skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s nothing like Norway, no matter how many smiley faces you put over the citizens killed by the Venezuelan government.

Price controls are a socialist measure. Name a country that has impelemented Venezuela-style price control, where business owners either sell at government-defined prices of face imprisonment, and you’ll spot a socialist leader doing it “for the people”.
After the massive success of Afghanistan and Iraq, I can’t see why anyone would oppose this proposal.
I've also read a study that images the brain on LSD which shows that there's less activity in perception which kind of goes against the folk story of LSD opening one up to input. What happens is that some input gets stopped and so, common to all illusions, the brain creates stuff to fill in the gaps. This might be just to do with hallucinations though.

In other words, LSD closes the doors of perception rather than opens them!
Risks of Cryptocurrencies [pdf]
Could you describe some situations where adding a field broke stuff? I can only imagine that happening if your code cares about the exact binary representation/layout of a struct - so serialization, FFI or just bit-twiddling.
Tesla is looking to eliminate contracts for faster vehicle delivery process
More than half of the country support the government and their current struggle. Venezuelans are educated, and a lot of them knows were they stand in the world. Most of them don't have time nor interest to be in the internet fighting "meme wars".
There is not much room to improve sensor technology. Photon shot noise is already the dominant factor. There is a bit of improvement available by modifying the bayer filter to filter less. But other than that, you just need more photons, which means a bigger sensor or a bigger aperture, both of which imply more glass. Or a longer exposure. Higher framerates and computational photography help make longer exposures an acceptable option.
Sophie wanted to surprise Ed – Technology was the challenge and the Solution
Schneier shared this today https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/07/nicholas_weav...
Who's hiring authors/political activists, but refusing to hire non-PhDs?
never submit a free.fr here, it won't be able to handle the traffic
Identical story to Zimbabwe.
Ask HN: Front end dev looking to become fullstack
How did you switch from frontend to full stack? I am currently learning cloud computing & hope to learn SQL deeply & then learn either Python or Go next.

3 years as a frontend dev, was fullstack first year out of college with PHP/MySQL & also do a lot of NodeJS, but I feel a lot has changed since then.

I'd like your advice on how to make this switch, what to learn, thanks.
The UK.
You cannot sell alchohol too cheaply. We have price controls per unit.
There are literally thousands of such controls in most contries.

California. They control the price of electricity in the state.

And yes, these are laws. If you break them, you go to prison.
When I make a right-hand turn onto the far-right lane of a divided highway with four lanes in my direction, and over the next three blocks, three lanes become right-turn-only (gradually narrowing the road down to one lane) but I need to not make any of those right turns?

You bet I need some fancy footwork to avoid being forcibly detoured. And you bet that once I'm in the correct lane, I make a point of emulating the people far in front of me, by almost-tailgating the person directly in front of me.
It’s the cronies. They get first dibs on the hard currency exports produce. They also control the power infrastructure.
That's a surprisingly bad idea, confirming the worst retoric of a dictator and pushing a country in full on civil war allegedly for saving it's people.

Lest we forget, Venezuela degraded to this pitiful situation after the democratic election of a populist who proceeded to redistribute the oil wealth to the poorest citizens. The disastrous policies were very welcomed by parts of the population, and they must be democratically rejected or rescoped to not kill the economy.
That sucks! Like I've always said to people I need to have something to think about or do or else I might get a migraine... I do a lot of crosswords in the summer...

I don't feel that stressed at all actually. I guess I could sleep more during the weekdays. I clock about 5-6 but I guess that's normal? 3-4 makes me feel kinda hyped which is weird.
South India.
“Giving it to the people” is code for government ownership.
I took a strong hit of acid when I was a teenager at Glastonbury festival. I ended up falling into a delusional, catatonic state where I thought I was in some kind of war zone surrounded by dead people. Thankfully some friends found me and talked me down. I hope babies don’t have an experience like that!
My experience is the same, L5-S1 and unfortunately I had surgery (bad decision, but had started developing nerve damage), which just replaced the herniated bulge with a permanent internal scar, having more or less the same effects. ;)

You learn to live with pain, and adapt to it. You learn that some activities are off limits, and will probably always be so. The trick is not to start feeling diminished, not fall into depression by comparing yourself to a mythical healed self, and learn to appreciate the life we have, which even with a bad back is still incomparably better than what the rest of humanity experienced for most of its existence on Earth.

There are ways to get better though, if you don't despair: after 10 years of trying countless practices and remedies, a combination of McKenzie exercises and acupuncture is finally working, allowing me to lead a mostly normal life (eg lots and lots of exercise and just refrain from cycling, contact sports, or bumpy activities like offroading).

My suggestion is to try that with absolute dedication (eg 100 repetitions spread over each day, weekly acupuncture sessions), and if you have no improvements in a couple of months, try something else. Improvement is possible, it just takes a lot of effort and time.
It changes the legal context, though. Now you're hosting the stuff.
You can go Argentina/Brazil way:

- pay all of the alleged debts without discuss

- accept US military and political counselors

- Allow an alien actor to open multiple military bases in your country

- Stop exporting and start importing everything you can from America
The first beautiful seating ball
Not calling this post out specifically, but drugs make for good clickbait. Drugs in general are 'in' right now, and i agree that it's pretty forced these days.

I have a very small sample size, but the friends i have who tripped regularly (not just on lsd) went on to have serious mental health issues. I know correlation =! causation, but it scares me how big the drug culture is becoming.

These drugs may have their place in some cases, but the reality is that the biggest use case today is to generate Ad revenue
This depends on the quality of the lens more than on the sensor.

Bad lens, bad image, a larger sensor doesn't help in any way. Good lens, good image, a smaller sensor isn't worse.

If you want shallow DoF, you can get plenty of m43 and APSC (16/1.4, 56/1.2, 90/2) lenses for shallow DoF. If you want razor thin DoF - nose sharp, eyes blurred - you need <=1.4 35mm glass.

If you want full body portrait with blurred near background you need medium format lenses (or far away background).
Thanks, but could you elaborate on that, I don't understand why.
I'm a bit confused... Isn't it an article encouraging consuming LSD?
...which is completely stupid because they score A+ on SSLlabs [0]. They even have HSTS etc., they really just have to preload it + add a 301 redirect.

[0] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=paymentexpres...
I was recently in Zimbabwe (yes, I was given a $100 trillion bank note) and everyone there told great stories about when you went into the store you would give the cash over straight away, because by the time you got back from picking out stuff off the shelves the money you had would be worthless.

It was fascinating to spend 6 weeks there and really understand what that kind of falling currency does it a place and it's people.
"Ever" is a long time. But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see it die down again few a few decades at least.
I will not deny that a collection of atoms, mostly carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, with the rough weight of 4 turnips, is on the table and looks like 4 turnips.

The 4 turnips do have physical reality but on the other hand, the 4 in this scenario is not a realized concept, there is nothing physical about the 4 in this scenario since all the things in it are made of particles made of mostly nothing.
FDR during WW2? What about the USA during the 70s, by that famous socialist named Nixon.
The issue is that not all noise scales linear with area. Specifically, a larger pixel can hold more electrons, which means you have more dynamic range. Compare e.g. the CMOSIS CMV12000 with the CMV50000. They are pretty much the same, except that the latter has slightly smaller pixels to fit them all inside the chip. The well depth is lower for the latter, without the readout noise compensating fully. The 12 bit of ADC resolution are not sufficient to handle the full well depth of the CMV12000 though, which means that at base ISO of the sensor, i.e. using the maximum photon capacity of the pixels, you have nearly no noise in the image with the CMV12000. Once you activate the iirc 3x analogue gain, you only have a third of the maximum photon capacity left to use, as the rest just reads out full brightness, but you have about 1 LSB per electron (2^12 == 4096, 15k electrons / 3 == 5000 electrons ~ 4096). So, this means that you have a little noise in the last few bits, not much though.
These sensors are awesome btw, the smaller one can actually handle an about equally expensive (if you count a device to handle the datarate) catadioptic, i.e. using both lens(es) and mirror(s), in this case a spherical mirror, a spherical lens, a non-curved circle of glass, and a slightly wavy ground pane of glass to correct the distortions caused by the spherical surfaces, with a 400mm focal length (about 600mm 35mm film equivalent) and f/2 as far as DOF goes, with a little bit light loss and some slight mirror-optics bokeh due to the sensor being in the middle of the 900 mm long tube, 200mm inner diameter. This is a design that does not work well without being able to mount the sensor right in the middle of the tube, and any alternatives are really hard to handle. Oh, and yes, this design is _sharp_. The geometric error due to the not perfectly compensated spherical surfaces is about 4 micrometer circle, and the diffraction circle of confusion is about the same, so combined there is a sharpness about perfect if you were to use a bayer filter to get color images. The thing would weight about 2 to 3kg, not including power supply, but including all that is needed to provide the raw pixel data 12MP@10bit@300fps via QSFP.
Indeed. Stable currencies, USD, EUR, CHF, JPY, GBP (even with brexit)

Many other currencies are also stable - the NZD for example, but I suspect (with no proof either way) a large change in their use may cause issues.

Typically USD is chosen, as that is the international currency of oil. EUR is I think second, mainly for political reasons.
While I've heard that Tesla is a responsible open source software contributor, their service manuals are the most hidden in the auto industry. This problem could be fixed without cost.
CVE-2018-5383 Bluetooth Vulnerability Impacts Apple, Intel
It's unfortunate for those caught with negative equity.
Top researchers on psychedelics agree with the author - psychedelic use often causes users to question authority. Notable UK researcher Dr David Nutt says that psychedelics have a political impact.
On page 25 - from 1998:

Table: Talent

(being Employees)

lastName "Federighi"
firstName "Craig"
Because your basic asumption is, that people are stupid?
If you're not familiar with Ray Peat, here's what the Peatarian diet looks like:

- 1 L milk (add salt and sugar)

- 1 L orange juice (add salt and sugar)

- 1 raw carrot

- bone broth

- NO PUFA (Omega 3/6)
Do we know the entire game theory well enough so that we can structure such games with no theoretical way for AI to sneak out? I doubt that, but even so, funny things start happening when theory meets practice. I recall the example of quantum entanglement, which (I read) enables communications that cannot be spied upon without the intended parties knowing. Except, (I also read) it was attacked at the interface between quantum and classical domain. The world is complex, and superhuman AI is by definition better equipped to find loopholes than humans are.
The Brazilian right wing government put in jail the candidate that is in the top of voting intentions for president. Brazil is a real dictatorship, Venezuela isn't, as their "political" prisoners were responsible for more than a hundred of deaths.
It's one surprisingly hard part of it. Note how Teslas enjoy driving into stationary objects with certain properties, say.
Free is a French ISP, and *.free.fr is free hosting (ie. not made for high traffic).
Warning to devs making VPN apps for iOS that block content
Some background (as linked in the tweet):

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-pro-discontinued/
This is also known among larger circles as an "economy".
Apple Internal Repair Video
It's not the $3500 35mm dDSL but the better lens. Cheap lenses on 35mm look worse than an iPhone X. People see shallow DoF, creamy bokeh or flat faces (taken with 85mm++ lenses) and wonder why they didn't see this on other phones. So they ask about the phone.

"Same holds true for video as well."

Which is the reason everyone seems to shoot with a GH5S and no longer with 5DMXs.
Our Use of Haskell and Elm
Why are you trying to do things while on the road? Set the climate control to 22°C, start the music, set the turn by turn navigator, then get on with driving.

Why is the experiment testing any kind of interfering with unfamiliar controls while the vehicle is in motion?

The flaw isn't the UX, it's the tasks being performed and when they're being performed.
That's modest to you? I'm poor by comparison but I still consider myself to be very well off (especially when I compare myself to my colleagues and uni friends).
Populism in Venezuela followed the familiar path.

Typical populist belief is that popular sovereignty is expressed in elections and with grand referendums. At the same time they wall over other institutions needed for liberal democracy. They also work to delegitimize their opponents and make them enemies. As a result, they pack all other institutions with loyalists.

What they should have done, is to acknowledge that supporters of the old system are also Venezuelans. They must be incorporated in the system relative to their support. They should have enacted laws and improved legals system that is independent no matter who is in charge and harder to corrupt.
Continuous Deployment for a Python Flask App from Bitbucket to Heroku
I found some relief by holding my breath several times a day (using Wim Hof's breathing protocol).

Not sure about the mechanism of action, but it seems that breath-holding causes vasodilation in the brain.

See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10472977

And: https://www.migrainekey.com/blog/10-reasons-why-the-wim-hof-...

(disclaimer: IANAMD)
ByteBall: DAG-Based Cryptocurrency Platform Ready for Real World Adoption
how much do we know exactly about the mentioned region? Do we know if its purpose is interpreting the input, or filtering?

If its purpose is filtering, then less activity would allow more input.
What was the inflation rate from 192x to 1989?

I mean, the inflation was terrible from 1917 to 1924. Clear hyperinflation. But it's not fair to blame the communists for that. Starting around 1922 it's fair to blame them for much of it, because by that time the Communists were in almost full control. But that's roughly when the hyperinflation ended.
Perhaps similar to the verbal “uh-huh” or “sure” that Americans - at least in the Midwest - would use to affirm attention to what a speaker is saying but without actually stating agreement.
Hasn't there been a massive brain drain? The view from afar is that the political opposition is inept. Those who could get out, have.
Nice design!
The space 4x strategy game 'Star Ruler 2' is now open source
Are you being purposefully dense? I’m not talking about isolated price controls in a few products. I’m talking about generalized price controls that cause shortages and hunger. I’m talking about going to jail for trying to sell food above the price you bought it from a producer.

Do you honestly believe Norway, the UK and California are anything like that?
it would be reasonable in that being depressed makes you tired and sleepy.
I wonder if the funds will be rightfully returned to the Russian government in cases of embezzlement.
Division by 0 is not possible in fields [1], which are the algebraic structure most commonly associated with “ordinary arithmetic.” For example, the real numbers comprise an ordered and complete field. You cannot divide by 0 in a field essentially by definition, so it’s undefined.

However, you can define meaningful algebras in which division by 0 is not only trivially allowed, but also equal to infinity. This is possible by extending the complexes, for example. More generally, see [2].

Note I’m speaking strictly of the math here. I can’t comment on this usage in physics specifically. But there’s no issue with defining 1/0 = ∞ if the rest of the theory remains fundamentally consistent.

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1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics)

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_theory
the result is well defined in terms of a limit: lim 1/x as x -> 0 = ∞. I consider 1/0 = ∞ a practical shortcut notation.
The difficulty is actually more with maxing it flat, so the phone can be thin. If you have length to spare and only a chip to record, you can get awesome f/2 optics (diffraction limited) with only a Schmidt corrector and otherwise two spherical surfaces and 3 flat ones (not counting the flat front outside facing of the Schmidt plate) with a field-flattened Schmidt camera. The only strong downside apart from the limit on FOV at around 4 degrees for this simple design (slight better designs should allow for up to about 30 degrees) is that it's twice as long as the focal length. It should still allow ultra-tele shots by resting the tube on the shoulder, without anything to actively compensate rotation shake.
They can afford to, considering how much one costs :)
It's just weird how persistent the halucinations are.. Like if you look at a painting it will look totally different than normal, you will probably see shapes of weird things a bit like Deep Dream's terrifying faces and dogs but a bit different. You can then leave said painting for 2 hours and come back to find the painting has the exact alterations from reality as before.

Because of this i'm more inclined to think that it's more like an unfiltered view of reality. Normally the brain will end up with the final image that we call reality but on lsd some of the last filters are missing showing you the world in a different way. This could also explain why perception centers show less activity in that they don't put in the last work to show us the normal image without weird artifacts as faces, animals, fractal patterns and colored light.
But I am objecting to the idea that doing these things makes a country communist. I will refer again to the generalised food price controls during wartime in the USA and beyond - were these countries communist at that time?

For another example of a country that has wide-ranging price controls on basic foodstuffs, look to the 2008 situation in mexico.
What could you write down about a juggling pattern? (1993)
What causes confusion is that both the Democrats and Republicans descend from the Enlightenment political philosophy called Liberalism - the same is true of Labour and Tories.

I didn't completely grasp this for a very long time despite understanding 'American Liberals' were not the same as 'Classical Liberals' - it's not intuitive.

To prevent confusion the etymology is the same as the word "Christian". Both Catholics and Protestants are Christians. Sometimes one will claim to be more 'Christian' than the other but that is beside the point: to a non-Westerner they're the same group. The same is true of the word "Liberal". Democrat Liberals, Progressives, Conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians - these are all species of Liberal.

What this means may be found controversial by some people.

This would mean in the West, or at least in the Anglosphere political authority is typically wielded by two competing variants of the same political philosophy.

I find this interesting because that is not at all what is advertised.

For years I thought the differences between China's One Party State and the West were plain to see but now I think the distinction is less obvious. Going back to my Christianity analogy, it may be an argument over The Holy Trinity - both completely different and also the same simultaneously.

Is the West a Two Party System with one faction? Is China a One Party System with multiple factions? If so what's the real difference or is there a real difference?

There's a strange perspective distortion where the differences are either enormous or minor but it's hard to tell which - I speculate that metapolitics has a Lovecraftian quality to it where it might not be possible to understand without going insane. :)
Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species
I find typing on a physical keyboard substantially easier when moving, or when using a phone one-handed.

But phones these days are primarily used for consumption and non-textual content creation.
I got very sick almost a year ago, a few times in the ER, spent months in bed.

There's no silver lining to suffering. Your mind doesn't work. It's hard to concentrate. Sex isn't very enjoyable. It's next to impossible to exercise well. You're constantly irritated and lash out at the people around you. You don't get used to it. You adapt, sure, but it sucks big time.

F##k suffering.

(I'm getting better btw, doctors still don't know wtf happened to me).
some feedback about the landing page:

- it looks like a mobile design (text way to big on desktop)
- needs more room to breathe
- the picture takes up the whole screen (while still displaying the h1 below the fold)
Does it? Aren't they Euro-denominated anyway?
Is it populism or disrespect for property rights? What company would make a major investment after nationalization of industry? It seems you could be 'populist' by promoting education and investments to bring up the poor without destroying a country.
Georgia Has a Coast?
Usually nobody visits this personal site. After the short avalanche of access will return the calm of loneliness :)

And maybe I will have had a few useful feedbacks on this work...
Encouraging is a strong word, but if outlining the positive impact of something encourages you to consider it, is that bad?
I think his point is that you can "run" a large amount of applications at the same time on a CPU. It will execute everything, albeit slowly. This might not be acceptable for performance concerns, but it's doable.

He's not talking about actual data compression in RAM. Because even with compression, with current OSes, if you try to fit more than 20GB of data, let's say becoming 10GB compressed, into 5GB of RAM, it's not possible. You have to swap and at that point your performance is completely gone.

The performance gap between an overloaded CPU and swapping is humongous. One is annoying or slightly troublesome, the second is a death knell.
Can you provide more info or sources about both of those? I'd like to be able to follow things in this area without starting from scratch