skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a friend photobug taking a few photos with her flip phone camera and it was phenomenal for what it was. There is definitely a skill there that goes beyond lense quality.
Supply Chain Attack Targets IT Providers
Maybe it's really the other way around: Amazon has been trying to get 200k people to apply to their jobs.
I feel for all camera manufacturers. Why isn't there a Canon or Nikon or Sony cloud service where photos are sent to? Why haven't the big camera companies embraced computation in their cameras? Do DSLR bodies even have GPS capabilities for tagging photos?

It feels like there's no innovation in the camera space outside of Apple and Google.
After 40 years of applied quantum computing we have made no useful discoveries.
No surprise since it's applied.
40 years of LHG has yielded so many useful discoveries.
If we reallocated quantum computing funding to LHC wouldn't that be more rational?
And there are far more useful things to fund than the already useful LHC.
Guess Im a shitty developer cuz i tried this and failed, many, many, many times. I wont use anything I build because 1) its very limited, 2) i have to maintain it, 3) it takes forever to actually make anything (for me)
Is that mentioned in the readme? Is this readme worth reading if you don't already know what the project is about?
As a linux user I'm not aware of any software that I want that I would have to pay for. I guess I'm in the 1%.
I disagree about it not being slow, it depends on hardware. In addition to that I did not ask about how to fix a commit history manually, I asked for a tool that would go over an entire commit history and automatically fix the issues for me.
Royal Navy 'Perisher' training is best in world, say US analysts
I highly recommend running shellcheck on all of your bash code. It is what finally taught me the practical difference between [[ and [. There are some tests that will always pass in [, for example, but work properly in [[; one project never realized.
To be fair, you can be a fairly experienced developer with just two years of job experience, especially if it's a niche.
You have the problem exactly upside down. People resort to migration in order to obtain freedoms not available to them where they are. Only someone living in a cosy advanced free society, oblivious to the extremely constrained situation of the actual poor, could make such a profound error.

Billions of people worldwide didn't rise out of poverty since the 60s from migration though.

Capital belongs to people. Capital freedom is people exercising their rights of ownership over their property. That's what capitalism is. I know this very well because my wife is Chinese. Her father's family were villagers in the Chinese countryside, but they owned a few plots of land they rented to other farmers otherwise like themselves. As a result they were branded 'class enemies' and persecuted ruthlessly. To this day he sometimes tears up when we talk about those times, although I speak very little Chinese myself.
And the square foot below me has 575x the density of Monaco and there are no problems here!
This!!!! made my day :)
Landmark recognition in Cloud Mail.ru using deep learning: how and why
Semantic Police calling. Books are also media.
> Bill Gates took the money from the people who helped create it in the first place.

This doesn't make sense. This would imply that a Microsoft employee had more money before working at Microsoft than they did after working at Microsoft. That is objectively not the case.

That's what it means to take something. Someone else has something. You take it. They don't have it anymore.
I couldn't disagree with this statement more; I believe this kind of thinking is human nature and is in no way limited to "privileged people". People are willing to put up with a fixed amount of inconvenience or spend a set dollar amount on entertainment. When the inconvenience or cost becomes to costly they look for alternatives.

These media companies are increasing the inconvenience (moving the product from service to service, requiring cancelling one and signing up with another) and increasing the cost (the alternative is to subscribe to more services). A rise in piracy seems the reasonable outcome anyone would expect.
As the GP states, the article accepts the claim:

"Economists don’t understand much about the macroeconomy"

But then says that in fact economists have e.g. contributed to fewer people living in poverty. I'm simply saying I don't accept that the research of economists has improved e.g
the poverty situation without some evidence of that fact.

Before the discipline of 'economist' existed human societies experienced rises and falls of poverty, inflation etc. Is that sufficient evidence for you that 'completely unmanaged' (your words, which I don't even really understand your point here -- are you claiming economists 'manage' the economy?) economies have in the past had periods of ups like ours today?

The article is bordering on claiming that economists have nfi what they are doing, but the effects of their efforts have been amazing.
I've consistently bought something legally, and either lost access (service shut down, copyright issues removed the item from the service, etc) or was unable to actually access it after paying, and got no refund.

Nowadays I buy all the media I can (the restriction always being availability, usually region locking but occasionally something being too old), and then I immediately pirate a copy and usually consume the pirated copy since there's no DRM nonsense and I can actually get to my damned content.
1.You upload your ad and it's shown on other Adtree users' websites.

2. Your ad is shown as often as possible on only relevant websites.

3. Right now, I do. With enough users the network could be monetized by charging monthly to advertise (without having to place an ad on your own site).
I can't speak for the manufacturers but as a DLSR user I love the total predictability (exposure, DoF, focus, etc) when it is in manual mode. I really don't want the camera to try to anticipate the type of picture I am aiming for.

This totally applies to scenes. Portrait, sports, landscape, etc are all just different permutations of shutter speed, aperture and ISO.
Thats cool! I'm not sure where it comes from, but I get similar behavior in zsh with 'cd ....' - similar doesn't happen in bash though.

I mapped 'cd' to 'c' in my bashrc, but while doing it I also mapped 'c' to execute 'ls' as the latter was basically muscle memory whenever I was using cd. The .bashrc function looks like this:

c() {
builtin cd "$@" && ls;
}
Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
Stockholm Syndrome?

But yes, it's good that you were able to see it. I find marketing unethical, most people don't even realize that they are being advertised to.
Agree. I would 100% steal if by doing so giving me something I want but doesn't cause me any trouble or inconvenient. Software piracy fit very well here.
Isn't that the point of the statement though? You do it for yourself, not because anyone else at all might want to use it. Then if you toss it up on the app store and anyone does actually use it, it's just a happy upside.
Thank you for taking a look at it, and for those kind words!
Yes, but I think that's antithetical to what languages like bash and perl are trying to do. Someone well versed in the language can do some pretty complex operations in a few keystrokes.
I'd be interested to see if anyone can think of some good inverted scenarios and post them here - I just came up with a couple on the fly for this article, but I want to start keeping a list just for these.
Making Review Rich Results More Helpful?
To me, they seem to have to have a lot of employees (940, soon 1200) for what they do. That probably makes it harder.

I'm curious what portion of the employees are development folks.
"Folks just don't want to spend the money per month it would take to watch everything they like." Exactly my point. I get why they are doing it, but not for the idealistic reasons OP referred to. People will always choose free over paying for something. It has nothing to do with whether they can afford it, or it has DRM, or they want to "try" it before they buy it. Before the internet/torrents, everyone had no problem dumping tons of money into cable. When VHS came on the scene, everyone began copying movies and distributing them.
Maybe "unreadable" and "readable" aren't the best ways to approach this conversation.

It's certainly less readable than, say, my_str.strip()
It's RHEL... today. `/usr/bin/env` is a POSIX standard. Maybe one day, RHEL will put bash in /usr/local/bin. Or maybe you'll switch to FreeBSD one day, and suddenly everything goes boom.
Yeah, but on Mars they use Emacs, so then it's just The Expanse all over again.
This seems fundamentally flawed, because you can sample the solution space at most with a speed that is comparable to existing logic gates (and the interconnect is the main bottleneck).

Not sure why anybody would make the effort of researching this idea, or even why ars would publish an article on it.
As populations increase and resource shortages of various types become severe, migration and even travel will be shut down. The IT infrastructure and AI will allow trade to continue without travel.
By the way, what happens to exif when you upload online (or also fb or instagram)?

Does it get removed or can everyone see my location?
That photo is from guilin, and I have similar photos. The "fishermen" take people on raft (gondola) rides and will even sing to you in their local dialect. They also like to pick out the most foreign looking tourists and encourage them to sing as well.

Guilin is amazing photography-wise, but the tourism there has a very manufactured feel to it, as it does in most of the very popular places to visit there.
If they are on unemployment or receiving welfare benefits, they may be required to apply for a minimum number of jobs... in which case if they want to stay in their current situation, picking jobs you are obviously not qualified for is a way to meet the requirements without much risk of getting a job. Of course, if you do happen to get the job, at least its a much better one than you thought you could get!
Maybe they would jointly fund an online streaming service with predictable prices for the product, similar to what we see in music streaming...
Another often overlooked technical detail: Streaming clients and supporting the proper framerate of the content. My projector supports 24p as do most other displays, but good luck making sure that Netflix' and other streaming service clients on various devices actually output 24p and not interpolated 60Hz leading to micro stutter.

I understand that many displays have decent interpolation features these days, which hide the issues, but they are still a solution to an unnecessary problem.

A bluray or a good rip of it delivers the film in proper fashion. It's a non-issue with pirated content.
> would recognize the potential

Oh I'm sure they've recognized the potential all right. But these smartphone manufacturers have massive software development departments with heaps of funds poured into AI research for multiple reasons other than this specific field, which is now really starting to benefit them. It's a different culture.

And even if we assume a camera manufacturer would have the finances to build this culture on their home turf (a huge assumption to make), they then run into the next problem that their sensors are too big! They can't compete as strongly here because they capture much more information with their larger sensor sizes and even with tiny smartphone sizes, you need laptop level performance on a ~7-10 nm transistor scale and dedicated AI hardware to pull it off without destroying battery life. They're so far behind both in know how and difficulty of the problem that I'm not sure how they'll ever be able to do it in the foreseeable future at least with full frame cameras.
Gruber has the originals on his review: https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/the_iphone_11_and_iphones...
> do customers hate your guts for your advertising spam?
> Doesn't matter - the product becomes associated with a strong emotion, making it more likely some of them will buy it few months from now.

Interesting, does that really work? Got data you can point to, to back that one up?

I take your broader point of them not really caring - we are seeing that in data driven politics in the UK right now.

Obviously this host/parasite interaction will evolve - but at the moment it seems the population doesn't have many effective defenses. It's a bit like the opioid epidemic or obesity epidemic - currently people are being given the politics they apparently want.
The entire comment is:

> Nah, rebase is too slow on large histories and it might not be your own commit which complicates things.

I don't see any questions being asked. Rebase on the commits we're discussing (readme tweaks) are trivial: fixup fixup fixup
> I don't see any questions being asked.

Read the thread next time. I started by asking if there's a fixer and then someone suggests a single command that absolutely doesn't solve the problem and would take enormous time to use on some projects, even more so if your PC isn't the best of the best.
I had issues with urxvt and ended up moving to Kitty (https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty). I'm not impressed with its' autoupdate feature, but it can be disabled. Apart from that a few visual bugs which are probably to do with nvidia the terminal is great. The best feature? Emojis render flawlessly.

I had a proof of concept, but hackernews doesn't support emojis :'(
wish AV vendors would stop MiTM attacks on HTTPs
An interesting subcategory of #1 is when you're trying to watch a legally available movie that doesn't have subtitles in your language of choice. Watching Netflix in United States? Some stuff might have Spanish subtitles, but most doesn't. Amazon is even worse.
Machine Learning for your apartment hunt. Part 1
Would it need to be labeled if they were plugging in a 5G pci-e/USB WAN module?
WeWork is planning to IPO, and potential public investors deserve to know if they’re going to be betting on a company run by a crank. Exposing things like this is a basic function of responsible journalism.

Who would benefit from a smear campaign? You can’t short a private company.
From a technical point of view I'm quite sure my >10 years old Rebel XSi will yield similar photos after editing the raw-file. If you are impressed by this you're probably not really following the tech, don't have any clue about image processing and are just blindly following what Apples advertising is selling you.

Most of the "cool" iphone-pictures in non-optimal lighting are about 50% post-processing and they show (for example the linked pictures are about 1.5MP and while they have nicely matched colors, there's barely any texture left (it's the same for the ads on apple.com). This might be fine for viewing and even a small print but that's nothing a DSLR of yore couldn't do. And believe me, once you print a poster of the nice fisherman and compare image quality form the iPhone and a modern ILC you'll see that there's a lot to catch up for the iPhone.

I'd take a typical ILC for ~300 USD over a iPhone everyday from a technical point of view (and so would most photographers if there wasn't the ad-money)
Why would you rebase an entire git history? No one is arguing for that.
Does anyone else see a misalignment between the $3B valuation and the huge impact Wordpress has had on the internet? 1/3 of all websites are powered by Wordpress, yet they seem to be valued low compared to other tech companies.
then perhaps you can enlighten me, because to this day it's the only way I've seen to actually copy the password.
I've recently tried to watch the Netflix production "I am Mother", but it isn't available on Netflix in Switzerland – nor on any other streaming service or Blu-Ray.

It's probably cheaper for production companies to ignore piracy to a certain extent than to fix the distribution/rights issues, but that's definitely not good service.
Which one would not sign in a time where translations can be checked instantaneously by a legion of translators. You don't have to trust a single translation anymore, you have enough translators to discuss every possible way of misinterpretations before accepting a translation.
Telegram also shows my old Github avatar - it seems to cache them extremely aggressively.
Essentially repeating the same BS analogies with the "would you steal a car" campaign 20 years ago.

The commercial success of movies is measured at the cinema screenings. This is implicitly accepted even by studios. When a film is labeled as a failure, it is because it didn't break even at the cinema. Given that, I'm all in for heavy-handed crackdown on pirating content still screening at cinemas.

Whatever comes after cinema screenings, is just milking the cow for as long as the current laws permit it. The problem in the case of USA, is that the law permits this virtually forever. So this is a case where the law is being antisocial, enforcing copyright protection of works that should have been in the public domain long time ago. Good for Swiss people that they're not living in a USA protectorate and they can have their own laws.
Automattic is profitable.

This funding round is less about securing long-term profitability and more about long-term partnerships and scaling their portfolio of products[1] deeper into other third-parties such as Salesforce (and beyond):

> “The problem we’re tying to solve is likely multigenerational. It can take the rest of our lives and we need to pass it on to the generation that comes after to continue to work on it. Hopefully for the rest of humanity because I can’t imagine a time when humanity cannot benefit from an open, free, connected web,” Mullenweg told me.

> When it comes to today’s funding round, Salesforce Ventures isn’t your traditional investor — and Mullenweg is well aware of that. There could be some partnerships and integrations between Salesforce and Automattic in the future.

[1] https://automattic.com/about
Unfortunately, any aggregator service suffers the tragedy of the commons. At first it's nice because one place has all of the content. As time goes by, each provider of content sees that they could make more money by removing their content from the aggregator and launching their own service. This is true if it occurs in a vacuum, but it inevitably doesn't; each content provider thinks similarly and creates their own service. Now the consumer does not want to pay for each service and will resort to the most convenient option, piracy. If you follow gaming news, you see this happen with regards to Steam and the Epic Games Store. Piracy is a nearly unbeatable service because it acts as the ultimate aggregator with unremovable content. (Yes, there are private tracker sites with their own selection of content, but the vast majority of people use public trackers.)
Automation and Technological Unemployment in 1932
Think of what you want to achieve in your life.

Do being addicted to social media would help you reach that goal?
>With this recognition comes the permission to not try adding a mountain of features and complicating matters.

Well, yeah. The only thing that’s surprising about this is that the opposite has gotten so engrained. We are so accustomed to an attitude that (without the niceties of professionalism) is basically “who the fuck are you, nerd, to have the audacity to think you understand user needs? You’re weird and nobody wants what you want from software.”
The War on Amazon
What sort of people become white nationalists?
Your situation is the 1%, and that's awesome. You support the creators, AND you get a copy for yourself that is the most convenient. There is just NO WAY everyone else is doing that though. People have not purchased the thousands of movies they have on their 4TB hard drives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/earth/study-links...

Causes of Syrian war are a bit more complicated than what you say. Marches don't necessarily lead to war.
If you do have a degree, how can you know that it has never mattered?
It's pretty wild. Though I don't know why the NYT thought they'd be competitive in the global Spanish news market. Not like there's not an already well-developed media sector in LatAm and Iberia to provide quality reporting.
It's what it is today because that's how it's been adjusted by the capitalists, economists and politicians. I'll avoid the inevitable diversion into neoliberalism.

The fifties and sixties had a sustained period of increasingly shared worker participation, believed in by both sides of the political fence. Rising pay, conditions, pensions, fringe benefits, and reducing inequalities. Regulation to combat the ills of capitalism and markets, to prevent a repeat of 1929, to be suspicious of overly large corporations, to improve the lives both of worker and residents near the factory. It was Republican Nixon who formed the EPA and brought the clean air act.

By placing commerce above nation you restrict the impact of government, the shared deal is defenestrated, and it becomes a global race to the bottom. It makes it super-easy to trade one nation against another, and move profit around to avoid paying the rightful tax. Just because. The corporation is now above its government. Make it wherever's cheapest or has fewest restrictions. The current home of manufacture rises, the globe as a whole does not. Environmentally, climatically and regulationally it got worse.

Not to say I object to other nations rising, I don't at all. It could have been done without throwing baby out with the bath water.
>To expand, in a Democratic Socialist economy where the stock corporation is replaced by the worker cooperative, he would not have had the right to claim 500 million shares.

I’ve seen this idea thrown around before, but it sounds like an after-the-fact BS socialist utopia once Microsoft emerges from the capitalist system

Gates was not the Microsoft sole proprietor - he had investors and other workers who got shares in a free contract with the company

Is the worker cooperative more like an agency partnership model ? Even then only the partners get voting rights
Comparison of Kafka vs. Kinesis
Open source has massive benefits. WordPress would be nothing if it was closed off.

But open source also means users can fork if the company sucks.
What are private online ads, and why should you use them?
Since when did FRP come to denote any random framework that focused on reactivity and was somewhat functional vs the stuff Elliott and Hudak did in Haskell?
I... like, the first comment in the thread I asked if there's a tool that could go over the entire git history of a repo and fix such issues up, rebase isn't a solution in that case because it does get slow and it requires manual work which is slow, I don't understand how people are losing the context so quickly here.
I'm into taking photos to craft an image of reality. Myself. I couldn't care less for any AI crafting it's image of typical reality for me. I think that's quite set for anyone taking pictures for fun vs. admoney/instafame/...
Are you reading the Gabler or Thomas biography on Disney?
Yeah, it's gotta be rough right now.

I hiked a mountain about a year ago with my fiance, and she begged me to lug her Nikon DSLR up so we could get some good photos.

The only one we printed? An 18x60" shot I got on my iPhone 6s in panorama mode. We could have (and would have liked to) go even larger but framing started becoming an issue.
The point of prisons is not just to punish but rather to help “fix” people. Should your app play any role in that? At the moment, money is what keeps patients from spending tons of time on the phone (amongst other things). Can call points be a reward for doing well inside? Perhaps you get extra points when you visit the prison library or if you take classes to learn a craft? Not to complicate your plans, but feels like an opportunity that might help get support from policy makers.