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> Star Wars is suddenly not about defeating totalitarianism and tyranny,

It's a massive universe and there's been six movies about this theme already. Why retread old themes instead of trying something new? By the way, I am NOT defending the new trilogy - it is absolutely awful, but it's not awful BECAUSE it's about feminism and animal rights (also, it isn't, it's still about totalitarianism and tyranny).

> Batman become a medic rather than do what Batmam does: beat up bad guys.

Again, there have been anywhere between 9-10 batman movies depending on how you count of him beating up bad guys. Why do you need more? Why not try something new and really interrogate the psychopathy of the character, and the realization he might go through which is that beating up bad guys isn't the best use of time for a billionaire.

> Catwoman must be with the times and complain about the attention paid to "rich white men"

Did you miss the part where her mother and her best friend were both essentially sex slaves that got choked to death by the italian mafia? If anyone has a case and a grudge against "rich white men", it's probably her.

Also, the whole movie, is about how rich corrupt people let the whole city down.

I haven't seen the new Bond movie, but if they actually had the balls to kill him, that's tremendous progress.

Why are you so resistant to any change?
Just another person here saying that this is indeed what friends are for, and isn't manipulative in whatever negative sense usually applies - in case enough people saying it will eventually convince the monkey brain.

Consider reading _The Elephant In The Brain_, by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson; its central thesis is that almost everything we do (including charity, art, lifting, laughing, hundreds of things) is ultimately about signalling things to other people, usually to make ourselves look good or desirable in some way. In that sense, everything we do is manipulative. Embrace it! There really are no "pure" motives.
If you want to build a web application on top of your ML project, give https://hal9.com a shot. We designed Hal9 with ease of use for deployment and maximum compatibility with web technologies that enable you to build ML apps with React, Vue, etc. We launched a couple months ago but could use some early feedback and users. Thank you!
> Even trying to query Google for the correct rules for it's/its doesn't turn up clear, concise information as you've achieved here in two sentences. Tragically, it's another case of SEO'd to death.

Use a dictionary or simply "define:"
If there are systemic mistakes being made they appear almost universal. I am not opposed to the notion of this particular issue being part of the human condition, but it does seem suspiciously ubiquitous, which leads me to believe instead that it is profitable. This seems more likely.
>Except that the Greek-speaking part was as Roman as the Latin-speaking part in culture, heritage, bureaucracy, governance, and self-identity.

Not that much. It was roman in leadership and had the roman legal structures, but it was always the area of prior Greece and the Hellenistic kindgoms, which had millenia of history and culture all of its own (to the point of the Roman's saying that when they conquered it millitarily, it conquered them culturally).
With falling stock prices in Big Tech, would joining them be any better? Your RSU will keep falling for awhile.
that's 300 Joules, a typical .22 long rifle round delivers about 180 J
You can also drop matter into black holes and this way recover energy necessary to sustain civilisation long after red dwarves are all dead cold.

Compared to stars, this process is much more efficient and allows converting something like 40% of mass of dropped object into energy.

And so with this mechanism we have much more energy available than all stars in the universe have and will ever have produced. Not only that, we can do it at any rate we want. Rather than radiate 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of it uselessly, we can make sure that most of it is used to power our civilisation.

The problems:

1) The visible universe shrinks, so much less matter will be available to us in trillions of years.

2) Before you drop matter into black hole you need to store it somewhere. The issue here is that over long periods of time orbits decay as gravitational energy is radiated away and so keeping mass in storage actually requires energy to be added.

3) Not gonna save us from Big Rip.
Today, anybody can say anything! China denied it, but if the US wants to save at least of its credibility, it needs to provide something concrete - words are cheap!
I am arguing in good faith. The example specifically called out, not by me, was Apple. If the majority of Apples profits come from market abuse, how do you explain the fact that their profit margins now are about the same as they were when they were a small minority player in markets? In fact they still are in most of the markets they compete in.

Surely market abuse should allow them to significantly expand profitability, but it hasn’t. Overall profits yes, but that’s just because they have higher sales now.

There are some companies I would agree do abuse their positions significantly to distort markets. Google and Facebook have been caught explicitly doing so.
Usually click hijacking is contracted to clickjacking, but you're correct.
Not at all unusual - though I think of it as more common in Judaism, where the cultural heritage is much more important than the religion for many people.
I'm pretty sure the Marxists got that wrong. Most economic transactions hurt the consumer i.e. the person that spends most of his money on the daily necessities of life and other unavoidable expenses. Capital gains are paid by consumers to owners of capital.

I mean the consumer decides how much he is going to spend on a product and thereby sets an upper bound to how profitable a product can be.

Your boss uses external financing through debt and stocks must at least compete with the yields on bank accounts. The costs of capital are passed onto product prices as they aren't something that differs from company to company that much.
If you have even the slightest doubts about your current job, go have a look right now.

I'm not a recruiter but even I have made a number of placements lately. People literally have written to me out of the blue on LinkedIn, and when I tell them I've recently moved they ask if I have friends who are looking. I certainly do.

Particularly if you're remote, it's super easy just to schedule interviews during your day.
The time scale is so vast that whatever happens, with whatever definition of "optimism", it's hard to imagine our descendents to recognize themselves into us.

There is un circumstance: that a group of humans today (or in the near future) just time "travels in the future" (e.g. by moving at relativistic speeds, etc, while in cryogenic sleep or whatever) and just happen to witness the late universe without the time actually ticking for them. In that (unlikely) case the same effect that would prevent the species from diverging is the same that would prevent them from getting extinct (not enough time)
Could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb
"I believe I have the right to control when and for what purpose the computer and software that I own communicates with third parties."

Theoretically we already have this control. We can edit the Firefox source to disable the undesired traffic before compiling. In practice it takes me more time and resources to compile Firefox than it does to compile the kernel for the host OS (NetBSD). Most Firefox users probably use binaries and do not compile from source.

I would prefer to see a smaller, less featureful additonal version of Firefox that compiles faster and with fewer required resources. For advanced users, this would remove the friction against making source changes and compiling as opposed to using binaries. It would also potentially open up an opportunity for others to create customised versions of Firefox with, e.g., reduced attack surface, less need for "updates" and better suited to avoiding telemetry, and internet advertising-related surveillance.

The actual or effective inability to compile from source places more control with Mozilla and less control with the user. Thus we continually find Firefox users on HN pleading with Mozilla to make changes instead of making the changes themselves.
You're a pessimist. If we can survive long enough to have sustainable settlements away from this planet and moving out to the stars, there will be no stamping out humanity.
Yeah. Someone the other day said in a comment that commercial fusion will never be viable because tritium is so expensive. But it does sound like breeding is the plan at least with ARC so I don't know what that commenter was thinking.
That's one of many reason why https://crowdsec.net/ was created. It collects (anonymized) threat intelligence from all users, vets it and distributes it as relevant blocklists. Once there's enough users it will be a very effective way to fight bad guys. And unlike your suggestion it DOES make a difference. Currently around 800k signals are collected daily and around 19k vetted malevolent ips are distributed to users on a daily basis.
(By this I meant `[<Struct>]`, of course.)
How on earth did they finance it? I saw that they now have a book out, but it would take an impressive pitch and a hefty advance to last a whole 22 years so I'm guessing it's not that :)
Read "Bulid the Right It". Then an MVP makes perfect sense.

A great session from the author here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njZ4H-5WRYA
If I just take a purely observational stance with no judgment, what jumps out to me as salient from what you just said is not your loneliness (many people are lonely). It's your attitude towards the purpose of socializing.

At least in your current mentality, it sounds like you're viewing socializing and other people as a means to an end (of not feeling bad). A more common view would be that people are (in some form, even if mostly "selfish" forms) the end rather than or in addition to the means.

I tend to agree with Alfred Adler's view that "all problems are interpersonal relationship problems" (e.g. I recommend this book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43306206-the-courage-to-...). Socializing is so core to human existence that existence is meaningless without it (even as an introvert). So I hope you can find a way to cherish and be grateful of the positive aspects of relationships (and avoid or acccept the negative aspects), so that you can view relationships as bringing a form of joy in itself.

I guess your perspective implies also that it's a personality aspect of yours (e.g. "most people like hanging out with people but I just don't."). But I would push back against that view. I think everyone, even you and all introverts, are meant to find joy in social relationships. The world can be cruel sometimes, but there are always good things to be found if we are open, willing to take some risk, try not to take ourselves too seriously, but are also strategic and constantly learning and improving. Whatever has happened, think of it as a learning experience. You'll come out the other side as a better man than when you started. The past is past.
I agree with you but would like to qualify one point:

> The definition of insanity is letting Russia take over parts of whatever country they feel like, based off whatever deluded reasoning they spew.

To be fair, Krim was actually almost completely Russian. So it’s not some random deluded reasoning, it’s basically the same reasoning that Hitler used to get Austria and the Sudetenland. You know, merge the Russian lands into the empire.
To the extent that they get special pricing, the insurance company will be pocketing the difference as extra profit, not passing it on to you.
> he Russian forces have enough firepower to level cities to the ground, but they have orders to minimize damage if possible

How do you square that with the mass destruction of Ukrainian cities, including by aircraft bombing? It seems to be a ridiculous assumption long debunked.

> Air supremacy is already achieved (almost all Ukrainian war planes and strike drones have been shot down), so it does not make much sense to patrol the air space too much, since operating a plane is far from being cheap

Nope, Ukrainian drones continue to inflict heavy damage - either directly or indirectly with targeting, just this past day there were direct strikes on a railway bridge, command post deep in Russian held territory, and an indirect one with artillery on Russian troops in a forest. Check out Oryx the blog or twitter account, they verify posts and retract errors if any are detected. Furthermore, Ukraine still operated fighters as of what, 2-3 says ago at the latest? Russia does not have air supremacy, only local air superiority.
Are you sure it is not in turn Ukrainian propaganda when they claim the opposite? We only get to see the Ukrainian version of things. I also don't think enemy tanks are the only military reasons for bombing something.

Obviously there never is a "clean" war where only military is being hit with surgical strikes. Armies always promise that (like the US did in its invasions), but usually don't deliver.
I honestly cannot imagine what it's like to think like you do. It must be hell.
Political reasons from a dictatorship are mainly the priorities of the dictator himself. Putin's been attacking neighbors for a long time. There's been a miscalculation that it would have been an easy military operation, but we all know flash war is always a fantasy of the attacker.
The reason, Putin has said it plainly many times: he wants to be responsible for the reunification of what he thinks he's Russia, because he feels getting old but still strong enough. He cannot take (and therefore Russia, not viceversa) NATO, EU, and democracies getting closer, and making "green" plans that would relegate his Country to the "regional power" state.
So he wants the world to know that he will fight for a comeback, doesn't matter how many lives will be taken - because he wants to "make Russia great again". Then he proceeds with making friends with other dictatorships in the world to fight the "West".
The problem he's not facing, is that apart from gas oil and tanks, his people rely on import for everything else, and sees the relative wealth going away again. And when you suddenly have no money and freedom, you can lie to yourself much, but at a certain point, resentment grows against the government.
What does oracle have to do with flash? Are you thinking of Adobe or are you thinking of java applets?
What is missing in Sheets that would save you 20 hours a week vs. Excel? Genuinely curious to hear real world examples from a power user, because in the worst case scenario I use JS/G Apps Script to automate analysis/organization, which is actually a preference for me if I can't do it easily enough with a formula. I also can't stand Excel UI
Avoiding overlap with contractions isn't "just because".
5 interview rounds sounds about normal, especially with the price tag being so high these days. Compare buying a loaf of bread to buying a house. The bread just gets plopped into your cart. The house involves visiting multiple times, inspections, lawyers, etc. because the amount of money is so high. You cost as much as a house, so the buyers are going to scrutinize a little bit.

It's also worth mentioning, you say that you won't follow rules about where you're supposed to work and you think everyone interviewing you is dumber than you. People pick up on that attitude and read it as a red flag. You're going to be doing their code reviews, you're going to be commenting on their designs; if you seem unpleasant in the interviews, they're not going to hire you.

Do be aware that this is a common symptom of burnout. If you're burned out, you're not going to be approaching the job hunt in a great state of mind, and it's going to hurt your chances. My recommendation is to heal on your current employer's time; look at new projects, taking a vacation, options for paid leave, ADA/FMLA allowances, etc.
> IME this part is completely wrong, unless it's defining "serious buyer" in such a way that most of your market isn't one.

I used to be such a "serious buyer". I represented a large government agency with over 2,000 sites and several hundred thousand employees.

Vendors would turn up with "cute" web apps that used drop downs to select objects like security groups or user accounts. This works great when you're developing in a toy environment in your dev lab.

In the real world, merely clicking something like that will make both the server and client use gigabytes of memory until either one or both crash.

Here's the thing though: if you can put just a modicum of engineering effort into making your software suitable for non-toy scenarios, then winning even just one enterprise customer like this could make your rich. Win two or three similar orgs in other states or countries and you can start subscribing to Superyacht Owners' Quarterly.

But there will be no yacht because you used a drop-down. A simple control that can be implemented in minutes instead of a search box that takes a few extra lines of code.

Sorry...

PS: On a more serious note, I had a checklist that wasn't long or all that difficult to implement, and 90% of vendors would fail outright on most/all points.

1. Search-for-select
2. A provisioning API of some sort (REST, PowerShell, whatever)
3. Hierarchical permissions & delegation
4. Hierarchical policy & preferences
5. Single-sign-on support
6. Central audit & error logging
7. Clone-to-deploy and/or highly automated setup.
8. Don't demand Domain Admin rights for setup.
9. No quadratic (or worse) scaling issues. (USE INDEXES in the DB!!)
>Can we just admire for a moment that the person who made Wordle is named Josh Wardle. That's amazing.

The southernmost bridge in NYC and New York State is Outerbridge Crossing (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outerbridge_Crossing>). Read up on how it was named.
I wonder when they went to Tibet, AFAIK the current law (well, before Covid closed everything down) to visit Tibet for foreigners is that they can only do so as a tour group with a guide, so, no solo trips. But when I was there, I met Westerners biking from Lhasa to Nepal, of course with a guide, so maybe their car could've been escorted along the way.
Hey I’m UK based too. Those amounts are way higher then what I’m on, 60k. I’m curious about the type of companies paying such TC, do you have an email to chat more?
Exactly. Their advice essentially is – don't build an MVP, instead have a perfect working product with all features and a perfect market fit and huge demand with an years-long rigid roadmap on day one. Like...okay? And how do you do all this exactly?
XVideos: The porn empire next door
With Alexa Rank being retired this year, there's a niche for some publicly accessible ranking score for websites, even imperfect ones.
Wasn't aware of this feature in dataclasses, that can be helpful in a few cases, thanks for pointing out
It is more like an half truth, probably it was designed for some reasons in the 17th century, but widely adopted only in late 18th century for some other reasons.
Does using search qualifiers help: * # ^ etc.
> The argument I'm hearing is that most people are stupid and those stupid people aren't smart enough to know better

Yup, exactly. And that argument is correct.

> this was the same argument used to perpetuate slavery.

> Edit: Elaborated my argument.

No, created a huge strawman.
I think most casual observers, myself included, expected to see the Ukrainian government fled/killed, a new puppet leader installed and Russian tank columns occupying Kiev within a week of the invasion starting. And this seems to have been what Russia expected as well, at least if the notorious plan "leak" on Belarus state TV is to be believed.

The fact that this has clearly failed to happen indicates that the war is not going as planned.

For comparison, it took the US three weeks total from launching their invasion of Iraq to taking over Baghdad, despite there being approximately 5x more distance to cover and Iraq fielding an army twice as large as Ukraine.
You decide when to raise prices, but the other party can just break the contract, much the same as with normal employment (except it's the other party raising wages and you breaking the contract in the absence of a raise).
The author mentions the second-order effect of SEO upon the web: an entire industry gaming their client's sites to the top of search results has debased the quality of the web overall. How is that same industry not going to pivot to debasing social sites like HN in order to do the same thing? The entire market analogy is busted because HN and reddit aren't markets and up/down votes aren't currency. You don't "spend" your upvote on something. You have an unlimited supply.
Eh... the dev market has been hot for about a decade now. Remote work has lessened the friction of labor movement, but is this really a sea change, or just a continuation of a preexisting trend?
Hmm, would be nice to be able to get it back on its feet in these cases without killing the session, though I haven’t had it fall over for a couple of weeks because I’ve been barely using it (and possibly because summer is passes on to autumn). Next time it happens I’ll see if a `swaymsg output DSI-1 disable` / `swaymsg output DSI-1 enable` fixes it. Seems to do something, Firefox clearly changes its scaling from 2 to 1 and back to 2 in the process. (If not, I dunno; `swaymsg -t get_outputs` only mentions one mode, 720x1440 @ 60.006 Hz, and --custom doesn’t seem to be working. What’s with that frequency? I know the sordid tale of 59.94 Hz, but I’ve seen these higher frequencies of 30 and a bit and 60 and a bit a few times.))
The real long–term plan is to live in orbit of a black hole, the larger the better. You can use the Penrose process to extract energy from one for very long time. Forget about a few paltry trillions of years, a supermassive black hole can last longer than 10¹⁰⁰ years. That’s 10⁹¹ trillion years.
Cat-V proposed HTTP 0.2 (<http://http02.cat-v.org/>) as a subset of HTTP and I think the idea is neat. Tho I also personally don't like that HTTP gets blamed for the modern web's shortcoming when I think it's the one part that seems to work really well.
Also Georgia, or Moldawia. Or come to think of it, a lot of the SU, including, btw, Poland (remember the Hitler Stalin Pact). Oh also, Finland. If you go further back, also Ukraine, and Krim and the East. Seems like Russian history is a long string of territorial expansion.
>Attrition is a real problem right now. Hiring is fierce. If you're a senior or staff level engineer, it's a buyer's market.

I believe that should be seller's market, I am selling my services?
As long as we're throwing out anecdotes, I think anyone should be allowed to distribute content that was originally widely public and free.

And to alter it, sure.
Ah, spoken like someone who hasn’t actually tried to solve a backend problem by throwing more hardware at it. :) It does not work, and is very expensive, jumping from tier to tier. Your memory leak will just keep leaking, your inefficient query will just keep gobbling up RAM, your unoptimized traversal will still take too long, until you find the actual issue and fix it.

Modern web browsers have abstracted all of the resource management problems away from the app developer. The worst you can do is crash the browser, which is a pretty easy problem to avoid.
Share Your Secrets
Looks like CubeWorld.
Has anyone tried to compile it into WASM and run it in a browser?
That's the effective way to negotiate working conditions. If they showed up to the office then their managers would never approve anything. Best to look for another offer in case you get fired, though.
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere