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Which did you play first? The original MW campaign was cursed by its own success, because a lot of the story elements that were original at the time of publication became cliches as later games copied and expanded them, and the subversion of expectations doesn't work now that our expectations have changed.

The helicopter crash is a good example. The heroic, patriotic, and slightly comedic Marines go back for a wounded comrade, and then...their entire squad dies in a nuclear blast because they didn't evac quickly enough. Or the plucky SAS seize the only man who can give them the intel they're after, and then...commit a war crime and torture him, which turns out to be pointless when they get the information from another source anyway, so they commit another war crime and execute him in cold blood. The helicopter scene was genuinely shocking at the time, even though tragically killing off your heroes in the middle of the game is widespread today.

I felt the original Modern Warfare was the only Call of Duty that married the horrors of war from the first two games[0] to the Tom Clancy action of the later ones. Black Ops seemed more jingoistic and less willing to make the player uncomfortable, while in later games missions like No Russian that were meant to shock the player didn't combine it with anything philosophically unsettling (like the idea that "no man left behind" might get a much larger number of people killed).

That being said, I think a lot of what I got out of the game was due to where I was in life when I first played it, so it might just be sentiment tinting my memories.

[0] We don't mention 3.
There is something similar to a central repository at https://filmot.com/
He worked hard for it! lmao

edit: to be serious... there's certainly a lot of difficulty in achieving what he did no matter the failure, but when we use the word work to compare an employee worker and a ceo owner, let's be more specific with what we mean. we all understand work here and we talk about its structures day in day out. a ceo's day to day work has you running memeified mental contortions to understand how it translates into customer or employee value. their duties have more to do with the operations and growth of a business in a competitive landscape. this isn't "work to produce", it's work to manage and grow an organization's marginal returns and to seek monopolization in market in various ways as far as the law permits. I personally don't have the same casual respect for these two categories of work in terms of their social worth and am skeptical when people talk of them as equally comparable when talking about things like respectability, social good, whose participation is necessary to produce something, etc
Rule #50
The better the Catalog, the Worse the Interface

Spotify and YouTube are the leading examples but there are definitely others.
I’m hopeful that it’s more like 3 months out of the year. Looking back over the years, I’ve gained roughly 5lbs/year since I hit 30. Now in my late 40’s, during Covid, it seems like that went to 10lbs/year.
The first 3 months on mounjaro, I lost 20lbs, so that cycle should be sufficient. I’d stay on it permanently, if it weren’t for the $1200/month.
> If you've done it right, by 40 you have children.

It’s also perfectly okay to not have children.
I helped Pfizer think through the ethics of Viagra 25 years ago
They are spectacularly waterproof, spectacularly inflammable, and spectacularly stinky.
You anodize it to get more because the raw material is so reactive that it forms a thin layer of oxide more or less instantly. That keeps more oxygen out, but it’s too thin and can be easily scratched.
Another mystical text calls life the ultimate rohrschach test. You're not making (logical) arguments but rather you're showing your hand.
Well my company sells ten dollar bills for 5 dollars. Our customers love it even more.
Toss that intuition out. That's in some sense the major problem with higher dimensional spaces; our intuition about locality is built in a super-small-dimensional space.

Compare the locality of King, man, and uncle to King, lemma, and titrate. The former set is quite local.
It’s sold as Uber for offices. But the majority of customers rent one office (car) and just use it for years.

It’s like Hertz raising money on short term rental possibilities but all they do is lease cars to people long-term.

As the other poster said, it’s kind of like how some percentage of AWS just uses it as a dumb server and probably they’d be better off just renting bare metal.
>Seems to miss the part where it's ok to create terrible software in embedded

As opposed to the absolute perfection that is modern web, enterprise and mobile SW?

>But it's all fine as it shaves a few cents from the BOM.

Every engineering job, including SW development, works to reduce material costs and automate away other jobs. Why do you feel embedded development is somehow worse here?
I think my key realization was that the more serious threat was centralization, and so the focus with the new Freenet is decentralization. Anonymity systems can be built on the new Freenet - these will likely be based on mixnets or onion routing, in fact there will likely be a variety of options. They will be easy to use, in keeping with our overall philosophy that we want grandma to be a Freenet user.

Think of the new Freenet as a decentralized global operating system, on which people can build interoperable systems to do a wide variety of things. One of these will be an anonymizing proxy.
Hi Tycho. I was The Guy at LSS who tested positive for COVID about 12 hours after we sat next to each other at that Japanese restaurant in Vancouver the week before last. I really hope you didn't catch it. So far, to my knowledge, my "blast radius" is just me.

As somebody who has written a non-trivial amount of upstream Linux filesystem code and who is leading the containers team at my current employer, I've found your writing more interesting than perhaps most people on the face the planet might. I'm also a bit surprised at how often companies write their own custom FUSE filesystems. A lot of them I only hear about as former employees from those companies join mine and then clue me in about their existence. It seems like every large-ish company these days has at least one now.

It looks like you were able to figure things out through some combination of /proc poking, code inspection, and LKML querying. Out of curiosity, would it be feasible for you to have tried enabling some of the kernel hacking options such as WQ_WATCHDOG or DETECT_HUNG_TASK? Do you think that would have sped up your investigation?

Also, my whole career I've been doing ps aux, but TIL about ps awwfux. Which I guess goes to show there's always some gap in one's basic knowledge of Linux foo!
I think 2 submission upvotes are counted as 1 karma? Karma is not updated in real time, there is a slight delay.
Show HN: ClipBase, search video clips by exact words or phrase spoken
The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores from Suffocating Black Communities
>But you said they hired 1 person out of a class of 20? Obviously the few who get in can't ask for a high salary with that many candidates per position.

Obviosly they can, assuming that these companies hire "only the best". That means that in the demand/supply calculations, the demand is not for "graduates of semiconducting programs" but "only top top graduates of semiconducating programs, ignore the rest".

That's in much shorter supply, and means that 95% of the "class of 20" aren't even considered worthy as candidates, and aren't competition for those top semicon jobs. They'll need to find work in another field (like switching to software), or low level semicon jobs.
They believe what they feel, and they feel like the physics behave differently than they actually do.
Stats as of March 25: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/25/1165022885/1000-defendants-ja...

Cases being pursued by the DoJ: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases?combine...

Noteworthy that $2.6bln was allocated to US attorneys this year; not sure how much more was allocated to specifically support January 6th prosecutions, but the prosecution of every single one of them will hopefully serve as a deterrent.
I mean Tesla and Waymo are hardly similar, just like failing to proceed past an orange cone is very different from putting someone's like at risk.
The Canada example is not about suicide at all but about the impact of a society without a safety net. The issue isn’t the suicides, it’s almost a logical response to a situation that is objectively terrible without a possibility or getting better.
The database consists of communications of foreign targets, and its legality isn't in dispute. What's illegal is to search that database for terms related to Americans in criminal investigations not related to national security without a warrant. https://archive.is/jgWUt
I like this response. It replaces any discussion of existing methods for back country water decontamination with bullshit snark to great effect.
I don't find that to be overly invalidating or judgmental.

There is a difference between saying you think someone is/was wrong, and denying their humanity.
I bet you could come up with bullshit like: “WeWork is a platform! We can also do food delivery and sell other add-ons…”. Saudi investors would be delighted five years ago.
i'm 40 and i live like a rich 16 year old with no adult supervision. peter pan syndrome is always an option.

anyway, here's your real problem. you might want to figure out which older people in your life are poisoning your mind with their bullshit. having a family, or not, can be great and is always your choice. miserable people end up that way because they're living someone else's dream, not their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside"
1/3 of Canadians support assisted suiciding homeless people or people who will lose their home. Canada finds death the most appropriate solution to suffering. Doctors and administrative staff are making the recommendation directly based on financial circumstance. It's a program the govt spends money on ad marketing and growth. Sounds more like a failure of the 'state and capital' flavor society to me than something to respect (which I have none for either, regardless of whether one of their policies at a point in time is a net utilitarian improvement or not).
Any tips for other night owls that helped you be able to make the shift to mornings? I'm being forced awake around 7 am now but can't fall asleep before 2-3 am. I just seem to get all my productive energy after about 10pm.
I don’t think he was advocating anything. I think that misses the point. He was just trying to state the matter in a form that would allow people to understand the suffering better and have empathy for those who are in that type of suffering. Personally, I think he nailed it, and for that I am thankful.
I don’t think tiktok is so valuable that Americans will start paying for a 3rd party service just to access it that requires additional setup, hassle, and technical savvy, no.
I'm one of the few conversation Lojban speakers, and after years extended study, I've found the language does not meet expectations. When you start deeply exploring the semantics, many constructs are only half defined or nonsensical. Further, the self appointed DFL tries to preserve the language in an unusable state and had alienated most of the proficient speakers.

There are other logical languages out there. Most of them are in development, and are discussed in a Discord called the "Logical Languages Lodge". However there is another called Toaq that is almost complete, it at least as complete as Lojban (its vocabulary is still growing, but all of the essential words are there, and the grammar and semantics are complete). If you wish to learn a logical language in 2023, that's the one I'd suggest.
And praised as a successful entrepreneur!
A single parent working three jobs just to cover rent and food works hard.

Grifting hedge funds maybe isn’t easy, but get no sympathy from me for “working hard.” Lots of people work hard.
Hasn't that always been the case for Freenet? I'm pretty sure this is in no way revolutionary.

I'm unsure how I feel about this feature. It's one thing to facilitate encrypted data passing, or to selectively choose what data to mirror, but do I really want to serve as a host for CP unknowingly? I guess it might be possible to block known unsavory content, but that just seems like an endless game of cat and mouse.

While I like the idea of making the web redundant, I don't think it should be a feature of the web itself. People should explicitly opt into mirroring content they think is important. Anonymity is way more important than resilience.

If Freenet can succeed in helping to defeat centralized power over the web, that would be a great thing. I just hope it doesn't end up being a distraction that works against that goal. I2P has been the beat solution for a long time, yet projects with serious inherent flaws like Tor and the old Freenet suck the oxygen out of the room.
Wow, what a surprise!
AI Interviews as a Service
Best case for Google is you click through and watch 10 videos without ever finding what you're after, so you try again the next day.
Single rounds of rehab do sometimes work, and longer sessions have better changes. Willpower is part of it, but often completely changing one’s social circle is critical.
I’m fully convinced that YouTube not making money is some sort of accounting trick utilizing the fact that it rents bandwidth and compute from Google.
It’s not finite. Shares are trivially created and wealth is trivially destroyed.

Consider the example of a company that is founded and immediately issues and sells a million shares for a dollar each, and then burns the dollars in a bonfire.

There’s less dollars at the end of the story. It’s not a zero sum game.
This hilariously proves OPs point. If satire, bravo, if not, well, we were all teenagers (or 22yos, in this case) once.

In any case: most new startup founders are over the age of forty. Assuming that's what a 22yo on hn considers an "exciting new venture".
It all stems from the desire by stakeholders (who are paying the money) wanting to know when something is gonna ship, before committing the money.

I think it should just be accepted that it is not possible to know. Unlike building a building, you cannot know. It is possible to do a feasibility study, or a prototype, and time box it, but that is as good as it gets.

The stakeholders don't want to hear this unfortuantely. They refuse to believe it isn't possible to know ahead of time how much work is needed. In order to appease, the engineers and managers have developed a set of "practises" such as agile, but in the end, it is a lie.
The new Freenet is primarily focused on decentralization rather than anonymity - however anonymizing systems (like mixnet, onion routing) can be layers on top of it as services.

Here are the key differences between new Freenet (Locutus) and old Freenet (Fred):

Functionality: Fred is analogous to a decentralized hard drive, while Locutus is analogous to a full decentralized computer.

Real-time Interaction: In Locutus users can subscribe to data and be notified immediately if it changes. This is essential for systems like instant messaging or group chat.

Programming Language: Unlike Fred, which was developed in Java, Locutus is implemented in Rust. This allows Locutus to be much more efficient, while integrating better into a wide variety of platforms (Windows, Mac, Android, MacOS, etc).

Transparent: Locutus is a drop-in replacement for the world wide web, and will be just as easy to use

Anonymity: Fred was designed with a strong focus on anonymity. In contrast, Locutus does not offer built-in anonymity, but it is designed to allow anonymizing systems to be layered on top if required.
It’s unfortunate that it’s not surprising and even more so that administrations feel like this is so accepted that (at best) nothing need be done and (at worst) it can be used to their advantage.

Even when the minimal executive action of firing those involved is taken (for example, firing Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Clinesmith) the media will attack the enforcers and give comfort to the perpetrators. It’s clown world.
Europe’s military industrial capabilities fall short of Ukraine’s needs
https://archive.vn/7LH8Z
Sex, sure. Video games - maybe.
Often the reason a company is great for customers is that it’s selling a dollar for fifty cents.

Which makes it not very desirable as an investment.
I like the idea that DFW is such a good writer that his words cause death. That would be a great plot device.
That's probably hard for a company to manage appropriately, and determine if they're getting 20% or 100% effort. Do you negotiate with them, "I'll deliver x by February and you pay me $Y,000,000 but if I'm not on target, I'm happy with $Z,000 per month"? After all, how can they read your mind? Honestly curious.

Personally I'm not very extrinsically motivated. But I can be extrinsically demotivated by things like a colleague making much more than me while doing much less. These stressors are what keep me out of the job market and in my own company.
Look for startups that have been bought by a big corp or startup style orgs spun out of a big corp. they typically combine the perks/permissiveness/culture of a startup with the benefits/lifestyle/pay of a big corp. very relaxing combo.

Another good option is a uni gig in their tech department. You’ll have to put up with absolutely scads of incompetence, probably a change control board, crap pay plus you’ll get pay freezes during downturns, but the lifestyle and benefits are absurdly good — I know people who show up for a couple meetings in the morning, leave for a three hour lunch and then go home every day — and you’ll usually be getting a pension. Highly recommend going this route when you’ve made your egg and are ten years out from retirement.
The US is the most punitive major country in the world, yet we still have crime.
VCs see WeWork as a massive success, and blame SoftBank from not exiting correctly.

They know they would do better.
I assume they do use your search history for some purposes.
For instance I have been enrolled inside the Foo Bar challenge from Google, and from my deductions it is thanks to my search history (mainly programming-related).
The Foo Bar challenge is a suite of tricky programming questions and in the end, some of the winners of the challenge receive a message from Google's recruiting team (as I did) where it can lead to a job at Google.

This is only my deductions from my experiences with Foo Bar, it might only be in that case, I am not exactly sure, but you should assume they do.
I couldn't disagree more. The worst codebases I've seen in my career have been codebases that were religiously planned upfront, and then religiously adhered to The Plan. Irregardless of the revelations that popped up in the midst of development.

This usually takes the form of pattern driven developers: the developers that must fit the entire problem into a predetermined pattern (which is ridiculous because every problem is unique and there are very few patterns that are truly applicable everywhere). This will also take the form of Amazon's famous 6 page design upfront. It's funny, they wanted me to prescribe what the expected latency of a system that would be running over an unreliable network was and figure out an SLA based on that, before I wrote an ounce of code! How in the world are you even supposed to begin getting accurate measurements, without measuring!

So, planning is good yes. But the reality is every problem is unique. Unless you have somebody who's solved the exact problem you're trying to solve, planning is going to do no good and you're better off exploring first. Once you became a domain expert in your tiny niche domain you just explored, then you get to make a plan.

But enough with this nonsense that we can magically figure out what the exact requirements are for a problem before we've even begun to measure the appropriate metrics associated with the problem. And one of the key ways we can measure stuff is by exploring the problem space with code.
The article concentrates on the latest events only and not so much on the underlying issues which date back decades, the main issue is nothing new. And that is easy money attitude for which the local community doesn't do much to fix, maybe only individuals. Local born people thrive outside of the island because exactly they left the island to raise their children, away from the easy money philosophy. Teachers assigned to local schools can't find accommodation because locals can rent with higher prices to tourists, teachers, doctors, policemen have to stack up 4 or more to one apartment to make the rent. Teens don't care about school because the can make thousands during tourist period in temp jobs and local authorities don't do much.

The issue is bigger, sourced from local attitude and needs to be fixed by the locals. A bad state for a beautiful place which is also the only practical gateway to Delos
Real value can be destroyed. Dollars can be printed, planes can crash. Crops can grow, or rot. The effort of humans can be deployed wastefuliy, like making snowmen, or not, like planting crops and building shelter.

Wealth represents an assessment of the value to humans of existing resources and it can go up and down based on the decisions of how to allocate that wealth.

There’s absolutely no controversy whatsoever about this concept despite your desire to not acknowledge it.
I have generalized anxiety disorder along with the lifelong depression. My life has felt like a permanent "emergency mode" from the inside, and with how my body processes things. The funny consequence is that I've been at multiple points a helpful anchor for healthier people in actual emergency situations, from panic attacks to much scarier things. When the house is on fire I'm feeling most at peace as the world and my brain align (and I have a mental "muscle memory" to use), and I guide people fairly well right back to the gates of "being OK", but I let them pass through and stay behind.

This has helped in life or death situations a few times (including an actual building fire), as well as in professional work. Then the situation gets fixed and the world goes on as I return to illness. I'm glad there's at least some upsides to this whole thing.
I'm sure bad things happen, but to embrace all or nothing cynicism is to reject reality.

It is pathological in it's own right to paint the world with such broad and biased brushstrokes.
Somewhat? On the one hand, replacing a deterministic system with a probabilistic one is generally bad. Why replace something that's 100% accurate all the time with something that is... somewhat less than that?

On the other hand, the semantic web has been a complete failure. Even present attempts at semantically understanding the web (aka what search engines do all day) require highly complex heuristic and machine-learned solutions... so the "fully deterministic" thing is only technically true, but not meaningfully useful in any sense.

Even the actual semantic web standards that exist (and are poorly adopted) don't seem to really solve the core problem with the semantic web: there's no such thing as a universal ontology. Every attempt to produce a broad-based shared ontology has failed - there are fundamental disagreements about how to organize information, and information organization needs turn out to nearly always be application-specific, and be highly unstable over time, preventing there from being a useful, durable universal standard for various topics.

So I guess long story short: we need AI (or just highly advanced heuristic methodologies) to scrape useful information out of natural content. We always have, because the deterministic alternative has never actually worked.