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There’s a HN rule against complaining that HN is becoming like Reddit. This comment is in the same genre - it was better in the good ole days.

Spoiler alert - it wasn’t. You’ve cherry picked 5 movies from each era out of thousands. There’s no reason to choose these movies instead of others. While the biggest blockbusters are more likely to be remakes or sequels, there’s no shortage of interesting movies.

Just from last year, original films that weren’t remakes or sequels and blew my mind - Parasite, Knives Out, Soul, The Father, Hamilton, White Tiger.

Best part is, we’re living in a time when you have practically unlimited entertainment a few clicks away at absurdly low prices. It’s easy to find something that suits your particular niche if you just look. That wasn’t the case in previous eras where studios had to pander to the largest audience possible.
That is not an itemized receipt of what I pay. The accounting arithmetic to produce such is nontrivial. Asking any nontrivial calculation of the general public may as well be fantasy.

For example it would be great to receive a receipt indicating that I paid $10.12 for school meal programs (0.31% of my tax contributions) if I don’t have children in school.
> a lot of research suggests that Classical Chinese is more similar to modern Cantonese

This is often claimed, but usually starts by taking Mandarin as given, then adding knowledge of Cantonese and observing that it allows reconstructing more features of Middle Chinese, like the final consonants -p, -t, -k. However, if you take Cantonese as given and then add knowledge of Mandarin, you can also reconstruct more features of Middle Chinese, such as the distinction between alveolar and retroflex initial consonants (s- vs. sh-).

Neither Mandarin nor Cantonese is closer to Classical Chinese, the exact same amount of time has passed for both of them. Only when you combine knowledge from both, you can get closer to their common ancestor.

The game of "my language is the most ancient" is a common pastime among language preservation activists (not just in China, you can also get Romance speakers to argue who is closer to Latin etc.) but I don't think it should be necessary. Languages are preserved by being used, and most people don't choose to speak whatever language they use because of how ancient it is, but because it allows them to communicate with other people.
I like it, but does it lack autorefresh?
Must be a US thing because I don't recall ever being denied a soft serve cone in Australia.

It's probably happened before, but it's so infrequent that it's not a memorable trend/pattern.
Seems like it. I think I'm shadowbanned.

@dang Is that so? Why?
+1 for PlantUML. Mostly the Sequence diagrams - everything else quickly becomes a mess unless you take extra pains to prevent arrows from turning into a tangled bundle.

I don't care about the UML vocabulary, just give me boxes and arrows and labels and a way to draw them semantically instead of some overengineered point-and-grunt GUI.

Now, if anyone came up with a tool that checked that the code and diagrams match (no code generation please, the code is the source of truth!), now THAT would be lovely.

Just a CLI tool that can be run as part of a CI pipeline, which parses the code into an AST, and checks if entity A still has properties A.B and A.C, and methods A.D and A.E, and that A.D still contains a call to function F - and colors the arrows BRIGHT RED if there's a mismatch. That would be enough for committing a mental map of a codebase to documentation.
Dynamic tolling is to reduce congestion on specific roads at specific times. Gas tax does not address everyone going to work at 7AM to 9AM and causing congestion then.
First: no its not "core", it is sometime a byproduct. In my opinion you have that reversed.

The "everything is political" mean "every action or non-action any human take is political". Gravity is not political. How you describe gravitation to an audience is.

The issue of this saying is that it make false equivalence. Everything might be political, but the degree differs, and not everything have to do with a "side". The way math is usually taught (poorly imho) have nothing to do with right or left, but with the culture and how we treat children, how we grade them and what we expect from them.[0]

The "everything is equally political" that some people seems to be saying can and will become "you’re either with us or against us"

[0] writing this i understand this is a poor example since in my country this criticism is politically charger when extrapolated.
If you have a sizable populace willing to garrote you if your award nominations do not include a large enough representation of minority populaces, regardless of how movies, actors, directors, screenwriters, and anyone else actually performs in any given category (which, I believe, is the main point of an award), the incentive for including an equalized representation across all award categories far outweighs the benefit of awarding based on merit.

That is the evidence you asked for, you're welcome. It's not a white / non-white question at all, as you can see.
I agree with your two categories.

Everything in the art house world is like a dour sad soap opera nowadays jamming the problems of the world in your face for 2 hours.

Look at most of the nominees this year. They just looked like sad bleak soap opera type movies that I'm going to walk out of feeling bummed out.
Award shows were invented as a way to not pay people more/give them more power
> Feel free to create and use languages with invisible program effects or asynchrony, and I'll feel free to not pay any attention when you do.

As a new Rust user myself, this kind of snobbery is still off-putting.
But hand drawn diagrams are invisible to people with visual deficiencies.

Usually, plantuml source is more readable, and it’s just almost like writing a list so it’s not too much work.
Tin foil hat. Mcd wants to like taylors pockets and keep them in a dominant position to keep them in a position where they know about all of their competitors ice cream habits.
The goal is to have more collonies so they can kill each other just like on the good old earth.
Well, I'm not an expert on European law, so I can only speak for my own country of Norway, who do indeed seem to have stronger legal support for free speech compared to the USA in this narrow instance, since our law also encompasses private organizations and companies. Well, at least in theory, since enforcement is of course another topic entirely. But then Norway does not have monopolistic communications companies like Facebook domestically. On the other hand Norwegian law is still applicable to Facebook so long as they serve Norwegians. This means that if someone with enough resources feel that his toes have been stepped on, then you can expect a law suit that Facebook may very well lose. Moreover strong organizations might take class action if they feel their customer or member base is being treated unfairly, especially if they think Facebook is somehow skewing Norwegian elections in their disfavour. Again, due to our strong law on freedom of speech (Norwegian Constitution § 100), Facebook might very well lose such a law suit if it were to happen.
I would posit that in the past we had a bias to over-classified things and today we bias towards under-classifying things.

In the Cold War, when the Soviets got their hands on a few of the latest semiconductors there was a limit to what they could exploit from them, as the massive supporting infrastructure and sunk cost capital required was simply unavailable.

Today, decisive military advantage(albeit perishable) can be gained by recombining/reformulating existing commercial off the shelf technologies(albeit mixed with some dedicated .MIL R&D).

Back then, a few of our best CPUs in the hands of our adversaries would cause limited damage.

Today, a few of our best conversations in the hands of our adversaries could cause significant damage.

I’m not one for suggesting we classify everything, that would be silly.

But I do think an easy argument can be made for the growing challenges around counter-intelligence.

The only solution I see is building, measuring learning faster and out-competing adversaries.

Preferably at the cost of the fewest lives lost and least national treasure consumed.
> France is just superior to every other country in regards to address data access, and anything geography really.

That is a very bold statement? Do you have a source for that?
>The last thing you want to do is charge ride sharers and not single commuters, which are much worse.

Are they? They only drive in one direction park and then drive the same route back. No need to go from customer to customer, no need to "circulate" waiting for a customer. The only miles a commuter drives is the miles he has to drive, not a single mile more. I always thought the "your car is idle 99% of the time" statistics are meaningless, yes it's idle, it's idle exactly where and when I want it, there is zero waste.

Of course there are problems with cars, but they also apply to "ridesharing" as well.
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> Not having any sheep is literally having 0 sheep.

Only if you ignore the difference between having and not having.
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Some years are better than others. Of course 2021 was going to be shitty, have you been living under a rock and not heard of covid?

2019 was a great year for movies for example.
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I haven't been to McDonald's much in the last years but i remember the ice cream machines often being out of service here in Germany, too.
Yup, Bosnian. We won one in 2001 IIRC.

I also happen to know Aida the movie is loosely based on and have been on the set on one occasion. Didn't even imagine it would be an Oscar nominee in a few years.
I had to analyse Forest gump in my english class. Hell yeah, there is a lot of politcal message in it.
While the UI is a bit buggy I would not call it terrible. It is an improvement over Google Hangouts (which is also quite buggy), Facebook Messenger, Skype and Whatsapp. Sure it is not as good as Slack or Discord, but if people are fine with Facebook Messenger they can also use element.
Being able to install something is only half of the issue. I wouldnt touch a language for production where i have to setup my environment myself completely without package control.
I did offer a solution to address it. It’s a platitude for the purposes of solving congestion, which I specifically identified as a separate issue from poverty.
from what I've seen of an architect working in EA on video call, EA allows to more flexibly define objects - and doesn't put any preconceptions on their use. With PlantUML I'd beware that my common definitions have assumptions about being used in specific contexts.

But it's something to test out! :)
If it's mostly operator errors, than why not make the information clear to the operators on what the error actually is? Your post only confirms how bad Taylor machines at McDonalds are. It looks they are deliberately making the machines obscure to the operators
The magnitude of how nobody cares about Oscars and soccer ball-kickers in the last 12 months is astonishing. It's my dream come true but I had been aware how little possible it was. I don't know their surnames, don't know the movie titles, also have no idea what Ronaldo and Messi are up to. Let's keep it this way in the New World Order?
Forrest Gump and Fight Club were deeply political. The former is deeply rooted in humanist left-wing ideology, and the latter in exploring the alienation of masculine identity in modern society.

Also, you're listing empowerment of groups other than yourself as a negative?

I must be misinterpreting that because the implication seems to be that you actually don't want to watch movies where anyone but your own demographic (I assume white male) are portrayed in a positive or empowering light. Or maybe you simply don't care for or can't empathize with such portrayals. If so fair enough, but that's your personal taste, not a failure of the movie industry as a whole.
In a way, UML has survived in game engine "noodle graphs" (see Blueprints in Unreal Engine for instance). Those are more concerned with describing realtime data flow instead of component design, but the pros and cons are quite similar (simple things are simple, but complex things grow out of control).
Or better older days that oscar nominated films came straight out of state propaganda offices, eg.
Days of Glory, starring Gregory Peck https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036748/ that whitewashes Stalinism because we had to win the war and the Soviets were allies.
I understand that. It doesn't mean people know or think about it on a regular basis, and it's not used to send them bills every month.

People are used to surveillance in law enforcement to some extent. Once you tell them it's a tax agency, they lose their minds. I have participated in large-scale, state-funded studies that have shown this.
Looks like they have a keyboard shortcut for it.[0]

Which is fine. I think you're getting downvoted because you made their turn of phrase seem like a bad thing.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26938769
Only tangentially related, but a friend of mine had to interrupt his doctoral thesis in mathematics because the set he was studying turned out to be empty. This gave a lot of ammunition to our Russian colleagues, who routinely make fun of French mathematicians for being far too ensconced in theory.
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> There’s a HN rule against complaining that HN is becoming like Reddit. This comment is in the same genre - it was better in the good ole days.

So called "refiniment culture" is very much a real phenomenom, and is driven by the wave of data sciences injected into all categories of life: https://paulskallas.substack.com/p/refinement-culture

This is why everything seems calculated & homogenic. There is very little room for "happy accidents" today, because the data analysts will tell you how to make the biggest ROI with a given set of circumstances.
Using purple for link decorations is a non-optimal choice.
>Taxi medallions are bullshit because they have decided in advance that taxi’s only get to use X amount.

why is that bullshit, it might create artificial scarcity of taxi services but it helps prevent the kind of congestion that this article discusses.
No scientific thinking needed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grEypMDqvTE
Wow - such negative responses. Seems like bitterness or jealousy to me. Makerspaces aren't primarily about tools but more about community and skill sharing for the good of the local community. We do things together and at my local space, we are raring to go once lock-down here in the UK eases. Our user base has basically doubled over the pandemic, and we've done loads of collaborative (but remote) projects together over the past year, including making PPE for healthcare workers, helping local groups with props for events, xmas gift drives, and member's competitions.
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Animals certainly dream. If you live with a pet, you'll see them in REM sleep. Whether they understand the difference between reality and dreams, I don't know. Throughout history it was not the case with humans as we only recently (in historical terms) started investigating their nature.

Mammals have brains very much like ours and experience the world in was that aren't too different. All the bits and pieces to reflect on dreams are there, lacking the language to express it in abstract terms.
In my opinion, both of you are right. The issue with the standard is not if it is a good or a bad standard; the whole concept of standardization goes against Chuck's approach of writing your own Forth fitted to the problem at hand. However, I think there is no discussion in that the industry preferred a standard to this unlimited freedom, so ANSI-FORTH really helped Forth in industrial settings.

In other words: the standard held back the concept of Forth by Chuck Moore, but it helped to push forward the concept of Forth as an industrial product. A very grey area...
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I believe the differentiation between product and platform engineers are creating an unnecessary divide:

A platform engineer builds something for a customer, just that in this case the customer is a developer, usually within the same organisation.

If anything applying product thinking to the problem helps the platform engineer: They have a clearer persona for their customers. They can more easily speak to their customers (if internally). They want to deliver value to their customers and fix their problems.

Why create this artificial divide and silo thinking? If your customers are not happy with your work you're doing a bad job and your product sucks.
I feel the same way, but isn't it just us getting old?

Perhaps I merely think RoboCop was better than Superhero Movie #35 because they both target 14-year-olds, and I was only 14 for the first one.
Every time somebody got lazy and used "unsafe" in Rust that's unavoidably annotated in the code. If the compiler can't prove it's safe and you don't label it "unsafe" it won't compile at all.

Even coming in years later, a maintenance programmer can identify this code is suspect, whereas these other parts are safe.

Whereas if you get lazy in C++ you can do whatever unsafe things you want, anywhere, and it leaves no trace.
However, the analogy is still accurate, because the right approach involved several steps which no one thought were conceivably part of the solution: "understand how forces work at macro scales", "understand electricity", "understand magnetism", "develop a mathematical framework for summing tiny localized effects over large and irregular shapes", "develop a mathematical framework for understanding how continuous distributions evolve based on simple rules", "learn to look accurately at extremely small things", "learn to distinguish between approximate and exact numerical relationships", "develop a mathematical framework for understanding the large-scale interaction of huge numbers of tiny components", and so on.

If you went back in time to an age where people were working hard on changing lead into gold and your mission was to help them succeed as soon as possible, your best bet would probably be something like teaching them the decimal place value system, or how to express algebraic problems as geometric ones. But if you also told people that this knowledge was the key to solving the two problems they were working on, "how to make very pure versions of a substance", and "how to understand what makes specific types of matter different" you would reasonably have been regarded as deluded.
I think it's a combination of a larger window, antialiased text, arguably better font, semi transparent background, terminal being 256-color (or more), and so on. By passing -a I get it down to 80% CPU. This is progress, guys!
And why restrict oneself to just two colours? Haskell monads also allow one to abstract over the "colour", such that one can write polymorphic code that works for any colour, which I think was the main objection from the original red/blue post.

Microsoft's Koka is an example of a language that further empraces effect types and makes them easier to use:
https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html
The tutorial looks neat. It asks me to start a $5 subscription to get past Chapter 2 though.
If really only three fake patches were involved, then I don't understand gkh's response.

He hasn't been able to show further intent, and the tendency to dismiss even a grovelling apology as not sincere enough is plain stupid.

What should they do? Immolate themselves and burn down the university.

A group piling on individuals seems to be the new sport of the 21st century.
Political in what sense? In the mid-90's the Best Picture was won, successively, by Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, and Braveheart.

Each of those had a pretty solid political viewpoint, and I'd imagine the ratings were pretty high for those Oscar ceremonies.

More likely, as the article says, we're living in a multi-channel world now where people have the choice to tune in, or not, to these monolithic cultural touchstones.
A pr statement addressing it would be a start. Probably also a token gesture, such as issuing a hammer recall. Sure it costs money, but this is PR 101.
Fantastic! Thanks for this. The FP vs non-FP split has always just felt like a less rigorous version of the "analysis vs algebra" or "problem-solving vs theoretical" discussion and I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this.

This is also what rubs me the wrong way about the simplistic level with which FP languages (like Haskell or Scala+monads) are either cargo culted or hated. The truth is, the two perspectives really go hand-in-hand, and we're all the worse for not realizing this.
I use mermaid: https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/

And excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/
? Xilinx for the rescue?
Also, proliferation of taxis[0] doesn't immediately change the behavior of people. It takes time for citizens to adjust to improved transport infrastructure and stop using/storing their own cars in the city. Within that lag window, more taxis = more cars.

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[0] - As you say, Uber and Lyft, and their predecessors and successors, are just that - a different flavor of taxi services. Slightly leaner, at the cost of worse guarantees for certain service types where old-school taxis were bound by regulations, but otherwise pretty much the same thing.
I'm going to assume this was sarcasm.
Many awards since last year, Oscars included, actually require this kind of representation now to be nominated.
All popular languages seem to try to do too many things. Scala just seems to have achieved more than the others and has became infamous for it.

Just like any language, just use the bits you need for your project and apply KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) liberally! :)
Here in Sweden also everyone have multiple messengers installed due to no messenger ever reaching a critical mass. Both MSN Messenger and Skype were close at some point but neither succeeded.
> The Keplerian curve no longer applies once you introduce additional influences, though, so it doesn't really matter how (in)frequently updates are applied for those other influences.

It depends on how well you can simplify the math. I would imagine that instead of an n body calculation it's lot simpler to calculate the influence from one body plus one unchanging vector, but I've never tried it.

> The approximation wouldn't be very good farther away from a body as well, as the difference in effect between the "most influential" and less-influential bodies would be smaller.

Not a problem because if you're not close to anything then your orbit won't be chaotic.
It's a complex question. I had experience of working with ~60petabytish system back in 2016, and there a lot of things to cover (not only storage):

* network access - do you have data that will be accessed frequently, and with high traffic? You need to cover this skewed access pattern in your solution.

* data migration from one node to another, etc...

* ability to restore quickly in case of failure.

I would suggest to:

* use some open-source solution on top of the hosted infrastructure (Hetzner or similar is a good choice)

* bring in a seasoned expert to analyze your data usage/storage patterns, maybe there are some other ways to make storage more cost effective, that simply moving out of AWS S3.
Yup, pretty much. I am a progressive. I am deeply committed to it. And yet, I have been watching the death of art at the hands of the partisans. The depictions must be purely on message, whichever side you're on. The art's only function is to mouthpiece the values of the faction it belongs to. There's nothing interesting to say in mainstream art anymore because there's no room to say it.