skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably higher than appears at first blush, at least to do at scale. But not a huge barrier.

But there isn't an open market for manufactured lenses, you have to get them into consumers hands, and you have to get prescriptions, and people want fitting and ability to try frames.

Superficially it seems that glasses are highly vertical in practice, which is why budget outfits like zenni and warby parker seem mostly to be focused on the margins of direct-to-consumer.
I think the only correct way to do containers is… groan… how systemd does it.[ One should be able to launch a process and not let it touch anything else but it’s very process definition..]

Thank you for your down vote. I look forward to being moderated out of existence.
> This legislation was later repealed during the Clinton administration

Repealed by congress which was controlled by GOP at that time.
Why are people trying to make up their own stories without the reason of how CZ was trying to sell FTT?

Alameda's balance sheet was already looking wrong in the first place.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/02/divisions-in-sa...
I'm in the same position as you, and you are better than me because I already get layoff. It seems like all the company wants talented developers to work for them and makes us feel talented developers are everywhere.
Source for this assertion being true?
Lots of cynicism here, typical whenever art is compared to tech, but I wish him the best. Might as well give it a shot and see how it goes, you can always fall back into tech if needed later on.
Yes, we are better adapted to some conditions than to others. This is a result of a process known as biological evolution.
I don't understand how ventilation could cause CO2 to get that imbalanced. Can you cite a source?
I used to pay $800-1,000 a pair, then I heard that the exact same glasses from the exact same factory just without that fancy logo costs you about $100 a pair. Bought a few of them, never looked back.

People need to accept that you get ripped off all the time, it just a normal part of everyday life. when you think a $5 walmart tshirt is cheap, well, the factory gets probably 50c.
This article was fun to read. It gives a nice history and overview of chroot.

Irrespective of whether one agrees with the claim in the title, it’s an informative read.

If you’re scanning through these comments, and know very little about chroot, I’d recommend you check this out.

[Edit] The previous linkbaity title was (thankfully) changed by dang.
Wouldn't it be more apt to say they're "chroot delivered via a package management system?"

My big gripe with containers is how insecure many of them are, and how ignored the problem is because it is "someone else's problem." But even I won't pretend that taking a powerful tool like chroot (and or cgroups, etc) and then packaging them for rapid deployment/rollbacks/etc isn't key to their popularity.
Far stranger than going out of business, KODK became a meme stonk when Trump announced they were going to manufacture hydroxychloroquine causing it to 10X overnight back in early 2020. [1]

[1] https://www.voanews.com/a/economy-business_trump-administrat...
That's not even true in September 2022[0], let alone throughout the whole immigration history from Nigeria to the US.

There are a quarter of a million immigrants from Nigeria in the US.

[0]: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Immigr...
It's a protocol that's literally not centrally controlled. It's the definition of anarchy. Not "cosmetic anarchy."
Yeah, it's interesting. People get outraged about tech monopolies... but something we spend hundreds of dollars each year on, that's just fine.
> You can't imagine how many people I knew had terrible quality of sleep due to bad ventilaton and never realise it.

Try me. How many?

How many tried the intervention you recommended? How many saw a benefit? How many did not?
I stood at a fork in the road, so to speak, when I was kicked out of the house and had to decide whether to pursue art or tech (I enjoyed both). It was clear to me tech would pay the bills — the art I could do in my spare time.

Retired (am I?) now, I can do all the art I want.
You know, my family member bought a pair of cheap glasses for 2 $ in India. Granted it was probably not very powerful or may last long. But I am shocked at the definition of what is cheap. I am now skeptical if the glasses he bought actually work well enough for him.
Yes, because I'm not talking about "how it came into existence," I'm using the actual textbook definition of the word.
It’s not really important to the story but it sounds like someone with a lot of power and a knack for micromanaging got an idea into his head and wanted to see it through. The motivations can be many, including non-evil but fundamentally misguided ones, such as saving some $$ on the BOM or perhaps something as silly as making the UI more “uniform” with all touch screen interactions.
Sriram Krishnan: The Indian-American 'Helping' Elon Musk Run Twitter
Nice! I stopped about 10 years ago - last time I was active was 2011. I didn't think I had anything left up, but I was able to dig up some very old Behance stuff:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/2201575/Drawings-2010-2011

https://www.behance.net/gallery/2992181/Vector-Works-2010-20...
The app we're building features CBT-I content (at the bottom of the main screen, called "lessons") and is currently free: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/chorus-sleep-tracker-sounds/id...
Some ASPI analysts believed that one of the feature of MSS is their ability to co-opt Liberals to work for them. I'm not surprised if NSC would suspect anybody that intersected with Chinese govt. Dissidents included.
middle-age
Sequoia: Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too
Perhaps a more productive comment (and I honestly am curious), would be -- what does systemd do right?
The high end luxury brands such as Silhouette offer very advanced lens coatings and materials that aren't found in any of the discount stores online or brick-and-mortar, so there's definitely a difference there. It's only their full priced partner shops that carry them. They also claim to use custom technology that allows their 10+ layers of coatings to stick together much better and not flake off.

The mid range to entry luxury brands, many owned by Luxottica, use broadly available lenses and coatings, or so the discount online stores claim.

I've never been to a discount brick-and-mortar store selling the full range of Luxottica products, usually only a few styles here and there. So I can't comment there.

What I'm asking is if the claims of discount stores, like that they have access to the same lenses as full priced Luxottica stores, are actually true.

And whether they are honest with their shipped product.

e.g. How would anyone know if they in fact got a X layer coated lens (where X could be from 3 to 8) from a discount shop?

It seems trivial to ship a X-1 layer coated lens instead, with a very low possibility of getting caught.
I wonder why FAANGs don't direct their employees to spend non-business-critical time on open source projects (dependencies etc) instead of the projects you are lamenting.
Sequoia invested $400m into FTX in 2021.
Not at all a dumb question. But the answer will be.

The Big Boss Man hated the way it looked. He once spent 30 minutes telling a graphics designer what a worthless piece of sh* he was where everyone on the floor could hear. Corporate equivalent of a terrorist.
They mean that a specific browser version on a specific device renders text the same regardless of whether you use html or svg.
I worked on the retail IT side of things at Luxottica.

I don't even think that you've scratched the surface of just how prevalent Luxottica is: you've touched the retail side of things, but, you also haven't touched the manufacturing side of things (Lux has patents on the hinges used in glasses), the wholesaling side of things (Lux supplies generic and branded frames to your local optician on less-than-preferred terms), and then just the genetic beast that is their optimization efforts.

I discovered some ineffective linux and db management that was adding 15-30 minutes of closing time every night -- time where we'd have employees on the clock waiting to close the store -- and figured out why it was behaving the way that it was and fixed it so the 'point of sales' part of closing wouldn't be the hold up. Saved the company almost 13 million dollars a year in labor costs and 45 million in licensing costs when I came up with a way to replace the POS systems OS without needing a cross-ship of new hardware...and still got screwed around when it came to my hourly rate increased or getting my contract renewed...

When my girlfriend's son passed away from complications with cancer, I had flowers and cards sent from some former coworkers, but, not a single person even reached out to me until a few months later, where they asked me if I was 'ready to go back to work' after cutting my contract.

It was well known that if someone robbed a Sunglass hut, the most expensive item in the store to replace was the iPad...
Yes, it "changes" the gender - so that's why we call them "gender changers"

Sorry if you don't see the pejorative connotations in the other term. We avoided it because we didn't wish to offend people.
Understood, but I've broken my ankle before, and I can't imagine any scenario where that would apply. Heck, tons of days I program from my bed.
Interestingly, a pair of glasses here in Vietnam -- including eye exam, fancy lenses (high refractive index, anti-glare etc.), and frame -- usually runs in the 20-40$ range. As with most things here, you can find cheaper if you need (e.g. secondhand).

I'm not certain, but it sure feels like the inflated cost in North America makes it seem like eyeglasses are less affordable here than they actually are, at least in the cities.

The kicker is when I fly to North America and I see the same frames being sold there!

Edit: Eyeglasses are one of the things I recommend colleagues buy here while visiting. It's conceivable some (from nearby countries) save more than the cost of their trip!
Predicting this 4D chess move by CZ… ends very badly for CZ…

As CZ becomes massive target for the SEC.

And is sued into oblivion for insider trading, laundering or whatever they can make stick.

By whatever jurisdiction CZ/Binance has any ties to… and the US/SEC/Fed can strong-arm.
There are two markets: The cheap, and the "brand". You either buy a "cheap" one for $10 and get a lens for it; or you go for a "brand" name like RayBan (which is Luxottica).

I started buying cheap 4 years ago, and surprisingly the frame is still doing well (brand frames usually last 2-3 years)
I think we are taking about the bass shaking your chest. IEMs can’t do that.
Hi folks, my Mastodon server is now blocked as a "deceptive site," likely because its login pages are similar to other Mastodon servers. To a machine learning or rule-based system, I could see how that seems deceptive. But I'm now stuck in a several days to several weeks long wait for manual review. And of course there's no guarantee that manual review will result in a correct decision.

Meanwhile, it's truly incredible how fully my site is now blocked off from the world. Firefox Android won't even let me access it, while Chrome hides the click-through underneath the "details" button. My friends who use the site are understandably concerned, but there's not much I can do. It's crazy how a false positive in one centralized system can impact my little piece of the fediverse.
Evidence of the grabboids from Tremors.
About 15 years ago or so, back when I still did web development gigs and the like (because I hadn't accepted yet that the low level system development I loved was what I should do for a job, hard to imagine now), I got requests to build complex or not so complex systems, but with the restriction that "it has to be written in Excel". Most of the time, what they really needed was a CRUD app and a database. Needless to say, I never accepted any of them.
> No, Ruby is slow. Its GC is ungodly slow.

Ruby is quicker than Python and that's the most popular programming language there is at the moment.

> And you can’t truly multithread, thus you can’t properly parallelize or maximize concurrency

You definitely can. You've been able to fork processes for longer than I can remember. Ractors just became a thing, making multithreading cheaper and easier. Ruby's also had multithreaded servers for at least a decade. Not that it even matters that much, most people are using on-demand cloud servers that just spin up more servers when needed, making multi-threading less useful anyway.

Even if you forget Ractors exist, it's like saying C can't do multithreading because it's not in the language definition...
OpenSSL absolutely does get paid, but not for access to the code itself, only donations and support contracts:

https://www.openssl.org/support/
What the article doesn't say is the reason why Yitang would not come back visit his family. Not sure if it is his own decision (makes sense as he lost connection with his family for many years) or some political reason (China doesn't allow him to go home).
> Against an enemy with signal jamming capability remote operation is not a given

How is this not an issue for airborne drones?
I have to say I think they did something wrong then in their testing of detectability? On a club/concert setup, or even plenty of subwoofers, you can very much feel the 20-40hz range that they are adding/removing in figure C. Something seems off here.
To be honest, I have found "problematic" to be a great signal word, in that it generally only seems to be used by social crusaders whose opinions I could not care less about, and who never offer any actual solutions to their oft-complained about problems. Sure enough, this is an idiot hit piece ripping on ML for, uh, CO2 emissions and some supposed racial and gender discrimination (with no evidence provided). It offers zero solutions, of course.
Every large enough organisation eventually moves to Java (or C++, or Rust). When you have more bodies than things to do you just optimize... But how did all these startups get so big?
I'm not worried about competition from "AI art" — am I just stupid and ill-informed?

Pursuing game concept-art though appears to me to be a drag simply because of the sameness of it. I know the author of the article thinks it's become a wide open field for creativity but my eye stills see the same fantasy-super-hero-manga genre that probably keeps computer games from being seen as deserving of being called "art" to society at large.
> And in fact that’s all this is. A new newspaper. A mixture of editorial and political advocacy and local news.

A strange new newspaper, then. Can you name any other real newspaper that only writes stories when a political campaign requests them?
The other laugh is that he was saying this summer that some crypto exchanges were already secretly insolvent. Huge, if true.
"So I have just one wish for you—the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom."

- Richard P. Feynman
Hi! I'm the author of this post -- it was an unlisted draft that I shared with a few friends, was planning to rewrite most of this before publishing. Please forgive the rough edges

Main changes I'd make to this article

- Agreed with others that I might be naive, but I'm 20 y/o and now's the right time to shoot for my dreams rather than settle

- I'm applying to animation school soon (Sheridan). I started coding when I was 12, I expect this career change to take a few years, and am in it for the long haul

- My worst case is I don't enjoy working in art, and go back to tech. I don't believe you can make a successful career change without going all-in

Happy to answer any questions :)

Made a little music video with some of my art if you'd like to take a peek

https://twitter.com/LiamHinzman/status/1589660449271959552
> I pronounce chroot as change root.

The real hot take
don't worry, your sensitivity to all sorts of audio frequencies (low and high, and in between) will start fading soon, as it happens with the accuracy of every other human senses as we get older ;-)
Agreed. Not only has it made me rich, I'm glad to see crypto helping out marginalized countries such as Iran.
config drift
Lol - you are not alone. Netflix has weird stuff and in a good way. Ironically - some of their biggest/big name shows are also some of the worst (I am looking at Witcher series), but as a sci-fi fan, Netflix is pretty good.
You can click on top right hamburger to see more information about the sources, but the data is basically coming from

https://www.ndi.org/elections-calendar for the world dates

and

https://ballotpedia.org/Statewide_elections_calendar#Electio... for the US dates.
If the 172,000,000 figure from Google were not a brazen lie, it would indicate that for every developer on the planet using any stack, there exist several web pages mentioning Python syntax errors.
This is my go-to. "Hey, kids - let's learn how to cut glass tubes and produce gases like Hydrogen and Chlorine!" Most parents recoil.

But it's not really that dangerous in a well-ventilated, adult-supervised setting. The Hydrogen will make a nice "pop", and the chlorine might rust a few screws.

The important thing is to make the kids feel like they are learning about dangerous, forbidden knowledge. That'll help them stay safe, and encourage them to learn more.
Serious and an honest question.

Does HN crowd in general not resort to pirating music? Obviously piracy is unethical but it is the best way I can enjoy music. No ads. I still have all the songs I had like 20 years back. And many other positives.
I've always suspected that the guy selling paintings on saw blades at the local wine and art festival is doing better than most artists in the field.
iTunes doesn’t exist anymore because people don’t purchase music this way. For better or for worse, Spotify and Apple Music are how people consume music now.
I tried Warby Parker. The lenses delaminated in a few weeks both times (my experiment confirmed that the first one was not a fluke).

I'd love to eliminate the cost and hassle of visiting an optometrist when the current prescription is working just fine.
Uniquely Australian. I do love this country, and love living here, but the “larrikin” culture we put forward is frankly a facade — we’re a culture of rules and rule followers. Laws on laws on laws, for better or worse.

It’s not inherently a bad thing, either, but can have some somewhat absurd outcomes at times.

And it’s state-by-state. Queensland where I live is a fascinating mix of extremely wide reaching laws banning all sorts of things for perceived possible harm, as well as being less strict than some other states. “Gel blasters” being legal here and banned elsewhere are an interesting example of that.
Yeah I 100% agree with this. Something is wrong with how they tested this perceptibility. Anyone familiar with club/concert systems knows the 20-40hz range they are adding/removing is semi-audible and definitely feelable. You can even faintly hear a 35hz sin wave on a laptop speaker.
>Yes but they're not being run within AmigaOS are they?

Yes they are. People actually use their Amiga computers and love doing so. Outside of modern web browsing, they are very capable machines.

Cross-compilation does definitely have some users, but is complex and prone to issues.

And we're far from a situation where these people don't care; LLVM m68k support was merged recently. It was an effort funded mostly by Amiga and Atari ST users.
I’ve found that more often than not the problem in these kind of situations is too many layers of communication between the boss making the decision and the people tasked with implementing it. Those in the middle aren’t in a position to say no because they’re not in the know about the details.

The solution is to talk to arrange to talk to the boss directly, even if you’re several levels away in the hierarchy. Sometimes it’s not worth it, but in a situation like this it clearly is. 9 times out of 10 a situation like this can be resolved with a sit down over a coffee.
We're in the process of migration a large MVC application from Framework 4.8 to .NET 6. It's been....painful. Hopefully at least for a while updating to new LTS versions will be less so.
Ain' dat de chroot
I've been paying $350-400 for my high strength prescription glasses for most of my life. Last time around I heard you could order from England and get them for a fraction. Found selectspecs.com and got my -10's for ~100 shipped to my door. Not affiliated at all, just glad I don't have to pay the gouge in the US anymore.
ActivityPub doesn't really offer a mechanism for it, but I am planning on building a service which will combine fediverse handles with OpenID authentication which I hope will work very similarly to what you want.
I can personally attest to this. Warby Parker lenses delaminated quickly. Measured in weeks.
If you are one Rails, why not the hotwire stuff?
Your employer may offer pre-tax vision insurance, this vision insurance is run by Luxottica, and works exclusively at their retail locations and brands.

Sometimes employers will even pay part of the vision insurance premium, thus making it, so your choices are to leave that money on the table OR pay completely out of pocket post-tax dollars.

There are alternative ways to use pretax dollars on eyeware, but many people aren't familiar with them and they require some management.
What I'd say is this.

Trial lawyers like to say that arbitration is unfair and they have a point, but I've heard many stories of people who've gone to arbitration and gotten a fair settlement. Here is one I found on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31567673

Very few people go through the process, but the fact is that if you have a $2000 claim, Adobe can spend a lot more than that trying to beat the claim through arbitration and still wind up being liable. It makes sense for them to cut you a check and make the whole thing go away... And often it is faster to go through arbitration than the small claims court.

So if you have an arbitration clause in your contract you should start the process.

If you don't you should go to small claims court which has the feature that they aren't allowed to send a lawyer... They have to send somebody who isn't a lawyer and it is an expensive hassle for them that can easily go wrong.

Either way the practice of civil law is about intimidation. They are hoping you are intimidated enough by the process that you won't even try to get justice but if you do go through with it there is a good chance they will roll over because fighting a case can be a nightmare.

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I am by no means an expert but I was a volunteer years ago at a community mediation center that mostly handled parenting plan cases. We were highly successful with those and took a load off the family court, the parties were usually happier and more compliant with agreements they made themselves than they were with decisions made by a court.

I've never been involved with corporate cases and my experience with commercial dispute (between business owners, landlords and tenants, etc.) were less successful. I think the approach we used was not so good for those because I think we had a lot of cases where party A thinks party B owes them $X and party B thinks A owns them $Y and if you itemized those claims you would get some number in the middle... Mediators at our center weren't allowed to do that so most of those cases went to court despite those efforts.

The experience has still made me a believer in mediation.
What part of the savior complex conducted him to gamble with his users’ money?