skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pity that governments have deemed 'interesting' chemistry an illegitimate hobby. Many chemists and biologists I know were inspired as kids by potentially risky chemical reactions - they were fun :). My boss grew up in the UK, relished those experiments growing up, and said they led him to eventually complete a PhD in chemistry. He later went on to win a Nobel Prize (as a molecular biologist, though). Maybe we've made the world safer, but I wonder how many potential great chemists will never get inspired and avoid the field.
I've heard a lot of the cheaper places cutback on the fancy multi-layer coatings, so that the quality of lens is not equivalent.

I know a lot of them advertise identical quality but did you ever confirm that to be the case?
> But they failed to pivot from digital distribution to content.

There is a niche that no one fills, that I'm hoping Netflix shifts into: "Popular series was canceled? Let's pick it up and give it a final season!"

They're doing it with Manifest right now. It was on NBC and canceled after 3 out of 5 planned seasons, and the creator was trying to figure out how he could finish the plot as a single movie, then Netflix bought it and gave him an entire 20 episodes to finish the plot - almost the entire two missing seasons. First half was just released a few days ago.
Eric Raymond covered your "actual lived Unix philosophy" points in The Art of Unix Programming: https://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/

It's worth a read, but do bear in mind that the whole Unix mindset is an evolutionary dead end.

I mean the sad fact is that we're slowly learning that Unix with all its baggage is like an internal combustion engine: it seemed like a good idea at the time, so we adopted it, and now it's ubiquitous and it's a race to move on to something else before the bill for all the damage it's caused civilization comes due. People favor comprehensive, feature-rich programs over small composable ones. The Unix process model and fork(2) in particular break down utterly in the presence of threads. It took fucking forever in tech-industry time to come up with a single solution for dynamic linking, something Windows and Amiga OS solved in the fucking 80s. Linux is only just now getting an async I/O solution that begins to approach the robustness and comprehensive of what VMS had in the 80s and Windows NT had in the early 90s; before that, it went with the Unix assumption of "disk I/O takes zero time to execute, and you can poll for everything else!" You want to know what else Windows had in the early 90s that Unix, and especially Linux, only caught up with in slipshod fashion later? ACLs. One reason why Windows got an EAL4 certification under the Common Criteria well before Linux.

Postel's law was wrong (you want strict protocol conformance to avoid surprising behavior), ASCII text protocols were a mistake (parsing and unparsing them just converts electricity into waste heat), piping together unstructured blobs of text is NOT robust and programs should communicate via objects with checkable types... Just, on and on, mistake after mistake.

And C. Just... C. If null pointers were the billion dollar mistake, how many trillions' worth of damage were done by the totality of all C's foibles, pitfalls, and undefined behaviors? Honestly if we do nothing else, we should halt ALL greenfield development in C. It's unsafe at any speed.
How does one determine that 250bn is "one of the world's largest?" I just looked up a top 50 list and the lowest on the list is 333bn.
As a child (age ~10) I had a "Young Chemist" set, which included dry NaOH, some acids, potassium permanganate, magnesium metal and a lot of various colourful salts. It came with a book that listed experiments, specifying which required adults and I had to promise to stick to that rule.
Long before that I had a pocket knife (everybody did) and we played knife games with the lads (throwing knives into the ground in various ways, no I don't remember any injuries).

Today's children are much more deprived of the chance to be dangerous to themselves or others and therefore have much less scope to decide to not do harm.

Do your children a favour, give them the option to do bad things and teach them not to.

Apropos chemistry itself, it's still what it was 40 years ago and all of the chemicals the old sets had are available on Ebay, and scans of old BoMs and manuals are available online, so you can get your kids all the excitement of yesteryear without breaking bank (on par with an AAA game title).
Curious if anyone actually agrees with the supposed benefits of scroll hijacking. I find it jarring and always hate this effect when I come across it.

> Scroll canceling enables you to animate objects that don't scroll with the page.The event is locked to the vertical scroll position, but the animation doesn't scroll vertically.It's enjoyable for the user and gives them a sense of control over their experience — always a way to keep your visitors interested. As you can see, it's a lot of fun — and we've only scratched the surface!
Yep: https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/yajyi7/...
$0.25 per gigabyte for overage, to low earth orbit and back.

Someone should tell my mobile wireless carrier.
In some insane move, Amazon recently replaced their decade old mp3 buying UI with Amazon Music. In the process, they got rid of the 30s samples. Egregiously, there's now no way to listen to music before you buy it unless you sign up for Amazon Music! You can't even confirm it's the song you think it is!

The icing on the cake is there's a listen button on the album and each track, which when clicked plays a _random unrelated_ song. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an alternate dimension.

Amazon was the only music store offering some major artist music I could use (not buying a Mac just to buy stuff on iTunes), not sure how I'll get music now.
Framework Laptop's latest add-on is Thunderbolt 4 certification – Liliputing
Great example! Yes, the way org-mode and the various email systems play nicely together is sheer beauty. Nothing like it.
Looks that way yes, all his links here appear to be dead now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130825015207/http://dombrovski...
It is more like email. Everyone can subscribe to the same email newsletters even though everyone is on a different server.
> we’ve been continually impressed by how the FHIR spec handles complex real-world use cases

what's an example?
> AI art might eat your lunch

Show me an artist who will regret their lunch being eaten, and I’ll show you an artist who worked and/or slept through breakfast and dinner.
That's called picking up pennies in front of a steam roller.
containers are cgroups and namespaces and are much more than just chroots, plus a set of tools for making those work
I haven't printed from Linux since college.. many moons ago. Nowadays I use it mainly for servers >..<

A good case can be made for printers being one of the most annoying, finicky, and error prone aspects of computing.
Yes, index the database. Another thing that can make Rails apps quite fast is using caching (Rails has some builtins that make that easy). In some cases you end up skipping a database lookup and running little Ruby code, which is a huge speedup when you can do it.
Why do you think an 'art department' is still needed?
The only reason why in-house art departments are needed, is because previously its hard to communicate 'exactly what you want' to an artist, hence in-housing to reduce communication friction.

In the future, the marketing guy, can just create a draft/visual guide through AI, and send it to some outsourced artist to refine. The outsourced artist can be from any country, because again, language for precise communication is less important.

Competition is going to be brutal, especially for more traditional corporate art (The standard corporate memphis style can already be perfectly executed by SD+dreambooth, because its so easy to draw)

Much better to be in the comics/animation/movie business, where demand will boom in response to drastically improved quality.
With the price of real estate in Kent I’m shocked that there’s an FC there.
Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers
> Customer deposits should meet liabilities 1:1. If they don't, somebody is lying.

That’s not how banking works. You hold illiquid assets. Sometimes they move in price. If they move enough in price you’re insolvent. Limiting bank runs is a genuinely hard problem.
Naming and shaming Gannett is also allowed. Not all moral wrongs are illegal. They're taking incredibly dirty money. It's shameful.
Well that's no fun.
Just like in They Live
There’s a wealth of expression to be explored in art as code. Don’t be too hasty calling it a caveat! And I’m glad you’re happy!
Yes, that is anecdotal.

The SOP for every psychiatrist I've ever seen (and that's probably nearing 100 or so by now, over 30 years, 3 states and a dozen clinics) is to medicate until the patient is responding well, and to never ever even suggest that the patient should slow down, reduce or stop any medication. Because if the patient did so it would represent a clear and present danger and obstacle to recovery. The patient is seriously mentally ill and must take medications w, x, y and z for the rest of his life. Unless one of them creates a lot of side effects and then we'll tinker endlessly with new and different medications until he stops complaining so much of side effects, and/or he's too doped up and sleepy to care anyway.

It is absolutely preposterous for any psychiatrist to suggest that a patient titrate off drugs "to see what happens" or "just in case they've recovered". That's antithetical to their treatment methods which specify that chronic psychiatric illnesses must be treated with daily doses of medications with vague primary effects that can never be stopped.
The article is sort-of interesting, but it opens by rewriting history:

> In March 2020, New York City’s hospitals filled up with patients desperately ill with Covid-19. In many cases, when their fluid-filled lungs could no longer give them oxygen, doctors sedated them and put them on ventilators.

> The patients who recovered were taken off the machines and anesthesia. Within a day or so, their doctors expected them to wake up.

In March 2020 doctors were slapping all the patients with poor blood oxygen saturation levels on ventilators. Around March 31st, Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell posted his rebellion video [0] to Youtube, whereby he questioned his profession's rush to ventilate 'virus' patients who weren't actually in respiratory distress.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9GYTc53r2o

Ventilations promptly fell off a cliff, and the virus became survivable.

In the real world, Medicine had already figured out that ventilation is a terrible treatment for pneumonia. Our doctors should have known better than to follow the WHO's guidance.
Are we still pretending that Elon bought this for some kind of mission instead of a thiel, sachs, musk venture of delivering a highly tuned propaganda platform to the GOP for 2024 in the misguided estimation that this will put them into the inner circle of power ?
Ultimately the fiscal operations of the U.S. government are backed by the total assets of the U.S. (public and private), which are far larger.
Aren't they just going to find out that info from your resume?
to echo other replies here, OP might be idealizing the artistic field. why not do both, until you can only do one?

that's my own plan.

by the way, concept art is one of the hardest, if not the hardest field in art. these people crank out designs upon designs. and if Feng Zhu didn't make an entire YouTube channel showing what they do, i would have never known they existed.

edit: well, other pages on his website suggest that OP already did what he said. good luck, pal!
But none of the subjects detected it...
> In the near future I want to become a concept artist in the games industry

Worst industry ever by all the accounts I've heard. Part of the compensation package is that you are working in the gaming industry. Long hours, lousy pay, ill treatment. Go for the art mate but pursue a different industry.
"Perfect is the Enemy of Good", as happened with Duke Nukem III.
Fun deep dive. In a previous life I wrote web apps, and I liked to develop on Chromebooks to make sure that everything ran smoothly on low-end machines.

I would set a price point of $2-300, which usually meant I was lucky to get a Rockchip. And this was before it was popular to build for ARM architectures.

And yet, ChromeOS' chroot-based projects like crosh always managed to deliver. Surrounded by aluminum MacBooks and carbon-fiber Dells, I would run Rails apps and X GUIs and source builds on a rubberized hunk of plastic that had been designed for use in schools.

I have always been surprised at how well that worked. If it was using the same fundamentals as Docker and Podman, I'm not surprised that the containerization movement has enjoyed such popularity.
I've heard ...

Heard from whom?

I know a lot of them advertise identical quality
but did you ever confirm that to be the case?

You can choose what types of lenses you want. Zenni, for example, offers multiple lens options, some of which are from specific brands.

https://www.zennioptical.com/glasses-lenses

When you buy glasses from a bricks and mortar optician, you're getting whatever bog-standard lenses they sell, unless they specifically mention they're high index, or have some specific feature/coating, or are from some specific manufacturer.

Just like when you buy glasses online.

There are definitely differences in lens quality, but the available range is just as wide in retail stores as it is online.
The Expanse.
The story is great, but I was a bit confused with this part:

"because C was not very well adapted to VMS"

It's been a long time, but I remember using C on VMS in the 80's, and I don't recall anything odd about it.
People follow those who are deemed legitimate leaders. The legitimacy may come from power (I can fire you if you don't do what I say), or it may come from any of a number of other things.

[edit]

I should also note that everybody has the authority to create rules, just not the legitimacy to get people to follow those rules.
Re: app issues, I've had HBO Max crash on me about 100x over the last year'ish - no exaggeration. This was across LG C1, Roku, PS4, Xbox Series X, and Android. It's improved substantially over the last couple of months, but it's still the most likely app to have problems. I would have cancelled a long time ago, but the content kept me hanging on. It looks like I'll be cancelling with the Discovery acquisition.

IME, Netflix still stands heads and shoulders above the rest in terms of UI quality, functionality, reliability, and speed. I've often thought that they should license out their stack. My ranking for apps (which I've used for at least six months), would be Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, Disney+, Amazon Prime, and HBO Max, with Prime and Max often infuriatingly bad.
Many psychiatrists I've met are apt to make a diagnosis merely on the patient's affect and demeanor. Since I have White Coat Syndrome, my affect and demeanor are always adverse in clinical settings. Since I was abused by my mother, the majority-female psychiatric clinic being very paternalistic and patronizing does not help one iota.

In the hospital the other day, the nurse asked "how are you doing" which is an essay question. I didn't feel like answering essay questions, so I just stared at her awhile. Later that day, I was diagnosed with 'catatonic schizophrenia' and earned an increased dosage of Ativan because the doctor said I didn't answer the nurse satisfactorily.
it's acceptable to scroll jack if the site curates that experience specifically for a specific purpose that the user would enjoy.

It's not really good for a general, informational website.
Machine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’
Maybe.

The books are designed to be standalone-ish, so later volumes spend a fair bit of time repeating things from earlier books. Caro goes deep, deep into various shady acts and new scandals which were probably shocking and relevant in 1982 but less so four decades later.

Caro also touches on a lot of the same topics as The Power Broker, and the picture he paints of LBJ ends up sounding quite a lot like Robert Moses. Is it because all powerful men inevitably end up as bullying psychopaths, or does Caro have something of an axe to grind? 50/50, maybe.
Now a programmer that can do art? That may come in useful!
No, successful founders are by definition not 'regular', since the vast majority of startups don't become unicorns, or even plateau at a comfortable lifestyle business.

Founders that don't see noteworthy success are more likely to be 'regular' people, but even then that's likely a minority. As the majority probably have way above average risk tolerance.
Every year I lived in a different location but the shortest was a bit more than half an hour trip by bike and I could only safely manage a single gallon. Usually though we'd get water when we hitchhiked into town as we could get more at once. Both of these sources came from water resupply points for trucks but no on cared if you filled a few gallon containers. Rain water was also usable in many cases but we avoided drinking it. We went out maybe once a week or so?
> I'd bet there are enough people who would still be willing to get Twitterites a chance.

Yes, of course, other large companies like Facebook and Amazon will always be hiring.

Altough I heard Meta is also doing layoffs after their revenue tanked earlier this year, just like Twitter's did. So Amazon is a better example. My buddy worked there and he said 90% of his team just goes on Reddit all day.
Pretty dope drawings.
Its also literally the worst type of artist to be.
Concept art is the most vulnerable type of art to AI. AI already does concept art way better than humans, 1 concept artist can now do the job of 10. Because AI is good at variation and creativity, bad at detail/coherence, concept art favors the former, needs less of the latter.

Why doesn't OP MAKE games instead of being a mere artist? If you can program, and have a passion for art, you can just make indie games, think of the undertale legend.
I mean… they just bought it recently, the show is not really Prime’s accomplishment. Kudos to Amazon for letting the show film its final season though!
Yup. And it's common for a large studio to do mass layoffs after every release. The entire industry is a front for exploitation of those who get into it because they are passionate about gaming. Go work literally anywhere else, and enjoy video games in your free time.
Glasses are expensive because there is no competition. One company - Luxottica - owns pretty much everything.

You go to LensCrafters and prices seem super expensive, so you go to Pearle Vision and that's expensive too, so you go to Target Optical and prices are still high and then you think maybe glasses are expensive, since you went to multiple stores and they all have similar prices. What you don't realize is that all those retail brands are owned by the same company - Luxottica [1]. They operate under several names, so there is an appearance of competition but there isn't.

But wait, it isn't just stores, they also own eyewear brands such as Ray-Ban, Chanel, Coach, Oakley, Prada, Tiffany, and so on. Yes, all of those brands are owned by Luxottica [2].

Wait, not done yet. They also own insurance. Luxottica owns the vision insurance company EyeMed. [3]

Still not done. Luxottica has merged with Essilor and now own multiple lens brands [4].

See 60 Minutes story on Luxottica if you're not outraged yet [5].

Where are the anti-trust enforcers in this country and other countries, and why are they not doing anything?

[1] https://www.luxottica.com/en/retail-brands

[2] https://www.luxottica.com/en/eyewear-brands

[3] https://eyemed.com/en-us/about-us

[4] https://www.essilorluxottica.com/brands

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM
> Instead, I feel that the most important trait in a manager is trusting the technical competence of his or her subordinates. The best managers I have ever had gave the team (and individuals) a direction to go in, and then sit back and let the employees work out how to solve the problem. They are always available to answer questions, facilitate communication, remove roadblocks, cut red tape, insulate the team from corporate politics, and provide resources to the team.

This works as long as the subordinates are acting in good-faith. The primary reason why technical competence is important in a manger is to enable them to identify the subordinates that are bullshitting them.
Hard disagree. I haven't found any resources online to support your claim. I found several that support mine.

Also, contrast "perfectly well" with "well enough".

I'm curious why you see "perfect" as being demoted to "acceptable" in this phrase? Source?
It's an obvious joke a 3 year old kid would understand, if that kid didn't value signal by implying someone was an antisemite because of an unrelated joke that is.
Yeah, more or less, except containers also have a smoother UX and processes within a container are more successfully tricked into believing they're on a separate machine.
Caching seems to be a general purpose approach that got lost the longer my career went on. I suspect as networks and computers got faster people stopped thinking the added complexity was worth it, but it's still invaluable in bigger applications.
Or maybe he was just an unusually terrible, incompetent, and offensive leader?

> I'll pay $10,000 to anyone that finds me a positive headline about Trump that CNN has ever at any point run.

No, you won’t.
When I'm spun up I try to avoid additional physical exercise as I don't want to have a stroke or a heart attack or something. I'm physically fit and my resting heart rate is in the 48-51bpm region day to day.

Am I completely overthinking this?
Just encode it to 320x240 MPEG1 video with MP2 audio.
When I was 16, I was sexually assaulted by a Pharmacy Technician who was 20 years old at the time. She knew exactly how to ply me with alcohol and contraceptives. Of course I was totally into it, but being unable to consent, it was rape (the statute of limitations ran out definitively 2 months ago.)

She was a class-A scammer. She cheated on everything. She took me to Disneyland and tried to reuse the tickets. I took her to the Prom and she tried to return the wrong dress to the rental store. Walking around town, she would walk me into lamp posts. She mocked me and ridiculed me and I kept coming back for more.

I'll never forget her profession as a Pharmacy Technician. There is no coincidence that her status as a legal drug dealer and scammer brought her into my life. Every day she dealt with leeches, IV bags, PRNs, and Scheduled drugs. Every night she handed me a wine cooler or two and put an art film on the VCR. Unfortunately my parents and teachers were powerless to intervene at that point.
>…treat the publisher as explicitly opinionated

Shouldn’t this be the default for everything you read on the internet?
Dictu Programming Lanugage
https://dictu-lang.com/
Advertising is a market, you see ads for whoever is willing to bid the highest. It seems like Coinbase had to raise money to get big. FTX arrived to the scene later. It would be hard to compete by bootstrapping from organic growth.
Did I miss the announcement of Half-Life 3? AFAIK, the last game that was ever announced was Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
Messaging apps lose popularity all the time. It doesn’t take much for the network affects of a messaging platform to collapse.
Your margin account should be immediately liquidated and your positions closed if the value of your collateral drops below your outstanding obligations.