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A heartbreaking story happened in Russian cosmonautics

Russian cosmonaut, who trained all his life, was kicked out from the Russian space program in favor of the actors of the space film

Alexander Khokhlov noted that cosmonaut Andrei Babkin suffered the most in the history of filming on the ISS. It was he who was supposed to go into orbit in October. According to Khokhlov, Babkin had been waiting for the opportunity to fly for a very long time and carefully prepared. Unfortunately, in the spring, the astronaut was taken aback by the unpleasant news - he was removed from flights because of the crew of the film "Takeoff". Nobody spoke in defense of Babkin.

"And since Babkin is already over 50 years old, another flight does not shine for him. It turns out that a man who has been preparing all his life did not fly because they flew to shoot a film," the expert complained.

The star of the "Gloom River" TV series and director Klim Shipenko will go into orbit in October 2021. In space, a cinematographer and an artist will be filming a picture with the tentative title "Takeoff". The film is a joint brainchild of Channel One and Roscosmos.

According to Alexander Khokhlov, the chief educator on orbital flights, space instrumentation designer, many experts criticize the film project. Russian cosmonauts are also dissatisfied with the idea.

The problem, as noted by Khokhlov, is not in the film itself, but in how the flight of the actress Peresild and director Shepenko was organized. The filmmakers did not look for money and organize an additional shuttle. They took the ship from the federal program, already paid for by the government. Initially, professional cosmonauts were supposed to fly on the shuttle "occupied" by filmmakers. Due to the expedition, the artist and director had to reshape the entire flight schedule.

Yulia Peresild and Klim Shepenko, who left unscheduled, will also have to be returned unscheduled. Because of the filming of the film, domestic and American astronauts will stay in orbit for an extra six months - filmmakers will take places in the spacecraft that was supposed to send the astronauts to Earth
a lot of work is going into these areas, but most of it isn't work that happens in Base. over the past 6 months or so, a fair number of the important big packages have gotten a bunch faster to load. also 5 minutes for webserver startup isn't my experience I'm writing an admittedly small one and it only takes a few seconds to start.
That sounds like ALOT.

That's a whole city of molested kids!

What's the math on this?

How many French Catholic priests are there?

How much time are they spending molesting?
You make it sound like priests are just bad at maximizing their income, so they must be damaged somehow. But putting it in economic terms like that is silly. Priests aren't in it for the money or an easy lifestyle. Similarly I don't think the church is so worried about optimizing their training costs that it could be a plausible root cause. Reducing everything to a dollar amount is some weird sigma shit.

Though I agree... there's probably no coordinated conspiracy of abusers covering for other abusers, just a pervasive culture of secrecy and willingness at all levels to do anything to protect the clergy. And seriously, who thought it would be a good idea to sexually stunt young people with religious indoctrination, get them to swear to a vow of chastity, and then go their whole lives without sex or porn, and think it'll just be fine to trust them absolutely in situations of incredibly significant power imbalance? Like organizational reform aside, this doesn't seem fixable for the church. It's too fundamental to their whole model. They'll keep going because they have so much momentum, but more victims are going to keep getting hurt.
We'd contracted to mail stuff to another company's customers, as we had bulk mail equipment etc; I'm the tech sent to their office to procure an actual list of addresses to mail things to. Ask them about their database and no one knows what the words mean. To them the customer list is on the magic computer that got sent from out of state and they only touch with great trepidation and potent fear.

No unauthorized users could touch the "customer list" machine, so there was no hacking it out of the software in a sensible sane way. None of the rituals in their little book come close to "dump database in CSV" and the thing is equipped with only a modem, a floppy drive, and a big ass tractor feed line printer they run the bills on.

But the "run the bills* ritual is one they have, and the printer connects to a parallel port, and I can with a little bit of bodge connect my little laptop to the other side of that parallel port... capture the "bill run", parse out the addresses, and finally emit their DB in a useful form.

Building that was actually fun, but then no one else could assemble the laptop stack to actually perform the procedure so I owned the entire operation for the short time it ran.
I was going to say they it all would be at 9.95 for the next 24 hours...But interestingly I just checked, and it seems there are no promotions, and courses that were sold days ago at 9.95 are now 120 and up. Is there maybe an IPO coming up? :-)
So I can create 2 servers running kubegres, kill one and then all data should be intact? And no downtime?
I will go on a limb and say: buy them an iPhone and a Macbook and teach them how to use iCloud for backups. For cognitively imparied people you cannot do much better than that.
I wouldn't call it broken duck typing.

The problem is that ShowAbstracts could just modify the array and put an instance of Abstract there that _isn't_ an Impl, thus violating the original constraint of arr containing only instances of Impl.

Once again mutability/invariance raises its ugly head!
Exactly my point. the Comment I responded to was "No one wants old designers they want the Hot New young designers"
My advice now to family is not to rely on anything - assume you'll lose everything and dont worry about it. Concentrate on a few things that actually matter - like photos. Buy an external drive and copy all the photos to the drive. Buy a new drive every year or two and put the old one in someone else's house for safe storage.
Show HN: Demo geospatial and timeseries queries on 250k unique devices
2sigma isn’t a notable result.
I (closer to 50) always straight up say I've got two young kids and that I partake actively in their upbringing. One of them with special needs, even.

For me that helps filter out workplaces that would not be a good fit for myself.

There are a number of workplaces where a good balance is actively supported! When needed, everyone will put in extra but the expectation and in fact reality is to keep things 9-5:30 as much as possible.
Russia Sends Film Crew to Space
Optimism about new media tech doesn't survive long when average humans get their hands on it. It's all fun when it's computer enthusiasts only, but when FB or Twitter makes it so even the least considerate, most highly misinformed, and most toxic individuals can reach hundreds of others...that's the other tail of the distribution, that's the snake oil salesmen, conspiracists, religious fanatics, assholes, jerks, and all the people we used to go online to avoid.
It depends so much on the devices. The easiest option is going to be the one that's built into the device/OS/etc. That's not maybe a very useful answer, but there you have it.
I think there are way more companies than you think that give manager-level devs a light enough management load that they are able to (and are expected to) write extremely high quality code (indeed, some of the highest quality code in the whole company). They are also expected to carefully review code written by their subordinates.

When hiring, these people are given coding tests just as a pulse check to make sure they can actually code, since so many manager-level devs have apparently lost that ability.

I think there is a disconnect between manager-level devs who expect a glorified project manager position with zero coding requirements (and are thus insulted and shocked and assume it’s ageism when they’re given coding tests they cannot pass) and companies that expect their principals to hack on code until retirement. And while blatant ageism is clearly a problem in the industry, I’d bet that at least some of it stems from this disconnect.
Sebastian Thrun founded Udacity. Udemy was founded by other people.
Syncthing helps prevent against theft and disaster. Syncthing with an offline backup policy helps mitigate against ransomware, but unfortunately any policy that moves bits from one place to another allows an attack vector for malicious bits to infect the target device to which bits are being transferred.
62 here. Just got hired into principal role at public software company doing Vue & c#. First month has been lots of hands on... Just like I like it.
I'm already told I'm slow at work, so I don't think I can reduce the pace any further.
What’s a counter example?
> It’s also worth pointing out that child abuse happens in a lot of non-religious settings too. The Catholic Church has a problem, but in no way should we understand child sexual abuse as a uniquely catholic issue.

...that's of course fair - but the Catholic church is to my knowledge the only one that does it on such a systemic level and gathered so much experience over time in controlling information flows, silencing victims and protecting the abusers.
It’s an interesting thought experiment but not much else. Most of what he’s doing is predicated on the idea that any major CEO is walking around with a 7 year old laptop that is both well documented online and not configured with TPM + password which pretty much any competent IT department is going to require of an executive’s device.
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What are the long term ramifications of Twitter outrage circles canceling people whose ideas don’t exactly align with the mob?
I used to think this trend would fizzle off, or that institutions would learn to ignore a vocal minority, but it seems like neither of these are happening; that the problem is only becoming more perverse.
Is this a predominantly North American thing, do other countries handle challenging discourse better?
OP, your rants are pretty subjective and imo come from a place of windows fanboy-ism (before someone reports this comment for flame baiting, go read both of OP's rants in the repo, they're far worse).

I came to Linux last year, and I've been on it 100% no windows during this entire period.

I'm using Sway (Wayland), a DE (well, really just a window manager) you cannot replicate in the windows graphical environment, and I'd never go back. Everything is so smooth, and of course you may say that it's "because vsync is used in Sway and vsync = bad blah blah", but I've never agreed with that and a good implementation of vsync with minimal latency increases is worth it, especially paired with freesync/adaptive sync (which works on the desktop just as it does in Windows).

Fyi, before my Linux days, I was a very competitive gamer, and absolute windows power user. I went out of my way to get every last bit of performance and latency reduction possible (just so you know where I'm coming from).

My terminal emulator is Foot, a wayland native terminal with a focus on TUI performance, especially in TUI editors like (neo)vim (my editor of choice). It has amazing Sixel support with a developer who goes out of his way to fix even the smallest imperfections with the implementation. Foot has features I really love, like link following by keyboard shortcuts, great font fallback customisation, and no bloat (a feature in my book)

My multi-resolution setup is not impacted by Linux because Sway, and Wayland ecosystem in general, handles multi resolution tremendously, and supports integer and fractional scaling per display. Multi display freesync/adaptive-sync (and gsync whenever Nvidia starts playing ball) works great too, just as it does on windows.

The majority of stuff you complain about is due to crusty old X11 (whether you're stuck on X because of nvidia or not, it's not a fair argument). Or because you think the way Windows does something is better than the way Linux does that thing (even though in most cases I think the opposite, clearly a subjective thing).

Oh, and yea I think Windows sucks and Linux does <insert> better. But I'm saying that as a zoomer, not a "geek millennial" (as you said in your rant) :)
Is Active-Directory GPO a weakness in the chain? Getting engineers to install malware on AD has been proven feasible.
Entrepreneur Raised $75M to Unite the In-Game Creator Community
Complex systems are a largely unexplored area of physics in that we don't really have tools as powerful and generally applicable as the mathematical machinery developed to describe more "fundamental" physics. With the exception of near equilibrium phenomena of homogeneous systems like gases that can be described with 19th century statistical physics it is really hard to write down general laws or patterns.

The work of Parisi (and quite a few others) in the eighties (non-linear systems, chaos theory, attractors, universality of power laws etc) have given us a first glimpse of what lies beyond, but a true revolution is still in the future and will require some pretty mind-bending mathematical inventions.

Making serious progress is not just intellectually challenging, it is also of immense practical relevance for us understanding and moderating our impact on the biosphere. The Nobel committee, in their infinite wisdom, suggest as much.
Google Bans High Fat Sugar Salt Food and Beverage Targeting Minors in UK and EU
In some ways, Cryptonomicon already has become reality. We have bitcoin used as national currency in Central America, and things like stable coins (probably the closest real world analogue to the gold backed crypto in the book).

I think this is one of the reasons he has such a loyal following - he gets current tech trends and knows how to extrapolate it into the future very well.
> Any insight into how this one compares to Alacritty and Kitty?

In terms of customization and configuration, I'd say foot falls between Alacritty and Kitty with Kitty being the most customizable and configurable while Alacritty being the least.

One of the things I really like about Alacritty and foot is that they don't enforce italic and bold monospace variants while Kitty does. I despise italic variants of monospace fonts. Most monospace fonts don't even have proper italic variants. They're just slanted.

I tried using foot a few days ago but went back to Alacritty because of this issue.

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/628

I think I might move back to foot though because it felt a bit faster (lesser latency) and for some reason, text on Alacritty is sometimes blurry for me.
I understand the need to fake overwhelming optimism to get by interviewers with mindsets similar to yours. Too much honesty can be bad in this industry, especially at higher levels, where diplomacy and soft skills are very important.
In that case I'd recommend to use a paid service like Dropbox (or Google Drive, or any alternative).

Store your files in the dropbox folder and they will be safe (plus sync across devices and file history).
I see, actually I do remember macOS used to occasionally nag me to enable Siri (in response to accidentally pressing something, I think). But I don’t think it’s done that since upgrading to Big Sur.
So how should these problems be mitigated? Have separate infrastructure for critical services or staging BGP or what?
> Facebook's routing shenanigans slowed down the entire internet

This is Hacker News, so the distinction between network performance, server performance and application performance should matter.

"The Internet" did not slow down. "The Internet" infact probably had more available capacity as a result of Facebook's outage, as all those bits of outrage and cats ceased to be transferred for the duration.

Some applications may have seen performance hits, as a result of poorly thought out dependencies on an external service without graceful failure.

Some applications may have seen increased load and suffered due to server resourcing constraints, caused by applications like the above failing to fail gracefully, and instead polling more aggressively.

> They don't have a right to privacy here, and we are all owed an explanation

Morally / ethically, you're right. The fact that Facebook exists in it's current form tells me that morals and ethics aren't particularly important to the real world.
(Partial) cached copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20211005123424/http://phrack.org...
I'm in Brasil and I think it is worse than USA. There are just bad jobs for new hires.
That is not a typical situation for most Americans. You even knew that as an expat you were going to have to deal with some pretty nasty tax forms for no taxation on the first ~100K for FEIE. Just hire an accountant who knows how to handle that, or pay for the commercial stuff (I assume you did). OSS does not necessarily have to compete on every single feature to help the majority of people. I think as long as it’s clear about its limitations upfront it can be useful.
Or you could be outraged regardless of the ratio. Additionally, don't forget the Catholic church purposefully not reporting these incidents to the authorities and actively covering it up; instead moving the priest to a new town to abuse new kids. That seems like it should cause plenty of outrage in us all.
I think the stack is important. I know a lot of older Java and .Net developers that are hired to grind out code.
As a general rule, priests are required to have a bachelor's degree before entering or finishing seminary.
Rclone.

https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/

Configure cron jobs to run automatically so they dont have to do anything on their end. Even if you're on a mobile device, you can install a terminal emulator and run rclone there.
Backblaze is ideal for this use case.
I feel like I have an interesting outlook considering I'm 20. I actually very much enjoy working with older developers who are masters at what they do. As long as they keep learning new technology and don't punish me for using new ideas.
If you don't care about privacy and allowing some company holding it, just use free services like Google Photos or Dropbox, any cloud storage would be fine.
As I understand the research the "struggle" is more cultural than inherent/biological.

It just so happens that a good chunk of people tend to stop learning and pushing themselves for what ever reason. But if you keep at it, or get back to it, your brain adapts over time and becomes more flexible to to speak.

And by "learning" they mean things that are just slightly outside of your comfort zone.

Anecdotally, people who do that for a very long time, tend to be really smart and interesting I found. It's such a wonderful thing.
I'd tack on something like backblaze as well.
Ever since the fallout of the Great Recession we've had to deal with the reality of dead money in the system being much larger than what's in circulation. Heck, I suspect that's been the case for decades earlier than that but over all I think now we can account for it better due to our use of computers to keep track of the balance sheets. So in effect we got a better picture of what's going on but not the reason for it happening. And it would be nice if economists would take chances on less mainstream theories in economics to see what actually works rather than keep using overly simplified models that pretend to be right when they can't even match on the most basic trends in the economy.
The people who make Slashdot a cesspool probably pushed the reasonable ones out, and the refuge for these is HN. The same could probably happen here at some point, but people who want a civil forum could simply move elsewhere if that happens.

It helps that something like HN can be easily duplicated, so there will probably always be a space like HN where interesting and civil discussions happen.
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> You did 27 years at one single company, as you point out so proudly and often. After a stint like that, anyone would be unhireable.

Next time you hear someone complain about why programmers jump jobs ever 2 years, point them to this cynical and stereotyping comment.

In my opinion this is no different from saying "What, you didn't graduate from college? Well, obviously you are unhireable", but I bet 'Icathian would be much less likely to say that to a non college-educated programmer looking for work.

For some reason, stereotyping based on tenure, which correlates strongly to age, just seems to fly wild in our industry.
Winters in Hokkaido and Tohoku are not mild at all. Sure, maybe it won't be as cold as Canada, but still fucking cold, and the poor insulation and heating makes it painful.
A months+ long maintenance windoe is untenable and I would have returned the thermostat as well. That's one example.

In a smaller IT shop (~8 people) maintaining all services for a 500 person 9 to 5 business maintenance windows provide a structured way to to perform all required tasks without the additional overhead of high availability, especially in the cases when it is not necessary.

The caveat is excellent communication regarding the plannee maintenance (what, when, why and the anticipated impact) and when systems will be available again.

But I am not a "recognized thought leader in cloud computing" as the author is, I just know what has been practical in my experience.
This is actually something they address in the Risk Factors section (here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1607939/000119312521...) if you're curious about what they have to say.
I feel you, i have the same issue
I have that optimism and it certainly is not fake. I love what I do. Yes, I bring experience to the table but not bad energy.

WTF would you want to hire someone who poisons the well? It doesn't matter what the job/industry is, in what situation would that be remotely desirable?
Fun to see a bunch of VM/JIT security articles and then a string format thing…
It is also not the same body that selects for the Peace Prize as the Physics one (different body in a different country), so I don't see how that could be used in any way as an argument against these ones.
Canada also banned said fees, and retailers with high-priced/low-margin goods (ie: computers) simply gave cash discounts to compensate. nb my info is at least 20 years out-of-date, though.
Company PR on a lost court case is of extremely little value. It's absolutely going to be spin and try to paint an extremely one-sided picture where they're somehow the victims of their own actions.

It's why cases are decided in courts, and not by "who has the more expensive PR department".
Ask HN: Does Hacker News hate the idea of super determinism?
I've been exploring the type of thinking that gets upvoted and allowed on here, and I'm curious to see what the thoughts and opinions of the idea that we lack free will means to individuals here.