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Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty to keep slots
I work in this field and this is exactly true
I saw it, and enjoyed it for what it was. I will say that it very much felt like a few "Matrix" projects mashed-up together. I especially feel like the new characters could have stood on their own as a miniseries much better.
They killed the matrix with 2 and 3 being so terrible.

that ship had sailed
Usually yes. In times of inflating asset prices, the value of the investment tends to inflate with it.
The page was meant more to be a practical joke and less criticism to anything or anyone.
It's odd that (at the time of writing) HN commenters are so defensive about an article like this ("if you hate it so much, go back"). Perhaps it's because of the provocative title?

The fact that there are rough edges on other platforms is irrelevant, as is that "the user doesn't understand how macOS works". That the author hit these issues, was frustrated by them, and wasn't able to quickly identify a workaround, suggests that there is an opportunity for improvement, whether it's a functional or usability bug. Perhaps macOS isn't "hot garbage", but it's also got flaws that may be worthy of discussion by a community of hackers and product folk.
For those of you not from Minnesota, "Duck Duck Gray Duck" is their version of "Duck Duck Goose."

(I'm not sure if it's just a Minnesota thing, but I never heard it in any of the other upper midwest states in which I lived.)
As an "ML Engineer," this is both true and very funny
In a police state maybe, but I wasn't talking about that. And even in a police state you need acceptance of the people.
It would depend on which cities actually try to meet their housing allocation - RHNA - and which try the same sort of bad faith stuff that Davis did. San Francisco is a very likely candidate and some of the richer suburbs - San Mateo, Palo Alto, Orinda - but it’s still very early in the process.

(The submissions are staggered across the state; the Bay Area’s deadline is later than Yolo County’s.)
Did Tenet lose money? That was a great movie.
Ehh, the RCOC speed cameras have been open since the early 2000's. I don't think they have the resolution nor the bandwidth for ALPR, but they're supremely useful for checking traffic. I get more from a visual than from colored streets on a map.

http://www2.rcocweb.org/TrafficWebNT/Index.html
It just really rubs me the wrong way -- who can argue this isn't just a legitimate reboot of faker? Why does npm get to say that the future of faker isn't a directory with a single .md file? What's to stop this from happening with something higher profile, like npm just decides the new version of webpack is trash, and locks out the maintainers. Sounds like some sussy sourceforge shit to me. It's one thing if there is a virus or a cryptominer in the repo, or if the package maintainer gets hacked and needs control restored. It's another thing to exert editorial control over a popular package and lock out the maintainer. Bad look.

Would rather live in the universe where people just re-upload the original under a different maintainer or (gasp) actually pay the guy for all the work he's done over the years, than the world in which certain npm packages become "too big to fail" so we never get to see the actual dynamics of failure, that are supposed to happen, come into play.
> no-one would be trusting him again

I keep seeing people write this. But how would you ever know if one of your projects depended on a future package he maintains? Do you really track the authors of all packages you use against a shit list? And what if he just uses another name?
I recall when the first results came out and though they were good, they were never 100%. And I certainly understand that no one was able to predict the way in which variants would develop, and to what degree they would reduce the effectiveness of the vaccines. In the end, vaccines have been more about reducing hospitalizations and deaths (which they do really well) than reaching herd immunity, but how was anyone supposed to know that a year ago?
> I tried going to an accountant out there and when I walked into her office for the first meeting, she was wearing a large gold swastika necklace.

> It's manageable as long as you never get into conversations about politics and treat everyone with respect.

I mean, I'm going to have a hard time treating a person wearing a swastika necklace with respect - I'm going to let them know that I will not be using their services and the reason why. I hope you walked out of there and found the services of a different accountant.

(I live in Beaverton and once you get out of the Portland metro area things get pretty maga-hatty. We were planning a trip to Coos Bay a few months back and decided against it partly because COVID was raging down there then but also because of concerns of potential political violence in some of the areas between here and there. Oregon is definitely a state with some pretty wide extremes.)
I was of the same impression until I've encountered this information last year https://www.enforcementtracker.com/?insights
That is very weird. Was it from the family or from an imam? I know breast milk has a few rules around it in islam, but it mostly boils down to sharing breast milk creating a form kinship between the babies sharing the milk. As in, you become in a way sister/brother with the other baby.

But I agree that many Muslims have a...lot of folk beliefs and take a lot of mental shortcuts that lead to reductive interpretations of the religion. In those cases, bringing up good Islamic jurisprudence usually works.
> Sweden exists. They never locked down.

And about five times as many Swedes have died from Covid compared to their Nordic neighbours.
For those of you who are confused, this is about revenge porn. Sometimes unfortunately referred to as "Nonconsensual Intimate Images".

While we're at it, it's "child porn", not "CSAM".

These weird jargon names aren't intrinsically less offensive. They don't protect anybody from anything. They certainly don't address any actual problem. They're not necessarily more technically correct, and in fact the word "intimate" in this particular one brings in a ton of baggage that basically guarantees it will be technically wrong much more often than the original, intuitive phrase.

They're just more confusing. They basically exist so that people can feel superior for using them. People who do use them are acting badly and should feel bad.
Intelligence is absolutely trivial to measure. You just make a huge pile of tests of mental ability, the more the merrier. It won't be very sophisticated, but you have an intelligence test. Intelligence is so easy to measure in a rough way that people have accidentally built intelligence tests when they were trying not to.

A lot of the other critiques are at least somewhat suspect: Modern intelligence tests explicitly try to use tasks that you won't train yourself that much in in daily life and that try to eg. stress working memory capacity directly without testing for other skills. There's also evidence that training for some kind of skill like strategies for n-back numbers doesn't improve performance on similar tasks using letters, for example.

Yes, it is not as good of a measure as a tape measure is, everyone knows that. But saying it's suspect and not useful is kind of like saying computer benchmarking is worthless and won't tell a crap machine from a powerful one.
Web3/Crypto/Metaverse Ecosystem Guide
Here's a street view for the 6th image (man tipping top-hat)

https://goo.gl/maps/Pxh1QRzRgdn5Lrhc6
( https://www.boredpanda.com/spy-camera-secret-street-photogra... )
Minnesota has Plowy McPlowFace from a link in another comment.
I mean, for almost every mainstream open source license, the answer to that is a pretty definitive "yes, they can", right? The most stringent of them require things like attribution and open source the modifications, neither of which seem like requirements that Github/NPM would have any qualms with following.
> At some point scale effects occur and there is no longer rapid price growth because volume is large enough (there are no new adopters to bitcoin).

A new idiot is born every second. Many users of crypto want to see it have global adoption and replace existing money - in which case we are nowhere near saturation.

And that all assumes it won't get some other widely adopted use. Imagine for example it actually became the new Web3, and every single page somehow requires some transaction on the blockchain. The demand would increase beyond levels we have ever seen.

It is not clear to me at all that this is a problem that ever resolves itself.

> I don't know much about SHA2 hashing chipsets but I know there must be some flattening curve where the improvements in efficiency start to flatten and become less worthwhile. I don't see mining chip manufacturing being an existential threat to society.

It's basically Moore's Law (or whatever variation we're on now). If we can't make the chip cores more efficient, just make more of them, make them run faster, make them run more efficient, make them cheaper, etc. As long as their is demand manufacturers will keep churning out new and slightly improved variations of existing designs. As long as there is even some minimal advantage, miners will be forced to buy the new stuff.

We see this with GPUs right now. Nvidia literally cannot make enough of them to meet demand.

> You don't, thanks to satellite internet and solar panels. An independent mining operation can sit in the dessert or remote geothermal glacials, entirely self sufficient, beaming up bits to the sky and using its own energy supply.

This is possible today, and yet, how many crypto mining operations are entirely self-sufficient and operating in the middle of nowhere? Likely not many. Why build your own self-sustaining infrastructure when you can just burden somebody else's? It's much cheaper to tap into your neighbour's electricity and run a mining rig in your basement after all.
Iceland is a somewhat special case. As a tiny culture of < 400k people, it has to work hard to maintain cultural distinctiveness in an interconnected world. They don't just have a restrictive naming law, they also have dedicated teams which are focused on maintaining and preserving a distinctive definition of their language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rni_Magn%C3%BAsson_Insti...
> Given that your name is going to be used by other people a lot more frequently than you're going to use it yourself, it would make sense to make sure that your name is convenient for others to use.

I’m not sure a riddle that stumps young children is a good basis for how people should define their own identity. I certainly don’t think it should defer to the convenience of others. Especially when identity, or conflict thereof, can be a source of trauma and/or expose people to serious risk.
The other alternative? Be rich/have a huge nest egg, or get to seed round type funding stage super early - aka actually know how to execute on a startup.

Most sane people just don’t do startups though if they are in that position.
Doesn't HBO Max streaming somewhat counteract the losses in the theater? When HBO & Warner Bros decided to release all their movies on big screen and streaming at the same time for 2021 (only), part of it was a play to increase their streaming app subscription base? I know that we got a family subscription to HBO Max for exactly this as the main reason.

I would be interested in understanding how the increased revenue in HBO Max streaming subscriptions balances out against the one-time loss they had for big-budget releases in 2021.
Logs are useful because they give an idea of what was going on when a particular failure happened. More context than a call stack.

> Pretty disappointed with the actual post.

I am as well. What the author describes isn't new or novel, it's been in Windows in the form of ETW since the early 90's. And Windows wasn't the first OS to get it. Had the author taken a serious System/OS class he would have known.

You can't build high performance applications without using some scheme similar to what the author describe.
You can find articles that explain various reasons why people don't smile in old photographs, at least when they know they are being photographed. Mimicking what they saw in paintings seems the most likely to me. The advertising around cameras and photos tended to make them painting like, and had more serious subject matter. Though other reasons are cited too...bad teeth, inertia from when exposure times had to be long, etc.

So the smiles could just be the effect of them not knowing they were being photographed.
Have you seen Mocha Doom? https://github.com/AXDOOMER/mochadoom
Anyone have a browser extension or alternate UI that integrates this into the main page? I hate seeing an interesting-sounding new story that turns out to just be the one I read this morning with a different title.
What I mean is: why should we believe them if they say "OK we deleted all copies"? How do we even validate that?

I'm very cynical towards intelligence agencies. They will not let go of what they perceive as valuable intel.

Would love to be proven wrong but I don't see how. They can claim anything and everything and do something else where nobody is looking.
If there's no profits, there's no need to pay out all of those agreed residuals that they negotiated.
There's a lag with suicide data. For example, in the UK, the data comes from date of registration not the date of death, and death registrations are delayed because of the huge numbers of people dying by covid.

And then there's probably a lag in deaths too - anyone working in suicide is being very cautious about the early data showing decreases or no rises, because we don't know what's coming.
> How about no. How about solve the problems that make corruption inevitable and then maybe I'll support your union.

All systems that organize and collect power inevitably experience corruption, including corporations, governments, and religious institutions, not just unions.

Even small businesses and sole proprietorships have incentives to engage in corrupt practices like bribery, especially at the local level. Singling out unions for corruption is selective reasoning.
It's his project. It's your fault if you blindly trust random 3rd-party code on the internet and have your mission-critical software depend on it.
(c) Dissolution Event. If there is a Dissolution Event before the termination of this Safe, the Investor will automatically be entitled (subject to the liquidation priority set forth in Section 1(d) below) to receive a portion of Proceeds equal to the Cash-Out Amount, due and payable to the Investor immediately prior to the consummation of the Dissolution Event.
This is all crystal clear by now. We know how Covid-19 spreads.

The height of infectiousness is just before or around the start of symptoms. You are infectious maybe a day or so before symptoms start. You aren’t infectious for that many days. This means pre-symptomatic spread is a major factor.

Truly asymptomatic cases also exist but they aren’t that common (and many of those, if examined very closely, turn out to be cases with symptoms, just extremely mild ones). So presymptomatic spread most certainly is a major factor. It’s how this virus can spread so effectively without non-medical interventions and vaccines (which, yeah, also reduce transmission).

That’s basic virus 101 and while we didn’t know a lot about this in mid 2020 we do know a lot about this know. This isn’t even speculative or on shaky ground, this is quite solid science.

It blows my mind that people do not know this.
Drop in a future/promise and backfill. Or just generate 30 nulls.
When can we expect a browser extension that restores the original titles? :)
Also in Oregon, Wings & Waves is an indoor water park where the four big slides start out in a jet mounted to the roof: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.2042334,-123.1495756,172m/da...
Very neat. Thanks for sharing.
If you count Galaxy Quest there are two good Star Trek movies
We're getting into minutiae here. Yes npm install will update the lock file if package.json conflicts. But it certainly does not update every time npm install is run if you use a lock file, which is what your earlier comment (and those of others) mistakenly imply.

If you have ~1.0.0 in package.json and 1.0.11 specified in the lock file, but then bump package.json to ~1.0.12, yes npm will upgrade the package and then bump the dep in your lock file to 1.0.12. That seems fine?
I would not be the least bit surprised if it cost $150B to $250B to capitalize a new 'state of the art' semiconductor fab.

I'm a bit surprised they didn't shoot a bit lower and just try to replicate ASML's machines. Those are one of the unobtainium pieces that cost so much in a new fab.

In my experience the only way to compete with a long established player is to learn the business from the ground up and expect a loooong learning curve. What that might look like with semiconductors is building an ingot plant that can sell ingots that the established player can use. Then start slicing them and selling passivated ingots for a bit more margin, then use "marginal" ingots to make large node (like 140nm or 90nm) chips in the good areas to develop training around the workflow. Ideally those chips have some nominal market value and sales can act as a 'discount' on your investment (say it costs you $1B to make the chips and you sell them for $500M, you've basically invested $500M in learning the work flow instead of a full $1B).

Expect this to take 10 - 15 years minimum, 25 years more typically. Invest in university programs to train process engineers, physicists, and circuit designers. "Seed" several universities with small 300mm fabs to give students real experience rather than just "book learning." Aggressively weed out people who cheat to get through school.

Its a really really huge deal to take on this task. It was insanely complicated in the 90's and now it is even more so. The only thing China has going for it is that it doesn't need to repeat the mistakes made in the last 30 years that other semiconductor companies made and so their path is a bit more "straight line." But if experience is any guide, there is no shortcut to doing the work, no matter how much money you spend.
> We could regress a great deal in terms of the technology we could apply with large enough fatality rates but if we can still feed large numbers of people and maintain things at all we can keep civilization going.

Take away enough technology and you'll still have people, but not so much civilization. In a way, technology is civilization.
Scotland has Sled Zepplin
What password manager did you end up going with?
Longest Lasting Light Bulbs
The message that would send is that EU anti-trust mechanisms would need to be engaged pronto.
is it a "trojon" when a maintainer decides to break backwards compatibility with their next release and breaks your code? how is this any different?

Did you miss the bit in the license that states, "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS"?

when you decide to incorporate code with no guarantees into your project, you get what you get. Marak is a hero in my view to the open source community. The cost of free software is that there is nobody to point a finger at. Acts like this show-case that being able to point a finger at someone is worth something. And, maybe corps that use open-source software will begin to address this "risk" and maybe this outcome will benefit the open source community.

The "AS-IS" part is a big problem and is addressed through funding. Where, exactly what IS gets negotiated for a price.
Arbitrary standard gets drawn and then pigs get condemned to failing to meet it
Any reason to believe that this is an instance of Hollywood Accounting? At a glance, wikipedia says the film cost $190m, which seems reasonable for a film like this, and only received $124.5m in box office sales. Conversely, wikipedia lists Harry Potter OotP as a "150–200 million" budget on $942m in box office sales.

It's certainly possible this is a case of Hollywood Accounting, but is there any particular reason we think it is, vs just a film losing a lot of money normally?
When I was a junior engineer a long time ago. I wrote a change that someone approved, and merged.

A few weeks later a senior engineer saw the code in passing, proceeded to rewrite all of it, submitted a PR with a 2 page description tearing into the original code. Explaining why it was terrible and unacceptable and then posted the PR into our it into our team's slack channel with some comment like:

"@here everyone please read this PR as an example of terrible engineering"

The code was indeed quite poor, and the lessons were valuable, and I took them to heart. I also spent the next 18 months actively avoiding requesting feedback, in fear of this happening again.

I think as a senior, this kind of behavior tends to really leave a lasting impact on starry eyed juniors.

Something to keep in mind.
I wholly agree with you that the approach you outlined is the correct way to arrive with a map that reflects the territory!

But what I’m pointing out above is the contradiction of how most of the folks worried about long term effects (and I have no idea whether this includes you specifically) seem to selectively apply this behavior strategy to only the COVID vaccine! And I personally think that one would miss out on a lot that is good and enjoyable in life by applying that strategy consistently across all decisions, but to each his own.

But for average folks that apply this caution to the Covid vaccine, I am highly skeptical that they are also applying it to all many other things in their life that could have equally high or even greater risk. (Which is why I intentionally included examples of behaviors that we know to have long term negative consequences.)
Yeah, I've seen a lot of online whining about it, but as someone who enjoyed the Matrix throughly in my teens, I thought it was a great film.

Definitely wish the ambiguity of the first act was stretched a bit further though, that was my favorite part.
I took the financial definition, there is no special crypto definition. Here's a few paraphrased definitions:

> liquidity describes the degree to which an asset can be quickly bought or sold in the market at a price reflecting its intrinsic value.

> A liquid asset has some or all of the following features: It can be sold rapidly, with minimal loss of value, anytime within market hours. The essential characteristic of a liquid market is that there are always ready and willing buyers and sellers.

Now read the first definition for example and the first paragraph of my previous post, follow the logical structure of my argument and tell me what doesn't add up. You make the assumption that it's worthless, the implicit assumption in the definition is that you don't sell for a loss basically. Since you're always above zero, it fits snugly in there.
For what it’s worth this reminded me to turn it on/try it out and so far a few hours in I’ve had no problems (T-Mobile/US).
Curious how something such as this is actually implemented. Is there a feed that you are subscribing to? Are you consistently polling posts looking for changes? Or is it some third option?
In comparison, Spiderman No Way Home is the 8th highest grossing film of all time. I haven't seen it yet, but some of my friends have said the two films are equally bad. It seems they both attempt to sell nostalgia, and one of them worked and one didn't
I quite liked The Suicide Squad (assuming that was the one that had no Will Smith).
If you edit a tweet I'm sure Twitter reserves the right to roll back your edit, yes. And I don't see why that would be illegal.

Edit: re: reserving the right, https://twitter.com/en/tos does indeed grant Twitter the license to "adapt" and "modify" the content you post to it.
The long tail of box office receipts, especially internationally, is always interesting, as are licensing deals. Maybe they find a way to protect those with other subsidiaries.
Long term data doesn't exist, period.

Newspeak isn't newspeak. Got it.