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Those are rookie numbers.

This guy [1] (in Swedish) was digitizing a municipal archive. 25 years later, the IT department (allegedly) accidentally deleted his entire work. With no backup.

Translated:

> For at least 25 years, work was underway to create a digital, searchable list of what was in the central archive in Åstorp municipality. Then everything was deleted by the IT department.

> “It felt empty and meaningless,” says Rasko Jovanovic.

> He saw his nearly 18 years of work in the archive destroyed. HD was the first to report on it.

> “I was close, so close to taking sick leave. I couldn't cope,” he says. The digital catalog showed what was in the archive, which dates back to the 19th century, and where it could be found.

> "If you ask me something today, I can't find it easily, I have to go down and go through everything.

> “Extremely unfortunate”

> Last fall, the IT department found a system that had no owner or administrator. They shut down the system. After seven months, no one had reported the system missing, so they deleted everything. It was only in September that Åstorp discovered that the archive system was gone.

> “It's obviously very unfortunate,” says Thomas Nilsson, IT manager. Did you make a mistake when you deleted the system?

> “No. In hindsight, it's clear that we should have had different procedures in place, but the technician who did this followed our internal procedures.”

In typical Swedish fashion, there cannot have been a mistake made, because procedures were followed! Or to put it in words that accurately reflect having 25 years of work removed: "Own it, you heartless bastard."

Translated with DeepL.com (free version) [1] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/rasko-digitali...

Given that Sweden manufactures submarines since long ago, I'm surprised second-strike capability was even a question.

Agreed that finding a target that doesn't blow back in our own face would be an issue. Though you don't really have to answer that question to have a deterrent, almost by definition.

You also need to build the infrastructure to take on 1,000 tons of gold. I doubt that's done in a month. IIRC, London has the biggest storage after NYC, so that's probably where it'll end up in the interrim. Eventually, I'd guess Switzerland will rise to do more gold storage.

We're essentially creating the same scenario as WTI vs Brent oil, where gold is partitioned into multiple different products depending on location.

> This doesn’t mean that the authors of that paper are bad people!

> We should distinguish the person from the deed. We all know good people who do bad things

> They were just in situations where it was easier to do the bad thing than the good thing

I can't believe I just read that. What's the bar for a bad person if you haven't passed it at "it was simply easier to do the bad thing?"

In this case, it seems not owning up to the issues is the bad part. That's a choice they made. Actually, multiple choices at different times, it seems. If you keep choosing the easy path instead of the path that is right for those that depend on you, it's easier for me to just label you a bad person.

GP said s/he didn't understand why anyone would want these in-betweens. I gave an explanation as to why.

Based on what you're saying, it seems the divide arises from some drivers classifying these features as physical comfort, and some as mentally disengaging.

As a technologist, I like lane-keep assist because it feels fundamentally more right that my car by default follows the road than keeps going with the turn radius I had previously input.

Cruise control with minimum distance helps me keep a sound distance even as other cars keep packing up and reducing distances on a busy highway. My previous car (Mercedes) was great at detecting if a new car coming in front of me was accelerating, if so it didn't adjust the distance as aggressively. Much better behavior than my current Kia.

Auto-break features are sweet as they react really fast. If that can avoid deploying an airbag in my face, I'm all for it.

I agree it's a lot like managing, with six buttons just to do the above, but from a bottom-up approach, each feature has value in its own right.

> For me, if I'm already driving somewhere, and have to pay enough attention to know if an emergency is about to happen, I might as well just do the driving.

Where do you draw the line? Would you prefer not having a steering and brake servo? Would you prefer sticking out your arms instead of having flashing lights? Would you prefer feeling every bump in the road to having suspension?

To me these systems just feel like natural evolution of the car concept, something that's been going on for 120 years. What Tesla failed at was putting their heads in the clouds and hoping something awesome would eventually pop out the other end. While the established car makers did incremental improvements.

You know, it's my bad. I use the Modern for HN Chrome extension, and it apparently hid the entire text there.

Lesson learned. Extension uninstalled. Sorry for the noise.

Edit: this was my fault.

I recently saw a Show HN [1] that had no link to anywhere, but it did have a project name. It currently has 13 points.

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If the US is fighting with Europe and South America, China might not that many.

> materials

I'd say he's always been very secretive about the chemicals he use, what type of varnish was on the painting, etc.

If you sell the bonds, you'll end up with a lot of USD. If you try to sell that... You run into liquidity issues. Would probably cause a spike in gold prices as a default non-USD position. Oh, wait...

Your argument would have been much more pleasant to read without the rudeness.

To be fair to the manchild-in-command, the US has been invading countries since at least the 1990s.

GP dislikes Must because s/he felt Musk duped them. What does that have to do with ad hominem? There's no objective argument to dislike; GP dislikes the way the objective arguments were put forth.

As a child of the 80s, who lived 20 miles away from a city, I can tell you that my life was pretty much dark ages before I understood that driving was not just something parents did; I could also do that. And that there were people with similar interests as me at the end of that drive! Took 18 years.

> Turns out that humans actually like slop...

... more than being bored.

Curious what her argument against it is.

If humans on Earth have exponential growth, and then decline, in what kind of time period are you most likely to have been born?

> Our credibility with Europe, already strained, will continue to erode if the world sees that American leadership is unwilling or unable to check reckless behavior.

As a European without political ties, I already consider the US a failed democratic state. It has a bully running the country, and no one seems to have the guts, ability, or interests, to fix that. The US constitution gives the president _way_ too much power for a position that can, essentially, be bought.

> when you can just pip install.

To add: This is okay in early organizations. In larger organizations, the risk of malicious code entering your systems is much greater. So I think FOSS benefits small companies more than large companies, which seems good.

Or:

"people who come off vaccinations still don't get sick, compared to those who continue taking vaccines"

You have a strong bias towards thinking GLP-1 behaves like a statin rather than a personality altering drug (or a vaccine, or nicotine patches.) Please provide a basis for this bias.

We're not treating GLP-1 different because it's a different thing. We're treating it differently, because we don't know if it's an analogous thing without this type of study.

I agree with others here that focusing your eyes on _using_ open source is, at least, an incomplete view of the problem.

What we (European software engineers) have been arguing, is that software that is funded by public means, such as from universities or institutions, ought to be made fully public, including ability to tweak. Thinking that open source software will help solve your budget and/or political problem is not something we're interested in doing for free. This excerpt here:

> In the last few years, it has been widely acknowledged that open source – which is a public good to be freely used, modified, and redistributed – has

suggests they see it as free candy, rather than the result of love and hard work, provided for free because it's nice. Pay for what you use, especially at the government level.

Of course, I strongly encourage the European governments to invest in open source. And if you're interested in giving money, I'm interested in doing work. Same as ever.

Yes, but someone managed to get funding for an external sponsorship in a single day? I'm happily surprised.

You're absolutely right!

But this type of... conflict aversion... is definitely more common in LLMs than in humans. Even the most positive humans I know sometimes crack.

Presumably EU governments require data to be in European datacenters. Those would be seized.

I can't find anything in the article about NAC or N-acetylcystein. What's the relevance?

I don't think the visual approach does much for interactions, so that's a separate concern. This is more about feel. E.g. inertia applied to CoG, so when you grab it outside CoG, large files will tilt more as you drag. Light files would probably start spinning even.

Now, applying inertia for the movement itself would be annoying. Please don't do that. :)

The national policing forces don't report to the courts. Instead, there are promises between the two. The argument that international courts cannot work because they don't have their own enforcement is weak. But you are right it would be equivalent to war, or "special military operations" such as Bin Ladin, if a ruling party is convicted.

Trump is fixing the UN glitch: https://www.cfr.org/article/funding-united-nations-what-impa...

Whether NATO still exists as a defense organisation is a good question.

Isn't that just semantics? It's tied to the same phone number, and I assume the generation of a new eSIM invalidates any old one (as happens with my carrier.) It's essentially backed up, even if it's just a (carrier, number) pair. If the Lyca account is trashed, the rest is just an implementation detail.