skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this article is that it implies that the only use for high use of data transfer is to binge watch or consume various forms of media. Data caps don't kill that and never will.

What data caps kill are peer to peer services, self hosting, and anything where people actually participate in the internet rather than acting as consumers only. It's part of the ongoing push to make the internet into another television where people all use the same centralized services and never interact with each other directly.

Phone usage has made this even worse since smartphone network connectivity is not real internet connectivity. There people have learned to accept data caps (which make sense given the limited actual frequency bandwidth available for radio in free space). But also they've learned to accept the inability to host servers, use ports, or do anything other than HTTP/S. The ISPs have seen this and are now copying the violations that wireless telcos have brought in.
uhm, it helps by providing a cool heat bath to pump the gas heat into? the idea is not to store liquid nitrogen in the barrels, but merely transport them to onsite storage?

Edit: it's not surprising that LNG liquefaction plants cost on the order of say billions of dollars: by economy of scale one is driven to build extremely large plants. This does not mean smaller (but less efficient) liquefaction plants at much lower costs are impossible, but it does mean those smaller plants don't reach the same efficiency as the bigger ones... (my refrigerator is condensing and freezing water from air...)
> So, even if our company ceases operations, all of the downside protection will still be available to our customers.

Can you expound on this a bit? If you go under, who would I have to go to get paid? What legal guarantees would I have in place assuring me the payout? How do I know that your underwriting scheme is sufficient for covering your exposure?
That's a great point! This is why we deduct any home improvement costs from the gross profit calculation. So, if you spent 10,000 fixing the pipes and the gross profit was originally 100,000, we would actually deduct that from the gross profit. So our 20% share would be on top of 90,000 and not 100,000.

Additionally, most of our customers still visit the properties we recommend before they buy, so these types of problems are usually spotted during inspection before the deal closes. This has filtered out any bad quality deals due to home conditions.

Hope this answered your question!
> 2008 was bad because the collective banks of the US realized trillions in mortgages were money on the books that wasn't real and was never going to be real

An even larger amount of money was placed on bets on whether those mortgages were real, as opposed to the mortgages themselves.
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Are you conflating manual focus with manual exposure (i.e., manual mode)?

The camera can still do auto exposure for manual lenses, so your example of tilt-shift only applies to manual focus. For panos, I use the "exposure lock" feature on my A7Rii, but it is still auto.

Other than that, I agree. I use manual mode all the time.
That's exactly right! It's like the only stuff I can find anymore are ehow.com, pinterest, houzz, etc. I feel more and more like searching through google is like perusing the covers of the magazines at the checkout aisle. Lots of low quality recycled content, filled with ads and referencing other content also filled with ads.

It's a huge drink the google kool-aid cult.

If you want to be on Google, you need to have adwords bringing people to your site, ads on your content, popups for the ad-targeters, click-bait at the bottom, tons of overlays.

Why is that all there is anymore, I don't get it.

What happened to the good content? Why can't I find it anymore?
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As the article says, the mortality rate with current best treatment option is about 50%.
I’m sure they can also be found in the air we breathe already. I wonder how much damage they cause. Plastic as such is quite a inert material. I would guess smoking a single cigarette a day is way worse
Moreover America's hand in promoting and contributing to slavery doesn't need traveling back hundreds of years

Just look back 2 years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-public-s...

Open air slave markets. People sold as animals or produce. What happened there? Well, apparently "We come, we saw, he died!" <followed by laughing>. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y . That's what happened. I would argue, after "exporting our democracy" there, the labor and blood of those slaves are on our hands as well.
Are you sure? I'm far from a professional, but I follow photography youtube channels and some of the Sony websites/message boards. I was under the impression that the majority of pros were shooting manual more often than not. I'm open to changing my perception on this though.
That’s what most of the people I know do. I have three of my more common modes programmed in, but in the end they’re just starting points. Still a lot of real time tweaking, and sometimes the same shot with changes in the balance of ISO, Aperture, and shutter speed can be super interesting.
There are issues of scale that make that a poor analogy. You can't leverage a botnet to automate attempts to pick the locks of every home in the country. Nor can you pick a normal lock from thousands of miles away. Even if you get inside, you can't duplicate the entire contents of a house in a matter of seconds to rifle through later, and it's darn near impossible to break in and rummage around without being detected.
Clickbait trash title. Makes it sound like there will be no privacy on groups, perhaps in response to something.

They are renaming them with the same functionality, broken into two toggles.
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that's how our ETH processing works at the moment, we derive different BIP44 addresses and the customers pay to them. But that approach is possible only because the transactions fees are paid in ethereum as well; you cannot pay the tx fees in ERC20. With smart contracts someone else can pay the fees, which makes it ideal for our use case.
Professional wildlife and product studio photographer here. We certainly do shoot manual mode outside of the studio, just not with film.

With auto-ISO, "manual" camera mode (which refers to manually setting aperture and shutter speed) becomes an automatic exposure mode because the camera is metering the scene and adjusting ISO automatically. It is also possible and practical for certain applications to use "full manual" mode which also involves setting ISO, especially for something with a mostly-fixed scene such as astrophotography.

While camera-adjusted ISO and post-processing lightening (moving the exposure slider up in lightroom) are similar, the reason post-processing alone is not enough is because of dynamic range. Each camera sensor has a certain number of stops of light it can capture. If you're within that range, you can adjust in post and arrive at an image similar to what you would've got had you exposed in the camera. If you aren't within that range, you clip the highlights or shadows.

There are a few reasons why manual mode is beneficial. They mostly relate to speed and accuracy of control. First, aperture and shutter speed have different effects on the result of the image (depth of field, and motion-stopping capability respectively).

For example, I went to the shoreline on Monday and photographed birds. There were terns flying around protecting their young, the young wandering and gaping for food, while osprey were fishing just offshore. For terns and fast-moving birds, shutter speeds in excess of 1/2000 sec are necessary and there are many times when 1/3200 sec is not enough. Meanwhile, the tern chicks being about 25ft away mean that depth of field is shallow because the subject is near (minimum focusing distance on that lens is about 19ft). So an aperture of F8 for chicks is helpful but F5.6 is better for the further subjects and faster motion.

There's no good way to have a camera adjusting multiple settings (ISO and either aperture or shutter speed) because it doesn't understand the circumstances. In order to do this with aperture or shutter priority camera modes, you would be constantly switching the dial between aperture and shutter priorities which requires a button press and command dial turn, as opposed to ONLY adjusting the desired setting using one of two command dials.
Yeah, because we already know what causes things like cancer, autism and a host of other diseases, right? Surely it can't be microplastics.
Interestingly, when selling on eBay currently the initial values for starting bid and buy it now price are autopopulated by eBay. Seems a trend in this direction.
If I read correctly, then a correct headline would be "Facebook is adding non-discoverable Public groups", renaming Secret/Closed groups,and getting rid of nothing.
This doesn't match the original statement, and doesn't reflect reality.

People leave YouTube all the time, and crowds don't tend to follow them anywhere. They just watch different YouTubers who fill a similar niche.

It's as if the cloud you were really enjoying blew away, but there were plenty of new clouds, so you didn't get into a car to follow the old ones.
I agree. I generally shoot in shutter-speed mode since I like taking low-light photos, and in that situation, my ability to hold the camera steady at a slow shutter is the deciding factor.

Where quantity of light isn't an issue, and where I want to create a certain effect with depth of field, as you said, aperture mode is more than adequate, with the ability to change exposure and cap ISO, and let the camera figure out the best shutter speed.
PETase
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Cool! There's some pretty nice tools in there.
This is a great idea! We do not currently do this, but we do take into consideration the availability of gigabit internet as well as overall connection speeds for different neighborhoods.

This has actually proven to be statistically significant for a large number of locations across the united states.
I think his thought is to force an economic downturn in 2019 and then release the tension going into 2020 to have a smooth economy once the elections are due
> 2008 was bad because the collective banks of the US realized trillions in mortgages were money on the books that wasn't real and was never going to be real.

Don't forget the Europeans. The 'prudent' Germans of Deutsche Bank were in the thick of it too:

* https://www.thelocal.de/20110415/34419

* https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutschebank-suit-idUSBRE...

See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_writedowns_due_to_subp...

Good book on how things went down and my who is Crashed:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Tooze#Books
Inefficiency alone is enough to be an effective damper of extreme change.
I don't know how well the types of plastic would compare to asbestos, as that is a very specific risk to the lungs, but I do know that ingesting BPA has a tremendous impact on hormone balance and that has cascading short to long term chronic health problems.
It took me awhile to grok why thinking about multiplication as scaling made sense, but given how much it comes up in discussion I thought it was pretty important to understand. I think having been taught that multiplication was repeated addition as a kid made it difficult for me to think about multiplication as scaling. Once the "light came on", however, it was very intuitive. It's definitely better to think about repeated addition as being a "trick" that just happens to work like multiplication on natural numbers, versus thinking that multiplication IS repeated addition.

Edit: I've heard a similar statement made re: exponentiation-- that it's not "just repeated multiplication". I'd love to have the similar flash of understanding re: exponentiation that I had when I learned to think about multiplication as scaling. Is the "exponentiation is not repeated multiplication" statement true, and if so, does anybody have a recommendation on something I can read about it?

I would dearly love to be more in touch with math than I am. I stopped at intro college algebra and never felt overly comfortable with trig. From talking with friends who have deeper math backgrounds I can tell that calculus would add a richness to my experience that I lack, if only because I can see a richness that my basic understanding of algebra brings when I talk to people for whom algebra isn't intuitive. I hope I can get it together enough to spend some time learning more about math before I end up old(er) and grey(er).
We know "the root of the tree for the origin of functional programming": John Backus's Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs"

https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/backus_0703524.cfm It's not obvious but the "ACM Turing Award Lecture" link is the PDF.
I agree with this, but it is essential to realize that everyone (except perhaps a handful of hermits) is a consumer in most situations, even if they are a producer. There is no running away from being a consumer in modern society and this is not a bad thing: it means we are cooperating for mutual benefit, so that we don't have to build our own mud shacks and pottery.

However, when I read the word "consumer" in pronouncements like this, it seems like something else. The people using it usually don't mean it in a way that implies they are themselves consumers. They mean it in a class-forming way. The only way I would personally be able to refer to other people in this way would be to become the controller of a large global corporation and to be willing to exploit and submit others for my personal gain. This is not something I would ever want to do.
> ost advertisers don't want to touch a guy showing how to defeat riot shields with homemade crossbows

I 'm not sure anymore if "advertisers" dont want to advertise on non-mainstream or adult sites, or if it's just google imposing arbitrary standards on both their advertisers AND publishers. In the old times of TV there were brands that catered to specific, non-family friendly audiences (e.g. cigarettes, alcohol). With google's current policies, and monopoly on advertising, that section of advertisers and publishers is completely excluded.

I also don't get the point that "youtube is advertising, not video hosting" - they depend on both very much. By that reasoning TV should stop paying its anchors too.

> what that sort of exposure would cost them to achieve on their own domain and

They don't need to pay for hosting. There are already distributed platforms like bitchute. Each of them just needs to add one node to the system and the collective benefit would be huge.
Quite bizarre to single out "autism" there.
There's nothing grammatically wrong with "going to go home".
I am pretty sure recessions will at least be good for ridesharing companies, since they will get more drivers, which will lower driver pay. Since they can treat the prices consumers are willing to pay as sticky, this could help them solve profitability issues. I am not sure how much a recession would affect demand or consumers' willingness to spend on ridesharing though, but I think overall a recession is actually good for ridesharing

For Airbnb, it's a bit harder to say. More people will probably try to airbnb their places out, which will bring average costs down but increase the supply a lot. Demand may also increase as people unfortunately may turn to short term housing due to being in financially precarious situations. Since it's theorized that the American dollar will strengthen in the recession, this could also boost Airbnb's presence in international markets

Wework will probably gain too. More unemployment probably means more people trying to work out of weworks in startups or as freelancers. For the buildings they rent from non-executives, they could see a lower rent which would also help profitability.

So in summary I think the sharing economy is actually going to do ok. What do people do when they're unemployed? They try to make ends meet, and that means participating in the sharing economy
You're right that slavery isn't inherently racist.

> Western slavery required racism to justify...

That's not really congruous with history. Firstly, American slavery took on a uniquely racial tone about 50 or so years into Anglo colonization. At the outset slaves were legally treated identically to indentured servitude; to gloss over some obviously tortured history: at some point though it became onerous to track ownership and simply more convenient to identify someone as a slave by the color of their skin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
Is this good or bad? I don't understand how this can happen unless money itself loses nearly all value (i.e. storing the paper isn't even worth it, like in Germany after WWI). Can someone explain further?
For sure, on my D850 (and anything from that era I suppose), I can set the ISO range (minimum and maximum) and the minimum shutter speed (if using A or P mode).
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The vast majority of fentanyl on the US black market is synthesized in 'clandestine' labs in China and shipped directly from there to dealers in the US via the post.
WW2 has transformed our civilization significantly: socially, technologically, etc. Maybe there's no rapid change without great shake. We tolerate our current system of things because it works short term, but it is no way eternal or stable, it will be changing, and it will adapt itself to new circumstances, like to lack of fresh water and other ecological disasters current system causes.
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Yes `controlled settings` is more accurate. :)
Regarding precedent: the Bank of Japan began QE in 2001 and has expanded it beyond sovereign bonds to also buy equities and ETF’s. Could the day come when the Fed bids up $BYND?
Why would some one use this, over say Spark? What are it's unique capabilities?
It's not like an agency can just go to MITRE and say "Hey, do you have any geospatial analysts, I need a few."

They have to jump through a lot of hoops to get to that point. It needs to be part of some research program or development project that they've convinced the sponsoring agency fits within the FFRDC charter and convinced MITRE and the COR they need to assist with, and awarded the tasking (beating everyone else trying to use that vehicle). MITRE and the COR get to decide which programs/projects, and they propose the staffing they think will help.

It's very inconvenient, let's just say.
Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds
I'm sorry, did you want a complete list of known diseases with unknown causes? Let me Google that for you.
A couple of parallel points are worth noting:

* It’s likely that they’re going to discover it and you’ll lose your job.

* Sending the forged certificate made the likelihood of this strictly worse, by doubling down on the lie.

* You almost certainly would have gotten the job had you omitted the certification that you don’t have, because posted job quals in tech are literally all suggestions, regardless of what the surrounding text says (with the exception of a few very narrow fields with regulatory/compliance requirements).

* Your best outcome at present is probably to come clean to your manager rather than letting this play out organically.

* Your ideal end state is almost certainly not keeping this job, but trying to mitigate the chances this will affect future jobs. Thankfully, generally speaking, it’s unlikely they’ll waste time attempting legal remedies, and it’s also unlikely that HR is going to go into details about your actions if questioned by a potential future employer, but the distinction between “So-and-so worked here from $start to $end”, “So-and-so worked here from $start to $end and was terminated with cause”, and “So-and-so worked here from $start to $end and was terminated for fraud” are material to your future job prospects.
I use Moment for iOS, and for awhile, I put its icon where I normally put the stock Camera app (in the rightmost position of the dock). But to be honest, I found myself rarely using it. I'm not sure if Moment's interface is clunkier compared to its rivals, but it's just much harder to adjust and access settings from a touch screen compared to a full-bodied camera's physical controls. And making manual adjustment often doesn't feel right or necessary for 99% of the impromptu photos I take with my smartphone.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moment-pro-camera/id927098908
Not necessarily. It first begins by depending on what your settings are (ISO, aperture, shutter speed). With all settings neutral, if I add an extra stop of light, i’m going to get more blown out exposure from letting more light in (f/4 -> f/2.8 — this will open the lens wider, therefore letting more light hit the sensor) but no additional grain since my ISO may be set at my bodies base of 100-200 ISO for shooting outdoors.

Now if i’m shooting indoors and my glass doesn’t have a decent f-stop that shoots in lowlight, i can leave my aperture down and raise my ISO to maybe 1200, but when you do this, that is when you’ll get grainy pictures because you’re moving away from the cameras sensor base ISO that it’s calibrated for.

But if you want to adjust everything in post processing, you’ll need to shoot RAW because JPEG do not hold enough data that’ll allow you to adjust it accurately.
There is some overlap but RAND is simply a think tank. (I admit that’s a vast generalization, they do good work)

MITRE operates FFRDCs, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, with very specific roles and limitations. They also don’t do a ton of policy analysis - they mostly do technical and architectural work, and support program offices and system developers. So your comment about strategic vs technical is mostly accurate, but it’s a little more nuanced.

(I am a former MITRE employee who still thinks they do good work and fill an appropriate role)

Edit: I guess RAND also operates FFRDCs too, but on policy analysis.
> over-price and they don’t sell anything

Well, that depends on the service itself. I often buy from Amazon not because it's cheaper, but because I know that shipping will be quick, even if it's imported the charge won't be taken by the carrier with an absurdly high fee, that if something has to be returned it will be easy. I even usually avoid third-party sellers on Amazon because of that, even if they are much cheaper.

> under-price and they leave money on the table

You just said that overprice and they won't sell anything. Seems like the alternative isn't money on the table but nothing at all on the table.

> if a company dominates, no one will challenge them

I think that's the wrong part. If someone can do just as good or better than Amazon, they'll do it. Amazon is the proof itself, there's so many products that still have third party on Amazon itself that compete against Amazon.

This option will just let Amazon have access to a bigger inventory for a lower cost than owning it themselves... That's not a huge advantage. I'm sure their algorithmns are already pretty good to balance the right amount of stock.
Ah got it! Sorry for the misunderstanding. Essentially in the case of our demise, our investors are not able to claw back the money in the 3rd party account. The rights will transfer over to our law firm to maintain kind of like an estate. They will be the ones to handle the operation of writing checks and sending funds to the correct counter parties down the line.
Because there's only one.

E.g. If we meet aliens someday their Lambda Calculus will be the same as ours. Just like their integers will be the same as ours.