skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selections from his Wikipedia page:

> In September 2016, it was reported that Luckey had donated $10,000 to Nimble America, a pro-Donald Trump group that ran a billboard depicting 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with the caption "Too Big to Jail"

> The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine

https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-nea...

> September 2016 … Luckey offered to match further contributions from r/The_Donald users for 48 hours after the announcement. Luckey later issued an apology, stating on his Facebook page, "I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners."

> Facebook executives, including Zuckerberg, reportedly pressured Luckey to publicly voice support for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, despite his support for then Republican nominee Donald Trump.

> After his firing, Luckey hired an employment lawyer, and together negotiated a payout of at least $100 million, arguing that the company had violated California law for allegedly pressuring the executive to voice support for Johnson and for punishing an employee for political activity.

> Facebook likewise denied Luckey had been fired for supporting Trump, stating "We can say unequivocally that Palmer's departure was not due to his political views."
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Not exactly what you asked for, but in my humble opinion Stroustrup’s Tour of C++ is one of the best books for getting up to speed quickly with C++ if you know other languages…

https://www.stroustrup.com/tour2.html
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Whenever I hear "Space Force" I think of Legos, I think they were called Space Police but it's the same to me lol
Wow! Had no idea Shazam existed back in 2003.
I bumped into their manager AGM (well, quarter of it, they did 4 separate ones consecutively) in Kansas City one year. My employer had booked the hotel months previously. I think I was the only non walmart person.

They had four lines at check in, men smoking, women smoking, men non-smoking, women non-smoking. You shared a room with whoever you got in line with.

Lots of shop talk, no juicy secrets, silence when they found out I was not one of them.
Primagen is like the textbook definition of a brogrammer. He's not an idiot but I suspect there was more to him getting hired at FAANG than aside from just his technical ability.
I wonder how he feels about Trump now.
Depends what you need to do with that. Sure, you can't 'live normally' on battery power for too long, but if you prioritise things, your battery can last for a much longer time. Fridge/freezer to prevent spoilage, phone/laptop charger for comms, a couple of lights, a microwave oven. Heating/cooling is tricky as that's a _big_ draw, but there are ways to be efficient with that too.
Which Zuckerberg denied in his testimony in front of Congress.

And which others have also said wasn't the reason.

It was to do with Luckey not really being much of a team player which sounds very plausible.
Do you prefer grain or clay-like rendery smoothness
That's pretty cool. Reckon it would work with existing code that calls Redis over the wire for RQ?

https://python-rq.org

This RQ stuff has been a pain with a recent project because only Python seems to use it, so once an RQ job has been submitted only Python based things can do anything with it. :(

If Redka works as a backend replacement, we could potentially have non-Python things check the SQLite database instead.
I was there and quit my career to keep shooting film the way I wanted to. We all thought film was dead! (close by made a come back) I have mad respect for the big directors shooting on film today, keep it up!
A program that fails under some circumstances is a buggy program. The fact that it doesn't crash under some circumstances is no redeeming quality at all.

I don't know what you are trying to argue here. This thread is already too deep. Ownership rules are not optional. Sorry?
> I mentioned 100 hour days, and then mentioned how it's nicer when 1 Foo divided by 4 equals 3 Bars, instead of dealing with 1 Baz divided by 4 equaling 25 Qux.

What's the connection between those two mentions?

Surely you're not saying mention 1 is unrelated to mention 2. And it really looks like an attempt to do the same calculation with both system.

It would be very weird if Foo and Bar were an analogy for feet and inches for example, and even weirder if they weren't an analogy for anything.
The website appears down. I think I found it on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20240106121752/https://thermoele...
It doesn't happen to me frequently anymore, but it's not terribly hard if you're tinkering and not super experienced (not a dig; this kind of slightly-beyond-your-comfort-zone tinkering is often a good way to become experienced). Install a couple packages from source, mix in a 3rd-party PPA, hand-edit a bunch of files under /etc, upgrade across a major distro version, and it's not that hard to get into a state where you probably could unwind things but it's so much easier to just reset the whole thing.

Edit: Phrased differently, doing the opposite of this advice: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian is a great way to get into a situation where reinstalling is easier than fixing it.
> Looking back, Lego used to have age ranges listed: https://images.brickset.com/sets/large/7893-1.jpg

As an aside, that set (from 2006) is a good counterexample to the oft-heard complaint that "sets these days have too many custom parts"...
We also have 12 phalanges in our fingers.
It's not very convincing.

JBP is an academic and yes he is a bit hard to understand, that doesn't mean that it's nonsense, just that it will take more time to grasp his positions.

You can start with his university class in psycology: personality and transformation, I think it's the easiest starting point.

Then map of meaning.

I much prefer his lectures, live talks and podcast to the writings that are contrived and a bit overworked to my taste.
You can still have McDonald's Tokyo open at a different time than McDonald's London. Just have everyone label their opening and closing times in UTC and be done with it.
Arrival was a movie where I didn't enjoy it until the end when everything fell into place and it instantly became a favorite.
There was also the ZeniMax v Facebook trial and $500m judgement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeniMax_v._Oculus

But of course it sounds way more sinister if you tie his political donations to it.
Seems more likely it was because he cost Facebook $500 million because of IP theft: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-real-reason-palmer-luckey-...
I think he had a good, intuitive understanding that he wanted to communicate and he made it come through.

I like how he was able to avoid going into the weeds and stay focused on leading you to understanding. I remember another video where I got really hung up on positional encoding and I felt like I could t continue until I understood that. Or other videos that overfocus on matrix operations or softmax, etc.
The crowdfunded trust bought the building - wonder if it was sold at a premium (to reflect the value of the art) or a discount (to reflect the Grade II listing limitations).
Click. Adam Sandler comedy movie that left me in tears by the end. The theme is to live in the moment and appreciate the small things, or life will pass you by before you know it.
For a specific simple example: multiple Star Trek TV series were shot with the assumption that SDTV resolution would hide all the rough edges of props and fake displays. Watch them in (non-remastered) HD and suddenly it's very obvious how much of the set is painted plywood and cardboard.
I had one of these monstrosities. V1 even. I loved it. Its hard to describe how big and heavy these things were.

I literally never used the beat time, because it was completely useless.

But I felt prepared for the emergence of the new internet time zone the second anyone else started using it.
What we really should start to think about is the Interplanetary Time and how to handle time properly across different planets and moons in our system, namely Mars and Moon, as there's extensive robotic presence already and soon human colony, hopefully.
Not OP but I'm a Canadian who follows the news so I'll pitch in. Canada is suffering a few things right now. Definitely a housing crisis, which seems to be everywhere in the Anglosphere but I'm pretty sure we have it the worst.

Couple charts.
Disposable income vs house costs, USA then Canada.
https://www.reddit.com/r/canadahousing/s/SIRo14xudI

Relatedly, debt to income ratios, Canada vs USA.
https://ritholtz.com/2013/10/household-debt-to-income-ratio-...

So Canadians like to spend too much for housing, live credit and thus don't invest. Why do they do that and does that matter? Well, we do that mainly because house appreciation isn't taxed as income (risk aversion in action) and it does matter because it crowds out investment in things businesses use to make money.

WSJ has argued that this is the second leg of the crisis: we can't earn our way out of it, because our productivity is poorer than the USA, at 71%.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/canadas-poor-productivity-has-r...

Thirdly, Canada is cold and as a result we need a lot of energy to exist. Are energy prices declining?
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/energy-consumpt...

Forthly, I'm sure you're aware that the USA is deeply in debt and that the higher interest rates to combat inflation are pinching the ability of governments to operate. What you may not be aware of is that our Central Bank does whatever the Federal Reserve does in terms of rates about 70% of the time. If they did something different, bond traders would likely be able to destroy our currency. So we are trapped right now, hoping inflation ends real soon.

Lastly, to paraphrase a Mexican saying:Canada is far from God and too close to the United States. Our best and brightest leave to make 30% more in America, where the language and culture is very similar. We have been watching American television our entire lives. We don't have a market of 350 million people to sell to, and out government protected oligopolies are not able to compete in the USA. Our banks are making a push, but that's likely to be regional In America and not national.

This sums up the business climate.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1013522

Personally, I've also noticed that because there are basically 4 companies to work for in any vertical, and there are fewer tier 1 cities to work in in Canada, middle management here is mostly concerned about avoiding mistakes rather than competing and excellence.

But I don't really know America, it seems like it's a hyper competitive place where you don't get to take your vacation time, and heaven help you if you really need a doctor and you are poor. Every country sucks in its own way.
I don't think ion thrusters would work, for the balloon to maintain orbit you'd still be somewhere with enough atmospheric drag to be a problem. Ion thrusters only produce millinewtons worth of thrust, so they're very much relying on a no drag environment and the ability to run for continuous use for weeks to years.
Lorentz-Violating Electrodynamics
i dont get it. just cut 33 and if my boss arses me about precision i either need to machine cut it or get a new boss?
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We could use the binary representation for base 64, and turn 61-64 into a minus, a decimal point equivalent, an imaginary number separator, and the exponent separator (as in 1.0e5). Then something like -1.2e5+3i would have a direct representation in this notation.
I remember flying from Sydney to London and seeing big clocks with Swatch Internet Time in both cities. It seemed both silly and kind of cool at the same time.
While I wouldn't dream of claiming Flow-IPC will fit every IPCer's priorities, nor of trying to change yours or anyone's, nor of debating about what is trivial versus hard -- it should at least be easily possible to know what's in Flow-IPC. I'm here to help; this is the API overview with various code-snippet synopses, etc.:

https://flow-ipc.github.io/doc/flow-ipc/versions/main/genera...

I should also note that Flow-IPC does not provide "serialization"; it does however enable the use of an existing/best serializer (capnp) for zero-copy messaging. This is only one feature -- albeit oft requested, hence my decision to base the blog/README example on it. (I'm currently also looking into extending this to capnp-RPC.)

But, of course, we don't expect it to match what everyone is looking for; in your case IceOryx might be more your speed -- have a look.
Silly to you. Again, to you.

What do you mean 'again'? You never said that in your original comment.

Given film reciprocity and resolution related to period produced film stock and processing techniques, VHS and other reduced resolution formats from the same period, look better, to me!

What you're describing is just nostalgia, nothing more. That's fine, no need to rationalize it.

Why stop at VHS? Why not copy it a few times back and forth between tapes?

4k, which super35 barely supports

I agree, but regular blu ray is 2k
That’s FB’s position for sure
Might want to put a TEC on the server CPU!
Lovely. Not sure if the author would agree... There was much to love and hate about the nascent "new aesthetic" movement, but this demonstrates the best of that genre.
Have you tried setting BUSY_TIMEOUT and benched it? I believe it would be better too.

https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_busy_timeout
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never done it but the guy who wrote the yc recommended mom test also wrote a book about running workshops. maybe useful for you?
Types of RNG used in retro video games
I also think it’s interesting to build more concise language around how speed/gravity impacts time. It might be nice to assume a central reference point such as London and say “This probe experienced 1000 days, but 1010 days passed in London” with shorthand similar to current timezone notation.
https://np.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/cgkiif/i_...
Downvotes == empty boats. If "Empty Boat parable" doesn't ring a bell, Google it...
That's why I use Gentoo/Linux and portage.
Broadly a neat idea, and props for actually following through. I am in fact a big fan of:

> I'm a Nix contrarian, so naturally I wanted something to be to Docker like NixOS is to Nix. docker-boot fills this niche.

not least because I've also been trying to figure out if there isn't a way to do nearly everything nix does with way better ease of use using docker or something similar.

That said,

> It also drives libostree and Nix users mad, because it can be used to try out a new DE or even a whole OS without polluting the host filesystem or spawning a virtual machine. The video in the README shows me trying out KDE + SDDM from a host running GNOME + GDM3.

is needlessly combative and also not really a comparison that makes your solution look good; neither of those options "pollute" the host filesystem, they at most cache results thereby saving work until you tell them to garbage collect at which point it goes away (and this also means that they're not limited to the size of RAM), and neither of them needs a VM in order to cleanly transition from one configuration to another.
Got it the wrong way:

> The US is saying that if you are a nuclear power, you will be protected [...] but if you are a non-nuclear power you will be expected to fight with one hand tied behind your back.

The US is actually saying if you are _attacked_ by a nuclear power the US helping hand is tied behind its back, but if you are attacked by a non-nuclear power you will be protected
Bill Gates has dozens of projects combating mosquitoes, at least one of which is intended to replace them with non-carrying mosquitoes.

That’s what happens in America when we freak out now, one of the billionaires fixes it.
Rant: I'm one year in at a big tech company, and I hate it
If this is what programmers believe, I pity software users of the future.
>"Lesson 2: You don’t need langchain. You probably don’t even need anything else OpenAI has released in their API in the last year. Just chat API. That’s it.

Langchain is the perfect example of premature abstraction. We started out thinking we had to use it because the internet said so. Instead, millions of tokens later, and probably 3-4 very diverse LLM features in production, and our openai_service file still has only one, 40-line function in it:

def extract_json(prompt, variable_length_input, number_retries)

The only API we use is chat. We always extract json. We don’t need JSON mode, or function calling, or assistants (though we do all that). Heck, we don’t even use system prompts (maybe we should…). When a gpt-4-turbo was released, we updated one string in the codebase.

This is the beauty of a powerful generalized model – less is more."

Well said!
Remade as Operation Mincemeat[0]

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Are there examples of people who have done this and kept their job?
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> During the tests the process was seen to create the ionizing radiation and improve the base propulsion unit’s thrust by 50%, said RocketStar.

A 50% boost is both impressive and, given my memory of Farnsworth fusor discussions, surprising.
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I've read the article itself, and have to disagree with the author on speculative vulnerabilities, ARM chips got a ton of them too.
Where do you get the reference images, how do you display them on the tv, and to what do you compare them? I guess I should just search how to calibrate a tv.
Please do not post replies that are trivial spelling or grammatical corrections; they add little to the discourse.

To parent: I think all datastores can boil down to a SQL interface eventually. Someday a SQL-interface may dynamically choose a bespoke backend for your schema (or even sub-schema!)
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People’s relationship with technology for its ability to solve your every need and desire will be commonplace.
Na
A lot of it now days is gross negligence and bad default settings.
Steve Gibson at the Gibson Research Cooperation rants about it all the time.

https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
I don't think this is inconsistent though? The goal is to optimize the Isp you get from your fuel, not to get more energy out of the process then you put in necessarily - i.e. in space you can harvest solar power all you want, but if you don't have reaction mass then you can't give yourself momentum which is what you need to get around.

So efficiently using the reaction mass you have is worth it, even if you put in more energy then you get out.
Also, there's the following system::

https://nanovactech.com/collections/direct-write-lithography

Apparently:

Direct-Write (Photo)lithography = Maskless (Photo)lithography...
Either he has something interesting to say but it take some effort to understand or you are right.

Choose your adventure
"review" and "systematic review" are also good keywords for research. /? 'PFAS remov' might be a better search term

"Single-Step Method Swiftly Removes Micropollutants from Water" (2024)
https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/industrynews/news/3301747...

"Multifunctional zwitterionic hydrogels for the rapid elimination of organic and inorganic micropollutants from water" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-023-00180-8 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C11&q=Mul...

https://news.mit.edu/2024/zwitterionic-hydrogels-swiftly-eli... :

> Perhaps most importantly, the particles in the Doyle group’s system can be regenerated and used over and over again. By simply soaking the particles in an ethanol bath, they can be washed of micropollutants for indefinite use without loss of efficacy. When activated carbon is used for water treatment, the activated carbon itself becomes contaminated with micropollutants and must be treated as toxic chemical waste and disposed of in special landfills. Over time, micropollutants in landfills will reenter the ecosystem, perpetuating the problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

BTW we got to meet the psychiatrist who coined the term, he went independant and was still practicing with a florishing business in Paris mainly targeting Japanese patients.
Sure thing, bud.
This proposal does zero to stop the cycle. It may well exacerbate the cycle. That is many people's problem with it in this thread.
I can’t base my world view around guesswork like this. Four confirmed cases is four confirmed cases and that’s that.

It’s just like how people see ten murders by blacks on the news and assume all blacks are murderers. No, that’s just ten black murders and nothing more.
The traffic is not frequently caused by accidents. It's a small city so it's pretty clear when that happens. We have some of the lowest accident stats in the country. It's probably because any time there are a significant number of cars on the road, the entire region slows to a crawl.
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But they wouldn't ask for a third of a meter if they were using metric, just like you wouldn't ask for a firth of a yard if you were using imperial.
Some days, I can't tell if someone is being serious or sarcastic. Might be time to quit the internet.
The stories are designed to teach children about harsh realities, not too gloss over them.

Religion too, is just a collection of those stories into a larger moral framework.

Try reading more
Well, on the basis of this reply, I'll have to agree that the readers are not uniformly very smart :-)