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I don't know man, Netflix added games to its Android app so..
My daughter is going through this right now. I'm thankful I have good insurance because the hospital and therapy visits last year alone where over $100k...
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> I live in a deep blue city (Seattle) and have interacted with some local policy makers.
> In truth, they just aren't very smart. And worse, they are quite confident they are indeed very smart.

Is that on top of all the house building that has been done and is being done still? If they are so incompetent, why are new town homes, condos, and apartment complexes popping up all over the place?

Sure, it still can't keep up with demand...a 25% growth in population over the last decade is no joke. But Seattle is nowhere near as dysfunctional as SF, at the very least.
I'm not whitewashing anything, I used that expression to dramatize the reckless way in which neighborhoods were torn down in the name of progress.

Obviously, there was a lot of very careful thought that went into every project. Public opinion has always mattered in government and it'd always get faster approval if you tackle infrastructure projects in certain areas over others. It'd also become a much more affordable effort if you did it in areas with cheaper land value and used cheaper building materials.

Still, my mistake for using that expression, as it's distracting you from my main point.
I've been doing small backyard-scale experiments with soil-building the last few years and I've come around to the viewpoint that soil should be thought of as a kind of distributed organism. (Someone once called this the "Gaia hypothesis writ small".) The soil organism is made up of myriad species of fungi, bacteria, insects, etc., but it seems to work as a whole (cf. Michael Levin's work, like "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg )

In any event, what I've found is that the health of the crops is most easily influenced by looking after the health of the soil (duh?) and that, if you get the soil right, the plants seem like they can't help but grow vigorously.
Alongside lithium, the same is true of any plastic materials and most of the electrolytes. Ironically, the rapidly reduction in battery costs is make this problem harder, as there are fewer high-value components worth recycling.
> pictures of apes is spread over the internet and infects certain vulnerable people with adverse results

Are you aware of any articles or research that documents these adverse results?
You can still use VS Code's diff if you have the GitHub Pull Requests extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.v...
This was my first thought as well -- HBO Max has a new Dolby Vision version, while Hulu continues to be bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of its image quality (they appear to routinely use the lowest bit-rate for video, and have historically been late to move from older interlaced or SD transfers to progressive & HD transfers). Hulu is likely serving up a feed based on the DVD, theatrical, or original HD TV release.
wrong thread to post to
This "don't let new users comment right away" idea is a frequent suggestion on HN, and one obvious problem with it is that some of the best threads on HN happen when the subject of a story posted here jumps into an HN thread for the first time to answer questions. Case in point: Nick Kokonas from Alinea Group has an account on HN ('nkokonas) because Tock, the restaurant booking company started out of Alinea, got mentioned here.

Delaying comments from new users would be of dubious benefit to the community (many of the worst comments on HN are not as a rule coming from fresh new accounts, and that safeguard is easily gamed), and what we'd lose in exchange is pretty clear. It hasn't been adopted here for a reason, not just out of laziness.
>And instead cling to things like rent control, which "feel good" in the short run but end up doing the opposite of what was intended.

I'm not sure if there is a better term for it but people are highly susceptible for falling for a "it's your fault because you touched it last" bias. Luxury apartments are "bad" because their rents are high, even though they alleviate demand for regular housing. Evictions are "bad", even though the alternative is for landlords to factor that risk into the price or require very good credit and a stable income.

It's not just with housing either. Everyone loved student loans until they enabled colleges to raise their tuition prices. Now people are demanding the government to throw even more money at the problem with student loan forgiveness, which increases people's willingness to pay and would enable colleges to raise tuition even more.
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From the article:

> The Hulu version had a strong green cast, and I suspect it used the 2008 Blu-ray version at its source. Meanwhile, the HBO Max version is more purple and blue, so it seems likely that it came from the 2018 UHD Blu-ray.
I wonder if the majority are moving to vlogging instead?
cinematographers and others go to great lengths to get colors right. They choose different film mediums (or digital equivalents). The great cinematographers go to great lengths to get colors, angles, perspectives just right. Average movie goers notice the greatness, but they don't know the "how its great". Font Designers go to great lengths to get just the right kerning, serifs, etc too. Average people notice great fonts, but often don't know why.
Which makes sense in the context of managing "configuration as code".

Once configuration is code, i.e. Turing complete, something has gone awry.
A word's intensity can vary by context.

For example, most of the time when I describe an event as "awesome", rarely is it literally targeting something that inspires "awe".
It’s easy to be high minded when you don’t have power. Hell, even Rush Limbaugh sounded intelligent in the early 90s. His successors have devolved to “fuck you” as a political slogan.

High minded ideals fall to power. It’s easy to see at the local level, when black and LGBT voting blocs put the Mayor in power, the political spoils get divvied up. As time goes on you get conflict between the various stakeholders, and everyone forgets about the ideals and focuses on the street fighting. That’s why you need competitive elections.
I'm just waiting to see a novel comment on the topic. It's only been discussed N times where N is the number of drops of water in the ocean.
I have loads of friends who started to cancel their netflix subs and went back to piracy because they grew tired of searching for a way to watch something legally. Now its disney, hbo, prime, whatever. Screw all of this.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the 1 million dollar question, and there is: who fact-checks the fact-checkers?
It's easy to talk past each other when discussing which techniques to prioritize.

Drawing forms in perspective is a large hurdle, and it is important if you want to work quickly on a variety of projects with little reference(a common need in professional illustration) but also not the defining thing of "drawing". The huge number of artists that define themselves in a completely flat style should signal as much.

I found it was more important in my studies to prioritize proportion. Proportion rules over and interacts with everything else - it is unavoidable, and there are many proportioning tricks and strategies out there. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is fine at guiding this basic principle. The other things can be done with a bit of reference and specific techniques:

If you understand the proportions correctly in an orthographic side, front and top view, you can already create character turnarounds: just rotate the top view in 2D and then draw guidelines downwards, and you have the horizontal location of everything after rotation, which can subsequently be matched with the vertical from front and side. It is a major labor to do this because you will most likely not have perfect proportions in your original views if you drew them from scratch, but the process itself is intuitive and accurate, and involves no cubes or cones.

Form in perspective is likewise mostly reducible to knowing the location of the horizon line and then informally distorting proportions according to the rule: "above horizon=looking up, below horizon=looking down". And then doing studies of the perpendicular cross-section to internalize the detailed form of real objects. Again, cubes and cones are not a priority. They are a method of simplifying, which helps when you aim towards arbitrary constructions from imagination, but the drawing assignments I've undertaken are achieved with most accuracy by starting from either using a maximum detail reference image to set proportions, or first working in orthographic views to simplify understanding.

The emphasis on primitives is primarily a yesteryear's art education phenomenon, because it was much, much harder to get accurate references then. Artists were known for possessing giant stacks of source material. We're in a world defined by digital processes, and the stacks are disappearing accordingly. You can easily tell the computer to make an accurate cube and then trace over that, and if you need more details you snap a quick photo on your camera. You can build up exactly the reference you need via photobashing. The process is a giant shortcut that doesn't give the same results, but when pushed hard to be stylized, it still leads back to the traditional skills of observation, and eventually to drawing cubes.
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I think the bigger issue now is that more content is inside social media "silos" like twitter, instagram or youtube. I don't have the numbers though.
The idea of transparency logs for software is also being developed by Google with its Trillian project[0], but Gossamer seems to go further by also logging code review and security audit results, which is similar to the idea of Crev[1] from the Rust ecosystem.

[0] https://transparency.dev/#trillian

[1] https://github.com/crev-dev/crev
Who said anything about three years?
Animatrix helps with that pain, thankfully.
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Most Chinese officials aren't engineers or doctors, they might have a degree given to them in something like Chemical engineering, but they've never practiced as an engineer and have the full life training of a politician.
I don't think people will stop using the Google search bar. I don't think people will stop binging shows on Netflix. I don't think people will stop ordering crap on Amazon. I don't think people who use iphones and macbooks will stop buying iphones and macbooks.

Hard for me to see how it wouldn't be FB/meta. They're betting the farm on something unproven / creating new habits / maintaining habits that seem to be waning.
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I'd believe it. As an IT consultant, I interact with a lot of people who are semi-techs themselves- mostly small business owners who are used to wearing a lot of hats, and also the type to have been motivated to run their own personal blogs about diving/photography/conlangs/quilting/gardening/whatever their personal hobbies are.

Ten years ago, the majority(!) had at least something up and running, where they would post essays, thoughts, whatever came to mind.

Nowadays? All gone. All! When asked why, the answer almost always is along a mix of ever-increasing negative feedback and harassment from randos, and aggressive automated spamming of their forums. Loss of the pseudo-anonymity plays a large role as well. Many have deleted years' worth of work, simply because they are afraid of someone trolling through their posts to find something to harass them with.

I was never a blogger myself, but I am sad about the change. There was a lot of good stuff out there for a while, and sometimes it just plain made me happy to read someone joyfully nerding out on a favorite subject of theirs.
Caching creates a mature product, no matter what your product roadmap says. If a rewrite is the tool of last result, caching is the second to last. Like pruning shears, once you use them, your world of options collapses considerably. All of those opportunities are gone and nature won't let you put them back.

Critically, caches are global shared state. That's why cache invalidation is the hardest thing. Global state also means people stop trying to have a data flow/architecture. None of these call trees need to advertise that they use a particular value because I can just grab it from a global if I need it. You don't know where things are actually used anymore because they all come from cache lookups, and because the lookup is so cheap (under typical system load, but catastrophic under high load), people don't even try to hold onto previously acquired data. They just fetch it again. Which is another boundary condition for cache invalidation (what if half a transaction has the old value and half the new value?)

They make flame graphs essentially useless. Sometimes immediately, or once the above starts happening. You quickly have no clear idea what the cost of anything is, because you never pay it, or if you try to pay it you end up amplifying the cost until there is no signal. Once people are promiscuously fetching from the cache, they don't even attempt to avoid duplicate lookups, so activities will end up fetching the same data 6 times. If you turn off the cache entirely for perf analysis then the cost skyrockets and the flame chart is still wrong.

You are back to dead reckoning and manually adding telemetry to potential hotspots to sort it out. This is very slow, and can be demoralizing. Quickly this becomes the fastest our app will be for a very long time.
The Metaverse play is just a further development of Oculus, which has gained traction afaik. Will it result in a paradigm shift in computing? Probably not but I can see the fanbase/use cases for oculus growing and justifying the investment.
Decline is far too charitable to Facebook and Netflix. They need to cease to exist.

Any product that Facebook makes produces -99% of value for humanity.
Handshake, to me, is an example of a better version than the current version of the web.

I would rather have a decentralized root zone on a blockchain than a centralized root zone controlled by ICANN.

This fixes a lot of problems, including no need to trust certificate authorities.

Others may not agree and would rather it be centralized and controlled by ICANN. But you can't deny that it is more decentralized to have the root zone on the Handshake blockchain.
You might be onto something. I know my friends and family hate to watch it, and my gut feelings often contradict my eventual actions. I know there are unhealthy elements at play, and I'm guilty of perpetuating some of it. These relationships aren't one sided.

I think a major complication is that she's somewhat manic in that she has highs and lows. Her lows are extremely low. When she's higher though, she can be very pleasant, kind, good to her family, etc.

I find it very difficult to nail down who she is on that spectrum, or where she might eventually land between those states, and how I can judge her or my decisions based on how things fluctuate so much.

The word gaslighting is absolutely accurate, though. She does this a lot and I wish she didn't. I'm vulnerable to it because I tend to blame myself and hesitate to engage in confrontation when I'm uncertain of myself.
> To see billionaires amass extraordinary wealth and bureaucrats amass enormous power — with little scrutiny.

Not an accident, I believe. Occupy Wall Street made the billionaires and Wall Street take notice. As a consequence, they probably decided people need to be busy with something else, just in case, so they don't get any more funny ideas. Identity politics is a great one to divide people, fan anger, get more clicks and views, and at the same time get them uninterested what the billionaires and Wall Street firms are doing.
> I can think of very few transactions that I want permanent and signed and public. The fewer the better imo.

For sure. That's a problem with public blockchains that we'll wrestle with soon enough. They are presented as being more private when in fact they are more public, and certainly once some big exchange is compromised someday.

I think we'll see more from private currencies like Monero, since they're kind of what bitcoin was marketed as. Cheap, private digital currency.
Cinematography would probably be the appropriate word.
What you're describing is how git should be used. I would add it's important to push your branch to the remote just in case something happens to the local copy. I tend to squash/rebase to get the same type of results, but I can't imagine not saving work regularly or being concerned with the commit history while I'm actively working.
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It looks like there's some discussion on the patch series which suggest various diffs that need to be applied in order to compile with LLVM=1 [0].

[0] https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/YdM4Z5a+SWV53yol@archlinux-a...
> The strong opposition to diversity efforts has been a pretty common trait associated with the tech community/silicon valley.

I'm surprised to hear that. My impression was that D&I initiatives are far more prevalent in tech/SV companies than elsewhere. I probably got that from personal experience + news about Google (Damore), Facebook, etc.

But maybe in reality D&I has become commonplace in many U.S. companies, and I just started working with tech/SV companies as that happened.
there is a big element of this in the same circles of people who are convincing people they have BPD, DID, ADHD, Ticks and Seizures.

I only know because my kid is struggling with severe mental issues and is currently in the hospital. I got on their tiktok and discord and saw the "communities" they were in and many of the ones espousing disorders are convincing kids who aren't sexually active that their inactiveness is a specific sexuality and defacto trans or non binary as a means of relating to other kids who have the same experiences when none seem to be actively trans/gay/non binary in their offline lives.
The primary arts centre in one of Canada’s largest cities spent most of last summer running a series of events where transgender artists presented children’s songs and stories. I can’t help but think that for the vast majority of casual viewers (pedestrians and casual passers by) it was confusing at best and “another example of how we waste money on the arts” at worst.

I love and respect the arts. It’s goals are worthy. It needs to do better than this.
>One small counterpoint: Employers enjoy a bully pulpit on these issues. Employees with legitimate concerns about their employers' stances / policies sometimes can't even discuss them without the risk of losing their livelihood.

There are endless platforms that are better suited for these discussions: Gab, 4chan, and Ruqqus to name a few. "HN's anonymous-yet-respectful forum" is best preserved by not hosting these types of deeply hostile, alienating discussions.
It's just an extension of using someone's name. Is that virtue signaling, too? Or is the problem really that it's new and scary?
I had (have, I put Win98 on it for gaming) an eMachines that came with ME and it worked fine, but that meant they tested it and had all the drivers for it so ymmv.
I had a 3 year gap in my employment. What I did: Do substantive work for a volunteer organization, be valuable, and become an officer there. Put that on your CV. A lot of recruiters won't parse your CV enough to see the difference in that entry. If you're a coder, then that's enough for you to get a "just a job" job.
The absolutely dreaded music player on Toyotas was that bad, that they returned a 2-din slot on a lot of their vehicles past 2019 in Asian markets.