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Fair enough.

An example, since PG was mentioned:
http://www.paulgraham.com/wids.html

In this case, a word was edited out of even the context-free snippet.

Feel free to look up the articles surrounding it.
> Modern Western culture as we know it is only about 500 years old, though it arguably takes influences from the Greeks and Romans back another 2500 years.

That would be a difficult argument to make; classical Greece only goes back to about the eighth century BC. Mycenaean Greece goes much further back, but we can't observe most of the cultural continuity (though obviously there was a decent amount of it), because between Mycenaean Greece and classical Greece there was the Greek Dark Age of about 400 years when they forgot how to read and write. A cultural legacy of 2500 years total is a much fairer estimate than one of 3000 years.

As you note, though, the legacy of the classical world was itself interrupted and then purposefully reimported into Renaissance Europe. This is rather different from how, in the 4th century AD, there were still priests of the old religion in Babylon, reading tablets written thousands of years before them thanks to a historical tradition that had, at that point, never been interrupted.

Something I found charming from the wikipedia article on Sargon the Great is that the Babylonian king Nabonidus (6th century BC, "ancient" by any modern standard) sponsored archaeological research into his life. And well he might, since Sargon preceded Nabonidus by about 1800 years. But you just don't think about one ancient king supporting archaeology concerning another ancient king. Ancient is ancient, right?
I paid $9CDN for disney+ last month. watched two episodes of The Simpsons. that's $9 more than i otherwise would have paid disney.

They don't need to get more money out of everybody if they can get more customers.
> Srsly, somebody needs to fix this

I've lost count of the number of devs I've spoken to, over multiple decades, who are convinced recruitment is ripe for disruption. I'm sure everyone else has the same experience.

And yet, recruitment's still here, more or less unchanged. At this point I'm pretty sure recruitment has always been terrible, and will always be terrible. There's some perverse incentive buried deep in the process that can't be shaken out. Or something.
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First read https://artofproblemsolving.com/news/articles/avoid-the-calc...

By one of my early mathematics tutors in San Diego math circle

Then buy something like:
Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (3rd Edition) (Featured Titles for Transition to Advanced Mathematics) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321797094/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_K4...
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This is a "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" argument. That is more honest than the argument I was criticizing, which pretends that significant harm isn't being done to people. You seem to be saying that they mostly deserve it, and if they don't, that's "unfortunate". Collateral damage, one might call it, in a righteous cause. I find it scary when people arrogate to themselves the right to injure others, and I doubt that it serves justice. But I appreciate the clarity.
> For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx

Actually Manticore Search (fork of Sphinx)
Lmk if you run into any issues with the firefox add-on as it's newer, but fwiw tested it and it works well!
My great-great-great-great-something uncle COMMANDED at the Alamo. And you know what? Everyone who got killed there, including him, was on the WRONG FUCKING SIDE. So no, of course the Mexican flag shouldn't be banned. The Confederate flag should be, though, because it explicitly glorifies treason in defense of slavery.
I make no claim that what I say from either end of my digestive tract has any value, but reading critically what others say is usually more interesting here than elsewhere.
Still not voting for Trump.
I want to believe that volume savings will be passed to us. But I’m just not convinced. They can smell money being left on the table. They’ll charge us whatever we will pay. I think we will generally tolerate paying more.
I recall reading somewhere it was something like $6/subscriber, they highest of any channel, and every subscriber pays to support the channel for those who utilize it.
Long ago, the internet streaming services lived in harmony. Then everything changed when the Disney conglomerate attacked.

In all seriousness - I believe it really is pressure from Disney forcing their competitors out, that's caused the faster acceleration of prices. It's something that would have happened anyway, but it's more pronounced with such a large behemoth of licensed content joining in to the fight.
Also art of problem solving vols 1-2 are now classics for that age.
Oh wow, one on that list has 9 masts! That’s incredible.
A few of the big manufacturers now seem to be gravitating to 16:10 - Dell used to be big on it a few generations ago.
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Streaming rentals are $3-$5 and Disney definitely doesn't come out with enough content I'm interested in watching (much less re-watching) each year to justify the service even at its current price. I suppose it might seem like a more reasonable value if you have kids, re-watch a lot of their older stuff, or actually care about any of their TV shows. But I'm not sure how much further they can really push it with their current offerings.
Not sure how T_D was ever considered "racist".

Candace Owens and John James are heroes of the pro-Trump community, and every skin shade is welcome. It's a different vibe entirely. Reflexive critics probably never bothered to explore the site or its successor.

Exemplar gratis:

https://thedonald.win/p/FzKblbtr/john-james-is-running-for-s...

https://thedonald.win/p/FfavYruF/candace-owens-things-that-w...

https://media.thedonald.win/thedonald/post/JcNWEG6G.jpeg
Nice, I'm going to end up spending all day listening to Future Sound of London and Beaumont Hannant now :)
I don't quite get what problem it's trying to solve. Save labor? Improve factual consistency across languages?
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Next up: Steam will ban players who played as terrorists in counterstrike.
Digital distribution costs are much lower than physical distribution. And toys are still being sold, maybe even more, as your kids watch more stuff. They could make their whole catalog free and still have a very profitable toy/parks business out of it.
There's no contemporary evidence for the reign of David or Solomon. The best you get is a reference to the "House of David" (Tel Dan Stele) ~150 years later and the Biblical account in Kings, which claims to be a redaction made ~450 years after the fact of royal annals that are now lost. That's not nothing, but there's still plenty of room for doubt. Especially considering the stratigraphy at Megiddo and what we should see there but don't.
It is the flag flown by an armed group that killed soldiers in the United States Army, is it not? [1] This fact gets lost in the debate. No American should fly the flag of any group that targeted and killed members of the United States Armed Forces.

[1] https://history.army.mil/books/R&H/R&H-FM.htm, Section VI with Ulysses Simpson Grant as part of the unbroken chain of command.
The low prices were never sustainable. Streaming companies have ever-increasing costs and they can either make money with subscriptions, one-time rental fees (common on Amazon Prime Video) or advertisements -- or a combination of those.

Low subscription prices are sustainable when the subscriber base is growing and continually bringing in more money, but at some point most of the customer base has been reached and then the only way to increase revenue is to raise prices. Until recently, streaming customers have had their subscription prices subsidized by subscriber growth.

Why can't streaming companies be happy with the revenue they already have? They need to increase revenue not solely because shareholders demand it, but also because the price of content continues to increase, especially when content providers know they have leverage when licensing terms are negotiated. The bigger a streaming company gets, the more eyeballs will see the content, so content providers feel justified in asking for more money. Also, streaming companies generally have libraries of content that increase in size over time, so the total money they pay for licensing will also continue to increase even if the price of each piece of content does not. On top of all that, they need to pay for the infrastructure to deliver all the bytes.

(This is why Disney's streaming service is in such a good spot -- they already own the content, and they have a huge back catalog.)

Say what you will about the cable companies (and they really do suck) but their pricing was not entirely a result of monopolistic practices. Price pressure from content owners was also a major factor, and it is such a strong force that streaming companies can't escape it.
can this type of software be installed remotely via cisco anyconnect?
Sure, there're those games.

Then there's Fortnight on the smartphone.

Kongregate can't just compete with the crappy adware games and call it a day. It also has to compete with games like Fortnight. Browser games are almost completely absent from both the multiplayer and AAA space. That is very hard to compete with.
>ancient," from Vulgar Latin *anteanus, literally "from before," [1]

I guess ancient is used to mean before 500BC because it has always meant that. It's a Roman word used by them to reference the time before them. As long as we use that word we already accept their point of view.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/ancient
There is an awesome short video on such roads by Tom Scott, where he explains how it went badly in Lancaster, California [1]. Twice. That one plays off key.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef93WmlEho0
You do need access to the Network to participate in human society. Currently the Internet is the Network. Historically the PSTN was the Network and before that (and to some extent in parallel) the global postal system was the Network.

Now participating in society isn't as immediately necessary as air, water, or food, but just staying physically alive isn't really enough for people. They seek meaning in their lives and emotional connections to others, by participating in human society. The Network enables that.

A programme to deliver Network access to everybody who wants it and hasn't gone out of their way to live somewhere crazy makes at least as much sense for a rich industrialised nation as a programme to build sewers, or to demand safe housing for its people.

Fortunately if you want television the Network delivers that too.
If ones job is to break rocks, it’s hardly bossware to track how many fractures one has committed today?
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You can just look at the freight costs which skyrocketed with COVID.
Doesn't have quite the same punch as terraforming earth with nuclear bombs.
People sit on their seats. What the point if removing that storage so something seems roomier?
More modular, smaller, simpler than aviary is rrconf
https://github.com/rrconf/rrconf
I watched the video - fair coverage.

The importance of being on top of licenses and other paperwork is that if you can't get the paperwork right, how can you get the rest right?

Some other notables:

- India has identical fake license problems as Pakistan

- South Korea has CRM and sim evaluation issues with ex-military crews (resulting in the SFO crash)

- SFO has struggled with ILS maintenance in the past decade. (Foreign air crews expect to do ILS approaches, not visuals. See SK SFO accident above.)

- African operators have problems with cabin crews opening doors after landing during taxi to let thieves steal luggage, etc. as the airliner is moving!

- Australia had an issue with drug smugglers accessing luggage. Hope that's resolved.

- Philippines had an issue with airport staff inserting bullets into luggage, then extorting tourists. Resolved after numerous news reports.
Similar software with different usage models can be extremely useful and support mentoring and staff development.

I’ve been using tools like manictime and more recently the open source activitywatch to help junior staff learn how to manage their own activities.

I also use a paper based system similar to the emergent time tracker[3] for the same purpose.

The key difference in approach is these are tools are for the individual to use to record their own activities, either to later record in other tools like JIRA or simply to remember and review their work.

Time tracking and activity logging is really important for some businesses, but having a sensible approach from senior management is critical to avoid them becoming self defeating. When I ask my colleagues to log their time I set and expection that useful accuracy of more than 60% is unachievable.

Whenever a senior manager suggests that developers need to log more time in JIRA I tell them they are focused on the wrong data points and will end up with every developer logging a flat 8 hours a day - probably with an automated script. Maybe useful for billing but nothing else.

https://www.manictime.com/

https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch

[3] https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-timer/
I am keeping an eye on Netflix and Amazon who are creating more and more content. They are looking to cut out the "middle" as it were and while their successes are a bit hit or miss, my assumption is that they will eventually figure out how to get the best production companies on board and completely take people like Disney and Viacom/CBS out of the picture. Can't do it for pre-existing content but they can for new content going forward.
There's https://hckrnews.com - an aggregate of the top articles from hacker news
While this is true, it should also be noted that distributors have already updated their business model to take a cut of Bandcamp sales. e.g. label X uses distributor Y to manage the process of their tracks in as many online stores and streaming platforms as possible, and to collect revenue. Distributor Y then takes the credentials for Bandcamp and operates that in the same way as it does everywhere else, taking a certain sizable. It's still better than the old model but it doesn't mean all money goes to the artists.
I don't know about what I need, but I guess I've decided there's no way in hell I'm paying for more than one. I feel like each little fiefdom demanding its little tribute is going to hurt them all in the long run, or at least I hope it does. Let the market consolidate into some kind of monopoly, dare I say it, since I'm usually against such things. If it's even possible at this point with how fragmented it is. Maybe the next generation aggregator/platform will come along and all these services will jump onboard it. Until then, I'm kind of leaning toward piracy or just plain abstinence. There are a lot of creative people out there making time-dependent art but the fact is, it's time-dependent art, which means I have to spend the time to watch it. Maybe more than once, in the case of the super detail-oriented ones like the Breaking Bad universe let's say. I notice when I skip all that shit, I get tons of learning-new-frameworks-and-languages done.
It is not a "move up" to become a product manager, tech leader, or architect. All these are roles that increase costs and transform any agile development experience into a non stop sequence of meeting to discuss ppts that are never materialised.
Stick to your dev role and be more opinionated with deliveries. And choose a position with less or none managers and architects.
I feel pretty strongly that the vocal "majority" on the internet isn't at all representative of our local, national, or global communities. Both government and business leadership need to stand up to the bullying that these online mobs are doing, and employ reason instead.
> Before the 747, only the richest folks could really cross the globe at will. The 747 changed everyday notions of distance and ushered in the age of travel that we get to enjoy today.

Not just that though. Regulation also changed significantly in the meantime and made it possible for smaller aircrafts to fly intercontinental which brought prices down as well.
Absolutely. I’d say 90% of posts are just people pontificating on things often based on wrong assumptions.

But the other 10% is pure gold.
Couldn't disagree more. I've tried almost all of the OTT services. YTTV is by far the best. It's not slow at all for me. The DVR is fantastic, search feature is great, and the predictive shows work well.

It even has live stats during certain sports, and allows you to catch up watching each "key play." That is, when sports were actually happening. Sigh.
Thanks for pointing that out. I read an (old) article on the engineering behind it and they keep a lot in memory. So it makes sense to cap this somehow.
lobste.rs is a site similar to HN where users must be invited by another user and the public tree of invites is kept as a sort of reputation map. Might be similar to what you’re envisioning.
I wasn't saying that the harm necessarily comes from just the expression of certain ideas, but rather that the ideas are used to justify real physical harm, not just psychological harm. Ideas like white supremacy are of course used to enact real violence on real people, as well as more subtle grievances. Quashing those ideas has real benefits.

Of course, the issue at hand is defining the boundaries of what needs to be stigmatized. But what's stigma is simply just what society deems stigma, not based on a fully rationalized top-down decision. We are all the mob. It's messy and there's no discrete boundaries of good and bad. It's tempting to therefore conclude that all ideas should be equal, but that's not very satisfactory to communities that have been ravaged by violent terrorism for generations due to certain bad ideas.

There's no clean solution to how things should be, so I think instead of trying to come up with the perfect ruleset that allows everyone to be happy, we should acknowledge that maybe there's no happy state of equilibrium with the given conditions, so we should work to reshape those conditions, and maybe we can reach that equilibrium in the future.
I've not seen this one, but have seen others. I much prefer this sort of technique to change behaviors (get people to drive more slowly, or take the stairs by turning it into a piano keyboard kinds of things), than threats of enforcement fines or jail time.
Mindfulness is not CBT, it has been integrated into it. CBT normally works in the thought, emotional or behavioral level.

Mindfulness reconditions the subconscious conditioned level in which thoughts and emotions lead to automatic behavior (i.e. conditioned behavior).

It’s subconscious because most people aren’t aware of how they are being swept away by thoughts and emotions. The reconditioning happens by training your awareness through breathing meditation, body-scan meditation (IMO better name than mindfulness/vipassana) and other meditations. Now you’re more aware which is how you’re reconditioned and with that you can decide to not act on your old habits.

CBT is a thing from psychology. Meditation is taken by psychologists from Buddhism and integrated into it. But IMO it doesn’t follow the philosophy of CBT. So to say it us CBT or falls under it ignores what it really is: a technique from religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism.

Search Inside Yourself is a good book to read more about it from or positive psychology from Harvard (2006, taught by Tal Ben Shahar, it’s on YouTube).
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So... like taxes?

So I'm paying taxes to the government, and then fees to some business, on top of fees for every service provided by the business?

We already tried company towns (look up Disney, among many other examples), and it's kind of fucked up. I don't think we need more of that.

Yeah, no thanks. Good luck with the idea

EDIT: btw, your site www.brunozzi.com is down. You might want to figure out CDNs before you try to disrupt cities
100-1000 concurrent users? I'd round that up to at least $100/mo if you know what you're doing.

$5/mo is how Akismet spam detection costs.
I also started my FAANG career with someone contacting me on LinkedIn. I hate LinkedIn, but have trouble letting go of being ‘discoverable’ should I need another job.
1. Assume that companies act like sociopaths.

2. Assume that the described software is unethical.

Doesn't it follow that it's a good thing to highlight why unethical things are actually risky in a way that matters regardless of ethics?
This is very poetic and as amusing as it is depressing
Ask HN: Has the market for software engineers diminished at all?
There was a big rush of layoffs a few months ago, but has that significantly impacted the industry? Was there enough demand for experienced engineers that those who were laid off were able to quickly find a place?

I’m still getting contacted by recruiters, and yesterday’s “Who is hiring” had plenty of postings.

What’s the experience like been for people who are trying to find a job? Do offers seem lower?

What about from those who are still trying to hire? Do candidates seem to be of higher quality?
Yes. They’re also using fs.exists in the exact way that the official documentation says not to use it.
It boils down to how many of us are able to code logic in stored procedures vs how many of us are able to do it in backend language X.

The tools to edit, version control, run tests and deploy are also important but are a consequence of the number of developers that will use them.

If every single backend developer would be a DBA and a SQL master we'd write applications in SQL and we'd have great tools to do it. But we're lucky if in a given project there is one single developer that understands SQL well enough, not at DBA levels.

That said, is it architecturally better to write application logic in stored procedures inside the database or in a different language outside the database? An interesting question. I see good points for both choices but given the world we're in the pragmatical one is the latter.
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If you work off estimates of around 75 million people killed in WWII and 150,000 deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki it's 0.2% of the dead were due to atomic bombings. Basically 1 in 500.
I recently (a few years ago) flew transatlantic on a 3-5-3 747 (Delta).
Getting properly done studies is hard. In particular the statistics are even harder and easier to mess up (the retracted Lancet paper had also statistical problems).
The part about hippies is just an example, think of it as an figure of speech.
The point he is making has nothing to do with the weather or hippies, it's that peoples believes on what makes them happy are not in alignment to what actually makes them happy or they fail to take account for lots of variables changing, while they believe only one changes.
If I'm signing commits, I can sign any commit I want with any time I want, no?
I’ve been on HN since it was around 500 active users. Probably earlier than that.

Quality decreased as numbers increased. Pg spent much time worrying about this.

Ultimately bookface is where the interesting discussions are now, I would imagine. Not that HN isn’t interesting — it is — but it’s different than it was. I think few people would argue the opposite (partly because there are few people left from those early days).

It’s no coincidence that you have to be a founder to access bookface. One YC founder commented with surprise when he saw me on HN, saying it looked exactly like bookface. Presumably he spends his time there and not here.
Agreed. When I actually started using it, I wondered why Markdown is so prevalent when AsciiDoc is a thing.