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> The corporatization of social media is a big factor. There's big money involved in controlling reviews. Critics and influencers devoted to certain fandoms inevitably get influenced, pressured, infiltrated by studios who expect favorable treatment towards their product or that entity loses access, gets attacked, etc.

Remember the online rehabilitation of the Star Wars prequels when Disney was spinning up their crap?
I could imagine the answer being:

People went to see these movies not because they wanted to per se but because critics said they were amazing. And because they went mostly due to critical reviews, anyone who didn't like it was even more likely than normal to be like "wait I feel tricked this was bad"

This might be a bit of a stretch, but it seems almost plausible.
> If we had it your way, and no one without a PhD in a field was allowed to talk about things in that field

Please try to understand me when I say, if someone says "I don't think X is true," that's very different to me than saying "There's no scientific basis for X to be true."

I'm not saying people shouldn't talk about their beliefs.

I'm sick of people pretending they know what they're talking about, donning the mantle of an expert, and making a proclamation about whether something is even possible.

> people never ever even try to imagine

I'm complaining about people who are trying to shut down all conversation. Not "I don't believe in X," but rather "there's no scientific basis for X."

They're saying, "If you claim X, I know for certain you did not follow any scientific process to make that claim."

They're saying, "Every reasonable person should reject any evidence of X, because it cannot be a scientific claim."

They're doing what you accuse me of.
> Also, you apparently have no idea what "arbitrary" means.

Ah, right. They were just highly intelligent people "following the science". Not at all obsessed with stoking fear so they could seize control and consolidate power:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=arbitrary+six+foot+rule&ia=web
Yea that is probably a very important factor. I pray its lasting in protective effect.
I'd almost go farther and say 20 years lifetime cumulative limit in federal office.

The geriatric retreads we get to choose from every election cycle is just maddening.
There's really no basis to think that asset purchases are responsible for this. Asset prices didn't cause shipping prices across the pacific to explode almost 10X [2]. Asset purchases didn't cause the Port of LA to back up (ships still wait in port 18 days [3]). Asset purchases didn't cause a lack of supply of IC manufacturing [4], including due to bad weather. Asset purchases didn't cause COVID outbreaks [5]. Asset purchases didn't cause labor supply issues [6].

I agree the oil market is in backwardation, but this is retrospective CPI, not December 2023 CPI.

[edit] Check out the graph on page 7 (11th page in the PDF) [1] It shows you just how little global central bank balance sheets are in terms of the market. It's less than 8.9% of global financial assets, and while it increased a lot recently (for obvious reasons) on average over the last 20 years it's not super dramatic.

[1] https://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P161221.pdf

[2] https://unctad.org/news/shipping-during-covid-19-why-contain...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/container-ship-backup-at-southe...

[4] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Chip-pr...

[5] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/11/china-covid-outbreak-guangzh...

[6] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/long-covid-labor-market-missing...
Why, of course it's Russia's fault. Couldn't be related to this:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL [1]

/s

[1] Keep in mind, the effects of these changes are often not felt in everyday prices for at least 1-2 years.
yeah see some of us still do this on OSes that haven't turned into a giant bloated hodgepodge of security theatre and false panacea software.

docker has dead whale on the beach vibes. what value does it offer to those of us who have moved on from the mess linux is becoming?
Gotcha type interview questions with a single "trick" that you either get/have seen before or don't provide terrible signal imo.
I agree w/r/t how absolutely... childish... the word choice is, and I think folks trying to argue the merits here are missing the point.

Yes, Putin's individual actions in Ukraine have had a negative effect on the global economy, and yes that negative effect is creating additional inflation, but "putin price hike" is so obviously a sound-bite crafted explicitly to trick voters into not "blaming" the current administration.

I voted for Biden because I wanted an adult in the Oval Office, and an adult doesn't talk like that, in my opinion. I understand why it can feel necessary to talk like this, but you give up the high ground by doing so, and I think that's a mistake.
Amazon warehouses are one of the few instances where unionization makes sense in the 21st century. The problem with this isn't unionization itself but the trend in unions toward damaging their employers more than protecting the workers. The common portrayal of unions as good and corporations as evil is over simplistic and often backwards.

I've seen good unions and I've seen bad ones, I don't know which this is yet.
According to https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html , you are incorrect on death rate. I agree with the second sentence, though.
> Yet there was not this inflation during the Fed balance sheet runup in 2008-2018......

Asset prices are prices, they're just not part of the CPI.

The early part of the inflation fed almost entirely into financial assets. Take a look at the absolutely INSANE multiple expansion of the S&P 500 for this time period, as well as the INSANE monotonically decreasing yield curve in literally every kind of debt security.
or https://pages.github.com/ maybe?
I was expelled from school for having a website where I listed downloads of all the AOL tools I could possibly find. There were thousands... The school network administrator somehow found my website and decided that these AOL tools were being used "to hack the Macintosh network and slow it down". I protested to the school principal that they were completely unrelated, but as a 13 year old interested in hacking, I didn't have any credibility. That followed me around on my permanent record and other schools treated me like a criminal.

Joke's on them, though. I learned to teach myself everything (since they refused to), dropped out of school, and got a job at a start-up. Don't stay in school, kids - hack for fun and profit!
turnover at Amazon is so high that nobody* will still be there in 12 months, unionising is zero risk: either the job becomes tolerable or it remains intolerable and they quit as they would have anyway

* ok a few
At that point you might as well go with vps. Lightsale is way more expensive and the underlying architecture is way more unstable I have a 1% failure rate for my fleet of instances. Ever two weeks I have a instance is not responding and needs to be rebooted alert from aws.
> Uh no. The old client's chat transcript was using WebView for display with a bunch of custom-fed CSS/HTML/DOM that was built in code. The rest of the app was good ol' AppKit.

Yes, I overstepped, the sidebar was probably an NSTableView and the text input looked native enough. I still find it comical that the star of the show, the transcript, was a webview.

> due to lack of resources and/or corporate bullshit

I suspected as much, and again, it's comical. Trillion dollar company. Apple, of all companies, can afford to pay Meta-level comp or higher, roll out big recruiting efforts across the US and Canada and let engineers work in more cities, and yet they've only barely started in the last couple years.
> positioning each gadget manually, coding XML, using visual GUI designer

Yes, I have only done manual position. My programs are not that big yet. Some gadgets are not always feature complete, thus sometimes you need to write custom code (like for special events) for each platform or use a canvas. Drawback with canvas is that you need to write it dpi aware thus making it a bit more complex.

GUI for Windows is the old Windows look (win32), not the new modern one.

That is why I was bit excited with a Sciter integration, now you have the possibility to write complex GUI ("modern") with Sciter and classic GUI with PureBasic or a combination.

XML layout, there is some critique against it not being DPI perfect. You can read about it in this thread

https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=71146

Form Designer - popular but to my understanding starts showing some limitations when you start getting multiple windows (handling of identifiers of windows/gadgets). And if the form designer has a default that you can't change then of course you need to change that value manually every time you update your form by the form designer.

To my knowledge there exist two commercial alternative to the built in form designer, PureVision (old) and IceDesign (new).

macOS - I'm not a mac user so I can't tell, but I do know there is frequent mac discussions on the forum. There have been some excitement around the new coming PureBasic 6 release with a new C backend, making it possible to compile to native code for the M1 processor.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/15/18183759/t...

He wasn't advising Germany to divest from Russia because it would strengthen NATO. He was saying NATO was corrupted because of Russian oil and therefore was worthless. This is based on the same fallacious perspective that Putin employs. Namely that NATO exists to be Russia's adversary. NATO exists for the defense of politically-aligned democracies against aggressors. Russia is only the enemy of NATO because they choose to be. Trump's behavior towards Ukraine was not only grotesquely unethical and breach of his Constitutional obligations but seriously weakened their position when it came to resisting Russia.
To me it's twitter being used as it was born to be used. Instead of a multi-chapter set of tweets to try to prove some complex point the author just threw a short, vague statement into the void. Judging by the responses it worked well. Followup comments uncovered good reasons to get physical copies of books you want to read again.
Inventory can be commingled at the Amazon warehouse. Additionally, sellers have been engaging in some pretty wild fraud to retain their position in the listings.

I don't trust them anymore either, except maybe for cables or something.
The Grammys have notoriously been considered out-of-touch for some time, even when you compare them to the other big awards shows (Tonys, Emmys, Oscars).
This is a personal favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szWhzdqrS2g

It's amazing what can be wrung out of old hardware.
>Truth is a myth, especially in this era.

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Truth is Myth?
The highest rated reviews favor desserts & baked goods, for what it’s worth.
Open Source vs. the Renaissance
Our science museum, OMSI, in Portland used to have this giant nose you could crawl in and learn about it.

I don’t remember stuff explaining nerves or how smell is connected to the brain but it was fun to go inside.
General population has terrible taste, movie studios are now buying fake audience reviews to pump the ratings, they also buy critics but I assume they've always done that. Pretty hard to argue that critics are out of touch when the general population votes Avengers: Infinity War a top 10 movie of all time when it's released.
Just because you don't EXPLICITLY include everyone, doesn't mean you aren't inclusive. It's the same as "Black lives matter" doesn't mean "ONLY black lives matter"
"My son could paint that" vibes.

Hacker News art criticism at its best.
The article claims that the difference between audiences and critics has been increasing over the last two decades. If the difference was only because audiences self-selected while critics had to review everything, why would it be increasing over time?
Parents report that student brains compress memories of the just-ended school day into "fine" or "nothing" depending on the specific interrogative used as a prompt.
Any mental model that assigns zero weight to the probability of being wrong is a wrong mental model.

That said, biases arising from endogeneity might have negative effects too. You can't conclude a parameter should have a different/zero sign just because of endogeneity, you have to go fix your model, and re-estimate the parameters.
Great Question (YC W21) is hiring a senior account exec
Food is more important than healthcare. Do you think the production, selection, and distribution of food should be decided by the state?
a good test would be:

Look at this thing, and describe what you see

Now, close your eyes and imagine another thing and describe it

comparison of imagery in reality and visualised. This presupposes people describe things visually even when directly seeing them, and not in other modes (texture, sound, smell , etc)
Only "1" is correct here.

As for "2,", come on, it's ALWAYS been political. It's mostly always been this way except for changes in which particular groups you've named.
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That’s not a definition :) And, by the way, a definition is not defined as whatever one thinks a definition is.
>are things always as they seem

you already asked that of the other person

I am a third party confirming that, yes, in this case, they are as they seem to that person

if you believe their position, as confirmed by a third party, contains genuine flaws, it might just be your biases showing through

nonetheless, I encourage you to clearly (and succinctly) articulate them, and try to convince us that said person's views do not reflect reality
Doctors and researchers were warning of long term damage from the virus since feb 2020. The long term damage of SARS 1 is well documented, and it would be prudent of anyone to assume something similar from SARS 2.
And folks like you are why we are going to get more inflation...
> As an aside, this idea of autonomy here is a psychological reflex to control something about a situation that you have absolutely no control over.

It may be difficult for some to accept, but we as individuals have essentially total control over our own health and COVID was no exception.

Essentially all serious COVID cases had multiple LIFESTYLE-casued comorbidities. The most prevalent: obesity.
This could do with a language setting, but not a huge deal.
Ask HN: Why has Facebook stopped improving?
Meta has obviously made some great acquisitions over the years and is making progress with VR / Metaverse / Workplace.

However, the core Facebook app seems to be exactly the same as it was 5 years ago, and I can't remember the last time they shipped an interesting new feature.
The committee chairs were very powerful people, especially in the House. Of these Ways and Means, where tax legislation originated, is probably the most important. Wilbur Mills, who was chair for 20 years, was a very important person indeed.

Easy amendments: While often not exactly amendments, the ballot propositions in various states function in the same way; usually, as you say, "[the] law is assuredly badly written, and full of unintended consequences".
You bring up a good point and there's possibly an additional, simpler, effect: producers of big-budget films pay for good reviews, both by critics and by IMDb users.
You forgot the step where you had to provision that server to run the software and maintain all the systems security updates on the live running server, and that server requires all the same maintenance, with or without docker. And if you fuck it up, better call the wife and cancell Sunday plans because you forgot how it all gets installed and ......yeah, just use docker :p
I honestly feel like building something like a PDA would be easier using a bespoke layout. You can entirely remove stuff you don't need (like, say, the VPU (lol)) and save battery life. You can also optimize for what you're actually going to be using, eg once you've selected the type of display you can just support the type of interface it will use (SPI perhaps), etc.

FWIW, the Allwinner F1C100s is ~$2, 533MHz, has 32MB RAM onboard, and can run mainline recent Linux. It's also this easy* to plonk onto a PCB: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c...

(* Yes, "easy" is relative. You'll need a few interesting tools and it'll be a tad deer-in-headlights. But you don't need a rocket science degree to even fathom the idea.)
What killed the mid-budget movie was the rise of "peak TV" -- the B-list actors that defined mid-budget movies can land a meaty TV role that pays them well on a consistent basis. We're also seeing more and more A-list talent move to anthology or event series, where you can make a deep dive over 8/10/13 episodes instead of a 120-minute film.
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No need for fancy financial products. You can literally buy carbon removal today.

https://charmindustrial.com/
https://climeworks.com/
For static websites, is there any reason not to host them on GitHub?

Since GitHub Pages lets you attach a custom domain, it seems like the perfect choice.

I would expect their CDN to be pretty awesome. And updating the website with a simple git push seems convenient.
Biden's spending policies are also to blame.
> This is the original sentence you wrote: """ SuperCollider's license effectively stops you from designing commercial products. Even the free version of Elementary allows that. """

I did not write that.

Here is my comment you responded to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30998118

You're thinking of Archit3ch's post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30995834

Maybe you should check identities before levelling accusations at people.
Have they ever been in sync?
Actually, both statements boil down to the same with little modifications: (a) being out of touch with the audience is same as (b) the audience typically only going to see movies that they are likely to enjoy. (a) is broader than (b), can subsume (b).
Clearly the only causes for a changing climate are entirely man-made or entirely natural. No inbetween, no siree.

Unless you actually meant weather, your post is a little confusing.

Anyhow, let’s just continue pumping whatever we want into the planet just in case it’s entirely natural and impossible for us to make a difference - wouldn’t want to get in the way of making money.
Well, one thing you can ask it to do is to make a prediction.
Out of all the arguments I'm seeing on here, this feels particularly bad faith. Throughout my maybe decade and a half in the macro world I've never heard anyone even attempt to make this argument.

Inflation clearly affects cost of living because wages are stickier than prices. You don't walk into work every monday morning and get your wages increased by CPI.
This comment (and Animats's parent comment) shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how a balance sheet works. Balance sheets balance: the funds are an asset, but there is a symmetrical liability due back to the customer.
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I've worked with such niche enterprise software before. It only pigeon-holes you if you let it. One I worked with was, at the time, a VB6 based application for trading bank debt built on a combination of SQL Server/Access (SQL Server was the source of truth, but entire data sets would be pulled into a local Access database for reporting...). It had no integration points to speak of, not even a reliable report runner (had to run reports manually through a GUI). Over the years, they were doing a piecemeal transition to .Net, but I never saw a .Net only implementation while I worked with it (I left the company in 2012).

A lot of my Python expertise on Windows comes from working with that system. I used Python because 1) I already knew it, 2) I could easily run parts on either Windows or Linux and 3) all of the internal APIs I needed access to had Python wrappers available (or I could easily write one in Boost Python at the time). I forget exactly which Python libraries I used, but there was some Win32 COM going on, some ctypes and other Python based GUI automation, as well as a lot of process management (reports tended to hang quite a bit needing killing/restarting) and ETL work.

I spent roughly 7 of my 9 years at that company working in part on maintaining the integrations of that 3rd party system with our own internal systems. Yes, a significant chunk of my time at the company, but what software it was is just a footnote on my CV. Instead all of the interesting integration work I did and the efficiencies gained are elaborated upon (e.g. with 8 hours of development effort, I was able to automate away a previously 8-hour manual task that had to be done monthly).
A modern web experience on Adobe Experience Manager with WorkBox
Markets are zero sum. Competition ensures that an inefficient business will lose out to efficient competitors.

In most markets where efficiency is not achievable, then businesses are not entitled to exist. This is why things such as tax subsidies and other forms of funding are used to bootstrap new markets (e.g. green energy) that have a net social gain.
> Just the way that they talk about this is so...vile. 8.5% inflation is a nightmare. You're in charge. Take ownership of that, and for the love of god stop trying to use the massacre of innocent people in Ukraine is a political tool for youself.

1. The President of the United States does not control inflation, the price of oil, the price of CPUs, the price of new and used cars, or the ports that are backed up. People ask a glib question and get a glib answer.

2. What war in all of human history was not politicized? This really should not be surprising.

I get not liking politics, but being outraged at the state of the world and directing that at whichever politician is in office... is not useful unless you're playing politics yourself.
> Pythagoras absolutely did discover the theorem.

There is very little historical record of Pythagoras because he led a cult that was sworn to secrecy. He almost certainly did not discover the theorem himself.
Prices can only go up if there is buying pressure, which means an increase in disposable income must precede the increase in prices.
Can you do SSL?
Maybe their definition of definition is your definition of bread?
I've had the same experience. Always used Windows for work machines and Linux for my personal laptop, and now it's the first time that I'm working on a company that only use macbooks, and, oh boy, what a pain!

The hardware is truly amazing, no arguing with that, but the OS overall experience have not been very good for me.
I knew that there would be needed some time to adapt, but there are some things that are simply counter-intuitive.
I'm even having trouble putting this to sleep. I've lost count of how many times I had chosen the "Sleep" option on the menu only to the macbook not go into sleep, and drain my battery overnight...
This is such a great idea. My only feedback is to try and add non-technical stuff too.

How are you collecting sites to include in this?
Purportedly, some of these encounters were initiated by the natives as a means to transfer some benefit of manly prowess from the expedition.

https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/anthropology/bar-r...

Though I do wonder how many "offered wives" were slaves of the tribe. We know that Sacagewea was a slave who was sold as a wife to a French trapper.