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>What I find fascinating about the cyberpunk sensibility is the dramatic shift from the classical view of the future. When you dig into older science fiction it is almost universally accepted that the future will be clean, bright, and government-controlled.

I know that this is a popular narrative about science fiction of the past but I'm not sure it is actually true. For instance looking at the greats from 19th C. to the first half of the 20th C (although perhaps looking at the greats is not the best approach).

1. Isaac Asimov's "The Foundation" (1942) is about the collapse of an empire and the birth of a new empire. Social science turns out to be more powerful than spaceships but it has some pretty serious failure modes.

2. Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1869) is largely about a rebel. Technology doesn't seem to be fixing problems.

3. H.G. Well's "Time Machine" (1895) has the end of all human civilization and "The Shape of Things to Come" (1933) while utopian is also extremely grim at points.

4. Stapledon's works, "Star Maker" (1937) and "First and Last Men" (1930) which were extremely influential on the science fiction of that time are grand and chaotic. Several of the time periods described could easily be cyberpunk.

5. C.S. Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy (1938) is explicitly anti-progress.

Cyberpunk was essentially a switch from telling pulpy adventure stories to telling pulpy noir stories.
I always thought they should just make stairs on Everest..
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It's not easy to contain really hot things. If it gets out, it won't be a nuclear explosion but, if water or combustibles are around, there will be some sort of explosion.
They will in today's job market (which isn't typical). Hiring for unskilled labor is incredibly tight.
I admit I only read some articles on both encounters (in reputable newspapers). However, those are very much in line with my personal experiences from the years that was running a media company. Politicians are focussed on getting in office and staying there. Being friends with (listing to) the big guys (big names, important companies) is cool and good for status. Mingling with the little guys is only neccessary every so many years (because, what do they know anyway ?). Yes, it made me a little frustrated ;-)
tampons are a really good way to stop the tensor flow
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It's actually trivially easy to switch from Google search and maps, just type in a different URL or change a setting on your browser. It's only "hard" because the alternatives are just not as good. The fact the the alternatives have to work so hard to stay competitive might suggest that open data intensive apps just aren't as good of a model for delivering quality content. We've seen this play out before with the iOS and Mac OS X hatred before tech folks turned from hating MS to Apple to now, Google/FB.
> Question for Vue users: whats the value prop over React?

I'll paste my comment from another post in this thread:

>> I hear a lot that "Vue is easy to learn"...

> That's why I started working with Vue. It seemed easier to approach for someone coming from a server-side language perspective (I'd mostly worked with Python/Flask and PHP/Symfony before). I could slowly ease into using pieces of it until I learned enough to write a whole project in Vue. You can probably do the same thing in React, but the Vue docs were written to address my use case.
Sidenote: how does a place like AL have so much government money poored into it?
I don't see a problem with that, when you write your core logic in lua and provide a binary "runner" (lua bindings or plain lua executable). Your point to get lua to run there in the first place stands, of course.
As I mentioned in another reply, the idea of improving the software skills of myself and my team is absolutely appealing. That's why I started associating with that movement in the first place. I don't disqualify the spirit of that effort.

In practice however, it's a different reality.

Let's not forget that SC's perhaps most infamous proponent once said that C++ is a "man's language", and that Java is an "oestrogen" language.
> If you've ever said "this isn't my job" then you will have only an adversarial relationship.

I say that all the time to other managers and occasionally to my direct manager.

I'm the only software engineer on staff and we have a pisspoor IT provider, if it's windows I don't touch it because if I do I'll 'own' it and I'm busy enough.
LIDAR has been the best solution to self-driving car vision for a little while now. Interesting to see Cadillac's solution - instead of paying for a LIDAR unit on each car, they pay for a few mapping devices and provide stale data to the car.

> Are there systems in place to automatically invalidate sections of freeway when the government modifies them? Does the government even know that Cadillac is trying to maintain its own map of the freeways?

Indeed, a highly non-optimal situation.
Talked to a local business owner here. He started a small restaurant because, after having moved here and looked for a job for a year, he couldn't get hired. Big box stores, grocery stores, other restaurants. He's ... probably early 50s, and was looking to just be a good employee someplace, clock in, clock out... and could not get hired. He's always been a hustler, and that probably comes through in the interviews, and they pass on hiring him. So... the "go get a job flipping burgers"... isn't always as easy as it's made out to be in many regions. For the record, he's now flipping burgers in his own burger place (made his own job, basically).
The best way to make a small fortune in the stock market is to start with a large one.

My ex fancied herself a day trader and spent an amazing amount of time researching trading, back-testing trading strategies, and coming up with new strategies. This was over around a decade. In the end, her "can't lose" strategy (high leveraged investment in a RITE with some sort of a "even if it fails we get our money back" option coverage) resulted in six figures just disappearing. I never got any sort of answer on what happened there, we were divorcing at the time and she wouldn't say anything about it. I'm pretty sure she didn't take it an run, she was just too embarrassed about it.

What has worked best for me is:
- Invest early. When I was 19 I nearly took out a $10K loan to put into an investment account, just as a sort of "forced saving". I loved the toys, so that was a good way to make sure I got money into that. I wish I could go back and actually do that.

- Make sure you are taking advantage of your free money. I have a friend that isn't taking advantage of his work's 3% matching. I max out my Simple contributions.

- Putting money in a low-fees investment account. I have the bulk of it in a "targeted retirement account" at Vanguard, with the target retirement age set to around 70, which keeps it a bit more aggressive right now when I don't need the money and can contribute more.
The most annoying thing is going through netflix on PS4 and having every thing you scroll on autoplay after a second. The only way to stop this is to open the video/show then close it. This is something I have to do regularly...
Crazy to think about the range of devices the architecture supported, from small battery-powered things to giant multi-rack SGI Onyx machines.

I'm still impressed with my dual-R12000 Octane today.
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They're probably erring on the side of safety so staying far enough so that the car can come to a complete stop if the car in front slams their brakes. The way most people drive, if the car in front slams their brakes, they don't have enough distance to stop, but driving closer to the person in front of you reduces traffic so it's a decision we make to increase risk a little to save time.

The companies making the software of course want to avoid lawsuits so they're going to ignore time savings.
Another neural movie remake, this time it's “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys
I realized how great Sametime was after I was forced to move to Skype for Business. The meeting functionality wasn't great but there were other great features. I sorely miss the button that allowed you to drag a rectangle on your screen and it would automatically send the resulting screen capture as a message. Not as an attachment that you had to open up, an actual image in the chat. Why can't skype figure that out!?
Gotcha. And to be fair I don't want to just pile on, and criticize your reaction to it.

I understand where you are coming from when you say: How about famous people get interpreted by different cultures differently", but I think it misses the larger point of the article, and the "colonising" quote in particular.

Granted I am not a art guy by any means, but I took it to be referencing the larger concept of "cultural imperialism." In particular, it's the idea that Frida's art, or in this particular case her looks are not good enough, are not able to stand on their own, and therefore we need to tweak them to make them more palatable. So in this case it was "make Frida more sexy" in this ostensibly biographical picture about her, by applying a standard of sexiness and beauty seen by our culture, e.g. "less unibrow..."

In a larger context, I take the idea of "colonising" culture, or the phrase "cultural imperialism" to be referencing similar themes: -that the 'natives' can't do things on their own. - That rich cultural traditions are somehow inferior, or need to be reduced down to a handful of icons w/o understanding of the larger context around them.

I'm probably rambling - again not an art guy, and you can probably find a better reference on the topic than me :-)

EDIT: So something I thought of that might be a good metaphor. On HN, there is often a lot of snark about media representations of "hackers" and tech folks in general, and how they get things wrong, or boil down complex ideas into an overly simplified (and wrong) version, or will try to make something that "looks techy", or 'looks like a hacker' while being clearly ridiculous to actual technologists.

So while again its not the same, there are parallels - Basically this idea that Frida, and 'foreign' artists in general, can be boiled down to a few tropes or symbols to be come this immediately recognizable 'idea-of-frida' or 'idea-of-foreign/exotic-art' while completely discarding the nuance and the actual work / process of the artist.
Do you have any actual issues yarn solves for you besides an anecdotal “it just works”?
Take more desk breaks were you get up and wall around. Getting he blood moving just by walking round the flat for a couple of minutes actually makes a difference.

I work from home so I'm on the phone a reasonable amount - I always walk around on my calls. It also gives you a screen break and really helps with problem solving.

I've also become more away of my dips in productivity. Unless you're doing something mundane you can't smash out great results for 8-10 hours every day. Switch tasks, go for a walk (outside this time), make a tea etc. Make sure your lunch break is something totally different to give your mind a break (I go watch TV).
Same for me.

From Kromtech's article I deduced that this only happens when a docker daemon (or kubernetes interface) is exposed to the Internet and an attacker uses that to download and start a docker image on the victim's host. Then they can bind mount a host directory like described and attack the host computer.
Article is from 2014, that should probably be in the title.
Training us to do that is exactly how they maintain their control over the community. And it is about control. We’re not allowed to ask for or say anything about HN on HN.

I used to feel how you feel, but after examining the reasons why it’s like this, it’s probably better to get in the habit of asking for things on HN itself. Not only was it like that in the old days, but pg even started an explicit feature requests thread where people could vote on feature priority.

I don’t think something like voting is useful, to be clear. I’m saying that talking publicly about HN is step one in maintaining our own sense of identity as a community.
There's the semi-official ICR[1].

[1]: https://github.com/crystal-community/icr
Oh, I'm already completely convinced about the expressive power of animations. Just wasn't sure how much is possible with PPT/Keynote. Could 3Blue1brown videos be made in Keynote? But I can definitely see your point. :-)
I like to use this feature but constantly forgot its name, it was only until i had stumbled upon it in a furiously mal-termed google search that i once again found it and drilled its hyperlink into my brain.

i think that commenters have been pretty good about identifying paywalls and commenting with a link that outlines the doc to provide a succinct representation of the article

also anyone who is not familiar with the way outline works is you just type outline.com/<your-full-http://-link-here> and it generates an outline of the doc.

this is more than just useful for paywall articles i use it all the time to get rid of ads and other annoying stuff when i just want to "read" an article.
Indeed! Assuming that your centripital accel. numbers are right, I wonder why not even just use linear accel.

Assuming that you want to exit the tube/system at 5000mph, you could keep acceleration to 9g (tolerable for a human)with less than a 9 mile long acclerator and 18 seconds. If you were ok with 40g, you're down under 4miles and 6 seconds.

(I'm not estimating the deceleration Gs from suddenly hitting MaxQ on exiting into the lower atmosphere. So perhaps that shock puts us up into a high G situation anyway, so might as well go for the smaller real-estate circular acceleration option?)

edit: "tolerable for a human" might better read "survivable for trained humans"
jwilder/nginx-proxy has been instructing users to only grant read-only access to the docker daemon for as long as I've been using it, so I know this is at least possible. It's not fine-grained, but it is read-only access. https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy
What conclusions can be drawn from this? If any?
Rust has algebraic data types. That’s completely different than the proposed solution for Go, which is pretty much what Kotlin does. And IMHO its a bandaid.

ADTs are the way to go. If Go had ADTs I would pick it over Rust in a heartbeat, as I personally don’t care much about not having a GC, and think go-routines are superior to async/await.
Drag being a factor of velocity squared means diminishing returns for increasing launch velocity, but there's no hard limit.
Indeed. So true.
I'm a cto in denver by union station and would be happy to treat you to a lunch and chat with you and give you pointers about how to present your current eng. experience. The denver job market is a fickle one, with some astoundingly poor hiring practices. I can try and help you with navigating those and i also know a few companies around who are actively seeking skilled engineers.

Feel free to reach out and we can do lunch sometime. you can get to me via: ben at meetmindful.com
The thing is people will plug their printer in there because it's the first slot they see, then the cable management will look really bad and ruin the industrial design the PC maker wanted. I'd like to see a Mac Mini/NUC with a Qi charger on top to charge a phone.
> at 1 mile you’re looking at ~300g acceleration, 150g at 2 mile.

Could you explain? Centripetal acceleration is v^2/r, so naively I'd think something moving at LEO orbital velocity in a radius of 1 mile requires ~4,000g because LEO has a radius ~4k miles under 1g.
Depends on the volume of data you're logging and if you need to do real-time analysis on it. Certainly not for all use cases but where I work we're doing a lot with LogStash (on Elastic) to "do business work" on data streams that are coming in at up to 1Gbps. Since we have it in place already for other business needs we throw a lot of app telemetry data at it as well and have rules for processing events and issuing alerts.

For more down-to-earth scenarios, log4j (which can be used from Python and other languages) along with several Apache logging projects (eg: log4php) are good options. If you're on .NET I would look first at Serilog.
I bet nobody has thought of making a POSIX-compliant system that runs on those spooky nerd doodads before
I think rms famously used one of those. Lemote Yeelong with the Loongson CPU.
The book "A Random Walk Down Wall St." is a classic no-bs intro. (The basic message is that individual investors shouldn't try to beat the market, but should buy and hold index funds instead)
1. People over-index on pointless measures.
Don't the power/HDMI/ethernet cables get pretty obtrusive? I'd just get a USB hub and velcro it to the desk.
For those who found this interesting, Netflix has a really good show on the history of popular toys called the Toys That Made Us. It's well made and taught me a lot of things about the toys I grew up with.
As someone who has read most of the genre and taught a college course on the subject, I agree that the article didn't say that much, but it's fine. I appreciate the "lived in universe" whether it is cyberpunk fiction or Han Solo's Millenium Falcon.

"The future is here, it just isn't evenly distributed."

I take exception to the ideas about anti-globalism, though. There are plenty of educated people, like me, who are against global plutocracy. The idea that only backwoods hicks support Trump is horribly toxic. Trump is himself a cyberpunk. He's practically a one-man junta against the globalist slavers. He and the faction of the intelligence community that are desperately trying to right the ship deserve our support, not our scorn. Just look at the criminal acts the FBI and CIA have committed, as well as the Dept. of State in fomenting wars and destruction of civilization (Libya, Syria) for the sake of corporate profiteering. 9/11 was the same deal, too--a major false flag designed to enhance big government and corporate profits. Cyberpunks want to tear these people down!
Contrary to the title, the chart at the top of the page pretty convincingly shows that the divorce rate is constant across decadal marriage cohorts.
I am not an EU lawyer, but in north america this sort of academic use would not be a copyright violation.

(1) You cannot copyright facts. A study saying that there are "100 hamsters per square kilometer" does not control that fact. Anyone else can also say that there are "100 hamsters per square kilometer". They don't even meed to cite the original study (plagiarism is different than copyright). This is well-understood doctrine, especially for people who make things like maps. A chart or a table is just a representation of facts. Copyright would only be an issue for something like a diagram or photograph, something with some creative input. And even then ... see (2).

(2) Academic citation is covered by 'fair use'. One academic paper incorporating a bit from another does so to either rely upon it for some grander theory (comment) or to say that it is wrong about something (criticism). Google and similar entities covered by this law add nothing and so are not covered by fair use.
Does this gratify anyone's intellectual curiosity?
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Skylake cpu? Which model?

Assuming using 32GB dimms to use all six lanes (if Skylake)? This is something that has bit me a few times - most Skylake cpus have 6 lanes, so balanced is 192, 384, etc. Not 4 lanes like we are used to!

Would also recommend trying different ram configs anyways, on our side we have seen better thru put on 768 than on 384. Even 512 performs better in some cases than 192.
Maybe its just modernizing? Her look doesn't pass for modern sexy, but it was meant to be that at the time.
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JS ecosystem's trends are as stable and predictable as English weather.
You can always add dozens more USB ports with a powered hub. 6 Thunderbolt ports is unheard of however and provides great connectivity that you can't add after the fact, even on DIY PCs.
That's not big at all. Those are what, 4-12 players at a time? Everything can run within a single server so all the IO is to the users.

I haven't played this DBZ game but if its more of an MMO with a live view of all the players in your area you might be dealing with user handoff between servers, cross server communication etc etc.
It's not a myth. The article even points out what's really going on, but they only dedicate at most a paragraph to it: people aren't getting married as much. The overall marriage rate has fallen, and people are waiting longer than ever to get married, if they even do. The percentage of the population that's single is higher than ever.

So sure, the divorce rate has fallen, but if your goal is a society where people are in stable marriages, we're farther from that goal than ever. Traditional marriage is slowly dying as an institution.

Personally, I think we'd all be a lot better off if we adopted open and polyamorous relationships in a large way. They're better for resource-sharing and avoid the problem with thinking that your partner has to satisfy you in every way.
Yes, omg, I completely agree. Your thoughts have resonated with me.

Like, someone who comes from generational wealth in Omaha may have millions in the bank but below $125,000 in family income. And someone in NYC making $150,000 I'd say 66% of that goes to taxes and rent and transport at a bare minimum.

>busting ass on the SATs probably less subjective than a video of you dancing

I can see arguments going both ways for this. It will really depend on the admissions' committee's agenda and bias and process controls. If the school as a whole really wants rich kids to attend (this was the case in 2009 when the University of Chicago merged their Admissions and Financial Aid Departments)...

... then the Admissions department will probably start accepting dance videos that are quite obviously produced by someone with money and class-power. There are countless ways that someone could imply wealth in a self-produced audition video and even just in an essay.

But if the committee wants to select for impoverished families only, then they could do that too. They already have a ton of data.

Idk, the process is all rigged every way you look at it. What really needs to happen is college shouldn't be the make/break between a decent career in the USA...
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