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You don't offer any solution, other than "something should be done." Who delivers the punishment for crimes rendered? The government does. By what authority does this government have to execute punishments outside of the law? If the government has authority to execute punishment outside of the law then it becomes judge, jury and executioner. That's not a hypothetical, when there is power, those who wield that power will use it. Is there really any doubt that this would extend beyond just chemical dumping to other things? To me there isn't.
Well in 2016, to talk about de-industrialization would have helped the designated "outsider" candidates, despite the fact that one of those, Bernie Sanders, was not Donald Trump.
It's easy to take extreme positions on issues that likely won't bother your base no matter how they turn out. It's like international immigration: a life-or-death matter to some, but a distant matter to a vast majority. If a politician doesn't follow through with promises or bungles the execution, these matters won't cause enough of his base to turn on him. But his stances gives followers a clear flag to wave.
> is a minor factor in real world software engineering

I don't know about that. A language is not merely a language. It comes with the entire eco-system, libraries, community etc. Not to mention your personal expertise and preference.

I am certain depending on your language selection, your development experience and the quality of output will vary dramatically.

For example Java, Javascript, php, Go, python, ruby are all valid choices for a web application. Depending on what you choose, your experience will be different no?
I'm similarly a car owner that loves walking and hates driving. I've managed at least a few times to turn that pity on its head, "Seriously? It's like three blocks tops. So much better to just walk it." There's certainly pleasure any time walking directly to a destination is faster than the people taking the time to walk back to their cars, drive them through traffic, and find a parking spot at the destination.
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> I would have thought you’d give a risky new drug to the least healthy

Yes, but at this stage there is no drug. You're in the process of making the drug. And you don't want to test your beta versions on sensitive subjects.

Once nothing obviously bad happens, you can expand the test circle.
The Apple Card is great - I switched to it and closed all my other credit accounts (even though the others had better overall cash return when factoring in their points value).

I did this for a few reasons.

- Better software: The iOS integration with Apple Card is really good. The second best I've seen was Amex, but they were still a distant second.

- "Daily Cashback" - just automatically putting the 1%/2%/3% back onto the cash card on my phone daily rather than having to deal with the card software/points etc. The time/value return on point optimization is fun, but ultimately just not worth it to me.

- Third party transaction protection: Apple made [edit: Goldman Sachs] agree to not resell transaction data.

- No upsell: Other cards are constantly spamming you with offers to get their checking account, services, etc. I don't want any of these things, often the attempts to disable the emails doesn't totally work.

- Easy cancel: Other cards require you to call and deal with retention services in order to cancel.

Other card services really dropped the ball on this, AMEX in particular is user hostile. Want to use the airplane points? You must pick an airline (not obvious). You want to get the money towards rideshare? You must click the boxes the enable it or you don't get it. Oh - you also get the rideshare money doled out $15/month without rollover to make it maximally hard to use. Paying $550/yr and then feeling like they're screwing you at every turn doesn't create much loyalty. The Chase Sapphire Reserve was probably the best overall card before I switched to the Apple one.

If the other companies actually cared about their users they could have made a much better product. There's huge opportunity in this space to make something that doesn't suck with rewards that people actually want.
I appreciate fintech companies as a number of them are FNACs [0] driving new use cases, combined with my actually quite good legacy bank taking inspiration from these, I can get the benefits of fintech, with the stability of an existing provider.

Personally I have no interest in another current account (e.g. I'm not moving my main account to Monzo, dropped them like a hot stone when they did away with the top-up debit card system).

[0] Feature, not a company
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I wish we were a little farther along so I'd have more to say, but we're hoping to solve this with https://hoppy.network/.

It's nothing you couldn't do yourself, but we host it for you so you don't have to. We host WireGuard servers which assign a stable public IPv4 and IPv6 on your device's WireGuard tunnel interface.

As far as your device is concerned, it's like its tunnel interface is a publicly addressable connection. Because it is! Just with one extra encrypted hop at the end.

Nothing to install besides WireGuard itself. WireGuard's biggest papercut (Dynamic DNS) is solved because we provide you a connection to a server with a static IP.

No promotional emails. No spam. Just a simple service for a specific, niche need.

Hope to post about its launch here soon. (logan@hoppy.network for questions!)
gphoto is a linux utility that allows you to do just that :)
> This isn’t an issue if you go into orbit around a planet, where the braking maneuver is at right angles to the direction to the planet surface.

Unsure. Sounds like your exhaust could enter the planet's orbit. It seems prudent to have a secondary engine for use near planets, to avoid filling their upper atmosphere with radioactive garbage.
> executed on a paired phone

One constraint around this is the sheer bandwidth required to do any sort of live processing (either for viewfinding purposes or autofocus) — the latency (and even bandwidth) of anything less than a direct raw feed into the processor isn't gonna be good enough.
The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. It was written then. The fact that other parts were ratified at different times doesn't stop you from interpreting each part "as it was written." But you know that.
> What's your point or objection to a hypothetical future?

"Equality under the law" is a pretty strong argument. Corporations are legal people, and the law treats all people the same. Setting up classes of people with different laws that apply differently is absolutely not something that would fly.
And if you're already scanning the menu, just clicking on the stuff you want is easier than explaining it to someone.

However, if you frequently order the same thing from a given restaurant, having a way to order "the usual" from that place via voice might be convenient. But I'm not sure it's much more convenient than being able to do the same thing with a button click or something.
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Ask HN: announcing an ambitious Internet open source project?
I'm building a replacement for a widely used Internet application that causes most of its users substantial suffering. (Apologies for not saying more; that would make this a de facto announcement.)

The project is ready for evaluation by the Internet community, but not yet production use. It needs open source contributors and constructive critique.

I've been working on it solo for >2y, and have circulated a handful of releases to a few friends.

It hasn't yet been publicly announced. How can I publicize this?
My understanding is that it's to placate activist employees (or, if management are activists, to play out their beliefs).
It's not just for the sake of hiding my IP - I torrent a lot of linux distros. It's just nice to be able to seed at the 200mbit of my VPS than with the 20mbit upstream from the home connection - but this is a very good point.
Puzzles?! The concept of valuing learning and practice is pretty well accepted in any other craft.
The key difference between Java and PHP is the lack of a compilation step. I can change a line of code, press cmd+r and I see the change - whereas in Java more often than not I have to wholly restart the application container as hot-reloading is a complicated mess and tough to set up.

Also, in Java it is easy to end up with resource leaks whereas PHP always starts from a clean slate for each request. Way less headache for operations.
It probably depends on what scale these parts can be provided on. It is possible that for a digital camera the supply capability could meet the demands but would struggle with the volume required for a phone.
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Yeah, method 1 describes how to get unactivated copy that you can’t legally use for anything other than evaluation.
> A survey by the World Economic Forum found that just 28 percent of the millennial and Gen Z generations trust their banks to be fair and honest.

Lol, they didn't do a survey about how much of Gen Z trust their tech companies. I'm not sure if FANG or tech startups would get as high as 28%.
PHP virus? What??? (looking up) Oh, it's a subtype of AAV.
There's a really funny movie called The Hebrew Hammer which I watched as a teenager, which is the closest thing that comes to mind. It is made by a Jewish person though if I'm not mistaken, so as such one could argue that it's self-deprecating.
I've considered this route myself - are you using KVM in Ubuntu to get passthrough or is there some other hypervisor in play?
You may be interested in Freenet. Data is distributed across nodes but the nodes don't know what they have. An individual file isn't necessarily entirely on one node, it could (and most likely is) distributed across many nodes. In order to retrieve data you need to know the key for that data. At that point you can start requesting the appropriate blocks from the network and reconstitute the file(s).
It's what I observed with banks.

No matter how much the tech contributes to the bottom line, bonus and incentives are still focused on the trading floor and salespeople.
> It is whether youtube-dl is a tool that enables access to YouTube contents by circumventing a "cipher".

YouTube provides a javascript to decrypt it and youtube-dl just runs it. Unless they are arguing that using a JS interpreter that's not approved by them is circumventing the cipher then no, it's not. And if they are, it's completely insane.
In my experince, the true believers find the diversity courses validating.
How is this using rsync? Does it invoke an rsync process, or implement the rsync wire protocol? One of my gripes with rsync is I've not found another way to integrate it into other systems. librsync doesn't implement the wire protocol and parsing the output of rsync itself is fraught with peril (for instance the formatting of --no-h has changed before.)

Edit: it seems to invoke an a rsync process but doesn't parse stdout for progress. A bit disappointing but I suppose that's all which is needed for this application.
Samsung, Huawei, Sony, Apple, they're always trying to put the best and latest sensors on their phones.
We do "book clubs" and we are doing a Hackathon soon where I work. I think these things do keep you motivated. I am not ready to use lisp! But I do like to have a side project going at work. Often I merely get to think about the side project an maybe do a tiny bit of research, but it's motivating. It usually of the form "what would disrupt our app" or "why don't we just X". By side project I mean for work, not me competing!
Instead just deploy to AWS us-east-1 and the random failures will keep you on your toes.
I’d rather these ride-or-die Joe Biden-heads splinter off onto their own network instead. They could make it so whenever you start to even type “Hunt-“ you get a modal that says “Did You Know: Actually Energy Expert Hunter Biden added way more than $50,000/mo worth of value to Burisma.”
and here I am looking to go to the Mini because at this point the phone's cameras have been more capable than I have for ages and all I want is a phone but without the size and weight that makes me notice I am carrying it.
Ha. Other fees nearly always take this above 1%, often closer to 5% and as far as 20% only sub dollar transactions. Other fees are your scheme fees of which there are many, avs fees, and your acquirer fee (the people who take the chargeback risk - e.g. adyen 0.65%)
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The FT had some coverage of this, but it wasn't massively in depth. The one thing I remember is that the AZ would be sold without profit until the end of the pandemic, which was contractually defined as June 2021.

Incidentally, if you want serious journalism, the FT is worth paying for.
You are correct that a larger sensor would capture more photons, however I think you are not comparing apples to apples. That picture is a snapshot with basically 0 visible light and was made possible by capturing a lot of channels and running a remarkable software enhancement. AFAIK, there is no API to do anything like that with uploaded raw picture (0). So to get a similar quality picture with a larger sensor you will need a long exposure time... and an average human subject shivering in a cold environment will come out way blurrier.

Good portraits are usually made by excellent lightning conditions. As a portrait this picture is average, but when you take conditions in the account the result is quite amazing.

(0) That is an assumption I am making which might be wrong. You could also definitely do this by hand by investing 100-1000x more time.
It was a 3-second hand-held long exposure in apparently little to no light. I'd say the fact that her features are somewhat defined is pretty decent.

It seems the point of it in the first place was to see how well the night mode works in near pitch-darkness for portraits.
Quite biased. At least the Wikipedia page includes a Criticism section. Also, as with most psychology, the prior should be that all these studies are a result of p-hacking and publication bias (i.e. that the effect is actually noise).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit-association_test#Crit...

Also pretty obvious biased cherry picking on that page. Counterexample:

Women preferred 2:1 over men for STEM faculty positions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372481
I think that this was the image referenced with the "woman in a park" in the initial post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50730c37e4b03a...
For the last half decade, almost all apps have been deployed with webpack/browserify/other bundles. All the assets get smashed together into a big custom bundle that doesn't get cached across sites.

This has been really sad & a big loss for the web, in my opinion. And it's one that we were about to emerge from[1], it seems like.

Alas, if we do go back to a more old-school CDN-based style of web scripting/javascripting, powered by our new ES Modules (& hopefully Import Maps) this new sharding-by-origin change will mean that we will never ever see the CDN hit-rate benefits we once saw.

It seems like it is a necessary change, to protect the user from being tracked, but it still hurts my heart so much, that we are so near to getting back to sharing resources on the web, only to have all that sharing snatched away. Whatever metrics you are looking at today, know that they represent a very sad state of affairs, that brought great pain & suffering to the hearts of many webdevs who aspired for much much much higher hit rates.

[1] https://www.bryanbraun.com/2020/10/23/es-modules-in-producti...
Hm, yeah. I would not have guessed that this post was a reference to the election by the text alone, but that tweet certainly seems to indicate that it is.
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Observational studies on politically-charged topics should be treated with a lot of skepticism.
The biggest issue for low light is sensor size. Smaller sensors means more noise, and that noise is smoothed out with computational photography. That's why most manufacturers are going for more discrete sensors with different lenses, instead. Samsung does have a "periscope" design for the super tele in their latest phone that mounts the sensor vertically. Lenses are more important than sensor for sharpness, and there's obviously not a ton of room in these phones to put big lenses. Camera bumps are already growing quite large.
"Causing environmental catastrophe" seems like it should be covered by some kind of law in the last 70 or 80 years since DDT started production. They knew how toxic the substance was and how long-lived it was, there is no guessing game as to whether it was a bad idea, even at the time.

It has more to do with tolerance of callousness and stupidity in previous decades than it has to do with there not being a specific law against dumping specifically DDT into the ocean.
The easiest way to think about Tcl is simply, "it's a Lisp, but with strings instead of lists."

It turns out that when you make a language like that, you end up something where your code looks and feels like a list of commands (much like a shell script) but is also capable of doing "real" programming stuff where needed without much pain.

The test suite for SQLite is (still!) written in Tcl, I think partly for this reason. You probably wouldn't want to write a test suite in bash, but you don't quite get that feeling of "it's just a list of commands."
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Why would you need directions to the workplace you go to every day? Unless you're doing onsite stuff in new places every day?
I didn't say either, I didn't say it was illegal - quite the opposite - or that the right response is more laws.

However, I did say in the past, that in certain circumstances I do think the right response is laws. There are laws e.g. prohibiting utility companies from refusing customers they do not like like people who criticize the company or nazis and "nazis".

I do think that common infrastructure companies (analog to the utilities companies, just essential digital services) such as cloudflare, dns registrars, hosting and cloud providers shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against people with the "wrong" opinions.

And even "social media" companies of a certain size/marketshare/market power should be severely limited in what they can censor (e.g. banning nudity and porn and gore etc is OK in my opinion, banning speech inciting violence is too, if narrowly defined, banning people because they belong to a certain political party or stream is not). Yeah, here be dragons; it would be hard to find a good balance, but given the alternative of a few (social) media companies right now growing ever more powerful it still would be the right thing to do.
What do you mean by "slightly superior sensor"? Do you assume that there exist (or someone could produce with today's technology) sensors that are "objectively" better that the current phone sensors?

In my opinion the limiting factor in phone cameras is the size. Of course, for a given size a cheap, crappy sensor will give crappy results. But I wouldn't be surprised that sensors used in flagship phones are actually pretty close to the state of the art.

The issue with the size is that if you increase it for the sensor, you're going to have to increase it for the optics. In an era where manufacturers are convinced we want paper-thin devices, they're going to have to choose the one over the other.
You can understand how C/C++ builds and dependencies work by reading a book, yes. But you can still criticize it—there's lots of stuff there to criticize! Modern languages have shown that dependency management and builds can be easier, faster, more secure, and more portable.
Another +1 for cheerio.io

If I recall correctly, what was really helpful about it that I could write whatever code I would need to query and parse the DOM in the browser console and the copy and paste it into a script with almost no changes.

It made it really simple to go from a proof of concept into pipeline for scraping material and feeding it into a database.
If there's a tech shortage-- why is it that every time I take an interview I'm subjected to hours of arbitrary comp-sci trivia?
small nit: the underlying creditor is Goldman Sachs, not Morgan Stanley :)
7 millimeters deep is staggering. Holy crap!

Just a few years ago I remember being very impressed by 500 microns.

I am curious to see how well this is tolerated in the long term. It is possible to damage tissues with very intense light, especially over time, but there are ways around this like 2-photon.
There's also the similarity of the class alignment behind today's "neo-Maoist" stuff and the actual Cultural Revolution. https://www.thebellows.org/the-new-cultural-revolution/
I like xdcc because you dont need to upload
Inspiration or Desperation - the two human motivators.

Inspiration can easily lead to pursuing tangents, but conversely desperation can lead to tunnel vision and fear paralysis.

There's a sweet spot in the middle. Convince yourself you're passionate about something by visualizing the end goal, but also convince yourself that there is a real need to make progress.
It's fair, but is it PayPal's job to enforce that? If I sell MasterCard pre-paid cards at my corner store, will Visa come audit me and ask what sort of people I'm selling those cards to?
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The blur is actually insane amounts of noise reduction, it's not an attempt at bokeh, I think! You can tell because all other shadows are just as blurred out.

I think that it doesn't look flat just because of the flash, but really as a mix of incredibly severe noise reduction as well as a ton of dynamic compression necessary to keep the background in roughly the same exposure.
I am assuming Pfizer will beat them then? They are expecting approval at the end of November if I recall it correctly and will probably push their stock
That doesn't really tell me anything. If I had some examples of this then it would be easy to determine how serious a problem this is.

His/her statement is relatively vacuous without further clarification, which is why I asked for it.
Wait, but it doesn't execute analytics or run ads.
FIFY: While Fred Wilson might be a VC, he’s speaking in his capacity as an American citizen. Voting is critical to democracies, and one of your biggest responsibilities on behalf of all Americans is to hold government officials accountable.

* Referencing Fred’s own post/replies on twitter https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/1320706427091111936?s=...
Self-plug warning but FWIW if you're using cheerio _just_ for the selector syntax a related tool is Stew [1] which is a dependency-free [2] node module that allows one to extract content from web pages (DOM trees) using CSS selectors, like:

var links = stew.select(dom,'a[href]');

extended with support for embeded regular expressions (for tags, classes, IDs, attributes or attribute values). E.g.:

var metadata = stew.select(dom,'head meta[name=/^dc\.|:/i]');

It's on npm as `stew-select`

[1] https://github.com/rodw/stew/

[2] there's an optional peer-dependency-ish relationship to htmlparser or htmlparser2 or similar to generate a DOM tree from raw HTML but anything that creates a basic DOM tree (`{type:, name:, children:[] }`) will suffice
I used to run distributed system based on a few bash scripts and rsync to work in real time. It has become more complex when each "cell" exceeded the node capacity. The file naming system was not flexible enough to split these cells into smaller nodes and I abandoned writing a router for Nginx to direct requests to right server based on the filenames. I just decided to throw a couple of big machines at the problem instead and that removed all complexity. It wouldn't be possible just a couple of years ago though.
For a couple of years the rsync solution worked very well.