skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct.

When they first came out, they had some excellent promise. They were the first digital 4k movie camera. So if you wanted a digital end to end 4k workflow, for about 4 years, RED was the only show in town. However, if you wanted to use normal lenses and dump direct to a normal plate format, the alexa was what you really wanted.

A rundown:

Firstly, you couldn't buy or hire one, you had to know someone.

Secondly you had to get a bunch of adaptors for _everything_, which drove up the cost significantly

Thirdly no global shutter meant that it wobbled horribly when you panned left and right.

Fourthly its colour was off, and noisy as hell(visual noise) (some later generations are practically colourblind. cough hobbit cough)

If they had actually produced and shipped the RED one, when they said they would, then my opinion would have been different. If they'd shipped the epic on price and spec, again, they could have transformed the film industry. But they didn't. By the time 4k digital workflows were practical for most people, RED had lost its shine.

Why do I personally dislike them?

Because, whilst there are some lovely people that work there, the level of cultism and secrecy is frustratingly annoying.

I'm trying to do VFX on a shot, I've been given a couple of TB of .r3d files, it takes 30 second a frame to put into a useable format. Even then I have to fiddle with it, because the colour profiles are all messed up, or some other stupid issue.

I talk to the RED team, they try and sell me a $5k card that only works in a mac (I was working at a linux shop at the time)

Fortunately Nuke 5/6 had native .r3d handling, which meant that we could drop out to the farm and blast through all the footage at once, with decent conversion options.

Why did people used them?

Size

They are much smaller than a film camera. Its practical to mount them on a moving rig, hand operate, etc, etc, etc, without loss of quality

Mobility

Because there is no film, you can bump them, wobble them, sit them next to explosions and not worry that the film is warping.

4K

way more resolution to play with. This means that you could push the ISO more and just half the resolution and get usable footage. which you had to do, making it basically an Alexa competitor

The key difference between the RED One and the Alexa, is that the Alexa couldn't record to an onboard device, the RED could. Also the resolution of the Alexa's sensor was lower, but the sensor size was correct. It also had a much greater usable dynamic range than the RED one.

The concept was nice, the company, and the fanboys can get to fuck.
I love SMBC. He does this kind of comic so well, where it starts out with some interesting premise and then go to complete hilarious absurdity with some "logical" steps. I can't think of anyone else who has the same type of humor.
But you remember when it is?

And who's buried in Grant's Tomb?
And yet they provide a private messaging platform on their mobile OS and online. Chat will be replacing hangouts, it’s where the devs from Allo went to and supports things like RCS.
Oh come on, Activision has owned Blizzard for over a decade, during which Blizzard has released many of the most popular games and expansions for WoW.
I've done 2 commercial Typescript + React projects so far (along with few side projects using what I knew that time + what I want to try). My experience been:

- Discourage 'any' but not been afraid of using it when must. I think it as the 'technical debt spelled out': when you want to put down an 'any' and get on with what you're doing, by all mean, but remember its existence and make sure the team is well aware. If the usage going to persist (example, using a library without @type), then you treat it as JS and have appropriate amount of validation around the occurrence.

- Usage of "?" and "!" covers more scopes with less lines of code. For hobby/one-man project, I found their usages no-brainer, however I'm nervous when it comes working in a team of various experience level.

- I've had real headache typing API responses. On one hand, you have absolute no control of others' code quality that you might as well have "number | string | null | undefined" for all parameters. But doing that almost defeats the purpose of typing it, so I'll need to use my educated guesses and judge reliability of each known parameters in responses.

- TypeScript version of 'create-react-app' projects builds slower than its JavaScript counterpart without ejecting. It took 2~6 seconds per build while IIRC, it was <2 seconds for JS. I was keen to find a solution for this, but after a while it grow on me and I simple stop save after each line of code.

- JSDoc is still relevant in TS code. It is great to document event emitters, exceptions etc.

- tslint and prettier are must in my projects in order to retain sanity for unnecessary discussions around coding style.
>> But despite encouraging results, most of the time I’m reminded that we’re nowhere near achieving human-like AI. Why?

Primarily, because we have no idea what intelligence is, or how it works, why it exists even, etc etc. This goes for human-like intelligence, but also for any kind of intelligence. We just have no good scientific understanding of the subject. We have some vague models of it ("the brain is like a computer and the mind is like a program running on it") but nothing very precise and certainly nothing that can be reproduced on a digital computer, which is what "human-like AI" would be (i.e. human-like AI would be the reproduction of human intelligence on a digital computer).

Most likely, until we make some progress in understanding intelligence we will not be able to reproduce it. Except perhaps by chance.
Yes, and browsing through the TMP folders in hopes of finding some temporary savings of your data. :D
> If you quadrupled capacity, but halved speed would that be better or worse for the railway, or the internet?

Bandwidth is speed in most cases for the internet, lag intolerant games being an exception. Also my 10Mbit link is good enough for me despite having 100Mbit available. So the question is about comparing things which are not really comparable. Well, TBF, I can't.

> Passengers may value the speed more than the capacity

well they might, and they might want the carriages painted polkadot with hot podium dancers at each end, so how about arguing from a basis of fact instead?

from https://press.which.co.uk/whichpressreleases/rail-companies-... and with a table at the bottom. Speed is not mentioned in the report. Clearly other things really are hurting them.

As to speed vs capacity, look in the chart at 'standing room' and 'availability of seats'. That's about capacity.

> Door to door train v car journey is more marginal that what you suggest

For you I wouldn't doubt, but there's a lot of others who may feel different. Pace but arguing from 1 data point is not rigorous. I've heard of people spending £5,000 a year for their work commute (that may be reporting bias but it's another data point).
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For what it's worth, I clicked the comment thread here before looking at the article. And without recognizing the author's name, my first thought from what people were saying about it was "It sounds like we're talking about Avernum."

I played the demo of one of his games on a bondi blue iMac back in the early 2000's. The graphics then looked ok. But it's 2019 and new titles don't look better.

I've wondered before who the userbase is for these; is it just fans from back in the day when game development was a smaller thing and the competition didn't have great artists either? Because I can't see getting into them as a new player.

Being able to sell 2x by having a more consistent and up to date art style honestly sounds low to me. Even as someone who's played my share of RPGs, had a Mac back in the day, and know that Spiderweb Software exists, that's the main thing holding me back from checking it out seriously.

But if he's getting by with what he's doing and spending more to try and reach a broader market is a risk he doesn't want to take, that's his call.
Right! We're agreeing. Rural dwellers are outliers; their concerns are not addressed by rules made up in the Capitol City.
Correct. The same applies for post-partum depression which many attribute to an increase in new hormones in the women's body. But how much of this effect is attributable to simple sleep deprivation?
This is a potential use case for 410 Gone: there used to be content, but not anymore, and it is unlikely to reappear in the future, so you can cache this response and not bother trying to fetch it again. Of course, 410 is only appropriate if you can be fairly sure that you don't want to reuse the URI in the future.
I think they would be, if you use the definition in the sense that the 'work' done is the Research & Development. The actual producing of the chips is easy. The R&D for new products and production methods are the real cost. So with in mind they are tech companies since it doesn't matter if they sell 10k chips or 10mil, the work is done. The rest is creating copies, which is 'cheap' in comparison.
>There is no provision for secession in the US Constitution.

Yes, but Article I of the UN Charter expressly provides for the right of Self-Determination.

>Practically, well, the one notable attempt didn't work out, so not that, either.

Yes, that resulted in more American deaths than all other US wars combined. However, notably that was also before the UN. Moreover, not only does the UN provide for a right of Self-Determination it also restricts the right for any nation to use force (i.e. armed conflict, Article 2(4)). If a group of people with a well defined territory peacefully secedes, and armed conflict and use of force is implemented to prevent the secession that would violate the UN Charter, use of force and laws of armed conflict.

Obviously one of the best examples case studies of applying international laws and norms to the real world is Palestine, which is recognized by the UN and 193 member nations as an independent State, but Israel does not. Obviously its not as easy as Palestine simply secedes through a democratic vote, as there are all kinds of claims from both sides regarding land disputes, use of force and laws of armed conflict. Still international recognition of Palestine as an independent State is a giant mile stone in the process.
Yes, good point. It can do cron jobs with the help of Cloud Scheduler and PubSub
This has been my thought too. China is allowing these protests to go on. At any point, they can roll in the tanks, and they will be over.

Without meaningful ways to defend themselves, there really is no way to win against the Chinese government.
Grant who?
This exactly. If the issue is people feeling/being disenfranchised, changing how we elect the President isn't going to help. It just reinforces the idea that we're a monarchy and the job of the rest of the government is to do the will of the President. We can do better than this!

The Presidential horse race every 4 years is mostly for television. Federalism works because you want the decisions that affect your life the most to have the most direct accountability.
The next time that researcher finds a vulnerability he's definitively not going to report it "responsibly" even if it is "within scope".
It was not well exposed, and unavailable completely on the iPad version of their app, but it was quite useful between my wife and I for sharing videos asynchronously.
> For more 'real' new games from Blizzard like Overwatch is Okayish, and Heroes of Storms (I can't even be sure about the name) are bad.

This sounds like a matter of opinion. Overwatch is a relatively new game and Blizzard is continuing to release expansions for WoW. They have also long been rumored to be working on various new IPs (both in-universe and entirely original) for a few years now.
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The article goes on to use `__import__()` to one-line imports.
True. But even experienced execs and investors know that lawsuits require time, arbitration, and often don’t go how you would expect. All the while eating up money that should go to shareholders.

I’m agreeing that employees get screwed more often than not, I’m also saying smaller investors get screwed more often than not.
I bargain my rate by the job, not by some bucket you put me in. You need this task done? I can do it; you'll pay for that. You need it sooner? The rate goes up. You want a fixed bid? I'll have to pad that, to cover for eventualities.

Not a lot about 'Level III' in that discussion.
Not really, say Texas wanted to declare independence. How long would a Texan militia last against the US military? Modern empires can't be resisted period. It's just a question of whether you want to destroy yourself to keep them from ruling you. In that case they still can't be resisted but at least you deny them their victory. You either belong to one empire or another. The only way for Hong Kong to resist would have been if they never unified with China and joined as a territory of the US or Europe or something when Britain was done with them.

Americans and the US like to perpetuate the freedom myth, but it's mostly bullshit used to destroy countries in the name of liberating them to benefit the US financially or strategically. The reality is much more stark.
How about finding triples a<b<c<30 of pairwise relatively prime integers such that the sum of their cubes is a perfect cube? Here's a list comprehension in Python (notice the weird syntax Python uses for "let x = y", namely "for x in [y]" :P):

[(a,b,c) for a in range(1,30)
for b in range(a+1,30)
if gcd(a,b)==1
for c in range(b+1,30)
if gcd(a,c)==1 and gcd(b,c)==1
for d in [int((a**3+b**3+c**3)**(1.0/3)+0.5)]
if a**3+b**3+c**3==d**3]

I doubt that would look any nicer with higher order functions. Specially if you want to get the same efficiency: notice how here we test that gcd(a,b)==1 as soon as possible. In general efficient comprehensions involve pushing any filtering as early as possible, so with higher order functions you get an alternation of filter with map/flatmap.

Here's a (probably lame) attempt at a Python higher order version:

flatmap = lambda f, l: [x for t in l for x in f(t)]

flatmap(lambda a: flatmap(lambda b: flatmap(lambda c: (lambda d: [(a,b,c)] if a**3+b**3+c**3==d**3 else [])(int((a**3+b**3+c**3)**(1.0/3)+0.5)) if gcd(a,c)==1 and gcd(b,c)==1 else [], range(b+1, 30)) if gcd(a,b)==1 else [], range(a+1,30)), range(1,30))

Maybe it would look nicer with some filters thrown in instead of abusing flatmap of empty lists, but it would be longer since you definitely need a flatmap for a and b, and either a flatmap or map for c.

I'd love to see a cleaner version with higher order function.
Overwatch and Hearthstone have been hugely, hugely successful for Blizzard. The Diablo mobile game is going to be a license to print money too, PR snafus or not.
> The middle class is shrinking in the US, because they're moving up.

This is only half the picture. The middle class is shrinking in the US, because some are moving up and some are moving down.
So... what does the scrum master do then? If the developer needs to figure out how to work things out so he aligns with the rest of the team?
DNS was introduced when a centrally managed /etc/hosts file was no longer feasible, it was a simple solution to a problem that fairly few people (mostly computer researchers) had. It solved the problem and not much more.

Computers weren't mainstream when DNS was invented.
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They will remake The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, that's almost for sure. And some players actually like playing the same game. I think that I would happily play Classic like forever, if only enough players stick around, as it's a MMO after all.

They are expected to present some new games in the next year (probably they'll announce it at Blizzcon).
I havent played any of his games but now would love to do it. I like dwarf fortress and generally am bummed with the gameplay in current games.
I don't really understand this comment. Hong Kong enjoys considerable autonomy, the threatened loss of which is the reason for the current protests. This very real autonomy is the reason it continues to be a thriving financial center.
No, at the end of the day. People are humans and are affected by face-to-face interactions. Communication via television and internet feels impersonal. When a candidate visits your city, they discuss how your local and state politics tie together. So candidates can personalize their speeches towards a specific region per visit. Some people might not care about this, but many others will
> When my whole country and some was suddenly denied all google services

> didn't make any news here either

Denied by government by any chance? Makes sense why it din't hit the news.
Yeah, this.

I was a pretty dedicated player, off and on, from open beta in late-summer 2004 through the Cataclysm expansion in 2012, with a little dabbling later for Mists of Pandaria in 2014.

The game changed a LOT. I was never much of an endgame raid player; I really, really enjoyed the progression through the world with friends, so I did that several times.

As WOW shifted to be more endgame raid focused, world progression got a lot faster, a lot lonelier, and a lot less interesting. OTOH, those first years of playing WoW remain, to me, probably the best video gaming experiences I've ever had (and I'm pushing 50, so I've seen the whole ride).

I'll probably re-up to play some Classic. I doubt I'll stick with it -- I have other things I enjoy doing now that would preclude me from playing more than an hour or two a week -- but it'll be fun to visit that world again.

(Oh, and I should note for non-WoW people that the actual in-game world literally changed -- geography shifted, towns were destroyed, etc -- with the release of Cataclysm in 2010. Among the shattered places left behind were the early-level zones for my first characters. I'd love to see those as they were again.)
Let's look at a simple fact:
Finland as a Parliament of 200 seat for a population of roughly 5.5 million.
France as a Parliament of 577 seat for a population of roughly 67 million.

Thats around 3 times more representative per citizen.

It's more like more democracy = more social wellness.

EDIT: To have the same amount of representative in France, we would need ~1900 députés, which mean 19 députés per département, and ~6 députés per arondissement.
Although I haven't seen his YT videos, he is very much hated (especially on Reddit, not sure about HN) for his shallow presentation. In fact for one comment praising him, I've found may be 50 comments condemning him.

For example, see these threads -

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/8x5n6...

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/8zk36...
Interesting that they went with a 32bit ISA, given the growth and demand for ML/AI, which seems to lean upon lower precision (8bit), then I wonder if they could of gone for that instead of something more a jack of all trades design.

Which makes me wonder, when will somebody do an ISA dedicated for ML/AI and will we ever see old 8bit CPU's reborn as on memory CPU's.

But we have seen this approach for processing upon memory before and whilst that has not tractioned into a product, this might. Though with Chip design going towards chiplets, ram can and may well become another chiplet in the evolution of that design process.
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I feel guilty because I’ve never installed GitLab’s CI process locally and have only run it for the past few years through git commits. I keep expecting someone to complain, but so far, so good.

I expect similar poor behavior testing GitHub’s actions because it’s so convenient to only run through the service.

It is important though that it’s possible to run without CI/cd. If it wasn’t available I would complain because of the risk of lock-in.
The founding fathers also didn't want anyone voting but white landowning men who paid property tax.
I find the post-mortems helpful. I don't want to make the same mistakes with my infrastructure, and it gives me something to reference when, for instance, the upper management decides they want to migrate to one of these services.
They did. They made enough content that it’s currently at “Modern WoW”. All the changes were incremental.

So, do they just re-release the same content again (and where do they stop)? Any attempt to release new “old school” content would be immediately compared to the original expansions (considered some of the best expansions of the game), and most likely not welcomed by the community.
A population armed with guns can no more stand up to a modern police force or army than one without firearms. People in Iraq and Yemen were heavily armed.
Ah, creating the root node requires admin privileges. If you're distributing an application, you'll need your application's installer to run as admin and create the root node. Consider if that is what you really want, but it does require your users to run something as admin. This does not justify installing the JDK, as your users wouldn't (or shouldn't) do that, anyway.
I am honestly stuck between two worlds, React and Elm. There is a toy project that I've alternately developed using both React and Elm, which is a little neurotic when I think about it. I find working with components to be more intuitive and organized than my Main.elm ends up being, but, even using Typescript's strictest settings I seem to get runtime errors, which bothers me a great deal.

Before trying Elm I'd never used a purely functional language. It's definitely a different way of thinking and I'm glad I took the time to wrap my head around it.
Actually, HK independence is deliberately mentioned a lot in Weibo.

They want to paint the protesters as pro-HK independence but in fact this is not one of our five demands.

And of course they block all the stuffs that make the HK gov and police look bad.
The report finds no bias, but conservatives rip it anyway, and I'll refrain from speculating there. But this quote is telling: Missouri Senator Josh Hawley "challenged the methodology of the third-party audit, which relied heavily on interviews with conservatives about their concerns."

This makes Hawley look fairly partisan, or even tribal. If the report's authors hadn't interviewed enough conservatives, that would have been challengable too.
You missed the chance to set the response code of the post to 404 instead of 200, I was very disappointed.
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I'd replace the inner concatMap (\y -> [x+y]) with a simple map (\y -> x+y), or, if I'm honest, with map (x+).

Here's hoping HN doesn't mess up the asterisks...

EDIT: I've replaced all asterisks with plus signs, because I couldn't figure out how to protect them from HN.
Choice Hotels Data Breach and Clairvoyant LLC
I received an e-mail saying,

"Choice recently learned that a vendor hosted data obtained from Choice on a server that was accessible from the internet for a few days. The database contained the name, mailing address, email address, and/or phone number for some of our guests, including you. It did not contain other personal data, like payment information or passwords, and it did not include information about your reservations or stays. The vendor copied this information from Choice’s network without our consent. Upon learning of this, we confirmed that the vendor deleted the database from their server and we ended our relationship with the vendor."

and upon asking for for who did it, I received this :

"Hello,

The ex-vendor is Clairvoyant LLC, a technology consulting company.

Regards,

Data Protection Officer

Choice Hotels International"

I can't find any other information, it seems like the kind of the thing that deserves some attention
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