skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Tumblr was an example of how to do social media right and we can learn a lot from it." I mean... maybe. Tumblr was also an example of maybe not pivoting the product to cater to the community properly, as there was a lot of other usage of Tumblr besides a strictly 'social media' use case. There was a lot of conversation around deeper feelings, and a community around self-discovery and self-awareness. I'm not 100% sure if Tumblr was able to properly capture that market and position itself there.
Or debt cycles exist.
I am no professional photographer and most of the time I do shoot in auto mode and use Darktable get a little bit more out of my photos afterward.

But sometimes the auto mode is simply not enough. For example when doing night photography. The camera (at least my Canon) typically pushes the ISO beyond good.

Taking pictures of apartments is another case where the auto mode often creates subpar results. Most of the time you want to overexpose those pictures to let the apartment appear brighter than it is.

And I am sure there are more cases, where there are no alternatives to knowing how to handle the manual mode. Btw. some cameras also support those semiautomatic modes, where you can set some options and let the camera determine the others.
At least in German it's not used anymore, since it sounds similar enough to the English version everybody knows.
> If I bought Tumblr in a $3 million fire sale, I don't think I'd keep 200 employees on the payroll

Keeping most of the 200 employees on payroll may have been a condition of the $3m sale price.
This is without up to date fact checking so take this with a grain of salt, but during the last housing crisis I remember looking this up and came to the conclusion above. I don't actually know if it's universal but it was valid for Sweden at that point in time. I think the key word in your text above is "expenditure", where a house maybe isn't seen as an expenditure but rather an investment..?

When taking about inflation it's also always good to remind one self that the pool of money also changes. And the fact that housing usually is connected to mortgages, which in turn expands the amount of available money. But this paragraph has nothing to do with your comment so I'll just stop there!
I wonder why increasingly young people commit suicide, increased social pressure at a lower age? Increased competition in society? I find it to be one of the more tragic problems facing us.
From my experience hiring in startups (and personal life experience, having left the startup world at 28), over-30s have higher salary requirements than startups can afford. It's not even just a Bay Area thing; in pretty much all markets you pay a premium for experience.
Err... That's sort of an indicator that you do not know a lot of professional photographers or even prosumer photographers.

Fundamentally, cameras are terrible at picking a decent A/S/P values for scenes ( though they have much improved ) because the cameras cannot correctly analyze what important vs. unimportnat portions of a scene.

So if you are using your DSLR or mirrorless for something other than phone-like snapshots you should give your camera a hand, and that hand is semi manual mode ( the reason why it is a semi-manual mode is because you are still going to rely on/tweak what camera thinks you should do ). To achieve the technically best results ( not artistic, but just technical ), you should remember:

1. Tell the camera what to measure - if you are not looking at producing phone-like snapshots, switch the metering mode to spot metering or its equivalent. Use the crosshair/dot to point at the spot you want to come out correctly exposed. Just by doing this single little thing you would absolutely improve the automatic exposure. Compared to what you can achieve by switching the point on camera is pretty amazing.

2. Look at what the camera tells you its settings are and use that as the base.

3. Unless you really know what you doing you ALWAYS want to shoot at the lowest ISO, which is why letting a camera set the ISO is pretty much never a good idea. What looks fine on a phone or on a camera display will look pretty icky on a large screen or printed. Most of the cameras now have ability to lock the max ISO. Use it. You should never go above ISO 800 without unlocking it.

4. The rule of the thumb is that shutter speed above 1/60 probably will introduce blur if the subjects are moving. If you are just starting you should keep the shutter at 1/60s of above.

So:

Look at what the camera tells you about the exposure. If it is too low, first drop the ISO to the minimum your camera can do. Still too low? Start decreasing your shutter speed to 1/60s. Still too low? Start opening your lens by increasing the <number> on the f/<number> ( there are side effects in this and eventually you would recognize that for some scenes you want to stop at not the lowest <number> but for the exposure part it is not really relevant ). Still too low? Start increasing the ISO until you hit what the camera thinks is a good exposure.

Now the critical part: ( because the camera even now will probably be not quite right ). Take a shot. Go to histogram. Make sure that the histogram's breakdown matches your view of the scene. If it does, great! If it does not ( histogram of the image indicates scene is dark but the scene is light or reverse ) tweak the exposure ( using the same order or reverse depending on if you want to increase or decrease the exposure ) until the histogram of the next photo makes sense.

https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-read-and-use-h...

P.S. Remember, human eye gets a lot more light in compared to the lens that you are using. If you want to get a ballpark idea of how much light gets into a lens, squint
Well, I don't have a supplier for this medication currently, and a study size of 109 is not large. The results are very promising but with TB, only certain medications work in certain combinations and you don't get to find out if you treated it wrong until sometimes years later when they relapse.

If this particular patient asks about this study, and I won't be at all surprised if they do because this is a major article in a major paper and they're pretty well informed about their condition, I would probably tell them that while it looks very compelling I don't want to do this incorrectly and right now the best evidence is the WHO guideline as currently followed. Without going into detail, this patient is already on two of the three meds as it is.
It seems that without knowing Chinese, most Westerners can only resort to appeals to authority to make their points.
I just realized that the last raise was at a $44 billion valuation. That seems unhinged. With the numbers in the S-1 filing, a valuation of closer to $20 billion seems more appropriate.
What if they have no values/their views are not based in anything rational or rooted in fact?
> So you set the price such that it maximizes total returns, and whatever attendance rate that is, is the "correct one"

I don't think it's that simple—they're not trying to maximize total returns on a single day, but total returns overall. How many people are in the park determines the kind of experience you have, which then determines if you're likely to come back. Plus all sorts of associated halo effects—if you enjoy your time at the park, then after you leave you're more likely to purchase Disney branded merchandise, watch Disney movies, and subscribe to their upcoming Disney+ streaming service.
I think I would have an easy time finding peers to share equity from my personal network, although I could only know for sure when push came to shove and it was actually time to start working. But yeah it could be really hard running an actual business where everyone is only working 8-25 hr/week.

For it to be viable, you would need to focus on getting an MVP up fast and reaching ramen-profitability. Then once there's enough money for everyone to pay their bills, you could start transitioning people to fulltime. Again since you are sharing equity generously, as long as you find like-minded peers, ramen profitability for each employee/co-founder is all you need
Is it possible to recommend a real estate agent to you?
Yes - easily able to do a diff with previous versions will be of great value when creating a story. Its in the feature list backlog. Will get on it soon.
Pinterest is really big in the DIY space. It's success is more easily explained hand in hand with Etsy rather than any social media.
I also upgraded to LinkedIn Premium and started reaching out to engineers in my 2nd degree network. These people were complete strangers, and I had no reason to think they might be interested in Kapwing. This tactic definitely didn’t work. Not only did I not get a single response to my messages, I got one angry response from a Recruiting Director asking me to buzz off and stop pinging people at her company.

Does anyone find LinkedIn useful? The importance some people put on having an updated LinkedIn profile with updated contact lists seems outrageously disproportional to the actual value the site provides. It seems odd, too. Social media site around making business contact, keeping your cv online, yadda yadda... but the promise of the platform never seems to have materialized.
>>The Google Analytics code collects information about users' browsers, computers and their activity, nothing especially personal.

That's more than enough to personally identify a user. Given the sensitive nation of your site, it's one thing to ask users to trust your motives, it's another one to expect them to trust google, etc...
Is there anybody here who believes WeWork will eventually be profitable? I know most of the people here are skeptics but I'm interested in hearing the other side.
Interestingly, Brazil had a much greater number of slaves, in absolute terms and per-capita, but is often forgotten for some reason. Including in your call for a broader perspective.
From what I understand, he purposefully took ideas from it, but because he did not feel like he understood it fully, he didn’t try to make a full implementation of it.
>But are we though? I still encounter a non trivial number of people in the real world with objectively wrong ideas about the history of slavery in the US. We all see some of those folks passing laws and talking on national television.

None of these people at this point are going to be reading the NYTimes for its pieces on slavery. So yes, the base that reads the NYTimes should start looking at a wider scope, especially if its slavery still active today.
honest question, having made one myself: what is bad about the newspaper analogy?
I think so. I think it's pretty incontrovertible that the point of life is to perpetuate itself. Whether you choose to do anything with/about that is up to you. For me, personally, it suffuses my life with purpose and meaning. But I am inclined toward family life as it is.
Apple explains the new iPhone warning for ‘unauthorized’ battery replacements
I believe employee wage ceiling is something more like $75/hr, and that would be for a job description like "you run the department of commerce"
> Without outside financial assistance, I think I'd need to continue programming until my business found traction. Are there feasible ways to do that though?

I haven't tried to start a business. But another option to contract work is to find a part time dev job. Some employers are happy to have you there 3 days a week in a permanent role. Not too rare for parents with young children.

That said, an employer might be a bit less excited about bringing you on part time if you were open about your plan to go full time on your own business in a couple if years of things went to plan.
Peter McCormack responds to Craig Wright's defamation claim, and it's blistering
Did Euclid / WeWork realise that many people prefer to work from home? My past 14 years of professional experience would net WeWork 0 rental income.
By default the computer will assume that it's shooting an 18% grey card and expose the picture accordingly. There are a basically two knobs you can tune, to change this behavior.

One, you can decide what parts of the pictures are used in this calculation and how they are weighted. These are your spot, matrix, and middle measurement modes.

Two, you can use a creative program, e.g., night photography. That will treat bright highlights differently, AFAIK.

However, the world isn't really an 18% grey card and how you expose the picture depends on your creative intent. The most obvious examples are high-key and low-key photos. In fact, photographers often use 18% grey cards to determine the light conditions and then lock the exposure and white balance down and shoot manual. This way, they have a precise reading and no surprises. I only do that when I do portrait photography because skin tones and therefore white balance are crucial. In most other cases, I look at the histogram to see if the exposure is correct and use auto white balance.

You can always adjust white balance when you shoot RAW in post processing. However, you cannot fix the exposure if you're missing the data. That's why I use manual.
Yesterday someone on HN said there’s still plastic inside the cans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20691864
> Weirdly he mentions...

The author is female.
Agree. Other than that, I really like this as a concept and can't wait to see where it goes from here. Will be keeping an eye on this for sure.
Why is the "by a startup" relevant?
I read about plastic raining from the sky years ago. …From people who posted in a conspiracy theory forum because no one would officially acknowledge the problem and they were desperate to bring attention to it. They had photos of people developing serious health problems from it. One case I remember: Someone developed a skin condition with what looked like tiny plastic threads growing on the arms. These people lived in the mountains.
Or maybe we used the tool too long and should have started raising rates much sooner.
She's not an MBA...?
That's not what Maciej does. He is laser focused on bookmarking. That's why his company thrives.
I love this. This is how I document my side projects, I tend to write long stories to myself with chunks of code thrown in for clarity. This is much more elegant though.
Largely agreed. The tit-for-tat that can happen where positions get filled on programs having little to do with the FFRDC they're staffed under is a problem and it makes MITRE a target for other contractors who will complain to congress about, etc. It's an existential issue for them.

I've noticed federal agencies twist themselves into knots to try to get MITRE to staff something, and jump through the hoops, and really stretch the FFRDC charter, precisely because staffing anyone in the government is a shit show. I think the percieved value is a good chance of someone who isn't useless in the role and some stability.

I don't know who's fault that is, but I know MITRE hammers the line into PMs heads, you know, you're not a body shop. R&D/prototype work only.

At the same time, portfolio managers would be rewarded for forging new partnerships and getting new projects awarded via the FFRDC, even if they were kind of BS beyond a nice slide deck. Having projects to staff those PhDs on and getting kudos from the sponsors is what matters for advancement so...

Ehhhhh.
The compiler will generally do that sort of optimization.
Heh, CK also alerts you when your data or password has been compromised in a breach. Must be real fun to have to list themselves!
My most frequent interaction with Pinterest is excluding it from Google Image Search results.
hell, or even just good ole 'institutionalism'. "Deep state" sure does imply conspiracies afoot, and it's hardly such a thing. really it's just plain ole bureaucracy
I'm not sure calling her "Miss spokesperson" is necessary, but otherwise correct.

Edit: Thanks for the edit!
I'm not convinced financial institutions access to capital has anything to do with the current economic malaise. The federal rates had little impact on the recovery, their perpetuation at 0% didn't seem to produce meaningful small business creation, and all the major companies have been spending the better part of the last 5 years doing stock buybacks and avoiding expansion and investment at all costs.

Dropping rates creates speculation of future economic growth that can make stocks go up and thus make the capital class happy their assets are accruing but it seems new business growth is fairly exclusively on the side of consumer demand pretty much this entire century. Increasing money supply isn't doing jack. If theres no money out there looking to buy goods and services you could be giving away money to banks with no meaningful economic benefit for it.

Europe has been in this kind of glut longer than the US has but its infecting the whole world - too few people have enough money to create the real demand that stimulates real economic growth. Theres only so many yachts a billionaire wants or so many summer homes a millionaire stakes. Wealth inequality is the driving force behind the slowdown and none of the forces that participate in shaping policy are aligned with the goal of fixing it.
Myths about making your website accessible to people with disabilities
Which instance(s) do you like? I'm on fosstodon.
Seconded on the Av mode.
Heh, "tumblr ephemral"

That would be an interesting mobile app. There's nothing that does one to many ephemeral text messaging. I imagine they still have enough of a certain subgroup of adolescents to make a go of a new idea based on ephemerality. I don't know any young people that would use FB anymore than they would watch cable news. I imagine they'll screw up insta at some point too.
Eh... I feel like I hear claims of both directions. The Chinese internet is full of people claiming that Taiwanese people can't read simplified Chinese or that PRC people can't read traditional Chinese.

FWIW, anecdotally every mainland Chinese person I've met has been able to read traditional characters. For some of them it is, however, more laborious. All of them have been able to read long tracts in traditional Chinese (think the length of a newspaper article or longer), although sometimes it takes obvious effort. This has not been true of some Taiwanese people I've met for simplified characters.

I'm mostly tempted to chalk this up to environmental factors rather than reasons intrinsic to the script. The mainland often gets a lot of Taiwanese cultural imports, while I don't think Taiwan gets as much cultural imports from the mainland. Furthermore there is a lot of stylistic usage of traditional characters in the mainland (posters, store signs, branding, calligraphy, artwork) and university-level Classical Chinese language classes (aimed at domestic students) are often taught exclusively with traditional characters. In comparison there is essentially no usage of simplified characters at all in Taiwan.

The two scripts essentially have a one-to-one correspondence with each other anyways so it's not really that hard to go between the two if you have full fluency in one.
Why do companies even want to spy on you in the first place? Because advertisers want to target ads more effectively. Advertisers believe they can manipulate consumer behavior through ads, so they are willing to pay facebook a shit ton for it.

As NLP technology gets better and better, you won't even need traditional ads anymore. You can control people's behavior directly just by selectively boosting real organic posts that push for your agenda.

It's only impractical right now because they don't have the tech to get that sort of high level control. For example the recent controversy about Youtube radicalizing people with more and more extremist videos is just a bug. In a more boring dystopia you would just be shown better and better Mcdonald memes until you name your first-born a Mcnugget. I can't think of anything this tech won't touch once they have algorithmic control of information. Rather than targeting ads for elections, you might be able to say something like "find all posts that swing voters will find convincing and show it to them". Whoever can convince facebook to do that will name the next president.
I went through your responses and none that I saw made any argument besides that the "boosters" provided no evidence. When in fact the thread is littered with people mentioning the quality of the site. The cited sources, the strong background of the founding members, recommendations from scientists, the New York times relying on their expertise.

So I think you might be mistaken about making a clear argument against examine. Most of the arguments you've made have been about what the appropriate burden of proof in an internet argument. But I wasn't able to find where you shed light on what your counter argument is or engage with any of the arguments the "boosters" have made.

Some people in the thread have engaged with the evidence arguing they aren't an authoritative source but most have them had misconceptions that were corrected.

The quality is high by any standards but particularly stands out relative to other supplement which is littered with fraud and ignorance.
A history of Slonik, the PostgreSQL elephant logo
Some countries allow legal non-citizen residents to vote (NZ for example) - you know, that whole no taxation without representation thing.

In the US some states or cities allow non-citizen legal residents to vote in some state and local elections (SF for examples allows non-citizen residents to vote for school boards)
It makes a lot of sense. People don't need a CS degree to do programming or even to be really good programmers. They just need to have a passion for constantly learning and solving problems. Then they'll be able to figure things out as they go, just like all of us do. There's only so much pre-training you can do.

Also, a much better predictor than school, of how well someone will do at a job, is how they get along with their team. If they have a great degree from an amazing school, but they don't get along with their teammates, they will perform very poorly.
> image heavy

Yup - we eschew that.

> Contrast/Accessibility is poor

Not sure I follow - it's black text on white, 400px weight, 20px size.

> After the redesign

Our rankings actually spiked up 2 days after new design.

No 404s - it was a superficial change. Time on site went up. Delivery of content was faster (eg we moved to Cloudflare).

> clickbaity

I keep telling this to people - 90% of our traffic was to our supplement pages. They all had the same format that was very matter-of-fact. We only tried "emotional" title tags in the past year, and they didn't do anything.

> that there is a weakness in on page optimization decisions and general architecture across the site.

I'm honestly not sure I follow. Everything is under the /supplements/xxx or /nutrition/xxx format, and the index is fully available on both root folders. We interlink heavily, and we have our own internal wikicode (so eg creatine is linked as [creatine]) so the link is always accurate as is the tooltip quick summary.

> The backlink profile IS problematic!

We haven't bought a single link ever. We get random links all the time - eg Orlando Sentinel today: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/health/os-ne-health-fake-vit...

> Livestrong

King of crap :)

> But the site could be much better composed and structured.

I'm being honest here - I don't see how. We've asked our users, and the HEM is more popular and should be higher, but we've done tests on usabilityhub, we track user behaviour (eg crazyegg), we've hired UX and UI experts (and other SEO experts). Our customer retention is great. I feel like I'm missing something.
Indeed there might be an interesting synergy on both concepts, Crokage and Cacher! Did you ever think about creating a collaborative space for sharing snippets and their short explanations? Or maybe a repository of well-documented snippets, where a search mechanism such as Crokage would be applicable?