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I don't doubt it's at all possible and that's really great you're a serious photographer with dev skills to write a camera app. But the reality here is it's not something that has been done and packaged up so well to be easily repeatable by those not as elite as yourself with regard to photography. We all understand stacking photos (HDR) is a thing and long exposure is likely as old as photography itself. But you clearly don't see the value in making it usable by anyone, at any time, in a device you carry with you that does many other things well. To give Google credit for advancing smart phone photography is very fair and very deserved. While they may not have advanced pro-level equipment, process or technology if that's what you're looking for you've completely missed the obvious point. I said it last year in a similar post. I have a very viable camera that shoots amazing and consistent photos and videos without having to lug around my DSLR gear. And it's ready in seconds when I pull it out... Are they award winning shots? Nope. But they're priceless to me since I can capture my family and life moments with increasingly better results with less user awareness or input. Do I enjoy manual photography? Sure do - that's not the point and I feel as though you've missed that.
Don’t do this. You’ll just feel like shit and it’ll be nothing like cocaine.
My question was more song the lines - “is this rigorous enough for FDA approval”?
I think you've been cut out of enough embargoes to understand the openbsd position. Embargoes hurt users.

I disagree. Embargoes are good for users, as long as (a) people actually respect the embargoes (rather than leaking details, whether to Theo or on a public Linux kernel mailing list), (b) the right people are part of the embargo, and (c) the embargo is not unreasonable long (Intel in particular fails here).

The decision to not work together on lazy FPU was made before Theo got involved.

Leaving aside the question of who refused to sign an NDA, after details were leaked to Theo he made a decision to go public rather than attempting to work productively with other vendors.

What Theo and others, including myself, have made clear is that embargoes suck, and we will complain about them as is our right, but we will attempt to honor them if that's how it going to be.

You can complain all you want, but if you want other people to give you advance notice of vulnerabilities they find, you should be prepared to give people advance notice of vulnerabilities you find. As long as OpenBSD has a policy of "bugs we find get fixed immediately, without talking to other vendors" you're going to run into problems here.
Well, Ok, I mean any good tutorial on making a desktop app with Qt Design Studio. I expected it to be something like a better Qt Designer which is reasonably intuitive to use but in the video it looks completely extraterrestrial although beautiful. I'd like to build a desktop app with it but don't feel like I have any idea about how. The only tutorial video easy to find shows "Building an Instrument Cluster for Your Car HMI" and doesn't seem to make it clear how is the app supposed to interact with the computer it is ran on. Is it for cars only? Is it not supposed to be used for desktop apps development?
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The main issue with repurposing random x86 hardware is power. This means that anything NetBurst based is just garbage, but on th other hand random Core2 based corporate SFF desktop (which you can get for less than 40EUR) is perfectly serviceable as home internet gateway/whatever server. You want SFF desktop because it is designed to be reliable, it is usually cheap and relatively quiet.
I haven't noticed a difference, really. Maybe it's just the new phone period where everything works well and it'll all go to hell later...
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So, what is a good way to evaluate performance?
very nice. anything to convince my clients that they shouldn't be using cheap email hosting with weak spam filters
Lots of other phones do let you do it, usually in pro or manual setting. It requires a pre-requisite of good OIS (which paradoxically the Pixel 1 didn't have, claiming that it wasn't necessary -- because of some magic AI sauce or something -- and seeing that noise repeated across the tubs. They added it with 2 and 3) and usually it is hidden behind an interface.

Why? Because 99.9999% of smartphone photos in real use (e.g. not in a review), give or take 100%, are of people. People move. Long exposures just lead to bad outcomes and blurred people.

I mean seriously search the net for Pixel 3 night mode. It's like the Suit Is Back. They're even using the same verbiage across them. And the uproarious nonsense about Google using AI to colourize is just...well a place like HN should just be chuckling at it.
Couldn't useState accept a name? How would React DevTools or another debugging tool know the name of a piece of state?
> The suit included a screenshot of an August 2015 email Mr. Rubin sent to one woman. “You will be happy being taken care of,” he wrote. “Being owned is kinda like you are my property, and I can loan you to other people.”

How on earth does this jack@%% think it’s ok to think this way, let alone write it down in a company email?

Google should be ashamed - the entire article is full of shocking allegations, any one of which should have resulted in a sacking.
Whilst using fiber optics to transport the light is a nifty idea, like you mentioned, you have to 'farm' the light on the surface. So that means bringing collectors, making them sturdy enough for the winds and then also going 'outside' to clean them. Might be easier to bring LEDs and something nuclear that also provides a lot of waste heat you can use.

However, if you did user fiber you end up with a light source that's there about half of the time, but plants can grow better with more sunlight. I'm no expert on hydro/LED factory farming so I'll stop there but I'm sure anyone who has grown cannabis would be able to tell you of the advantages to a light source that's highly configurable.
But it's certainly possible to do it securely if that eventuality was planned for.
Also, the CFP is strongly hinting at what buzzwords a winning paper needs. (Robots! 3D printing! Exports!)

Given the paper parameters and this strong hinting, I suspect they’re going to attract a lot of very handwavy and not very serious papers.

For example, one of the requirements is to make steel on Mars. (Why you would do this with only 1000 people, it doesn’t say.) No one wants to say, that we’ll have humans strip mining iron ore (we don’t even know where such veins exist), so someone will say something about 3D printing up a robot smelter that collects iron from dust in the wind, and spits out I-beams that are a special Martian alloy that makes shipping them back to Earth via a railgun cost effective.
I feel like tech needs to experiment with worker owned cooperatives and flat management more. I know, I know, the politics in flat structures can be worse. But I think tech should be innovative in management structure and eventually a standard for decision making, perhaps based on quaker principles, and management structure, maybe based on mondragon, can emerge.
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Well, there's always contraceptives.
You can get a plastic DSLR camera body cap for less than 50 cents each (ebay from China). This cap goes where the lens would attach the camera when you don't have a lens on. Sometimes I cut a hole in the center of a cap and make really hacky camera "lenses" for fun. You could put a prism on the outside of a cap.

You would then need to calibrate your new spectra-cam on something with a known radiation (usually just find a good blackbody radiator.) You can't just convert to black and white without calibration because the RGB sensors on the camera are going to have their own sensitivity to different wavelengths. This would be an awesome project!

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I write firmware for high end professional LED lights, and have a $3K spectrometer on my desk. Here are things I've learned:

1. CRI is simply a bad formula to judge light quality overall and gives almost meaningless results at lower color temperature levels.

2. There are lots of fantastic python modules for working with spectrograph and light data.

3. One awful thing cheap LED lights do is blink slowly to control their voltage. This is at least as bad a poor CRI for aggravating your eyes. (Sometimes you can see this just by using slow motion video on your phone)
I can see your point: this basically just looks like long exposures, or stacked exposures, which is basically the same thing of letting more photons hit the sensor, aligned using OIS.

Any thoughts on why Apple, as the other leading phone maker with a heavy emphasis on camera quality, has not implemented anything like it? Not to discount the difficulty, but OIS aligned long exposures kind of seems like low hanging fruit. Instead, they keep trying to open the aperture more.
Fun idea! Updating the dimensions of the softmax layer and squeezing storage of ketchup bottles in front of the camera to collect data for the training set should do the job!
Absolutely! Either everyone can say it, or no-one can. Simple equality...
That would not be a good idea at all. The memory mapping works cross platform to prevent an unsubstantiated configuration of the elon-burrow mechanisms.
Sorry this is so late, but you can measure the probability that the particle exists.

Null hypothesis tests basically try to calculate the probability of a data set given the null hypothesis. What you really want is the probability of a hypothesis given the data set.

So in that case, you want to estimate the probability of theories of physics, such as those that include the particle and those that don't.
Just to add, it’s also a question of how many studies you can preform and not publish the results. Doing 100 different 30 person studies is vastly easier than doing the same with 2,000 people studies.
What is weird that company allows managers to fire people without trying to move them first.
Hiring is hard and firing left and right sounds like a dumb idea.

Managers should understand that they are not the center of the universe.
Firing the more senior person automatically is an interesting idea. Are there any companies that do this in a way that doesn't add excessive legal liabilities to the company?
If it doesn't help them get into files used to encrypt the software, then why did they need it?
To add a wrinkle that may be missed from a quick read of Theo’s post: OpenBSD’s X maintainer is on the X.org security team - that’s the Matthieu referenced.

So it’s possible that an entirely human set of mistakes occurred that lead to this happening; it’s also possible that embargoed bugs came in to play.
There were moments I was close to kicking the TV-set while tuning the hyperparameters :-)
> But at the same time it's pretty much impossible to prevent people from dating within the work place.

This goes beyond that - there were rules about reporting such relationships, presumably so HR could look out for the less advantaged party, but those rules were ignored. And this doesn’t sound like simple ‘dating a coworker’ - guy was a sleazy scumbag:

FTA - ‘The suit included a screenshot of an August 2015 email Mr. Rubin sent to one woman. “You will be happy being taken care of,” he wrote. “Being owned is kinda like you are my property, and I can loan you to other people.”’
> Tesla set up DRM to artificially limit the driving range of their cars until you pay them a ransom to simply let your car drive longer distances!

I think the effect of this sort of DRM is underestimated in many conversations about post-scarcity.

People don't seem to appreciate that cryptography will create programmatic scarcity where previously we only had scarcity due to physical laws.
The customer refused to resolve the issues with the electric power. My friend did add lot of filtering, but said he'd reached a limit.
didn't some of this stuff also come to light after James Damore sued Google for discrimination? or is this all separate?
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In my experience the mercury amalgam fillings tend to crumble and plop out in pieces after a few years. Maybe not the entire filling, but enough to where they'll have to declare a do-over, drill and augment/replace with more mercury amalgam.
do you put your work in the arxiv?
What exactly do you mean by "conservative republican"?

Back in the middle of 2016, conservative author and Research Fellow at the Cato Institute P.J. O'Rourke made a surprising announcement:

"I have a little announcement to make ... I'm voting for Hillary. I am endorsing Hillary. I am endorsing Hillary, and all her lies and all her empty promises. It's the second-worst thing that can happen to this country, but she's way behind in second place. She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters."

If someone is a "conservative republican" as the term would have been understood 20 years ago, or perhaps even as late as 10 years ago, I think they could openly state their political positions in SV today without any dire consequences, if they stated them without actually saying they are "conservative republicans".

Liberals would think that some of those positions, or even most of them, are wrong, but they would think they are, as O'Rourke would say, wrong within normal parameters.

Heck, some of the major ideas from those classic "conservative republicans" could probably even build up some strong liberal support today. Conservative republicans are behind one of the best proposals for addressing climate change, for example [1].

But those kind of "conservative republicans" aren't openly welcome in the Republican party any more. They are still around, but they are keeping silent. What was once the right's conspiracy nut lunatic fringe has effectively taken over the party, or at least taken over the party's messaging. Those are the people that come to mind now if you label yourself "conservative republican" without further clarification.

[1] https://www.clcouncil.org/
It's not just planned obsolescence. Recall Cash for Clunkers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
Solutions to this that don't require US customs to act as Apple's personal vetting service:

1. Manufacture, or at least assemble, in the US

2. Have better oversight over the factories in China
I'm sorry, but while you may be a photography fan, you don't know what you're talking about here.

Stacking is quite the opposite of a "ghetto" version of a long exposure - it's the fundamental building block of being able to do the equivalent of a long exposure without its associated problems (motion blur from both camera and subject, high sensor noise if you turn up the gain, and over-saturating any bright spots).

Stacking is the de facto technique used for DSLR astrophotography for exactly these reasons -- see https://photographingspace.com/stacking-vs-single/

However, you're ignoring the _very substantial_ challenges of merging many exposures taken on a handheld camera. Image stabilization is great, but there's a lot of motion over, say, 1 second on a hand-held camera. Much more than the typical IS algorithm is designed to handle.

The techniques are non-trivial: http://graphics.stanford.edu/talks/seeinthedark-public-15sep...

There's a lot going on to accomplish this. It starts with the ability to do high-speed burst reads of raw data from the CCD (so that individual frames don't get motion blurred, and raw so you can process before you lose any fidelity by RGB conversion), and requires a lot of computational horsepower to perform alignment and do merging. I don't know what the Pixel's algorithms are, but merging of many images with hand-held camera motion benefits from state of the art results in applying CNNs to the problem, at least, from some of the results from Vladlen Koltun's group at Intel (who I'd put at the forefront of this, along with Marc Levoy's group at Google):

http://vladlen.info/publications/learning-see-dark/

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the technical meat behind state of the art low-light photography on cell phones.
I used to work at a startup which transitioned to lambda from ec2.

We rewrote our backend from rest php to graphql typescript.

I can tell you that it is amazing operationally. You push code to aws and it just runs.

A comparison with manually managed ec2:

- push code to lambda and lambda automatically handles the dns updates and VIP swaps. No need to worry about configuring multi region blue-green deployments and health checks.

- no chance of a server needing manual intervention because of an errored state - because you can't store state between requests (not entirely true, but true enough). But failing that you know that the container will die soon anyways.

- automatic scaling instantly. Our platform was b2b, so most of the traffic was 7-7. Instead of running load balancers and scaling the servers, we needed to do nothing. AWS starts and kills new instances to handle the load automatically.

- no need to worry about the server config. Only need to specify a node version and a CPU size. It's a godsend from a dev standpoint because ultimately you don't care about that. Why bother managing the OS config, drivers, installed software + libraries. Sure it me as you can't squeeze every cycle of perf out a box, but chances are you aren't in a position to need to.

- pay per call, not per second. We were serving hundreds of thousands of calls via lambda every month, and the bill came out just over a single digit. I've read articles about the crossover point cost wise but it takes some decent scale to get there.

Theres no rules about how you architect a lambda function, just rules about how long it runs for.

Like I said, we ran our entire graphql api via a single lambda function and it worked great.

Things get a little more complicated when you need to kick off background processes, but again that can be pretty simple if you want it to be.

We just pushed messages to an sns queue which triggered a different lambda off. Note though that all this code was in the same repo, sharing code within everything.

The tldr of this really is: imagine running a service was as simple as pushing code to aws. That is what lambda enables.
There is no need to stay away from MongoDB (well, not for licensing reasons anyhow). There is only a need to stay away from MongoDB(TM).

Because of its previous license, the code base can be forked as of immediately before the license change, and it can continue to be offered under the previous license.

I would recommend that anyone using MongoDB do that.
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> But how do you plan to prove that no explicit coercion took place?

How do you do that on regular dates? Do you record them? What’s the difference?

Proving is always difficult. You just have to take contextual evidence.

> Or is instead your plan to place a burden on the junior person to report?

Of course the burden of proof is on the accuser. The fact that two people are in a relationship is not a proof. But creepy comments about polyamorism is good evidence.

And yes, the superior is in a weaker position if accused of coercion. So the higher level partner should take a higher risk if the case is brought to court.
Multi-disciplinary studies would likely be mandatory for the initial colonists. “Field medic” training will ensure a sufficient number of colonists could deliver babies and manage cases which required non-specialty medicine. Much like it was during other periods of outward-expansion when your local grocer or saloon owner doubled as a medic (in some case probably the medic).
That's resource intensive. They might have, but it's also entirely possible they would have decided it wasn't worth it. Might as well first see if the author is kind enough to just hand over the source. At the very least, he should have made the code open source after giving it to the NSA so that there was a chance of zero days they discovered getting worked out.
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That stuff must be really super cheap, as the price difference between it and the alternatives is insane.

edit: internet searching about on this apparently shows that the price difference should not be that much??? Two different dentists want me to pay about $250+ more per tooth for non-amalgam fillings. Madness!
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Technically, you can only learn it through the TM organization. They have centers in most major cities around the world. They price the training differently in different markets. Honestly, the big advantage of learning it through them is that by paying them a non-trivial amount of money you put some "skin in the game". For most people, it encourages them to stick with it and derive that value back out through practice, when they might slack off with something they just learned about for free. It's the sunk cost fallacy put to good use.

That said, there are some teachers who have taken TM practice and taught it privately (even though you agree not to do that). These teachers usually adopt a different name for their practice and avoid mentioning TM directly. They may be a little cheaper, but still give you that "skin in the game" effect.

There are also some people who have "leaked" the practice for free online. I don't have any of those in front of me, but the ones I've read do describe the practice reasonably. Whether you can commit yourself to practicing without an instructor to confirm your effort and clear up any ambiguities is another matter.

And if you happen to be young, the David Lynch Foundation supports programs to teach it for free to children. I have no idea if there's access to it outside of the schools they've partnered with.

Ultimately though, TM worked for me, but there are plenty of meditation techniques out there and in vogue. If TM proves to be hard for you to learn the way you need to learn (cost, access, whatever), do look for other styles and options! Meditation is great!
I'm sorry, I don't understand. Which of the above generalises well from small datasets?
I smell an idea here for a recruiting business that specializes in providing aggressively average but trustworthy workers for wink wink nudge nudge "this definitely isn't actually a one-year contract" arrangements.
Seems pretty damn slow if it's only stacking multiple images.
What was the thought process behind the name Yuri? The first thing I think of when I see it (and I'm sure many think of) is the Japanese word.