skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For film negatives this scanner will get about 2300 dpi according to [0]. A DSLR with 24 megapixel will get the ~4000 dpi form a 35mm negative in a fraction of the time.

A 4x5" negative takes 33 minutes to scan with 2400 dpi. In this time I can make several photos and stitch them together do some spot removal and will get a better quality.

[0] https://www.filmscanner.info/EpsonPerfectionV700Photo.html
Could you please explain how I’m being tone deaf? As someone with a Queer child, I’m flummoxed.
Yes,it is, as it's about profit so always about cure, never prevention
I work on embedded Linux systems, which inspired me to write Darch with the same technology I was using for my embedded systems.

https://godarch.com/

https://pknopf.com/post/2018-11-09-give-ubuntu-darch-a-quick...
I think the point is that this was a very determined effort. If she had been as determined to achieve something in real life she would have made it surely and might now be happier and have more skills (and other forms of capital) that are useful in real life.
So why do the drug companies charge so much for the medicines then? I just finished watching the Valeant episode of Dirty Money and combined with this book, it all kind of makes no sense.
To anyone experienced and good at something, this is such an ingrained habit it's one of those obvious things we easily forget. Average musicians practice the song over and over, great musicians practice the hard part over and over.
Easily and securely send files from one computer to another
> I’m not sure where the idea comes from that a new type certificate or even simulator training would destroy the program.

A new type rating cannot use grandfather rights. There is plenty of stuff in this plane that is not permitted any more (like the door design over the wings). Those would be massive changes to the plane.
FAR 25.173 says nothing about electrical failure.

Indeed at the sizes of aircraft we’re taking about the pilot is just not going to be strong enough without hydraulic or electric assistance.
They decision is taken on the options I give them. If I give an option that is illegal or destructive that’d be my stupidity
I entirely disagree. The onus of proof is on you to explain how a highly idealized ANN has the same expressivity as a fly's wetware.

Just because neural networks are tech's Zeitgeist, doesn't make them the perfect explanation for all physical phenomena. Fifty years ago there were people equating thought and consciousness with artificial intelligence programs; and 200 years before it was the watchmaker's clockwork holding that regard.

Yes, as a man of science I subscribe to reductionism. Brains are made of neurons which are made of molecules which are made of atoms and so on, all governed by the laws of physics. But there's no reason to believe ANNs have the required intrinsic complexity to behave like ganglia.
If you like this check out https://github.com/Webstrates/Codestrates
just lacking some stars :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev9oPUNaqXE
From the headline of the article alone, it seems that part of the reason the world hasn't copied it is that it's labeled as "radical", when it really isn't (or shouldn't be) radical at all.
Well, the hope I have (and OP probably as well) is that machine learning techniques properly applied to the raw data could uncover a lot of statistical errors in the historical literature, which could be both profitable and disruptive.

... Unfortunately, this may happen first in countries with poor human rights records (i.e. China) because there is likely a greater availability of patient data under those circumstances.
Tinder is a tinderbox - - it cuts both ways. I once hired a young man in Texas whom was using Tender frequently for sexual encounters with women. One day he got a message on his phone with an image of a mexican girl he had slept with - - she was holding a pregnancy test strip in her hand and the message said: "You're the one !". Of course he had knowledge she was sleeping around with lot's of guys. He erased his tender account, or so he thought. Too soon to know if he will be summoned by the authorities for a blood DNA test, based on Tender being subpoenaed for server data.
take 3 months off and do a project that requires a new skill

this may be a personal observation (not sure it's industry-wide), but companies are averse to letting in-house people apply new skills on the job. They can even be averse to reading and experimentation during work time. Even when they're cool with it, the work day isn't structured for heads-down time.

Most managers have little patience for intentional 'try fail' cycles.

structured work is especially hostile to category jumping -- for example, I switched from high-speed finance to web, I picked up marketing & branding knowledge, from self-started projects. It would be hard to seriously try these at a job but they've paid dividends in my career.

there's a forgiveness / permission spectrum here but interrupting an ongoing job for 'mini grad school' has been the way that I keep fresh and make vertical jumps in my programming / tech management career.
Yes.

Specifically, because airlines wanted to save money on pilot training.
Maybe you just described why this data will not become available...
"The level of legitimacy and respect that doctors and hospitals currently have is far too high, and hinges on branding and the exclusivity of becoming a doctor. Once all of this data becomes available, it will be obvious how worthless and expensive most medical treatments really are."

I'm the spouse/partner of a recently-trained doctor, and I'm a programmer and startup founder with 2 decades of experience. With all respect, you have no friggen clue what you're talking about.
It's demonstrating how to find the line that passes through two points x=a, x=b on the function y=f(x).

Without having read the actual page, I assume he's going to move a and b close to eachother to approximate the tangent of the function at a point.

edit: In higher level math, you use circles/spheres or parabolas/paraboloids to approximate functions, but in high school level calculus you stick to using a straight line to approximate a function
I agree, but in this case I moved the interface in question to Thrift because it provides both documentation and compile-time safety for substantially less code than doing it manually with JSON. (There are also various ways to do some or all of it with JSON, such as JSON Schema and Swagger).
Kind of like CRDT (conflict free replicated data types for the biologists amongst us).
Happily. Old landfill sites are not built to modern standards and are thus liable to erode, with the potential to contaminate the surrounding areas with a range of interesting toxins. They can also collapse (if they contained a significant amount of biodegradable waste) which is unfortunate if your house is built on top of it.

A quick Google search gave me this link to some ongoing research conducted by Queen Mary College, London, into the risks surrounding historic landfills - https://www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/research/research-projects/histo... - that page does a far better job of explaining the situation than I can.
Yes! SO is one of my biggest learning resources. I'll go into a little more detail: the minute I want to learn something I start looking on SO for questions to answer. Yep, questions to answer. I can't answer any of them at the beginning, but I sort of try to brainstorm it a little and guess at an answer. And when someone else does answer, I learn a little. Eventually I can start to actually answer a question here and there. Sometimes I get it wrong and people correct me. And that's another learning experience. Repeat on a daily basis or even several times a day and it hugely increases my learning rate on any give tech topic.
Debatable. You’re projecting your own needs, interests, and worldview onto someone else.
So there's kdenlive, shotcut and now this (maybe more). I hope some of them would merge together so there'd be more ppl to maintain it and add functionality.
Some video editors seek to be the right tool for amateurs wanting to make simple edits.

What I take away from “professional” in this context is that it targets professional workflows and capabilities.
Absolutely second that
Freelancer was an amazing game, I loved both the single player and (modded) MP with role playing. Tried Eve Online but it's just a completely different genre.
There is nothing you can do to stop scraper bots. People will always find a way to scrape your content.
Well, that ain't gettin built save for a random political blessing by a young dynasty.

Something going the very fastest you can go makes a poor platform for close study of planets, and going very far away negates the great advantage of heliophysics: the sun is right there.

You could get all their motivational science, except maybe the exoplanet calibration, done with a slower more modest project.

Frankly, if your space experiment has resorted to invoking "inspiring humanity to fight the climate crisis", you can just as well drop the science pretense and fish for money from the astrology community.
>Cryocrastination. That’s a real term used in the cryonics world to describe the phenomenon of people—especially young people—saying, “Yeah duh I’m obviously doing cryonics when I die” and then not actually going through the actions to sign up and start paying money.

This is a reasonable strategy because the best purveyors of liquid nitrogen vats today might or might not be the best purveyors of liquid nitrogen vats in the future. In the future, more information about who has the comfiest vats of liquid nitrogen will be available.
I saw this at a the Google booth at trade show right around launch. There was a big panel with information and a 1/3 page take-away with the same information. I tried talking to people at the booth about it but they could only help with with AdWords and didn't know much about the other product apart that there was a flyer I could take.

Filed it away as "interesting if it actually gains momentum" and promptly forgot about it until a couple of months ago when a co-worker saw the same booth at another tradeshow and said we should look into it. Saw no further information online than what was at the booth, but made a ticket on Trello to try to contact someone.

Guess I can take that ticket off now.
That comparison is useless and misleading. It's still a fact that people don't want radioactive waste stored in their vicinity, and in democratic countries they can and will prevent such storage indefinitely. And who can really blame them? The stuff is undeniably lethal and scary.

There seems to be a majority of people who don't really trust a theoretical, probabilistic safety when the downside risk is this catastrophic. And on top of that, lots of "impossible" accidents have happened, further eroding public trust in theoretical safety.
At a high level, I agree. My take is that for things like broken bones, and other accute trauma, doctors are great. For everything else, especially anything chronic, and they are completely worthless.
We produce food for humans, pets, livestock.

Most of the livestock is not necessary, and 30% of all food will be wasted.

Paper is also responsible for topsoil loss. Much of the paper is used in advertising campaigns that receive little to no attention from consumers, or to communicate information that could be sent electronically. Some more is used in redundant forms of packaging.

We all have known how inefficient our processes are for a long time. But our expectation is that the environment should adapt to our needs and not the opposite. This belief is wrong, and will be proven wrong in the next decades.
>but there's a lot of machinery under the hood in its network layer

GRPC is designed to enable peer-to-peer communication in a microservices mesh, so it has hooks for a number of things like service discovery, authentication, health checking, retry policy, connection pooling, observability, etc. If you're just looking for a serialization format you might prefer Protobuf itself.
Both Linux live CDs and OpenWRT have done this for over a decade with union mounts.
I think the OP can’/don’t want to use cloud based accounts on some devices. Since the change, on iOS 1P can only create new vault when signed in with a paid 1P account.
What I've seen happen is that people find cognitive-dissonance coping strategies like you describe and just find solace in that.

They change their goals "I didn't want that anyway" "It wasn't my destiny to do that" "I'm much happier with this than if I had done that" etc...

At the end of the day you either realize your goal, or you change it. You can either pretend like it was the plan all along, admit defeat and try something new, or wallow in defeat.

Only one of those is sustainable.
Ross Perot Had the Last Laugh
Source on door over wings? The brand new design A220 (Bombardier C-Series) has an over wing exit. I just couldn’t find anything in a couple of quick searches banning it.

That’s just one example though and you’re likely right. The thing is though most of these systems have modern adaptations that could be applied. They just haven’t been because of the desire to keep it a 737. They’re things that can be changed/fixed whereas the aerodynamics of the design cannot be be changed easily.
I use Keepass[1] with the Kee[2] extension on Firefox and on Android I use Keepass2Android[3]. All 3 are free and opensource.

For synchronizing the kdbx file I use Dropbox.

[1]: https://keepass.info/
[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/keefox/
[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...
Actually, that's complete wrong and ignorant naturalistic fallacy.

There's anti-nutrients:

- raw spinach contains oxalate which can cause kidney stones and interferes with calcium absorption

- raw kidney beans contain chemicals which clump red blood cells together

- omega-6's and -9's aren't as good for you compared to -3's and -7's

- soybeans contain estrogen-like molecules

- hopefully not 5-HT2B or hERG ant/agonists

- whatever compounds we don't yet know about

There's anti-nutrients depends on your genes and gender:

- men shouldn't eat large quantities of chia seeds because of the increased risks of certain cancers

- certain vitamins decrease risks for certain diseases while increasing risks for others.

There are molecules which aren't found in nature that are generally superior:

- metformin - the only (so far) phase IV clinical trial as a "life extension" molecule that actually seems to work

Ideally, in the future, each person can have relatively neutral substrate plant ingredients genetically-modified to tailor an intentional diet to their age, gender, activity, genetics, epigenetics and microbiome.
Sorry I didn’t see it. A quick search for “1Password” didn’t reveal it as the previous post misspelled it.
Unicode filenames becomes a true bundle of joy when you're dealing with ideologically mixed systems like a unix client and unix server, but with samba in the middle. Boy oh boy do I love that.
> I've long believed that once startups and tech companies get their hands on medical data

Honestly I think the last people that are going to improve anything in medicine are startups and tech companies.

Quite the contrary. I know that quite a few people in evidence-based medicine are worried that Tech people who want to "disrupt" things come with their own poor scientific standards to undermine the minimum standards this field has (and has fought hard for to get).
There's definitely a correlation between believing in one fringe thing and believing in a lot of fringe things. I think there might be some kind of "willingness to accept your own conclusions" hyperparameter that we're all set with, some people accept way too many of their own conclusions and some people don't accept enough.
Same-sex marriage rights were obtained in several states via a vote in the legislature. And Americans overwhelmingly support the US Constitution and court system. So "the people" were involved in both of those paths.
You are wading into the complex web of how democracy works in the US. Denigrating the "elite" Supreme Court and ignoring all the other elites and distortions involved in any state legislation seems disingenuous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_m...
It's a deep, wide and sensitive subject. White coats give people extreme social powers. But they are far from perfect.
“Spending too much on medicine” isn’t like spending too much on clothes or nice houses. If the consumer goods you buy are crummy and don’t improve your life you can do without them, but we’re essentially unable to decide we can do without health. Demand for cures for our diseases is different than demand for other things, and that shows up both in the sorry economic structure of our (U.S.) health system, and here.

If we had more medical treatments that worked, and a lab-to-hospital pipeline with a better track record, I suspect better scientific standards would follow naturally. But for now, raising the standards of evidence would essentially block off the invention of new treatments altogether, which simply isn’t an option even on a psychological level.
This seems like the ideal balance and what I try to maintain as well. I like how you outlined 'maintain my personal maximum sustainable career growth', that's a good way to put it.

Generally related to this thread I got more into fashion once finishing school and having money come in. This comedy podcast served as an introduction to the world https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/barstool-sports/failing-upw...
the interesting thing is, quotes have always done this, now we can just see some related metrics.
The worst part is how it doesn't seem to affecr Linux- and Windows- only users.

Let me put it briefly. Much Linux software is multi platform and vice versa; this is how being the "underdog" (quotes cause servers) works. When you look at the transitive closure of the dependency graph, all sorts of case-insensative assumptions will pop up.

I'm on a shop where all developers run Linux on their laptops, but we work on tools and libraries that are supposed to run on macOS for all those other developers. Supporting them is a huge pain.

I like it when apple iOS-ifies macOS making development harder. Hopefully it brings people out of denial.
Show HN: Tennis Grand Slams Visualization
I created a simple little visualization to see the grand slams won over the years. Just to be able to visually see when and how many slams have been won by players.

https://tennisgrandslams.github.io/

(Click on a player to see their wins.)
It's called "localization" and it's done to make the book more accessible for people unfamiliar with foreign spellings and phrases.
Certainly there is value in "entertainment". But if that's all we do then it's like always eating ice-cream :-) Does entertainment bring lasting joy? Yes if it teaches you something valuable. A great book a great play. Maybe in the future we have "great games". But a point about a great book is you don't keep reading it over and over again. That brings diminishing returns. Game addiction benefits game merchants. Heroin addiction benefits heroin merchants.

Books? They benefit the author of the book but you don't get addicted to a book. You may learn something from it about joy and love and life and once you acquire that learning you have it you don't need to read the book again every day.
User has already paid. The feature they had been using was removed.
Would any of you refuse to fly in a 737 max once it returns? I think I’d have a hard time getting on one, rational or not. I’d probably want to wait a year or more to see how things go and then maybe I’d feel ok. This had made me nervous flying the Dreamliner as well. Hard to get over these fears.
>we need to raise the visibility and openness of dealing with drug addiction, to come out of the closet so to speak

Keep in mind you are talking about a social ailment to be corrected. It's tone deaf to LGBTQ community who has been considered a social ailment for a long time. If you avoid drawing analogies between mental/psychological illnesses and LGBTQ people, you will avoid coming off that way.
I use my wiki (https://philosopher.life) to help me reason about everything. Some things take a long time to discover or digest, and I like that I get to structure the path that I take.
Is soil erosion ever naturally reversed ?

It seems to me to be a one way downhill process ?
As a high school level teacher, I think it’s inevitable that there will be a system for shared, trustable assessment that merges the advantages of standardized testing with the flexibility of classroom instruction - but it certainly doesn’t exist now.
I found the best way to truly understand and enjoy calculus was to learn it as it was historically developed https://youtu.be/HRD9X-2Bmdw and then learning about the problems they ran into and how we ended up with modern Calculus after Euler and Lagrange tried to correct these problems https://youtu.be/fCZ8jJCVinU (these lectures cover Stillwell's book Mathematics and it's History)

Interesting in the second lecture is how Australia does 'photo radar' on one stretch of highway, where it records you going through a gate at one point, then many kilometers away records you again from another gate, then establishes your average velocity between the two gates using Calculus and sends you a ticket if your calculated average shows you must have exceeded the speed limit during some point between the gates.
I remember the guy two levels above me who was an intern when I was at my previous level. So he was promoted 6 times to my single promotion. I also remember being a manager and having somebody reporting to me but a decade later I was reporting to them.

There's always somebody better than you but there's always somebody better than the person that's better than you. Usually they're younger and smarter but whatever.

I guess in the end I have a job as there's only so many people super smart who are doing what they do. Eventually they need to hire low achievers like myself.
> All this hand wringing about costs and stock performance and grounded planes seems like chasing the wrong goal to me.

It would be great if we could apply this same logic to longer term issues that also threaten our safety, such as climate change.
https://twitter.com/billgates/status/1138520780042465280

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db328.htm#fig4
> I am sorry don't you have some kind of parallel law in your country

The fact that they're getting prosecuted for it indicates that the law exists, it was just extremely poorly/slowly enforced.
The proposal sounds technically interesting, but there seems to be growing skepticism of SLS even within NASA. Everyone from Blue Origin, Arianespace/ESA, China etc are working on reusable rockets while SLS is over budget, behind schedule and looks like it may be effectively obsolete before it's even launching payloads (much less by the time (2025?) NASA can actually procure new "RS-25E" engines rather than using its handful of shuttle leftovers)

The most exciting near-future space tech to me is SpaceX's goal to achieve in-orbit refueling with Starship. With their much cheaper reusable launches, you could plausibly put a Starship with payload in low orbit, launch 3-4 tankers to fully refuel it and then blast off to anywhere in or out of the solar system faster than anything now remotely conceivable. You could do a mission like this without the complex gravity assists.

SLS is a massive pork program and going to be hard to shut down, but as soon as "BFR"/New Glenn are operational I think it's time to start looking at getting NASA out of the rocket business and focused on cool space/science missions.
That's my experience with them as well. But, I've resisted looking at them even knowing that because I resisted calling myself a dummy. They are huge sellers, so I'm in the no minority with that opinion obviously.