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> comprehend why Blade runner even has the possibility of being boring then I'm likely too stupid to be communicating with you

Step away from the sugar drinks and try a digital detox. :-)

People paid to see Vangelis sound and light shows, when there wasn’t even a movie rolling. Surely with a movie attached, the sound and light isn’t that dull?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31437226

Buried in that thread is a pushback to your premise about MCU, a video that actually excerpts from Inception while taking down those “MCU scores” (pun intended) in particular.

Nobody can hum from Marvel movies because they play it safe (aka boring)!

https://youtu.be/7vfqkvwW2fs

I appreciated a quote from that discussion, tying back to your hypothesis: “People do not remember safe choices. Only bold, original music.”

Blade Runner wasn’t safe, though they almost ruined it with the release voice overs trying to make it safer…

Interestingly if you go down the rabbit hole, a reply video to that one points out the Star Wars theme everyone remembers was “copied to hell” from countless old movies before it. That response goes on to say the problem is, roughly, digital production sameness.

> there is absolute truth to the statement when someone says that movie is in general quite slow and boring

Well, no. Boredom comes from within. When you have too many thoughts, or too few, to focus, boredom happens.

Blade Runner is an experience, the pacing makes room to take it in. If you don’t open your mind to take it in, if your mind wanders off, or loses the plot, you will miss the excitement that builds from an authentic experience.

> Bladerunner is so boring that it wasn't copied too much. But the other sci-fi stuff get copied to hell

This line suddenly makes me wonder if you were just messing with us. Hmm.

Instead of engaging, here’s a bite sized listicle: How to Be Less Boring and Less Bored.

TL;DR: Lay off virtual sugar, digitally detox, open the mind…

- appreciate interestingness
- hang out with geeks
- enjoy quietude
- get out of a rut
- read long form
- try three things you’d never, three times each
- regain a sense of wonder

And remember, “Boring is as boring does!”
He made it all the way to Jupiter, and figured he might as well check out the monolith despite the disaster of the mission so far. He took the pod to check it out. He was then taken through a portal in the monolith to the home system of the aliens that created the monolith. There, he was put in a simulation as best as could be created based on TV signals from earth. The simulation was of a hotel room in a particular TV show. The alien machinery then downloaded his mind, hence the aging sequence. He was then inserted into the substrate of spacetime, allowing him to move around the galaxy like an omnipotent god. He decided to go back to earth to help out humanity, but he was still very new to this upgrade, so he was like a baby, hence the fetus over earth, which was just metaphorical. His upgrade was the next step for humanity, just as the upgrade for the man-apes was, giving them the ability to use tools.

This was all explained in very plain English in the book.
They were stuck in the sequel, needed Harrison Ford (who has aged dramatically) to be in the film for financial reasons, and also needed to pay lip service to the supposed answer. So I think there's one scene that outlines how it could be possible that made no sense but was clearly shoehorned in there.
> Apart from a recent dip, average life expectancy in the US has been going up pretty much forever.

I see no reason why life expectancy in the US will not continue to drop. At some level, we have made a conscious decision to rebuild our society with a greater emphasis on hierarchy and hereditary wealth. We should expect life expectancy for bottom 90% of Americans to continue to deteriorate, while those in the top 10% will continue to improve.
I'm almost 40 and figured I wasted most of the time.
Afaik ram refreshing takes a good bit of power.

Makes more sense to disable unused modules imo.
> Weyland is a decidedly white name to go along with the Yutani part.

British Leyland was a car company which broke up shortly after Alien came out. The implication in the W-Y name is pretty clear: A Japanese company bought out Leyland.
Some day, I will remember to submit a link, then add a comment, and not the other way around...

https://github.com/Fusion/modernfbv
> Why are you so stuck on this?

What "this" do you mean?

This thread started because of a claim to the effect of "you can only have nice things if you pay for it", as saying that life in the suburbs is "ugly" because it is more cost-effective in comparison with big American cities. That is what I was responding to.

You came after and now you are demanding some "logical" way to establish what's better... what for? My point was only that even (relatively) poor places can be better than suburbs. And yes, "better" in subjective ways. I did not start this claiming I have key metrics that "prove" how life in suburbs is so horrible.

> You need to stop looking at this with emotion

Why?! We are talking about what we value when deciding where to live. Don't you take your emotions in consideration when thinking about this?

> and apply some critical thinking.

If I were applying "critical thinking", I'd be giving you the laundry list of "reasons" against North American suburbia: the car-centric dependency, the "soccer mum" culture that exists because kids can not be independent and are not able to do anything without a parent driving them around, the absurd zoning laws that makes all houses stupidly big and expensive (not to mention ugly), the lack of a "third-place", the classism of most suburbanites, the ever-growing expansion that it requires to keep cities financially solvent...

But this was not what my comment was about. I don't even want to get into this discussion because it is as boring as the people who will try to nitpick and rationalize their life at suburbia...
Karl Popper was talking about Nazis and Communists organizing street brawls and putsches, not people insulting each other on Twitter:

> I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

As long as nobody is bringing pistols to tech conferences or starting fistfights in the hallways, Popper would not support excluding attendees for having intolerant ideas. Perhaps if contributors to your open-source repository are doxing and SWATting each other, putting lives at risk, then Popper would exclude them. But as long as they're just making offensive comments, Popper would not "claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force." (It might still be better to decline their patches so as to avoid being associated with them.)

I wouldn't go even as far as Popper, because his argument eats itself; as demonstrated in this thread, when people start applying his ideas, Popperism itself becomes an intolerant idea that, according to Popperism, we should suppress by violence. Moreover, any political position that advocates that the government take an action is advocating that some policy be imposed on the unwilling parts of the population by violence.

Much more sustainable is to suppress the violent actors and protect those who are merely calling for violence, while remonstrating with them to change their minds.
I think that's semantics. If oppression is not evil / undesirable / bad, then definitions for each have been diluted beyond use. And I think you agree that oppression is bad, based on your statements.

My question therefore remains - is every manager bad? Are we to burn them all? Are all rules or processes or structures inherently and always bad? Is anything but pure anarchy oppressive? Is all society horrible?

If yes, that's a fascinating, and I put forward unrealistic perspective.

If not, then I think that's the interesting part of conversation. What is a manager that a leader isn't? What makes a manager bad? What makes a system oppressive?

Otherwise it's just a meaningless "managers are bad" platitudes for cheap points.

Edit / add on

Basically I'm still stuck on first claim that managers are inherently I oppressive. I had bad managers and they were oppressive. I had good managers and they were liberating. They took care of organizing things. Just like last night - somebody seemlessly took care of timing, keeping track of numbers and puzzles, and helping us resolve confusion and communication. So rest of us could focus on fun and puzzles. They were a good manager and the opposite of oppressive. so I still need some backing before I grant or consider that premise given in such a universalist fashion.

Edit 2 - re read and come on. You put racism and capitalism and managers in same statement as members of same category. If that's not calling them evil I don't know what it is :-)
About 20 years ago I ripped the DVD audio to MP3 so I could immerse myself in the amazing soundscapes from this film on the go. The soundtrack is great, don't get me wrong, but I think the sound is magnificent.
So relieved I'm not alone in this. BR was top of my to-watch list after years of recommendations from friends, family, and the culture at large. And I finally sat down to watch it and it was downright bizarre. I read the book it's based on a few months prior and maybe that skewed my expectations. It was nothing at all like Dick's original story. The stakes were never explained and the visual language was incredibly gaudy and overemphasized.

Then again, I do think this is a case of the "if you'd only seen it at the time!" I saw 2001 A Space Odyssey recently for the first time, and while I really appreciated the practical effects, compared to fast paced, exciting movies made in the past 20-30 years it was boring and utterly baffling. Time passes, things change, the fact is not everything is for everyone, and assertions of "Thing X is the greatest of all time" are and always will be nonsense.
Couldn't freaking agree more. My favourite movie, undisputedly. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it the first time, it is all so perfect, the actors, the atmosphere, the soundtrack, the story, the ideas. "Memories. You're talking about memories!". And although I am also a big fan of P.K. Dick, it is good that the movie does its own thing and that there are no electric sheep in it.
How is that sensible? What makes israel different from any other nation such that they ought to be immune from all criticism?
I'll get back to that when I find a chatbot that doesn't get killed in Skyrim.

The broad question of AI sentience is not exactly new, and as it seems it is tangled with politics; perhaps the first regulations of AI personhood will regulate AIs acting as corporation board members, bypassing the discussion of sentience and focusing on merits.
I hope your wife, sister or daughter never has an ectopic pregnancy
Ask HN: What are good genealogy/family history/immigration search engines?
I recently came across some family names that I was previously unaware of. Some family members had been separated, killed, or went missing during WW2. Are there good places to search for records, especially those from Germany, Ukraine and Russia? I'd be especially grateful for some sort of adoption records from Germany from the mid/late 1940's. Also wonderful would be birth/death records.
Then why 'a'? It still seems wrong to me, like (but opposite) 'woman police officer', it should surely be 'a First Nation people' or something?

To use your example, it sounds to me like 'a Native'. 'Native what?' I'm left wondering as a reader.

Perhaps I'm wrong, I'm not Canadian, nor 'a First Nation', it just doesn't scan to me.
So, when Rust is actually in the kernel would it be possible for some C based routines to call them? Like the article seems to mention things I've seen as "helper" functions, so a mostly C module can get some memory safe benefits? Or do whole components need to be rewritten?
She wrote:

> My experience from dozens of interviews

That's not pre-supposing, instead, sounds to me like learning from one's job?

> blind-interview strategy

I liked that -- how does one make it scale though?
I don't think it's true. I've lived in different cities in America and have seen plenty of retail in the middle of residential neighborhoods. There are even multi-unit residential buildings with retail on the first floor so the retail shares the very same building with residents. Same is for schools (unless you meant big universities), they are located in the residential neighborhoods to serve residents.
From my experience all atmospheric films are like this. Some people love them, some people find them boring because they are more about visuals/sounds/music/feelings rather than plot lines or action scenes.
It almost looks like a survival technique much more than a means of getting from A to B: A quick escape mechanism combined with playing dead.

The article says they prefer to walk, and the videos make it seem as if they're relatively immobile for a few seconds at least after the 'uncontrolled landing'.
Is it not enough that you just didn’t enjoy it?

You have to tell yourself that everyone who did enjoy it is just pretending?

Why?
Black Mirror. For broad definition of sci-fi and broad definition of film.
>It's not like Lambda sits around and ponders the nature of the universe when you're not talking to it.

But can we really be sure of that? We don't know much about the technology itself. What if google is ticking the model at a given framerate allowing the neural network to continuously "think"?
Maybe partner with a firm that will get insurance approval then? Could help with distribution as well.
Sorry, I must not have been very clear, and it seems like perhaps you didn’t follow the thread about what @BoppreH actually did. This is not a case of one exchange that can reasonably be revoked. This appears to be a case of @BoppreH publishing his own information publicly for years in multiple places, and using the same username everywhere. People do this on purpose in order to do business, to build online reputations, and to link to their offline lives.

You’re also mistaken about the scope and reach of GDPR as it applies to what @BoppreH was asking for. The GDPR has been quite effective so far about making companies keep PII to themselves, stop selling it without consent, take reasonable precautions with it. It has done very good things for privacy. This thread isn’t about accidentally leaked medical records or purchase preferences. This thread appears to be about someone who wants to undo a decade of their own internet activity that has spread far and wide. That’s not a reasonable request.

Look, there are laws that help you with interactions with a specific company, or that can help unpublish libel, or help with a single event or an egregious mistake in the past. But there just aren’t laws that can let you change your mind about a wide swath of information that you leave online for years, information that exchanges many hands and no longer involves any one single company.
> Apart from a recent dip, average life expectancy in the US has been going up pretty much forever.

I'm worried that the "healthy at every size" movement means this is the beginning of a large drop, not just a little dip.
> Its difficult to tell if its amazon selling something or a private seller.

No it's not. The info is next to the checkout button (Sold by/ships from), and displayed during checkout.
Can't edit my post but thank you to everyone saying they listen to and support the podcast.

Hearing positive feedback keeps me going and I'm always happy to take guest or topic suggestions as well.
Looks like they are still being sold, http://www.unimat-1.com & https://thecooltool.com/en
“I’m forming a new government, and everyone is subject to it and you can’t leave,” is a heavy enough ask for me to take my chances and oppose it. It’s also not clear to me how you plan to bring the nuclear powers in question to heel without some sort of a war.
Some forms of duck typing absolutely can do this. "Row polymorphism" is the general feature that allows this, some duck typing can handle this, some can't.
Indeed, but I've also noticed that a lot of the sales for stuff I'm interested in are "buy it now" type. And I have no good gauge for what a price "should" be, but for instance I'm willing to pay a couple bucks more for a chainring of some odd bolt spacing, that prevents me from having to buy a whole new crankset.
I am not a prolific contributor in the open source scene, but I participate with some frequency. I've always thought Codes of conduct are simply platitudes to keep over-eager human resources personnel, twitter activists, and their ilk at bay. Never once have I ever felt the need to look over the codes on any service. Such pages are simply background noise that contribute nothing but the occupation of space to a project. This has been my impression thus far.

I do not subscribe to all the beliefs the author espouses, but I am sympathetic with them. Admittedly, I feel myself cheering him on for standing his ground against this vacuous criticism.
>it's a fantasy story told in a sci Fi aesthetic.

The aesthetic is what defines the genre. There's tons of garbage technology in other sci-fi works that are beyond what's even speculative. Star wars is not the only art work that does this.

Midi chloreans (The technical/scientific explanation for the force) are way less speculative then alot of the sci fi that's out there.
Bankwest is a 2nd tier Australian Bank that controls bankwest.com - so I suspect this domain may have been used for a phishing campaign.

https://bankwest.com.au
But Amazon commingles inventory, so the fact that that says sold by Amazon doesn't mean the one you get is really from them.
Theoretically yes, rust binaries can have C-apis and other code can call them just fine.
How 2020 set the stage for the 2021 bitcoin bubble
Glad they were able to automatically detect/catch this. There seems to be so much bloat when dependencies get pulled in.

Wonder if something like pledge and unveil around library code could be helpful; perhaps library code needs to be separated out into a separate process that would not have reason to access AWS keys.

Also, looking at the screenshot, could a simple programming searching for URLs in the library code help in this case?

Looks like they removed the modules, so one can't examine them any more.
Before reddit, these sorts of forums were hosted on their own websites. I think having a forum on reddit these days is a major liability. I wonder if these forums would benefit from being hosted in a more de-centralized and durable manner.
I find that somewhat short-sighted. Let's use a different example.

Imagine you live in a society that allows personal gun ownership. Obviously, in such a society you still don't want people running around shooting each other willy-nilly, so you make a law: shoot someone, go to jail.

Now imagine someone pulls out a gun and shoots you. Result: you're dead, they go to jail.

However, you'd really prefer not to be dead. So imagine that someone pulls out their gun to shoot you, but then you pull out your gun and shoot them. Result: they're dead, you go to jail. It's what the law says, after all.

This is undesirable to most people because it looks like you've been punished for defending yourself. So we'll change the law: if someone is pointing a gun at you, you can shoot them without going to jail.

Now imagine that someone pulls a gun on you, then you pull a gun to defend yourself, but then they shoot you anyway. Result: you're dead, and they don't go to jail. It's what the law says, after all: you were pointing a gun at them. Oops, it's equivalent to having no law at all! This is the worst form of the law so far, and it's also the same thing as the paradox of tolerance.

The way you solve this is the same way you solve the paradox of tolerance: you say that the initial aggressor does not receive any protections if their own weapons are used against them. This produces a result that matches people's intuitions. This also creates a lesser problem, where people try to toe the line of aggression and goad someone else into making the first move so that they can justly retaliate, but it's still a vast improvement on the situation that intuitively matches how people expect things to work, which just so happens to involve ethics that are conditional on the behavior of others. The condition in this example: violence is acceptable, if it's in self-defense.

EDIT: I see this is being downvoted, would anyone care to explain their reasoning?
A lot of the DevOps engineer I know are more like resume driven YAML engineers.
If I was you, I'd save enough to go to a cheaper country and slowly work on my idea.

In fact, I'm thinking of doing that next year. My job isn't hard by any means, but I cannot focus on my other projects while I'm working.

I'm only in my 30s, but I will say the biggest tip I can give to any young person is don't let any other person direct your life. Case in point, I knew a girl once whose mother tried to push her into an arranged marriage.

She had to estrange herself for a bit.

If you like your job, stick with it I guess.

But if you really want to move abroad, do that now. The moment you get settled down, or even get into a real relationship. This gets much harder.

And finally you're going to make a bunch of mistakes, learn to forgive yourself when you do. And stay away from people who are going to harp on your mistakes and try to pick on you.
So make the bot. I paste in SAT reading comprehension questions including whole short stories and GPT3 gets them right. It’s not gibberish. It’s not even just cogent. Go throw your bot together and Show HN. I’ll wait.
>>Employers would not consider such honorary degrees to be equivalent to regular degrees

I disgree, it is purely a checkbox for many organizations, a way to filter out people. Provided the degree is accredited it would resolve the primary issue I have with the current state of employment requirements

>>Plenty of people study philosophy

that was not my comment or statement, I am sure there are "plenty" but for more than 20 years now High Schools, parents, employers, the government, and the universities themselves has been telling students that path to vocational success is via the university system, and a 4 year degree program. Are you attempting to deny this reality?

>>Academic degrees were never about vocational studies.

Then High Schools, parents, employers, the government, and the universities need to stop selling the idea of vocational achievement via 4 year Academic study.

At some point perception becomes reality, and decades of selling Academia as de facto vocational study to the masses, has cut out and reduced actual vocational programs almost entirely from the educational landscape to the point that most K-12 schools do not even have vocational programs, it is General Education or College Prep, those are the 2 tracks, with Extreme pressure on students to go for the College Prep track.
You might not be familiar but within Amazon warehouses, they will mix and match the same UPC from different vendors. When it ships, they have no idea if they ship the one from supplier X. If it’s the same barcode, it’s all the same.

So a legit supplier might have their stock mixed with a supplier of fake stuff. And people buying from the legit supplier can get the fake products.
It might be a joke on “keep your stick on the ice”. That was always my assumption.
Still enough for 99% of websites.
You may or may not be aware of the “I forgot how to cat” meme, to which the verb “to frog” likely refers:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=i+forgot+how+to+cat