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Sifu review – gripping kung fu time management through a Western lens
Yeah, and when I don’t head out for a 3 minute commercial break, I have the mute button ready next to me.
I think I'm going to lose my mind. Nobody in this thread remembers the book.

> He picked his way up the scar, passed the great rock where Ralph had climbed on the first morning, then turned off to his right among the trees. He walked with an accustomed tread through the acres of fruit trees, where the least energetic could find an easy if unsatisfying meal. Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture.

There's more than enough fruit for everybody to eat. That's not why the boys hunt. Hunting is explicitly equated with the military; with the human urge to fight and kill.

> "The choir belongs to you, of course."

> "They could be the army--"

> "Or hunters--"

> "They could be--"

> The suffusion drained away from Jack's face. Ralph waved again for silence.

> "Jack's in charge of the choir. They can be--what do you want them to be?"

> "Hunters."

The hunters eventually start ritualistically killing the other boys in their "hunts." The ending links the boys' savagery to the savagery of WWI, when the naval officers find them.

> And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the
true, wise friend called Piggy.

> The officer, surrounded by these noises, was moved and a little embarrassed. He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance.

This is the last line in the book. Golding isn't being subtle about this.
Yes, clearly an homage to APL.
>This creator can be anyone, not necessarily Jesus, Allah, or Shiva,

There is a small mistake here, Shiva/Rudra/MahaRudra is not a creator but destroyer or the one who will end the world/universe. Vishnu or mainly Brahma can be substituted for Shiva in the write-up.
But this one has more points already :)
I'd say go for CTFs. They are the best way to learn. Also you can download boxes from VulnHub which you can hack. About learning specific attacks you can just pick any book from that list and you'll be good to go. My only advice is to be persistent.
This comment looks to me like someone with an axe to grind, not someone with an actual substantive point to make.
And, it still goes on, now about SLS. E.g., inventing a space station in a weird orbit around the moon, completely useless as a staging point to land, just because it is a place SLS would be able to get to. And, continuing development after it is obvious it will be obsoleted by Superheavy/Starship.

And even in promoting Mars colonization at SpaceX, where people insist that apparatus at Mars would plausibly have some useful role as a staging point for trips beyond Mars.
Except for the corner cases. So the trivial one is "angles in a triangle add up to 180" which works in a plane but not on the surface of a sphere so navigation has to use more than trivial trigonometry functions for accuracy at scale.

The context is sometimes everything.
I like the term accidental state. This is also the type of state you see in a lot of OOP code, as referred to by parent.

Beginners want to keep functions short and the way to do that is to chunk up a bigger method into several smaller, then realize oops, that you needed that variable in both functions. Store it into “this” and now instead of one decoupled function you have two coupled functions.

Contrived example written on phone but code like below is extremely common, especially from Java coders who have been mislead to make classes for everything and haven’t learned the static keyword yet. Here obviously the self.stuff is the accidental state creating coupling between the functions, that now carefully have to be called in correct order and any of their mutations to self can impact the other.

class Worker:
def init()
self.setup()
self.foo()
self.bar()
def foo()
self.stuff = fluff
def bar():
do_work(self.stuff)

Rather than just do_work(bar(foo(fluff))).
It's 2022 and you're running out of disk space?
Small rant--I generally enjoy using AWS products, but WOOF, figuring out all the IAM permissions necessary to get CloudFormation to work is a real PITA.
Instructors definitely are, but I think they recognize that it would be very easy to poach an instructor to jumpstart a competitor.
Those covid stats[0] are age standardized and per 100k people. There are still other differences between the populations that could explain it (for example the vaccinated are probably getting tested more often), but it's not as clear as this.

0 - https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/covid-19-stat... page 33 of the full report
https://forum.language-learners.org/index.php is the place for language learning. There are amazing people there with wealth of experience in any language you can possibly want.
One of the scariest moments in my life was when I went to Portland to visit my cousins. We got to talking about their parents, my aunt and uncle and so forth.

We were all getting up in years, just as their parents and mine did.

And then one of my cousins said "now we are them!"
For instance, the addition of boilerplate to every document would increase their similarity metric. This has certainly happened over that time period with required compliance statements.
The difference is the fish is not paying the birds in exchange for education.
> how did Einstein miss black holes?

He didn't miss the possibility; he just convinced himself that this possibility could not actually be realized, and published, IIRC, at least two papers giving his arguments for why. Unfortunately for him, both arguments were invalid.

> Schwarzschild immediately saw the obvious

No, he didn't. He did come up with the solution that is named after him, but he had no idea it described what we now call a black hole.

The earliest recognition and acceptance of the fact that the Schwarzschild solution describes what we now call a black hole (though that term wasn't invented until several decades later) was in the classic paper by Oppenheimer and Snyder in 1939 that describes the gravitational collapse of an idealized exactly spherically symmetric body with zero pressure.
The prompt to enable macros is near identical to the "protected mode" prompt, that users must click in order to do things like "print" and "copy to clipboard". No user ever questions it.

To answer your question though, pretty much every place I've worked with had people writing VBA macros.
Snakes on a Plane is almost exactly the same age today that Silence of the Lambs was when SoaP was released.
Yes, that is the reason they mentioned the A* pathfinding algorithm - to solve that exact problem.
I'm screwing around with a micro trader (less than a dollar each) that will surely lose money but I came across one that sounded neat:

XYO decentralized network of devices that anonymously collect and validate geospatial data
> A singularity is

Not the same thing as a black hole. A black hole is a region of spacetime that cannot send light signals to infinity, i.e., bounded by an event horizon. In the simplest such models, there is a singularity inside the event horizon; but that does not mean every possible model with an event horizon must contain a singularity.

Btw, the problem Einstein and others of his time had was with the event horizon, not the singularity; the singularity did not become a significant object of study until a decade or two after Einstein died.
Are people like this even allowed on Hacker News??
That's interesting. I have trouble to believe that's actually the case in the US. There might be a non-normalised sample or some other statistical snafu.

I would expect something like that in countries with more unstable currencies or serious economic issues like how Greece was a few years back but on the other hand it's more mainstream right now right?
I'm not going to download and read the pdf until later, but with three cases only reviewed by the researchers and not actively monitored by them (it seems), I'm curious how they could be at all certain CHS was caused by cannabis. A lot of receptors in the stomach, so it could make sense. Three cases studied after the fact though, I was hoping for something more thorough. The USA today article is reprehensible.
> eventually become desensitized and have to increase their dosage

What's interesting is this applies to many FDA approved drugs too. The body has amazing homeostasis ability, which unfortunately leads to "rebound" effects from many drugs, e.g. when the PPI (heartburn drug) wears off, you might have even more heartburn because your body saw an unusually low acid level in your stomach and declared an emergency increase in acid production.
http://6502.org/source/general/SWN.html swaps the nybbles in A in 8 bytes/12 cycles. That’s not quite what you need, but may give you ideas.
The Martian was 2015 and I thought that wasn't bad. Ridley Scott is 84 now though…
Nobody did that, though? One person mentioned it felt scammy for an ineffable reason. Another responded with that bit of history, including the fact it is only history. That's it.
Theism and the simulation hypothesis fail for the same reasons. Neither explain our observed reality (evidence) better than explanations we derive without them. They fail Occam’s Razor by adding entities beyond necessity.

The burden of proof falls on the theists and the people who propose the universe is a simulation. We do not need to spend any time disproving those ideas. We have no evidence to support the existence of a god, or that we’re living in a simulation.

Atheism is not the proposition that god does not exist. It is the absence of belief. The theistic proposition is a matter of belief or faith, not supported by evidence, not testable, and not falsifiable. Because the proposition is not falsifiable trying to prove it false is no more rational than accepting the existence of a god.
So lower income people tend to set money aside for crypto? Do they use cryptocurrencies to buy stuff?
So many questions about the git-like semantics.

- how are shas created?

- assuming you hash the entire diff, can columns be ignored? e.g. timestamps or other "unimportant" data

- do any two insertions into a table "conflict"?
Why I am not convinced that Elon and all HJN-ers here are thinking at poor people but instead find this extreme cases to shamelessly use them to promote the technology to work around the fact they don't like their mobile provider.
You created this account… just to post this comment?

Okay, sure, the lawsuits are the real problem, not the discrimination, of course.
I so want to buy a Steam Deck, after it's been established in the market as a viable and high-quality product.
> Suddenly within a few weeks, Einstein comes up with his Field equations

It wasn't a few weeks, it was months. Einstein visited Hilbert in June/July 1915. He didn't publish his field equation until November 1915 (and even then it took him several tries before he got the final one).
Along the same lines, Jesus is not the creator in Christian theology. The Christian god is the god of Abraham, the same god Muslims call Allah.
What's a good way to detect languages in mixed-language passages? What's the state of art here?

For example, given "'I think, therefore I am' is the first principle of René Descartes's philosophy that was originally published in French as je pense, donc je suis.", is there a library that would tell me the main passage is in English, but contains fragments in French?
I'm surprised you didn't include things like `dat`[0]

[0] https://github.com/dat-ecosystem-archive/dat
You make a lot of valid points but this sentence:

> I say legalize all the “drugs” and let people decide for themselves whether or not to be morons.

Is probably a bit too spicy. You say the government robs us of agency but you know what else does? Addiction. It’s not bad for a government to put regulations in place for dangerous substances. I do, however, agree with the subtext that it should be _decriminalized_.
CloudFormation basically needs full account permissions to do it's job. We use separate AWS accounts to provide isolation. It's not great, but we've found it workable.
IBM is "right" to worry about this, but for the wrong reasons.

They are allegedly being ageist while the main issue is that the survival bias through an overly-bureaucratic and rigid organization like that only makes the yes-men, the minimum-effort, the "fake it until you become a manager", people thrive there over a long time.
I was involved in cannabis culture professionally for over 15 years, as a glassblower, and smoked longer than that, and I’ve never heard of this.
I really liked Blade Runner 2049, but I love Blade Runner. I can always watch that movie, and have watched it all my life.

While Blade Runner 2049 is an excellent movie and has Ridley Scott's endorsement, I cannot bring myself to see it as canon. Its bleak and profoundly hopeless view was not foreshadowed in the original, which had a sense of humor and awe that was stripped from 2049.
YouTube's CDN doesn't enforce authentication, only the UI, account backends, etc do. So if you can determine the URL(s) for retrieving the video from their CDN, you can watch it without auth.
Spotify adds Star Wars Easter egg (2015)
Criticisms are valid but has there been anything more decentralized that exists today. The participants should have some incentive to participate and not mostly volunteers like Wikipedia. Genuine question.
Key phrase in the article: "I was asked at short notice to fill in for a speaker"

I'll spare you the time: he's either wilfully or intentionally misinformed, far too many errors to count.

Utterly unaware of any scaling solutions, and stuck on the "zomg carbon footprint" FUD, unable to utter the word "nuclear". This is despite the common knowledge that today good chunk of hashrate being produced by renewables in the US and nuclear in Russia. Quotes unreliable sources that have a stated agenda and apparent conflicts of interest.

Outdated, inaccurate, sloppy.
Why would that make any difference at all.
Every hannover hangover is withdrawal, there's just a scale of severity.

I was drinking daily. Two to three on a quiet day, regularly scaling up to the point its it's difficult to count. I wasn't he heaviest drinker I knew.
In fact, this post is more like the pre-HN Internet than you may realise ;)
To quote one of the most formative phrases for me politically (and, come to think of it, in tech and in a bunch of other endeavors): “be realistic, demand the impossible”. Caring about the outcome isn’t the same as being attached to it.
Markets can absolutely be unsustainable.

Here's a very simple model of an art ecosystem which can't be sustained by the free market: "Popular art" is widely consumed, but can only be produced by "good artists." "Good artists" are a minority, and must be inspired by "high art." "High art" isn't popular enough to sustain itself, but without it, "popular art" can't exist. Voila, grants are a necessity within the model.

Obviously the model is pretty simplistic, but my point should be clear: You can't just assume that the free market leads to the best outcomes. Lots of the time, incentives just don't line up.

> Academics get pulled in and join the bubble. The whole mess starts moving away from any kind of relevance to wider society and disappears up its own intellectual orifice.

Surely politicians would rather be seen as supporting popular art than academic art, no? "Disappearing into their own orifices" won't impress voters.

Besides, lots of great art gets government grants. I suspect this isn't a real-world problem.
Apple has made no attempt at getting consent from whomever the airtag is on. Maybe if you have an iphone it could alert you.
I'll bite, would you care to list three of those "far too many" errors?
First occurrence of an avian-style respiratory infection in a non-avian dinosaur
you would need to take down also Whatsapp, Facebook and telegram as well, though people could still exchange emails
I am always amazed, amongst the shrinking group of people who still watch broadcast TV, how many of them don't reflexively hit Mute when the ads come on.

I've done it my entire life.
Every now and then there is one at codegolf.SE's king-of-the-hill tag
Reusable plastic bottles release hundreds of chemicals
while I agree that's why I have also accounts on other Twitter alternatives
I am not angry, it was tongue in cheek and an opportunity to share more Gary Bernhardt with the world, but JS is indeed ass.
Blade Runner is a total madcap romp compared to Tarkovsky's Solaris, though.

(I love that movie, but the threat of punishing my friends with it is a standard joke...)
If you go by the source material, Philip K Dick's novels, they are extremely bleak. 3-5 people huddled in tiny, isolated camps insulated from a toxic environment, where the only joy available is taking drugs that allows them dream they are living back on Earth.
> even if it were true that cryptocurrencies ran on renewable power, the idea that it is OK for speculation to waste vast amounts of renewable power assumes that doing so doesn't compete with more socially valuable uses for renewables, or indeed for power in general

Yes, this is exactly what is going on.

If you think you have a solution to this decades old reality, then thank cryptocurrency for forcing you to notice.

Energy was being wasted, renewable energy was also being wasted, in perpetuity, forever, until cryptocurrency producers put their applications at the site and started using it. There is still a lot more energy of this kind that will be tapped into by miners.

Again, if you really think you have another economically viable alternative, emphasis on economically viable, then dont forget to thank bitcoin, and also do the thing. You’ll single handled help many people and gain leverage in public policy to enforce your dream world that excludes proof of work.
I just realised that this movie pre-dates HN itself.
Thanks for following up, that's super interesting!
Like others have said, Doom is pretty good these days. It's a bit on-the-edge (the main installation comes from the master git branch) but seems to usually work.
The functionality that alters the metadata is actually a requirement for our project. As time passes the token turns into something different. (For clarification: this is clearly defined in our whitepaper, website, Discord server, and most importantly easily verifiable on contract code itself so no shady business here)

Strictly speaking, ERC-721 (the official standard for NFTs on Ethereum) doesn't say that whatever is returned from tokenUri function (which defines all the properties, name, image etc. of the particular NFT) can't change. So in simpler terms the contract can change the tokenUri afterwards (of course if there is code in the contract to support that).

It boils down to how users/community perceive NFTs, and your house analogy is perfect for what we are doing (in our case something is "happening to the house as time passes" but you get the idea). In the technical sense the standard is agnostic about tokenUri mutability, as long as the token DOES have a tokenUri (which can just be a base64 "data:" URI anyway).

It will be interesting to see what's possible, I'm pretty much sure that the "killer app" based on ERC-721's haven't been invented and when this Ponzi-like ridiculously pricing of non-functional NFTs mania is over, we'll start seeing some real solutions.
Not an FPGA?
Points 8-12 about energy consumption are well written, but ignore the fact that the flexibility in which bitcoin mining consumes electricity uniquely allows development of renewables in areas where further development would otherwise be economically non-viable.

In places with a high renewable generation mix, electricity prices are often very volatile, sometimes very cheap and even negative in times of high production and sometimes very expensive when production is low and demand is high. Proof of work mining uniquely only draws electricity when prices are economically viable, only buying electricity when there is excess supply, and can quickly shut down when that situation changes.

You can see this eg: in Texas where ERCOT has signed demand response agreements with many bitcoin mining companies to cut power when demand is high and supply is low (not that they would choose to continue operating anyway given the marginal price of electricity vs the marginal bitcoin production).

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/04/bitcoin-miners-say-theyre-fi...

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2022/02/04/texas-...
Compared with like, Ruby or Python?
> despite good chunk of hashrate being produced by renewables

The article directly and elaborately addresses this point, advancing the argument that renewables are scarce vis-a-vis our urgent need for them and this isn't the best thing to use them on.

Your attempt at summary is selective; I'm glad I read the piece instead.
Ask HN: What’s Next?
Appreciate any feedback from fellow HN folks.

Have been a web developer/engineer for 10-15 years now. Have a great stable job, but not 100% loving the work.

Recently switched jobs and increased my pay over 100%, but it’s really not about the money. While it’s amazing that companies are paying this, not sure if this ticket type of work is for me. I would say I’m loyal and prefer working on one solid goal for a company. The current company I work with has me split on a few projects and the context switching is very difficult. I’d ultimately like to move to DevOps, and there seems to be a path towards that, but not anytime soon. Am I impatient?

I’ve also been considering completely moving away from tech. I love tech and building things, but the longer I work in development and engineering, the harder it is to keep focus and justify the time vs the compensation for all the time in front of a screen.
Can anyone from India share their perspective on how the state of Indian democracy is?

Because this state level evidence planting makes it sound like a dictatorship.
Math is not context-independent.

The meta-mathematical assumptions (axioms) are the context.
Different axioms produce different truths; or if you want - they produce different Mathematical universes [1].

Maths is relative like Physics is relative - it depends on your frame of reference [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_(mathematics)

2. http://math.andrej.com/2012/10/03/am-i-a-constructive-mathem...
That isn't true. The first season of Raised by Wolves is a masterpiece and key episodes (some of its best) were directed by him.

It's gnostic existential sci-fi horror with gorgeous set-pieces and style evocative of LOT 2046's more out there designs. Amanda Collin's emulation of an android is the best I've ever seen.
I have always felt that legacy media; the TV, Magazines, Newspapers had massively over-stated eyeball numbers.
Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring a Software Engineer (San Francisco / London)
Traditional fiat, and on a global scale, it is decentralized through various institutions with different goals.