skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the VFX environments I've seen (100+ artists), most artist workstations and servers are Linux (usually RHEL or CentOS due to much higher rpm than deb support in the industry). Macs are common for editors (who use the Adobe suite to make timelines for dailies) and producers (because shiny), while Windows is mainly used by admin staff (accounting, hr, etc) because they use the same terrible accounting software as every other company out there (note: this may be less so now with the move to web based solutions).

While most hobby level video software is targeted at windows or Mac, the truly powerful stuff (houdini, maya, nuke, blender) are first class citizens on Linux. Currently one of the few artist programs that aren't available for Linux is the adobe suite which is mostly used by editors (for timelines) and photo editing (for promotional material) and most of that happens on Macs, usually in the editing department.

Something to keep in mind is that many VFX shops are kind of specialized and will work on very specific portions of a movie or TV show. For example, the company that owns the final product (Disney, Fox, MGM, etc) will pay company A to shoot the movie, then company A will send the footage for a 30 second scene to company B to rotoscope everything, then it gets sent to company C for VFX elements, then to company D for 3d conversion, then to company E for lighting and finally to company F for audio and final stitching. This is repeated (often with different companies A-F) for each scene since different scenes required different levels of expertise in different areas such as crowd generation, fire simulation, raindrop removal (yes, it's as painful as it sounds), background replacement, CG helicopters, etc. Because of this, the few steps that require windows are typically handled by 1 or 2 companies so the rest only need enough Mac/Windows machines for their local editors to stick timelines together for daily reviews.

An interesting side effect of the above is that almost every company you see in the credits of a movie had no idea what the dialog was because audio is one of the last things that gets added and completely bypasses 90% of the VFX houses involved.
Question: If you already have bridges in place to send and receive messages in other clients, is there any reason I can't chat from those clients?

In other words, I want to be able to use the Messages app on my iPhone to communicate with other people using Discord, WhatsApp, Slack, etc. I would absolutely pay $10 a month for that, and I almost never subscribe to anything!

Is that something you could turn on, or is it more complicated than I'm imagining?

P.S. I'm wearing a Pebble 2 right now. Thanks for all your work on that, it's a great device.

Edit: Actually, even just some sort of XMPP gateway, so I could use any client that supports XMPP, would basically be enough for me.
Is wine snobbery real and present here?
Definitely a great idea. I would love to see this discussion here.
This is 100% correct. Not everyone is entitled to live in a good neighborhood (or any neighborhood) in a high opportunity city. Even if we knocked down every single low occupancy structure and stood up high density apartments everywhere, growth would continue until those units were maxed out too and we would be back to square one but now with everyone unhappy.

While I agree that existing home owners have too much power in cities and we need more flexible zoning to encourage higher density as a temporary solution, the ultimate solution to the problem is to build up other cities to shift demand away from SF, Boston, NYC, Austin, Seattle et al. Not only does this provide more opportunity in general, but it spreads power and wealth over more of the country.
Coal is on its way out. We don't have to wait for the perfect energy solution before we can improve agriculture.
For me, it is likely already too late. A law has been passed in Russia (effective since April 1) that requires certain apps to be pre-installed on all smartphones that are sold or imported, and some of them (e.g. for the Wink streaming media service) are simply not available for desktop linux. Therefore, if the phone arrives later, the customs will turn the phone back and apply charges against me for an attempted smuggling. So unless they can ensure that it arrives earlier, I have to ask for a refund.
Wow, that quote is taken out of context. Let me try to break it down with reference to the context of the article:

> Changing these dangerous dynamics...

The "these dynamics" Mitchell speaks about are, the rampant use of the internet to:

1. Foment violence and hate.

2. Reinforce white supremacy.

3. Politicians (or anyone playing politics, really) exploiting the architecture of the internet to spread lies / hate / what-have-you.

> temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors

These, presumably, include:

1. Terrorists organizations like the Proud Boys.

2. Divisive, regressive, repressive figures like Donald Trump.

3. Institutions hell-bent on inciting hate, spreading disinformation, facilitating abuse, inculcating disharmony, encouraging violence, sowing mistrust, aiding conspiracies...

> Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken

Absolutely.

I see this policy stance as being no different to wanting the education system to not purport Racism; this isn't curtailing freedom of speech or any other freedom. It is purely an exercise in needing to do more than just deplatforming Racists: Not actively seek to create new ones!
> It's perhaps worth considering these as forces to be balanced, rather than one extreme or the other being maximally desirable.

+1

> There's a strong argument that the kind of risk, stress, and precariousness you rightly and richly describe are an effect of a NIMBY-induced housing crisis.

Perhaps, but in my personal case, I think it was the opposite. I experienced this in an environment that is highly favorable to private, market-rate high-rise housing development.

Both San Francisco and NYC have housing shortage problems but I'm more likely to believe San Francisco's problem is inflicted by NIMBYism than New York's...
Off-topic slightly, but I'm currently working on a side project along with a demanding job at a FAANG company. I've been working on it for about 4 months and we're close to launching the initial product. Although I'm at FAANG, my full-time job is nowhere near interesting or motivating to me as what I'm working on the side, which gets me up at any point in the night or day with 0 second thoughts.

Working out helps me a lot and allows me to refresh and get more capacity. Sure, there are days where I'm squeezed out, but enough sleep also helps. What I've also learned is, use anything you have to, to get the job done and don't focus on optimization and scaling problems at all. Make sure to throw away features that don't add any value now and always keep that in mind. If you are careful about these points, you can certainly accelerate.
Did they name themselves after https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_ping.asp ?

"Specifies the URL to be notified if the user follows the hyperlink. Must be a space separated list of one or more valid URLs"

currently used by Google for tracking
https://www.sundayy.app/users/sign_up
I'm going to be that guy. I can't help myself. This is fine for making art, and this is a really fun project that I enjoyed a lot.

But... I've seen enough unboxings of damaged goods, and ropey packaging over the years that has similarly led to damage here in real life, that it seems worth saying even amongst an intelligent crowd: the thickness of a cardboard box is not in any way sufficient to protect any goods more valuable than a book/DVD/video game/CD jewel case[0] during shipping, let alone fragile goods.

You need to make sure that you buy a box that's big enough to hold whatever you're sending, plus all the padding you're going to pack all around it to prevent it from being damaged by knocks or being dropped.

This will add to the weight and size of your package, and therefore the cost of shipping, but it's worth it to ensure your goods arrive undamaged at their destination.

</thatguymode>

[0] Even this one is debatable given how easy these are to crack and prone they are to the hinge tabs snapping off. The CD jewel case is a wildly successful design but not, I would argue, a great design - certainly not a great design for the particularly brittle plastic they're made out of. Ironic considering the discs themselves are made out of polycarbonate, and are therefore fairly durable.
Despite the people, water, and electricity are another issues.

Taiwan is a small country with limited water resource due to the lack of land to have long river to keep the water on the ground.

For the electricity, nowadays, many BIG TECHs demand "green" electricity to manufacture their products, but once again Taiwan is not a big country. There is no enough area to hold the solar plates and the weather there is not suitable for wind power because of the typhoon.

These are the nature limitations. There are also other issues such as lack of engineers, the risk if expansion is not worth it in the future, etc.
wow, this looks hard to build(any hardware product does to me). how long have you spent overall on this?
https://facesoftheriot.com/

https://twitter.com/RiotFaces
I think this is an indictment of the lack of organizational skills in the area of software engineering. It is still an industry run by the sit of their pants. There is no clear separation of responsibilities and everyone wants to do everything (and usually badly).
Switzerland has nation-wide rent-control, but has somehow escaped from the claimed consequence of "Economy and population would stagnate.", i.e., is a counter-example to the claimed necessary consequence of rent-control.
This is an excellent short summary about the state/status of democracy from its inception and how political theorists from Plato and Aristotle to J.S. Mill et al have worried over its limitations, potential to descend into mob rule, etc.

A very discerning and prescient read given the current political climate.
> replacing the video feed with an avatar (upload or choose)
> favorite features of Clubhouse is lack of video

Would be awesome if virtual space had both custom cam and custom mic features.
Both amdgpu and nouveau work absolutely fine on ARM devices, why wouldn't they?!

In fact I made the FreeBSD port of amdgpu work on my Macchiatobin :) Absolutely smooth experience btw, video output works even in UEFI (it actually runs the GOP driver from the card in QEMU), amdgpu works perfectly (played vkquake, supertuxkart, openmw, etc.)
Do you have a citation? Switzerland almost certainly does not have nation-wide rent-control.
I always thought the thing we’d need to simulate in a simulation is physical touch. I don’t know of any chemicals that can set off a pressure sensation. So if we are in a simulation, there’s got to be some kind of tech that creates physical touch sensation as we interact with the virtual world.
Anyone concerned about water issues should consider reading Salt Dreams and reading up on the history of Fresno water development. Fresno actually has had years when they have increased their level of ground water.

Some comments by me about such things:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20528584

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I'm a YIMBY, so I think forcing developers to redo plans (and this has a non-trivial cost, much of it hidden and always downplayed by NIMBYs because the biggest cost is time) because of a tree that isn't very old is pretty terrible, and none of your explanations are persuasive. It sounds ridiculous to me an ocean away.

But on your last point, I am much more inclined to agree. Indigenous people are not a mere tree, and dealing with the whole imperialism/colonialism(/genocide?) thing is an entirely different level of ethical consideration.

I'm way more hesitant about anything impacting actual people or reinforcing past stealing of indigenous land than I am about nostalgia about some tree or building.
That gets to the core of my puzzlement. In terms of dataflow if 'b' is an 'agent' then b.foo() is a message we send to it and then we use the result of b.foo() for further decision making. But in a typical dataflow-diagram data flows in one direction only, there is no link in the diagram from "b" to "result of b.foo()".

A diagram could not (easily?) describe the fact that we get the 'b' from one component and then we send the message "foo" to that component 'b". The data-path from this component to "b" could hardly show in the diagram because "b" is the response to a previous request which could be one of many possible alternative responses.

I'm not sure if I can express or even think about this very clearly but questions like this make me doubt the generality of dataflow as an alternative to current-day programming practice.
I'm just really skeptical that an advanced species like that couldn't figure out the appropriate way to save another species from destruction/stagnation without collapsing everything. Just feels like an immensely negative perspective when we could easily just choose a more positive one.
Madison wasn't describing an opaque algorithm feeding back based on your actions to optimize for something against your best interest or desires.
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Your thinking is not long-term, it is at best medium-term.

You hopefully are convinced by the article that short-term, building housing drops prices.

You are correct that for the people who live in a place, rent control affects their lives.

But the result of rent control is that when places open up, there is a massive excess of demand. Which results in high prices in the long term. The housing market in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area reflects this. And preserving the quality of life of people who are privileged enough to start in the neighborhood is what is causing the long-term problem of too little housing and rents that are massively too high. With commutes that are beyond insane.

Given political realities, the only hope that I have for a long-term change is that thanks to COVID, more companies have realized that they can let everyone telecommute. And after enough people move far away for cheaper housing in prettier places (prices are rising rapidly in rural counties!) the reduced demand will fix prices.

But it will take a few years after the pandemic is over before we know if that is a long-term trend or a blip.
The best selling point is federation if you ask me.

I prefer matrix, but it doesn't help me if the people I want to talk to don't. Oh, look at this! A project which bridges the clients others use to a client I would like to use!
This is totally backwards. The poles of Seattle politics are around the activist-aligned progressives who support upzoning (including socialist Kshama Sawant), and the homeowner-aligned conservatives who do not.
Wales is gorgeous.. perfect place for a software company or to work remote. The govt needs to incentivize remote work to revitalize the local economies that need it.
True. If I did I’d run them in a VM (Qubes?) it a dedicated host.
For the record, lithium as a mood stabilizer is pretty solid and settled science in the realm of mental health, which is actually saying a lot as the only other mental health medication that can really claim the same amount of success in treatment to alleviate symptoms would be amphetamines to treat attention disorders. To this day lithium is considered the gold standard in suicide preventative treatment. There is a lot of research that leads to the conclusion that due to the realities of modern civilization we may not receive enough lithium which in small concentrations is is an essential mineral. While I have not read the article you linked to, it may not be that far off base, but may very well be snake oil, nevertheless, the general scientifically held belief is that there is a strong probability that due to modern society norms we do not receive enough lithium in our diet and that the average human would benefit in metal health from a small boost in lithium in their diet. With that stated it is a good reminder that, you can take too much lithium and an lithium overdose has some nasty side effects. It is really something that should be monitored by a doctor as they take blood serum samples and ensure that you are not running high lithium levels which can destroy your kidneys and other organs.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolutionary-psychia...
Well so far you've given me a political article you misinterpreted based on a headline and I did try googling the EFF Panopticlick study on browsers- and there's an article from 2017 but no data or stats I can find? You haven't told me why you disagree with the company / business decisions so I have nothing to go off there...

I'm not being harsh, you just haven't presented anything beyond empty words.
The problem is that the conversation never gets this far. By the time you start talking about upzoning a neighborhood with actual money in it, everyone who lives there will be screaming for the head of the head of the local city planning commissioner on a pike, and whatever land developer was interested in the project will quietly look for another poor neighborhood to pull a Robert Moses on. A lot of city governments are effectively gentleman's clubs: they serve the interests of the people who can afford to live and vote there, not the interests of the people as a whole.

State or federal prohibitions on certain zoning restrictions might be a way to go around that, as the people who can't afford to live in certain cities would still be able to outvote those who can. I keep hearing California proposing to force city governments' hands on density; but it keeps getting stymied for stupid reasons. Having a "no reducing affordable housing units" rule should still be allowed, but a "no dense housing" rule should be banned as a clear attempt at fixing prices within a neighborhood.
Agreed. NIMBYs and YIMBYs exist across the political spectrum. This article seems to attempt to make the divide deeper along political lines.
And yet we have very good evidence it indeed has. If life originated somewhere else, it landed here before DNA evolved.
Those are just feel good sounding semantics, reminds me of NATO, or UN.
Fair enough, yeah, when you put it like that, it's obviously false haha.
Low rent neighborhoods next to a desirable location don't exist, though. What happens with gentrification is that locations become desirable, and because of inability for them to grow people "spill out" into adjoining areas. If you could build housing right there (i.e. taller buildings, denser neighborhoods, subdivisions, etc...) the problem wouldn't have happened in the first place. But NIMBY rules prevent that to protect existing owners.
I would argue that it's not backwards and that your summary is reductive and way too simplistic to be true, but I didn't expand on my view much either to be fair. In general, ancient cultures on earth would have almost always wanted to wipe out opposing cultures, but one side tended to have better weapons. In this case, if the increased moral character of our species over time is any indication then it's possible to become a space-fairing species that just helps others.
Unfortunately I don't. What I can do is list all the services I know of which sell DRM-Free Audiobooks in the US:

• Libro.fm

• Downpour.com

• Audiobooksnow.com (Check for a "Downloadable" icon, a very small number of tiles without it have DRM).

• Google Play

I bounce between the first three of these regularly, based on price and availability. I've never actually used Google Play for audiobooks; they always seems to cost more.

Hopefully at least one of those has better offerings in the EU!
I guess it's not a solo endeavor, you're working on it with other people? How many hours a day do you work on the side project vs your FAANG job?
I'm also confused. I filled out the form and was then redirected with no other info?
Not until April 5th.
I agree, but I think there are a ton of people who take various multivitamins, apparently a slight majority of Americans and 70% of Americans over 65, so I think that plays a large role here.
This is exactly correct. Apple engineered that page to read to people who are scanning quickly that "it's encrypted, it's fine" when in fact iCloud Backup, which includes complete plaintext message history (and SMS history too, which Apple normally would not see, plus all iMessage/SMS attachments like photos and videos) is NOT end to end encrypted but encrypted with Apple keys, and can be decrypted by Apple at any time without the user's device or password.

It's perhaps the most shady thing they do. Nothing on that page is a lie, yet if you read it without an intimate knowledge of Apple's services ("iCloud", vs "Messages in iCloud", vs "iCloud Backup") you will get an impression of the opposite of what is true.

Additionally, they were going to e2e encrypt backups, but the FBI asked them not to, and so they didn't, and Apple and the FBI can read every message in every backup without a warrant.
A nice looking cross platform email client doesn't have a lot to do with this concept IMO.

I personally also don't see why you couldn't use different clients on different platforms. They can all link to your email account I the same way.
Brave phones home less than Firefox does (Firefox is as bad as chrome is this respect)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-brow...
I don't see any reason to do it from practical standpoint, but to do it for fun - why not.

If you want something working, I'd also not recommend using hardware from someone like Apple.
Rent control is the pettiest sort of bourgeois privilege. I'm sure that the SF homeless population appreciates "the good character of a rent-controlled neighborhood"...How can people talk with a straight face about the terrible "angst" of being charged a higher rent and perhaps having to pick a slightly lower-cost area in the first place. It's just mind-boggling.
And in turn this blocks a large Swift app I work on from shipping Apple silicon support…software dependency chains can be brutal.
The question you're asking lends itself to anecdotes, so to chime in:

I usually think of two kinds of "NIMBY".

One is extremely concerned with their property value, and making sure nothing can ever damage it. Stereotypically this is a conservative, but most liberals act the exact same way when you want to build in their neighborhood.

Then there's a more left leaning contingent that has nothing but disdain for markets, thinks the government should build and administer housing in highly desirable areas, and somehow decide who should live there (it always seems to be them, interestingly).
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Neither can an open source project be controlled by a single entity
Ferdi is a web browser that's oriented on messaging. This is something completely different.
Sharing my experience. In Miami the tax is 1.12%. My heuristic is mortgage is 1/2, HOA + Property tax is 1/2. Don't know if that scales to your market but it seems to hold true here.

I'm not sure how rent control works in your city/country. But in my experience, you buy in at a market rate and then the amount of increase is capped by the government. I've not heard of people renting an apartment below market rate (for the first month) unless its classified as "affordable housing" which carries statutory requirements for the landlord and the tenet.
I love f-strings. Don't forget that you can do fr"some string {blah}" to build raw strings.

>>> blah = "something \here"
>>> fr"what the {blah}"
'what the something \\here'
I was both proud and disappointed that I knew exactly what video that would be before clicking it.
Reverse engineering publicly available proprietary software distributed as freeware to reimplement free software replacements is not illegal.