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They try hard to brand themselves as a cloud provider but I'd say that they mostly are a VPS provider.

The cloud side isn't polished enough to pretend to be a cloud provider.
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I remember studying and the difference was not only about interaction but a general impact on the user.

I always found MacOS Finder's spatial file placement a good example (Non-MacOS users - Finder has this thing where it remembers windows locations and file locations in window, so one can arrange files as they please and they stick). Given that that feature is removed the UI stays the same (there are file icons, some windows, same layout), but it does remove some of the cognitive load.

UX is impacted by many non-UI things: load times, responsivity to input, reliability (hello dreaded printer dialogs that promise to print, but never will).

Anti-pattern I hate with passion is MacOS update bar. I want to do some work in the morning, I open my computer and it's friggin' updating. This sucks, but happens, we got forced into this. And then there's this progress bar that jumps: 20%, 80%, 50%, 30%, 90%. Colleague asks when I'm going to be online - "oh, 10% left, probably soon" - ding - progress bar backs to 30%.

UI is the same from observers point of view (it shows the progress, which I suppose is correct and takes into consideration multiple update phases) but UX is dropping ball here.
An EU sovereign cloud by Amazon though would be built in the EU and staffed by EU employees though.

The effect of the US trying to insist it won't co-operate would be similar to what happened to most Russian based American franchise locations: troublesome but it's not like the facilities, people or inventory just vanished.
The last two companies I worked for had UI/UX teams with knowledgeable directors. It is not dead; it is just that some people don't see the ROI in it.
"Financial consequences" probably mean "the success of the startup, so your options won't be worth less than the toilet paper", rather than "you'll pay for the downtime out of your salary".
Beautifully written. I especially adore:

> Honest statistical reports may even be written highlighting the frequency of lost-key-findings under streetlights.

The fact you note them as honest is so rhetorically powerful that I'm dead certain to reference this concept/phrasing again in the future.
I love this so much. Thanks for using vanilla JS!

Please consider changing the link colors in the scrolling intro to yellow when in dark mode. They were really hard to make out.
Running under MSVC is overrated and more trouble than its worth. Clang and mingw-w64 GCC work just fine for targeting Windows.
That would be believable 2 years ago, but right now it seems like you're engaging in wishful thinking.
100%.

Btw, even using psql directly allows binding parameters https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html
^_~ How? Nobody was selling it for $4.90 in that example.
Again, the wavefunction just tells you "the amplitude of the state in which the photon is at location (x, y) on the screen at time t is sqrt(i); the amplitude of the state in which the particle is at position (x+2,y) at time t is sqrt(1+i/2)". Given these numbers, where do you expect to find the particle at time t?
A few years ago I would have maybe said the same but we're now entering a new era where the US capital will likely go towards the EU which is seen as more stable and future oriented.

The US tech companies where somewhat insulated in Europe thanks to the US defense but now that is out of the picture, I don't see much else to protect them.
GIMP needs a badass new logo for the new version.
Some cultures are constitutionally unable to be good. I have no hope Afghans or Iranians will ever become civilized of their own accord. I strongly believe a strong program of colonialism (unlike the ultra soft approach used in Afghanistan previously) is needed for these peoples.
Well. Yes? Anecdotally at least my experience with degrees given outside my home country is that they often appear to get given for attendance, not attainment. A high school degree means anything from “can do higher order math blindfolded” to “doesn’t know how to do addition”.
Without protection, a EU hyperscaler will never emerge. It's not that any hypothetical future EU hyperscaler would be an inherently less competitive. It's just plain old first mover advantage. Cloud computing is a VERY sticky good, and once folks got on AWS/Azure no matter how good your product is there's no way larger customers are going to migrate off to some "risky" startup (thus keeping scale small).

Source: I worked on a sovereign cloud PaaS in Germany. Admittedly the project was a disaster, hiring talent in the infrastructure space here is really tough. Probably mostly due to a lack of opportunities to acquire experience domestically and noncompetitive wages limiting migration of those with experience.

Gaia-X is a total dumpster fire though, perfect example of what's wrong with the EU. All the money was spent paying bureaucrats, consults, and standards committee folks to architecture astronaut and design by committee sovereign cloud "standards" bullshit bingo. None of the money went to the engineers.

We should really copy the Chinese approach here, straight out clone a subset of the best/most popular parts of AWS/Azure/GCP. I'm open to contracting opportunities in this space BTW (email in profile).
These dark pools and private rooms appear to be a response to HFT. To get away from HFT. So HFT appears to be fragmenting the market which is probably not a net good. If that is not the purpose of dark pools and private rooms, then what other purposes do they have?
BBC has fallen from grace.

They interview a woman that MIGHT stop importing, but "These tariffs could be gone any day. Let's see how it all unfolds, then we'll start making decisions,".

Until they act it’s just gossip propagated by low quality journalists (Sam Gruet).
COVID lockdown divorces come to mind.
I truly believe in human rights. Therefore I believe that someone who believes in human rights should be treated like one. And someone who doesn't believe in human rights, should be treated likewise. Again tell me, if X is someone that does not believe human rights exist what argument do they have to tell you to stop torturing them? If they say their humanity, you can clearly answer they don't believe in it.

And regarding "genocide" argument. To take a really extreme example. Look at how many nazis we killed in WW2 to civilize them. If needed I feel even a 95% figure is probably worth it if we can make men out of Afghanistan.
Sigh. So much here.

1. Yes, I am well aware marginal tax rates. For a rich person, the marginal tax rate asymptotically approaches all of the income. You didn't reply to my point, though, that money you tax away from people takes away from their investments. This is the point behind an IRA, FWIW.

2. No, they were not. They were tax sheltering their income. Nobody paid anything near 91%, unless they did not hire a tax accountant, which would be stupid. Wealthy people are rarely stupid with money, that's why they're rich. (ESPN ran a documentary once about NFL players suddenly becoming rich and just as suddenly going bankrupt because they had no idea how to manage it.)

3. Art is an investment (they expect it to appreciate). So are golf courses (golf players pay to use it). So is luxury real estate (real estate appreciates). Stock buybacks mean buying stock, which is an investment.

4. There's no evidence that "extreme concentration" does anything of the sort, especially since wealth is created, not concentrated. Bob creating more money does not take anything away from Fred. Bill Gates never took any money from me. Neither did Steve Jobs, nor Elon Musk, nor Jeff Bezos. Nor did they ever take money from you.

5. It is not semantics. Having an exchange at market prices is NOT a subsidy. A subsidy is a gift of money. NASA did not buy those rockets as a gift to SpaceX. NASA bought them because they cost 10% of what NASA rockets cost, and NASA used them. NASA did not bet on Musk. If the rockets didn't work, Musk would not have been paid. Musk was losing money, and one more explosion would have bankrupted him. But that one flew, and Musk got paid. NASA did not take a risk on Musk. Musk took the risk.

6. Parkinson is a better economist than you or I. Why not read his books? They're quite good. Do you know the US did not have an income tax until 1913? It was quite prosperous, including public education.

7. Stock buybacks are a method of distributing profits to shareholders without the high tax rate on dividends.
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Your comment reminds me of my 18~25 year old self when I never renewed an apartment lease as a way to avoid cleaning my bathtub.

It was my least favorite childhood chore and I’m mid40s and still haven’t done it once myself. At this point it’s petty but I refuse to do it on principle alone, to keep the streak alive
I'm expecting that to happen. Realistically, the US tech companies are the very first target in line in a market war.

They are paying very low taxes in the EU, contributing enormously on the US economy and are close to the president. That has to be the biggest target.

And the US can't even use the EU defense card anymore to defend them as Trump wasted it with his Russian appeasement.

I'd rate this probability at 50% at least.
As I have said previously, we need a two pronged approach. Keep killing off the hardliners, while flying those with seeds of civilization to western countries for training and acculturation and fly them back in when their relative count compared to the extremists is high enough they can completely and permanently change the culture of the place.
'Interface' used to encompass all these things.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43396140
Have you tried pressing the "/" key, BTW? It's an easier way to search.
I don't have massive goals, if we can even get them to the point of equality of man under the law we would have civilized them to the point of being much better than most non-Western countries.
100%! Allen AI OLMo. Thank you.

I was here wondering if there was a specific reason for MLX behind this model, but (thankfully thinking of openness) nothing to do with the original model.

(*) https://allenai.org/olmo
The US blocked the treaty which would have prevented companies getting a meaningful benefit from profit shifting by agreeing a minimum corporate tax rate

https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/donald-trump-ef...
I think it's clear that factoring works if you can build a scalable quantum computer. But:

1. It's a very lonely example.

2. It's not clear how big the market is for "you can break encryption from the past, but not current encryption, because once QCs arrive, everyone will obviously move away from QC-breakable encryption". And I'm not aware of any other reasons why factoring large numbers would be useful beyond breaking encryptions.
See NYC's recent law changes to legalize jaywalking. I won't pull up the exact citations but there were evenly distributed tendencies to jaywalk yet something like 80-90% of police engagements were with PoC
The impression I have, but I may be wrong, is that investors in Europe want a return on every investment. Failure is not an option. Which kind of choke innovation.
I have terrible news regarding said cake.
I am saying that the previous approaches were too soft and light handed. The Taliban hasn't ever faced an opponent that wants their annihilation at an existential level.

These countries were simply fighting a war of economic or other interests. I hate Taliban at a very core level itself and want their complete annihilation. A war conducted by those with a strong intrinsic motivation like this would be much different from those previous engagements.
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Cuba doesn't have any. A fun place.
Every nuclear weapon in the active US stockpile has a secondary fusion stage, the last pure fission weapons were removed from service and dismantled in 1992.

Most of the cost in a nuclear weapon is in the primary. It only makes sense to build pure fission weapons when you want very low-powered nukes for close range tactical use; the DoD has determined that don't see enough use for them to justify the upkeep of specific weapons.
Are you using Polygon real-time data for individuals? I suspect if you're after more fine graded data you'd be looking for a data provider for "professionals". There are usually different offerings, one for personal use and one for business use ("professional subscriber"), but these market feeds are quite expensive.
If Adobe can't compete with GIMP-and-avocado, perhaps the product isn't that great.
A lot of the houses that don't currently have modern high speed internet access also don't have water pipes and sewer pipes. They have wells or water collection/delivery and septic tanks.

Electricity and twisted pair phone line is really all that's been pulled to their property.
The knee-jerk dismissal of all AI features is as bad as the pointless addition of AI features. Some AI features are pointless, some AI features are useful. Segmenting, generative fill, object removal, AI scaling are all examples of really useful AI-assisted features.
It's the second one. But legacy programs did get upgraded, so I don't see why they wouldn't under this other plan. If anything, it's easier because you're only making the address field bigger and it's not a separate case. Some routers struggled with 128-bit addrs due to memory, and could've gotten away with like 48 or 64 bits if they're using DHCP.
For now my primary focus is not regarding the LLM but for automating the devops process. Still I need a way to communicate between private subnets for integrating the tools like Github actions, Jenkins and terraform.
People that have been interned in this or one of the other camps, or their descendants. It’s one generation ago, people born and raised in camps are still alive. George Takeo for example was born in one of the segregation camps.

It’s a low stakes change.

Nobody assumes harmful intentions from the author - I would not have recognized the picture either. But now that it’s been pointed out that it’s from a site where people were held illegally against their will, the reaction is a tell-tale. Knowing this, and insisting on keeping the images is now willfully associating with harmful behavior.

Apart from that, I cannot associate with the picture either - as an on-call engineer for some widely used infrastructure, I am not a guard on duty keeping people in a camp. I am an emergency responder. I fix things when they go haywire or an accident happens. A firefighter, paramedics, civil emergency responder would IMO be a much better metaphor for what I do.
> Both wave pictures are a mathematical approximation to the "real" system of particles moving.

Yes, exactly.

> You can say that picturing it as "the wave from the first rock overlaid on the wave from the second rock" is an interpretation that makes more physical sense or is nicer to think about, but that's just as true in the QM case.

No, because in QM, the wavefunction is the real, final picture. Any split is arbitrary, the two rocks didn't "cause" the waves, the the wavefunction of all the molecules that make up the rocks and the water has higher amplitudes for states in which the water molecules look like the wavey surface, and lower amplitudes for states in which the rocks touch the water but the water doesn't move at all, etc. That's all the physics can say.
All proprietary software that runs in the cloud would vanish.
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I'm not sure what the reference to "modern CPUs" is, but a common complaint is that most reasonable reference counting implementations suffer very badly under contention. Specifically, if an object's reference count is contended (an object is being accessed/its pointer copied by many threads), it's possible that incrementing and then decrementing the reference count can take several hundred cycles due to either cache lines ping-ponging between cores or relatively expensive remote atomics (some Arm CPUs, I believe, allow the memory system to execute atomic operations in caches themselves to try and cope with contention/avoid moving cache lines back and forth by simply leaving them in a shared cache).

In reality, your milage will heavily vary. If you don't have contention (you don't commonly share objects across multiple threads concurrently), it's likely that reference counting will perform very well. Whether this is the common case really depends on the kinds of software you write.
I never made youtube thumbnails, but if I had to, I’d take 100 paint.nets and 0 gimps. Everything a youtube thumbnail ever needs can be easily done in a few minutes in paint.net. It’s like a standard toolbox for graphics.

https://www.getpaint.net/download.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=paint.net&tbm=isch

GIMP is almost designed to be passive aggressive and sometimes hostile to its user. Last year I had to regularly process some images in gimp on linux (cropping, composition, other basic ops) and seriously considered installing samba, qemu and windows only to share these pngs with paint.net. I can’t even fathom the pain of having to do something like a thumbnail in it.
So high. Almost at 420 at one point!
You can’t plan for all failure modes. Weird shit happens and it needs human intervention to figure out what went wrong. Sometimes someone needs to assess what path forward is the lowest (financial) harm and weigh the options. No computer should make that call.
There’s plenty of R&D funding in the EU. How would that help get a European cloud?
Because we have wider goals as a society that go beyond absolute freedom. However things like EV incentives don't make you less free, you can still buy whatever you want.
Or your job pays extra for on-call shifts outside work hours
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Debt will go up due to tax cuts.
Depot (YC W23) is hiring a founding developer marketer (EU/US remote)
But why does the UI suck actually? Is it because most people are used to Photoshop, and GIMP works similar but different enough to be very confusing and annoying?

That's been at least my experience. But I haven't used Photoshop in years now and got pretty much used to GIMP by now, for the once in a while that I use it.

And now I don't really have the annoyances anymore. I actually know pretty well how to do most basic stuff, and some handy keyboard shortcuts. And now GIMP doesn't feel that clunky anymore.
I've done quite a bit of government contracting for governments in Europe, including various government levels in Belgium and the EU itself. Every single time, I encountered a lot of friction regarding hosting. The applications were always hosted by a partner [1] that won a large public tender, usually by virtue of supposedly being the cheapest. Those hosting partners were invariably awful and incompetent. Simple tasks would take weeks. Complex tasks wouldn't happen at all. There was enough red tape to go to the moon and back.

Every project I worked on, developers (consultants like me) advocated for finding a way of bypassing the hosting partner, and either doing their thing on top of platforms like Hetzner, or switching to AWS/Azure. Not because they particularly love AWS, but because the default hosting solution sucks so much arse.

I can totally see EU cloud infrastructure working for the public sector, but ONLY if they come with the same level of self-service management as the big cloud providers. Without that, it's a non-starter.

[1] One of those is a large French company on the verge of banruptcy.
Yeah. I didn't like any of those proposed changes, especially the colons. You also didn't mention how NAT6 isn't a thing by default.
> top secret (lol) cloud [1]

Not sure what the “lol” is for there. They aren’t saying the cloud is top secret. It’s qualified to work with top secret data.
I wouldn’t describe Google nor Microsofts products as ”polished”. Humongous maybe?
> But lasers can be detected with the right equipment (think the classic "laser through fog" but happening to plain air molecules)

You are assuming that the only source emitting at the specific wavelength is the laser you are targeting. This is not how it would work, the side using laser comms would also fly decoy drones that bathe the sky in the same wavelength as the comms channel.

This is also key part of how LPI radars on stealth aircraft work. Yes, in a spherical cow in vacuum environment you can in principle always trace a radar signal back to its source. But add a whole bunch MALDs radiating on the same band as the radars, and suddenly it becomes impossible to pinpoint the sources.
Oh yeah? How??
I think the big problem is this: That NLNet thing he mentions gives subsidies of the insanely large amount of €5-50k that’s not even worth getting out of bed over, much less quitting your job on the off chance you are successful in the 3 months that gives you.
It's worth noting that free space laser comms would also have this problem though: the atmosphere has dust, and any IR detector will see bloom and reflection of dust from a laser which will draw a straight line right back to the emitter.
Love the creativity here, this is novel game level design.

Can't wait to see the finished game. The blog posts are a part of the journey
The Eurovision Song Cloud - Europes next cloud provider.

If anyone can build a European cloud surely it must have an Euro-vision! /s
Better to say "ever-expanding" or "constantly-expanding" and be unambiguous.
I have been working for large European utilities and even within AWS/Azure deploying something takes weeks.
I am going to play the devil's advocate. What problem does Rhombus solve? An approachable syntax is a necessary, but not sufficient requirement for mass adoption.

According to the goals page, its other major feature is an extensible syntax. Why should I prefer it over, say, Scala? Scala has syntax macros, it runs on the JVM and can access Java's massive library of libraries, it has been used to implement large and complex projects like Spark and Lichess, what's that niche in which Rhombus can defeat Scala or Rust or Elixir?
I am pretty sure this would be a crime in my home country. There are court cases cementing that anything except superficial photography/filming by law enforcement lacks any kind of support in law. There are even laws restricting use of photography in situations when exercising any coercive measures ("tvångsåtgärd").
This assumes that the engineers who wrote the code that caused the 3 AM pages will still be around to suffer the consequences of the 3 AM pages. This is a lot of times, not true, especially in an environment which fostered moving around internally every now and then. Happens in at least one of the FAANGs.