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> Physics and mathematics are other economic dead-ends

Half of the trading quants on my team are physics/math PhDs. Very few econ/finance degrees. Not that there are an ocean of these jobs available, and these are probably outliers compared to the 95%+ of people graduating with those degrees, but it is still a data point.
How about "hanging out at the mall" for the covid lockdown generation?
Can't speak for OP particularly, but many newer houses in the US have the toilet in its own small room separate from the rest of the bathroom where the sinks, shower, and soaker tub are.

Though in my household I can say the door to the small room rarely gets closed and I can't convince anyone else to put the damn lid down. Until slurp-slurp-slurp the dog starts drinking it, in which case there's a "stop drinking from the bowl!" followed by closing the lid. I'm not bitter. I try to choose my battles, and "turn the fan on when you poop" is a hill more worthy of dying on. Still haven't really succeeded with the kids yet.
Heh. Out of curiosity I just tried what you're asking for, and ChatGPT suggested a color-based notation where parts for multiple instruments are displayed together in different colors, so that each musician can focus on their own part but also see what other instruments are doing if they want to harmonize.

Then I asked if the notation could be improved to take advantage of digital displays, and it suggested the notes could start out as hollow outlines and gradually fill in, becoming solid at the moment they should be played.

It seems like regurgitation is pretty advanced these days :D
Did you read the ending text? It's incredibly long. Are you claiming that people have the entire thing tattooed on themselves? I definitely can't see it fitting on a coffee mug in any readable fashion
to escape life and watch tiktok for 2 hrs.
And more importantly, don't these articles all look like they could have been written by GPT-3?
Where is the "commercial toilets must have U-shaped seats" law found?

Most "commercial toilets" are designed to be easy to clean and run off of "mains" pressure - commercial buildings have enough flow that they can flush directly without storing a buffer in a tank. And many commercial businesses have normal "home" toilets, at least around here.
Well, the people that created the 'superdry' clothing brand did this just the other way around.
Move family across continents, twice. Farewell dying parent. Move business across continents, once. Raise substantial funds at twice prior valuation. Find new everything: house/school/co-workers/site/equipment suppliers. Get back to work.
Dart is one of those languages that has always felt obscure to me, even though there appears to be a lot of work put into it. What are folks using it for?
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About your later point: Isn´t pee supposed to be a mostly sterile liquid?
I might be misunderstanding your point since I don’t know how familiar you are with China. But there are still a lot of people in “old style living” in rural China who are very keen on moving out of that environment.

Or are you saying that if economic opportunities had not lured the rural population out of agriculture, then they would have fewer descendants and thus their living descendants would be happier? That seems highly counterintuitive. In an agricultural economy, your retirement plan is your children, so you have many of them. In a modern economy, people have much fewer children. China for example is currently trying to reverse its impending population decline.
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Thats just 3 years, and likely the next release will be again full of incompatible changes. That's not a long timeframe for all but the most active (or smallest) codebases.
Something I missed at the first read: The "phone numbers" they sell are in the fictional +888 country calling code.

This is beyond bizarre: They are selling numeric-only identifiers (for no technical reason), looking like and clasing with a namespace they don't own, for money that they made up.
The ending is gold, I do not think the writer wrote this to convince us he wants more money 'now' (Perhaps during the entire proccess of seeing MC gain popularity)

The ending speaks to me like religious books due, when read with a certain eye you can see the universe truely is speaking to us through this poem.

Money doesn't exist, atleast not forever and always the way it does today.

Love is forever
GPT is capable of regurgitating existing works, and it's also capable of producing things that are a unique blend of many different things it has seen, which is pretty much the limit of what humans are capable of as well.

It exchanges one type of creative effort for another, higher throughput form of creative effort. Why write individual words myself when I can get a computer to produce a buffet of words then stitch together the best ones to achieve my vision?
What's the difficulty for sysadmins? Maybe it's particular to your OS? With FreeBSD for example, there are port flavours for the various PHP versions, and it easy to choose.
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This story is so frustrating to read. It reminds me of that other guy that composed audio for a Doom game and failed to get properly paid for it.

The frustrating part is the self-sabotage. Each story starts out with work done as an act of love, exploration, friendship. Typical for artists and in many ways charming.

Then, reality keeps telling them that this is not how it works. Reality tells them that artists need to settle on contracts before handing over output. That any contractual gap is to be resolved soon, and to not let it linger for years. And to not have a weak opening bid like: what do *you* think I should get paid?

All these points are admitted as personal shortcomings, and then still not acted upon despite endless opportunities to do so. Even to the point of not being able to feed your family.

Even when everybody else is snorting coke in some Beverly Hills mansion does crude reality not set in: that he never was a core team member nor was there friendship. It's crushing to read, like telling a kid that Santa isn't real.

Still, I respect the consistency. This is a proper artist in every way.
The situation is very different from Fortran, but mostly in good ways. The Fortran standards committee's meetings aren't open to the public, and they publish a new version of the standard every 5 years that takes another 5 years for the compilers to catch up to (if they ever support the new version). In the Julia world, you just make a pull request on github, and if it's something that needs a discussion, it gets discussed in a meeting that happens every other week and is open to and takes input from anyone.
I think you're putting too much faith in frameworks there. My employer's large PHP application is written in a framework that was once popular but then was abandoned years ago. Since that framework defines every aspect of the application, down to the directory layout, migrating away from it towards a more recent framework is largely impossible at this point. While it's true that the framework is "easy to understand", it's also true that it encases the application like a concrete coffin.

Libraries are infinitely preferable to frameworks if you want your application's life cycle to be independent of $POPULAR_FRAMEWORK's.

Even with Laravel, which is the current thing in the PHP world, I've worked in multiple teams where their application is written in a very old version of Laravel and there's no desire to attempt an upgrade to the most recent version.
* function autoloading
* typedef
* templating hooks for escaping output and such
* better phpdoc, e.g define class without creating class, nested structures.
* inner class
* modules (instead of namespaces)
Please stop using 'child's first bath' as an indicator of overreaction by the algorithm. It is not helpful to argue something which will make you look hyperbolic or histrionic once your argument is looked into.

1. The picture(s) in question mentioned above which got an account shut down and police notified was not a 'child in a bath', it was close ups of a child's genitals

2. You are probably not a parent since a child's 'first bath' is not a thing. They are bathed as infants starting immediately. If you are referring to a child's first independent bath, then no one should be taking pictures since private bathing is not something that should be intruded upon for picture taking

All that said, I agree with you.
Why build an HTTP client into a database? So you can ingest web data directly
What if there's no plugin for an API you'd like to use with Steampipe? The combined power of net_http_request and Postgres' JSON features might take you farther than you'd guess.
I already explained this in my parent comment, but the Safari APIs for adblocking are factually, objectively less effective at blocking trackers than uBlock Origin is. It's not a matter of opinion, there are things that uBlock Origin can do that Safari adblockers can't do.

People get really offended when I bring this up. I'm not saying that Safari adblocking is useless (you should use an adblocker with Safari, and there are devs doing excellent work to get around Apple's limitations, I have a lot of respect for them), but you are making a tradeoff for that sandboxing/permissions in the form of a less effective adblocker. This isn't just me saying this, if you talk to people writing iOS adblockers, they will tell you the same thing.

If you are so scared of Gorhill that you need to make sure he isn't tracking you, then sure, make that tradeoff. Or more realistically, if there are other privacy features on iOS that you care about more than adblocking, then make that tradeoff. But it's not just silly to pretend that the browsers are equivalent, they aren't.

And it's even sillier to pretend that an Open Source standard in adblocking should be rated higher on someone's threat model than the actual websites that are tracking you when you use a browser.

Once again, it's OK for people to like iOS or to point out that it has some excellent privacy features that make it a good choice for privacy-conscious consumers. And I'll give Apple praise that on iOS, the default browser supports an adblocker at all -- it doesn't require you to install a separate browser to get access to one. But we don't need to get hyperbolic and start arguing that Apple is somehow leading the pack on literally every single privacy issue; they aren't. It's OK to say, "in this specific issue, it isn't possible on iOS to get the same anti-tracking behavior that we could get on Android or on a desktop PC/Mac."
That doesn't sound like corruption, but something deliberate. What's the interpretation of that byte in the data? I wonder if it's some "feature" of the firmware.
took me a while to understand, then it clicked and I was left writ(h)ing...
None of this is on PHP the language. The roadmap is extremely clear for PHP. The problem is the likes of Wordpress having no oversight on their plugin directory. Really they should've stopped accepting new listings / updates for plugins that dont support the latest release.

Wordpress has a lot to answer for here, but given the archaic and frankly idiotic way they operate they'll do nothing of the sort.

PHP is very backwards friendly and with a strong and stable ecosystem built around composer theres no excuses for majorly used (and often very profitable) wordpress plugins lagging so far behind.
It comes down to the fact that in comparing GPUs from a general consumer perspective, unlike traditional benchmarking the goal isn't to look at the technical details of "how much time do these take to execute this exact same algorithm" but "how much time do these take to produce these visually indistinguishable images", since the end user doesn't really care if the algorithm being used is the same, they just want the same output to be produced faster.
thanks for sharing, keen to read the other stories as well!
I hope that engagement was people telling you that in fact: No don't do that.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/team/-/wikis/Exp...
I never got it why PHP kept getting bashed even nowadays, it's still the No.1 language for server side web building, Wordpress's market share alone eclipses all its "competitors" such as Nodejs and Django and Flask etc combined then times 100.

It's just like the Rust folks never miss any chance to bash C++, while C++'s market share keeps rising and after 16 years since Rust was created, it can not even make 1% of the market while C++ is 12%(excluding C which is 16%,again it keeps rising).

Rust's goal by the way should just replace Ada for specific areas, to take on C++ on a broader level it probably needs another few decades, if it can ever make it that is.
He wasn't offering a portion of the game's profits or a portion of the company. He was offering money for a work-for-hire.

At a $15M valuation, the work was worth $20k to them. At a $2.5B valuation, the work was $20k to them.
> where the translator pulled the word "urinate" from is anyones guess.

How do you use the bathroom?
Fictional civilization leaves behind lasting legacy
I’m not sure “astounding” is the right word when the article notes the hack was demonstrated at a security conference in 2019 using an Xbox controller as an easy UI.

But I suppose the author does go on for a bit about how terrible they are at writing headlines.
Judge lets metaverse company meta-serve man in fraud lawsuit
By the way, most of the petroleum we use doesn't really come from dinosaurs. The consensus among researchers seem to be that it mainly comes from dead planton and algae that sunk to the bottom, although there are also some heterodox theories of abiotic oil formation as well. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Formation)
> and lots of unglamorous work.

This.

The PHP developers are trying to turn PHP into a decent, fairly modern language. This has involved quite a lot of breaking changes in the last few years, and upgrading website code just so it works with the latest version (i.e. no actual improvements) isn't appealing work.
I read the whole post and he doesn't give me the impression of being at piece. If you're truly at piece you wouldn't be writing such a long and bitter post to begin with. He pretends he doesn't care for money, but all the examples where he felt he's not being treated fairly revolve around money. And he clearly still sees himself as one of the original Minecraft creators while he's not.
But did they test the King's Throne?

https://www.kohler.com/en/inspiration/intelligent-toilets-an...
While I didn't have many projects recently that focused on EL distros. Last year, I wanted to publish a public AMI built on top of Rocky. However, someone at the time decided to configure the published Rocky Linux AMIs to disallow republishing, so that's the only time I actually picked Alma over Rocky Linux.

After the dust settled behind the CentOS model changes, I think there might be a reasonable amount of users that also shifted to CentOS Stream and Fedora linux (Amazon Linux 2022 is also Fedora based instead of RedHat). For the scientific community something that changes way less is obviously a different story.
Intel hits key milestone for major change in future client CPUs
So sweet. I'd love to live in a 20th century paradise where reasonable quality of living is maintained without digital technologies, the everyday communication/life rhythm is slow and only criminals are surveiled. Nice to know such places still exist (and you can even buy their citizenship).
> cold email outreach

back in my day we call it spam
Those crops are only in demand because of ridiculous subsidy making them cheap
> Given that the author is German, this seems relevant.

The author appears to be Irish, but living in Germany.
Most places I know hiring PhDs to do AI/ML are hiring people with phds in a non-AI/ML field. Why? Because it is a lot easier to teach someone how to string together pytorch or tensorflow or whatever codes then it is to teach them physics, hydrology, sociology, etc. Certainly this is how my company hires.
If you're doing development across multiple versions and you don't already have a system, start with `asdf`.
"Moving on" and recounting a story can be, and often are, entirely different things.
That's a fairly hard problem, especially for the late 90s.

Improved HTTP auth is (and was) a much easier problem that the world would have benefited widely from. Cookieless authentication would have meant a world with no loophole in browser cookie handling permitting ambient tracking cookies.
Do note that Covid itself also leads to tinnitus.

Texas Roadhouse Founder Kent Taylor Dies After Struggle With 'Post-COVID' Symptoms https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...

> Texas Roadhouse restaurant founder and CEO Kent Taylor died by suicide last week at age 65 after what his family described as a "battle with post-Covid related symptoms, including severe tinnitus."

As vaccines often stimulate a response similar to the disease, it should not be a significant surprise that it is possible to have similar problems - though to a lesser degree.
Yeah, at least we should get competent in managing our own ecosystem before trying to create a new one.
> Use the facilities your host OS provides just as you'd do with Ruby, Python or Perl.

Well that's the thing: I don't know anyone who actively develops in Ruby, Python, Perl or Node that uses the OS-packaged runtimes. The system packages and the language-specific package managers live in different universes.

I've seen this situation blamed on both OS packagers or language ecosystems, but now I just think the goals between the two just are fundamentally at odds.
You're amazed because a training set, largely based on the contents of the internet since about 2011, is able to find words that rhyme with arbitrary word endings?

4 stanzas. My bad. Still not impressed.
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This is a good callout, and I thought about this as I was trying to address the mobile view.

I'll add a toggle to help differentiate and populate comments from mobile/web views.
What?

How's using the lid a controversial thing at all?
To Powell's credit, after the initial pushback, he toned that rhetoric down a little so that it is now a lot more benign. And, it seems for now, rates will not be raised as rapidly. I guess only time will tell.
Digitizing experiences (like metaverse, etc), yes, but I think I prefer digitization for completing everyday tasks. There are many times though where I've seen that making physical experiences accessible for those that are not capable of doing those (for financial or health reasons) has been a great source of contentment when it otherwise would not have been possible. If in old age, you're unable to get to a theatre but can still watch it on Netflix or at home, I consider that a win overall.

Things like banking, visa registration, and digital payments have gotten more convenient and accessible and make time for better experiences. I'm glad to have autopay for many recurring expenses and not have to worry about writing a check for every one of these. Making books and notes more portable has improved my contentment.

I have sometimes seen that once things have been made convenient and need to be optimized, they become less convenient than the original service. Customer Service over chat or tickets is oftentimes horrible, and every action you take needs your confirmation. Automation introduced in the customer service over phone is even worse than it used to be. I've started to see ads presented before watching videos on Youtube, and even before being able confirming an Uber or Lyft Ride. That time when you are focused to stay on the screen until they are ready for your decision are neither convenience or satisfying and worse than what originally existed. Here, convenience is being exchanged for profit.
Which is an implied contract, yes. Which a court would probably find that Mojang have an implied license to use the poem, yes.

But the terms of that license are unknown - a court may well decide that it did not apply to Microsoft since he didn't sign that contract. And it also means that he did not assign copyright to Mojang or Microsoft which removes that avenue of them claiming they can use it for free.
I don't think PHP's introduced anything quite as disruptive, for example, as introducing bytes vs strings. Where no tool can really convert existing code.
Have you rode without eye protection? Riding without glasses is way more dangerous than no helmet.
EU Aims to Require Crypto Providers to Report Transaction Data
A lot of the people on HN might be very willing and able to search a FAQ to try and answer their own questions.

But you would not believe how many average people refuse to spend even 10 seconds trying to answer own question and insist on reaching out to a human even when the answer is very obviously readily available. Sometimes this makes sense; there's some scams out there and at least speaking to a native English-speaking person is reassuring when it comes to who you trust your money with. But sometimes some people are just miserable and want to annoy others.
Traveling comes to mind. It used to be quit an adventure to travel (even in a neighbourhood country where people don't speak your language). You needed to do some research and put some work. Nowadays, you plan a trip to the other side of the world with a few clicks. Different experience. I enjoyed traveling more in the past.

Overall, I don't like the fact that everything is on the computer now. Work, traveling, watching movies, making music, paying your taxes, communicating with friends... I'm on holiday at the moment, It feels I spend as much time online as when I'm working.
This sounds an awful lot like a Google search. The issue, like always, is who gets to decide what is credible? Is it algorithms, and are they public. I suspect long term you'd have OYO experts instead of SEO, and a lot of the same tricks would still apply.
Seems like lower corn prices, higher beef prices, some marginal environmental benefit, and lower fuel prices is kind of reasonable trade off all-told if that was where it netted out.
Their fancy schmancy machine learning technique probably can't articulate
I'm always conflicted about long-form writing. Particularly when dealing with senior management and executives, the "wall of text" is a great way to ensure no one actually reads what you have to say (edit: unless, like the OP, you work at Amazon where Bezos established the notion of the 6-pager).

In those circumstances I tend to opt for inverted pyramid writing, in the hopes that the skimmers will get the gist and folks who really care for the details will get what they need.

But it's a tough balance, which is why it's critical to a) know your audience and b) have a clear understanding of what you're expecting when you're communicating. Are you sharing information? Communicating a decision? Seeking feedback or approval? All of those may require flexing into a different style to be most effective, particularly when taking audience into account.