skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did he get hands on a phone that hasn’t been released yet if Apple didn’t provide it?
I just scrolled down to the side by side images.
Ok, just looked at these images: https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/the_iphone_11_and_iphones... in full res and indeed, they are very blurry and the detail loss is still there:

look at the hairs of the dog: https://daringfireball.net/misc/2019/09/iphones-11-review/mo... They are all blurry

Is it possible to shoot RAW with iPhone?
Yeah I read the article alright, but what I see there is something you can do just fine "handheld" with any cheap(ish) ILC. Arguably the method is relatively irrelevant for such comparison.
Python is a portability minefield. I'll spend more time trying to get the script/package run than reading the bash script.
Around 2003/04 was installing Avast/AVG on my friends desktops/PCs was a wonderful freeware. I started working as a system administrator around 2007 when I did the same on a few office machines, I had noticed how they became rogue, By infecting healthy machines with malware and prompting to buy paid version for removal, I am not sure if anyone remembers this thing with Avast ?
This seems like a good time to mention my (ridiculous) project, a ctypes module for bash.

https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/wiki

There are some little demos here:

https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/tree/master/test

I even ported the GTK+3 Hello World to bash as a demo:

https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/blob/master/test/gtk.sh
"On asteroids" is definitely my new favorite phrase.
Sure, and that commercial for Amoxaperacilin I just saw on TV was just a happy family running through a field on a sunny day, with sweet music in the background while they listed off a series of horrific side effects.

It wasn't an advertisement either.
Does the author have a bias? Certainly.

Is this an advertisement? Ads are paid announcements. There was nothing noting it was paid for in any capacity.

There's a difference between an ad and a bias. I find it useful to notice biases because we all have them. Ads are quite different.
Most people don't zoom in on their photos. They look at them on their phones, full screen on their computers, or at best on a TV (1080p or maybe 4K, but sitting far away).

This is what manufacturers optimize for. Getting great pictures for the 95%.

Who cares if the hairs on the dog are blurry when you zoom in so much you can't see the rest of the picture? Well, Pros who might want to crop the photo later. And for them, DSLRs will still exist.
If it is binding then it not really moot is it?
I'd agree with you but the user agreement that you sign when turning on the device the first time states they can do shit like this.

EULAs are an entirely separate problem, though.
Among other services, I'm subscribed to Prime, and really enjoy some shows on there like The Terror.

But for whatever reason, the release schedule for new episodes on season 2 is all messed up in my Amazon region. Sometimes there will be 6 days between them, then 9 days, right now the last episode it offers is the fifth one, released there on September the 9th, that was 10 days ago.

It ended with a massive cliffhanger, and I'm sitting over here looking for something to watch, but Amazon Germany simply doesn't want to deliver. So earlier I looked up the scene release, which was back on the 15th, and pirated that episode.

The pirated version also has the added benefit of not throwing double the amount of subtitles (German and English) at me for any foreign language scene. One would think such localization subtitles should be easily disabled, yet Amazon Germany doesn't offer an option for it and still displays them even when English dub and subs are selected.
I believe the problem of the "gradual roll out" is it doesn't consider people from the countries that already exceed the per country limit, those people will wait a long time before they can get the green card.
My friend’s wife took almost 8 months to find a production support job. Why are jobs so hard to get these days? Is it because competition is so high and for a single job there are 20 applicants?
This is not like consumer goods where bad quality of something you bought won’t kill you. We still need safety standards, otherwise the country will be flooded with quack doctors who are cheap but also hurt people.
I've heard that discoverability on usenet is a problem. Is it similar to private trackers and just harder to find an easy "in", or do people actually pay for access to those index sites?
While there are some direct incentives for fossil fuel producers, most of the subsidies go to commercial use of fossil fuel products.
I was under the impression that it wasn't for performance but for distribution, i.e., to optimize for app size. Instead of having a fat binary crosscompiled for different architectures, Apple uses the bitcode to compile and distribute per architecture. It's part of the "app thinning" process.
Where it's possible, I'll always invest in product and engineering over marketing (specifically external ad spend). The Tumblr acquisition is a good example of that, we actually scaled back WP.com marketing in anticipation of that to give more room to bring on Tumblr's entire 200ish-person team. 90%+ of our growth is organic, and that percentage is going up.
>The pacific north west is not considered a good place weather wise in the USA.

Where did you get that crazy idea? The PNW is known for being mild, though rainy and not terribly warm. People who like a lot of sun wouldn't like it. But compared to most parts of the country, it's known for "good" weather: in the northeast, it's snowy and brutally cold during the winter. In the southeast, it's brutally hot and humid during the summer, and there's hurricanes. In the (desert) southwest, it's horrifically hot during the summer. In the middle/plains states, it's brutally cold in the winter and there's regular tornadoes. In the Dakotas/Minnesota area, it's horrifically cold in the winter. The PNW doesn't have any of that stuff. Compared to southern California, the weather may not seem as nice to many people, but most of the rest of America does not have the consistently mild and warm weather year-round that SoCal has. But PNW does have consistently mild weather year-round for the most part, albeit without so much sun, and a lot of rain.
> Is it possible to shoot RAW with iPhone?

Yes but with third party apps only.
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Especially if you subscribe to the many worlds interpretation. :)
Early test releases are not uncommon.
You can pay a photographer guide to help you get this exact shot. Author used this, as suggested by the footer perhaps: https://www.mercierzeng.com/guilin-photography-tours

This kind of stuff exists for many popular shots with local photographers you can hire to take you and even have you get up close with locals.
git grep is parallel, too.
I'll just mention to the sadly racist and ignorant nikofeyn since I can't reply to his post:

If groups of Indian immigrants tend to bring down the "standard of living" in your experience it probably has much to do with the fact that these are often young, unmarried men.

Anyone that has visited a college dorm knows that this low standard of living has nothing to do with race.
An increasing number of people don't have the infrastructure to save (large) files. They don't have PCs, only phones or tablets.
I'm supposing that he naturally made the project appstore ready because he knew what the requirements for that were, as in he did not write what he needed and then fixed it, he instead did not write anything that went out of guidelines.

As far as the other stuff, this reminds me of recruiters who send you a coding project that they say will take 2-3 hours that generally takes 4-6 if there isn't some major problem. The extra time is of course setting everything up choosing what dependencies you need etc, because every project is slightly different and you are unlikely to have everything that is needed for that one project. The actual coding is probably 2-3 hours.

So perhaps he already had everything his system needed, if so I expect it might have taken 1 hour to code (because he was very comfortable and knew exactly what he would need to do) and some minutes to make git repo, push code.
Then add another hour to time compiling and submitting to app store.

If he knew what he needed to do in the code of course that was probably from thinking about it for weeks beforehand.
The Reference Counter: A Story
One beer. :-/
> "I don't know what should I do with it"

> Rust

Rust seem really cool, and while I'm not a rwir type guy, I've wanted to learn it for a little now. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no use for it. I have nothing I need to write or even rewrite for memory safety reasons and the little low level / systems programming I do is limited to C or C++ because it's typically work on existing code.
Exactly. Everything he's saying seems reasonable, but the consequence is that there are single people that own 150,000,000,000$. Such a staggeringly absurd amount of money cannot be be a good thing for the public at large. We shouldn't rely on the good will of our fief lords to donate their money, in fact just look at Mr 150 billion who openly says "I can't think of anything that deserves a donation".

The corollary is obvious. Tax the ultra-rich at high marginal rates to force them to contribute back to the society that made their success possible in the first place.
False Flag ops are not unknown in history..
He means 2k per month, but with a 4-day work week, so probably 32 hours. Not sure if that is supposed to be before or after taxes tough, if it's before taxes, ouch.
Also add to your comment, every time this bill comes up in the news, it says people from India and China will benefit from it. But the reality is, only people from India will so because currently the wait time for people born in China is about 4 years, after the bill, for the next 10 years, no GC will be given to people born in China because the long waitlist from India.

In fact, no one from China I know supports this bill.
USD$5.2 trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Glo...

"hey fossil fuels, let's 1v1"
sincerely, solar

(From Forbes: United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education)
> No problem, we thought and instructed the Rust compiler to disable its own ThinLTO pass when compiling for the cross-language case and indeed everything was fine -- until the segmentation faults mysteriously returned a few weeks later even though ThinLTO was still disabled. [...] Since then ThinLTO is turned off for libstd by default.

Instead of fixing the crash, they landed a workaround.

> We learned that all LLVM versions involved really have to be a close match in order for things to work out. The Rust compiler's documentation now offers a compatibility table for the various versions of Rust and Clang.

It's cool they got it working, but it sounds like this is currently proof-of-concept quality and not very productionized yet. To me, the overall tone of the article sounds like they ran into a bunch of issues and opted for duct tape instead of systemic fixes. Which is fine to get things off the ground, of course! But I hope they take the time to go back and fix the underlying issues they ran into too.
Solving Sequence Problems with LSTM in Keras
Why? The net effect is exactly the same.
Without looking heavily into it, it seems like given Wix is trading $6B in public markets, why not try and IPO unless you believe there is a large business synergy with Salesforce?
Yep, and a ton of rapidly growing competitors in the overall it ops space (scalyr, kentik, honeycomb, grafana, riverbed, and probably 10 more, and even bigger dev efforts at Google/AWS/MS) means a race to the bottom revenue wise and many easy alternatives for sub-1B acquisition (im guessing most will be < 50M for the startups or say 6X on revenue for bigger, if you are considering working at one and need to value stock growth)
Typeface hides a secret in plain sight
The fact that there are a finite number of reserved parking spots only matters if there are more people who want one than there are spots. In that case, you’re keeping a spot from a paying customer, costing the garage money. In my garage, however, the reserved spots have number been full, and many are empty every day. Does that make it okay to park there?

The digital versus physical distinction is in my opinion meaningless. We’re not talking about an abstract bit pattern. We are talking about the product of peoples’ labor. (Indeed, movies are more uniquely the product of human labor than almost anything else. It’s not like a factory-produced widget.) People make these things and ask you to set the terms for your benefitting from the fruits of their labor. Whether the product takes the form of a physical thing or a bit pattern is irrelevant to the human dimension of the transaction.
Packaging a .NET Core Service for Ubuntu
I want a high caliber camera but I never want to have to carry it around with me...
I hope that our fundraising history shows we wouldn't do a round that reduced our business optionality in the future!
Regulatory capture.
We exempt mining companies from fuel tax because they don't drive on public roads. sigh.
Flip it around. Why is subsidizing corn a good thing?
You sound mad. Are you mad at Apple? Mad at some random pro photographer who obviously likes Apple?

It reads like a photographer who is a fan of Apple's camera tech. Shows some very nice photos (bc he's a pro or something I gather). Not an "advertisement". I can't see where any money changed hands from Apple to this photographer to write what he did. And I'm sure everyone who is a fan of shooting on Android phones will wait for the comparison reviews.

So why you so mad bro?

You read like an Apple hater.

Edit: Some ppl are mad that I used the word "mad" to describe the original comment. The assertion that this article is some paid advertisement is unfounded by lack of any evidence that Apple paid this photographer any money. At most Apple gave this person a loner iPhone for review - Apple does that.

Now would Apple "bet" that this person would write a glowing review? Quite possibly. Companies/people leveraging their fanbase is nothing new. But to say it's an "ad" is unfounded.

You should be glad you can spot bias in a review.

The question remains... why are you so mad?
Jeffrey Epstein infiltrated science because it was ready to accommodate him
Say what you want about Groupon overall, but Andrew was an amazing leader during my time there. I'd be excited to work on this team.
The quote from "Indispensable Man” reminds me of this from Charles de Gaulle:

"Indispensable men? The graveyards are full of them."
> It's fairly well accepted that the Jewish high intelligence is genetic

I haven't found anything conclusive for genetic differences in intelligence. The increased Jewish intelligence (at least, amonst Ashkenazi Jews, which is the subset most noted for their intelligence) could equally be ascribed to a culture of intense education. Nobody has ever done a cross-adoption study for Ashkenazi with non-Ashkenazi parents, and vice versa.

I'm not what you would call a "blank-slater". Obviously we are a product of our environments, both during our lifetimes and evolutionarily. I find it hard to believe, however, that one set of humans required vastly different skills than another set, to the point where cognitive abilities didn't progress as far. There is no "easy life" in evolution. Competition is the same everywhere. If anything, the social systems in the western world could have allowed weaker genes to thrive where once they wouldn't.
Gojsonq v2.2.2 Released
Not to give Amazon any ideas but I would actually love a service like Audible for seasons of TV series: pay a monthly fee and get X “credits” that you can use to access a season of a show.
We might also note that many farmers grow types of corn bred and genetically tweaked such that it's not even really fit for human consumption but rather maximizes properties ideal for industrial processing.
>Do you understand what it's like to be a month or so away from being deported if you get fired and can't find a new job, and living with the pressure every day?

That's the biggest reason why H1-Bs cause problems for American workers: people on those visas are under immense pressure to accept deals that natives and more secure immigrants would not. The pressure on American workers would be reduced if all H1Bs were converted to citizenships.
Its going to be much cheaper because all the cooling, error correction and other quantum interface stuff is not needed - its just a bunch of magnetic memory cells. Lets see how it scales.
It's a similar idea to that, but it's more lightweight and much more of a "drop-in replacement" for both cat and less. For instance, when using it as a replacement for "less", it will use terminal colors correctly (i.e. "ls --color | bat" works like you'd want), it will have the same keybindings as less (i.e. b/f for page back/forward, / for search, q for quit, ...), it wont have a cursor, etc. Essentially "less and cat but way better".

Vim can certainly do all these things (or mostly, I don't know about the terminal colors), but for viewing read-only text streams, it's a bit more domain-specific and convenient. It's also blazing fast to open, which vim isn't always.
Since I can't reply directly to briandear's comment now that it's flagged, I have to ask, why is his comment flagged and now unreadable? He didn't write anything about the rules there that I could see. He expressed an opinion that some people might not like (I certainly find it repulsive), but it's an honest opinion, and I think reflects a large portion of the American electorate, as evidenced by how they vote. Trying to hide this isn't helping.
You've clearly never heard of cats and the amount of time they spend cleaning their butts...
How do they get that far, does their resume look good?
» Consider, for example, a residential street where the speed limit is 5 mph: it’s pretty hard for anyone to get seriously injured in an accident if vehicles follow the rules. But if a car decides to barrel down the road at highway speeds, I’m not off the hook if I push you in front of the it. I can’t just say “I’m innocent, because you couldn’t have died if everyone followed the rules” and get out of it. I’d probably still be liable if I didn’t see the car coming. Just because someone may have done something illegally that made my actions worse does not absolve me from wrongdoing; it just makes it so there are two problems to deal with.

This is still treating a symptom and not the root of the problem. I don't care so much about "justice" for the victim as much as I care about the systems problem.

In your example, why was someone driving well over the speed limit? Could we make it less likely or even impossible to speed that much? What can we do to make these events less likely to happen in the future?
Isn't the point of a fuel tax to pay for road repairs? Why should they pay a fuel tax if they aren't using public roads?

I don't drive, so I may be completely off here - I'm genuinely asking because I don't know
Austin Mann has reviewed every new iPhone for awhile in this manner. Reviewing equipment while taking travel photos is what he does.
> With ICANN and registrars, there is a point you can directly attack legally, and a root of trust.

For my use case, that's a problem rather than an advantage, as I'm not a holder of important IP works, trademarks, etc.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this.

I get the math and the idea that one password can have all combinations hashed in 161 days for this specific scenario - which is a 6-8 char password that does not allow non-alpha-numerics.

I do think I forgot to add that I was thinking about all of this not just as a theoretical problem but in the context of a single end goal: accessing some random's bank account for some large {randoms} through some front end tool that is protected a 6-8 char password.

Keeping this in mind: running this 161 day process results in a list of 32 billion hashes - useful only for a single account - that you really cannot do anything with since:

i) you don't have bank's stored hash to test against
and
ii) you can't use the front-end access to test a hash

If an attacker has back-end access to some DB or app to test the hash, you didn't need the hash in the first place to do nefarious stuff. You are already in.

Point being that, yes, I do get it now that a 6-8 char password is much weaker in that it can be cracked in 161 days. But it is a really expensive attack to mount for a single account that may not even hold the cost of hardware and time spent mounting it. This strategy just does not scale to huge volumes of accounts.

From a bank's risk management perspective, the potential losses associated with a successful attack of a single account in this fashion are more than manageable. It is cheaper, long term, to refund a clients up to $YYMM than it is to pay for one-time development work across all platforms to remove the 6-8 char restriction.

Remember that security posture here has multiple layers. For example, for accounts with significant funds, you can definitely get in the front end with this approach but once in, you still have to deal with other protection schemes before being able to tap into any funds (e.g. multiple 2FA / RSA / PIN / keyword challenges, IP and/or time of day and/or destination gating etc ).
Well, most food has 0% VAT, as well as other necessities... I gather at least home energy should have a similar treatment. At least up to some level.
Those are video framerates, usable for slowing down things like jumps to water / with skis etc. No screen for general public has 7k+ framerate, would be completely useless waste of energy (and money for expensive research)
I don't really care, it doesn't affect me in any negative way. I get a TV at a reduced price and they get paid for making great software. My TV doesn't have a camera or microphone so what...they fingerprint what is watched to provide better suggestions for future content? Yeah, cool with me.
But the neuro atypical have been driven out of basically everywhere for years, by women.
At this point I just find it weird it's tied to the author's death at all. It's not going to incentivize young people, to either live longer or produce more material.
Beautiful, chromium 77 has, as advertised, broken incognito mode detection. Bloomberg now claims I'm browsing incognito regardless of whether I really am (and thus cannot read the article).
Sensible and pragmatic.

How dare you be a valley CEO with such an attitude? ;) /s

Also, congrats on the raise! *Coughs in IPO...
'Baza wirusow zostala zaktualizowana' - in every Polish home 10 years ago.
You would need at least a bridging layer (of Objective-C) to so that your app code could use the system frameworks and respond to events (user input, network, sensors, etc).
It's nice to see such post on the LLVM blog (as opposed to typical Rust-only outlets). Feels like recognition that Rust is a serious and important LLVM user.
Great question. No one seems to know why. The worst part about the job search, is not even getting a response. most companies don't even have an HR function so it's cheaper to just not answer. It's also cheaper not to get into a lawsuit by giving an answer as well which kind of sucks. I wish there was a way to protect companies in their speech so that's not discriminatory to tell them why we didn't choose the candidate.