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I discovered that compressed air works great for cleaning my car interior. Have to be careful to hold your breath, though, don't want to breath in the gunk.
And yet seemingly up until recently people were completely unaware of the Epsteins.
> You might not trust auto, but don't you trust the previous manual setting even less? It could have been under completely different lighting conditions.

Usually it'll be in similar lighting conditions because I shoot with my camera pretty continuously.

> Suppose you are up in a high desert. At night, you take pictures of blossoms by starlight. The next day at noon, you spot an interesting and rare bird of prey quickly flying by while holding an interesting prey item. Quickly you flip the camera on and take a photo. Oh bummer, the camera was still configured for starlight, and you'll probably never have another opportunity for a similar photo. All pixels are white.

This is unlikely to happen because I tend to shoot with my camera continuously. I'd have taken a photo of an interesting cactus long before I saw the bird.

That said, assuming I already had a super telephoto lens attached to the camera (which is the bigger problem, if I was shooting blossoms I probably wouldn't have the right lens attached), it'd take me less than a second to move the relevant dials on the Fuji to something acceptable. On the Sony that's not possible but that's just a sacrifice I make by shooting Sony.

And in this situation, I'd expect the auto settings to do something stupid like expose for the sky instead of the bird. For example the camera might choose low ISO, wide aperture, relatively slow shutter speed while I'd want max shutter speed, moderate ISO and whatever aperture works with the other two.

> Why can't you lock the aperture in place?

The lenses just don't come with a locking mechanism for the aperture wheel. It has some little clicks but that's it.

> Why do you need to lock something in place if there is a separate dial position for auto? (if not auto, isn't it locked?)

The lock is a physical mechanism to stop the dial from turning accidentally while in your bag or something like that. Otherwise even if you put it in auto when you put it away, a bit of jostling in its bag can turn the dial to a different setting, which can be an issue when auto is usually between the extremes.
yes, in reality no-one cares about you and that might sting a bit. but it gives people a sense of importance when you tell them they’re spied upon.
I've found a bug:

"These writers got their start after age 35"

"crop of “Best 35 Writers Under 35,” "

What about the actual 35 year olds?
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To "be yourself" is not the same as "be blunt and ignore any basic social norms".
Unless your true self has no tact, no social interaction skills and only thing it truly wants is to lay with all the women in line of sight.
It is not a call to degrade ones all being to instinct/raw emotion level behaviour. Shape yourself as an individual by thinking, analyzing and making own decisions rather than copying everything that seems(!) popular, cool, intelectual.
This is a great thread idea, I hope it gets upvoted a ton and some interesting opportunities are available!
>Conversely, if sub-second resolution is somehow "a good", then by extension sub-millisecond price discovery is "even better". There are some insane people that state this kind of gibberish with a straight face.

if sub-second Internet latency is somehow "a good", then by extension sub-millisecond Internet latency is "even better". There are some insane people that state this kind of gibberish with a straight face.

If millisecond are good, then surely microseconds are even better! Next... nanosecond resolution Internet latency for the uuuuuultimate speed of information.

Surely this is crazy talk!
That doesn't seem like it would be actually faster or closer for NYC to HK/Shanghai, close but not a latency improvement at the speed of light? Well I guess if a direct line can be made itll shave off some milliseconds

Maybe less infrastructure required.
i can't imagine how i could be authentic without monitoring myself and making deliberate decisions about how i see myself and what i consider part of my authentic self.

for example, i deliberately don't cross roads on a red light, even if everyone else is doing it. that's something that i decided i want to be part of the person i want to be. but when i go with friends, i have to watch out not to betray that by just following them.
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I'd probably guess the "gap" of morals isn't that large between the middle class the GP is talking about compared to the low class.
Siri is already useless when comparing to Google Assistant. And they want to handicap themselves even more. Apple will lose AI fight to Google in the end. Some people probably will value privacy over convenience, but that's certainly not me or majority.
Nobody uses TeX by itself; this document is written with “plain TeX”, which is not just TeX, but a TeX package similar to LaTeX, though more presentational. I rarely see things written with plain TeX nowadays, or even with ConTeXt.
The basic issue is people do not want to pay for software if a 'good enough' free replacement is available. Hence Mozilla having to source money from whomever is willing to give them, and hence the race to the bottom. This has been particularly true in browser space. We usually pay for using programs of similar complexity like PS or AutoCAD etc., but we have always taken it for granted that browsers should be free and/or bundled. This works to the advantage of big players who can sink in the millions involved, which Mozilla is only alive today because of former momentum (user base). Forget about a browser startup or a community-maintained alternative. It has become too huge and complex an undertaking for anyone to bother as long as Chrome/Edge/Safari/Firefox will be available, no matter if they turn into user-hostile mess.
What are basic things to you?
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That response fails to distinguish between multi-member at large districts which are Real Bad^TM, and some form of ranked mechanism which are Real Good^TM. Multi-member ranked districts are both more representative and more competitive than our current system.
Firefox has a task manager now. They should improve on this to compete with Googles. Nobody wants to type a URL when they can hit an easy shortcut.
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I imagine that no one with any clout is petitioning for a more equal platform.
> I hope I don’t sound too judgemental, but every time I see a room full of people where most everyone is staring into their phone I question if they are really making best use of their time in the wonderful world that we live in.

There are a lot more use cases that demands phones instead of smart watches.
Sounds like measles.
I believe the `psort!` code that was shown in the blog post was a 'toy example', meant to demonstrate how to use different parallel techniques, one of them being the use of thread-local state.

There's probably going to be a lot of development of parallelized code going forward. Maybe you could help? :)
This was a big issue in India I remember but "cattles" instead of "human" bodies.
The same promises of money that their investors paid money to acquire, so it doesn’t seem right to just dismiss the equity value.
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Patient choices around information-sharing and access in the NHS: a proposal
You may be watching later at night. Low Earth orbit satellites are in the shadow if you watch later at night. As a child you probably only watched the sky shortly after sunset while satellites still catch the sun.
Dogs will usually develop serious behavioural problems if you regularly leave them alone for that long.
>Why people continue to allow this is beyond me.

If, in the end, the patient recovers, what a happy ending that would be! And we might learn how to better assist others in this condition.

The alternative is giving up forever on such cases. This is also partly why I lean "against" on euthanasia.
Those ignorant people are your users too, and you're still being a dick by selling them out, no matter how you try to rationalize around it.
Followed by Turing's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphoge...
This was an exhausting read because Rich Hickeys "Simple Made Easy" presentation from years ago transmitted a mind-virus to me where I have to stop and have an internal conflict every time I read simpl(e|ify) in a programming context.

It's notable how so many independent programming communities seem enamored with Simple being the goal, yet probably don't even agree on the definition of the term.
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Sections 317JC, 317RA and 317ZAA, which require that the decision makers consider the impact on unrelated people and section 317ZH which requires that a warrant is obtained for things that would usually require a warrant.
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If you follow the derivation of frequentist formulas, you'll find they always start from some kind of assumption, such as a uniform prior. You can't escape having a prior.

The only way to avoid having a prior is by pulling a formula from a textbook and applying it without looking at its derivation.
It's wildly misused if the reason that it exists is pay. Even the parent to my comment is talking about interview process; I doubt that varies much from any of the "FANG" companies vs. Microsoft, Uber, etc.
>People love to rail on HFT

probably because it's difficult to see any actual value that this provides to society.
This is like describing the aroma of a gardenia or the sound of your child singing to herself as she plays as “almost certainly useless”.
An insider feeling is a strong likelihood
Are people really using these assistants for anything more than making the device do something? Because in my experience Siri will set reminders, timers etc. just fine and will find the song you are listening just fine and will call someone just fine.

The other stuff feels like a gimmick to me or more like stuff that some middle-level manager spawned to get a nice bonus.

Using a voice assistant "AI" usually feels like trying to make a really stupid person do something for you. It will accomplish 90% of the thing that I am trying to do for %75 of the times and then it will completely miss the point. Okay, maybe with Google it is like %85 of the time but when it misses the point still misses the point completely.
January is also when the southern hemisphere is closest to the sun, the southern hemisphere has a lot more water which regulates things. Which hemisphere is in summer when we're close to the sun is one of the things that's driven natural climate change in the past and one of they ways we know the current warming is an unnatural aberration.
On the one hand it sucks because clearly the quality might be lowered. On the other hand if Apple invests on Siri doing its thing mostly on the device like Mycroft does that would be worthwhile.
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I'm doing nicely out of my panels at 56N, but that's mostly subsidy. It's also extremely seasonal.
That's beautiful.
Oh, dear god. I am mightily embarrassed to say that this was one of the funniest things I have ever read in my life. I literally laughed so hard that I almost passed out. More importantly, I was almost kicked out of the bedroom for the night.

Be very, very careful where you are when you read this article.
Do low wage, low education workers have poorer morals? They are fighting to make ends meet and could care less about your 1st world problems.
>Consider that your experience may not be the norm. Spotify and apple music have a combined 170 million subscribers. Not to mention various other ways of consuming music by paying for it

170 million is a vanishingly small number.

>Then how do I make a living?

By doing something people are willing to pay you for.

>And you're willing to decide that all of society must bow to your whims?

Either ameteur artists get screwed or professional ones do, I value ameteur artists more ergo I sacrifice the professional.

>You've previously suggested that copying and reselling am artistic work is fine, so why couldn't I also copy and resell any other work or brand?

Reselling an artistic work is fine, claiming a product was made by someone it wasn't is lying to the consumer.
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>> You might want to not use Bayesian or frequentist rules and instead use minimax regret or something else.

... What? Any such decision algorithm at least in theory still takes a probability distribution as an input. You still need to approximately follow the proper rules of probability to get that distribution, there's no way around it.
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So far, most of the comments here are a good example of both why this happened and why it will happen again.

When people complained that putting microphones in your home 24/7 was creepy, the response was "that's nonsense, Siri is not sending anything unless you specifically ask for it". When it turned out that it does send things you didn't intend, the response was "well, it's not like anyone is listening anyway". Now that we know someone is listening, the response is "it's no big deal, because they don't care and ultimately is good for you".

Just because most people don't understand the implications of what they agree to, it doesn't mean they don't care. And the levity with which the tech community disregards other people's privacy concerns seems to me one of the reasons why everything everywhere is spying on us nowadays.

We really need mandatory ethics courses in CS.
> probably because it's difficult to see any actual value that this provides to society.

Doesn't this apply to a majority of activities in the financial sector?
Full title is "How accurate are suicide risk prediction models? Asking the right questions for clinical practice".

Suicide prediction tools do not work and current advice is that they should not be used to predict a person's risk.

This is for a few reasons.

Reliance on risk predictors means you don't provide services to people who go on to take their life. It also means you "section" (detain under the mental health act) people who are depressed but who are not going to kill themselves. This causes harm.
Please don't post like this to HN. If you know more, share some of what you know so others can learn. Calling your inferiors "dopes" adds no information and breaks the site rule against name-calling.

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How many weeks of entertainment will it provide when you are trying to make people notice that your left blinking eye is morse code?
> Language reference

> Coming soon

Yes please.
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Get carried away all you want! Favorited and bookmarked, comments like yours are the top reason for visiting HN.
Different plants have different behaviours. Some sequester carbon well in the ground, others have near zero long term sequestration value. Some of the best are algae and seaweed that are allowed to sink to the bottom when they die. Plants that grow in bogs behave similarly. Chestnut is one of the best long term carbon sequestering trees.
> People have really bad intuitions around privacy.

> Having worked at companies that collected that data [...]

No, you just have a different personal definition of privacy. The fact that you think your use of my data is innocuous doesn't mean you are not violating my privacy. If your use was really, trully unobjectionable you'd be fine with getting clear and explicit consent.

Somehow, I don't think an honest consent prompt like "Can our app silently record your screen and send it to us?" would get you the results you want.
Excellent answer. "no donations = no expectations"
Circa 2009 I worked on an application that would render maths tests for teachers using plain TeX. I'm sure there are a few other wild examples (my CV is in eplain TeX).
Have you seen eg. Germany's bond yields? They are negative. People love safe money parking, they don't want to take risks, manage investments, oversee companies, fiddle with product development, bet on innovation, think about market fit. So they do the next best thing, try to come up with minimal risk minimal profit financial products, and that's what these furniture/fridge/oven loans are.

Furthermore the shop pays some service fee to the loan provider, and thus they scrape by.
You make it sound like Socrates was killed due to scientific misunderstanding, but that is not quite the case.

Socrates was not just "provocative til the end". He was part of particularly deadly politics and animosity toward him had a lot to do with autocratic rule his friends and students installed and deaths they caused. The death was miscarriage of justice, because there was supposed to be amnesty and gods thing was likely a way to work around that.

Nevertheless, it did not had less to do with him being right and more to do with revenge and more to do with where exactly his philosophy led just a few years ago.
[SE.Math](https://math.stackexchange.com/) is for pretty much any sort of math question you might have. At least for traditional mathematics -- statistics, numerical algorithms, data science, AI, etc., tend to better fit on other StackExchange sites.

[MathOverflow](https://mathoverflow.net/) is the sorts of math questions that will probably sound like gibberish to anyone who doesn't have a graduate-level education in Math. And I mean specifically in Math, not in Engineering or Physics.

Usually, if you want to ask a math question -- even a reasonably complex one that someone would need a lot of education to understand -- it'll go on SE.Math. MathOverflow's more of a specialty site for mathematicians.

To note it, the distinction between SE.Math and MathOverflow has at least two parallels:

1. [SE.ComputerScience](https://cs.stackexchange.com/) vs. [SE.TheoreticalComputerScience](https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/) ; and

2. [SE.Physics](https://physics.stackexchange.com/) vs. [PhysicsOverflow](https://www.physicsoverflow.org/) .

In all three cases, one site's more appropriate for most users, ranging from beginners to experts, while the other site's more specifically for research-level topics in the field.