skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not saying that the data in the story is wrong, but my (tiny) sample of artist I know and some I have worked with in the US and Norway come from middle class or lower background and they do art because they need to, compelled by an ardent desire / obsession.

None have nest eggs or rich parentes that support them.

They usually have a hard time getting art into galleries.
Some run galleries as a collective, but few of those make
it into "high society"

A while ago I left my corporate developer / manager to pursue life
as an artist. Things to several circumstances not important here, I do not have a nest egg, I make my living off of small stipends when I can get them, and
a few other programs that the government provides. (Nice thing in Norway).
It is difficult, it is an enormous change in circumstances.
Some hurt. I am happier than before.

Perhaps I am hung up on that type of artist.
"Corporate" artists might folio the story exactly.

You do have some artists who started late after already having
a successful career. They have money and sometimes they have
a network of important people to get them into galleries.

Like Howard Schatz who is a great photographer now.
After having a long and distinguished career as an ophthalmologist.

Then you have artists like Hunter Biden who can sell paintings for $75K
mostly due to fame. (One curator estimates that some pieces might
fetch as much as 500K.
> At least not until some state actor wants it

In this case, just bootstrapping a pseudonymous identity using a separate prepaid phone (and from there create email address, etc) should be enough. From there, host it on any paid webhost that isn't based on "growth & engagement" and doesn't care about public opinion.

> But could my identity be linked to email via domain name?

Since you're not concerned about state actors, not really. Whois privacy services (offered by most registrars) are sufficient to protect against your current threat model, though nothing prevents you from signing up with fake details anyway.
No, not really.

Like any other industry, there are good employers and bad employers; there are comfortable working environments and stressful ones; there are good teams and bad teams. If anything, compared with every other industry that I've experience in or friends working in, software generally seems to be way better in almost every aspect.

YMMV, but I suspect your question might be more "would anyone prefer to work on their own ideas rather than someone else's" which… yeah, I think most people would.
If you want to be even mildly successful in any art you have to be a good entrepreneur in addition to being a good artist, or be really lucky. Most people are good at one of those two things, if at all. Being both is tough.
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This is textbook alienation of work. Unfortunately Marx only describes it and does not really provide a solution that could work for us (unless you believe his view that history will naturally progress to something better).
So expect some fraud coming from crypto, in the future.
+1 for the CEO engaging

-10 for an implausible explanation.
From the article:

>Now, as a reminder - I own two speakers - both speakers have had their performance nerfed by this firmware update.

So even not counting everybody else on the internet with the same issue, I find it quite unlikely that there would be the exact same transfer failure on two separate units.

This definitely sounds more likely to be a software issue.
Which part of "The fact is that we have no idea what population was" are you having trouble with?
> were to be used

This is the key phrase. The intent was there, but actual deployment in _some_ schools happened much later, in 1990-91.

Edit: emphasis
> Works differently in different places and with different places I guess.

Exactly this. It also depends on social skills of the one requesting turning down.
Maybe most of the times I skipped even trying to ask because I thought situation was hopeless, someone would actually turn volume down, but in my life I think I didn't even have 30 situations like this. I live in a place where it's rather quiet and poeple just don't push out loud music for long periods. If they do, it's rather sporadic and they try to respect social norms. I also know that I should not be an ass and let other people have fun, that helps too.
The idea is that it should be like pizza delivery. Fast. Clearly, it was achievable by pizza shops and profitable for ages, so what went wrong?

I think the answer is that huge numbers of large engineering salaries really need to have a payoff. GoPuff was hiring in my area for years. During that time, I don't think I ever saw substantial changes in their app - which I know was originally designed for cheap by an overseas team in Ukraine or Russia from conversations with their recruiters. Meanwhile they had multiple bugs preventing checkout in their apps - that's the one thing you have to get right if you're selling products. Additionally, they had a poor system of estimating delivery time. Then they were often out of the desired products - you can't run out of your most popular products. Meanwhile they would have drivers lined up for several blocks around their warehouses - such an obvious inefficiency, but they seemingly haven't connected the "drivers are unhappy with waiting" and the "customers are unhappy with waiting", and I suspect they just don't give a shit about driver complaints. On two occasions, I had my order canceled because they couldn't fulfill it in time. I'm a few blocks away from their warehouse and half a mile from their corporate HQ. Yikes. If you can't get it right in your own backyard, how can you get it right anywhere?

The past couple years maybe you can blame supply chain issues in part. You could also blame low unemployment and rising wages - raising your highest costs while making it hard to hire and deliver on time. But at least with my local example, there seems to have been near-total stagnation on the tech side for the past 5 years, which you can't have with a fledgling product. As a software engineer, I'd never have let that happen, even if I had to rip the whole damn app apart and rebuild it.
Yea I hate watching all the political shit. Like people taking screen shots of themselves in virtual meetings smiling and laughing to like message to higher ups "how good they work together" when really they are huge assholes lol.
Trees shade is great in hot weather.
> That's why, when people have enough money to retire, they DO retire, and not continue working.

We also see devs just flat out going into new fields altogether.
we use comprimato which can use the GPU. It's very performant
Kalshi – Trade directly on the outcome of events
Crazy shit like this happens all the time. However assigning a cause is a little early.

Years ago I wrote a firmware loader for an industrial Z80 system. All it did was read a file over the serial port into RAM, jump into it and then overwrite the EEPROM. I got a page quantity calculation completely wrong. It didn't update all the memory pages. Because the changes were fairly small and the code was assembled rather than compiled and the test cases were fairly light, it was released to clients. It still worked absolutely fine but the status LED didn't work on the device in a specific situation because the update CALL never got executed because it was neatly in a previous page that didn't exist any more.

Of course this was reported as (1) hardware had completely failed (2) the LED had broken and (3) it only works sometimes. All of which weren't true. No one had even mentioned that they had recently updated it. So I can see how it happens.

Thus the tyranny of unexpected behaviour is a deep and dark passage lined with monsters, misinformation and bad assumptions. You have to tread very carefully and not say things too soon because it makes you look even more of an idiot when you have to backtrack later.
Long term outlooks work provided you scale the resolution, contrast etc... proportionally. This is how I identify the forest from the trees.
You’re not misunderstanding: “Harris’s List, an annual digest purporting to review and catalogue sex workers in Georgian London”
Daily updated summary of security incidents reported from different sources
A daily updated summary of the most frequent types of security incidents being reported from CISA, CERT-FR, MA-CERT, ZeroDayInitiative and IBMCloud.
Definitely was true. Browsersers (at least FF) also used to add .com at the end. I think these days they all just send you to their ad-laden funding source instead if there is no TLD.(*)

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/browser-automatically-adds-ww...

(*) Apparently at least firefox still does the domain fixup instead of search if you type the http:// or https:// prefix so e.g. http://example/ will have you end up on http://www.example.com/
This is such a bad attitude to take.

I had my paid GAFB account suspended years ago without explanation, could not get in touch with support, and as it took so long to get in touch with support, my data had been deleted by that point, meaning I lost many, many, many years of irreplaceable photographs from my Drive. Haven't touched cloud storage since.

Lesson learned: Drive is not a substitute for backups, nor is it a place to keep the only copy of important information. Now running Unraid.
I thing the outrageos thing is "mandatory update". I genuinely thought I was going to read a story about a legislatory change that forced a firmware update.

It would be nice for SOUNDBOKS to explain the ways they are planing to punish the customers that do not comply.
Less wood they need to import as well
To really figure out what's going on, you're probably going to need to take them apart and get photos of both sides of each circuit board inside...
The problem with software is a state of warfare between management which sees developers as disposable tools and a plurality of developers that just want things to bitch about (thereby becoming the disposable tools). Much of that problem is due to a lack of regulation and missing industry wide definitions. Employers deliberately don’t want to solve this problem because it will reduce the size of the available candidate pool and probably make developers more expensive. Most developers don’t want this problem solved because they don’t want to be exposed as not qualified.

I got lucky and found a dream employer recently. What makes an employer great is their culture and willingness to cultivate and retain people. Culture is defined by the quality of people you work with.

> Yet I can't bare it. I can't bare the devs that go out of their way to work weekends without being asked

If something is truly a passion you will do it more than asked. For some people they have time to fill and instead of throwing that time away they fill the time with something they enjoy.
No. Corporations invest very large sums of money in research. Militaries do the same.
The Longest Journey
Some parts of the paper seem OK, and there is indeed a high risk of disruption in the trophic chains of the ocean.

Nevertheless there is one important claim of the paper that seems very wrong.

While there is no doubt that the part of the plankton that uses either carbonates or sulfates as biominerals will be greatly affected, I am not aware of any reason why the diatoms and the other part of the plankton that uses amorphous silica as a biomineral would also be affected by water acidification.

The paper claims that the diatoms and the silica-using living beings would also be affected, and their silica skeletons dissolved, but unlike salts, silica does not become more soluble in acid water. On the contrary, silica becomes more soluble in alkaline water. (That is why silica is classified as an acid oxide.)

The diatoms could be affected by other kinds of water pollution, but they do not seem to be in direct danger from acidification, unless that would affect something else than their silica skeleton.

In many places, the diatoms are the most important phototrophic component of the plankton, which consumes the carbon dioxide.
Keyoxide looks awesome, thanks for mentioning! I'm going to look deeper into it. As far as pubKey, the idea is really to keep it ephemeral. Most important steps would probably be looking into different crypto libraries and implementations, then UX.
> It's just as unsustainable as fossil fuels, it's just on a much longer timeframe so we can push it forward.

In that case, solar energy isn't long-run sustainable either -- the sun is going to burn out in just a few billion years.
When I was in university, I had a coworker at the book store who casually mentioned that he used Linux on his home computer. I asked if he was in computer science or engineering.

Neither. He loved computers, loved programming, but when he took the classes and imagined the jobs, he found it revolting. So he switched majors, and software became his hobby instead.

He seemed very happy with the decision.
there isn't much difference if your company allows you to open source some of the results of your work under your own name afterward.
Apple is working on a new Mac Pro with an M2 “Extreme” chip
I just don’t know who to root for here: “company that makes shoddy IoT hardware that can be bricked remotely with mandatory updates” or “antisocial dick who plays >90dB music in public where people are trying to relax”.
Incredible article. I had no ideas wasps were this useful! As described in the article, I used to hate them, now I will see them with new eyes.
Regulators are fighting back though, which some of these companies also note as a reason for getting out of the market. In the Netherlands Amsterdam is banishing dark stores from residential zones, one or two of these locusts specifically mentioned that development upon suspending their efforts.
> literally the (killer feature)

vs

> (literally the killer) feature

A "killer feature" is a phrase with its own meaning so we can treat it as an atom and apply modifiers to it. The order of operations matters, and I posit that the OP placed their imaginary parentheses as I did in my first example.
my longest held job was the one that wasn't in tech - at a relatively small manufacturer that had 3 coders inside of a 6 person IT dept building custom/internal tools and apps. It was so so different from working in tech (I left because I moved and the longer commute got old)
Fair point. As a note, it's definitely not all users that are experiencing the problem, but I will liaise with our engineers and revert!
If the meetings are useful, that's fine, but I have a hard time taking pride in a long series of meetings to decide the contents of a 15-page document describing the design for feature that could be like 200LOC but now must be 2000LOC and involve integration between multiple teams' services because the promo criteria says "collaboration."
> We have, perhaps for the first time, a clear sense that "self" has
always been an illusory construct.

Interesting. Historically, a few readers of Goethe, Ibsen and
Kierkegaard always knew that. It was contained. Maybe what's changed
today is we are all confronted daily by horrifying evidence of the
fragility of self-construction, and how precious it is - but without
an explanation or coping method. Solomon and the terror management
theorists don't fill those shoes any more than narcissism, and so
perhaps we're headed on a trajectory back towards faith. Maybe that's
the ultimate function of "social media", to show us why social media
is inadequate to counter angst.
Great dev environments in companies are rare. If you currently can't afford switching to work on your own thing, focus on finding those outliers. It can take some time and luck, but it's not impossible.
That's very interesting - I've done a lot of work with the ADC for getting audio from the ADC, didn't consider using it to just get values as well.
> a plurality of developers that just want things to bitch about (thereby becoming the disposable tools)

I think there should be a sane amount of bitching, but it's all in how you do it and the purpose, if its to get people motivated to improve things, go for it, if its just to always be salty, nah no thanks. I usually tell my team "idk why this is this way, but we can definitely make it better, so why not?" till something catches enough of my managers attention.
But afaict all the internet options for pursuing a creative career involve putting in a lot of hours for little or no money, which is hard (or seems like a bad idea) if you're not on a financially solid footing. I don't think the internet is really a leveller here.
Will liaise with the engineering team and revert!
It is BS. Mid level family could import computer from west. Soviet countries manufactured several 8 bit Atari clones, HP programmable calculators....
Fortunately Ireland is plagued by neither sunlight nor hot weather.
Add spaces around APL operators and name them.

You examples become:

2 partial mod
1 minus 2 partial mod
> partial 4

I guess your examples still need some framing to make them somehow passable around, for example, a definition or some kind of closure. Let's say they require no more than square brackets around them.

Now your examples will look like this:

[ 2 partial mod ]
[ 1 minus 2 partial mod ]
[ > partial 4 ]

And, magically, they are not more terse than what was expressed in Joy. Not at all. Quite the opposite.

One character operator is still an operator. If it does not require spaces around it most of the time, for sake of comparison between languages it should have them.
Interesting. I had learned a similar design back in the late 1970's early 1980's in school from classmates. I have learned some designs from books, but I guess we had a decent oral tradition, passing down good designs from grade to grade back then.

It was probably the combination of available letter-sized sheets of paper (old homework) and some free time (recess and/ study hall).
I like Twinning's English Breakfast tea with a particular amount of milk and sweetener. It is a very specific flavour.

Not because it is the best tea. I like it because the only times I drank it, when I was a child, I was with my grandfather, visiting one of his cousins.

About coffee, as a colombian living in Europe I despise the Italian espresso and will fight for the best coffee in the world to be either in Medellin or Brasilia. Never in an Italian city. And never espresso.
I personally believe that there’s a lot of bias in most research studies of populations (and some of that is from those being studied, where many middle or lower class people will just hang up if they don’t know you). My experience is that many artists are “starving artists” and not from super lux backgrounds. Additionally, just go visit RISD.

Edit: the scope of what is considered art is also quite narrowly defined in most studies.
I wonder if that was because that film's distributor is relaxed about DRM, or if the cinema just decided not to care about licensing it assuming that an Asian (I guess) IP holder would be unlikely to find out or take legal action against a small cinema in Estonia?
As a Brit, I've never heard the term "Bronx cheer" before, looked it up and now love it.
Yes that's me. I look at the pay cheque and it makes it ok.

I do a lot of stuff that I don't hate at home though.
> However, the little experience I have indicates that Windows is fundamentally worse.

Fundamentally worse is extremely hard to prove and subjective. It's different, that's for sure.

> For instance, the file handle issue is clearly annoying when developing. You may be used to it, but I don’t see an argument on how Windows’ handling of files is better or even equal.

That's one of the things that's arguably worse in the modern era, I'm quite sure it comes from CP/M (1974) so it's a super ancient decision, one that would break a lot of things if they change it. It's one of "go left or right, but you can't go back, and you'll only find out in 20 years if you've made the right choice".

> Or take Poweshell. The *nix approach of composable shell primitives is better for developers. Software development is the composition of primitives after all.

That's ironic, since Powershell is super composable. If anything, it's even more composable since it sends structured data, not just raw streams of bytes. There's a reason a ton of alternative shells want to evolve POSIX shells to add structured data, they're all inspired by Powershell. See for example https://www.nushell.sh/ You don't even have to believe me, try to find blog posts from many devs of next generation POSIX shells and several of them mention Powershell explicitly as inspiration.

> Google “run on system start linux api” and the first result is about systemd. Create a config file, put it in the right place, and done.

Unless you want to use Gentoo or Devuan or FreeBSD or... And amusingly, systemd is inspired by MacOS and Windows service management (parts of them) plus it actually tries to create the unified userland that's inspired by... Windows :-)

> And you can tell me to RTFM all you like, but the manual is leaves something to be desired.

Windows docs are super disparate, but Linux ones are the same. Strictly man-ing stuff won't get you super far. You'll need to do the same forum and StackOverflow and whatever digging for years and years to get anywhere. You've already done it, you've just forgotten doing it.

> If you learn on Windows first, or if you’re a masochist, then I’m sure it’s possible to tolerate or even enjoy Windows development. But I have never seen a convincing argument that it’s better or even on par with Linux development.

If we're professionals, we use what's available and we learn stuff from it.

I wouldn't say Windows is better, but it's definitely a lot better than strictly POSIX users complain about it, and it can be made super usable and more POSIX oriented. I've done it with Cygwin circa 2008 and I've been happily using the same setup since then.

For example in terms of desktop/laptop support, on average, Windows still fares better than Linux.
I've been using Gnucash since 2020 to manage personal expenses and income, and it has made the world of a difference. In particular, I find the income statement feature very powerful when I'm doing an end-of-year review of my spending.

In terms of time commitment, about 20 mins every two weeks seems to be enough for logging all my transactions into Gnucash - I have 3 bank accounts, 1 investment account and 1 retirement account.
Thank you for such an elaborate answer!
> Why? That great doctor could cure cancer, which would be greater achievement than all art in the history of art together.

I don't know your life story, but you probably don't know how an artist works and you probably don't know the power that art (especially music) has to heal people, but let's focus on your question.

An unhappy artist in a profession that doesn't make sense for him/her could be dangerous:
The person can be mentally affected because he/she works in a shitty job, that can lead to stress, depression, etc. And the last thing you want is to be treated/envolved/engaged by a depressed {put any profession here} doctor or to travel in an airplane with a burned out, stressed, depressed pilot.

The probability that something REALLY good and life changer can come out from an unhappy and unfulfilled person is really low, let alone the cure of cancer.
Isn't this just another race to become the dominant party in any given market? Not to dupe investors, but to burn money until the competition has folded. They want to be the next Uber or Airbnb, and will break laws and regulations to get there. It's easier to negotiate with lawmakers when many consumers find you indispensable.

It doesn't seem to work out here though.