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> The real problem is that TV killed the middle-rung movie

I nodded away to your last paragraph, but then I thought about my old Saturday job at an independent cinema. We charged £2.50 for a ticket (now £3.50, just checked; about US$3.50 & $5 in today's), the money was in the snacks, and of course it is in major chains too.

I think the real problem is consumer perception/treatment of cinemas as expensive rare treats comparable (in price) to going to a theatre. Which they are, at major chains fully laden with snacks, but don't have to be. Television is no doubt a contributor to that image of cinema, but not I think in itself the cause of this.
This is incredible! Great work!
Really looking forward to the bright future where I can watch Tucker Carlson on Fox Weather blame a heatwave in Seattle on critical race theory and call climate change a BLM-Marxist plot. /s
Replying to myself for technical reasons: People who bring up how Hitler and the Nazis were "actually Socialists"... are usually actually Nazis.
Apropos of nothing, some of my first programming lessons were FORTRAN programs from my dads old engineering textbooks. The book’s graphics showed them being handwritten on graph paper and even showed the punch cards they would ultimately be put on.

One of the most impressive programs solved Laplaces equation for heat flow in a pipe. They used some mysterious plotting library that put ASCII art to draw contour lines and output directly to a line printer. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, but it was hard for a high school kid to understand.

Over the years I’ve thought of writing that program in a modern language, but it was never worth the time and effort to go over that FORTRAN program in detail. Numerical methods are too often explained from the point of view of mathematicians and engineers, and not computer programmers.

The blog post here is 1000x more readable and much higher quality and does a lot to demystify the subject. I especially like his progression from simple brute force methods to more efficient solutions…which is the natural way to learn. His comment about “Laplace’s equation just means every point is the average of its neighbours” is perfect.

Believe or it not I was in need of just such a tutorial … for something I’ve been thinking about at work. His article really hit the spot and I’m grateful for it.
Killer feature for me is the URI matching options. Each entry can have URIs, and each URI can match based on: Base Domain, Host, Starts With, Exact, or Regex.

This simplified a bunch of things for me:

* Dev deployments of an app, where I have one or two different logins (eg, the default admin login) but it's deployed on a bunch of subdomains and/or internal IPs and/or internal non-FQDN hosts

* A bunch of work systems on different domains where there's old-style SSO (synchronized password, but login form as part of the app)

* Android apps just get a URI like com.domain.AppName and can otherwise be consolidated with other entries, etc
Games should match the hardware spec, not the other way around. It's 100% on the developers to provide a playable game on known hardware spec.

It's just a money grab selling underperforming AAA ports on switch.
The nightmare scenario is antibody-dependent enhancement of a mutated strain of NCov-SARS-2, or a related coronavirus.

It's impossible, of course, to test for this.

However unlikely it might be (not keeping me up at night, to put it mildly), this would be a negative vaccine consequence which wouldn't reveal itself until whenever said related virus broke out into the population.
I agree that big endian makes more sense, but I think that particular ship has long since sailed.
Honestly I think you're reading to much into this. You contributed some good points but dismissing the comment as very weird is a bit much
Companies providing welfare is inefficient, worse for workers, and doesn't help the jobless (of which there will be more if companies are responsible for welfare). Welfare is better left to the state.
Point 2 is completely backwards in my opinion. The "political correctness" not at all emanating from America. It's emanating from China. Sensitivity to Chinese censors has colored a lot of major blockbusters. There remains little to no filter on what gets produced for US audiences and the latest from Eric Andre on Netflix is proof positive of that. Eric Andre pushes some of the same buttons as Borat with more emphasize on physical danger than parody, but he still got his movie made and released and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It can, but up until just a couple of years ago it could not as it used a lot of GCC specific syntax
Let me get this straight. A story about state sponsored hackers is out of place on hacker news?
Lessons Learned from Programming at Google – Part 1
> The profit does not come from the source code, but from the assets.

Which is why Unity and the Unreal Engine are free. Oh wait...
I hate it when people claim jobs or work trump citizens rights. A minor example of this, why should developers and construction sites close sidewalks and car lanes?
Downvotes are still not all that convincing as logical arguments.
That's why GPL proponents typically use LGPL for libraries
Yes, I saved up and lived on my own, doing some things that interested me. I put a little effort into creating a LLC, and took a couple clients (sub $10k contracts). That let me tel FAANG recruiters (truthfully) that I was consulting for that period, thus no resume gap.

I now work at a faang. That said, I don’t think our recruiters would care about a gap. They only care about hiring enough people that are at or raise the bar. In fact, once you’re in the process, I don’t think anyone actually looks at your resume - we base it on signal from the interviews.
Is this a similar effect to 'nasal breathing' [0] while running? ie. you're making the cardiovascular system work harder to get the oxygen it needs.

[0] https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a33993505/nasal-breath...
This sounds like a slippery slope. No one is saying not to try anything else, they're saying to make sure and use stuff that is more likely to be safe. In the case of web browsers, we do only use like 4 or 5 out of thousands.
If the environment is too hot for a human to work outside, the labor cost goes to infinity as the work will not be completed even if somebody takes the money
To assign blame to diffuse 'consumers' as well as the Hollywood/politicians/FAANG/manufacturers/international megacorporations that are the other side of whatever 'it takes two to tango' issue, the consumers need to have the capability to effectively communicate their demands back to their partner in the trap. Not only do they need the capability, they also need the expectation that the communication will be heard, else there is no reason to do it. But that line of communication is lost at large scales. Maybe a few purists will make a principled stand for nuanced, poignant, artistic, deep films, against the degeneration of the film industry towards bland, repetitive, shallow superhero rehashes, and will refuse to buy a ticket. But capturing those ticket sales would likely mean that more casual viewers didn't bother with the more difficult films. The only number that matters to Hollywood in the end is the box office gross sales; artistic purity is either counterproductive or immeasurable in that context and therefore irrelevant.

I want to make responsible choices, and want to reject bland movies, or disposable packaging, or privacy-invading ad trackers, or greenhouse gassy lifestyle choices, or any number of similar issues. And I do make personal sacrifices that reflect these preferences. But I fully expect that Hollywood will continue to churn out uninspired movies, that the 'local' Walmart and, shortly thereafter, the landfill will contain almost as much plastic as product, that websites will increasingly pack their pages with ever-more-invasive trackers, that people will still live in single-family housing with multiple internal-combustion vehicles and long commutes.

To be clear, I believe the blame actually lies with neither of the dancers, but with the system in which they operate. You can't expect the biggest studios like Universal/Paramount/Warner Bros/Disney/Columbia to make any decisions other than those which they're incentivized to make. They have no reason to do so, and if they did, they'd soon be replaced by a competitor who didn't. A corporation is not a moral entity, it's essentially an AI that attempts to maximize quarterly financial numbers, you can only expect it to act in the narrow context of incentives and consequences on which it operates. That cultural/social/political/economic context is the enemy, not any individual consumer and not any individual corporation.
It is however skill and technique that in large part makes someone a good artist. Like it or not, art is a physically skilled medium.
So what you're saying is that IW had a commercial license for IdTech3 and made several proprietary changes to it and Id kept getting royalties.

I'm not privy to the details of Id's licensing contracts, but I imagine that they priced their licenses in such a way that licensing was more attractive than creating your own engine.

If IdTech2 was available under a BSD/MIT license then IW could've just taken that, improved it, kept their changes to themselves and not pay Id any royalties.

I see your point, but I'm still inclined to think that it wouldn't have made much of a difference to Id's engine licensing business at the time.

In our hypothetical situation where IdTech2 was available under MIT/BSD then IW would either be stuck with inferior graphics or would've had to spend significant resources to get it up to the standard of IdTech3 (which also comes with the business risk of whether you'll be able to pull it off and how long it would take). They would also have to rely on themselves to get support, rather than Id.

I think executives would in the end just see licensing IdTech3 as the cheaper and less risky option.

I think this is what Carmack's tweet is about: At the time his business partners thought that the GPL license would protect their business and insisted upon it, but now with the benefit of hindsight he recons that the code would've had a greater impact if it was made available under a more permissive license.
Ars Technica did a great piece about this a couple months ago: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/private-equity-f...

The gist is that a private equity firm bought a defunct fossil plant and are running it to power mining rigs directly, without any connection to the outside power grid. Apparently this allows them to do an end run around certain regulations and taxes which only apply to grid-connected power plants.

The scariest part is that this is apparently insanely profitable for them. NY is pretty progressive and it would not surprise me if they crack down on this kind of thing, but other states or countries seem unlikely to do that.

All the stories we've read lately about fossil plants shutting down due to being replaced by renewables could ultimately be for nothing if companies like this one buy them all up and restart them.
Thanks for the input. I am a musical person myself, trained in percussion. I very well see myself picking it back up during the break. Tech + music + language learning + (racquet) sport would be how I structure most of my days, and that would be heaven to me!
Same here about monetizing, always dreamed about it, but I guess I didn't want it bad enough since I havent done much about it!
Any programmer would have seen the issue and made the change about rewarding suicide.

The ONLY reason this was written was because the researches hired a programmer to make a specific thing, then is was too expensive for them to make more changes so they published the mistake.
I would consider this to be a lame post on Reddit. I'm confused how it got voted up on HN.
As you state the problem, this is the wrong solution. All programs have bugs, all compilers have bugs. Bits randomly flip in memory, disk, etc. Stop blaming the wrong things.

You ran a program, you gave it all your resources, it got confused, and ran amok. It's YOUR fault.

You shouldn't have given it all your resources. You should have only given it access to the minimum set of resources resources required to do the job.

Now, generating provable correct code does have its merits, the article should have started with those.
Elastic IPO'd at $250 million and currently has a market cap near $8 billion. It's pretty hard to believe the founders didn't make out as well as John Carmack. If the company goes under tomorrow, they can almost certainly still line their graves one day with Bentleys and Leer jets if they so desire.
Copyright is a complicated thing and I don't pretend to have all the answers. I'm not suggesting to simply reduce the length of copyright and keep everything else the same. I would like to see copyright on software gone completely. Software has a unique purpose in our lives and should not be treated like other creative works such as music and literature. I believe software development would still be good business without the protection of copyright. Vendors could focus on documentation and support rather than the code itself.

> There are a lot of photographers who's livelihood is based on their library of photographs that they have taken over the years.

There are a lot of people whose livelihood is based on crime. This isn't a valid argument for what is right or wrong.

Copyright is supposed to encourage new works for the greater good of society. This is written into the US Constitution, no less. It would be interesting to see if lengthening the term of copyright has caused an increase in the number or quality of creative works being produced. I highly doubt that it has.

> A prediction / alternate world -- if copyright was 10 years on software, you'd get an EaaS model - everything as a service.

Why would it change anything for existing free/open-source software? We'd still have GNU/Linux and the BSDs. If it made proprietary software even worse, then so be it. More reason to use free software.
When to Use the Ellipsis
Don’t forget APL. I can’t say for sure but I imagine this \ operator came from there.
That sounds like Japan. You could have lads that would have been destined to be astrophysicists or computer architects performing 'working class jobs' like making chefs knives or growing bonzai trees. Skills that are far more modest than their potential.

They don't seem any worse off because of it.
Move Fast: A Book I Wanted More Of
I think that the title mangler struck again—the headline is "5-minute breathing exercise lowers blood pressure". The article doesn't seem to refer to "min breathing", so having that as the article title seems to be an error.
Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love is one of the most beautiful movies ever made and, rightly, considered one of the greatest movies made in the modern era.
Didi Shares Plunge as China’s Probes of U.S.-Listed Firms Jolt Investors
I don't think I agree with this assessment. I myself am "brainy", but working for actually useful endeavors is easy to balance with a rich, involved life. I can happily dig rocks out of the ground in the morning and write plays in the evening.

The difference is that the rock-digging is primarily for myself and my family, rather than for shareholders. Would "brainy" people need a higher level of mental stimulation if they were doing road-building work on their own street? I certainly wouldn't be happy as a truck driver, but I could easily work as a truck driver for a month straight if the reward was significant time off that I could spend with my family and friends.

I'm not doing a great job at explaining this- a lot of people have been trained to believe in the necessary division of labor, but their belief that they could never do manual labor allows the overlords of society to keep everyone in the rat race. If you think you could never work in a textile factory because you need more mental stimulation than that, then you won't ever consider a vision of society where you help produce textiles.

If people really want a ten-hour work week, we need to be building everything that we use in our society for ourselves, not relying on serfs in foreign countries to do the grunt work while we do "stimulating work", i.e. building elaborate processes for white collar companies providing services that we don't actually need.
I also think that as more high profile people leave Twitter, the extremes of canceling are going to die down. It's pretty well accepted in the leftist communities that canceling has become more than a bit too impulsive and reductionist (this latter factor, I would suggest, due in part to Twitter's tiny character limits), and I think at this point everyone wants to leave Twitter and be done with it, but it's a technical issue now. Twitter is addicting, and honestly so is the adrenaline rush from knowing some rich guy's day/week was ruined. imo, it's easier to just not think about Twitter when people you know/admire aren't on there, and if you're not thinking, you're not tweeting, and if you're not tweeting, you're not recklessly canceling.

Something should replace it, though. Transparent accountability is good, and I think we'll really need to figure this one out before a tech monolopy takes advantage of it again.
> The incentives don't line up.

this is again "it takes one to tango" - the people create the incentives the studios follow. movies largely make money with sales volume. this is important; tickets arent more expensive for different movies, its strictly a numbers game (ignoring uncommon deals like toys and video games, etc). according to the first link i clicked, marvel's last movie infinity war grossed two BILLION dollars. you are simply wrong if you think some novel, avant-garde sundance indie is going to interest that many people.

the world is the way people want it to be. this is the tyranny of the majority. if we want non-incentivized things to exist, we're gonna have to invent new socioeconomic theories in this movie thread : )
As someone who was a hypochondriac before it went mainstream: I would not worry about it.
Propranolol stops the heart racing and physical symptoms. I was recommended Gabapentin as an add-on to Sertraline for social anxiety. (Sure helped me sleep)

Preparation ahead of time is a big help.

If you have your sales pitch and variations memorized and practiced it helps. If you researched the people you are talking to you might find the listening easier. (I have trouble switching my flow from in to out so I can sympathize) It helps a lot to have visual aids, marketing collateral, an interesting shirt, all of that takes load off you.

You've dismissed it already, but having a "wingman" can make the impossible possible in many cases. (e.g. go to a party with yourself and it is certain you will leave with yourself; even if you find it excruciatingly hard to find somebody to go with, it's possible you'll meet somebody at the party if you don't start out alone.)

Don't call it getting a co-founder. Getting a "buddy" might look hard to you, but it could be less hard than getting sales.

(For expanding my own social horizons I know I need a "buddy" and it looks much harder than going to social events alone does, but I know if I don't do it I could spend 50 hour going to events and not meet ymy goals)
Psychedelic spurs growth of neural connections lost in depression
The passage you've quoted is exactly the sort of angry technical schlock that's held back Linux specifically and the industry generally.

> the whole C++ exception handling thing is fundamentally broken

Not an argument. It's the closest thing in Linus's excretion of unfounded technical opinion to an argument, but it's nevertheless not an actual case for anything. Don't like exceptions in C++? Don't use them. (That said, exceptions aren't "fundamentally broken" no matter how many times Linus repeats that baseless slander.)

> any compiler or language that likes to hide things like memory allocations behind your back just isn't a good choice for a kernel

This is a general-purpose tirade against any abstraction whatsoever. Good software engineering is all about judiciously "hid[ing] things", including memory allocation. And as it turns out, Linux has plenty of abstractions, some of which involve memory handling. Also, you don't have to use any particular abstraction with C++: you get to choose the abstractions. The language doesn't force any on you.

Besides: Rust can do the same sort of abstractions that Linus claims disqualifies C++ as a "good choice for a kernel". It's almost as if C++ was fine even back in 2004 and that the only difference between then and now is that Linus has matured.

> you can write object-oriented code (useful for filesystems etc) in C, _without_ the crap that is C++.

This is a restatement of Linus's opinion, not an argument. You can write everything in assembler too: why take on the baggage of the heap of crap called C?
3 people who work on coronavirus research at a lab that is known for lax standards catch coronavirus, and you think it’s more plausible that they each caught it from outside?
Bitcoin operation has made a lake 'so warm you feel like you're in a hot tub'
Somehow this feels related to shroomjak.
The article addresses this very point. I have 0 trust in the CCP to do or say anything not in it's own interest, but on the whole the "They found a novel virus in the wild, sampled it, and then it escaped their lab" seems a lot less likely than "Some random person ran across a novel virus in the wild, and got sick".
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I've got some positive feedback from the community here in the past (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464998). I'm trying to grow the user base to generate some content/lessons more organically.

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AFAIK ABET's process is different from regional accreditation, probably in part because ABET's historical roots were in Engineering where there is an explicit assumption of eventual external certification (the PE exam).

> The university could lose the accreditation and teach the same stuff and nothing would really change for students - in a vacuum student outcomes would be exactly the same except that as you mention...

This is definitely not true of regional accreditation -- a degree from an unaccredited institution isn't worth the paper it's printed on in many fields. Also, as you point out, it's a low bar. If a university is accredited it may or may not do a good job at education/assessment. But a university that loses regional accreditation is almost certainly doing a horrible job at both.

ABET is a bit different -- lots of quality programs aren't ABET accredited. But still, in traditional Engineering fields, losing ABET accreditation can also have a material effect on students' outcomes (can you even sit for the PE exam without an ABET accredited degree?)

> these accreditation agencies are box-checkers and they don't do too much other than publish some guidelines and look at course material.

Yes, there's no silver bullet and the map is never the territory. The only alternative I'm aware of is standardized exams, which, well, look at US K12 or the CS GRE.

>> there's also a reputation effect among employers.

> This has not much to do with accreditation.

Right, they are two separate things but both effect institutional behavior.

> But my main point was that education itself is decoupled from certification. The employers (as you mentioned) care about certification, but that is the degree from the prestigious university, not whether ABET says that the curriculum meets some standard. You can learn computer science or any other topic to a high degree of proficiency, but employers still care about the certification. So you might as well just get the certification if you care about education as a means to a job.

This we agree on.