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Me too. I would happily switch if other websites had good content. But unfortunately, everyone's is on Youtube (I don't watch gameplay videos, so no Twitch for me)

And unfortunately, there's no real alternative to Youtube. Let's say I'm a content creator, where would I upload my videos? Vimeo is not free, other sites similar to Youtube closed, so...
Similar situation, and I'm considering going back to school. Well, except, I forgot a ton of basic mathematics! Even made a thread about it a couple weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20446796
I strongly disagree. Autoplay does exactly what I want when binging through series. I would watch it either way, but why would I need to click buttons for each episode when it can be automatic.

I support automation, not manual labor.
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After all the resizing, compression, and filtering artifacts are applied, I imagine the high price and inconvenience of the additional gadget would be a difficult obstacle to overcome for almost negligible difference in picture quality. DSLRs, even those from the mid 2000s take gorgeous pictures compared to even the best smartphones today, but that difference barely shows on an Instagram feed.
Well, at least the front hasn't fallen off. The LCS-2 had problems like aggressive galvanic corrosion between the aluminum hull and steel propulsion system due to inadaquate isolation. Any small boat owner could have told you that dissimilar metals and salt water are a bad mix unless you use sacrificial anodes and take measures to eliminate current flow. Yet the USN botched it.
> Why does pilot wave theory violate locality -- does it assume that the pilot waves travel faster than light?

Yes. The pilot wave at any given point can be affected instantaneously by changes anywhere else in the universe.
"Why can't I do light editing and post to Instagram directly from the camera?"

Because the computing resource, battery power, and physical volume spent on hardware Instagram integration detracts from what can be devoted to making the camera as good as possible at being a camera. You'd have to cram a smartphone in there, and everyone already has smartphones anyway.

And you can do light editing in-camera, if you want.

"Why can't download the photos directly to a phone? Why can't I charge from a micro-USB/USB-C cable?"

You can. Modern bodies have touchscreens, too.

And I don't want Nikon and Canon worrying about marketing to influencers, because influencers are a terrible market! I want them worrying about making and selling excellent cameras for the use of people who do need more than a phone camera or maybe a cheap camcorder can provide.
Reminds me of a 1990s scam, can't remember if I saw that in a movie or if it did really happen. Some dodgy magazine advertisement for porn videos or something. Customers orders, write a check to a totally innocuous company name. Then the company claims they ran out of stock and issue a refund check, with a "porn xxx sexshop" company name, and of course no customer wants to present that check to their bank or having that name appearing on their bank statement.
I'm not trying to point accusatory fingers anywhere, you're missing the claim. You made the claim that USA success was the direct result of slave labor. If this were true, you would expect other societies with boatloads of slave labor to be more successful. They weren't.

Since lots of places had lots of unpaid labor and did nothing particularly successful, there must be more to it. If there is more to it, it is (usually) evidence that the USA would have been successful without slave labor.
They all have degrees in STEM, but not in any "engineering" (i.e. ABET approved) program. It's also worth noting that having a university degree is not a requirement to be a licensed engineer in many places, including California.
I think the point is that operating power reactors have high inventories of dangerously radioactive fission products in the core. Under normal circumstances that is safe because containment is designed for normal operation and foreseeable natural disasters, so the fission products don't get into the biosphere. But nuclear reactor containments are not designed to survive attack with heavy weapons. Deliberate attack could cause catastrophic release of dangerously radioactive materials.

It's true that large hydroelectric dams have the same problem. If some party decides to commit a war crime and destroy the dam you live downriver of, it could be catastrophic. The same consideration doesn't apply with large fossil fueled or wind/solar facilities because they have a much smaller danger radius if destroyed by heavy weapons.

People fighting against the Syrian government blew up a large natural gas facility during the civil war. If Syria generated power from nuclear reactors instead of gas, would the rebels have declined to destroy a reactor? It would certainly have been a war crime. But the Syrian civil war already saw many war crimes.

I don't think that any organized military would deliberately destroy live reactors. There's always a chance for accidents. "Pilot visually confirmed the target, mistaking the nuclear cooling towers for the designated coal plant's cooling towers."

I don't mean that people should eschew nuclear power because of what might happen in extraordinary wartime circumstances. But it is possible to release large quantities of dangerous fission products from a reactor facility just by attacking it with conventional high explosive weapons.
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I wonder why the military doesn't add "it works or else you don't get paid" clauses in these lucrative contracts they award? The vendor can't say no to that without admitting their products suck. especially since our nation may actually need one of these things to work in order to survive. 99% of the time they're expense toys. Until that one time they're not.
Youtube has a platform that "just works". You click upload, it's uploaded and being served to be watched anywhere. What are the alternatives?
I'd say very high quality optics (bigger sensor and better lenses) is an even better reason.
I have a working amiga 500. Must be over 25 years old now, nearer 30.
> but correcting it would break existing valid programs

That's very often the case when enhancing static safety guarantees. And that's often worth it.
This is a line in "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" (Guy Ritchie film)! Was this a scam in the real world as well??
One question/unsolicited advice: the articles frequently mention “feature flags,” but these will cause simultaneous rollout in prod without any real testing or canary.

It seems like an experiment framework (eg whitelisted customers or IP addresses for alpha testing and percent rollouts) is a min bar for any reasonable implementation in Dark.
Tim Sweeney has an epic vision for a Metaverse – but who needs or wants it?
I think we just killed them all, considering that racism is omnipresent, as well as human cruelty.
This is akin to people who said "why would you want computer-like features on your phone? Everyone who's willing to pay $500+ for a phone already has a laptop!"

A very large number of would-be content creators (not just Instagram, either - YouTubers also) want the higher image quality, dynamic range, optical zoom, interchangeable lenses, etc. of a full-body camera, but don't want to deal with the clunky interfaces and multi-step processes just to get your images/videos to a format, style, and place you want them. Yes, that's a subset of the market, but it's probably a bigger potential userbase than traditional "pure" photographers.
But isn't that just a proxy for retention then? Why optimize for hours watched which correlates with retention when you can just measure and optimize for retention directly?
California HSR might shift billions to L.A. and Bay Area projects
You can't do that because no one is building general-purpose computers into DSLRs - or, for that matter, MILCs - because no one cares about that use case, and the resources wasted on making it possible are better spent on supporting the things that photographers expect cameras to do.

That said, you probably could do something like that with sufficient effort invested in CHDK or Magic Lantern or whatever the current homebrew Canon firmware project is lately. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with!
> The advantage of microkernels is that they can be extended with “untrusted” code like hardware drivers or file systems. This runs in user space and thus any bugs in such code will not crash the kernel process.

Did this advantage play out in practice? If your filesystem module goes down then every module that talks to the file system module needs to gracefully handle the failure or it will still effectively crash the system.

Or the module core dumps and the system keeps chugging on, but everything is locked up because they're waiting for the return from the crashed module. Did MINIX have a way to gracefully restart crashed modules?
The real scandal isn't that the Ford is having (lots) of problems with it's new technology. That can happen. It's not even that a decision was made to put multiple novel, unproven systems into a major warship.

The biggest scandal is that the US Navy accepted delivery of the Ford and commissioned it when it was non-functional. This should be ending swathes of careers at the top of both the US Navy and Huntington Ingalls Industries.
> long before blu-ray hit the scene

When the dust settled, perhaps, but I recall when the issue first came up in 2000 and just about every discussion argued technical merits...and where the porn industry was looking. Anecdotal data, but in 2000 streaming wasn't viable for the majority of users (and still remains not viable for a lot) so that's no reason to discount the impact in that arena.
It's not about knowing that X% are misconfigured, it's about whether special access or circumstances led to locating them more efficiently than the general public could have.

Special access can make the difference between "locating X% of misconfigured users in a single admin panel query" and "locating X% of misconfigured users by scanning every S3 bucket in existence without being caught".

Or to draw a weak analogy, knowing that a closed-source PRNG algorithm is defective does not necessarily help locate all keys generated by it, but having access to force it to generate numbers for you (or to study its source code) absolutely does help.
Amazingly, this seems to be a software problem.[1]

[1] https://www.military.com/defensetech/2019/02/21/after-carrie...
Is there some evidence that neanderthals did not organize themselves in tribes? I think we were just more aggressive and killed them all.
Would a VM not work for this?
This is the last shreds of personal responsibility disappearing from the culture.
I wonder how many of those extra hours watched are because the stream just didn't stop after the person fell asleep. I can't tell you the number of times I've fallen asleep while Netflix played (or walked away) and it went right into some other show I didn't care to watch (and never actually did).

If hours streamed is your metric for engagement.. of course having the stream continue on its own would make that number rise. It doesn't actually say anything at all about real engagement.
Why should a bubble of casual-photographers exiting the DSLR market be enough to sink Canon? The serious photographer market should be enough to sustain the business (it's not like these things are sold at a loss), but investors in pursuit of infinite growth might not like that.
Bringing a healthy code review mindset to your team
So why wasn't a ban necessary for the ultimate autoplaying video, television?
Not the GP, but had the same question. not sure it’s that clear. So if I have a rails app with a database and redis, how can I use featurepeek?
I think that's where I must have heard it then. Though I am sure it must be inspired from a real scam, like most books/scenarios.
The main complex task that's being addressed is making JavaScript that runs on a variety of browsers, not just the latest Firefox.

I'm afraid I don't know what you have in mind as far as syntactic sugar that makes things harder for learners. Every new syntax I can think of makes JS easier to learn and use.
Another department I doubt these traditional Japanese companies can catch up on is computational photography. I can take 5s handheld night time photos with adequate quality on a bunch of phones these days. There's still no way of getting anything useful out of DSLRs longer than 1/15s without tripods.
Simulating busy traffic with a computer model: Is lane-changing a zero-sum game?
Don't do that, it won't work for arrays greater than a certain size
I've been annoyed with it on series that have unique end credit songs per episode. They put that song in there and I'd like to hear it, but autoplay cuts it off and just starts the next episode.
Which video card do you have that lacks drivers for Linux? Or do you need fully open source drivers that fully support 3D acceleration and computation?
My issue with the steam link has been the steam controller (I know it's not the only option, but I got the bundle). I just can't get the hang of it. What have other people experienced on this? Does it get better with practice?
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Absolutely agreed. There are plenty of things I want politicians removed from - but possibly getting fined over a website I design is absolutely ludicrous. It's like getting rid of deer coming on to your property and eating your flowers by planting landmines. Pretty sure there's something less extreme than making something illegal.

Although these days, everything has to be either extreme this or extreme that, and common sense (like just not using those websites, or utilizing this thing called personal responsibility to recognize and curb your own addictions) has gone the way of the 8-track. Nope, we need the government to start fining people.

This doesn't do anything except make instant-criminals out of people overnight, signed into law by politicians who aren't even remotely close to being experts at the subject matter.
> To me debt is far superior. Debt means you have a commitment from a human (directly or indirectly, if the debt is owed by an organization).

You're assuming that the debt is backed by labor and involves a commitment to perform some specific service. Such promises are generally considered unenforceable as the capacity for future labor is inalienable, at least in societies which don't permit slavery or indentured servitude. At best you may be able to claim some property in compensation if the service is not performed. How is an indirect claim on someone else's gold or other property "far superior" to actually possessing it yourself? Sure you save a bit on the cost of storage, but in exchange you add the potential for non-payment.

> An example for debt-based I once read somewhere was a kid writing an IOU for garden work. As long as the debt is not paid - i.e. the kid does the work and the IOU is destroyed - that piece of paper circulates through the neighborhood. It has real value (actual work).

And if the kid proves unable or unwilling to do the work, what becomes of the value of the IOU? Repayment is not the only event that can take an IOU out of circulation. Better to have a claim on, or better yet possession of, a valued and marketable commodity than a mere promise of future services from a specific human being who could die, become disabled, or simply choose to dispute or repudiate the terms of the IOU.
I can't build a little software app without going over schedule by approximately double, if I'm lucky. And if I get it wrong the consequence is my boss looks sad. These guys are building one of the largest most complex gizmos in human history. And if they get it wrong sailors die. So personally I'll cut them a little slack.

So it's probably a good thing that I'm not their project manager.
It boils down to gut instinct again, since there is no clear line of how much complexity to accrue before splitting something up. I think he likes to keep Linux in one repo because that makes it easier for him to watch the project and manage it. Currently, if linux gets separated into 10 components, Linus will still have to keep an eye on all 10, so from his point of view, complexity is still the same, or worse. But if he could actually let go and let someone else completely own another component, this would not be the case. Bottom line is that he is smart enough to be able to do manage a repo that large, which only proves the author's point.
Those are good sites. But cartoon porn with underage characters is illegal in some countries. And marginally so in the US, depending on attitude of the prosecutor. Also, I've come across some cartoon porn sites that are too disturbing to even risk describing here. Violence per se isn't so illegal, but underage sex + violence may well be.
Agreed!

"Reforest rural areas with fast-growing plants native to that region" seems like a MUCH safer idea than "YOLO, HEMP ALL THE THINGS!"

We have no idea how regions in the world that don't have hemp would react to suddenly having an abundance it.
https://youtu.be/IKQlQlQ6_pk?t=82
If you were the leader of a country that would find itself in the crosshairs of another that was quite aggressive in the world stage, starting wars unilaterally, what would you do?

If a particular fickle leader were to block the Strait of Malacca, what do you think would happen to China's economy?

See this is the problem with adventurism and brinksmanship. It forces people to do whatever it takes, just as due diligence.
>I'm talking about opening up a new market - instagrammers, who already spend money on ring lights, tripods for their phones, but who don't want to learn all the intricacies of using a DSLR camera + adapters + laptop.

The people who don't want to learn the intricacies of photography just use their phone. Unless you learn those intricacies, your phone will reliably take better images, because Apple have spent stupid amounts of R&D money on optimising their image post-processing.

The better lens and sensor on a DSLR is essentially irrelevant to Instagrammers, because the limitations of phone camera hardware are barely visible on a 6" phone screen in typical shooting scenarios. The point of using a DSLR-type camera is to gain more control over the imagemaking process. Unless you actually learn something about photography, that extra control is just an array of footguns. Faffing about with cables and cards is utterly trivial compared to pretty much any aspect of serious photography.
Is it paranoid to consider if this was a government actor? Boredom is plenty to keep someone from retiring, but digging into private customer data I'd think would take a pretty serious motivation. If I had the resources and wanted to wreck some havoc on the US economy data security (ie lack thereof) would certainly seem like a weak point worth prodding.
Does anyone not want to become a ML engineer? Is this the future, and will we even have a choice or else be out of a job?
That makes sense. So you could take a C++11 codebase and incrementally change things to C++20 (using a complaint compiler of course). I wonder if there will be a huge market for people who truly understand all versions of the language who will be consultants hired to upgrade large codebases
It would, with setup to replicate the environment.

It might well be a miserable buggy experience compared to just using the original hardware.
That was a reference to Robert Heinlein's book, "Stranger in a Strange Land".
Even if this is true, the thread here is discussing throwing engineers who write vulns in prison. We'd all be in jail in that world, degree or not.
What are the odds the strategy only works because it runs on a VAX?
Until a 74 year old politician expands "social media site". Come on, you know how this always goes. Slippery slopes and what-not.
I personally love that about it. I can watch more episodes in less time with Netflix, whereas I have to sit through the openers and credits for TV.

I also like watching shows while doing something else (e.g. folding laundry), so autoplay makes it so I don't have to worry about engaging with the service between episodes.

Afaik, you can disable it in the settings.
Personally, I have the exact opposite opinion on optical viewfinders. Optical is eyestraining, non-ergonomic, physically limiting (can't use an optical viewfinder when you're shooting at foot or waist level without contorting yourself into weird positions), and modern shooting modes often require a lot more setup and selection than is comfortable to use without a full-size screen and looking at the controls you're hitting.
>I think I would get a headache "programming" it

One-bit creator here. I'm surprised by how often people make comments like this. Is it the dual jump destinations which seem so confusing? All you need is to ignore one of them, assuming you'll "fall through" instead. This is noted in the article. "instructions generally do tend to get stored in sequential order, and, as a matter of coding style, conditional branches very often do specify address+1 as one of the outcomes. The assembler makes it easy to use the familiar branch, else fall through to the instruction at address+1 arrangement. "

Thanks for posting, Tomte. This and other projects of mine have appeared on HN before.

Edit: but don't use HN's search to find Dr_Jefyll. That's an f there, not a k; but HN's search seemingly can't be convinced of this.
https://bear.app/
You don't have to use the tiny screen. Mirrorless cameras generally come with a large display. I almost always use the display on my Olympus because it's easier and I don't look like I have a machine on my face (this was also an important advantage of old view cameras with the focus screen on top, like the Hasselblad 500). If you want, you can attach a much larger screen to your mirrorless camera, they just use HDMI output so get as big a display as you want.
> Netflix has competitors. If we assume that leisure-time hours are fixed in the short term, the more hours you spend watching Netflix, the less you have available for Hulu, Amazon Prime, CBS, HBO, MLB, or Disney streaming services.

Not only those competitors but any other activity, from reading HN to working to going out with friends, etc.
Also, note that Greg's goal was to contribute to OpenAI's flagship project. That's a rather ambitious goal!

Also, most folks I know that are making practical deep learning contributions are doing so by combining their pre-existing domain expertise with their new deep learning skills. E.g. a journalist analyzing a large corpus of text for a story, or an oil&gas analyst building models from well plots, etc.
Observers generally experience sad feelings from seeing someone waste resources, and experience anger when someone is taken advantage of, probably because we perceive our risk increasing (in a tribal sense). Soliciting (and receiving) outlandish "donations" from strangers can look like both a waste and a con.

By tribal risk increasing I mean that if Ogg loses his harvest fording the river, now the tribe has to feed him. Or if Ogg is swindled out of his pelt, now the tribe has to worry about him freezing and make sure nobody else falls victim. In context, this is when your uncle Ben donates to some internet personality and then has trouble making ends meet, and you might have to step in to assist him.

A third unrelated explanation is relative value, where the observer might feel upset watching someone throw good food to a dog, rather than giving it to a starving person nearby because the observer feels the starving person is more deserving of the resources than the animal. In context, this is when your uncle Jerry donates to some internet personality instead of using the money to help you or some other more deserving local charity case (not using that pejoratively).