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She talks about this further down in the thread, making it her main point:

> Again, specific places are facing EXTREMELY REAL wheat supply problems. MENA usually sources from Ukraine. Switching supply chains to India & other sources takes extra time, & if they're further away from India and Ukraine, it takes longer for supplies to get there.

and

> To solve that problem, we gotta start with being clear on what the problem IS!

> We haven't! We decided it's a wheat shortage, not a shipping shortage.

> So investors panicked, drove up the price of wheat, & made it even harder for these places to get new import shipments launched

> Even more shocking might be how the German elite and the working class view the Ukraine situation. To them, Ukraine was a source of worry due to its cheap labor wages and proximity to Russia would create a competing industrial center.

> Even more outrageous might be how many in Germany are actually in favor of Russia's actions to take Ukraine away from EU/NATO.

Both of those are very strong claims. What are your sources?

I came here to post this, glad you already did. It's honestly one of the best things I've ever listened to. I find it amazing how he can paint such a nuanced picture of such a complex and horrific topic which lends itself so easily to taking a black-and-white view.

I would be really interested in this if it had a focus mode, that hides e-mails and delivers them to me in batches. I loved Tempo[1], but unfortunately they ran out of money, which shows how tough this space is.

[1]: https://www.yourtempo.co

> Well, that is kind of the problem with generative art, it is all process with no point.

I don't see how this should be specific to computer-generated art. You can make drawings by hand that have no point. In my opinion computers are just another tool for artists.

I agree. The E-2 is not talked about a lot and it has the mayor advantage that you can go through your local consulate instead of USCIS in Texas.

It's tech related and I didn't have any issues with the consulate. My feeling was that they mostly cared about revenue and hiring targets and less about technical details. Feel free to reach out on Twitter, I'm happy to chat or share more details.

Congrats on getting your green-card Swizec!

I wouldn't generalize to Europe here. I think it's a common mistake that I often make myself is to compare the US to Europe as if both were homogenous. San Francisco is different from Detroit, and Germany is different from Poland both economically and regarding people's mindset.

I've moved from Switzerland to NYC on an E-2 visa. I've worked multiple years for both a Swiss and a German startup and have been in contact with Swiss and German founders through an accelerator. I've never heard any founder or software engineer say that taxes, administration, or other people kept them from reaching for the stars. I've also learned that taxes in NYC are easily as high as in Germany and that paperwork in the US is just as burdensome as everywhere else I've had to do it.

I think the reason that so many ambitious people are drawn to Silicon Valley and NYC is that they know it's a place where other ambitious people are. That's precisely why I came, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. And I went despite the high taxes (easily 3x of what I paid in Switzerland), higher rent, and burdensome immigration process because I want to be in this environment.

You allude to the fact that people are what matters, but I feel that a lot of the discussion about what makes a good startup ecosystem is about money, taxes, and other administrative side-shows. Those only matter if you have the right atmosphere to start with, and I think we should talk about this more. Especially now that most of us are working remotely and physical location will become less critical.

I always thought that motivation leads to action. But it's actually the other way round: Action leads to motivation which then leads to more action. So just do anything to get started, and then the motivation from doing something will hopefully kick in.

A rut is a vicious cycle, and the only way out it is to actively break it by doing something that goes against it.

Cool idea, I started following your Twitter account.

AFAIK dolphins are never used together with friendly divers against other divers as the dolphins can't discern between friends or foes.

I love the idea of reading more papers but I'm a bit overwhelmed at the idea of just diving in an adding more to my reading list. I would love to hear from people who managed to read papers next to a day-job and retain some of the knowledge presented?

I agree. The only thing that irks me with DDG is that it ranks the official python docs too low. I often end up with results from w3school which I don't want to use. And unfortunately I can't remove domains from the search results.

My professional bias had me expect people wiring Ethernet cables in 6.23 seconds, crimper in a carbon fiber holster.

I don't understand how this didn't make the front-page, it's absolutely mind-blowing. Or am I missing something and it's not that much of a revolution?

Pre-commit supports reading in multiple types of config files, like pyproject.toml for example. It obviously depends on the tools, but in our case we can use the same configs for pre-commit and CI. It's taken some time to set up, but IMO worth it.

We're using django-stubs and we've been pretty happy with it. We've started the project with it, which was fairly simple. There's one or two model field types that are not supported but those can be skipped. We're using pre-commit to run mypy, this makes sure that we never commit a state that isn't type-checked.

The UI is fine. The model seems to struggle with me drawing 6 on desktop.

Reading "Sketch Recognition" I was expecting something akin to Google draw which recognises objects like cars and trees. The digit classifier is of course fine, but I felt a bit disappointed when I realised it "only" does numbers. I also think it's the least impressive of the demos you have.

Came here to say the same. When I draw a 6 on desktop, it doesn't even show up in the list of candidates.

I never got the attraction of mechanical keyboards until somebody wrote that they see a mechanical keyboard as a sign that they invest in their craft by having quality tools. And that every time they sit down and start tipping this thought gives them joy.

I liked this idea so much that I got myself Moonlander and haven't looked back since.

Also doubting the civilian use, but in the previous discussion somebody commented[0] that the main purpose might be military:

> For military applications on the other hand, it's close to perfect. You don't need orbital insertion, you can accelerate your payload silently without allowing for detection in the early phase of the attack, your projectile starts at essentially cruise speed and can only be detected by infrared emissions due to atmospheric heating for a few seconds until the launch ablative heatshields are ejected. It's a fantastic first strike weapon.

I don't know if this is a more likely application, but we should at least consider that we don't know the whole story, for better or worse. It might very well be a military startup that tries to give itself some SpaceX marketing-sheen.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29209456

Thanks for sharing. I only got a sound effect when turning the sound off, but didn't find any others?

The page looks cool, but I left immediately once the music started playing. There's a reason most websites stopped doing this.

I just realised it has a an FAQ: https://archive.ph/faq

It's fun read:

> How is the archive funded?

> It is privately funded; there are no complex finances behind it. It may look more or less reliable compared to startup-style funding or a university project, depending on which risks are taken into account.

but doesn't seem to be very up to date

> Will advertising appear on the archive one day ?

> I cannot make a promise that it will not. With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014.

although true.

Oh, interesting. So it does some encoding, but not very efficiently?

You're right. I meant to say "videos", fixed it.

Yes, video codecs are way better at generating smaller file sizes. GIFs are literally like flip-books of images.

You can also autoplay videos without controls and loop them, but you have to mute them.

Most "GIF" hosting websites actually use videos. Especially when it's "GIFs with sound".

This is a theme in the Mars Trilogy series. Without spoiling anything, I think the timeline can make a difference. If Armageddon happens far enough into the future on earth, Mars might have become independent. The population of Mars might also feel detached from the events, just like we in the West don't care too much about military coups in smaller countries.

Interesting to see that delivery times of 4-6 weeks were something that was advertised.

I would never have thought of something flying like that. It's a nice reminder for me that we don't know what we don't know.

Some great games are playstation exclusive, so if you want to play those, you have no other option.

But the main reason for me is the controller: It's just so much better than any other controller I've connected to a PC. The back triggers have excellent force feedback and in some games the vibrations tell you on what type of surface you're walking. This might not count for XBox users, which can use the controller on their PC.

Also, I use a Mac, and I don't want to bother with setting up a gaming only Windows PC. If I factor in time spent, $500 is worth it.