skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But it captures the light coming in. So far we called any post-processing which changes that reality either a filter/effect or a bug."

No, even analog photography, choices in developing certainly effect how the "light coming in" turns into a picture. As well as the particular camera used, and it's settings (aperture, ISO, shutter speed), and the film chosen.

The choices the digital photography system makes are no less choices with effects on the "captured light" than the ones made after you get bits out of the camera. They're just choices made by the engineers who designed the digital camera. There is no single 'true' way to "capture light".

> When a photographer chooses a particular brand or type of film, he’s already deciding what kind of reality he wants to show. Different types of film show reality and colors differently. Photographers pick film based on what they want the result to look like. Film photography never ever showed reality, not even close.

https://www.theworldaheadofus.com/blog/photography-does-not-...

> But despite the presumption of veracity that gives all photographs authority, interest, seductiveness, the work that photographers do is no generic exception to the usually shady commerce between art and truth. Even when photographers are most concerned with mirroring reality, they are still haunted by tacit imperatives of taste and conscience… Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are. Those occasions when the taking of photographs is relatively undiscriminating, promiscuous, or self-effacing do not lessen the didacticism of the whole enterprise. This very passivity -- and ubiquity -- of the photographic record is photography's "message," its aggression.

http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/books/onPhotographyEx...

But I don't actually disagree that there is something new going on lately with new kinds of digital processing. I don't think it's "all the same" exactly, we definitely have new techniques of altering and manipulating photos that give us SO MUCH more power than we had before, that I think it's reasonable to say it's a new thing.

But the original photographs never "captured reality" without intervention or manipulation. A photo is necessarily an intervention and a manipulation, in a variety of different ways. A photo never truly "captured reality" in an objective sense, it always depended on the photographer's choices, and the details of the technology used, in ways that mattered for what was perceived in the photo. But yeah, we have whole new orders of magnitude of it available, I'd agree.
It’s right in the first lines of the article.

“In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s best-selling “Hillbilly Elegy.” Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay (which involves Granny, her .38 pistol, and some coal trucks) excerpted from the book.”

Part of the point of the article (which was very good) was that there is not singular truth about a place a vast and varied as Appalachia. This new book seems to be much more than a commentary on Hillbilly Elegy.
I tried that once with 2 friends, I asked them to think of a number between 1 and 10 and I then asked if it was 7 and they both were amazed :).
There is certainly something about reality that cameras reflect, namely, that looking at the images they produce results in an approximation of seeing what one would see if one’s eye was where the camera was.

I suppose that goes without saying, seeing as that is sorta what cameras are (well.. many cameras. The central examples of cameras. IR cameras don’t quite have this property, but you know what I mean.), but sometimes it is “necessary to state tautologies” (though this isn’t a tautology exactly).

A linear representation of a group needn’t distinguish between every pair of group elements for me to say that it “captures” some aspect of the group.
Trump orders tanks for Independence Day parade
Yes, they blacklisted all exit nodes...

https://old.reddit.com does not block Tor users (yet).
> I literally cannot imagine supporting monopolies/oligopolies over healthy competition.

Implicit in my post was that I don't want to support healthy competition in adtech, or any competition at all. I want this industry to disappear entirely. I have no tears for the small adtech businesses whose market got scooped up by Google; I only hope that by presenting a bigger target, Google's adtech activities will be easier to regulate.
I've seen plenty of copyright infringing content with videogame music. There's albums of songs claiming to be covers of games like Megaman X, but are actually direct rips of the soundtrack.
Are there regular studies examining broader public opinion on this? I have to assume that at some point it is going to shift, and suddenly scaling back (or privatizing) airport screening will be a no-brainer.
If it is possible to generate music with machine learning, it should be possible to decompose a track for comparison with others, melody, arrangement etc.

The dynamics of this would be interesting, when uploading you will be told that your track is infringing, it is too similar to the following tracks by x, y and z :)
OP wrote "If any of the presumed authors wants to chime in and explain the similitudes, I’m happy to change my mind".

Since you're from the team, could you provide some example explanations? Technical arguments are surely significant, rather than a purely rhetoric answer.
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Ask HN: OAuth 2.0 UI/UX Resources?
Howdy all,

I'm a part of the Green Button Alliance, the non-profit standards body around sharing energy data, and the customer consent process is based on OAuth 2.0 (e.g. granting access to your smart meter data in order to have an energy audit done).

However, most utilities we work with are unfamiliar with OAuth 2.0, so we often have to explain how it works and what the best practices are. There are plenty of resources we can point them to for the actual protocol handshake, but I haven't been able to find any resources around best practices for designing the user interface and experience of OAuth. Unfortunately, in the energy industry, UI/UX design isn't our strong suit, so it would be very helpful if we had design lessons-learned from other industries to use as a reference.

Does anyone here know of any resources, blog posts, examples, etc. for making good OAuth 2.0 UI/UX?

Thanks!
No, he did not. Mark Russinovich also started to work on Microsoft only recently.
This comment brings zero new points to the discussion, and just reiterates the point that parent was responding to. It’s not very constructive or substantial in my opinion, so I downvoted it.
I was not aware they have speech transcription co-processors now. That would certainly be a game changer.

Back when I used to help the FBI monitor cell phones, they were very slow processors and the user could tell when it was sending anything due to the heat. Best we could do was play with MWI on/off to get cell locations and use the mainframe (cell switch) to do audio monitoring, but that was very limited at the time.
Version 12 of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language on the New Raspberry Pi 4
Why is this?

Intuition pump for the curious: why doesn't Melania Knauss work as a programmer?
Definitely something to consider, but unless you're running some old big iron hardware, 300 watts would be a very high average for a mostly idle server.

I have a nearly 10 year old HP Microserver with 4 SATA disks and the average usage is less than 50 watts.
> I'll ask you for a random number once per second and after a few answers I don't need to ask any more to know your answer.

You know that we aren't computers right? We don't need any fancy software to detect that kind of attack.
"Unfortunately, one of these rules contained a regular expression that caused CPU to spike to 100% on our machines worldwide. This 100% CPU spike caused the 502 errors that our customers saw."

So, it was a dirty REGEX. I can't even be mad.
... where is that an unpopular opinion? Really crusty enterprise?
I just looked on those services for a few CD's I recently bought and Qobuz is the only one that had them. The price for a download from them is more than the price to get Amazon to deliver the physical discs to my door. For now, that doesn't make any sense to me especially since I actually want the physical media. It's what I listen to as I work. If I only wanted the files, then I would be on board.
Is it comically cheap if you don't consider inflation?

Because while air travel has undoubtedly gotten less comfortable, in most (if not all?) cases it's also gotten cheaper. With every passing decade air travel because accessible to broader and broader swaths of the economic pyramid. Now it's at the point where the cost of the taxi to a London airport can cost more than the airfare of whatever budget airline flight I'd be on.

I am [not really] too young to have flown on the Concorde, but a Googling of "Concorde flight cost" suggested between $6000 and $12000 round trip for NYC-LON flights. That doesn't strike me as cheap.
I just realized that I own a pickup, have a white picket fence around my suburban home, and enjoy picnics.

To be fair, though, my pickup is a 1946 Dodge.
Grinch pugs make me happy you not so much shirt
One of my favorite recent projects I've done was making a full wpa2 wifi access point with firewall out of a Raspberry Pi 3B. (Yes, I know the limitations of hardware. This was a "hold my beer" project.). If your old PC isn't too old and has virtualization instructions, you have a lot of fun with KVM for VMs and iSCSI for a SAN.
I understand why this feels creepy in our tech bubble, but I think it's worth noting how popular apps like FaceTune have become the past few years [0] [1].

I'm certainly not defending this trend and I think it's incredibly unhealthy — especially for the average teenager who's already naturally self-conscious about their appearances. But a minor eye correction will be peanuts in the eyes of this crowd (no pun intended) compared to the amount of processing that most of their Instagram and Snapchat photos go through before being uploaded.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/09/facetune-photo...

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/photo-retouching-apps-affe...
A somewhat nicer transcript here: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

plus a bunch more Rich Hickey talk transcripts in the same repository, with links to videos if you prefer, in that same Github repo.
At that time, it was more like the 75mhz range.
I think this fails the “would a reasonable judge see through it” test.
Sure, after what, twenty years of it being the default?
Well, doesn’t whether that is reasonable depend on how slippery the slope is?
This is a very confusing comment. You seem to disagree with the premise of the article, but then go on to agree with it, but also make a bizarre statement about the impossibility of governments being able to track you?
Strange but mine doesn't scroll UNLESS I move the mouse. I wonder if this is because I have the "Adjust for best performance" option set?
Juice-Jacking: Trading Your Data for Power?
A good chuck of smaller banks still use AS400s
Why can't it? Fixed width tabs, sure, but tab stops would work fine.

It is more work in the editor, so I don't expect it anytime soon. Especially not with consistency. But it is doable.
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It isn’t the geographic center of Appalachia either. Pittsburgh, 90mi north, is as much a part of Appalachia as Atlanta, almost 600 mi south.

I get it. The author uses “heart of” as an expression, like I use “literally” in a figurative sense.

But, it also gives me a sense that it betrays the authors almost complete ignorance of Appalachia; which the article purports to explain :S
I like to leave spare machines running chess engines to analyze openings etc. You could also leave it churning for days on end on various Kaggle competitions (especially if it had a relevant GPU). Could also get the thing scraping interesting datasets at a slow and respectful pace.
I'd love to see what your basis for your first point is. Misogyny is hardly unproven, and unconscious bias has also been shown through various studies. Sexism is sadly still common in many areas.

I think there's mostly an economic need for more people in STEM positions, and with women being underrepresented, that's an obvious place to look for more talent. And there are countries that do have more women in STEM or other scientific positions. So for countries that don't, figuring out what's stopping those women is a valid concern.
>I believe in well regulated capitalism

Then you really should avoid crying wolf for what's effectively pure speculation in this case. I also fail to see what "capture" you have here, people are still able to upload their track to Spotify, they'll just have to go through a 3rd party that will have to screen copyright infringement and make sure the metadata is in order. Meanwhile Spotify is free to focus on the big fish which is probably what they really care about. So who is capturing what in this scenario?

Regarding Youtube it's already effectively a quasi-monopoly, not because of regulation but because operating a free video streaming service at this scale requires insanely deep pockets. The only others that manage to stay afloat are mainly those who offer content that can't be hosted on Youtube (dailymotion, liveleaks, porn sites etc...).
when*

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FTFY
I'm not sure how much time I'm willing to spend scrolling through and screencapping this stuff, but what you're saying doesn't match what I see at all. I also have all the quality filters off and often click the "show more" filter, though, and I seldom block people (and don't use any blocklists).
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Could this replace a simple fluentd setup right now or are there still major functionalities missing?

Specifically, I'm ingesting nginx logs in JSON format, cleaning up invalid UTF8 bytes (usually sent in the forwarded-for header to exploit security vulnerabilities), and sending to elasticsearch on an automated 90 day retention policy (daily indexes).

Seems like a fairly common use case for webservers.
I have a freenas NAS at home. I mostly use it so that I can have one home directory (via nfs) on multiple computers. (Firefox sucks when doing this - if anyone works for mozilla - help). I want to extend this to open LDAP so that I can use one login to all computers (not so much for me, but the family).

I have cups installed so that my printer needs only be setup once to work for all my machines. I'm thinking about putting my scanner on it as well (ideally I'd figure out how to use the buttons on the scanner making a copier), but since I never use my scanner this isn't really likely.

As a file server this is the obvious place to put all your shared media, then use kodi https://kodi.tv/ or volumio https://volumio.org/ or some other media center to share your media to all rooms. Setting this up is next on my list of projects, but so far I haven't got it working. Actually I had it working at my last house, but it was too hard to use so we didn't - let this serve as a lesion: make sure not only that it works, but that it is convenient to use.

Using it as a central hub for your home automation is an idea. I've resisted so far because https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-a... makes a good point: I can't come up with a use for home automation that isn't worse than what I have without it.

My fundamental idea is I have one powerful, reliable, always-on machine. Anything that I want to run all the time should be on it. My other computers are only turned on when I want to do something on them.
Alternative take: you were going to grow up to be resilient, or believing yourself to be regardless. Those who weren't going to may be affected more deeply, or for much longer.
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Knowledge Management Systems you'll want to copy
But changing some aspect would change the hash value
Get off my lawn!

But what newbies will bever know the heck of: dip switch settings for IRQ for modems.

Thats what literally got me into computers...

In order to dial up BBSs and play tthe Pit and dl warez.

—-

Ive told this story before, but in about 1992? Or so - i got grounded for a month because i had been calling in long distance to a bbs in san jose to play the pit - and racked up a long distance bill of $926 - my dad was livid.

He yelled at me and said “why are you wasting all this time with computers! Its never going to do anything for you!”

Years later after i became successful with yee olde computerz! He apologized to me and said “im sorry i yelled at you for that time you cost me all that money in long distance charges.”
The Quantum Theory That Peels Away the Mystery of Measurement
“... or a church” +1
Reminds me back in the day using a file sharing/community program called Caraccho (for Mac) - similar to Hotline. Often people would queue up on someone's server (running of their desktop computer) to download a file since the server admin could set how many concurrent downloads from all users were allowed. Folks would send messages to people saying that if they hit Command-Q it makes the client run in "quick mode" which will speed up their download. Of course some folks would fall for this and you'd see their name drop off the server, moving everyone up 1 spot in the queue. Super effective for users that had not setup an avatar indicating they were new to the system and would fall for anything once.
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So it's legal to write something like...

panic(panic())

or

a := try(try(f()))

...?
Privacy _is_ a binary thing, either something is private or it is not.

There is of course a difference between _everything_ and _nothing_ being private, but once _something_ ceases being private it ceases being private forever.

If you let some company, which will do who-knows-what, record voice in your house, you no longer can have a private conversation in your house, since the company will record them, possibly listen to them, and ultimately probably leak them. You completely lost that part of privacy, without for example losing privacy regarding visuals.

>What's key is they should be able to prescribe the limits as the poster above has described. We should be able to severely punish companies that lie about their behaviors, because that would make it impossible to make informed trade-offs about how much privacy we are truly giving up.

I do agree there need to be more regulations around this (yay GDPR), although even if you kill the company dead, you cannot un-ring a bell.
Spotify has internal fingerprinting stuff that can handle this easily enough. The shutdown is entirely due to pressure from the record labels. It's a shame; this was a surprisingly difficult product to get off the ground, and a lot of folks put in heroic efforts to make it work.
I think that in the end having so few humans on the planet would not be able to sustain our current economic model where companies want as many consumers as possible to maximize their profits.

Eventually with automation many menials jobs could be replaced and have been replaced slowly over the past century or so. I think with the advent of A.I. systems many tasks will be automated freeing up humans to be the maintainers of such systems and we eventually would not need as many humans to produce for the needs of everyone.

This allows a world population of 1,2,3 billion to be able to maintain/produce enough to sustain everyone efficiently though automated systems.

Getting to that population would take many generations of educating people that aren't privileged in the 1st world to learn to cull their habits. This needs to be done willingly and not forcefully otherwise you just have a genocide similar to another person who wanted one perfect society....

This could be done through incentives where if a country shows it is lowering the overall impact of it's population and is consolidating itself to be better for all, to be rewarded with economic incentives, better trade deals and other means.

Countries who fail to reduce themselves would be missing out and even if the elected leaders would prefer it that way eventually the citizenry would ideally get itself a leader who would represent the interest of the population.

Sadly, representation doesn't happen in many places on this planet and trying to do this peacefully without war/violence against those who refuse would be the hardest challenge. Other countries may need to 'wait' them out for a generation or two. Refusing to trade/help them and let them self destruct with over consumption until their population is small enough that they are willing to rebuild.

However, when it comes to getting everyone on the planet to work in step with each other for the benefit of all and not a self-serving interest.....good luck.

Just my 2 cents on this 'taboo topic'
No it doesn't, Spotify provides line-level accounting for every stream to the rightsholders. What they then do to account to artists could be anything.
I think we read the same book. I don’t really think of Middletown as a Rust Belt city. It’s a town of 50,000 people. I am talking about big cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland and smaller ones like Youngstown and Erie.

As someone who lives in one of those cities, it seemed like a clear correlation could have been made. It was chance to unite a rural and an urban problem across race and I thought it was a missed opportunity. I still enjoyed the book, but think it is even more powerful when read in tandem with a book like Evicted [1] that views the problem from another perspective.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Evicted-Poverty-Profit-American-City/...