skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think another big difference (apart from all those already stated) is that there was a realisation among musicians very early on (like mid 90s) that the internet was going to give them the ability to cut record labels out of the deal altogether and distribute directly to fans.

Most of what a label does/did for musicians is marketing and distribution of physical copies. Sometimes a label organises a producer/engineer, but often bands do this themselves, or bring one along. With physical copies dying and the ability to self-promote on the rise the labels were looking less and less relevant.

Movie studios on the other hand coordinate an insane amount of people (some credits sequences run for at least 5 minutes now) and legals, something that is out of the realms of possibility for indie film makers - if you want to make a "big" movie you pretty much need a studio, even to this day.

So my understanding is that the record labels saw the writing on the wall, tried to fight the tide with the whole napster thing and ended up accepting reality and looking around for another way to remain relevant, which ended up being negotiating deals with legal music streaming services. Movie studios never felt that pinch.

The other difference, at least for the artists, is that musicians don't make much money off recordings - many are happy to break even - where the real money is for them is in live performance and (in some markets) merch sales. The recordings almost act as ads for the "real" product. With movies, the movie is the product (although admittedly merch, theme park rides, etc can provide an even bigger revenue stream but those cases should be treated as outliers).
It's from the /gd/ wiki: 4chan.org/gd/
IdeaVim

It also has two popular vim packages, surround and easymotion you can use too, which I really like.

I then customize all the IDE stuff to vim combos.... super nice.

only PITA is in some drop downs on a number of jetbrains products is that it doesn't play nice with auto hotkey, I have ALT-J and ALT-K bound to up and down arrow keys which makes for a much nicer vim experience when dealing with autocomplete drop downs ( or any drop down )
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Bromine is now on the list of essential elements. It's necessary for proper synthesis of weird S=N bonds in collagen IV.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4144415/
BBC is perhaps the most famous state owned media corporation. What happens because the British politicians control the BBC?
Back in the day a very significant percentage of revenue came from the classifieds.
AWS Outposts by the Numbers: A Far-Too-Deep Dive into Pricing
Firefox, Brave, and likely other browsers have "reader mode" which does this same thing and doesn't reduce you to CLI usage.
Logitech still makes some keyboards with that distinctive large delete key, but I'm in the US, so I don't know if they have an ISO layout version of it.

Example: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-keyboard-k35...
I've wanted a left-side number pad for a long time. I've contended that (for right-handed people) having a number pad on the right is poor ergonomics. If I centered such a keyboard in front of me, then the number pad would be in the way of my mouse. So I end up offsetting the keyboard several inches to the left, which causes me to have to position my arms awkwardly in order to reach the letters. I ended up using keyboards with no number pads at all (in my case a Leopold FC660C).
I still owe you the project vision. There we go:
https://github.com/neomjs/neo/blob/dev/.github/VISION.md
Well I guess if you need a flame thrower in hell...
Here is my version of this game I made in early high school a couple years back. So, please forgive the crudeness... https://jondolan.io/fives/

I did not know of this game at the time, but I did hear from people that it was basically Mastermind with words (although I have not played that). The inspiration was a teacher of mine who used to work as a nuclear technician and when he had the graveyard shift, he would play the game with the other technician on duty over the phone.
The reason it does so is because it didn't come from a classroom: it came from /gd/, which is an anonymous image board for graphic design. Image boards are great for bootstrapping skills, and the people who participate within are usually better-than-average at both teaching and doing.
I assume you're referring to this study about mindfulness increasing generation of false memories?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976155937...
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This! Can we settle on a terminology of what a search engine is? To my knowledge there is only one real alternative to Google and that's Bing.
I think the general idea was right, except I would put the price at $2500-3000 as the sweet spot. Back then if you spent $5000 on a system you'd be able to buy it for 2/3 that price in six months to a year. Anything less than $1500-2000 was near obsolete.
The explanation for this phenomenon that I've always heard has been a matter of time.

If you're the bureaucrat reading applications, and you have a lot of applications that you need to narrow to one, you'll toss them for even the most minor rule violation.
Tips to law enforcement, violent history, threats.
They didn't spray mercury into the nozzle; it was injected into the thrust chamber itself with the fuel and oxidizer. The point was to maximize "density impulse" (specific impulse x density of propellants).

Using zinc would have been much less dangerous.
While I think these are incredibly important and extremely neglected in the industry, these ethical concerns are really something different from the spirit of the "Things I won't work with" series, which is mainly about safety and sanity.
I'm in the same boat, and I would rather search and find an alternative when my version 2 no longer works, than to support them again.
1. Switching costs:

- I'm used to Google's UI (yes, Duck's is similar but I'm sensitive even to subtle changes).

- I would have to change my default search provider on all browsers I use.

- I would have to take some time to verify that Duck is as good as Google.

2. Search quality and features.

- After a quick comparison, Google seems slightly better at search. Another factor is that even if both seemed similar, switching to Duck would give me anxiety that I'm using the worse product because the prior probability that Google is better is high.

- Google has various little features that Duck doesn't, for example search for "pomegranate nutrition" or "trump age".

Google can profitably invest much more into their product than Duck, because they have much more users.
I would expand that to include electronic voting in general. Even air gaps are not satisfactory.
Same here. This is why I got a split keyboard at work. I'm at home right now on a normal keyboard and the shape of my shoulders is terrible.
There’s Sage 50 if you want desktop, but even desktop QB is on life support and everyone’s going online.
Chasing links from the article's author... the category pharma 101: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/phar...

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/09/22/a_... - A Free Online Med-Chem Course

The course appears to now be at https://www.coursera.org/learn/drug-discovery
> Both are commericial products that require a licease

There are community versions of some of their IDEs, which are fully FLOSS, unlike Photoshop.
Unfortunately I don't have advice to pass along, I'm sorry. :-(

I found the Leopold FC660M randomly on the internet and fell in love with it and have't touched another keyboard since.
Extensive discussion of similar article a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21774203
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This is pretty cool. We ended up building our own version of something like this internally last year, but I could see us tossing our code in favour of this.

The big advantage to writing code this way is that you just don't need to write these actors thread-safe. They will only ever handle a single message at a time. For an async system it's really fast to get something up and running.
Anything that can be used to "spy on white supremacists" will almost certainly be (ab)used to spy on other people. There are very few real, actual white supremacists, and even fewer of those who are "plotting terror attacks". In recent memory (~15 years) I can only recall three major terror attacks against minorities perpetrated by real, actual white supremacists: Breivik, the Christchurch shooting, and Dylann Roof.

Besides the definition of what constitutes a "white supremacist" has been getting more ambiguous by the minute over the past few years. Nowadays it pretty much just means "anyone who doesn't like illegal immigration" or "anyone I don't like, but I'm too lazy to articulate why".
Regulation is not necessary. DuckDuckGo is a great alternative. YouTube on the other hand..
Organizations that are good at bidding use employees otherwise uninvolved with a particular bid to verify that the instructions are followed.

I have a friend who does this for research grant applications.
This exact thing happened to me. The thief stole my bicycle out of the front hallway, and an RC helicopter from a kitchen shelf. The bike was recovered when a friend of mine recognized it in town, but enlisting the police to retreive it safely (instead of just stealing it back) resulted in the loss of the bike for several more weeks; had I not made an impassioned plea there's no telling how long they would have held it.

The police recovered the RC helicopter in a seperate raid some time later; I was called in to the station to identify it, and then I didn't see the helicopter for another year.
An interesting idea, but taken literally, it implies that any crowd larger than 22,500 people (150^2) has genius-level intelligence, which is kind of laughable.
Our qsort() caller is an application with at most 256 different comparators. Let us call that an ABI limit. The addresses are in read-only memory so they cannot be changed- new addresses simply cannot be introduced at run-time, so there is no risk of qsort being tricked into “jumping into the middle of a function”. The implementation of my qsort() does not need to know if there are fewer- the entry will be null and the program will crash.
Also interesting is that NeoVim popup windows have optional transparency (as do pop up menus).
Site loading extremely slow due to load but thankfully the content is just hosted on YouTube:

1st: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC0GGkNZPgs

2nd: https://youtu.be/SoxRi269Slw

3rd: https://youtu.be/O5kLq7Z-pIY
I never knew they were a Russian company. That kind of makes me rethink my support, this day and age. Trusting a Russian company for such fundamental tooling seems really unwise.
Regent: a Language for Implicit Dataflow Parallelism
The methodology here is typical for testing antidepressants with animals but many people find it somewhat horrifying:

First the mice are made to be depressed by exposing them to constant sounds of birds screeching and other predators. Next some are given the intervention. The level of depression is then measured by putting the mice in a container of deep water from which there is no escape, and timing how long until the mouse gives up swimming. The mice are not left to drown but are fished out and killed in a presumably more-humane way (chronically depressed mice are not otherwise useful).

A second ethical issue with studies with mice is that occasionally the unfortunate phd student tasked with dispatching the mice will not have been taught any way to do so and will have to try to come up with something on the spot. This can be quite traumatic for both parties.
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There's a link in the comments to some nutter who does mildly horrifying syntheses on YouTube, like this one for chromyl chloride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saANxD0cqy0
The music equivalent of a ‘movie’ compared to a ‘series’.
DAT inhibitors, DA releasers and agonists are effective antidepressants in that they reduce the symptoms of depression. Drugs like Zoloft are DAT inhibitors as well as acting as SSRIs, Wellbutrin is a NET and DAT inhibitor, and MAOIs inhibit the breakdown of serotonin, DA and norepinephrine. Newer antipsychotic medications that are indicated for use as adjunct therapy for depression also have binding action at certain DA receptor sites.

The problem with dopaminergics is that they tend to be addictive, and build tolerance. Both Zoloft and Wellbutrin only inhibit a certain percentage of DAT in areas of the brain related to reward, so they aren't exactly abusable, while something like methylphenidate (which is a potent NET and DAT inhibitor) is.
Sent this to my wife, we've been talking about having kids but she's still nervous about it. Maybe it's just my personal biases, but he's confirming a lot of what I've long believed about parenthood.
Did you read the memo as it was written, replete with links to supporting research? Or did you only read the maliciously leaked version which had stripped out all the links?
I used PHPStorm for quite some time and was hyped that Android Studio would switch from Eclipse to a JetBrains solution, back in the days. I still don't understand how it could turn out as shitty as it is right now.
It only became a hard problem to solve because:

1. The creation of the unlicensed audio book was tolerated

2. There is a presumption that the unlicensed audio book should be protected from derivative works that profit from it

It's hard because the intolerance of derivatives works in (2) is inconsistent with the tolerance of the derivative work in (1); and so raises the question of when do unlicensed derivatives convert from tolerable to intolerable.

This is outside of all but the most liberal interpretations of fair use, IMHO.
I switched to Sublime Merge from using Git Tower (their licensing was awful after v3).

Never looking back, SM is amazing.

Git Tower folks: Stop pissing off your paying loyal users. Get a hint, I want my money back because you guys never made v2 properly stable and jumped on v3 for an awful cash grab. Fuck you, kindly.

Sublime HQ is an amazing company. I would pay for their products even if they charged double. Honesty and integrity matters. You’re not selling to normal sheep, programmers are a smart bunch.
I don’t know. But I do know that NPR and PBS have at times been targets of conservatives because of the little funding they get from the government.

I’m sure there would be just as much consternation from Democrats if the situation was reversed.

It also encourages giving “both sides” equal weight whether they deserve it or not.
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Better link pointing to the category, includes more results https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...
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The full text of the study that Cora Ball cites is available at the lead author's website: https://rochmanlab.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mcilwraith-et...

From the paper:

> We observed no significant reduction of microfibers by weight with the Cora Ball compared to the control.

Check out figures 2, 3 and 4.

It turns out that the cited 26% number is only for the number of fibers removed. Oddly, in the same experiments, there was no significant decrease in the mass of microfibers, or the length of the remaining fibers when using the Cora ball (but there was a > 80% decrease in both number and mass of fibers when using a product that actually filters lint out of the wastewater.

My read of this study is the the 26% number may not be reliable. The reported p-value was near 0.05, which means it would not be too surprising if the difference between Cora Ball and control was due to expected experimental variation.
Nuts, I checked for dupes, but I didn't use the acronym!
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I'm not doing it for the money. Writing a worthwhile book is about the least efficient way to make money.
I've done it in the past but I'll admit it's been years since I've used it. The cloud sync thing works just fine for me and fits well with the subscription model etc.

Looks like they may have gone off the deep-end with the configuration files - I remember the ability to export to a MUCH smaller file but this was probably 4 years ago at this point.
On the other hand, if I said "I choose not to have an abortion, but you do you" that'd be a pretty up-to-date stance, right?
Think of Knuth as the Niagara Falls of "waterfall". In super slow-motion. The water has travelled about half of the distance down.

"Agile", he is not.
Wisdom of crowd IMO only applies when estimating things whose estimate vs. probability of estimate being correct follows a Gaussian distribution
Ya, fair enough... I too have some Karabiner mappings that can't be done in IntelliJ. If you're serious about it, another option could be to get a programmable keyboard so many of the keybindings are right in the keyboard and you could just plug your keyboard in to the other person's computer.
> And I've addressed the deterrence issue at length

No you haven't. You've just asserted a random formula, without any supporting evidence.

> just asserting that my model is wrong without explaining why won't cut it.

“That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” (Christopher Hitchens).

You haven't provided any evidence for you "model" (=random formula), so there is no reason to demand evidence for dismissing it. However, multiple people actually have provided that evidence and explained in great detail why your idea and formula is wrong.

Also, multiple countries have based parts of their legal systems on this model (relative fine). So if you want to figure out why you are wrong, which you are, feel free to examine the legal systems of those countries.

For example: "Ziel ist es, Menschen mit unterschiedlichem Einkommen verhältnismäßig gleich hart zu bestrafen." → "The goal is to punish people with different incomes equally hard." From the Wikipedia entry on "Tagessatz" that I pointed out to you earlier.

Outta here.
No software-only interlocks on anything that requires a safety interlock
I think this wasn’t always the case, at least for more popular musicians, but it is certainly the case now.
Your intention wasn't obvious, the joke wasn't funny, and it was guaranteed to land as a provocation with someone, since it's basically a trollish remark.

There's nothing wrong with humour per se, but most people overrate the humour in their own comments. scott_s said it best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

It looks like you've been breaking the site guidelines in other comments as well. Would you mind reading them and sticking to the intended spirit of the site when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good luck attracting experts to your site... without incentive for experts to participate it will likely just be the blind leading the blind (i.e. newbies helping newbies - which could possibly be a good thing!).
Does anybody know the author of the article? Where does he get his content from? Is he making a living as a speaker or is/was he also a coder?
You can add the Pittsburg synagogue shooting to that list.

I'm not in favor of surveillance panopticons either, for what it's worth.
I can't figure out how to download the IntelliJ EAP. Everything seems to direct to the standard Commercial/Community IntelliJ download page. Anybody have a link?
It is the dumb person who doesn’t ask questions and do anything about them being dumb.

It is funny that you can also learn things like that without questions, but how could it be any other way? We are all born dumb!
Why is that? And, alternatively, who would you trust?
Their "everything" commercial license is €249 for y1, €199 for y2 and €149 for y3+ as an individual: https://www.jetbrains.com/store/#personal?billing=yearly

The organizational license is only needed if your employer is paying for you or compensating you for the license cost: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207241075-What...
IntelliJ really wants you to open a project, work on it, then you close it and open the next project. That doesn't fit me.

This does not match my experience at all, fwiw. I keep all manner of projects open simultaneously.
For sure - they're just considerations/complexities if you need to quadruple your service infrastructure for black friday or what not.
I don't feel JWT is often appropriate - I wrote one of the early scala implementations so have seen the lifecycle of a security library.
It has a slight "coating" effect, when compared to a normal effervescing carbonated beverage.
I find building keyboards very relaxing (here is my work so far: https://ereign.is/objects/).

The split orthos are very usable and comfortable after a few hours of acclimatization (I mostly use a commercial Topre board for now, I should finish designing QMK layouts that better serve my needs).
They got there shipping great products that people trust.
I agree completely, and I doubt Pratchett conducted much research to derive that algorithm. He might even be wrong about the constant factor at lower levels.
> To make the system more efficient, as you suggested, they would do best to implement a bidding system so that customers could directly opt to pay more (directly indicating their level of need).

You are absolutely right here. A bidding system would do wonders IMO but they are likely to release their version of auto-bidding system that would use person's personal data to approximate the bid.

You might be mistaken that personal wealth would be a big factor. I think the target destination would be a bigger factor. For example drops to international terminals, Urgent Care, romantic dinner target locations would have a higher price rather than home, 7/11 or social security office.

If I was an engineer or product manager that is how would I design the algorithm to maximize the margins. But sooner I would move to user bid prices.

(Asking rich people to pay is not bad either, you can think of it as voluntary redistribution of wealth from rich to poor drivers).
Try doing a merge with IntelliJ's 3-way merge UI. It's flippin' fantastic compared to roaming through the files and removing sections between >>>> and <<<<.
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So I guess with my anxiety disorder even computers will think “I have something to hide” because I look nervous. Jesus christ this world is a dystopia.
"Sand won't save you this time" is another great read from the series:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sa...
It is not illegal in Europe even if you did not pay. Seems immoral though.
There are so many streaming providers right now, no wonder people are turning to torrents. It's almost easier UX-wise to set up Transmission and Plex once, than manage 5 sets of subscription, apps on all your devices and credentials to log into each one.

They will have to consolidate eventually, to keep the customers, or lose to piracy yet again.