
Ok, wall of text, I will reply succinctly.

Oí mate, do you have a loicense for that bantz.

Britain is a police state, your extended screed sounds like you’re still tying to convince yourself otherwise.
> Not when 51 intelligence professionals sign a letter, claiming the laptop to be false when in fact it was not.

No, that's not what they said. Here's what they said: "We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case." https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9...

> The laptop exists. It's contents exist.

So what?

Several Republican-led Congressional committees found no wrongdoing by Joe Biden in the matter. So yes, it's nothing but a tabloid story.
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Banks all over the world do it . American banks do it too.

In many bank apps they will do travel, stay, cars, vacations, shopping and other dozen things like that .

It is not just banks , airlines do it too, they are so good at it, they are sometimes called finance companies with incidental air transport business.
Hmmm, my dreams of the Nobel in economics goes up in smoke.

I think it depends on how just eat financed it. If they borrowed 6bn from a bank, then the bank created 6bn from thin air, and will more or less have to write that off as just eat won’t pay it back. So the net balance will be .. err

6bn created and given to just eat: bank assets 6bn, just eat liability 6bn - total new cash in world is 6bn.

Just eat hands 6B to lucky founder, in return for a website and domain name.

Aha - the bank is the creator of the money - they magic it into existence - now if lucky founder deposits it into same bank, they have a liability of 6bn to him, and previously had a asset of 6bn of loans. Net zero. But now they have to write off the 6bn asset, so they are negative 6bn. So total money across the economy is down 6bn

This also - I think - works if just eat raised it from VCs who got it from investors - someone at some point loaned money to someone or is obliged to pay it back.

This shit is harder than it looks on Steve keens podcast
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The problem is we're putting millions of tons of carbon into the air every year and it takes a while for a freshly planted tree to reach a ton of carbon stored. So you would need to plant millions of trees per year and take care of them for years before you can chop them down and bury them.
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Mid level backend engineer with some front-end experience. Primarily looking for more backend work but open to full stack opportunities - not interested in mobile development.
Netflix isn’t trying to be a search engine, hardware manufacturer, consumer cloud provider (email, OneDrive, etc), cloud infrastructure provider, and an ad company at the same time. Or an Online Walmart who does all the rest and more.
This sounds like a feature request / opportunity.

Like, can the tool be expanded to do:

1) Finding vacation time for a group of people (family? college friends?)

2) Can you include black-out days (school days for kids, whatever your specific job requires, etc)

I mean, as long as _I'm_ not responsible for making this thing I can make feature suggestions all day :)
> I'm assuming solutions like this are uneconomic

You kinda answered your own question already, I feel. The energy efficiency of cycling a battery (70-90% for grid scale) or pumped hydro (70-85%) is simply much, much higher than chemical storage. Here's a pretty recent one [1] showing 23% efficiency even at lab scale, and as described in the article scale is a big drain on efficiency.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29428-9
On my personal home server I abuse Docker Compose so I don't have to use a huge command line to spin up/spin down containers but I can just say "docker compose up -d" and be done with it.
It's essentially just another form of energy storage. I don't think there's any deep reason why it is worse than the other methods currently available, it's just not cost competitive.

My understanding is that creating hydrocarbons is quite difficult and that you lose a lot of energy in the process. Otherwise, it would be a very compelling way of storing energy.

I guess for one, you have to get the carbon from somewhere, which means either taking sequestered carbon (which is counter productive) or capturing it from the air (expensive).
Their product release posts and their engineering posts are usually really well written. Transit App is a gem
This is true. I’ve written overly-clever, indecipherably dense code in many different languages. But some languages seem to practically encourage that kind of thing. Compare a random sampling of code from APL, Scala, Haskell, Perl, Clojure, C, and Go. You’ll probably find that average inscrutability varies widely between various language pairs.
I'm not sure it is easier. There's always finger puppets or pantomime.