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At the point in time I’m writing this, this post is flagged, and I don’t understand why. Mozilla Foundation’s mission is for an open web, and I’d think that this includes asking more of platforms to be open and transparent in their decisions. Will these requests really work anytime soon? That’s hard to say with large companies with almost unlimited money to shove problems away. Will technology alone solve the problems? Surely not, but technology is a key part to solving them since it’s the one handling the massive coordination. Should we ask these of platforms and people? Certainly!
Not surprised. The Movie was an utter trash cash grab hollywood sellout "look how meta and cool I am" let's shit on the original. If you liked it I'd love to know why?
In some countries it's not legal. If it is legal then you complain, you muddle through, you accept compromises like an extra space in a few cases.
Porn is created with the intention of titillating. This is probably the case for the child stuff, but "revenge porn" is intended for revenge. It's not disseminated for the purpose of arousing consumers, but of embarrassing the subject.
There's a very weird phenomenon I've noticed related to 'liminal spaces' where I find that media which refuses to describe itself as 'liminal' is significantly higher quality than media which embraces the term.

The cycle usually goes like this:

1. I see a genuinely haunting image or piece of art on the Internet and think "Wow, this reminds me of that 'liminal space' stuff I read about."

2. Now that it's rekindled my interest, I search for 'liminal space' and find a mixture of half-ass creepypasta and very bland images of abandoned buildings.

3. After a short time of searching, I get bored and forget about liminal spaces for a few months until it comes back to me.

I don't know if this is just an example of the Pareto principle (80% of 'liminal' art is crap) or if the label 'liminal' is just so frequently misapplied that it's become useless.
An example of this is the Carmet artificial heart from France. It has mechanical bits but also is made of organic tissue that is incorporated into the mechanical device.
It was my first time meeting Starro, and I was pleasantly surprised at how they managed to make a giant space starfish still seem like a feasible villain. If you'd told me that they fight a giant starfish that mind controls people with smaller starfish, I would've been bemused.
> wikipedia says the film cost $190m, which seems reasonable for a film like this

And you can add half of that again for the marketing budget.
I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes of this film... what a waste.
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God I hope so. Burning fuel for nothing but bureaucratic red tape seems horribly unethical.
The choreography in this movie was incredibly lazy.
I’ve heard a different version: that the Wachowskis were told the reboot would be going ahead with or without them. The movie feels like a very personal “screw you, executives”, in that it denies catharsis to some of the most popular parts of the first movie and at the same time makes some very, very clear statements that echo what Lana Wachowski has said in the past.

It’s what a revival should be: it gives you a way to observe the original work from a radically different perspective, while still building on it. The only other revival that’s done it better has been Twin Peaks: The Return.
why are they impossible to reverse engineer?

especially in case of jet turbines, due to their much larger size than chips?
Yeah a "why didn't I" thought occurred to me while I was writing the comment above. All I can say is that it was a long time ago now (15 years), and the notion of leaving notes in the code for future versions of myself (and others) is a much bigger part of my way of working these days.
In Praise of Plastic (Why Plastic Is Good for the Environment)
You could also read the title with the unwritten "as planned" to the end of the title. With losses comes write offs.
I saw it twice. I honestly cannot tell if Lana Wachowski hates the Matrix or not. There was this meta montage of "oh we have to make a sequel to the Matrix because the suits wanted it, everybody pile on stupid crap", which was obviously a middle finger to...someone. I laughed out loud at how over the top that blatant F-U was...but given that the movie proceeded to then actually crap on every single thing that was awesome about the first Matrix (hey, Trinity is a literally a soccer Mom now? Morpheus is the most newly freed mind and completely unimportant? Smith is completely unintimidating? It's inexplicably set in 2020, not 1999 that was supposed to be the peak of human civilization?) Did she honestly ruin it on purpose?
It's vivisection, but hopefully less painfully/traumatically than some slaughterhouses.
Not counting the benefit of it HBO Max is like saying every single Netflix produced show was a loss. It's part of the reason people have the service, so part of the money made from the service (and cable subscriptions) can be counted to it. Doing otherwise is effectively lying.

Overall, there's no way this movie lost money.
I mean I imagine there's research trying to do exactly that: you can identify beating heart cells very early on in embryos, and chimeric organisms are a thing. I imagine someone somewhere is trying to swap out those early cells with human heart cells to see if you can literally grow a pig with a human heart.
I hate Davis for those reasons. Minus the bike culture with is the best.

Smells like cows, tiny town, Sac is boring, San Francisco is too far.
> If he wants to delete what he owns he's in his rights and corporations better take note.

Except for that he didn't just delete the code. He added malicious code that without warning broke applications at runtime, most likely disproportionately affecting small projects that lack rigorous dependency controls.

Companies can change their revenue model, but they don't get a blank check to do anything they want. See Toyota's recent blow-up with the key fobs as a counterpoint to your argument. It's one thing to phase out support for an old product. It's quite another to yank out the rug from under people without warning, and companies don't get a pass on that anymore than this guy should.
Oh, it's a huge connection. When I first encountered it in my very early twenties in a list of a whole bunch of "joke" laws, I just chuckled at it, but now over 20 years later I understand it to be one of the important things for someone trying to move into the architect/principal contributor/whatever your organization calls the top level of engineer to understand.

It isn't quite a 100% constraint, but you better pick your violations of Conway's law very carefully.

Usually you have to take the design of your system from the company's organization. I still haven't quite managed to pull off the "successfully convince the company to reorganize because some technical thing they want requires it". And, I mean, obviously I don't treat that as a terminal goal in and of itself. But I do sorta hope to see it at some point. (We have at least had serious conversations about variations on that theme.)
There used to be a lot of punny band names like Gritallica. It looks like only Sled Zepplin is out now.
NCII is an awkward term, but improves on "revenge porn":

* A nude isn't automatically "porn." In fact, nudes shared with one's BF/GF/spouse/etc aren't really porn at all.

* Not all images like this are for revenge. Some people just share photos because they're assholes.
I disagree. There are lots of examples of standards that define what is "good enough."

For example, NASA has different standards depending on risk categorization and the predefined threshold of quality gradually gets higher as the use gets riskier. A business application is held to a much lower level of quality than software for a robotic mission which is lower than a human rated development effort.
Not much you can do about it even as a remote org. One employee living in Cali and you have to pay cali taxes.
Where does one go to find startups that are not the top 3-4% of the top 0.1% of applicants of the top 1% that would even consider applying to YC? Like, maybe someone who really just has an idea and wants just enough money to work on it and survive the journey.
You don't need Hollywood accounting when the expenses exceed the revenue, you can still pocket the revenue for yourself though. You can just stagger things across tax years.

Everyone should do themselves a favor and pay for a CPA firm (not just your friend that happens to be a CPA), learn some things just treat it as expensive education.

Its very different doing exploratory stuff with a CPA, compared to needing a CPA last minute for a problem you already have. They have excerpts from journals they are subscribed to that can inspire you about things you didnt know.
Does it change if you opt out of the “Verizon Custom Experience” program? Or turn off CPNI?
Is this true? I’ve always felt “locked out” of any serious academic career as someone who, in their undergrad, focused on getting into industry rather than on research experience.

What does that path look like?
Hollywood Accounting, as I understand it, entails having a separate production company for each movie. That company then buys services from the parent company, something like a franchisee. Some of those services may be inflated. All of the costs incurred by the production company will be paid off before anyone gets residuals.

There's also the matter of "marketing costs" which also help out the parent company.

So, of the $190 million that the movie cost, some of it was raised from WB, but some of it also went back to WB. From the outside it's really hard to say when they come out even.
I like the latter title better; I can understand the editorial stance because “first” does sound a bit click bait like.
Ask HN: Why did Gmail remove the ability to send a calendar invite in the email?
Nearly 8 years later, and I still wish to use this feature multiple times a day.

No replacement ever came.

Anyone know why it was removed?

Context:
https://www.techadvisory.org/2014/05/gmail-to-remove-calendar-invitation/
> I'd love to try grad school, as a research career seems more fulfilling and helpful to humanity (compared to most companies)

Most research is done simply to publish. The methods don’t even really have to work outside of your small dataset. Call me jaded, but my peers used to idolize the geniuses in industry who built way more advanced stuff than we had been working on.

Now I’m in industry and I’ve found a place that I feel does make the world a better place and I’m happier that my contributions matter.
While it's a small percentage of overall flights worldwide this is just wrong. Laws are complex but why waste this huge amount of resources and add to global warming.
I can assure you the CEO would be the last person to know how the whole system works, in case of semiconductor chips, to the detail sufficient to reproduce it again from scratch should the entire company suddenly resign somehow.
Realistic liquid animation in 1KB of WebGL
Both can definitely be true. The movie can be trolling Warner Bros and be trying to say something personally valuable to the director.
It has been frustrating to see how these two non-mutually exclusive points have been used to debate each other. We talk around each other and can't have a logical conversation.
I guess that heavy marketing and hyping nostalgia to fans and reheating an old film's ingredients somehow still works with die-hard super-fans. However, the result of this and reviews from the fans generally always ends in disappointment as their expectations are never met.

Sequels are even harder to impress fans and critics these days. Always better to ignore and cut through the hype as the opposite just happens.
It was like two movies. The first act was amazing, and the second was just a marvel clone. They should have just stuck with the meta self-referential in-matrix story for the whole movie. Furthermore, they could have taken it even further and epxlored the idea of onion layers of reality, with magical realms, multiple dimensions a la spiderverse, etc
I'm not sure how anyone does the math with streaming. Netflix is still able to raise money for production though.
I love that movie. A friend and I hold it as a timeless classic.
I just watched ghostbusters: afterlife and it was very similar, except 1980s. Procedurally generated fan service.
apparently some crimes against humanity are worse than the others
To add to that, _Speed Racer_ should be the thing that TV manufacturers pack in to show off their fancy 4K HDR TVs — bright and vibrant in a way that Hollywood action movies avoid nowadays. The dialogue and acting are corny and stilted, but in a way that mirrors the TV show its adapting.
My approach is to just do what I can to unfuck the code without wasting my life on it and then reflect on what went wrong so I can catch the pattern before it gets committed again. I just managed to stop a co-worker from making a mistake that cost my previous company an entire dev's full time attention for years.
Please make the site work on mobile. I’d like to read about the tech, but have to wait until I’m on desktop.
> "Because most developers are playing a repeated game with cities, housing applications have historically relied on a lot of goodwill to get through the planning process, and they haven't wanted to upset the apple cart for one big and uncertain return. So there is room for a brash outsider who doesn't care what people or planning staff in Davis think about them."

Thankfully, some developers are starting to become more aggressive. At some point you have to decide that appeasement is more trouble than it's worth, and there is untapped potential for developers who will target pro-housing exceptions rather than try to work with the normal planning bureaucracy. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/How-one-S-F-housing-p...
Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state
No, a bunch of people needed a pretext to come up with some jargon so that they could feel special, so, among other things, they decided to adopt the unsupported and frankly ridiculous ideas that (a) the word "pornography" put the focus on the consumer in any certain way, (b) any such "focusing" was strong enough to be important or noticeable, and (c) anybody who wasn't desperately searching for something to complain about would ever care.

Another excuse they used was that the existing terms were somehow imprecise... and that they'd be able to come up with new terms that were (1) not equally imprecise and (2) somehow likely to defy the universal drift present in all human language, so that they would not end up with completely new connotations 5 minutes after first being used publicly, and completely new denotations shortly after that.

So they tried to rename things that had good enough names. Names that were searchable. Names that were meaningful both to people new to the issues and to people familiar with the issues. Not because it mattered, but because it made them feel important.
Should your users have control over the code you publish under your name?

Because that is the precedent we are setting here.
A full page ad in the SJ Mercury News may be more likely to be seen by upper level Google management than a post on HN.

So true. There's a reason that Facebook takes out full-page ads in newspapers almost every week.
I don't agree with this; I don't consider myself of a coffee snob, but I do generally buy what I think are 'high end' coffees, because I buy fair trade coffee and that's basically what you get.

There is so much variety between types of coffees, and even preparation methods (we mainly use french press and aeropress, but the grind size, brew time, water temperature, and of course the amount of grind, all make enough of a difference that the same beans can give different flavours)

And yes of course I like the flavour of coffee, but mainly drink it for the ritual and the increased alertness in the mornings. There's something so satisfying about a good cup though; again, I don't get science-y about it and measure things accurately, just throw the water in the kettle, and mix it with a few scoops of coffee in the french press sometime after it boils.

But sometimes a cup is just perfection, tones of chocolate, smoke, warmth, boldness. And sometimes the cup is just meh. Then when I'm at a hotel, it's almost painful trying to choke down whatever passes for coffee in their lobbies.
It made $124m so far, its not really an indictment about its quality they just spent too much more making it.
The rule of thumb does not take into account movies going to stream, so may not be as applicable these days.
In general he greeted them before taking the picture, if you do the same today you’ll usually get smiles, especially from those who know you.
Boolean tests are not very sensitive to these details, specially if they are designed to be used by non professionals.

> 4. Drop exactly three drops into the test well. Don't miss.

That probably means between 1 and 5. But 1 is too low, and there is a risk of messing of adding a bubble. Probably 2 is the smaller sensible value.

> 3. Place swab into buffer. Wait 2 minutes. Try not to forget it when you get distracted and make a cuppa or something.

Probably between 1 and 5 minutes are fine. Perhaps 5 is better, but the risk of distraction is too high.

> 2. Swab. Two ways are indicated. If you don't go deep enough (and who would?), maybe the test doesn't work?

In discussions with my friends, we got very different stories from the nurses administering the test. Some said that it must be very deep until it hurt, some said that it's not necessary. I think that too shallow is bad, but some people is crazy and go to the other extreme.

1. The buffer must be added to the test vial, or exactly 10 drops, depending on which kit you get. Both sets of instructions are printed, and it's not apparent which one you should follow.

Also, probably anything between 5 and 20 is fine.

The test is probably sensitive to other factors like temperature. But let's assume something between 10°C and 30°.

Sunlight? Probably direct sunlight is bad.

The standers instructions are an oversimplification. Some foolproof recipe that any moron can follow and ensure that the test is correct most of the time. Try to follow the indications anyway, but they have some room for mistakes.

It's common in many applications were there are a lot of unknown factors.

For example transistors amplify the current like x200 times. But the process to build them is not very reliable and in the same lot you get some with x100 and other with x400 and any number in between. So the trick is to put them in a circuit that only makes a x10 amplification and will work with any multiplication of the transistor that is greater than x100. You are not using all the amplification potencial of the transistor, but you get a reliable design.

Another case are the wires for elevators. You calculate the weight it must carry, and then buy a wire that can lift x4 or x8 time that weight. And you put 4 wires like that, not only one. This is mandated by law here in Argentina and there are similar rules in other countries. [Perhaps I'm misremembering some number, check he official regulation before installing an elevator.] The sistem is not as efficient as possible, but you are covered in case the wires have some defect, or someone overload the elevator and other stuff.
I agree it's interesting. It seems like they lose money when an HBO subscriber would have bought a ticket but streams it instead. On the other hand they make a lot of money if someone signs up for HBO to see the Matrix, and ends up continuing their subscription for months/years.
I feel like they did pretty good with this one though, it is THE MATRIX after all and nothing can ever live up to the first watch of the first movie. I actually laughed several times and that was new.

> I still know kung fu
But does GitHub/NPM have the right to modify his code and publish it under his account/his name? I doubt that is legal.
You know that game where you put a table-tennis ball under plastic cups and slide them around and you have to guess where the ball ends up?

That.
Sometimes I think we go too far in an effort to be accurate and end up sacrificing impact.
Wikipedia says the proliferation of these 4 and 5 stories of wood construction above 1 story of steel/masonry happened because of a 2009 revision to the International Building Code.

If that is true, then it would seem like one plus five, one plus four, 5 over 1, and 4 over 1 buildings would refer to how many wood floors the building has above the first floor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1

I do not know how good the source is for Wikipedia, but I have only ever seen 5 and 6 story buildings, and never 7 or more stories with the first floor having masonry/steel and then wood for the rest.
I don’t think they’ve made the terms of those deals public, so it’s impossible to know if they’re fair or not. Either way, it can lead to service lock-in, because the next Netflix will be at even more of a disadvantage until they’re big enough to sign on with T-Mobile.
Take a look at Algorand if you want low transaction fees.
I agree. This has always driven me crazy. Python is supposed to be “there’s one way to do it” but I find it quite inconsistent!
> the Wachowskis were told the reboot would be going ahead with or without them.

The writers made this part of the plot of the repeating inner world. Between that moment and the painful scenes of the game designers' cyclic rounds of buzzword bingo, I agree that the movie was at least trolling the WB executives.
That's gotta be a $10k buy.

If you're losing $10k/day because nobody at Google has the power to fix things, it's a bargain.
You have great taste!

V for Vendetta and Cloud Atlas are absolute masterpieces. Definitely Top 10.
I dont under stand how you can be there for months and not have a single PR. Are they not approving them or you haven't been assigned any work? What's your day to day like?
it was.... ok.

watchable i guess. just don't go out of your way to watch it.
Matrix Resurrections’ was like the remake of “Wake up” at the end of it. Not even close.
Yes, and I want to join you.
WA state does this as well. https://www.yaktrinews.com/introducing-sir-plows-a-lot-newes...
I'm not an economist, but a simpler explanation is that the credit volume change lags the interest rate changes, because it takes a while for inertia in the system to play out, because a lot of credit might be at fixed rates and terms. Therefore the decrease in volume follows a period of sustained higher rates, and vice versa, as investors and borrowers adjust to the changed rates.

I've never seen a large real world system that has instantaneous response in any field. It always trails the stimulus by some time.

That said, I'd like to hear from someone who has thought about it more why they simpler explanation doesn't work.
WW2 airplane nose art:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ww2+nose+art&source=lnms&tbm...

My dad's was "Round Trip Ticket III"
Haxe and Three.js Starter Project
the image here got so much more visceral now

i guess i shouldn't be surprised what a medical experiment is but breaking a pig foot?? ouch
> I honestly cannot tell if Lana Wachowski hates the Matrix or not.

The movies and the production of them? Yes.

The concept and story? No.

> Did she honestly ruin it on purpose?

Yes. I think she did.