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I've thought long and hard about adapting Neuromancer. I think it can be done, but you'd need some liberties. For one, the whole idea of the Tessier-Ashpools would be fascinating if put through the lens of modern billionaires. Like analyzing the Musks and the Bezos of the world who are obsessed with perpetuation of their wealth, of their power, to the point of not actually enjoying their life. I loved the analogy in the book of a nest of wasps, these almost parasitic pests burrowed into their home. You'd have to figure out some way to integrate this into the ending, which I felt was kinda hand-waved in the book.

With a character like Case, you'd need to nail the frenetic energy, like on his last bit of money, strung out, no sleep, basically like a Safdie brothers protagonist. My dream aesthetic would be Safdie brothers + Ridley Scott with a dose of Jóhann Jóhannsson (RIP) for music.

Molly could be interesting if you embrace the street samurai moniker and give her a sort of Yojimbo-esque amusement.

This is a big big change but I'd love it if the Japanese obsession was replaced with a more modern multi-Asian aesthetic. It'd be interesting to blend k-pop and Chinese social media culture into the mix. And make some of the characters Asian-American.
Absolutely do not tell them. This is a can of worms you really do not want to open. You will not be met with a welcoming response. Its sad, but that is the state of affairs.
IMHO Severance is the most inspirational TV since Twin Peaks. It’s a real work of art. A masterpiece.

It’s the only reason I signed up to Apple TV+. I looked for other shows on there, but cancelled not long after.
I suppose it's a matter of perspective. My wife, son and I have been masking with 100% consistency since April 2020 (in indoor/crowded outdoor places) and we haven't felt 'dehumanized' to the slightest degree.

It's not quite free; the bridge of my nose sometimes experiences some irritation, and we've had to deal with more than a hand full of hateful/snarky in person comments, but that's no biggie.
They've also botched The Wheel of Time.
A while ago I wanted to make some vector-based toy games for fun. I surveyed the available options and basically couldn't find any. If an engine supports vector graphics, it wants to rasterize them ASAP. If I asked online, the general answer was, "GPUs are for rasters, it gets rasterized one way or another. So just do that."

I dunno. I'm not that bright. I don't fully understand it all. But I feel like it should be easy to say, "here's some SVG files for my toy 2D game. I expect they'll scale infinitely well when I zoom the viewport" but alas it was such a migraine with PhaserJS/PixiJs, Godot, and Unity3D.

I'm excited about any sort of project to get you vector graphics as close to the metal as possible before being rasterized (ideally upon draw to the graphics buffer)
Or maybe the VC's don't see it as unethical because that's just a tiny view of how things really work under the covers.
They’ve been building F150s for years
> Trump sure does some scammy things for someone so supposedly wealthy. Would you, as an alleged billionaire, put your name behind something as cheesy as this fora (maybe) a few million dollars?

IIRC, Trump basically went bankrupt decades ago, and was only been able to maintain the aura of wealth by selling his name to be put on cheesy things (remember Trump Steaks) and playing the character of a rich businessman on TV.
Why businesses are taxed so low but individuals/employees so high in EU (35%-65% income tax)?
I couldn't agree more.

LotR and the MCU have shown that when you respect the source material, you get incredible movies which are popular and long lasting. For some reason, Hollywood still thinks they can hire directors and writers who want to put their own spin on things and disrespect both the material and the audience and make adaptions like iRobot and Foundation (among many others) which are simply horrible. Even Steve Jackson fell down this hole with (to me) nearly unwatchable Hobbit trilogy.

It's not about the adaption per se - you always need to make drastic changes to transform one medium into another - it's about understanding what makes the source material great. Instead you have directors who pride themselves on having never read or seen the original. It boggles my brain.

Sometimes it works - think BladeRunner or Children of Men - but for more popular stuff, the first thing producers should do is hire a group of fanboys/fangirls to educate them on what makes a particularly loved story great and what changes would not only be unwelcome, but insulting.
I never use anything truly lightweight for personal projects or prototypes. For one thing, then I'd have to learn a lightweight stack in addition to the heavier ones for real projects, plus, they're not usually that fast and easy to use.

I'm a fan of Node/Svelte(I've never started a new project in it but I have enjoyed working on existing stuff in it).

For new work I'll almost always be using Python, CherryPy, and a Vue3/Websockets based approach, usually with quite a few supporting libraries.

I also use a lot of Mako templating, but I'm moving away from that as Mako doesn't have good IDE support and it can get in the way of realtime responsiveness.

If there will be content involved, which there often is, I'll use Showdown to render markdown.

One technology I really want to work with more is Microsoft's Adaptive Cards, they will likely be finding their way into my projects soon.

Against my better judgement I do have a project idea in mind at the moment, but it would need either Dart or Kotlin, and the backend would probably be MQTT, although anything personal project sized would be trashed instantly by a DDoS since part of the design involves an open public backend with all the security on the client.

And of course, if my project is embedded, ESP32+Arduino all the way, At $5 or so, there's rarely any reason to use a bare MCU or anything that doesn't have WiFi unless you're doing mass production.

One thing I never touch for anything personal is a database. No postgres, no mysql, none of it. If I need one I use sqlite.

If nobody is paying for I'm not doing sysadmin work at home. My stuff is all unzip and run, with dependencies from the Debian or language package repos.

I don't use Docker or Kubernetes or anything like that, because I avoid anything microservice-like, or anything that requires an external process with nontrivial configuration. Needing an MQTT broker or relying on an external daemon for something very big and complex like Zigbee2mqtt is about as far as I'll go.

Even apache/php is too much config for me. I have very little tolerance for system level configuration needed to support one specific app, and messing with containers isn't my idea of fun either.
Lots of COTS products that depend on Oracle for a backend. Can't just upgrade to Postgres. The vendor may not have the $$ to support multiple databases.

Not just COTS...lots of in house systems
Typical is 60-90k but 100k is pretty standard for SFF
I feel a similar sentiment, but since that sentiment sells ( see Bill Hicks on advertising dollar[1] ), company might dial down the usual propaganda in lieu of actual customer satisfaction. If you are looking for more recent example, check Amazon's "Expanse". It is very anti-corporate space opera and came from a company that is likely to eventually put ads in orbit.

edit: I will add one more thought. Assuming it is a decent adaptation, it may introduce a younger generation to what risks some people predicted in our developing society. At the very least, it may get them interested.

[1]https://genius.com/Bill-hicks-on-advertisers-and-marketing-a...
Maybe the license is for the code, not the model itself?
Do you think near infinite liquidity allows for true price discovery? Do you think paying for order flow gives market makers an advantage over retail?
I wholeheartedly agree with this, and I think the idea "If you don't like it, you can leave" is one of the most important, if not THE most important freedom a person should have. It's the reason why former communist countries took passports away from their citizens.

It's the idea that we know what's best for you and you better adapt because there is no escaping. It's the fundamental idea of many social justice movements that require totalitarian methods to get what they want.

This is why self-determination is such important concept, something that the global utopians can never really grasp.
So you don't think we should subsidize technology that decarbonizes power production?
Hah - I suppose by that standard all organization are criminal organizations (because someone who works in them commits crimes). I suppose they are all drug smugglers as well (as doubtless some of their employees use drugs). Someone should tell the DEA.

I think a more useful model is to look at what "the organization" does (as opposed to the people who work for it). For instance, Enron's business strategy relied on breaking the law. PG&E has been unable (or unwilling) to maintain its infrastructure to a level where it is safe to operate year round. These things existed outside of any individual crimes committed by employees (and it is useful to differentiate between individuals who are committing crimes in service of organization goals v.s. only for private benefit).
Ask HN: Expenses of building AI-powered SaaS?
I'm curious about AI-powered startups launching every day.

These AI APIs are paid e.g. OpenAI GPT-3.

How does it make it worth building for people? All these startups make money or what?

Having thousands of free users would cost probably hundreds of dollars. How does it make sense?

I was thinking about adding AI to my note-taking app, but I think the cost would be too much for text-autocomplete with AI.

Am I wrong or what's your opinion on that?
Can you give reasons for why you believe that?
> "If you don't like it, you can leave".

s/leave/rent a new PO Box over here and change some DNS records/
It's where the profits are, not where the cost centers are. If the customers are in France, the profits are in France.
In the summer, I actually do 50% of my work outside and probably could make it 100% if I needed to "not be in the house". But winter is different - how much can you really insulate and heat a shed so it's actually bearable to work from 8+ hours a day? Someone told me that in NYC, they bought a plastic tent and put on their balcony with some sort of heat, but I just can't see that be comfortable - you lose heat damn quickly sitting on a cold chair with your feet on the cold ground/shed floor/cement.
I feel "hipster" can be boiled down to something which is leveled only as a mildly pejorative epithet, and frequently by those who are secretly envious of the subject's aesthetic, or their freedom to exhibit it.
In a Commodore 64 emulator, write a BASIC program to output 10 Hail Marys.

Thy sin is forgiven.
So what exactly are they suggesting? I just read a soup of words about modernization.

I have found one huge missing component after clinical trials are complete. Literally, nobody really cares about adverse reactions. FDA "pretends".

Too much money in pharmaceuticals.

I had a severe reaction to a drug. Took me years of doctors, gaslighting, denial until I found a physician to perform tests I asked for, which confirmed damage to small nerve fibers.

I have read hundreds of research papers. Talked to many physicians. The information is now on the drug label, still I hear "that drug can't do that" quite often. At that point I have nothing to discuss.

Governments should be tracking ALL MEDICAL records. Looking for patterns. Some drug reactions are slow.

There is also another side of this, WinSanTor is trying to bring a drug to the market that uses pirenzepine. It can regrow nerve fibers. I talked to a researcher who took the drug orally and his skin punch biopsy for small nerve fibers improved and he went into remission. The drug is available in Japan and widely used with a low risk profile. I might take it myself, but would prefer to use the cream made by WinSanTor, they are struggling with funding and are in phase 3 trials. Last time I read they estimated they need 100 million to bring it to market.
Is that not only an issue when a plant is permanently decommissioned? That seems like a fairly easy problem to solve as well: Bury it like you would any other nuclear waste that can't be reprocessed; or melt the steel down and use it in a new reactor.
Fear of coming across as performative has overall hindered my ability to coexist within certain subcultures. I wish I cared less about this and I admire people who manage to find cultural unity through performance.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I wish networks/services would stop trying to make safe bets with new screen adaptations of classic books and movies. Some of the worst TV I've watched this year has been adaptations of classic books/movies (Foundation, LOTR) and some of the best has been new content (Severance, Raised by Wolves, House of the Dragon).
This isn't about getting all countries to put a 15% corporate tax, that will never happen. This is about increasing taxes on corporations even when they aren't headquartered there until their effective global tax becomes 15%, making it worthless for them to try to hide in tax havens.
That's the crux of the issue. If a CSR told you to jump off a bridge though... Yes you might win something if charges are pressed, but also you really should've known better.

In matters of "ToS;DR" it's generally the case that terms aligned with common expectations are enforceable but terms that don't aren't. That leaves me wondering if "chargebacks get you canceled" is a common expectation or not. The answer to this strongly influences whether my bridge analogy is accurate.
Do we have any idea why lucene vector search underperforms? As of lucene 9.1 (and elastic 8.4), it runs the same sort of filtered/categorical HNSW that qdrant runs (https://lucene.apache.org/core/9_1_0/core/org/apache/lucene/...). Qdrant's benchmarking code (https://github.com/qdrant/vector-db-benchmark/blob/9263ba/en...) does use the new filtered ann query with elastic 8.4, so it appears to be a fair benchmark. Why is lucene/elastic so much slower? Is it a rust vs. java thing? Or some memory management issues?
I wonder whether Kovid is now more popular of a boy's name versus Pointdexter. One is trending, and the other long out of style (but could make comeback).
Fully agree. Some of what we today consider to be the canon of Western philosophy was never meant to be shared widely.

Many of Aristotle's "writings" were just student-created notes of his teachings.

Meditations, from Marcus Aurelius, is a collection of notes to himself on how to best govern as emperor.
I always interpreted it as "unable to be adapted faithfully."

For instance, in my earlier post I mentioned the live-action Ghost in the Shell, which in some parts Hollywood almost-mechanically adapted to be shot by shot identical to the original animated film, while completely missing the point with the racebent casting choices and much of the writing. I would count that as a poor adaptation, but not adapted so faithlessly that it has no resemblance to the original work.

Then again, Blade Runner is a loose adaptation of PKD's original story, yet does its central themes justice. So I guess "unflimable" is a relative term. Maybe it could ALSO just mean "no demand or desire to see adapted for film or television."

My overall point is that it's a golden age of IP and with the mainstreaming of nerd culture (and the endless demand for content from the streaming studios), all sorts of works that were once considered unfilmable are about to see the light of day.
New facial recognition technology scans your ear with 97.25% accuracy
Fun! For reasons related to my username, I am about to dip back into the current state-of-the-art algos for highly dimensional data.

I need to dig deep into highly optimized and perhaps distributed algorithms in this space - gotta deal with billions of high dimensionality items. The end result is probably going to be almost a survey from standard distance-based algos like hierarchical clustering headed into louvain methods. Anything "special" or maybe uncommon you like for this type of thing?
Not sure I need to spoiler alert a book that came out over 50 years ago, but Momoa should be back in Part 3.
Meanwhile the Swedish government is giving massive incentives to Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft to build data centers (and I assume other countries do too). Almost zero taxing on electricity and actual monetary payouts.

In other words, this is a bit of a headline without any actual teeth (there’s plenty of ways to compete unfairly), which is the problem when you start wanting to govern the world, you can’t cover all the bases.
Do you work for Hasura, based on your username? You've been spamming the same comment looking at your comment history.

Anyway, these are all tools to generate a backend based on your database which might work for simple situations but breaks down for more complicated ones. I also don't want to give my backend away to Hasura or Supabase either.
> Large nuclear wants to be somewhere that the (physically enormous) electric station and connection to the grid makes sense.

Like Bodega Head where you can actually visit the never-finished reactor pit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodega_Bay_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Can Tech Workers Stop the Layoffs?
Solar power including storage is already the cheapest form of energy. Any further improvement is just gravy.
That is true, but there are certain "red flags" that you will hear from most abusers. In the case of governments one of those is "we do it for social justice [not normal justice]".
> You're doing the same thing, dragging the original conversation off into berating the commentor for not fixing it themselves because you owe them nothing and they shouldn't be so entitled.

Ah, this argument again. Yeah, the maintainers owe you nothing, as they have already worked their asses off to give you something for free. You have the right to make polite bug reports and discuss fixes, but no one is entitled to force volunteers to do work.

But, that is not the same thing as everyone having to fix their own shit. 100 million users does not need 100 million developers.

What matters is that the users that have issues can fix issues, and if the issue affects enough people, it will eventually affect someone able and willing to fix it. That is why open source works, but it requires that some people put in the effort, and many learn to do it exactly when they get annoyed by a bug.

So yeah, if you are not willing to wait for someone else to come around and volunteer to fix it, patch it yourself or pay someone else to do it. That's how the system works, regardless of how demeaning you feel this is to non-developers or developers that feel that their time is more valuable than that of others.

> The competition comes under "pay someone else to do it".

Sure, if you have enough money to convince Apple or Microsoft specifically to prioritize fixing your issue (which may be in an unsupported or deprecated configuration) above what else they were doing, which would cost a whole lot more than just engineer and manager time. You have no alternative, as only your specific vendor can make the fix. Realistically speaking, if you had that kind of money you probably already have employed engineers that you could get to fix your open source issues for you and would not be arguing on hacker news about the need to write patches.

For open source, you don't have to convince anyone in particular. Can't convince the first person you try with money? Just ask the next person, anyone can submit the patch.
Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?
I'm using "internet addiction" here in a loose sense. Think of all modern hyper-engaging online services: TikTok, MMORPGs, social media, video games, porn, etc.

I think HN users might be especially aware of how addicting these can be, so do you take any precautions to help your children avoid falling prey to them?
Small outlier countries like Germany, where I still see masks regularly in various settings, and where FFP2 masks are either still mandatory in public transport or just stopped being mandatory a few days ago. Also mandatory in doctor's offices, hospitals.
The Spicediver edit of Lynch's Dune proved to me that Dune is filmable. I think it remains the best adaptation of Dune.

You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHQA_0d9Mo
And Indiana Jones was basically updated adventure serials. The ideas of both were not that original, but the execution was ground breaking. I was also just thinking about how pretty much every blockbuster these days is made as the Phantom Menace was: greensceen, digital backgrounds, digital characters, episodic. The guy basically crafted the blueprint for 50 years of hollywood blockbuster films, especially if you consider his effects work contributions. And he's been mocked and reviled on the internet now for what 20 years?
In bankruptcy, wouldn’t all their assets be encumbered by security interests owned by their creditors/hand holders? Wouldn’t any normal bankruptcy just be a reorganization around the interests of the secured parties? I’m having trouble seeing how an obligation to pay subsidies, be it executory or not, would give the subsidisor any leverage in bankruptcy.

Is the idea that the secured creditors need the subsidy too?
All of those, I'd bet. But also less.

VCs are notorious for being herd animals. We've been in (and are hopefully leaving) an era of easy money. I think people don't generally question what they're doing as long as it's working, and easy money plus a bubbly tech sector means that investing hasn't been particularly challenging.

So I suspect a lot of them have just been uncritically doing what worked for them in the past. And "worked" here isn't defined by building successful businesses, because that's a very long feedback loop, but by more immediate proxies like praise from bosses/colleagues, chasing clout in the industry, getting more money from LPs, getting paid themselves, and feeling smart when people listen carefully to what they think is wisdom.

All that is hopefully about to change. As Buffett says, "Only when the tide goes out do you see who has been swimming naked."
So make reactors more like airplanes, then. Or rather, ships.
Wear a mask and stop getting other viral illnesses. We should have been doing this before covid.
Unfortunately Disney burned a lot of people due to their other offerings, so the public is ignoring the genius that is Andor. I credit the show's quality to Disney keeping their dirty mouse mits off of Gilroy and team.
The things we do to avoid covid also help with avoiding other respiratory infections as well, all of which are pretty terrible to get in case anybody forgot about them.

But saying that covid isn't causing damage is itself highly myopic.
> I find it mildly interesting that there is no elite tier of hardware available, like the equivalent of a super fancy watch or some fabulously expensive Japanese woodworking tools that you pass on to your children. You'd think that with so much money sloshing around the Valley in the last 20 years, someone would be making super high-end, artisanal hardware.

I bet there is, but it's more diamond-encrusted iPhones than ultra-reliable motherboards.
I wouldn't call that proprietary. It was freely available, and I worked with it for a bit, until switching that project to SmartOS, which is also... not proprietary.

Both were excellent systems to work on in dev and prod.