skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that the problem is less due to franchise fatigue than it is to low quality and needlessly confrontational writing. Classic drama tends to have a universal quality to it that transcends any particular time, place and culture, and it's this quality that has been lacking in woke entertainments from the last five or so years.

Take Squid Game for example. I don't speak Korean and know next to nothing about Korean society, yet its core story about a group of people in desperate circumstances being forced to constantly reevaluate what they're willing to do to survive resonates with me just as well as if the show had been set in any other country.

Compare that with The Rings of Power, where Galadriel is portrayed as a perfect warrior woman whose biggest source of antagonism is the weak and unprincipled men around her. Or She-Hulk, who has to explain to Bruce Banner that men telling her how to do her job makes her a better Hulk than him.

Young progressives lap this stuff up but it leaves everyone else cold, including many women. In years to come, these stories are not going to be loved. These films and TV shows are not going to top any polls. The characters are rotten, unlikable and will not live on in anyone's hearts.
They know their audience: middle managers who need to sound like they add value.
Nope, it's just as bad. The hours of work along with afterhours. Unions themselves are not necessarily good and often act as blockers for minorities. And often force you to socialize with people you don't want any business with. Not to mention the gaps for women in the workforce, most unions are male dominant and extremely unwelcoming to women. Not to mention that they often fail at adequately increasing wages if at all. Strikes are often meaningless as they can easily by diverted by importing the section the workers who are striking from are not doing, basically in a sense unions are an outdated model for helping people in general.
Don't listen to people who succeed at what you're trying to do because they're outliers? So listen to failures and wannabes instead? Or ignore advice period?
>reducing friction helps drive more legitimate business.

A very real example in retail. I can minimize the possibility that I'll be hit with fraudulent returns. Require a receipt, short window, store credit only, must be in like new condition with all packaging, etc. (Or just sell everything on an all sales are final basis.) Different stores do many of these things to a greater or lesser degree on at least some merchandise. But you'd probably better be offering really good prices if you do.
You are right.

I'm sorry my message came a bit across like "Just copy Scandinavia, then everything will be great". Obviously that isn't the case. My point was that there's no easy solution to reduce recidivism, but if we need to start somewhere it might be better to look into incentives created by the current prison system than learning inmates to code.

That doesn't solve the whole cultural view on inmates, the social and psychological problems that placed a lot of them in the prison in the first place, etc. etc. etc.
No, the best deal would have been to ramp up nukes and lay off the green ideology crackpipe. She doesn't get credit for choosing the path of least resistance and putting Germany on its current disastrous path.
That's not really the jobs that are most problematic. As the video mentions, Intel fixed this issue for them by setting up training pipelines from community colleges for these jobs. The issue is moreso for the positions requiring more advanced education.
I feel like they need to go the SpaceX route and build dozens of these things and just launch them with the expectation that most will fail, but they learn from each failure to improve the next ones.
Pilot threatening to crash plane into Mississippi Walmart, police say
Is this open source? I'm not seeing a link anywhere and I'm not finding the code anywhere on dockyard's github[1]. It doesn't actually say in the blog post that it's open source that I can find.

[1]: https://github.com/DockYard
No it’s not, if you play the game 20 times you’re almost certain to win 50 million and probably a lot more. Unless your utility function is flat after 20 million it does matter.
On my camera, the viewfinder (the thing you use to look "through" the lens) is a screen. You can alter dioptry, which, AFAIK, is the equivalent of "moving the screen back". Essentially, you can have the screen visually as close or far as comfortable.

Odds are, these glasses have that built-in. And it's going to be a lot better for your eyesight than staring at a screen 50cm away from your face.
> If I'm going to do an 80-hour week to get something out in time, I'm going to get paid for every bit of it, and I want them to feel the pain when they see the bills.

That's a great point, maybe a way to mitigate that is a combination in your contract of a weekly rate + hours cap, and then just really good communication on time you're spending. But I must admit, that ruins one of the incentives for weekly billing for me, and that is not having to atomically track time and nickle and dime every little task.
Implementation defects exist in USB, HDMI, Thunderbolt, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and exist in all protocols.

Thunderbolt considerably reduces the defect surface for certified implementations when compared to USB and HDMI, by reducing the number of optionals for cables and implementors to zero.

That does not imply zero defects in use. It implies fewer defects in use. And invisibly-damaged cables are still the bane of all of us.
in that case how do i get one of these for a hangar
Does GM have anything in the lineup close to the Lightning? Everyone who drove that couldn’t stop raving about it.
It’s nuts that the median rent now is 700$ above what I paid for a 450sq ft, two story laneway in 2017, in Vancouver BC a city known for expensive housing.

Edit - median rent in the USA is above this, rent in Vancouver seems stablish actually?
Bulgaria was one of the biggest producers of computer hardware among then countries of the Warsaw Pact, actually
Deterministic Lockstep Multiplayer Games with Rollback for the Web
I would love that. Provided the price is fair, I'll probably get a pair. Neat :)
It is easier than that. You can use unsigned integer wraparound.

Truncate the current wall clock time to a 10 bit unsigned, then subtract the number reported by the device, and interpret the result as an unsigned 10 bit. That's the amount of time that has passed since the device emitted its timestamp. (Assuming at most one wraparound event.)
The skillset is fairly similar and people move from one industry to the other
And Xerox Star (1981) and CEDAR (1982) before that. (I have a vague memory of AppleWorks supporting tiled windows too, although application-level implementations probably don't count.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager
Seems silly. There’s facial recognition throughout the system.
Calling a contract to provide services a subsidy is intentionally disparaging.
Any thoughts or concerns on how to deal with inflationary environment and the falling Euro?
My bet is that the only reason to have "harfoots" is avoiding to pay for the use of the copyrighted word "hobbits" in the near future.

It sounds like a fart. Definitely lacking the talent of Tolkien to find the surgically precise word for each term, but I can understand the legal aspects of the need-for-control part.
> rooted in observation of actual occurrence

So by observation of actual occurrence Foucault means ignoring the entire history of science radically improving living conditions and extending lifespans for the previous centuries and instead conflating it with Nazis? That explains a lot.
Exactly. This is a perfect use case for a bank loan.
I think you’re conflating the terms optimal and ideal. The ideal amount of fraud in society is zero. The optimal amount of fraud in society is not defined, because optimization problems are always subject to a set of constraints.

So then we may ask: “what is the optimal amount of fraud in society such that the costs of legislation, education, and enforcement do not exceed X% of GDP?” and that is a different question. You might also throw technology and R&D in there because new tools make it easier to investigate fraud. Of course new technologies also open up new possibilities for fraud, so this is a very complicated exercise. But I think it’s fair to say that given any reasonable constraints, the optimal amount of fraud is nonzero.
This is pretty much spot on. Javinsi is thinking too high level compared to how the executives and politicians think.

The self interested majority (not all) do not care about these problems. They can’t act on them without risking their own positions because the solutions are unpalatable to the people they rely on to maintain their stations. Subsequently these are things to be kicked down the road for someone else to address. The politician only really cares about getting re-elected, the executive about closing the latest deal. They only care about the medium to long term in as much as it allows them to keep gaining in the short to medium term.

The majority of people at this level are over 40. They likely have only 40 - 50 years left to live (we’re going with higher life expectancy because they’re wealthy). They will likely be retired in 20 to 30 years. As long as things are ok in that time frame they’re golden. Get enough money for some nice houses scattered around the world near some good golf courses. Trump is literally the archetypal representation.

Look at house prices in New Zealand. They’re literally buying property there because they think in a worse case scenario, if the entire system collapses they can just ride out the storm until it either rebuilds itself or they die of old age in relative luxury. Keyword: relative. So long as they’re still in an elevated position they do not really give a fuck if things go backwards, even for themselves.

And even if they do fail in the short term the consequences are negligible. Look at some failing companies from ten years ago and see what the CEO is doing now. Nine times out of ten they’re either CEO or chairman somewhere else or retired. You have to REALLY fuck up a la Elizabeth Holmes to fall out of favour of the ‘network’.

You even see this in fiction. When Tyrion needs Bron’s help he won’t do it for the money: he wants a castle. Bron is smart and gets the game: if he wants to escape the life of being a hired killer for good he needs to join the nobility network, not just collect a paycheck. The castle would grant him that.

Closer to home, I recently worked at a company on an application that was so slow it was bordering on unusable by the users. The engineers had been trying for years to get resources for a rebuild. Yet all the business department cared about was adding more features because they could make more money from them. This inevitably kept making the problem worse. Taking the time out to refactor the program was unglamorous and didn’t give the business department anything to show the top dogs who were clamouring for growth, growth, growth. Eventually that program will get to a point where it is unusable. The parallels with the global situation are easy to see.
> cannot geostrategically survive

Just seems like a 2nd cold war on steroids. Not sure why the west won't be the one to survive as opposed to Russia & China.

But also, doesn't that strengthen the argument that the west must intervene? What would you rather oppose, a weaken Russia + China (not to mention a stronger NATO alliance with Finland, Sweden & Ukraine) or a stronger Russia + China?
That's also one source and accounts for 5% of postings available on my site. So, in a way it makes a difference.
I’m located in Midwest USA. My states median family income for a year is $10k more than my monthly.
The company I worked for (Data I/O) initially told me not to write the program. I did it anyway as a rogue project. It turned out to be ideal for Data I/O's customers to connect Data I/O's LogicPak to a PC, and the salesmen started making copies on their own to give to their customers. It increased sales, and wasn't a big klunky program with a zillion unneeded features like Kermit.

Eventually, Data I/O made it an official part of the LogicPak.

It was a VT-100 terminal emulator for the PC, with a side feature of capturing the received data to a file, or writing the contents of a file to the serial port.
Pharma is deeply invested in cannibis - they are NOT losing ANY money!
Google is not some special company, its a big company and it has shitshows to fit their big company status. Just because they can keep throwing money at their recruitment department doesn't mean this is something worth replicating or that they get the absolute best talent (if that was the case their messaging apps would not get deprecated after a year)
Not even SpaceX is going to test launch when there are obvious issues.
I build web apps from start to finish by myself (architecture, design, development, database, servers, marketing page etc.).

I bill $500/day, but do project based billing, with 50% payment up-front, 25% on first preview, and 25% on delivery. For improvements and new features on existing projects, I estimate the avg. monthly work and we do monthly retainer agreements.

I usually work with seed stage startups (usually referred to me by the angel investors) or bootstrapped B2B tech companies acting as their dev. team.

My rate is lower than others mentioned in this thread, but I live in Turkey, which compared to EU/USA, has very low cost of living, and this rates allow me to live comfortably.

That said, after doing this for 10+ years, I'm finally pivoting to creating my own SaaS products, and stopped accepting new clients and slowing down the works with existing clients.
Some of comments here seem a bit of an overreaction to me. And that's coming from someone who recently switched away from using Ubuntu. I don't like snaps, and it was annoying. But, getting rid of it takes like 5 minutes, or 1 if you don't have to Google how.

Remove each snap package until there are none left, purge snapd, install Firefox in any other way you feel like. And that's it.

I've since moved to Arch, and I'm much happier. But snap was not the reason.
> overwhelmingly businesses simply absorb fraud costs in the same way that they absorb their office rent, staff salaries, and marketing expenses.

I didn't realize that is who usually pays for fraud. I see two problems with this arrangement:

1. The credit card companies, who in some ways are probably in a better position to prevent fraud, are less incentivised to prevent fraud, because they aren't the ones paying for it. For example they could make credit credentials more difficult to steal, by making it so the raw credentials never go directly to online businesses, either by using asymmetric cryptography rather than a number or using an oauth style flow with the credit website in order to complete a transaction. But the credit company would bear the bulk of that cost and it would primarily benefit retailers.
2. Consumers that pay using a method with less fraud risk, such as cash, still have to pay a higher price to cover the cost of absorbing the fraud cost.

On the other hand it does allow businesses to self select how much fraud they are willing to accept.
First of all, your comments have all felt righteous and sanctimonious to me, so I find it weird that this is the angle you've decided to take with me...to accuse my motive. You are the one who is condescendingly telling me that I need to consider other people's positions as to why control of information might be beneficial, then inferring my motive and trying to get me to consider why I laid out these bullet points that you obviously already knew.

Secondly, I have no idea what information you know. You say that you gained no new information from the bullet points I laid, so what was the point? Well, as I said, not only do I not know what you know, but it's important for the context of the conversation to iterate on examples about which I'm talking about.

> So if we both have the same information, why do you think we reach different conclusions with that information

Given that I'm aware that we have the exact same information, which, for the last time, how could I be? Well in that case, people coming to different conclusions with the same information happens more often than not. It typically comes from people having different frameworks through which they process information.

As to the purpose of my "talking points," which is an extremely condescending way of dismissing a compilation of facts, as if I'm simply parroting a feed of propaganda I've been force fed...as to their purpose: they are examples of what I would consider to be institutional failures. Institutional failures, shows of bad faith, incompetence, and departures from the truth, all of which were done by the very same institutions I've argued should not have the authority to claim command over reality, as proposed by this legislation.

That is my point: not only would I be skeptical of giving competent institutions authority over controlling the way the public exchanges information, but here are the examples of the way those very same institutions have missed the mark throughout the pandemic. If my point isn't clear enough for you to have come to the same conclusion as me, very well, it happens all the time. If you're actually interested in getting to the philosophy of why that is, which I don't actually think you are, and seem to have just fallen back on this psychoanalytical bullshit as a defense mechanism, then I'm perfectly happy to transition away from the topic at hand into that conversation.
snap is the new systemd

I dunno, I am only slightly inconvenienced by it, not enough to run apt uninstall snap though.
As the other answer says: "win the political debate" doesn't mean "everyone loves them." It's not a value statement.

It means "unions are highly encouraged, and companies pretty much have to recognize them."
Project management, execution or consultation, $40/day.
How would you approximate the ratio of jobs posts you scrape to those entered by your 'post a job' feature?

EDIT: Thought about it and i guess it's 100% scraped for now..
Oops you’re absolutely right. I always thought this was one of the drawbacks of private institutions. Thanks for the info/correction
Hm. The fanbase from GoT was rabid, I'll give you, but rabid with negativity - they hated the ending, and a lot of them soured on the entire show after it was over. LoTR has an equally rapid fanbase, I'd say, but they were much more uniformly positive towards the source material.

Then again, maybe that's why - the GoT fans are pleasantly surprised that HotD isn't a disaster, whereas the LoTR fans are upset that it's not as good as they'd expect.
I don't watch Woke. Never watching Rings of Power, period, ever.
Listen to me, I'm neither a failure nor an outlier, I am a non-writer. Completely unbiased, completely uninformed. My advice: write!
It would be a sad world if we judged all of our entertainment by how close they were to “average”.
You will forget things but if you had your textbooks and flipped through them, would it come back? Have you tried doing that?
And where do you find freelance brokers?
The website used to say support for Windows is experimental, but I installed it and a graphics library to draw pretty things in a window and it worked fine
> Expected value doesn't mean jack shit if the game can only be played once.

Thinking like this was the mistake I've made.

While you can play a given game only once, your life will have plenty of such games. So there definitely is a relevance to "expected value". And this is easily to simulate with a program. The expected value of the wealth for those who take the chance when the "local expected value" is better than the certain outcome does tend to be higher.
Depending on whether or not you have ECP/EPP parallel ports on your machine, LapLink might be the best solution.
In Canada too but long term multi year international contract leading small dev team. $150/hr 40 hours week.
Jetbrains pivots towards integrated solutions unfortunately reminds me of the demise of Delphi when Borland moved to "ALM". Hopefully IntelliJ fares better
I dont know what the 'ideal world' talk is about, what I do know is that the audience votes with something valuable and real, not something vague and nebulous like expertise.

Fans have nothing to gain, not prestige, not fame, not even a fattening bank account. All they ask for is to be entertained. Peter Jackson and hos team may be to blame for leaving such a high bar to clear, but censorship will never be the answer.
I have to wonder how many of these people were supposed to be evicted earlier but hid behind the COVID rules to avoid it.
Read the contract, mine didn't have it though (2020).
Are "Capture the Flag" and "Scorched Earth" really that obscure?
I work in the UK and it's a fair estimate that a good percentage of senior managers haven't got a clue when it comes to IT and technology in general. Having said that, people aren't necessarily stupid: if the pitch is right, they would adopt the solution and pay decent consulting rates. The biggest problem is that both groups do struggle to meet each other.
I agree, copper appears to be a major problem coming forward.
> What should they have done?

Negotiate for peace. Just as the US would object to Mexico joining a military alliance with e.g., China, Russia objects to Ukraine joining a military alliance with the US. Even if you do not believe Russia when they said this is the main issue, calling their bluff would have cost nothing, but potentially saved many lives. Wars end with negotiation. Eventually these negotiations will take place. There will just be fewer Ukrainians and Russians around to witness them.

And, if NATO membership was the primary issue, this war could have been avoided if the Clinton administration had not rebuffed Russia in their request to join NATO themselves.

As to the US proposed sanctions, I suspect that if Germany had not agreed, the EU as a whole would not be participating. And, that if Merkel was still in power, that Germany would not have agreed.
> If it’s bad for an autoworker to buy an “import”, surely a Microsoft employee should be shopping at Walmart or some other Microsoft partner, not Amazon.

that really is a stretch don't you think?

Perhaps they are buying imports because they know the quality of the product they are building? Perhaps they know the "imports" are better and will last longer?

Does Azure offer socks? what if the Azure VP wanted socks for their kids

You seem to think an Azure VP shopping at Amazon (which only compete on the cloud computing space) is the same as a Unionized autoworker buying a car from a non-union shop????

> Why do you care about how the UAW guy defrauded his organization?

you are the one who said corruption only happens on the "business side of the table".. now you are shown this is incorrect your new position is "why do i care"?
The way this is phrased, I expected to learn there was some benefit to a low amount of fraud, as such. There is not. There is a benefit to a high amount of trust, which necessitates accepting some amount of fraud.
Melting ice reveals two-million-year old peat
I hate when the articles have no images, so here are a few:

Wikipedia page about the legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantre%27r_Gwaelod

The PDF of the research article is in https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/32596/... (https://doi.org/10.4138/atlgeo.2022.005)

The old map with the islands is in page 5 and a new map with the sea depth is in page 7.