skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd choose the glass which best fits the purpose; brand is irrelevant. There are dozens of characteristics of glass which can be critical or irrelevant; it depends on the application.

The choice of glass like Arri or Zeiss is often made to achieve a certain aesthetic which is desirable in creative film-making.

In this case, the only thing that matters is a specific subset of technical requirements, particularly due to their stitching workflow. I can only guess at their decision-making process but it clearly wasn't "hey let's get the cheap stuff". I suspect they considered properties like:

— Corner sharpness

— Distortions

— Fringing

— Spherical, lateral and axial aberrations

— Chromatic aberrations

— Flare

— Coma

— Haze / local contrast

— Vignetting

— Aperture blade configuration

— Diffraction

— Mechanical stability

— Focus rigidity in the face of extreme g-forces

— Copy-to-copy consistency

That said, I suppose it's possible that the people who actually pulled off this incredible feat, and produced the objectively stunning output shown in the article, know less about what they're doing than l33tbro on Hacker News.

(By the way, did you know that for astrophotography, some of the best glass is made by Samyang, Tokina and Sigma? These brands make exceptional glass, even if their marketing department isn't as well staffed as Zeiss.)
Healthy people feel healthy is probably a big confound.
A-maze-ing. Sorry couldn't help it. Jokes aside, these are great!
Ouch... It saddens me when rewrites are not taken as seriously as they should be... Instead they rather risk people's personal information and finances.
Really disappointed in NPM lately. These past few months have been downright silly. How many major problems like this affect other package managers?
Minikube—and by extension, basing all the starting tutorials off minikube—is approaching this ideal, IMHO. A year ago, the first time I tried it, it was frustrating to even get up and running. This year I was actually able to get some examples running locally... and that's progress :)
A Letter from Orange (or the Rise and Fall of vizrt) [pdf]
The last comment is locking the issue because too many people are responding saying the same thing. This comment makes me want to reply and say the same thing too, but I can't now.
It's probably a mix of all of it, but there are more people struggling than it first appears. Relevant quote from a prominent leader in a church I attend:

When I was a young man, I served as counselor to a wise district president in the Church. He tried to teach me. One of the things I remember wondering about was this advice he gave: "When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time."

I thought then that he was pessimistic. Now, more than 40 years later, I can see how well he understood the world and life.
Perhaps it really is a teapot.
The other important distinction there is the current (soft-ish) limit of 110 pods per node; if you want to run hundreds or thousands of pods on a few giant (beefy CPU/RAM) nodes, you need to rethink that strategy and go with many smaller nodes, with the pods evenly spread across them.
I am certain that they could put "industry-standard" cine glass on them, given that the the cameras are PL mount, which is the industry standard.

Sigma and Tokina make world class glass these days. No longer is Sigma the "budget option", but a genuine alternative to the first-line lens manufactures.
I too am remote in BC (Quadra Island), though will be visiting Vancouver next week to finally meet my manager. Having a life, social and otherwise, outside of work is absolutely important. The non-office environment permits a certain flexibility time-wise, so it's sometimes convenient to walk the dogs down to the store. I can see people there, as well as at the gym after work, or at other activities.

My employer has many remote employees, so there isn't so much of an in-office vs out culture, and various chat, email and meeting technologies make it convenient to "meet". To that end, our group has just started doing a cameras-on meeting every other week or so. The idea is to get more of a face to face aspect, for those who need more of that sort of contact.
But as the government body implied that "public viewing" included posting on social media, it is effectively a de facto ban on uploading videos on social media without a license. Sometimes it's not what the law specifically says that matters; it's the law's effect.
> If you (not you personally) are arguing against a propagandist who says that all your sources are biased, then I don't know what is an effective rhetorical strategy—it seems that no-one does, if there even is one—but I'm almost certain that asking for a citation for the claim of bias isn't it, since all it does is shift the question from "who is biased?" to "who can be trusted to judge bias?".

I see your point, but I think the propagandist is only effective if we buy their premise, that there is no way to distinguish between biased and unbiased sources (and information). My point is that there are many ways to respond, that it's not at all a new problem, and that the solution is reason, in the Enlightenment sense. The propagandist says it's all arbitrary faith, but reason always has been their downfall (which is why propaganda often appeals to hatred, to crowd out the application of reason).

(On one had, this comment and my GP comment are written so loosely and broadly that it's a bit embarrassing; on the other, I think my point gets across and I don't have time to write a treatise.)
Bill Gates (and his shills) can go to hell. No one cares about them assholes.
Interesting that it's written with a seeming intent of discouraging filmmakers from making films that (perhaps) disparage or provide a distorted view of Kenyan culture, which I can sort of understand them pushing for.

But no international filmmaker is going to give a shit about such a small fine, and the KFCB is clear that this applies to individuals posting personal videos on social media.

I can't tell which of those was their real aim.
One thing that happened after the finding of fact (in early 2000) is that the Microsoft stock price fell in half and stayed roughly at that value for the next ~15 years. So even if the actual government anti-trust actions didn't seem that dramatic, there was definitely a measurable effect.

As someone who was at Microsoft during this era and down in Silicon Valley in the 2000's, I'm very much glad that it did happen. Although I did make money while I was at Microsoft, it's difficult for me to imagine how the things I worked on after I left (such as an early consumer smartphone) would have been possible with Microsoft at full strength.
You missed my point; I didn't say it's new, I said it was simpler than it might seem, and that thinking of it as a state machine makes it easier to understand what the core of Kubernetes really is.

And of course "nothing but a pattern" is nonsense. Pre-container systems like Puppet and Chef -- which are also, vaguely, based on converging real state towards desired state -- are firmly rooted in the traditional Unix model of mutable boxes. You can't implement a consistent reconciliation loop if your state can't be cleanly encapsulated (as with containers).
You should code from an RV. Not kidding
Some of these systems originate from the era when a 5mb hard drive was an incredible amount of space, even at enterprise level. They pre-date personal computing.
Facebook charm offensive just turns into being offensive
took 5 seconds for me to load on tor, with noscript and ublock on. treat yoself with the world of no js or ads, it's great.
Locking a discussion with zero-unreasonable responses as "too heated" is bad optics, but I think locking the discussion is a pragmatic decision, as the NPM team has been alerted about the issue and any meaningful comments would get lost in the noise otherwise.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to show off. All I meant was that I had a pretty thorough mainstream CS education. If I didn't learn shell on the way then it's safe to assume most CS students these days don't either.
The patent examiners don't have to wait till they leave to work for corporate. Many of them already have full time jobs and do patent examination as their side job. Their only requirement is to recuse themselves from patents filed by their company or their friends.

I'll bet it's pretty easy for two companies to make a deal to pay bonuses to each other's employees when patents are granted.
My bad: I forget to tell about SugarTeX completions package for Atom. With it writing Unicode is lot faster and simple enough.

https://atom.io/packages/sugartex-completions
> Have you stopped reading Wikipedia though?

Almost entirely, yes. The only thing I use it for now is looking up wether certain celebrities are alive or dead.

Who cares if you "contribute"?

Wikipedia should care when anyone with above average knowledge of a certain field is turned away. The result is people filling those gaps with less-accurate information.

My point is that if I've given up contributing to Wikipedia, then it's not a stretch to think that people even better/smarter than me have, as well. Wikipedia's arrogance and other flaws are making it a repository of mediocre information, not the best available information. Which brings us back to the bus stop analogy.

Artists are not, in general, considered authoritative sources for their own works and for good reason

You should tell that to whomever it is that organizes the hundreds of thousands of guest lectures from artists that are held around the world each year.
By analogy (likely a bad one) Kubernetes is the C++ of automated infrastructure?
How to build Redux from scratch
Myriad acquires Counsyl
But IMHO, the government could fix this by simply having their own payment mechanism.

Honestly not sure if you're joking here... The government in my country has a somewhat well-established payment mechanism, which relies on small metallic or paper-plastic tokens to represent value, and that is what we used to pay for parking until these new-fangled things came along.
A moment of sympathy for the engineers who have to explain their non technical project manager on why their application is getting this error.
This problem went away for me when I turned off my ad blocker.
While I agree it is better in the Australia, it can't be that uncommon. I am Australian but would struggle to swim 100m.

I have always been a pretty poor swimmer by local standards. But that is not because others did any more lessons in school than I did (those lessons were quite limited).

Some might have had more private lessons than me; but I think the main difference is that they bedded down what they had learned in lessons doing recreational swimming. Which I is common in Australia, but rare where my family comes from.
I have been with quite a few relating groups spanning a few countries. The author's experience reflects what most newcomers feel.

However, I find the demographic very surprising. The relating groups I frequent had more women than men, and very few people under 30.
My favourite HTTP response...
How to make a floating city in space?
After talking with some friends, basically I could get this to be a lot faster if I just wrote it in Cython. (the skimage.transform.seam_carve function is written in Cython). Also, I realize now that the double for loop in Cython is actually fast, so that means that the skimage implementation of dynamic programming is optimal. But I can still change it to accept the accumulated energy matrix!
This is a really interesting look into Amazon's business model around Prime, market segmentation in social media, and other things.

The author seems to have a deep understanding of how businesses work. Some of it's pretty gross -- I hate reading about "creating desire", and similar dystopic capitalist memes -- but it's important to understand what's going on in these companies.
Also I should just write this in Cython since I do a lot of unnecessary stuff when using numpy.
Perhaps. But the large fines are a concern without too much prompting from the problem companies.

Not saying the GDPR is bad, I’d personally like to see it applied every where.
It isn't being asked to brew coffee, though, so it's a mis-use of the spec.
https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
They can't directly substitute for macros because they run when execution reaches them, rather than once at load time, and because they can't inspect their code arguments.

But they do satisfy a lot of the desire for syntactic abstraction -- see e.g. https://github.com/erights/quasiParserGenerator
> An operator should never have to "kick" a service.

Have you ever been a sysadmin? There are very few services that don’t need a kick every now and then.
Instead, they're just regular lost. Not much of an improvement.
It actually reads like an IoT protocol, way ahead of its time in 1998. Life not only imitates art, but eventually catches up with parody:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
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Heroku / Cloud Foundry offer exactly what the author points towards: a very simple user interface for developers. InfluxDB will of course needs stateful applications so it's not a good use case for them.

The Cloud Foundry community has started exploring a switch from their own container management system to K8s. If that becomes real, CF would "just" become a nice user interface on top of k8s. The right move imho.
what else in these "past few months" are you referring to? as a moderate npm user i am blissfully oblivious.
I don't think there's an easy answer. There's a story that may be relevant: a guy is standing on the beach. He's completely aflame and seems to be looking around. Another guy approaches and says "Hey! Jump in the water!" And the on-fire guy says "Yeah, after I find out where the fire came from."

Humans need connection. Some more than others. Imagine how tightly-knit human societies had to be for the bulk of human history. Whether this is the right answer, I have no idea, but it seems like people are grasping for something like connection.
I've found many useful products that I enjoy using, such as my ReMarkable tablet, through targeted ads. I'd have never known it existed despite looking/waiting for exactly this type of product for years.
https://http.cat/418
> Almost entirely, yes. The only thing I use it for now is looking up wether certain celebrities are alive or dead.

But where do you look up where crabs sit relative to scorpions and spiders in arthopoda? Or when Kubernetes was released? Or for a quick refresher on who exactly Samson was in scripture? Seriously, those are just my wikipedia hits for the last few hours. I mean, yeah, I could surely find that info elsewhere. But I click on the wikipedia link because I know it's going to give me good information in a format I understand and can rely on.

> You should tell that to whomever it is that organizes the hundreds of thousands of guest lectures from artists that are held around the world each year.

How is that responsive? "Have something important to say" and "should be trusted above all other sources" are rather different criteria (and, to be clear: make up pretty much a precise microcosm of our current argument!). Listen to artists, their opinions are important. They still occasionally lie about their own junk and those controversies deserve documentation too.
What Can Centrifugal Airflow Screen Do?
Ha! I used to use 418 as my "everything is completely fucked and there's no way everything will ever get that fucked, so this is the best code possible" status code.

It took about a year for me to internalize that things will often be that fucked. :)
Ah! I guess the difference when you're a programmer is, both could be described as spending all day sitting, but if you're at a keyboard, you can get up and walk around now and then; sounds like that matters a lot, extended over the months and years.

Best of luck with the recovery.
There's lots of ways a Vermont court could apply their laws to a Delaware corporation operating out of Delaware: Renvoi, significant contacts test, "better rule" test, and so on.
Amazon’s Relentless Pursuit of Largesse
This is great news. Since they took a beating in the last security findings in code that was not even enabled by default. Leading to it seeming much more serious than it was.
I find India far worse; that country is so paranoid compared to other places I have been. The US (and definitely China which, in my experience of going there often, has very friendly border guards) are a walk in the park compared.
Yes I have. And if a service ever needs a manual kick, I consider that a bug. At least when running in a public cloud.
I learned my lesson not put cutesey messages in the logs the hard way. I was young and dumb and in my case it was for a restore from backup system. A customer had failed hardware and was trying to restore from backup. It was failing and the funny message all of the sudden didn't sound too funny when customer was reading it back to me in their own voice over the phone.
What complete and utter nonsense.

Most people have money allocated for specific categories when they budget, that doesn't mean they are living on the razors edge if they simply wanna know how much more they can spend while still adhering to their predefined budget!

A lot of people (including me) have savings as one or more line items on their budget.

My budget is super duper simple:

1) Put the bills money direct deposited into in one account - that is money for mortgage, streaming services, taxes, insurance, water, and electricity.

2) Put a predefined savings amount direct deposited into savings and investment accounts. This includes 401k deductions.

3) Put the remaining money into a third account and spend it all however I want. I'm on budget as long as I don't spend more than what's in this account.
If anyone here gives a crap, he believes that John Podesta's art collection means he is part of an international pedophile ring, seemingly run out of a pizza place.

Not sure why he is too scared to just say this. I guess in the cold light of day it sounds pretty stupid. Perhaps if you wrap it up in code words it sounds a bit better, or at least makes him feel special.

The Russians really did a number on the US didn't they.
Depends how big the home is.
Sometimes people resist fixing serious issues with a legacy system, because rewriting the legacy system is seen as preferable to evolving it. But, the rewrite always takes a lot longer than you expect, which can result in a lengthy period in which those issues continue to bite you. Just hire a few good mainframe COBOL programmers (they still exist) and fix the serious issues in the legacy system.

Changing a legacy mainframe COBOL system shouldn't be scary. Provided you have qualified staff and the right tools (such as COBOL static analysis tools), it is not inherently more risky than changing a Java or .Net app.
"Democracy" does not automatically guarantee liberties in most of the world. In some countries, "democracy" has reduced to a system to vote in their next authoritarian strongman who then dismantles all checks and balances by appointing toadies to all institutions. Their citizens are not consulted about their opinions. Russia, Turkey, Venezuela have already crossed over. Kenya and India are on the way. Hungary too.
What of the YT Nairobi offices, then? Can't imagine YT working with the local gov't to issue licenses to creators on the spot.
> That said, I suppose it's possible that the people who actually pulled off ... know less about what they're doing than l33tbro on Hacker News.

Well, I guess it makes sense that you'd be interested in lenses, as you obviously project onto people a lot in your life.

IE, not once did I say the lens choice was incorrect. I simply lamented the fact that to shoot in 8k Full Frame you're limited to handful of what are widely considered to be sub-optimal cinema (no, not astrophotography) lens manufacturers.
This is actually not correct and I'm a little surprised at the comment.

The ingress story in kubernetes is bring-your-own and usually people run their clusters behind Google or AWS LB which are supported as ingress in k8s. Running k8s on metal is a super daunting task.
Choosing your network plugin is another task and usually you have to install a different system service on each of your nodes - Swarm has this built in.

And lastly the Compose file format. 10 lines of Swarm compose file literally translate into multiple dozens of separate k8s yml file. Creating this in k8s is super complex in itself.

Swarm is really pretty nice for someone setting up a few dozen nodes and services.
I agree!
A lot of what's going on with data is the low-cost ease of intimate access to targeted people. Thus, we get constantly pestered and then it's our job to figure out how to get peace from stuff that we didn't ask for.

I've had to turn off alerts and miss notifications from friends because marketers have run amok. And we go back to the cost: it's been so doggone cheap that so many marketers have gotten to where they just don't care about being annoying.

There should be a higher cost to access me when I'm sitting in my barber's chair. Actually, DON'T contact me when I'm in my barber's chair. Go back to tv commercials, billboards, and snail mail. Put in some effort.
>> "...big companies will have the money to lobby for regulations to be written in a way that is easy for them to comply with while shutting out smaller companies and startups."

GDPR is already this. If your company does less than 20 million a year, the fine for your first violation is 20 million, aka 100% of revenue.
Not OP but maybe he is referring to the big in which the npm upgrade bumped to a non-ready version and caused havoc on production systems by overwriting permissions and files: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883

That was the end of February, so not sure but that may be it.
Sadly, from the way they legislate it’s almost as if the conservative Government’s welfare policy is actually intended to dehumanise and punish the poor and unemployed instead of actually helping them...

Luckily there will be an election in the next year and they are down in the polls.
> Be careful, "cuteness" and "cleverness" has a way of biting you in the behind.

Generally speaking I tend to agree, but in this specific case how is sending a 418 "biting you in the behind" worse than sending a more proper 500 error? (Or perhaps a 400? Hard to say exactly, feels like the server is having unexpected errors since it cannot properly parse the hostname.)
"The removal of the alarm clock was also a big change for me. In Austin, I would get up early, go workout, or get up early and work before work (I spent most of my last 2 years in Austin as the CTO at a Series A funded startup and the quiet hours of the morning before my wife and daughter woke up were the only real quiet ours I had all day)... Now I get around eight hours of sleep per night because I prioritize sleep. The sun sets very early here, currently around 18:00, so I’m typically in bed by 21:30 and asleep by 22:00-22:30 and I wake-up between 6-7 the next morning."

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This is someone who no longer lives with his daughter it seems?

I don't want to diagnose strangers over five blog posts on the internet, but much of this blog reads like my last few weeks before a mental breakdown. I hope the author is ok/remains ok in the short term.
No, they aren't. There have been user complaints about them. These complaints can ultimately result in a investigation and finally a court case. That is still far off, however
If I had to do it, I would use a language that I am comfortable with and the most used GUI library/framework in that language. I know Java well, so I'd either chose Java/Swing or Java/GTK[1].

[1] Java binding is officially supported: https://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php