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First time I watched Emperor's Club, I was like hey isn't this just Ozymandias ? It turned out that's a very common confusion, mined by English highschool teachers

https://www.buffaloschools.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&...

Anyway, I just chimed in to say if you really want to understand that poem, Emperor's Club is a must-watch. I still can't believe they made a whole 2 hour commercial Hollywood feature film centered around that poem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Club
A weekend long party is a great idea, thanks.

You are right that making more than one person agree on a time gets increasingly difficult as age increases. I tend to be the one that travels to friend's homes, because I have a less crowded agenda than most of them.
In some places getting unhireing is so slow and demanding that mobing and/or ignoring is the only thing you can do. In my previous company, they were sending such people to the furtest possible organizational unit from home (allowed by law to be 50km) in hope that they will quit.
> The Rewind Helper contains a statically linked FFmpeg.

Wait a minute, that means source code must be provided for the entire binary right?

FFmpeg is LGPL, but that only saves you from opening up your whole application if you dynamically link to it. If the helper binary has a statically-linked ffmpeg, that means LGPL applies for the non-ffmpeg code too.

Anyone care to make a source code request?
> I see no downside with providing that information. Only lots of downsides of not providing it.

In your scenario, there are definitely downsides to providing this information by talking to cops: you can get implicated and even convicted of the crime, and the actual criminal be left alone. At any time during your conversation with the cops, they may decide you know too much (or know details only the kidnapper would know), or find some turn of phrase suspicious, and turn you into the primary suspect. Remember Duane's claim that many cops believe "9 out of 10 times, the caller is the one who committed the crime". This applies here, too.

The downside is pretty big: not only could you be in legal trouble -- even convicted -- but the actual criminal could get away. This is not hypothetical, since Duane mentions cases where this happened! (E.g. the man wrongfully convicted of killing his wife; or the man wrongfully convicted of killing a local shopkeeper after volunteering to help the police find the killer, out of a sense of civic duty).

If at all possible in your country, I would advise you to report this information to a missing children hotline unaffiliated with the police, instead of speaking to the cops without a lawyer.

> But like I said, if the assumption is (like Duane apparently has), that cops are always bad, corrupt and the enemy, well, then this is the problem to deal with.

This is not at all what Duane claims. Respectfully, I must ask you to refresh your memory of the video. I also recommend the follow up video which I linked to, where he explains his motivation (i.e. decreasing the appalling number of wrongful convictions in the US).

> He didn't ended up in jail, right? He was just wrongfully accused and interrogated in a very wrong way adding to his misery. That chance wouldn't stop me from cooperating with the police, if there is a chance to save someone.

We don't know whether he ended in jail or not, Duane doesn't say. We only know he got in real trouble, and this after the cops knew his daughter was dead, so at that point there was no possible way to "save" anyone. He does mention at least two cases where an innocent ended up in jail, one of them for 20+ years, while the assassin of his wife got away. His mistake? He spoke to the police, volunteering information, and without a lawyer present.

It's of course your choice to risk it and speak to the police without a lawyer. In the US, it's a risky, unwise choice -- one cops wouldn't take themselves, for example -- but it's your choice. A choice your attorney would strongly urge you not to take, but that you're entitled to take anyway.
Thank you for confirming I understood your argument correctly.
The location where of heavy/bulky goods always follows demand. North America could switch to only ever using domestic steel. That wouldn't make a dent to the demand that backs China's production.

2023 estimated demand in North America: 140 million metric tons.

2023 estimated demand in Asia (China): 1,284 million metric tons.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/246397/estimated-demand-...
Schopenhauer touches on this in his distinction between genius and talent: talent is the ability to hit a target others cannot hit; genius is the ability to hit a target others cannot see. Whether or not we want to elevate them to the category of genius, there are clearly programmers in many organizations who fall into the latter category relative to their peers in the organization.
Reading this caused me to do a 180 in my life, both job and marriage. I changed both within 1 year of reading it.

https://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html
What’s that smell? Bullshit jobs in higher education
Humans can echolocate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
Just looked at the Riese & Muller. Looks great, but I think part of the problem with ebikes like this is that they -are- the price of a secondhand car, and most people will just go with that instead. I've got a 'normal' ebike, and I used it a lot in lockdown, and often use it to go to the local shops. Would love something like the R&M, but it's a lot of money...
> They're firing them because they just way over hired people recently, and they have way too many people for what they can adequately put to good use given their size now.

I'm not sure that's the case. They didn't hire just to have people twiddle their thumbs, but rather to engage on projects they believe may have some worth. But when the share price drops, investors/Wall Street/media start clamoring for "action", and an easy action is to trim those projects that may or may not work out and that aren't core. But it's not like Meta/Google/Msft are in danger of losing money any time soon -- they're still making $Bs in profit every quarter, but the expectations continue to rise as people buy the stock and expect it to keep going up.
I was going to post the same complaint as the parent comment; for example:

"Hard times create strong men" - maybe, but starvation doesn't make you strong. Being dead from disease doesn't make you strong. Rising to adversity might make some people stronger, but it will harm others who survive but are damaged. It could be that the already-strong people rise to adversity and the weak get crushed by it, Darwinianly? Or that the weak endure through hard times as much as anyone because hard times are generally about health food or money and even 'weak' beggers can get enough of those to survive. Today's homeless are generally enduring lack of food, poor health, low money, and nobody considers them being made 'strong' by it, they're harmed by it.

"strong men create good times" - warriors are strong, barbarian raiders were strong, unpleasant bosses who abuse their workforce and reign by terror are strong, those are horrible times. Is there a connection between strong people and good times? What about average people who are neither weak nor strong, working in concert? What about people who are generally considered weak, but are thinking long term planting the trees that will shade tomorrow, community building, etc?

"good times create weak men" - do they? Do they necessarily? Why is this framing "good" as "bad"? Wouldn't going to the gym regularly and getting stronger be "good times" for someone? Wouldn't working the family farm hard, being physically strong and providing for your family, be good times and not making you weak? Is it luxury which makes people weak - previous point, do strong people create luxury specifically?

"weak men create hard times" - do they? Plenty of strong people (dictators, for example) have created hard times for millions. Plenty of weak people have had no impact on the times at all. Isn't the history of progress littered with people who were "a weak and sickly child" who spent their lives hiding indoors, thinking about math, died young, and changed the world - were they making hard times?

It's connected to the 'one generation makes family wealth by working hard, next generation preserves it but can't build it, next generation spends it'. In that, the hard times are where you have no money and have to work. The good times are where you have money and no work. The next hard times are where you lose the money and have to work again. But then, getting back into work and earning money is a homeless unemployed person's good times, life on the up.

At the 'level of civilizations' it's far too vague to say the fall of Rome was caused by "weak men" or that the rise of Rome was caused by "hard times".
a lot of people taking jabs at this, but in principle it's a good idea. At least a few problems do surface to mind: 1) having clean data to work on in the first place and 2) having enough skills to write the right queries. Outside of Fortune 100 security teams both are a complete roll of the dice.
Also, the point of offsets was supposed to be that they're tradeable securities. For market to align with goal, portion of securities that align with goal must be >> 50%. Fraud up to 15% can seemingly be tolerated in some contexts,[1] meaning 85% of offsets would have to be legitimate.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-15-belief-factor-315...
The refactored version is doing what pipes would do in a language that doesn't support pipes; it's reordering the statements into execution order rather than having to use a mental "stack" to grok the original version.

Given that the OP stated that they like the pipe syntax, and the refactored version illustrates the hoops you'd have to jump through without it, I guess your comment is just a strange way to agree with the OP?
I'm not sure how I feel about this.

On the one hand: I hate the growing trend of "everything bundled seperately" and "everything has it's own package manager".

On the other...

Why are you compiling things using packages? If your job is dev work then surely you have a bunch of tools that are unversioned by the OS? (Perhaps you've considered that they're not actually unversioned).

VSCode, which updates in the background, intellij IDEA which updates into /opt.

There is value in having it packaged, it helps you have a relatively deterministic system especially w.r.t. building other packages.

But what does it actually give you the developer? Surely it's better to use the native tools for the language, which are tailored precisely for this and guarantee that your dependencies will be versioned correctly and available?

It's not like the binaries you create using the compiler require you to have the compiler installed.
It seems that going from an essay to a video presentation is only going from the frying pan to the fire. Now attractive people get a an automatic advantage, and kids from a rich family will be able to translate many advantages (afford better clothes) into better admissions results.
There are way more trades than those conducted on NYSE, or even the other lit markets. You have a multitude of dark pools that count for approximately 13% of all consolidated trading volume as well as internal matching that counts for 18% of all consolidated trading volume.

Dark pools do report their trades so it's possible to access it, but internal matching goes unreported, that data is kept by each respective broker.
> Other tech people change the API for no reason and give work to 1000 more people to ,,upgrade to the newer system'' and stop maintaining the old system.

We're in the middle of rewriting our auth system because Google Sign In is being replaced with Sign In With Google.

Incredibly, I didn't just make that up: https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/08/gsi-jsweb-deprecat...
If/when you're in Amsterdam and into punk rock dive bars, Cafe The Minds is mixed and diverse and inclusive, unlike the other boring uniform venues you describe. It's not the only exception that proves the rule, but some of the other wonderfully mixed venues like Korsakoff have closed long ago or during Covid, unfortunately. In the gay scene, de Trut is still going strong every Sunday night, and is totally welcoming and inclusive to different types, genders, ages, social status, etc!
Need a filibuster proof majority which they didn't have.
> Similarly, Tom Clancy was questioned by the FBI after ‘Hunt for Red October’ was released because of the technical details within the book were eerily close to classified info at the time.

I believe if you independently create a design for an atomic bomb, the government takes the position that it's automatically classified and you cannot distribute it, even if you have no connection to the government or already-classified information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret
Yes. My girlfriend became a Trauma Nurse at 40. She's incredibly successful.
docker compose up -d --pull
The goal is awareness.
There is no such thing as free lunch, somebody has to do the dirty work for too little money.
Yes.

Always knew I was a good developer since I started with a C=64, but school was an issue. Graduated HS but didn't go to college because I was so bored at school, like severely bored. Worked non tech jobs through my twenties. Finally sucked it up and started going to college PT in my late 20s. PT so I could pay for it as I went. Graduated mid 30s and have been a dev ever since.

Moral: Sometimes you have to slog through what you don't want to do to get to what you want to do. I do not recommend this, however.
It’s easy to pick a group to ‘other’ and blame them for everything.

Really, it’s a general organizational scaling issue IMO.
Recently I’ve been experiencing the flip side of this. You don’t know how bad someone was until you get rid of them.

There are people who I feel are annoying and toxic, but I don’t get rid of them because I am afraid of the reactions of those who are left. They are talking shit about the company to others and spreading discontent and it’s easy to feel like firing the person will somehow prove them right to everyone else.

Then after actually getting rid of them, suddenly a bunch of people come out the woodwork and talk to me about how the person has been terrible for years and the how they are so relived that they are gone. I get told so many stories which make me understand that things were much worse than I even realised.

Why was nobody saying anything before! That would have given me so much confidence to get rid of them sooner!

In reality, I do understand why. Talking shit about others is exactly the behaviour that the toxic people who need to be removed are doing. Well adjusted people don’t want to do it.

But still, it proves the point. Trust your gut. Don’t let a bad situation persist based on what others will think.
Hey folks, let us know if you have any questions about Corso. Would love to hear more about what you like to see as the project evolves.
Ask HN: Best no SMS or email required e2e messaging app
I am wondering what is the best android application for throw away e2e messaging which doesn't require you to create a account with email (Matrix) nor use your sms number (Signal). what do people recommend ? I tried searching for the answer but there is so much conflicting info and much of it is dated.
How is it better than tdd in Idris book?
Nobody has mentioned Acquired yet?

I think they do a great job discussing the history and business decision in tech that have led to where we are today.

It's not all tech focused, but even the handful of episodes that aren't such as the Berkshire Hathaway one are tangentially related and great.
See https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/72#issuecommen... for what I believe is an exhaustive list of possible ways of helping the situation.
Same for fancy watches, jewellery, a car that isn't white, designer clothes, or many many many other things humans do for seemingly no reason.
It wasn't a prop gun. It was a real gun being used as a prop.
"I'm sorry I ruined your Black Panther Party."

Forrest Gump
> all settled agrarian societies need property rights

Perhaps, but the upthread discussion doesn’t hinge on merely the existence of property rights, but the very specific capitalist model of property rights, which obviously, not all settled agrarian societies have needed, since it is several millenia newer than settled agrarian societies are.

Defenders of capitalism love to argue about the need for “property rights” and then just leap from there to “and, therefore, capitalism”.
Another anecdotal datapoint, but - I haven't noticed an uptick in actual spam making it to my primary inbox. I can't give solid numbers, but it's not been bad.

This includes a marked increase in crypto spam/phishing emails due to the cointracker email list breach - those have pretty much exclusively gone straight to Spam (including those using Google Sheets so it has an official Google sender email).

Again, just an anecdote, and I don't doubt that you and anyone else reporting an increase is experiencing it.
"Well son, the funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret
something you have done than to regret something that you haven't done" -- Butthole Surfers
Should those of us looking to buy a house hold off until layoffs happen?
With all of the layoffs happening, I'm wondering if people have thoughts on if now is not the time to buy a first house, if your company has not already done a round of layoffs? My company has said very clearly that they don't want to do layoffs but that's what all companies are saying until they do the layoffs.

Is the job market (USA, in a tech hub city) bad enough out there that an average Senior Software Engineer might need more than a 6 month emergency fund after taking out the 20% down payment?
The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the PostHuman Era (1993)
Did I say that's what the article is suggesting? Maybe you need a lesson in reading comprehension.
> We sometimes mourn for this in the form of back to the land pastoralism, but quality of life empirics suggest the industrial revolution was a benefit anyway.

Nope. That 'moved workforce' started living in industrial slums and dying at a ripe old age of ~40 instead of living until their late 60s.

http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/recovered_economic_histor...
Vox Media to lay off 7% of workforce
You didn't really show concern for them the last two comments. I might believe it were genuine had it been the argument you led with instead of complaining about it being "fearpornish".

And if anything, they'd be the most emphatic towards those laid off.
It's part auto lobby, part ID pol. Conservatives, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, for some reason are against any mode of transportation that isn't powered by an ICE. She's said "Democrats like Pete Buttigieg want to emasculate the way we drive and force all of you to rely on electric vehicles".

The bill had a hard time passing as it was...
So if a piece of software is, let's say, a web frontend for nmap, and it ships as the main web interface binary alongside nmap.exe in a folder, would that mean that nmap is shipped alongside the web server and not within it, even though the folder is downloaded from the same server when you buy the port scanning frontend software that uses nmap?
I had a modest success when I was 19, struck a gold as an early employee and got rewarded nicely, quit the company, droped out of the school and started to create small side projects. Then when 4HWW book appeared I started travel around the world and just enjoyed the life, drink beers and did all the digital nomadic cliche stuff long before the term become well known.

Then my 30s showed up. Money long gone, pasive income from my side projects dried up as I was not paying much attention to them. At that stage I was living in 250 square feet appartment with my new girlfriend, had about 50 USD in my pocket, resume consisting of some small random project, zero team experience during past decade and idea that I might become farmer after all. Then one day my GF showed up and told me that in couple of months we are going to have a baby.

Well, what can you do, right? Big tech was (and probably still is) out of question, but I was happy to work with startups and just build the resume, going from random line programmer to lead developer within few years. At the end, nobody cares what you did 15 years ago, current experience is what matter.

I am in my late 30s now, things turned out great after all. Got two kids, girlfriend became my wife and I am leading mission critical projects for international banks both as an architect, tech lead and consultant.

There is no sure and simple way in turning things out for better. You might get lucky, you might get not. Take your time and think about what you want to do, just be sure that you can always start again, just don't give up.
Who has the harder/worse job: CEO of Microsoft or CEO of Alphabet/Google?
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I agree! I even pointed this out in my comment, but perhaps not clearly :)

I think that the way it's done is a net-positive in designing cleaner APIs, but there are times when I've already done a pipeline, and storing the output is just the last step. This last step is just frustratingly, not always possible. I don't think one should do something like the above, it's just what you must resort to if you _did_ want to do it.
Objects carry prototypes and mutability with them. Further, all primitives/value types of the language are immutable.

Adding those features to an Object would still necessitate creating a new primitive.

At that point, you might as well make that primitive record that is directly available and just use the constructor to convert (just like you'd use `Number("123")`, you'd use `Record({my: "object"})`).
I'd suggest otherwise.

If only on the basis that PDF itself is a relatively recent data format.

"Legacy industry" to me would be IBM mainframe data formats and the like.

Which ... are their own flavour of fun.
This comment comes off a little flippant, but it's also correct.

A therapist can really help get you to a place where you feel more in control of your destiny. From there, you can take real action to get out of a bad situation.

Source: personal experience.
Show HN: Self-hosted time tracker using Rust, Tauri and React
I recently developed a command line tool named regard (french word for glance) that simplifies project time tracking. My inspiration for the project came from my internship, where I was frequently required to manually log the time I spent on various projects. The tool comes with a graphical interface built using Tauri, making it easy to visualize the time spent on each project.
and yet looking through code from the place you work I see something like this

let field = ve.instanceContext.replace(/(#\/)|(#)/ig, "").replace(/\//g, ".")

Which you apparently claim should be

const fieldWithHashMarksUnesacped = ve.instanceContext.replace(/(#\/)|(#)/ig, "");
const field = fieldWithHashMarksUnesacped.replace(/\//g, ".")

https://github.com/mirusresearch/firehoser/blob/46e4b0cab9a2...

and this

return moment(input).utc().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')

Which apparently you believe should be

const inputAsMoment = moment(input);
const inputConvertedToUTC = inputAsMoment.utc()
return inputConvertedToUTC.format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')