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> It feels the industry has split in two, either making super-expensive superhero blockbusters or super cheap indie films.

The great mid-budget content is now in Streaming TV, but if you’re wedded to the feature film format, try watching anything from A24 films.

> It makes me feel like a grouch to complain about the uber-popular, widely loved thing but this intertwined superhero universe exhausts me.

I haven’t seen a superhero movie since 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Just stop watching them, you won’t become culturally isolated.
You gotta think about conversion rates and expected value. If flirting with a guy for twenty minutes gives you an 80% conversion rate, it might work if they go for the higher tiers. If it gives you a 1% conversion rate, that's a lot of work for not a lot. An hour of conversation with three people for $10-$15? You may as well go get an actual hourly job. For $0.45? No.

You also have to know that word will get around pretty quickly. People do not like being misled like that and will compare notes and bars do not like being parasitized this way. Instead the spammers (and these people are spammers!) go for dating apps and Instagram to spread their links.

Remember, Onlyfans is a power law thing. Only a small percentage do well. The rest are struggling and dumping lots of work into something that only brings in a few bucks. It's pretty far from printing money for most.
"We"?

Other people have other problems they're trying to solve and you don't care about those problems, so you do not understand "why crypto." If you want to understand "why crypto," be concerned with other problems. You've already decided what is important, and that blinds you to understanding the motivations of others.
I really don't know anything about the subject but I think stolen cash is much more hard to conceal and to move. It can be marked also and tracked (or so they say in the movies). You need to justify its possession. You cannot go to the airport with an arbitrary amount of money.
I feel that the software products & services that Samsung builds is half-baked. It might be a pressure tactic to ensure Google keeps paying.

Also, I am wonder what happened of Samsung & Microsoft plans of Samsung shelving its app & services for Microsoft. I feel that was the "real motivation" for Google to start paying.

Google needs to be challenged for an improvement in Android space. They should stop rushing in half baked stuff and instead work on releasing reliable & well tested products.

As a person that actively used android, iOS, Linux, Windows & Mac, Apple's stuffs just work and it's high time the competition catches up.

As for Android, we need to have flavour / custom ROMs that is 100% degoogled and with proper alternatives. Ubuntu, Microsoft & LinageOS all need to up their game and get more people involved.
Weird, FF on one of my boxes shows ^ that mess, while the same FF version on another box shows it nicely rendered: https://ibb.co/z8QqGj2

Probably one of my privacy plugins blocking something but I'm not going to debug someone else's page today.
No need to wait. It's really bad.

The last King Kong (vs Godzilla) was at least silly amusing to watch (once). F9 is just bad across the board, there was nothing enjoyable about it, the formula has now jumped the shark twice (the last Fast movie was the first jumping of the shark). The Fast franchise is in the guard rail, the race is over.
> The skilled people aren't going to be rushing from failed project to failed project - that is less productive than just getting involved to start with.

You're thinking about it from the perspective of the customer, not the an ethically-challenged contractor focused on maximizing revenue. If you have an A-team which you use to close deals, cycling them from project to project to close the deals which you will then staff with the C-team will generate more revenue than having them work on just one project as long as you don't have many disasters where you have to eat the cost of fixing the project.

If the client is either overly-trusting or made enough mistakes to plausibly share responsibility and the punishment for failure is more billable hours, you're _way_ ahead financially if you get to bill 14000 hours of C-team-masquerading-as-A-team instead of 2000 hours of actual-A-team.
Lol, I would also like to use this service in Austin for 4-6 month period starting in September :)
I don't know why this excellent story is getting downvoted. Thanks for sharing it. It's great that she had a good sense of humor about everything.
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And Chase just transferred the money without any knowledge or indication of him actually having a wife?

I mean it's possible, but if it really was as easy as just getting some information and posing as a wife, then this kind of fraud would be very widespread.
Many years ago I interviewed at a military contractor. Every time we walked through a work area someone went ahead and announced I was coming through to ensure nobody had something that would require a clearance to see.
I feel you there. I’m a PO so have those kind of arguments regularly!

At the same time, 99% of computer users have no idea why we can’t just ‘slap x button there and make it do x’ and that is just as infuriating.
The Bum Gun is pretty much standard anywhere in S.E. Asia
It doesn't matter "how much" came through. If even a handful of cases come through the border, and you have no internal restrictions, it's exponential spread. You either have 100% hard borders, or there's no point.
They actually are recommending for everyone to add fake ESNI/ECH data even if you don't intend to use ESNI/ECH.

See: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni#se...
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It is about copilot (which it sneakily doesn’t mention by name) and tabnine and also generally about gpt-3 used in the realm of coding. A lot of layperson-oriented phrasing around: “ Microsoft, an American software giant, released a new version of an AI-completion feature which it embeds in coding software called Visual Studio.”
Programmers have the worst intelligence to gullibility ratios of any profession.

* I should elaborate. We tend to easily accept the "this work is meaningful" line, we volunteer our time because "programming is a craft," and we will hop on tooling bandwagons like this because it's shiny and new without considering the ramifications.
Thanks. Livefeather is interesting
Didn’t you read about the part where Casa’s MultiSig easily protected him from financial ruin though!? I hear it’s better than having all your money at CoinBase.

Plus there was the hard hitting advice that “always have a friend who knows all your plans check in with you, to make sure a crime organization isn’t plotting to steal your money”.
M1 MacBook battery life so good Apple thought indicator was broken
Ha. That's what I get for looking at the video posting date and assuming it means anything.
Java can actually compete with C/C++ if written in a specific, limited way. Some high-frequency trading shops use Java, and their entire business is speed.
If someone dies with their bitcoin password locked in their head, you can't get the account passed to whoever is named on the will, the coins are locked forever.

Maybe a smart contract could help here. If there are no transactions on a wallet for more than some time period, allow the wallet to be unlocked or transferred to a trusted party.
I could not find the problem I was referencing. I'm either wrong, or the problem wasn't in the book and was in the professors notes. I'm leaning on the later, but unless I reply with something else, assume I'm wrong.
Your loss, it’s a pretty amazing technology and also totally available under friendly open source license.
I disagree on Eastern Europeans being good coders as a bloc. I’ve had some pretty bad security consultants out of Ukraine and really good work coming out of India when I paid what the work was worth.
Couldn’t Coinbase just add a hardware key to match this feature? It still doesn’t prevent internal theft but it will protect such fishing cases.
> 2. I will not use or incorporate Amazon resources or information in the development, release, or marketing of my Personal Game...

> 6. To help Amazon improve its products and services, I will use Amazon's publicly available products and services in the development and release of my Personal Game wherever possible...

Amazon must have had entirely separate teams write these reps.
Sorry man you are just wrong about this.

SLSI is an operating division within Samsung Electronics. There are certain Samsung chaebol companies in the electronics industry that are not operating divisions of SEC - eg SEMCO and SDI - but SDC and SLSI most certainly are.

In addition, Samsung RAM and NAND Flash operations do not fall within SLSI. Both the memory division and SLSI fall under the semiconductor division of the device solutions division (which also includes SDC).

Hard to imagine how you can write such a smug comment while being completely wrong, but I guess that’s HN for you.
Congratulations on catching up with the old joke.

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
To be fair, they haven't been free-riding. Credit cards force prices up by about 3% for a reason, and checking accounts don't give you market yields for a reason.

But yes, for me personally, I much prefer deterministically losing 3% to risking 100% (and incentivizing physical attacks).
BMW and VW fined $1B for running emissions cartel
Well of course only the huge companies can develop products that require enormous resources.

But I'm not too worried here because everyone gets access to larger datasets every year, and it gets cheaper to process every year, so whatever Microsoft or Google is capable of doing now, smaller companies will be capable of doing in a few years.
Which specific large acquisitions do they need to make?
>Found the person who's never worked on an enterprise system

Pfft give me break. I manage the damn things for a living. I work on enterprise systems all day, everyday, just not as an application coder. I'm SysAdmin so I am in Terraform/Ansible/Jenkins/Kubernetes and, you guessed it, Python, all day.

I am the one that makes sure your shitty-ass F# application gets into production.
Startup Nostromo targets commercial cooling and air conditioning
afaik, chord progressions aren't copyrightable, and even some lyrical things aren't. Melodies are the main thing, I believe. (I could be wrong, this is just what I have been told in the past)
"I used to be in the movie business where you made something really because you cared about it,"

I had the impression,the movie business was a shit show for at least half a century now.
And often just regular IME.
This will sell like hot cookies. The only thing that can destroy it will be the immense cargo-culting. So software developers are safe, for now.
I was going to say something to that effect.

Functional programming is kind of cool unless it's someone else's code and you need to debug it.
I think the OP means that this is a person-- late in a storied career-- saying in effect: "We used to care about art, now they only care about money."

Memory is kind. Barry Diller's Paramount made Orca, Bad News Bears Go to Japan, etc. Art and commerce were always mixed. The arrogance is in being able to convince yourself it was different in the old days without risk of being contradicted.

Still, you have to admire Barry Diller.
Yeah, I did not have a wife.
1-4 is pretty standard but then 5-8 are just increasingly terrible
Roots in the 1970s (and The Thorn Birds afterwards) was notable for being a widely-viewed blockbuster miniseries, so the concept was there; without streaming, it was just hard to get an audience to watch every episode at the right time.
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It sounds like HonorLock
> C# is picking up a lot of small things that make it incrementally better than it was before

agree. C# is kind of morphing into F# with new features like record.
They started at $900, had 2 USB 3.0 ports, a headphone jack, an SD card slot, and a thunderbolt 2 port for many years.

Again, note the nuance in my statement that it serves the purpose for the vast majority of laptop users and its amortized cost over many years is certainly less than other consumer laptops, as evidenced by the used market.

Nowadays, they are $1k, and they have Retina screen, 2 USB4/Thunderbolt3 ports. While the port situation may have worsened, its performance due to M1 is surely unmatched. Unless you are bothered by the port situation, it's still probably the best bet you can make for a laptop that will be a good to go for 5+ years.
Sweet, best of luck! I'll look you up the next time I move to Europe :)
I could not find the example problem I was referencing in my textbook, consider me either incorrect or ambiguous until I do. I'm going to look through my notes next. I believe it was a problem from my professor.
That was my experience when I worked at Boeing in IT. As soon as the contract was signed we got the most mediocre people.

Occasionally we’d get someone good but as soon as the consulting company figured out that they were good, they’d get rotated off our project and replaced with someone mediocre. They also never gave us any warning when they were going to switch someone.
You would consider this robbery/theft? Had an in person sale with money sent over cashapp and they charged me 250 dollars more, as the item received was half of what I expected. This was automotive fluids, not drugs lol. I had stupidly sent the money before I checked. Cashap didn’t do anything and figured I messed up so why go to bank.

Hits me a little different now…
Judging from the turmoil both here and on twitter about Copilot, it has already made a huge impact.

Two more papers down the line.
Agreed. Quite a bit of casual racism, among other things.
I'd laugh in their face if they ended a little flirtation with a link to their only fans page. I'm waiting on good ol' Musky to spam my waking hours with thought intrusive advertising, not your average bar goer.
It’s snake oil that is effective to a degree only so that it can be even more effective at convincing others to buy it.

Nobody is going to circumvent the power of government. I can show you proof that you don’t need to pay income tax, but I also promise you that you will go to jail eventually for doing so.

Extraordinary popular delusions take on a life of their own. They reflect the zeitgeist of the time.

Bitcoin is the savior so many tech enthused idealists can believe in, but if it supplants anything it will be legitimated and used by those already running the show.
This is only 'not discussed' in the popular literature.

The scientists and modelers are definitely take this into account. But its is a tricky thing to get right.

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/climatesci...
Well, the BDFL is probably the only dictator we all love.

Any decision he made is infinitely more than I could. Because I am just a python user, and an outsider in any decision making process. So for me, he's right all the time. That's a perfect definition of a dictator :)

But I do have wishes. It's like I love my parents but I do want to stay up late sometimes.

Yeah, I totally missed the part he removed reduce from builtin. Sorry about my memory. map, filter, or reduce, it does not matter. As I stated, some problems are better solved functional way. Because Python is such a friendly language, if it includes functional paradigm properly, it would make the functional part more readable than other functional languages.

FP is scary not because it has evil syntax to keep people at distance, it's just an alien paradigm to many. Lot's of non functional languages has functional support, which doesn't make them less readable. E.g. C#, JS. I suspect these languages have helped many understanding FP more. Python could make the jump by including more FP, but not turning into a full-fledged FP.

BTW. I'm still glad reduce is kept in functools.
Is anybody here using Graal Native Images in production? I'm interested in it, but it seems like it's too "alpha" to be used for anything real yet.
> And Chase just transferred the money without any knowledge or indication of him actually having a wife?

Sounds like the wife excuse was only needed because the scammers were female. If the scammers were male they could have easily impersonated him directly. It's not like the bank keeps voiceprints of their customers for identification.
The same effect works in reverse though, maintaining temperature through the heat of the day is wasteful if the temperature drops before you get home. If you’re dealing with significant solar gain then running a fan before turning on the AC becomes even more efficient.
AI voice actors sound more human than ever–and they’re ready to hire
Good question but there must be one, because Google very much wants to win in cloud.
in this case, bureaucrats are bending over backwards to get in the way
> This is a common myth, but you'll never get less money in your account by earning more. Never. (If other conditions remain the same, naturally)

That wasn't the original claim. If you're paying a high marginal tax rate, you may be making a nonnegative amount of money, but that doesn't mean it's a sufficient incentive to get you to do work when you'd sooner play video games.

But on top of that, it isn't even true. It's not unheard of for marginal rates in practice to exceed 100% as a result of overlapping benefits phase outs. You pay a 25% tax rate, an education benefit phases out at a rate of 25%, a housing benefit phases out at a rate of 30%, a childcare benefit phases out at a rate of 25%, you earn an extra $1 and the government takes $1.05.

This also doesn't account for the cost of earning the money. Your boss offers you an extra half shift, but then you pay the commuting cost (say $10) for 4 hours instead of 8. If your hourly rate is $10, maybe you still take it and make $30. If it's $10/hour but there is a 50% marginal rate, you spend two hours commuting and four hours working to come home with $10/day, and screw that. If the marginal rate was 80%, you're nominally "making" $8/day but in practice you're losing $2/day (and the six hours of time).
I'd say thats something different: letting others do the time-consuming routine parts, so the senior surgeon can concentrate on what he does best. This is actually desirable: more patients benefit of his skill that way.
Hacker News search popup blocks “More” link
How many times does this have to happen. Every time they add the popup search bar at the bottom. It ends up covering up the More link.

Windows 10
Chrome Version 91.0.4472.124
^ More emotional manipulation.
It's soul-crushing to write a cover letter characterizing yourself as passionate about <menial work> and super interested in <company that you would never work for if you had a good alternative> as well.
Biden Moves to Restrict Non-Compete Agreements, Saying They're Bad for Workers
I find it a little funny that BMW and others were just fined for colluding with the effect of “slowing the deployment of cleaner emissions tech” while Tesla is being fined for going too fast in the deployment of cleaner vehicles (via building factories faster than the regulatory bodies could keep up). https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/08/eu-fines-bmw-vw-1b-for-run...

I realize they still should follow appropriate regulations, but it’s still funny to me.
Good post.

However I think you need to differentiate between GUI for internal tools and customer facing products.

Dear ImGui is pretty damn stellar for internal tools. Nigh unbeatable along certain axes. Rust has a couple of Dear ImGui inspired libraries. I think for tools and editors Rust is getting close to being perfectly viable.

For customer facing GUI I largely agree with your assessment.
Ask HN: I don't understand the dissatisfaction with GitHub CoPilot
I don't necessarily understand the dissatisfaction with Github CoPilot, it is an interesting technology and one of the few successful real-world implementation of AI.

Am I missing something here?
Inferencing and Fine-tuning T5 model using “simplet5” Python package
When you make a better compiler/runtime, that work on one program benefits many programs. So it is often more cost-effective to improve the compiler/runtime than to improve all the user programs. Developing higher-level languages creates a similar situation: many programmers can be more productive.
While this is true, it overlooks the selection pressures that exist on nucleotide selection. If I recall correctly, the canonical bases are relatively robust to radiation in the ir, visible, and uv spectrums when compared to other nucleotides.
http://europepmc.org/article/PMC/4181368
Not sure if that's the correct article, but it's a good starting point on selection pressures for nucleotides and heterocycles.

That is to say - just because visible light is more energetic does not mean it is guaranteed to cause more damage.

(I briefly worked in Tor's lab - a truly incredible chemist and teacher)
the study itself is a bit "pnas'y". In fact, a lot of work studies information aggregation in different kinds of settings.

As you, I think, suspect, things can also easily go the other way. Well known is the fact that extensive information / interaction networks can decrease diversity (a general fact of averaging mechanisms in network settings that holds even in Games on networks). A decrease in diversity in information aggregation is often detrimental (for example through correlation of errors, canceling out one mechanism of wisdom of crowds, or through conformism).

Further, wisdom of crowds only exists (relative to individual guesses) if in growing networks the opinions are not controlled by influential groups or echo chambers (Jackson did work on this). This of course, is what ends up happening a lot, in part due due to aforementioned factors.

Since the proposed mechanism relies on weighting accurate individuals higher, it is even more susceptible to such biases than just wisdom of crowds in general.
Explain away social awkwardness/weird interactions? Cool would not be a word I associate with myself for that reason.
It broke new ground subverting all those expectations!
I was addicted to EVE for several years. It was one of the grandest things I've ever been a part of. It was both a curse and a blessing when the developers legitimized the exchange of real money for in-game money (through the buying and selling of game time) because it destroyed any sense of value for all the things I was doing and hence freed me from my addiction.

I wouldn't trade those memories for anything, though.
I did Communication and Multimedia Design at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, and they did a lot of stuff like that: having a dialogue with your teacher or exams where you could bring a couple of handwritten notes.

The largest part of the grades came from delivering projects, where you were graded both on result and process (you would present an end-product, and deliver a report documenting the product & the process of creating it). At the start of each project you would get a document explaining what categories the product & presentation would be graded on and what a failing, passing and excellent grade would look like, so you had a clear goal.

I have the feeling the system only works with great teachers (which was the case in 90% of the teacher I had during my 4 years).

They would also have feedback rounds after each semester and actually change things based on feedback, applying the design process on the course itself.

It was a really great experience and I would whole-heartedly recommend that program to anyone interested in design/programming.
Unfortunately steam also limits library usage to one person at a time. For those with hundreds of games, this is very limiting nowdays if you have a family. I switched to GoG whenever possible.