skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, what you can get in a inexpensive body these days is pretty crazy. Sony has been pushing the envelope pretty hard the past few years and been putting out some truly amazing cameras for unbelievable prices. The A6000 at $800 was crazy at the time, and the A7iii last year at $2000 definitely surprised Nikon and Canon with their mirrorless they were developing.

A full frame sensor can easily cost $600-$1000 without even considering anything else, yet these cameras are in the $2000 range and include highly sophisticated stabilization systems and professional video features (e.g. 4:2:0/4:2:2 output). Those are typical to low margins for a technology product.

Regarding your complaints. Realize that higher end cameras are meant to be a professional tool. Thus they tend to favor conservative reliability and interface continuity over anything else. The camera app crashing like it might on your Android phone is unacceptable on a camera, so they run more reliable and specialized code. Though speaking of Android, Sony cameras do run a modified version of Android, the previous few generations of cameras had somewhat of an app store, and people even got hacked APKs running on the camera to add missing functionality.

I do agree that camera manufacturers are purposely leaving out software features though. Stuff like an intervalometer and focus stacking should be standard on every camera. Plus, as you mention, some vendors are hobbling features to try to get users to buy more expensive cameras (like a 1.7x crop for 4K video on Canon, because they really want you to buy a C200 @ $7500).

To expand a bit more on interfaces, there is an interesting argument for and against it. It is no surprise that the camera industry is shrinking, and that the people most likely to buy new cameras are going to be those that already own an interchangeable lens camera. Thus manufacturers don't want to upset their customers by changing their interface too much. Companies like Hasselblad that produce more specialized luxury cameras have come up with more modern interfaces for their recent cameras. While I would personally love to see Canon/Nikon/Sony step up here and create a proper, modern touch interface for these cameras, they won't anytime soon. In everyday use, most of the interface with a camera is with physical controls, at most your common interactions with the software is changing options that are part of a quick menu.
The 15 tables in the nvidia grid documentation kind of shows how much of a mess it is.

Different resolutions and maximum tenants depending on card and license type, and you can't allocate resources homogeneously.
This happened to me as well a few weeks ago. Same model MBP. Left speaker got blown out. Haven't had time to take it in to Apple yet (my right hand USB-C ports are also dead so I'm overdue anyway). Googling it, it seems we're not alone
It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004) [pdf]
The reason that drugs manufactured in India and sold in India and developing countries are so cheap is that India has compulsory licensing and very weak protection for analogues. The US puts up with it because it's a big market and it can't stand US-level prices anyway. But it's not Indian IP, and I don't think it's much of a stretch to call it "stolen," at least insofar as intellectual property can be stolen at all.
Massive Loss of Thousands of Hives Afflicts Orchard Growers and Beekeepers
The next possible conclusion can be that antibiotics cause schizophrenia.
Since jobs died all mac is suck.
In the Wettest Place on Earth, Locals Build Bridges from Tree Roots (2014)
Part of the problem is that it's hard to determine all the possible situations you could be in -- changing the time during a DST transition while using the Islamic calendar and so on. Formal methods are relatively inaccessible in general, but I wonder if you could make an easy-to-use verification tool specifically focused on date/time code.
From having managed several racks worth of equipment in two separate data centres 1-2 hours travel from my office at the time: I cost closer to that $200k/year, but I also only usually visited the data centres 2-3 times a year, and other than that we used "remote hands" at the colo to do maintenance and be on-call 24/7. On ~60+ servers, we had maybe on average one minor incident every couple of months that required physical intervention.

Between two data centres, lets assume I did 6 visits a year, and that we had one ~30/min incident a month at $50/incident (it was less, but I don't remember the exact details, and it doesn't matter for this exercise). Let's assume I lost a whole day every visit (I didn't, though it got close at times), and "charge" $1000/day for my visits. That adds up to $6k/year for my time, and $600/year for remote hands, or ~$110/year per server. For comparison the colocation cost us ~$17k/year, or ~$283/year per server. These costs were pretty stable by number of servers, and so favored using fewer, more powerful servers than we might have otherwise.

So that added the cost of renting space at a manned colo facility instead of having the servers in the office (we did have a rack of servers that didn't need 24/7 attention at our office as well).

The rest of my time was spent on devops work that in my experience tends to be more expensive (on the basis of having contracted to do this kind of work on AWS too, and know the difference in billable hours I'd typically get per instance on AWS vs. per physical server on colocated setups) on cloud setups because complexity tends to be higher.
OK I'll bite. Nothing about the article or YT video is innovative, some of it is laughable.

Algorand's consensus per the YT video you linked is
step 1. 1 user is randomly chosen to propagate a new block (can user make up a fake block? let's assume not)
step 2. 1000 users randomly selected vote on that block and if they agree, it's DONE.
(what if 1000 users are in the same country/company, etc. how do you prevent collusion on fake blocks)

This is hilarious. So the only thing you rely on for consensus is 1001 random 'users' input weighted by stake? What happens when your network is bombed with 1000tps and you need to contact 1001 staked users for every block? There are also vulnerabilities such as the recent "fake stake" bug that affect pure POS coins which I won't go into.

Now about the article referencing Vault. I believe NANO came up with this bootstrapping feature:

> Each user account only ever stores the balances of the accounts in its assigned shard

Yes they are replicating NANO's block lattice structure using "shards" with an insecure way of trusting any future chain that includes your old tx's but gives no guarantee on the state of any other account. As I understand it, I can be fed a fake chain while bootstrapping and accept phony funds as long as my balance shows up, right? ...Assuming this feature worked without any security holes, what's to stop other coins from implementing it? You don't need an entire cryptocurrency for it, it's just a feature and if it worked everyone would be using it. The sharding problem has not yet been solved and there are coins like Ethereum that are trying really hard to make it happen.

It's really sad to see this low-quality content come out of MIT. This looks like someone trying desperately to get a piece of the Crypto pie using MIT's reputation as a get rich quick scheme. Just for kicks I looked through reddit/r/cc and found only 5 dead posts mentioning Algorand with no comments on any of them. Their website makes all these claims about "pioneering a sortition algorithm" that looks "totally legit" if you ask me.
I agree that create-react-app is bloated and overkill, but that's also a lot of the value in it, or at least it has been for me.

When I used CRA for a project about a year ago, it spit out a gigantic README with everything anyone ever might want to know about JS development, it had a long webpack configuration that hot-loaded CSS and auto-reloaded the page on JS edits, it set up the app to use a service worker, and it used a ton of other technologies and libraries and tools that I didn't know existed. They've scaled it back quite a bit since then, but I think getting a feel for what's out there is really valuable, and even though it has way more than you need, it's nice to be able to easily try those things to learn what they are and confirm that you don't need them. Otherwise, you might end up with a community of people who don't know about ESLint because none of the tutorials thought it was critical to set up before getting started.

One mindset (not necessarily for beginners) is that when working on a serious project that will need non-trivial config, it's best to run create-react-app, eject, carve away all of the unnecessary stuff that you don't want, then take ownership over every aspect of the build system and tooling. That leaves you with a much more solid starting point than if you start totally from scratch and only add things as you need them.
> You have to install a BIOS update.

To be fair though even without S3 sleep it is easy to drop Linux power consumption on the X1C6 to ~2.5-3W with display off and no Linux user worth their salt is afraid of installing a BIOS update which literally adds a 'Linux' mode for sleep after which it's flawless.

The BIOS update even installs without needing Windows now a days - LVFS even.
Bookworm is available as a PPA for Ubuntu (16.04 upwards) and other Ubuntu based systems. Open Terminal and run the following comands for installation

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bookworm-team/bookworm

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install com.github.babluboy.bookworm

In case of issues related to missing libgranite package, add the Elementary PPA as shown below and re-try. The Elementary PPA can be removed after Bookworm is installed.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/stable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install com.github.babluboy.bookworm
I wanted to test a minimum argument list in srt function. Otherwise you need to give slice and wait group as function params
Bank of Dhofar Successfully Adopts Ripple’s XRapid Platform
Watched some videos. Ivory soap was interesting. Steel wool was predictable, but cool.
Magisk Nougat – What Is This New Magisk Nougat?
I fear the incoming online information war between everyone and anti-antibioxxers.
> and if there isn’t something else for them to do

This translates directly and unambiguously to: if the needs and wants of the populace have been met in their entirety such that there is no productive purpose to which those surplus resources can be applied.

Also, you are using the term 'deadweight' incorrectly.
> I can memorize 20 words and cross whatever border I want with $100 million in my brain, and full confidence that that money is mine. That's pretty damn cool.

Technically the brain is just another layer of encryption to the data. And that level of encryption can often be solved by the purchase of a $5 wrench.
Uber and others seem to be having success with GPU accelerated big data workloads but it’s hard to see how this would work in a cloud environment. Nvidia price descrimination works for ML/rendering tasks that almost mandate GPUs but it would significantly reduce the value for generic workloads
Honda Plans to Leave Britain as Brexit Draws Close
Today's AI's Are Dangerously Lacking in Artificial Understanding
Even if you have worked with that framework before, odds are six months have passed since then and the framework has changed 50% of its best practices. Using a tool like this also avoids stale documentation/tutorials.
ugh I need to install that update. My X1 doesn’t even sleep right in Windows
It actually points to a possible solution: If you get your IBS under control, your anxiety may improve.

You might look up the term somatopsychic (assuming you don't already know it) and start thinking of mental health issues as probably at least partly rooted in physical health issues.
They don't test for creativity (though seeing a correlation between IQ and creativity would be interesting) but they almost certainly test the ability to deal with abstractions. That's pretty much what an I test is! What reason do you have for thinking otherwise?
I have no idea if there's a perceived difference in how I'm saying things, but I definitely notice that the unpopular opinions I hold get downvoted to invisibility.
If a single server requires anywhere close to that in sysadmin time per year, it is broken or the sysadmin in question is incompetent, or we're talking a supercomputer of much greater complexity than this thing.

To me it seems like a very conservative estimate, or allowing for said sysadmin to provide a lot of valueadd services (e.g. devops type services) that you'll typically need for a cloud setup as well.
I guess it's like the chickens: large and without flavor. Perhaps most people in the US have never experienced ordinary food?
Very nice design and best thing, it's not an Electron app. I will definitely try this reader.
Codecrumbs – A New Way of Learning and Documenting Source Code
What in the world... that's awesome.

I know what I'm doing tomorrow with our old microwave.
Anti-antibioxxers? Have you been reading quackwatch on the wayback machine again?
Mandatory Christmas Easter Egg in UI Library
Not sure why this getting downvoted.

Had my MBA for 6 years and worked perfectly the whole time, just needed to install a new battery after 4 years but that was a personal preference.

I've had my MBP w/o touch bar for 13 months and I seriously regret spending $2300 on it.

- The keyboard is continually sticking, the left Command key is now completely separated from the keyboard and falls out all the time. I make so many typos now compared to the MBA and people also complain about how loud the keyboard is when Im typing.
- The battery life barely lasts more than 2 hours while the MBA lasted 5 hours for exactly the same use case.
- If someone trips over the power cable then the whole laptop moves, on the MBA the magsafe just disconnected and no harm done.
- Having to use adaptors for USB devices is now getting really tedious.

Im at the point where I doubt my next laptop will be a Mac unless they do some serious adjustments to these ridiculous keyboards. I just want the old keyboard back.
Well there is no sleep in Windows - it's connected standby - which puts everything in low power mode but running. I ran W10 on it few months but don't recall having issues with conn stdby. Yeah definitely update to the latest BIOS though - 1803 issues maybe sorted by the update.
"Ever since I learned that, it's never been that 'wowzers' for me."

I am not sure I follow. For people who want to, there is a section where they can find answers even if they have not solved the problems. What was 'wowzers' about HackerRank before you learned that?
If you like HN but prefer less information and on an hour delay, this may be for you!
Ask HN: Is a Great Marketer Worth at Least 10 Great Developers?
I have 30 machines running at 100% load for an hour, then 25% load for an hour, the pattern repeats. Every quarter they run 100% for about a week.

Every 6 months or so a hard drive fails (out of 16 per server), no other components have failed. 10 machines are 6 years old (test system as it's out of warranty), 10 3 years old, 10 new.

There's also 20 or so other servers under different loads, I've not had anything fail other than hard drives.

When I started the job, there were spare power supplies for some 10+ year old servers in storage, so I'm either lucky or reliability is improving.
i love elementary OS. but gahd Calibre is just ugly and for some (probably noob) reason, can't get it to work on my machine. i'll try this one out.
The article tries its best to sensationalize the fact that Apple, gasp of all people, has a bug it its stuff. The reality is that all software and all devices have bugs. I would prefer a more journalistically honest, non-sensationalist approach to writing. Tell me what the bug is. Tell me what it affects. Tell me how to fix it. Done.
You might not even need magic lantern for that. I have a 77d and it streams a live view to the Canon EOS utility over WiFi. Quality seems pretty good. I haven't looked into it myself, but I wouldn't be too surprised if someone has written software to stream from it in this mode.
I read an answer on Quora by Venkatesh Rao and he says it there: https://www.quora.com/Some-startups-never-get-the-publicity-...
Seems at least some inaccuracy:
Rust has been out for 3 years

Rust was originally released in 2010.

Anybody spot any others?
Actually the savings on this server looks to me to be low compared to what I'd usually expect.

You should use AWS for convenience, not cost. They're expensive for cloud services, and even the cheapest cloud providers are expensive compared to renting dedicated for all but the most transient workloads, and of dedicated hosting providers I only know Hetzner to get close to the costs I could get for renting colo space or doing truly on-prem hosting. Even then the only reason Hetzner is competitive is because I'm in London where space/power is expensive, and they're in Germany, where it is cheap (e.g. they rent out colo space as well, and prices are at 1/3 to 1/4 of what I've paid in London).
There's also a roll your own version if you have a domain

https://jerrington.me/posts/2019-01-29-self-hosted-ngrok.htm...
This is one of the sweetest comments I've ever read on hacker news
Borderline is rough. I feel for you!
use an Appimage for Calibre.
Yes, I know a quant firm using it in the market.
How to Get Pregnant After 40 Fast?
I wasn't able to find the $ or cost words in that article. Does anyone have an idea of how much would this cost realistically? I am assuming at least 6 figures.

Also, assuming I was able to find the money, would this train a person 100% for a real flight?
Cool! Glad the page helped! On the implementation page the code supports both y-up and y-down, as well as negative coordinates. One of these days I should update the diagrams on the main page to support this too.
Adult Life Skills 2019 Official Trailer
Pardon me; I was thrown off by wording like "overwrite or mutate".
... unless the use case is weird, e.g. you need massive amounts of processing power infrequently.
1 - Attempts to side-step the law (however misguided the law is)
-> Most are attempting to side-step credit card service fees while remaining open to transact across the world in real-time. Most popular CC's fail at the real-time part and cause unnecessary resource usage, but hopefully that will change. Actually, most CC's fail at trying to side-step the law given all transactions and account balances are public for most coins. You could say tax-avoiders prefer money they can hide through sketchy banks or cash rather than CC.

2 - Trivial to do using a typical centralized database (e.g. Federal Reserve or VISA)
-> Bitcoin, Ethereum and others can do Smart Contracts which means delayed sending, multi-sender transactions that serve as escrow and in the case of Ethereum programmable using it's own language to do any number of actions/apps. The important feature is that this is handled by the network using your own transaction, you don't have to set up the escrow through a company like VISA, Paypal, etc.

3- Tantamount to waiting for a greater fool to buy out the current players
-> This is true of all CC because it's an open, yet small market. The earlier you get in, the better your outcome. However, it's not like CC's NEED to explode in price to be useful, competitive or solve a real-world problem. Getting rich is a secondary effect of having a functional CC reach adoption. Look at MemeCoins like Doge and Banano to see adoption is easier when everyone abandons the idea of getting rich off a coin.
Good old Personal Home Page...
Mithril Capital Promised to Be the “Capstone” to Peter Thiel’s Investment Empire
Wow, awesome to hear it!
This is why I use TempleOS. Graphics inline in my Holy C.
TLDR:
devops not in ('IT', 'SRE', 'IT Ops')
You're not wrong, and for the amount of effort put into this presentation, I'm surprised at this oversight. But if you can think of this image as a schematic, it's not a huge problem.
Thanks! I've found that my best pages are topics from real projects I've worked on, and I haven't worked on many game AI systems. I might have pointers to papers or web sites for you; feel free to email me at redblobgames@gmail.com
Bovonto and "paNeer soda" are two of my favorite drinks one finds in Tamil Nadu and hardly anywhere else! (both are Kali mark products)

On a college trip to Rameswaram (southern Tamil Nadu) to watch the 2009 total solar eclipse, I got a whole bunch of friends (~20 people) to try out Bovonto, and boy, were they hooked! It's a pity that we couldn't find any once we left the region.
The extension isn't just a Javascript overlay, it actually modifies the document in real-time while storing a full understanding of the document structure behind the scene, in the document itself (thanks to the Google Docs API). So other users would see "=name is out!" if this is what you've chosen to show on your own interface, or "MySoft 1.0 beta is out!" otherwise. If they have installed the extension, they would be able to access the document structure information, see placeholders and change variables as they like.
Repeatedly iterating over a sequence items is in fact "anti-recent". Round-robin cycling is probably the simplest possible algorithm for accessing a set of items such that, at any time, the item that is accessed next is the one that was least recently visited. Proof: since that item was last visited, every other item in the set was visited.
My 2016 did that while booting. Now my left channel only produces distorted sounds. Luckily it’s still under AppleCare.
Thanks for the feedback,
Yup, I'm available for freelance drop me a mail at hii.vasani@gmail.com
Thanks! I'm keeping a list of ideas here: https://trello.com/b/mjOSMtsi/2019 but I'm not working on much at the moment. I needed a break after mapgen4 (2017-2018).
I think AWS consultants tell the same. I had a training session from Amazon guy arranged by employer. He said that AWS is not going to save us lot of money. But it's value is to enable us move quickly and experiment. Even the managers of my company were aware of that.
Thanks Man!!
Does it support an easy way of accessing notes and highlights?
It’s misguided and incentive. Gut diseases aren’t cured by yogurt.
My Learnings in Building Strong Teams
I am surprised B-trees were not the first data structure in that discussion, as they are "famous" for being used in DBs.

Although these days one should talk about "learned index structures" instead, I guess :)
Ask HN: Why Aren't Political Views/Affiliations a Protected Class?
Thank you for raising this usability issue! Definitely noting that for the next round of updates
Building the cockpit is fun, but you only have room for two. The next logical step is to buy interior panels and windows from a mothballed 737 (you can find them on eBay). I have been building out both the cockpit and front cabin (and passengers have a view out their windows). For my project I am putting more effort into the cabin, since it is for entertaining friends as much as it is a flight sim.
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau4586.full

Funny enough the headline the media took from this study was that older people shared fake news more...you probably saw that part everywhere. What they didn't share is that the study says it is actually pretty rare in every age group.
Census: More Americans Have College Degrees Than Ever Before (2017)
Rather than the reverse? Yes.
Even if well-intended, I think it's condescending.
That is why Create-React-App has an exit option. This results in a configured WebPack app that can be customized by hand but no longer can be re-configured with c-r-a. I learned a lot about WebPack and other dev tool configs by exiting from c-r-a to see what it produced since I hadn't used WebPack prior to react.
Thanks man, I appreciate your feedback!