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>This article really convinced me that the amazing results today are mostly due to hardware advances.

For LLMs that is true. But many other things like Whisper, Stable Diffusion etc. could in theory have been made a decade earlier.

You only pay 8.3% in tax in France? That sounds unrealistic.

Europe is not one country. I live in Denmark and some of the things I have witnessed in (eastern) Germany almost felt 3rd worldish.

If Americans want the same quality of life as we have here in Denmark they should tax the top 20% more so it doesn't surprise me that the top 20% come out against things like higher taxes and more worker rights.

I'm probably among the top 5% here in Denmark and I'm fine with paying high taxes.

Other than the expensive healthcare one thing that really brings down American quality of life is the long working hours and lack of vacation.

Americans should also stop focusing on bullshit stats like "working two jobs or more". The percentage of Danish people who work two jobs or more is roughly the same as in the US. The real problem are the long working hours and lack of vacation in the US.

Now that the TPM has been proven to be security theater Microsoft should drop the TPM requirement for Windows 11 and allow older machines to upgrade.

My previous job let me keep their 2016 laptop with an Intel i7 CPU, 32 GB RAM, and 512 GB SSD. Wonderful little bedtime laptop that is stuck on Windows 10.

Elon Musk might not have the reputation he had three years ago but SpaceX is still incredibly well regarded.

Control theory and engineering is extremely difficult to do well and probably the hardest class in many aerospace and mechanical engineering courses.

>disruption was minimized by Telegram’s use of RPKI

Telegram has spread their hosting across the three big cloud providers; AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It is most likely the cloud providers who have enabled RPKI as a default.

Will this be considered a breaking change according to the SemVer conventions?

It was merely an observation that a certain section of the US elites now want to do away with CIA, FBI and NSA. Has nothing to do with "trusting billionaires".

He hinted that they were responsible for assassinating JFK.

Jack Dorsey supports RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign.

Jack Dorsey recently tweeted that the CIA, FBI and NSA should be abolished. Elon Musk and other billionaires have voiced similar opinions so it is not an uncommon view among a section of the US elites.

It would be interesting to see what the short-term and long-term results of that would be.

The Ukrainians played it down and claimed it was because of fires and Russian military vehicles driving around in the area were stirring up the radioactive top layer of soil.

Why would they have faked the sensor data?

Meanwhile Steam probably launched 4 indie games today about killing minorities.

Valve/Steam is proof that the push against hate speech is not driven by investor/consumer demand but by employee activism and unionization.

Yet another reason to unionize.

>Every single thing is so obsolete. Nothing is digitized. Everything requires a giant stack of actual paperwork to be taken to an office where the whims of the clerk dictate everything. A million rules exist in the hopes that they cover all possible scenarios, but inevitable they don't and if you happen to have a scenario which is not covered, you're shit out of luck because the clerk is sure as shit not going to put their ass on the line and make a decision not explicitly present in the rule book.

>You pay through the nose for health insurance, but when you need to find a doctor, none can take you because their quota of public insurance patients is done for the quarter.

Just a reminder to anyone reading this: These are Germany-specific problems that don't exist in other Northern European countries like Denmark.

>In that case US treasury policy was a bailout for uninsured depositors who are wealthy supporters of the ruling blue party.

I really doubt that David Sachs, Peter Thiel, and other wealthy right-libertarian VC bros support the "blue party".

Just FYI the Mint Press News writers went around Michigan and did false-flag Nazi graffiti in an attempt to implicate Ukrainian refugees:

https://www.propastop.org/eng/2023/05/19/how-the-kremlin-use...

The following article is maybe slightly outdated by now but gives an overview of the nginx architecture. Probably a good read before diving into the nginx codebase:

https://aosabook.org/en/v2/nginx.html

I remember a few years back Iran send assassins to kill Iranian dissidents in Germany, Austria, and Belgium. The assassins were caught and politely returned to Iran on a private plane.

No punishment for planned/attempted murder.

The West is hopelessly naive about sophisticated and brutal adversaries like Russia and Iran.

The journalists that have been killed in/by Russia in the past 20 years either revealed corruption close to Putin's inner circle or human rights violations by Russian forces in Chechnya.

It was inevitable that they would also begin to target journalists who revealed human rights violations by Russian forces in Ukraine.

Remarkably even the Australian OSINT person who focused entirely on finding errors in Oryx's dataset still praised it and said it was by far still the best approximation of Russian vs. Ukrainian losses.

>I observe the opposite sentiment among .NET developers for features added in C# despite that its backwards compatibility is also fully preserved. They say “the language is getting bloated”,

I don't recognize this sentiment at all and I think it's almost non-existent among developers who use ReSharper or Rider that will both introduce useful new language features as a refactoring suggestion that is one shortcut away.

.Net developers can easily get away with not keeping up with new C# language features. A .Net developer who went into coma in 2012 after having learned async/await and ASP.NET MVC can return to a hypermodern ASP.NET Core 7 codebase and be almost instantly productive.

He also conveniently made comments pretending to be Ukrainian but spelling it "Kiev".

>the largest single spike in deaths of despair in human history

1990s Eastern Europe was bad but this is extreme revisionism and exaggeration.

The despair and famines caused by Stalin, Hitler, Mao all caused far more deaths.

Ah the good old classic of accusing Russian dissidents of being Jews or crypto-Jews. A tradition as old as Stalin.

FYI Dmitry Glukhovsky is neither Jewish nor Israeli.

>Yeltsin staged a coup with the help of the US

A blatant lie that keeps getting repeated. Yeltsin hired some American campaigners and advertisers because he wanted a loud Western-style election campaign. It's funny how Yeltsin having American campaign/advertising advisers has been spun into claims that the US did a coup in Russia.

This whole affair really puts the phrase "Try that in a small town" into perspective.

From across the pond it feels like American millennials and Gen-Z have already declared their country to be a failed state.

How much can a nation progress if its youth is pessimistic about everything? It doesn't matter whether the pessimism is based on actual problems (healthcare, housing prices etc.) or learned through terminally online reddit/twitter consumption.

I am surprised that the "Postgres supports JSON so we don't need NoSQL systems" talking point is so common on Hacker News. MongoDB's marketing department is partially to blame for this because they marketed the negative trade-offs of MongoDB like non-SQL querying and lack of schema as "intentional" features.

It was Google's BigTable paper (2006) and Amazon's Dynamo paper (2007) that led to the "NoSQL revolution" in the late 2000s. The goal was to make it easier to scale a lot of de-normalized data horizontally with the tradeoffs being lack of RDBMS-like querying and schema enforcement.

In hindsight it was bizarre to market a whole category of horizontally scalable data systems based on one of their main negative trade-offs: Lack of SQL querying.

Since then many of these data systems have added SQL-like querying.