skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
voting with your feet is almost certainly going to land you what is basically an equally shitty job when you have no leverage.
The Ricoh portables are fantastic, but they're SO wide. Know of anything comparably portable, but with a longer lens? Even the 35mm lens of the X100 is better.
Mostly just referring to PRISM and the like. Also, over the years, we've seen a few instances where big companies have publicly fought National Security Letters or gag orders, so I think it's a safe guess that plenty of other stuff like that goes on behind the scenes without ever coming to the public's attention.
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"OBS is essentially a live video production studio. Multiple scenes, multiple sources, title cards, etc. can all be controlled with OBS on the fly as you stream."

This. And you can have multiple layouts (scenes) and quickly switch between them. It's a video switcher on steroids.
I did this with the Z80 machine code variant that runs in the GameBoy. I defined my goal as, run the boot rom until it jumps to the game. The boot rom makes sound and moves a logo on the screen. Not the first person to do this and not the last. But interesting projects you can do after you get one going is, study on why Android doesn't run JVM bytecode, or come up with a better byte code for Java/Scala.
I would recommend the Ricoh GR II/III over the RX100. It has a crop sensor in a pocketable body.
I imagine that support would have been quickly reestablished amongst people making the laws once they got a grip on power.
> You're not necessarily sacrificing international business and leisure travel, because there isn't going to be any if you've got a raging epidemic in your country.

On some outdoors forums I participate in, people have expressed envy of those Swedish members who have been free to trek or cycle all these months. Now some of those foreigners are chomping at the bit to visit Sweden when borders reopen, because they want to experience that nature for themselves. There are enough younger people who are reasonably unconcerned with coronavirus to kickstart a tourism-based economy.

FWIW, I stayed at a hostel in a different city in my own country last weekend. It was already fully booked: as soon as the borders opened, young backpackers from the neighboring countries immediately started traveling again.

Whether an epidemic is considered "raging" or not comes down to media depictions. In countries where the media accurately portrays this illness as killing almost entirely people over the age of 70 with multiple comorbidities, younger travelers are going to move around.
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Of course, Trump going to Twitter initially was because news reporters were misquoting him and blending their own opinions as facts.
It is proof that the peer review failed, on a topic that the Lancet couldn't ignore was high profile. I have no idea what the motivation of the reviewers were, but given how political this molecule has become, I can't help having a terrible doubt.
> and I guess you are risk-averse and try to behave predictable the entire life to not loose that smartness badge in some crazy venture. Following the safest path won't let you step on the edge to reach something unknown.

You nailed it!
What was the point of the pinhole cameras recording everything that happened at every one of his properties, then? And what was contained in the cache of CDs with labels like "Young [name] with [name]" which the FBI recovered from a safe in his NYC mansion?

Your idea of the situation is also at odds with what the victims themselves have reported and testified.
This. There will always be a niche of people who want barebones single-purpose old-school experience out of any given device.

Goes for literally anything, from cars to phones to music equipment. I definitely fall into this category for some of the things myself. However, it is important to remember that this is not representative at all of what the majority prefers.
In this case it is a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of the journalists. The lead plaintiff is a journalist who was shot by the police while covering a protest.
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I drive a Tesla.

I lost the ability to have my text messages read to me, or to respond by dictating them. For a short time there was a half-implementation from Tesla that was in no way comparable to CarPlay, but it stopped working for me a couple months ago and I haven't been able to convince it to start working again.

I also used to be able to select music to play, and it didn't require jumping through a bunch of hoops to find it. Now my choices is the streaming that Tesla includes, or Spotify, and the Spotify interface is awful. I bought a subscription and tried it out, thinking I could switch from Apple Music, but after failing repeatedly to get the Spotify in the car to see playlists I created on my phone, and growing weary of Spotify on my phone or computer defaulting to playing out in the car even when I had been inside for hours, I gave up on that.

I also used to use Waze, or Google Maps, or Apple Maps, depending on what I felt worked best. Thankfully the maps built in to the Tesla aren't awful, but the interface is not without its quirks.

Tesla could solve this by supporting CarPlay and Android Auto, but they won't, because they need us to have a reason to pay for the premium data subscription.
The workflow is just different. With a DSLR the common path is to shoot RAW and do all the processing with software on your computer (Photoshop, DxO, etc).

There isn't much of a point in having the camera itself try to do the processing as it'll never be able to outcompete the capabilities (both hardware and software-wise) possible in the desktop software.
Not necessarily. The employees may have been stuck between a rock and a hard place. If amazon sent your whole team messages saying they'll hire you or crush you, taking the job at amazon might be more like trying to keep your job. Especially as others start to take the offer. The only thing saying the bonuses were nice bonus was the "hey come join us" email, and we all know what those are worth.

One of the people involved said he didn't take the offer because he didn't think he'd get the same benefits. Since the contract stuff was about royalties, it might be that joining take-two meant trading royalties for salary/bonus, and as interest grew in KSP2, that might be a shitty deal.
He can maybe do it, and a few dozen of other people. There aren’t simply enough good experts to do it on any significant portion of popular software products.
It all depends on how "in" to photography you plan to get. If you're not ever going to buy a lens, don't get a DSLR or ILC mirrorless. If you want something pocketable, the RX100 or Ricoh GR III mentioned in the other comment are great choices. If you don't care about pocketability, I'd recommend the Fuji X100F. That's a great camera to learn photography on due to all the physical controls it has, plus it's stylish enough to practically be an accessory.

If you do want a DSLR, the D750 can't be beat for the price it goes for now. If you'd rather do mirrorless (which I would recommend for someone new nowadays) the general suggestion is to go Sony, but both Canon and Nikon's options are fine for a nonprofessional too.
It also published [0] which seemed to be the ultimate source for the 'ibuprofen kills COVID-19 patients' scare, every article I found on ibuprofen+coronavirus led back there, which matter-of-factly states:

> ACE2 can also be increased by thiazolidinediones and ibuprofen.

The closest thing I could find [2] to a source for that was [1]:

> NSAIDs [Non-Steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs, which includes ibuprofen] might affect how Covid-19 binds to human cells, according to Dr. Yogen Kanthi, assistant professor of cardiology at the University of Michigan, who studies inflammation.

> “There is data from basic science studies that have shown that Covid-19 itself binds to a protein at the surface of cells called ACE2,” he said. “There is a hypothetical risk that giving NSAIDs like ibuprofen could increase levels of ACE2 shown in animal models, but not in patients.”

[0] - https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanres/PIIS2213-2600...

[1] - https://kvia.com/health/2020/03/17/france-says-ibuprofen-may...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611363
Have you had a chance to check out Quantrix Qloud? Its basically Modeller in the browser, with reduced functionality, though the team is working to expand the feature set each release.
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I'd worry that the COTS approach might be fine for dealing with cosmic rays within the Van Allen belt but it might not be sufficient to deal with the solar wind if you're going to GEO or Mars.
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I suffer from this. I try to make sure I don’t get caught in a cycle of staying up late to make up for the lack of productivity that day. Instead I’ll get to sleep early and try to wake up feeling good the next day.
Those are not "numbers they release". They are statistics collected by a researcher who read court proceedings of 1663 patent infringement cases decided in China in 2014. (EDIT: Originally said "all" cases and "between 2014 and 2018". As virtue3 points out below, that was incorrect). It's not something that can be manipulated by just changing a number in a spreadsheet.
This is a great article, but I wish it would have really dealt with the idea of complexity.

Nature is not ‘unintelligible’ it is ‘complicated’ because of the large number of discrete interactive constitutive units.

In fact, if you plot # of constitutive quarks/atoms being worked with versus uncertainty, you see an interesting layout of the sciences. e.g. take this plot by xkcd ( https://xkcd.com/435/ ) and think about how much matter is under observation (i.e. increasing complexity to the left). Somewhere on the left would be climate in this example (as in the article).
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I've blown up plenty of cell phone pics to 8"x10" and they look fantastic. I'm happy to hang them on my wall. Sure, at 6" away I can tell they're from a phone, but no one looks at them that closely when they're on the wall.

I've worked on digital video systems for the majority of my career, and watching digital television usually drives me insane because I notice the artifacts from poor compression. Do you think a similar effect is at work here? You have an 'eye' for photography and know what to look for. Most people do not.

Cell phone cameras capture a dimension of life you just wouldn't get with a traditional camera because you wouldn't be carrying the camera all the time. Further, it seems like cameras are a hugh investment(someone suggests a Sony in this thread. That's $1000!), and something to store and maintain. Also, from what I've seen, cameras and lenses are a theft magnet.
Yes it matters.
No, the cloud provider is not where it's at.
No, the SpaceX Astronaut controls aren't electron.
Right, so the point that it is a matter of degree stands, and the point that you are not powerless in a state where you are part of the government also stands.

Given those points, it is not impossible to imagine a future state deciding to use some of its resources to constructing an automated production system. Its legitimacy is backed up in two ways: once, by the consent of the governed through the democratic process, and the other, by the positive externalities it grants to the people in common.

If the people of such a future state decides to create a common automation infrastructure, then they may also reach the conclusion that not everybody needs to work. The conclusion you reached in your initial post,

>Because if you cannot offer anything of value, someone else will offer that value on your behalf, making you an extraneous cost which anyone in their right mind would want to remove.

no longer holds, because even in the most selfish system, any bureaucrat who takes the time to "remove" you will have to face the consequences. And therefore, there can exist a state that does not demand everybody work.

To some extent, that already exists today. Welfare states protect (or are intended to protect) people who can't work. The people in a welfare state do not want to leave those who can't work to starvation, and so the state doesn't, either.

I do, of course, agree that states as they exist today are imperfect, sometimes grossly so. But I disagree that there is a necessary implication that everybody has to work. As long as the people have a say, and as long as the people do not only value labor, the state cannot simply rid itself of its unproductive constituents. If anyone "in their right mind" would remove people that are "extraneous costs", then the people are collectively insane - and they are coherently and strongly insane enough to check those who are not.
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One of the main differences is that it is completely in the cloud (which required the most effort on the development side). The "we have some artists" approach has some serious limitations if you start growing the number of artists and number of 3D scenes that they are working on (and turns into a complete mess if you take versioning, continuous asset updates, and remote work into account). The other difference would be the content: that we are continuously uploading products and materials (which our users can access from the public library), and which you would have to build from scratch or source them from somewhere with the above approach.
You can already get a prescription for meth, but it's still neurotoxic. Better than something you can get on the street? Sure, but it's still straight up bad for you. The safer version of meth are the other amphetamines like Adderall.
It worked really well when I used it. It replaces a bunch of the stock navigation tools, and takes a bit of learning, but really seemed to be a good n-body simulation engine. It's been well over a year since I touched KSP though, so I can't speak for the current versions of either Principia or the base game.
I live in Canada, where we have hate speech laws, and I don't live in the States. My perspective has been that these hate speech laws do not infringe on my rights. I think you might be right in that the potential for abuse is high in the US, I just don't see any evidence of that being the case here (yet).
There’s still a profound difference between phone pics and camera pics. Optics quality is just as important as brute resolution. High-end Android phones and iPhones have been getting better optics, but still there’s only so much you can do with glass the size of an M&M and most recent advances and prospective future advances are coming from AI. AI can correct color and lighting, but I seriously doubt we’re going to be filling in poor detail using onboard GANs anytime soon. Who knows, maybe those are famous last words, but I don’t think so. Optical quality is limited by the laws of physics. So unless we discover something fundamentally new, high-end cameras are going to stay the size they have been for the past hundred years.
Lawyers generally copy each other. There is standard text which has gone through hundreds or thousands of litigations and hasn't done harm, and that's almost always used going forward.

A lot of oddball conventions, such as THE USE OF ALL-CAPS in specific places, which have no reason to be legally meaningful, but are always done.

Some of them do turn out to be important. Standard clauses build up over time.

I think plaintiffs are right in this case. Google is openly breaking a number of laws, including CFAA. This constitutes unauthorized access. CFAA is a broken law with an overly-broad definition of unauthorized access, which the tech industry abuses all the time. It will be nice to see them get abused back. Perhaps they'll have incentive to fix it.
This is exactly why Germany will never achieve widespread adoption. All the citizens wish to go and form their own cities, reinventing the wheel and duplicating effort. They should abandon all their smaller cities and focus their resources on a single city.
Shuttle's code quality was outstanding, but 0 defects is a myth. There are at least 3 publicly documented bugs in the Shuttle code.

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/37116
IANAL, but as above, rape victims aren't on trial either. So perhaps for similar reasons.
Usually when you are contracted to develop something custom, you do not own the IP but rather the company that you are building it for. I doubt this is any different here.

There are possibilities that it is arranged differently, for example if the IP you are developing can be used multiple times the company that ordered the IP may want to offer you the rights to distribute and use it further, for a discount, but it is very unlikely a game would make sense for this.
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These are cool, but I'd appreciate it if they covered every HTML element- <details>, <cite>, <kbd>, etc. I guess this one calls itself Basic so maybe it's just going for the 80/20 effect of the most common HTML elements.
As long as the state, or whoever manage and control the state machine, utilize "money" to purchase man power (to get whatever tasks they need to accomplish or whatever goods they need to build), it's impossible to bar money from the system. It is part of the system.

Democracy has always been like this, or worse, when it is not judged by money, but by your ancestors. Capitalism smashes Feudalism by bringing power to a lot of people than the Feudal lords agreed with, and then it's pretty much "money buys everything" mode.
i love this site. os/2 was such a huge part of my life in the 90s and the sole reason i love computers back then. it's great that this site has preserved so much history of it.
>I'm probably one of the only professional photographers on HN

I imagine there are thousands. I even know two professional photographers myself who hang out here.
Shouldn't Canada be using its own diplomatic capabilities to get them freed?

Oh, wait. There's money involved. Never mind.
> My guess right now is that at best it will be as effective as remdesivir, but really until an actual RCT is conducted there is no proof either way.

By now, it also matters when you give it. Lopinavir/ritonavir were called ineffective in NEJM, but a recent publication (in Lancet, ironically) says that perhaps (no placebo, blech) that given within 7 days of symptom onset they may be beneficial.

Remedisivir looks best in patients with moderate (requiring oxygen) but not critical disease.

And as for RCTs on HCQ, one of those (for post-exposure prophylaxis) from UMN should be apparently be published soon (no idea when or how: their PI is being, IMO rightly so, tight-lipped), and another is under review. A third one is ongoing.
I agree, but for people that can afford it I would still push them to get a decent camera for moments that you can bring it with you. Vacations, kid's birthdays, etc.

Well, that and if they're going to remember to back up the images somehow, but that's a whole 'nother can of beans.
I've gotten recruiter email from SpaceX but I've worked in embedded sensor systems, big radars for the government, and robotics so those might be stepping stones. Be warned you might have be a US citizen.
It’s been a while, but every time I’ve tried to mix higher order functions and checked exceptions in Java, I’ve found it pretty painful: there’s some annoying type checking issue around the way lambdas work in Stream.map or similar. Maybe I’ll come up with a demo when I’m back at my desk.
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Why does this lazy sequence work?
Hooray! I have been holding out hope for more push-to-talk apps on desktop platforms. It's such a step up from always-on listening. As an audio engineer, I grit my teeth every time there is microphone feedback, echo, or other audio issues on group calls, and these generally don't occur on PTT apps because everyone tends to be muted most of the time. And if it does start happening, the user more easily realizes what they did wrong because they correlate it with the button press. In fact, even if the user does not realize what they did wrong, others on the call can identify the source because "it's only happening when Jane speaks." I can't tell you how many times I've been on a call with feedback where the person who is causing it is complaining about it to the group without realizing it's their own fault and others on the call don't necessarily know, either. This never happens on PTT calls. There's also the obvious privacy benefits, as it avoids the issue where people speak without realizing they are unmuted. PTT is better in nearly every respect. I'm very excited about this.

I do have some questions that the website doesn't answer for me:

1. What about screen sharing? Seeing the word "collaboration" implies to me that I should be able to do so, but it's unclear. In the screenshot of the app, I see an icon or two in the right-hand sidebar that might be relevant to this, but they seem kind of generic.

2. What about mobile devices? I routinely do Slack calls where one or two people are on their phone for various reasons. It would be useful to know if that is supported or will be at some point.

3. I want to know more about the encryption. As you're probably aware, there has been a lot of controversy over the security of Zoom. In particular, there is an ongoing lawsuit related to their false claims of end-to-end encryption. [1] I think any new product, especially a chat app, that claims to be end-to-end encrypted really needs to show us the details of its protocol and stack, and ideally open source as many parts of that as possible. Does it use the Signal protocol? The site says "Squawk groups are invite-only and end-to-end encrypted." But which parts are E2E encrypted? The group membership? The message content? The message metadata? Everything?

Lastly, it would be great if you could add the app to Homebrew Cask, as it's my preferred way to download and manage apps on macOS.

1: https://gizmodo.com/zoom-accused-of-misrepresenting-security...
what's a fair price?
From the businesses perspective:
"But that annoys the users!"

From at least one user I know IRL:
"I don't care if my account gets hacked. I have nothing to hide from anyone."

From my perspective:
"You are absolutely correct."

edit to fix spelling.
I am glad someone has at least fake-formalized the infectious nature of anxiety.
Heck Tor even has a browser bundle to make it easy. At some point people have to be responsible for their own computing decisions
I worked with AVR microcontrollers, and the avr-gcc toolchain when I was in college. It's basically an abstraction layer below what an Arduino provides you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_microcontrollers
AD for settings is a very poor replacement for what puppet or ansible enable on Unixoids.

Also, AD is becoming less comprehensive on windows, later versions of many MS packages require powershell and textual config additionally or solely. Not to speak of third-party software where AD group policy support was always spotty at best.

Yes, easy clicky setup is possible with AD, but your software options are severely limited, not even exchange is point&click-only nowadays
Start reading data sheets of these ARM parts. It’s straightforward when you know what peripherals do you need. Get familiar with FreeRTOS or other embedded operating system. It’s really not rocket science. You only need to know, what do you want to build. Otherwise it gets boring very quickly.
You're right, Linux is a problem-solving power-tool. X11 breaks, you now have a problem to solve. Your hardware will only work with a proprietary driver that breaks on every kernel update--that's another problem to solve. What it means to use Linux is to become really good at solving problems.