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> I think baby boomers are the worst generation in history.

Pretty sure most generations have had resentment towards the previous generations that came before them. This isn't new. Most people are selfish and will do what benefits them and don't tend to look beyond their own lifetime or the kids'/grandkids' lifetimes.
Was trying to figure out why it looked photo-shopped to me. Realized the planet looks cut and pasted on to the rings due to the planets shadow on the rings being just barely visible behind giving it a black outline look. Well I'm assuming its the shadow...
>That newspaper is based in China, which can do with information and people within its borders as it pleases. Why do you think he gave out that information out to begin with? There is no benefit to Americans.

It's based in Hong Kong, and the Chinese state accessing published information isn't noteworthy. He exposed numerous illegal hacks done by the NSA on Hong Kong civilians, it's beneficial for Americans to know that their government is doing such a thing.

>He leaked all of that and more just to expose one illegal US program (phone metadata collection)

Your "smoking gun" on giving data to the Chinese exposes yet another illegal US program, and if you look through the other released information you'll find many more.

>He did that before China knew what he was going to do. There are so many better ways for Snowden to have handled that data, yes

No, according to your ridiculous fantasy, he released the information after giving it to the Chinese. It wouldn't matter what he was going to do then, letting him out of Chinese custody would be a huge mistake as it becomes advantageous for him to expose that he gave China information.
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> 9 yr old to use the laptop when learning to code at scratch.mit.edu

Wouldn't it just feel like a chore or homework at that point and not something you enjoy ?
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Great! I was thinking about doing this for years

Every time I see an awesome landscape in person I think about whats missing from capturing that for other people to experience and I concluded it came down to depth perception and how our eyes dart around to create a composite experience resulting in ever slight shifts of depth

A 2D image cant capture that, but this seems a lot closer and its great it can use a 2D image as a base
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For comparison:

Some photos of the castle: https://www.davidbakerphotography.com/location-history/resid... (see in particular one near the bottom)

About the demolition: https://www.byronhartshorn.com/2017/05/31/chateau-de-noisy-i...
It's only a matter of time before this happens. I'm not so worried about automatic tanks and gunboats as I am drone swarms identifying and exterminating a population in detail. Surviving a round of autonomous warfare is the number one reason to get off this planet, or hole up in a desert a hundred miles from an above-ground transmission line.
I'm an astronomer, and I think you're probably wrong. It's mostly down to exposure. Those little dots you're seeing in the images are likely cosmic rays. Those are removed by combining multiple images, as cosmic rays don't appear in the same places.
This one was already posted on HN a little while ago.

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...

The new "cloud" running on racks and racks of cpus with memory and storage on nodes is really close to how mainframes are.

With Google and other cloud vendors making more specific hardware to deal with certain processes, we are entering even closer to similarities with mainframes. They have a lot of supporting processing power that offloads the CPU.

Mainframes now can also run Linux :)
Umm, the summer is almost over.
No they're probably not (I'm an astronomer). They're likely cosmic rays. When I've used Hubble data, then the processing uses multiple images to remove the cosmic rays (which aren't in common between images).
There is no such thing as a zero downtime system, and it is a fiction that makes it difficult to have real conversations about trade offs with a business. Moving towards zero downtime requires rapidly escalating cost to incrementally move the needle.

At a minimum, supporting infrastructure (power/networking/internet/etc) will eventually fail even with backups. On top of that, no mainframe is going to work when under water (flooding) or on fire (remember the delta outage?).
So the product that they are tring to sell here to adolescents is "science courses" and science itself is just an excuse (in those cases). "See? You could be like this guy and be a happy tuba player, sportsman and superscientist all in one" and all of that. This would explain a lot of things... :-)

... and for most of the participants, here comes the surprise...
I was specifically responding to the claim that crony capitalism is not representative of capitalism and made a counterpoint of how you could defend almost any system that way.

Nonetheless, it's pretty well accepted that China is more capitalist today than ever, that's not really controversial.
I don't think comic book companies had teams of PhDs using all sorts of techniques to extract every bit of attention from people and kids, just to increase engagement metrics even slightly.
I design board games for a hobby, maybe sometime soon as more of a profession. A silent car does wonders for me to come up with ideas for coming up with ideas for my game designs. Walking the dogs and a long shower also work well. Between all three of them, they're probably responsible for at least 50% of all the creative ideas I've had over the years.

Really quiet or electronic music can work too though. It's people talking or singing lyrics that makes thinking difficult for me.

Pretty similar to coding, actually, except you're mostly stuck in front of a computer for that.
And you’ve got time this weekend to do so thanks to unions.
No need to be rude. A simple, "I disagree, how about..." would have been more civil.
My uncle in his 60's returned to the university to get an advanced degree in vulcanology.
That would have been one case where 'eminent domain' would have been a good solution.

It's a real pity to see such an iconic building go to waste. The demolition story tries to spin it hard as though the family had no other option, but of course they did: if they were unable to be good stewards of the property then they could have donated it to the Belgian state.

But after looting it for anything valuable it is of course much better to have a white-wash story out there about how those urban explorers violated the privacy of the owners (never mind the fact that it had been abandoned for years and that there was plenty of damage from neglect alone).
Neat!

An omission: I searched for "hat" and didn't find any results.
What is the cost of equivalent capacity construction on I-5, at SFO and at LAX?

In some markets (NE Corridor) airspace is so busy that you can‘t even really slot too many more planes in to meet travel demand.
I never claimed atoi is a good name or that the least amount of characters is always better. But str_to_int() is better than, say, convert_string_to_integer(), while still being equally clear.
Those flights are already very heavily subsidized, I doubt they wouldn‘t provide even more subsidy if this was done
Reminds me of Logicomix! (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596914521/)
It's hard to understate the value of safe and well understood for core systems. After all it's not like a massive migration to a new technology stack has ever blown up in anyone's face, right? (
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Most people find fulfillment and purpose by doing useful work. Otherwise retirement can be a living death.
My experience with PIPs is that they're essentially an advance notice that you're getting fired and a grace period while you finish up outstanding projects and look for another job.

There's a lot of flexibility with at will employers, but even for clear firings with just cause, it's often less risky to eat the cost of that grace period. Aside from the risk of (frivolous) legal costs, there are reputational and morale risks from departures that aren't adequately "managed." No one is ever walked into an office and fired on a Friday morning for performance reasons without lots of warnings, including a PIP.
How in the world would 3 hrs of gaming a night ruin college? That’s less than many people spend watching tv/movies.
"The dangers of making individual predictions from our collective characteristics" is a major area of research, especially in adtech, and the "Great Hack" documentary has showed us how well some have gotten at this for a slice of the population.
A critical question for the future of data science is: "can a person really change?" And "how can we determine if they have?"
Also the nearly precisely head on lighting, that comes from exactly 1 point. The lack of any atmospheric distortion. The perfectly clean background.
Funny how you say that, but I've got a dumbphone in my pocket and an MP3 player sitting in front of me.

None of this requires a screen. It's a choice you've made.
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I've seen this effect done to a single still image before, but presumably it was done by hand somehow. Specifically, in the “Kony 2012” video (remember that?)
Positive intent is irrelevant when it comes to psychological damage.
Here's some actionable advice (hope it helps):

- Join Toptal (https://toptal.com) or similar sites. I've found their criteria of getting developers on board to be quite hard. Brush up your skills. You'll end up getting good projects overall. The upside is huge. People generally don't bid too low.

- Start by cold emailing executives at small-medium tier startups. You can find those companies on Crunchbase (https://www.crunchbase.com/) and AngelList(https://angel.co). Find engineering manager or a C-team executive (CTO, CEO) on Linkedin and message them (or cold email). Tell them how you can add value to their engineering team instead of just asking if you can get a project. All depends on your ability to write a well-crafted email.

- Build relationships. I've freelanced before and can vouch that finding good clients is HARD. Keep a healthy relationship with the ones who hired you before, ask them for referral, etc.

- Write a useful blog and convert clients from there. Assume it to be your sales funnel if you will.
- Tweet, connect with people virtually. Be genuinely nice. Many people I know got their "big break" in freelancing via Twitter.

- If you have Wordpress skills, you can go so far with managing instances for people who don't know a thing. I know people earning $3K a month pretty easily by invoicing a handful of bloggers. Again, cold email is your friend.

My parting advice would be to not look for freelance projects. They're a waste of time. Instead, just look for high paying remote PHP jobs. You'll work much less and earn a lot more. I was skeptical at first but YES remote companies pay well too. Go to DailyRemote (https://dailyremote.com) and filter jobs by $70k+. Start applying to those positions. Also, remote companies that are not actively hiring would be interested in a good candidate if you just tell them that you're looking out. Tell them why they need to have you on the team. Most of them would be happy to accommodate.

Hope it helps. Good luck!
Since a mainframe can usually be updated to the newest model (and you often run more than one for redundancy, as some people may need more than 5 nines), in 300 years the company will have a z150 or so, with millions of quantum entangled cores made of folded spacetime mesh around a pair of rotating singularities running at a couple terahertz.

And it will still be able to run all your programs that were written and tested since the late 20th century, by the kind of organic entity we used to call "human".
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But I think the point is that users can't learn about projects that deserve that merit unless they become popular.
I know many comments were about how the article was a cherry picked example, but I was still glad the example seemed to be a useful one.

Honestly, I think even most programmers would benefit from refreshers on how to automate large parts of their workflow (I myself wish I was much more of a sed/awk guru than I am), and how to use the command line and the standard command line tools to get things done.

Not to be too harsh but I think it's unrealistic to expect more than a tiny percentage of people who are very late in their careers to learn to be true programmers, but I think most people could learn bot-like automation tools to improve their productivity.
How is it mismanaged?
It makes me terribly sad that reading a book could be considered boring!
I find the bucket-of-crabs observation super interesting. It's likely a problem not often talked about (nobody likes to admit or suggest envy).

At the same time, there is some justification when developers get put off by certain OSS projects.

I think 90% of OSS projects shouldn't exist at all, just like 90% of music releases (think dozens of millions of songs!) shouldn't exist at all.

"I made a thing" != "this thing should be shared/promoted". Projects so often lack rationale, research and rigour.

Of course, solving your own problem for yourself is always fine, but sharing it with the world should imply some caution.
> How would they know or trust the behavior?

It has worked for the past 30 years and hasn't been touched since 20.
I think Libra is a fine digital currency. It explores semi-centralized/semi-decentralized category. The main problem with Libra is its timing. It's too early. I don't think the market is ready for it.

Most people think Bitcoin is working as a digital native currency. In reality, Bitcoin is not doing anything much. Bitcoin community is sticking with digital gold, Store of Value narrative. That makes Bitcoin uninteresting. Normal people cannot really use it.

There is a big gap between digital native crypto like Bitcoin and government issued currencies. The market needs to evolve to fill in the gap before we can use a currency like Libra.

I outline the problem I see in the below article. I think we need a digital native stablecoin to connect Bitcoin to the real world.

https://bitflate.org/post/2019/08/26/bitcoin-missing-link-to...
Once you're fine with tapping to update the display, you might as well just use a non-E-ink display, keep it turned off most of the time, and turn it on to use it, since that's one tap.
Not really. We don't push her to do it. It's not something that is scheduled or something. If she thinks of something with animals she likes to create an animation out of it on scratch.
I don't think it's important but your website could be harder to find if you use a different TLD than com, net or something other that's well-known.
> ideas came from these "silent drives" because he was forced to be creative and use his imagination to keep himself entertained.

Driving is the classic 'zone' activity. As such I question if it's even a good idea to attempt to think and be creative when driving or if that's (if what Spielberg is saying is true even 'best worked because forced to'). Not that having a phone call isn't distracting from driving either. It is. But when you drive I just am not sure it's when you want to go back and forth in your head with some heavy thoughts which might make you less alert (and by less alert I mean even less than with a phone call).

The reason for taking phone calls in the car is because it's typically very time effective and a great (and effortless) way to pass the time.

There could also be other reasons why he didn't take phone calls. For example I don't like to take business calls because I can't take notes or note things I need to do. Talking to a relative that's another story. In that case it's great a way to pass the time and let's say fulfill an obligation. Or he might have almost gotten into an accident once and swore off any future calls. Or the main reason is 'I want down time but I need a way to explain to others why I don't talk in the car and this sounds better'. After all Spielberg is a creative person so why not a creative spin to something he does.

The story and the reason people say what they do often differs from the real reason (which would sound less impressive). Possible this is just a spin he put on it.
Pretty sure serverside rendered html works just fine before JavaScript is parsed and executed..
I was reminded of the same thing this summer, dragging an old telescope out to show Saturn to my son (for the first time). He was so excited to see a 'cartoon planet' for real, it gave my indifference to what you can see in a small telescope a sharp readjustment.
> I'm curious why it isn't based on qemu-user.

I've also wondered what it would take to do multi-architecture dynamic linking in qemu-user. Such a capability would avoid one shortcoming of Box86, the current lack of dynamic recompilation.

I suspect that modifying QEMU in this way is not trivial.
Ever read any Melville?
When I worked in Singapore, it was heartbreaking to see how the elderly were forced to take low paying positions clearing tables and being servers at McDonald's. Not because it's "bad" work or anything, but because in their aging years they were forced to due to a social service system that failed them.

This is obviously a fluff piece that tries to promote the resilience and motivation of the aging population, yet just highlights how bad things are since people have to work til they die.
The discussion is mostly about whether China is justified, and whether the US does similar things.

What interests me is the fact that, as pretty much an American, I just don't understand Chinese culture. The TFA doesn't discuss Chinese public opinion about these cases. But in analogy to the Hong Kong situation, I suspect that the public isn't sympathetic.

Of course, from an American perspective, social control and propaganda obviously account for that. But what if those weren't the main factors?

Is it really true that individuals don't matter so much in Chinese culture? Except mainly how they affect society, that is.

But maybe that's far too simplistic.

And of course, I have similar questions about what American culture is really about. Or even if there is such a thing.
The fact that people sometimes break rules doesn't necessarily make them ineffective.

Parents are not encouraged to give children unlimited access to alcohol or tobacco or hard drugs. Sure, they might find ways to break the rules, but are those rules then completely useless? Plenty of teenagers will claim that the rules just caused them to rebel, when in reality the rules were mostly effective and the teenagers are criticising a system from a sample size of 1 with no control.

This "rules are bad" is just silly. Kids aren't perfect and not every flaw is due to the parents making an egregious mistake - often the actions of parents are ones that make children into better people. It's also telling that the archetypal advocate progressive "child-centered" education (where natural consequences are good but authority is bad) was Rousseau, who never raised children himself.
And so, you idle for a moment, granting precisely that obligatory pause to the void of uncertainty. And then what?

Nothing is gained in the pause. Or at least not very much. Sure, you rinse off some of the tedious superstition and boil away a little bargaining and gambler's luck. But then?

You still come up empty handed, robbed of answers to serious questions.

Why must I ride along, railroaded into this role as singleton pilot of such a lowly meatbag, less than a dust speck, bound tidally to barely a pebble swirling in the limitless void? Granted no memory of a world prior to my birth, and all this experience doomed to be forgotten at the moment of my death. Seemingly a brief gap of awareness illuminating some strange landscape trapped between bookends of pitch black eternal nothingness, suspended without gravity in yet more nothingness.

So, matters of faith, you say? Faith indeed. Then why continue the charade of this deception? If this world insists on denying me any rightful understanding of this predicament, the only rational action might just be to shun this life forced upon me. Find a quick exit and escape the cosmic unfairness of such a nightmare.
It's all just a matter of cost x profit. If supporting those 7% doesn't make up for the the cost of supporting them, then it doesn't make sense to support them. However, if supporting them is worth more than the cost to do so, then it'd be silly not to.
Ask HN: How many database queries are running in the world right now?
Can we estimate at least the order of magnitude of that?
You used up so many words to say Chinese money influences actor's politics. It's that simple.
Would it not be possible to do the image processing on the original image to create several pixel masks which then draw in the high resolution image data?

For instance, you take the source image at resolution n*n and do all processing at n/2 or n/4. Then at the moment you are going to composite the finished image you instead draw "pixels" from a source image which contains X,Y not RGB. Then you upscale the output image x2 (or x4) and replace each X,Y index with the relevant pixel from the source image (adding X%2,Y%2 or X%4 to the indexes to return to source resolution).
I am still using my pebble every day.
I was under the impression that Amazfit used a transflective LCD
Reservoir sampling requires you to maintain a reservoir of n items that will be your sample. This can be prohibitive if the sample size itself is huge. The algorithm described here decides (commits) whether an item is to be sampled as it sees it (i.e., online), while consuming a constant amount of memory. It differs from the usual reservoir sampling approach in that it cannot go back and "unsample" an item it already selected (whereas the crux of a reservoir sampling approach is evicting current candidate items and replacing them with new items).
Might have something to do with the weakening of unions ever since. You might consider the flip side—what has not having strong unions gotten us? Greater inequality? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_labor_law#/med...
I would recommend to change your VS theme to dark mode bc it's better for the eyes of your viewers but i like the idea of the channel.
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Evolution of Social Media
Meh. Despite what the article bemoans, DoD and CIA is still and will still be heavily involved in crafting "soft propaganda" narratives through Hollywood film.

Recent examples include "The Interview", in which State Department and CIA operatives made the film portray an assassination of Kim Jong Un and coordinate its dispersal in North Korea, and Zero Dark Thirty in which a story about indepedent actors in Libya protesting America's overthrow of its government by attacking its embassies and CIA annex on 9/11 became a "hero and rescue story".

Lots of leaked documents (SONY hacks, Wikileaks) contain modern (after WWII) discussions between US Gov and Hollywood execs about "crafting narratives" to help with US power projection and propaganda efforts. Always communicated as "lucrative partnerships" of course, because that's a mover for Hollywood execs.
Fake news, and repost. The glass is a result of neural computing.

About as smart as a printed page - because hey, the text generator used AI! #buzzwordspam

(Clever, for sure; possibly an engineering breakthrough in various ways, but there's no "neural computing" once the AI is done crafting the glass blueprint.)
> The comic is seriously a great intro learning resource

No, it isn't. It's horrible. It read like advertising copy to sway dumb investors into pouring their life savings into Google stock.