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> no conspiracy theory has yet emerged arguing that the Empire never really fell at all

"To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement [...] Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus [...] thereby it becomes its enemies [...] the Empire never ended." —Philip K. Dick aka Horselover Fat

Seriously, if the author is into weird conspiratorial thinking, the late work of PKD is a must.
There's a (famous?) quote from a google engineer Andrew Chatham who worked on self driving cars. When asked about the trolley problem, he said "It takes some of the intellectual intrigue out of the problem, but the answer is almost always ‘slam on the brakes’” [0]

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/22/self-driv...
Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study
Because Steve Jobs used to do this, e.g. introduction of Macintosh.[1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/2B-XwPjn9YY?t=23
There's a television ad that stands out in my memory from when I was a kid (80s). The camera pans across patrons at a diner and the voiceover is about how a kidnapped child was recovered as the camera stops on a young girl (~8yo). The child is described, but the child the camera landed on has different features (hair dyed, cut, whatever). The explanation for how she was identified is that her fingerprints were on file. The message? Get your children fingerprinted!

In adulthood, I've often thought back to that ludicrous ad. No child's fingerprints are getting checked unless some foul play is already suspected. The likelihood that the child would fall into police custody and get checked is already slim; fingerprints aren't going to help until that happens. We don't have campaigns to fingerprint children as a proactive precaution today (of which I'm aware). Clearly, that wasn't a major breakthrough in reuniting kidnapped children with their parents that endured.

I'm very cynical, but I've always thought that was a campaign to gather biometrics from the population using fear as a motivator. I don't necessarily think this is that, but I can't help wondering the perverse incentives of the FBI as I'm reminded of the ad.
Democracy only works with an informed electorate. A dysfunctional democracy is every almost as bad as a dictatorship.
Yeah I agree with you. I see my older colleagues prioritize this. The problem with me is that I did it in reverse. In my 20s instead of actually trying, I took the first lame job I could find out of college and took years to leave into something better. Even then the best I could muster is moving to another corporate enterprise shop. (i'm 34). I never did the fast moving startup or the FAANGs even though I feel like I should do so and get it on my resume before I reach 40. Not only did I mess up in not getting any real mentorship I am now in a position where I'm paid fairly well (~120k in an eastern suburb)and have no stress whatsoever. Deadlines are just a suggestion and my team is not tech savvy so no one helps me grow other than myself. Everyone is also super respectful, no gossip, no fighting, no drama, a management meeting load as well. I know this is going to bite me hard down the road, but it is really difficult to give up this position prematurely for something more growth worthy now. I also consider myself to be super lucky to be in this position so i'd feel guilty walking away from it. At least I am working on a tech stack I enjoy. (Angular + Python)
Philips hue.
Yup. It's just that they went out of their way to answer it... Almost like they're worried people won't download the app if they didn't say it upfront.
I find it somewhat ironic that despite starting as a love letter to the colorful, fun things people did with MySpace, this post is still black text on a white background like the entire rest of the modern web (that’s not in dark mode). Pick some damn colors and make a statement, dude.
Just look at one of the best platforms for "fun and weird" - YouTube.

The algorithm aggressively promotes freshness (things posted in the past few hours for certain queries!) and 10+ minute long videos.

Every algorithm change directly impacts what creators, create, because no one wants to put in a whole lot of work for something to never be seen.

If, for example, the ideal format for a joke or video is 3 minutes, that either gets disappeared from public view or becomes part of a longer video.

The real answer, in my opinion, is that current recommendation engines prioritize profit rather than quality or innovation. Or perhaps their evaluation metrics are so bad that their goal is misunderstood. Or perhaps those who stand to profit have become too adept at gaming algorithms (or human psychology e.g. lewd thumbnails) that they degrade results.

...or perhaps we all suffer from nostalgia and forget how terrible the results were of yesteryear.

Who knows, all I know is I feel disappointed in what the internet has become. Even this thread is really just an ad, hijacking our biases and climbing the HN ranks accordingly.
The phenomenon what you mention is called "Tyranny of Majority", great many thinkers have indeed weighed on this.
> it doesn't pay enough

> Most scientists don't do it for the money though

Naturally, a field that doesn't pay well will fail to attract people who are motivated by money.
Surely, the FBI would never tell a lie.
It is a signal that oil and gas are not going anywhere for a long time. Even if they were buying it for the sale of its assets, those assets would not be worth very much if oil and gas industry were in terminal decline. He is making massive investments in the field because of the prospects of future growth in the long term. He's probably entirely right too, since oil is embedded in virtually everything we do. A thriving economy depends on access to cheap and abundant energy.
always do nothing who really knows what will happen when you pull the switch
They’ve given all the brands a budget and a time box to turn things around. Those that do will be retained, the others will go. My wife was a chemist there for a few years, since before it became Stellantis.
Reddit and other social media has largely replaced it I'd say (not to the same quality though).
Exactly. After testing Copilot myself[0], I can see that the copy/pasted code is changed enough (by using variable and function names from your prompts or context) that no court would ever decide that you had infringed.

JavaScript and other languages aren't copyrightable by themselves. It's not illegal nor immoral to observe others' code and write something orthogonal in the same language.

[0] https://levelup.gitconnected.com/flying-with-github-copilot-...
It really does seem very cult-like with the way Apple wants everyone to change up English for their product specifically...
8k km/s: Star with the shortest orbital period around black hole discovered
You ever notice how similar their models are? Nearly all of their line ups are clones with different trim.
You're just shifting the target from one monopoly app store that's high profile to a dozen or so (maybe fewer) app stores who will also have their own arbitrary rules and moderation.

You might say, well at least they have alternatives from Apple. Sure, but then if those alternatives are sufficiently good competitors we likely lost all of the privacy benefits and so forth from the Apple App Store and they'll have their own arbitrary review practices and retaliatory nature. And if they as good of alternatives then most likely the majority of these apps with "problems" are just scam artists and should be rejected anyway except now they can thrive on people who are susceptible to being scammed.

To me this is a little bit like having a debate over the First Amendment where I'm kind of sitting here and saying yea you shouldn't be allowed to yell fire! in a crowd as part of the amendment from the start and others are just asking for maximum freedom of speech, only to have this legislated later anyway.
IRCv3 has an extension that does just that. I've played with it using ergo.

https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chathistory

https://github.com/ergochat/ergo
Nit: it's marques (brand of car), not marquees (cinema entrance).
Quart, the async implementation of Flask has joined Pallets
Quart Github: https://github.com/pallets/quart
autocorrect spelling error : silicone -> silicon
You can't remember this info or write it down? The normal photos on your phone can't be sent to authorities?

Seems like an app to fix a nonexistent problem.
> most people are boring/normal by definition and the internet is now mainstream. The internet used to be filled with a pretty weird subset of the general population but now that is drowned out by the masses.

That doesn't explain MySpace, though. Extremely mainstream/mass-oriented, but still fun and weird, while it lasted.
Which indicates I see myself in the mirror all the time, and I likely associate with others around my age, day in and day out, and I look at any of those 60 year old celebs, and they do not look like my cohort.

And then I specified exactly what about their face - which is a lack of a certain “bounce” seen in younger people’s faces.
Bun relies on Zig and Zig is an unfinished product that relies on donations to survive. A shout-out to Zig is not only a nice gesture but also a smart one, since it's in Bun's best interest for Zig to survive at least until v1.

The general concern about "written in Zig" being annoying is fair. I think it's a different beast when paired with a call to donate but regardless, if RIIZ is what worries you most, then you can sleep safe because our motto is "Maintain It With Zig", a conscious rejection of "Rewrite It in *".

https://kristoff.it/blog/maintain-it-with-zig/
Low grade corruption ...and here's why:

The FBI is understaffed, misdirected & underfunded for its real mission, which I would argue must be fighting public corruption, organized crime and counter-espionage. Any objective analysis would conclude the Bureau has been politicized and its resources have been directed at operations, investigations and training that does not fulfill its core mission.

The bad PR and mistrust the FBI has earned in recent years is the public product of what I'm describing, and the solution is not mobile apps of marginal utility made to make the Bureau look good. No, the solution is arrests of corrupt politicians, crime bosses & spies.

Its not just the FBI suffering from feel/look good boondoggles. The Air Force struggles with hypersonics but excels at new uniform design. The DOT is a leader in equity & diversity, but has failed to upgrade & regulate rail infrastructure & procedures that make derailments a regular occurrence.

Tax revenues have been their highest in decades, possibly longer. We deserve better.
I've had a half-planned essay sitting around for years on how "rubbish has no SKU".

An important part of a product is its standard, fungible nature. Every unit off the production line the same. Quality maintained. Sealed in packaging.

As soon as you take it out of the packaging it becomes a unique item with a history. It's outside the QA bubble. It might be in perfectly saleable condition; it might have something wrong with it (after all, there's a reason it's being returned); it might have been damaged by the customer. It's a liability. If they were to take it back and re-sell it to someone, and get sued, that would wipe out more value than throwing away hundreds or even thousands of the same good.

This is also why secondhand goods in general are so cheap, and things like furniture may even have negative net value because they cost more to move than they are worth.
Funny how many modern movies break most of these rules
And same for semiconductors. Everything seems to have been consolidating like mad.
> The worst experience I've had was telling my dad MacOS Catalina couldn't be installed on his $3.5k iMac.

Just in case you'd be ok with unofficial way - there are patchers to enable macOS install on older machines:

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/install-macos-catalina-unsu...
I have about the same age as you (maybe a bit older) yet I don't share any of those feelings.

If anything 70s music is some of my favourite.
> the worst the Mac has ever been

Which one was that?
Get rid of child care laws, then. No taxation without representation!
M2 is not a single core CPU, albeit it does have stellar single threaded performance. As for having the worst Mac, it's quite probable they were nerfing their last x86 models on purpose to make the jump to Apple Silicon even more impressive. Remember the models that had inadequate thermals? Now magsafe is making a comeback?
Ask HN: Burnt out developer trying to move out of Iran, advices?
To sum it up quickly

Living in Iran

38yo/married/no kids

University drop out

Burnt out developer because employer asks you to finish the job quicker and quicker and then throws more work at you without any perks/changes to your salary

Have been working as a bookkeeper/sort of an accountant for 5 years

No savings/hard to save much when your salary is 350USD/mo

My wife has a masters degree in accounting and a good resume

Good skills in Vanilla JS/HTML/CSS

Viable skills in C#/T-SQL/a lot more

No resumes

Planning to migrate to Europe/US/Australia in next 5 years because Iran is on edge of economic/social/life-basics collapse.

1. My main question is: Can I work as a developer and not be under pressure every minute?

2. If I get hired as a developer, can I have a life outside my work or I'm gonna have to learn the new hipster framework after work hours for the rest of my life?

3. Is it worth cutting my salary by 2 days a week to work on open source projects to build up a resume?

4. I'm fine learning say, COBOL. Should I go that way?

5. Am I better looking for other jobs?

6. Any advices?

P.s I don't think I can do paid remote work for foreign countries until I get a second passport since Iran is sanctioned and I probably can't have a bank account in western countries.
Their argument is basically what "strong towns" is about. There is a video series on YouTube which goes over the books content if you're interested. There is definitely truth in it and your examples are spot on with proving their point, you're just missing context as it's not really possible to summarize it in one comment.

But besides that: reducing speed from 90 to 70 is most likely not for safety and more about the noise pollution. But i guess you don't care about that, as you're only driving through
Some of these recommendations are insane, over 1000 lumen per bulb must look like a nuclear bomb went off in your office. I have 3x 300 lumen bulbs at 2700k.
If you have unattended-upgrade and automatic reboot in the cloud to benefit from security updates for long-lived instances, then you better make sure to have a tty console attached to it. You are treating it like a physical machine, you must have the same tooling around.
If you are not well connected or well established, I don't know how you could possibly find those correct hiring managers. I don't have anything other than legacy companies or midsized no name enterprise shops on my resume. How does that translate into anything other than the riff raff looking at my resume?
1) How many QAnon followers do you know? I know quite a few IRL.

2) Preventing divorce in the first place certainly is.
if inaction has same result as action then it's better to stay away from any responsibility caused by action
The UK pricing is £1,249, up from £999, so 24% extra for the better CPU, webcam & display[0].

A bit disappointed to see them sticking with 256GB SSD as the base, feel like 512GB should really be the standard nowadays.

[0]https://www.apple.com/uk/mac/compare/?modelList=MacBook-Air-...
This seems like a perfect set of rules to write dull detective fiction. Some of the best works I have read (or seen) from this genre violate a lot of these rules.
You can't perform every scientific experiment yourself, but that also goes for academia.

The vast majority of academic scientists don't have access to particle accelerators, can't send probes into space, and so on. Regardless of who you are, there are always going to be experiments that are inaccessible to you.
pCloud 10TB Lifetime Plan
And you get half the IOPS, because in the base model they ship it with only one NAND chip. (Apple has stopped making the 128 GB chip)
Eclipse Graphical Language Server Platform
You might like pinging people so they get a notification on their phone, but they might not like being on the other end of your ping :)

IRC has been around a lot longer than most of the projects which have sprung up in the same space, and IRC views their features with skepticism rather than being the eternal trend-follower. If IRC had followed every trendy chat feature for the past 34 years then it would be a hulking monstrosity by now.

There is wisdom in moderation. A communication method can be effective without facilitating every style of communication -- often moreso. I'll note that you're unable to embed a GIF or highlight code or send an emoji reaction on your Hacker News comments, but we seem to be having this conversation in relative ease despite that.

Different people value different things. Matrix is there if you want a more "modern" option.
I always thought ST Micro was based in Geneva.
Q: What is 20 times 4?

A: 80 because multiplication is commutative.
This seems to be equivalent to asking if there is any such thing as strength of evidence at all, and so yes, of course. The evidence that 100mg of cyanide will kill you is very strong, the evidence that seed oils cause inflammation is weak, even though there's a lot of it.
Much has been said about this: https://www.vox.com/22675358/us-car-deaths-year-traffic-covi...

The gist is that we design our streets in such a way that people drive dangerously fast on them when they’re not slowed down by congestion, and during the pandemic that’s exactly what happened. Some other countries (particularly in Western Europe) take a safe systems approach to street design and did not have the same uptick in fatalities that we did.
The problem is that ISAs don't support any sort of side-channel resistance mode, so even hand-rolling assembly (or machine code) won't fix every possible leak. If such a mode could be added, then any language could add appropriate intrinsics to set it.

More likely is that cryptography-specific instructions (like AES-NI or ARM's SHA hash instructions) will get added for more relevant operations.
If it was a ad, was a company involved? Sending biometrics to any company should always make someone think twice.
Facebook owns a few properties, including WhatsApp. But I think you are envisioning a high switching cost, whereas I think it would just be a simple download and install of the Meta store. You'll probably purchase products using a Libra derivative too. There wouldn't be very high switching cost for customers, and they'll rapidly click through privacy prompts (if they happen at all) with no Apple ostensibly looking out at all for this. At that point it'll just be up to government regulation.
I'd say democracies/republics are about choosing stability over potential massive upside or downside. A great dictator can get shit done and improve lives very quickly(Singapore), on the other hand a terrible dictator can quickly turn things to shit.

Gridlock that many people complain about is almost the prime benefit of democracy, Scalia actually talked about this before he died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTYa0nMmt-I
It's absolutely amazing to me that so many people find research-funding a crazy thing to do, almost equivalent to throwing money down the drain.
Theories aren't evidence at all, what could you mean by this?
Thanks for the feedback.

I’m allergic to cats, but I know they can make good companions to women and men.

The main alternative I’m considering is an intentional community, which I’ve found can be really fulfilling and more sustainable ecologically than living alone.

But I do appreciate you taking the time to offer your heartfelt advice.
They keep all the marquees because they sell better in the various European national markets, but many models are now the same platform with some small aesthetic changes. For example the new electric citroen berlingo / fiat doblo / opel combo are the same car:

https://www.citroen.it/modelli/berlingo/elettrico.html

https://www.fiat.it/e-doblo/e-doblo

https://www.opel.it/veicoli/gamma-combo/combo-e-life/panoram...
i like it as a separate frame
> Preventing divorce in the first place certainly is.

Via which specific policies?

Simply bemoaning "urban" people's "broken families" doesn't count, and they might start with their favorite President's marriages.
People who are have the skills to investigate home phoning might get a version pushed that doesn't phone home.

/tinfoil
People usually use 64-bit timestamps, but for higher resolution.

For example, nanoseconds. That's about up to 2500 or so?
> No child's fingerprints are getting checked unless some foul play is already suspected.

A simple way around it is to have the kid fingerprinted and only release the information if the kid needs to be tracked/located.
I learned via the htmlgoodies website, and iirc that was late 1996. Printed pages of things I wanted to remember, and put them in a red binder that I still have to this day.
Most IRC networks are relatively small and/or are/were run by techies with no real incentive to log everything. Also, almost everything culturally about IRC relies on trusting the IRC operators to keep things running smoothly and moderate appropriately.

UnrealIRCd (a popular IRC server implementation) have actively refused to add features in to the code-base that allow IRC operators to snoop on private messages or covertly on channels, for example.

Slack, Facebook, Reddit, and whoever else we all use these days, keep every private message ever sent logged for all time and this is just accepted.
Or maybe less people agree that it is really as dire as you seem to think it is.
Also voted no, felt like pulling the lever would mean I took part in the inevitable killing, even if the outcome was the same. It would also remove precious time needed for the victims to recount their lives and come to terms with their situation before dying.
I believe it's probably covered in the mass of stuff you sign at the beginning of the school year.
>enjoy macOS

If you're wanting to use your laptop for development work, you're going to pick the best job for the task. Moving to OSX would not only slow things down due to how slow non-native Docker is (no it is not negligible, yes I have an M1 Mac and I have tested it in a side-by-side comparison), but you have much less control over your environment compared to Linux.

The vast majority of the people I've worked with choose to use Linux laptops over Macs, and I don't think CPU efficiency is something that's going to get them to change. While working from home, I can think of zero scenarios where I need more than 8 hours of battery life, which my x86 Intel laptop already exceeds.
Absolutely skip the 8 GB. I tried my luck with M1 Air, but returned it after two days for 16 GB version. Some Xcode, Sketch and web development.

Once you start swapping, you easily get multi-second delays where a system is totally unresponsive.

A 24 GB M2 Air would be great, but I expect my current M1 to last gracefully for years.
This still doesn’t follow. If it’s marked for adults and the kids watch it then it isn’t googles fault.
Email does. Right tool for right job.
Not sure what you’re referring to. A majority certainly does not approve of overturning Roe, quite the opposite.
I read GP's as "combination of (single core CPU *plus* graphics) performance"
Yeah, it is nice being in at least one fandom that is mostly left alone from most of the mainstream.

One thing I love about the greater furry community is that a LOT of art gets aggregated to a certain site, which I am sure you are aware of, that puts high value on proper sourcing/tagging. (And still respects the wishes of the creators)

Maybe unrelated: Do you think furry commissions are so expensive because so many furries are wealthy, or do furries pursue wealth to pay for commissions?