skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstand the situation. From the point of view of the fake pilots, everything was just fine: they were doing a great job, the missing or dubious licenses were just a small formality, and the authorities couldn't force them to do anything...
"If a young child falls on the train tracks, it is good to save them, and if a 45-year-old suffers from a debilitating disease, it is good to cure them. If you have a logical turn of mind, you are bound to ask whether this is a special case of a general ethical principle which says “Life is good, death is bad; health is good, sickness is bad.” If so – and here we enter into controversial territory – we can follow this general principle to a surprising new conclusion: If a 95-year-old is threatened by death from old age, it would be good to drag them from those train tracks, if possible. And if a 120-year-old is starting to feel slightly sickly, it would be good to restore them to full vigor, if possible. With current technology it is not possible. But if the technology became available in some future year – given sufficiently advanced medical nanotechnology, or such other contrivances as future minds may devise – would you judge it a good thing, to save that life, and stay that debility?

The important thing to remember, which I think all too many people forget, is that it is not a trick question."

http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified/
What about a 3rd option of having many e2e automated testing (with puppeteer or such)?
Why is the Fourier transform so important?
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Yeah, it seems like an anti-pattern. Also, it's supposedly better for children to be educated by a great educator and most parents, like most people, are not.

The fact of the matter is that the implicit assumption of many pro-homeschoolers is that most professional educators - either for individual or systemic reasons - are also not good educators, and would rather take their chances. I can't entirely blame them.
They don't, it's all online with webviews on iOS and Android. I don't think there is offline functionality (still haven't gotten an invite).
I agree with 90% of your points: competition is healthy and sad to see a company go. The market today is a duopoly, with Canon and Nikon as two pillars of high-end DSLR world.

This, sadly, is unlikely to change because high quality lenses are very hard to make. Development takes years and the market is relatively small. And as glass, even for a serious hobbyist, ends up being much more expensive than the camera body, the reason to pick a third party body is just not there.

The 10% I disagree with is the stigma part. I have never noticed it. Unless you are shooting pro sports from a dedicated area filled with fellow photographers you are unlikely to see people who would know or care what you are shooting with. "A really big camera, much bigger than my cell phone; must be really good" is probably all they think. The reason almost everyone in the Canon world uses L glass is because it is so frigging good. My 2c.
This seems like an important piece of information!
> I do not think you should waste a single thought on the easily offended.

Unfortunately, this strategy doesn't work, because these people have the power to have a significant negative impact on your life (get you fired, ruin your reputation etc).
Except the UK is still bound by those regulations. The "getting Brexit done by new year" was a dog and pony show.
Yeah. If you have that much control over your input and parsing is your bottleneck, you might as well use a binary format, mmap the file, cast the returned pointer to your data structure, and boom: zero time spent on parsing.

Still, very cool work.
The government doesn't build water, sewer, or gas in many parts of the country! Where I live, less than an hour from DC and maybe 5 minutes from a Whole Foods, we don't have gas lines at all, we use propane and fuel oil. We got public water and sewer only in 2015, and each house is paying off a $30,000 assessment for that. Most of the areas around us are reliant on wells and septic systems. Ironically, we have had fiber since 2008 or so. As to electric--most of that was built back when labor was relatively very cheap and tons of people were unemployed. We couldn't build the national electric grid today, for the same reason we couldn't build the New York subway today.
Sorry for stalking you a little bit, but I noticed that you've read over a thousand books in your lifetime. I'm currently struggling to read even one or two per year myself. What advice would you offer to somebody looking to get into the hobby but having a tough time getting started?

I also noticed that your interests are fairly similar to mine. If you could recommend just three books, which would they be? Which are your favorites? Which have stuck with you? Which have made the most difference in your life?
Gosh, this is educational. I've always assumed (as a happy Olympus user) that m43 was mostly a photography format, and video people were all using Canons.

I've recently been hooking up my Olympus as a webcam, through tedious necessity - and of course it took a bit of adapting. I had no idea any mirrorless camera had a standard full-size HDMI port on it.
Would be Comcast able to intercept the TLS SNI requests anyway and see at least were the traffic is directed?
Ricoh keeps promising that the next Pentax APS-C is right around the corner and will be worth the wait. They've been saying that for a couple of years now.
> I thought DHH rejected the idea?

I can't speak for DHH, and I don't see anywhere that he commented in the PR. My read of the thread is that there are open questions about the best way to structure this abstraction, so the minimal interface to allow for clean community experimentation has been stabilized in the meantime.
Completely agree. Been a dev manager but I've mostly been hands-on. I've no problem working as a Dev too but my preference is an EM role.
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Yes, I am not disagreeing with you. Sony's mirrorless bodies are presently the best and the Sony GM lenses also have the best-in-class image quality, surpassing DSLR lenses. For example the Sony GM 135mm f/1.8 is the sharpest available 135mm lens [1] and the Sony GM 24mm f/1.4 is the sharpest available 24mm lens [2].

Sony's ecosystem also has many amazing third-party lenses. A personal favourite of mine is the Voigtlander Apo Lanthar 65mm f/2.

[1] https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/03/sony-fe-135mm-f1-8-...
[2] https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/08/some-new-wide-angle...
Sony and Panasonic have really strong offerings if you primarily do video, but i think the vast majority of people who take photographs for a living still use Canon and Nikon.
Something I've known for a while (but have really come to terms with more recently) is just how important writing skills are even for technical people (even coders). It's hard to get anything done if you can't convince people why they should listen to you.

Especially in this increasingly remote-connected world, writing skills are key.
Yeah, if I'm not centered with the screen on a laptop I hate it. Tried twice with HP and it just bugged me too much.
As someone who was homeschooled and socialized almost exclusively with other homeschoolers as a kid, I was on the fence about it.

Then I grew up and met people who went to public school. Holy cow I can’t believe people think it’s ok to put their kids through that! I can’t believe we collectively accept children being exposed to the violence and other problems that are pervasive there! It’s not surprising so many people become criminals now.
It’s fun to see that out of the Nordic capitals: Nuuk, Reykjavík, Tórhavn, and Helsinki made it; while Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm didn’t.
Please do not take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. It's a form of hell that we don't need here. Instead, please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here. Note that they include:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Yeah but what are the banks doing with Node JS? Also, is the single language that beneficial? There are all sorts of differences between typescript and node no?
> No flights, so pilots can't threaten to boycott flying.

But why would pilots with valid licenses boycott the government preventing pilots with fake licenses from flying?

Wouldn't the valid-license pilots want this, because with less of them their salaries will go up? I can't imagine any scenario where people who passed a test would want people who didn't pass it to get the same benefits...?!?!
I was homeschooled my whole life. It was fantastic. I wish I had more of a chance to socialize with other kids after school or something, but I'm not any worse for wear for it. I feel like I learned a lot more than people did in public schools, and that it's really served me well. It allows for a very personalized education with a very good student-to-teacher ratio. You can be pushed where you're capable and can do more, and you can receive personal help where you struggle.

It's not for everyone, but I've met a lot more homeschooled people since, and I've never met someone who's wished they hadn't been.
Basecamp (and 37 Signals) has been a MySQL shop forever, so I'm sure they have a ton of operational experience with it. There is no reason for them to switch to Postgres at this point, for much of the same reasons a place like GitHub is still on MySQL.

Changing database engines with large, established apps has a _huge_ cost and is usually not worth it.
Lol just wait for the upcoming two bodies being announced in a few weeks. Canon is going to trash the competition. And the new lenses are unmatched.
I had not heard of the Aleutian internment, and it is clear that the evacuation was mismanaged and the people were mistreated. It's honestly horrific. They were on the front, so it doesn't read as much like racism, but it could have and should have been handled orders of magnitude better.

I'm not pedantically quibbling over whether it was 1980 or 2000 who died. I'm saying that if you took a random sample of 120,000 people at the beginning of 1943 and checked back at the end, 1,300-1,400 would have died. That leave hundreds, not thousands, who died in internment that wouldn't have died otherwise. These are arguable numbers, as I stated above, but they have more substance than I think you're implying.

Additionally, the US invested considerable resources into keeping these people alive. There were on-site hospitals, and not like the ones in Auschwitz where people were held until they died. These camps shouldn't have existed, but they were completely different animals from death camps and are not just a step away.
>On the other hand: the camera business seem to have stopped any evolution. I didn't see one thing in the last 10 years that made me go "what a gamechanger! I need that!"...

That's not true at all. Recent innovation in diffractive optics & phase fresnel lens (gap-less) designs is a gamechanger that has recently allowed compact lens designs to compete with larger, heavier lenses. For wild-life photographers looking to travel and fit their gear in the overhead bin, its a gamechanger. Sony's Eye AF is a gamechanger for portrait photographers looking for increased productivity. Mirrorless cameras with live EVFs are gamechangers for photographers who no longer need to take a test-shot to check for exposure (mainly blown highlights which can be avoided with live zebras). Sony A9's triple stacked sensor design and its super fast read-out is a gamechanger for shooting sports w/ a silent shutter (e.g. golf).

There are plenty of game changing technologies. Ofcource, it all depends on what it means to YOUR photography.
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I think it was Ars that ran an article a couple years back that showed how much money AT&T has gotten for broadband access they never completed. It was $Billions.
This is a big reason I wish it was easier to not have a car in the US. There's always the potential to get things like parking tickets, and you have to deal with license, insurance, parking permit, etc.

The volume of tickets issued is quite staggering, and each one is a huge annoyance for someone.
One of the biggest advantages as well as disadvantage of homeschooling I think would be limiting the amount of school induced brainwashing.

I don’t mean they make kids into automatons, but there is a tendency to _tell_ kids this is right and that is wrong along ideological lines without allowing kids to discover those things for themselves.

I’m talking about things like tax policy, education, religion, government, etc.

For example, kids are indoctrinated to believe if they get good grades they can go to college and they’ll be set. That government is there to take care of you, that the education system is good, etc.

So these kids graduate, go to college, university and then wonder why after doing all that their humanities or business classes don’t land them jobs.

They should be allowed to discover more and question the whole system more. Some should be tracked for vocational schools rather than everyone expecting they are fit to work anywhere they desire... its unrealistic.
Just like audiophiles, I can guarantee they're not professionals.
Please do not use HN for nationalistic or ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, because GraphQL is a fix for everything.
Could you possibly share what you mean by "bullshit"? I am genuinely interested in what that entails.
If you were curious after reading this comment like I was, here’s the legality of homeschooling by country:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling_international_...
> For one that's illegal in the EU at least. Due to GDPR Google cannot use your data for profiling without explicit consent.

And presumably, EU users will get an extra consent screen going into details. But as far as I know, this doesn't imply these details have to be the part of the document called "privacy policy".

> Thinking about "what they don't tell you" is how conspiracy theories work. Such claims are either evidence based or they aren't.

Absence of evidence is only weak evidence of absence, but it's still evidence. In this case, you could call it "being suspiciously specific", which is a known technique of lying by omission.

Privacy policies don't exist in a vacuum - they're formed by entities strongly incentivized to make money every possible way that's not explicitly illegal[0]. So a suspiciously specific privacy policy can be reasonably considered worrisome, especially for a company known to make money off their users' data.

Conspiracy theories are excessively using the "what they don't tell you" reasoning, but that doesn't mean the reasoning itself is bad. It's just one requiring finesse and a somewhat more complete picture of an issue at hand. The best conspiracy theories are ones that balance this reasoning - any more, and they'd be trivially debunked; any less, and nobody would find them interesting.

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[0] - And some even achieve success by crossing the line into squarely illegal behavior - see e.g. Uber.
The correct bucket for logistic regression should be "statistics", under "generalized linear models".
I'd rather have smart, passionate people with deep technical interests judge whether to fund my company than a dumb, lazy person who doesn't know math or science :)
That was very interesting, never thought of it this way.Now that I think of it, I can connect so many dots, how I have advertised for so many products which I used, some of it was definitely fueled by this consumer arrogance or whatever you want to call it.
She doesn’t describe anything expensive or exclusive. Homeschooling typically does not have a cost beyond materials. What struck you as exemplary?
Some large companies have customized rails, and since Hey is built by the company behind rails, I assume DHH meant to imply that they are not using something special that everyone else won’t get access to.
Yeah i agree the readability is purely a lack of familiarity on my part rather than some fundamental difficulty in the syntax.

If anything, the clojure syntax has fewer rules to understand - from my very limited knowledge of it.
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My biggest peeve with System76 is how much they charge for extra chargers. An extra one for my Galago was $75 plus shipping, and this one is $125!
But they won't. We've already done that before.
Wait, really?

What happened to the money? Is it not contingent on delivery of the completed product? Or was it intentionally badly written in order just to funnel money/pork to big donors?

Can you provide some citations? I'm not finding anything with a quick search.
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Same here, it's a wonderful camera. I'm so sad about this news.
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It's sad to see this - they do of course claim that they'll still be making cameras for the time being but who knows how long that will last, and at what level of investment. Olympus was already considered somewhat behind the cutting edge in technology in the camera body space (they do have quite high quality lenses, though).

I hope there are no more "deaths in the family" in the photographic industry anytime soon, as the market is already down to only a few large players left. Personally, I love my Nikon equipment and hope they continue to make gear for decades but even Nikon and Canon seem like they'd be at risk, now.
Can I edit the title to something like "Show HN: Sourceful - a search-engine for public Google docs"?
HP nw8240 had a similar layout, nw9440 had the full size
I agree on the performance loss. Just for kicks, I ran the same commands on some real aarch64 (32 cores, 3.0GHz, ARMv8.? - can't remember and already logged off the machine, but I can double check tomorrow).
Without further context, numbers:

someuser@some-aarch64-machine:~$ docker run arm64v8/ubuntu bash -c 'dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4k count=10k | gzip > /dev/null'
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
41943040 bytes (42 MB, 40 MiB) copied, 2.18298 s, 19.2 MB/s
someuser@some-aarch64-machine:~$ docker run amd64/ubuntu bash -c 'dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4k count=10k | gzip > /dev/null'
warning: TCG doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.vmx [bit 5]
warning: TCG doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.vmx [bit 5]
warning: TCG doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.vmx [bit 5]
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
41943040 bytes (42 MB, 40 MiB) copied, 6.72324 s, 6.2 MB/s
Yes, they are all in the same quadrant as Berlin :-)
I come across many interesting books, and I read few of them cover to cover. But rarely has there been a book which didn't add something meaningful and useful to my life from just reading one random page of it.
Interesting! It'll be fascinating to see how they can improve the space.
Suppose you are dispatching on token types. You could write something like this:

handlers = {'start' : handle_start, 'jump' : handle_jump, 'end' : handle_end, ...}
for tok, arg in tokens:
if tok not in handlers:
raise ValueError('Wrong token type, must be any of %s.' % ', '.join(handlers))
handlers[tok](arg)
How is Jacksonville larger than Atlanta?
Why is that a ridiculous system?

The risk of someone illegally residing in a country is different by nationality.

The chance of a Canadian illegally staying in the US is super low. The chance of someone from Haiti is high.

Why wouldn’t there be different requirements?
Pros love Canon cause their service stomps all over everyone else, the equipment is just the cherry on top. They're more like a partner in someone's business than just a retailer.

Seriously.. their service is so fantastic & easy to work with it puts you at ease shooting with their expensive stuff.

I think this has more to do with it than anything to do with sensors or almost anything else when it comes to really serious photography and especially anyone who's running a business.

No one is happy to see another option disappear though. I agree with the sentiment that the biggest risk is too many cameras having Sony sensors inside though. Too much of that and at some point they're all Sony, even though the design of the exterior of the camera & the ergonomics can still be major differentiators.
ISPs will sue saying the government should not compete with business.
They might control the DSLR space, but they certainly hold no candle to Sony, Fujifilm, and co in the mirrorless space. There’s no shortage of extremely high quality lenses there too.

I thought mirrorless cameras were already outselling DSLRs.
Disclosure: I work at AWS building cloud infrastructure

C6g, M6g, and R6g (powered by AWS Graviton2) each support 8 sizes, along with bare metal.
A1 instances (powered by AWS Graviton) have 5 sizes, along with bare metal.

That's a total of 33 distinct instance sizes.
This is the Mozilla we know. While touting their privacy record, they keep running head first into the biggest privacy debacles imaginable.

Certifying an ISP that ran a NXDOMAIN hijack scheme while no doubt also selling DNS data for DoH is beyond the pale.
Are there any benefits of this approach if no websockets are involved ?
Perhaps session buddy, if you're the type to have a bunch of tabs on a topic. You can search for names of sessions, or for pages in a saved session.
I was homeschooled, and there are a wide range of homeschoolers in the US. Generally it breaks down into three categories: "religious", "hippie", or "academic".

It sounds like Laura was from academic branch, where her parents were probably very engaged, and thought they could do a better job than the school system--which is great.

My parents, and most of their friends who homeschooled were from the religious branch of the movement, which is fairly large in the US. Their main motivation was to basically prevent the school system from teaching us things they didn't approve of, like evolution, etc. Of course, we learned about evolution, but from a very different (and very incorrect) perspective.

Regardless, we still took standardized tests, and performed really well on them every year. Overall I did fine in college--aside from a few academic blind spots, and I'm doing fine as a programmer today. The social stuff was a steep learning curve once I hit college, but I made it.

I will say there are a number of people I know who didn't "make it out". College can be a really big jump for a lot of these kids.
How I built my time machine MVP in 3 weeks.

First I developed a box. I used existing box designs as inspiration. No frills on the first go, just a normal cubic shape. I started with cardboard but plan to iterate further on the material selection. Currently the time machine only goes forward at 1x speed but that's the challenge of being first to market. I tested with users and they said the box is uncomfortable so I made a bigger box and put a cushion in there. Now, users report a more comfortable experience. You have to understand as a founder, any new technology is going to have some rough edges.

After this 3 week period, I learned a lot about time machine prototyping and the desired user experience. My next steps are to take this to VCs, funded by pensions of dock workers, and raise a $100M round to further development. I'm confident with this funding, we'll be able to disrupt the time machine market entirely.
If you want to claim a copyright, then good luck with the in the private market, but if you want that big, fat juicy government contract (i.e. taxpayer dollars) there should be concessions.
On the bright side, it looks like low-latency streaming is good enough that as long as you have internet connection, Boot Camp is not really necessary. This works well for me: https://shadow.tech/usen/
You haven’t mentioned any nondeterministic behaviour, therefore Leela is supposed to predict it’s own moves with a 100% accuracy.