skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even without the full resolution images, some of the samples seem to exhibit serious sharpness problems. One example:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50730c37e4b03a...

If that's the output I can expect, I don't know why I'd even bother taking the picture. The image is a mess. On the basis of this article, my conclusion is if you want to share or view the images on anything other than a mobile device, you might be disappointed with the output of this camera. Better to stick with your a7 III or what have you.
This may be the best example I've seen on the internet of a bad faith argument.
No. Google is different. They hold a monopoly on search that I think should be broken up. I have big problems with the power Google wields in finding things online.

But, going back to my previous comment, it would in a way be a good thing if Google started capriciously "disappearing" sites like this, in a high-profile manner. It would accelerate the move to other search providers and bring a more diversified Internet to us all. (I'm not advocating for it, but the end result would probably be better than what we have now: SEO madness all to please The One Algorithm.)

Twitter has competition. Reddit, Facebook, Apple News, and traditional media outlets all disseminate information. They all offer notifications on your phone. Where we're typing this out is HN, which is another news dissemination and discussion service.

The more Twitter does things to make it clear it's not a neutral platform, the more other services can find users. I do not want Twitter to be a monopoly platform. Tagging them with some common-carrier-like status, while allowing them to remain private, just entrenches that monopoly.
Wait...so what do you do for relaxation then?
> Twitter is an infrastructure on top of which thousands of services are run. It's a notification service, it's a messaging server, it's an authentication/identify verification service, it's a news dissemination and discussion service, etc.

It's all of these, except private. It's a privately run notification/messaging/authentication/identity/verification service. Just one that is widely used. That doesn't make it "public".
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> Does it bother you so much that he would put in a link that had an affiliate?

Clearly yes - thus me commenting on it.

> I doubt he was trying to hide anything nefarious

Do you know this person and are speaking for their integrity? Would you swear to this person's honesty in a court of law in front of your peers? (ABSURDIST PART OF COMMENT)

> I doubt he was trying to save HN bandwidth or storage.

Right, my apologies for making the absurdist part of my reply not obvious enough. Will not make this mistake again.
Since the discussion is polarized by virtue of politics nowadays, it’s worth remembering that a private company can censor their content, but it’s perfectly reasonable to criticize them.

Recognizing their freedom doesn’t insulate them from criticism. Freedom/regulatory regime != morality.

FWIW I'm fully supportive of company autonomy, and I also like expressing criticism when their actions don't line up with my values.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) too.
"Everything you own end up owning you!"
I was about to say, isn't virtually everything fought over by a tiny minority? Like was there ever a point in history when culture wasn't determined by either elites or revolutionary groups? The indifferent, amorphous general population just swings wherever successful opinion-making moves, that's not news, and also not really relevant.
Pretty standard for a company, for better or for worse.
They will have missed Monaco, as they only looked at the 150 most populated cities. When I was there around the millennium it was the clear leader in police officers per head of population, so I expect it’s also doing well on cameras.
He only compared a few shots to the 11 pro, there are some youtube videos that do comparisons to the pixel 5 and galaxy note s20. The s20 especially has better zoom and night mode compared to the 12 pro.
Interesting that @ap is considered a leftward slant. I’m not sure if you’d consider Reuters the same at that point?
"Near-realtime" isn't good enough for SQLite. It has a strong dependency on the consistency guarantees provided by a POSIX-like filesystem.

The approach described in this page does make some attempt to provide consistency. The master generates a single stream of file updates, and all of the replicas consistently apply those changes in the same order. But rsync is not guaranteed to observe changes to files on the master in the same order that they were written.

In particular, SQLite (by default) uses a rollback journal to recover from failures. While a transaction is in process and some parts of the database might have been partially updated, the journal stores the old contents of the modified pages. Since the old data is fsync'ed to the journal before the new data is written to the database file, the data on disk at any moment in time is recoverable.

But there's no clean way for rsync to read an atomic snapshot of both the database file and the journal at the same instant in time. If it reads them at different times, a database change might be partially applied or partially rolled back, which has a high likelihood of corrupting the database.
Like in many other countries, unfortunately.
I do that too.

And afterwards I scan the page for archival.
Regarding the short term versus long term, I agree with you here. I meant to differentiate between getting profit by investing, which certainly has a lot of value and is the whole point of capital markets, and from getting profit from fluctuations in the current price not tied to an inherent value of the company, which is where I think you have the winner and loser, even if the trades involve multiple parties. Clearly this is what is being done in high frequency trading.

I can buy the idea of high frequnecy trading serving as market making even if it is not something I can fully appreciate. But it still seems like these high frequency traders (and others invovled in investing based on fluctations) are mainly skimming money from the market without providing value.
I maintain a list of solutions to this problem:

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling.

There are a surprising number of tools that all do essentially the same thing, and it's often hard to tell how they're different from the other 30 options.

Making a really good solution to this problem has been the focus of my free time for the past month since I wrote this comment[0].

The project I'm working on:

* 100% open source and MIT licensed

* Strive for simplicity throughout. Very few dependencies. No config files, and only a single CLI parameter required to run the server.

* Clients can be remote controlled by the server, and each client can open an arbitrary number of tunnels. ie you don't have to start a separate ngrok process for each tunnel. Just set up the client on each machine you want to tunnel out of and forget about it. Everything is controlled
through a simple web UI (or REST api).

* Automate as much as possible. Tunnel creation and Let's Encrypt are already working. Eventually you'll be able to add an API token from your DNS provider and that'll be automated as well.

It's not quite ready (launch planned for 31 Oct 2020), but you can check it out here: https://boringproxy.io/

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24475946
The right solution is that people should move off of Twitter and leave that wretched garbage platform in the dust. I wrote this the other day, but people have already pointed out tons of problems with it and I tend to agree with those issues: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-solution-to-big-tech-isnt...

The reality is they have massive market share. Keep in mind, Facebook and Twitter prevented the spread of this story via PRIVATE DIRECT MESSAGES!

Imagine if AT&T or Verizon started blocking texts because of their content. You can say, "Well don't use Messenger" and you need to realize, a lot of us don't have each other's phone numbers any more. For my international friends, I might only have a Messenger or Hangouts connection.

And this is where the rub comes into play. At what point is one of these platforms so big that they become a regular communication utility? If you were paying for the service, that's one thing, but in the case of Faceobook/Twitter, they make money from you in more abstract ways (adverts).

People can still go to NY Post directly, and because we have such good freedoms in the US, we can route around the censorship to some degree. But at some point, this also becomes election interference.

Politicians don't understand the Internet enough to get reforms right. (Remember Stevens and the series of tubes?). 230 Reforms would probably need:

a) Remove the algo Timeline entirely. Results should be the way they were in the old days: Reverse Chronological. (or baring that, inboxes with the default search order of names being alphabetical).

b) Don't block any direct messages unless it's clearly malware or illegal. (This can get super tricky. Look at the sad state of e-mail).

The real solution is to get people to use more diverse platforms, platforms people pay for (even $1/month) and that distribute/federate data rather than centralize it.

There are technological solutions around this. The problem is people and adoption.
Some key points to save anyone else having to look them up:

Yes, those five do score more than 28% with Gen Z, though still less than 50%, and by the time you're down to Apple, only just over 1/3 of people trust them to do the right thing even in Gen Z.

For comparison, Google/Netflix/Amazon are in the 40-45% range for Millennials, with YouTube at only 37.7% and Apple falling off the top-25 list and therefore below 33.8%.

Gen X and Boomers are less trusting still. YouTube and Apple don't even make the top-24 list for Gen X, and of the five mentioned in the parent comment, only Amazon makes it into the top 25 for Boomers. Those brands that did make it are still only in the 30-40% bracket for these age groups.
Yikes - I've found Zerohedge to be scarily accurate over time! Depends on your political allegiances I suppose but my mother taught me when i was kid to always read the financial press - 'follow the money to find out what the b@stards are thinking' was her old line. (she used to work for the UK tory party in the '50's, despised them).
ZH is what many city of London and wall street minions read live on their bloomberg terminals, for better or worse...

Separately I view Twitter as breaking section 230 free speech regulatory agreements in meddling with what they 'publish'
The article that graph comes from indicates that is self-reported data from the companies which may not be consistent in what is considered R&D vs. marketing cost.

https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2019/7/...
The New York Times once allowed itself to be used as a mouthpiece for Stalin, publishing Walter Duranty's denials of famine in Ukraine. They didn't come clean on this until 1990: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/opinion/the-editorial-not...

More recently, they allowed themselves to be used as the uncritical mouthpiece of the American federal government when they were starting an illegal war predicated on lies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller

If the NYTimes isn't pure, then surely none are. Genocide denial is particularly egregious, but at least they eventually came clean. I still read the NYTimes more than any other paper, but we must always remember to keep an open mind and to never be too trusting of what any newspaper says.
The US put japanese people in in concentration camps and most US citizens supported it. Does this put most US citizens on par with Nazis who gassed and experimented on Jewish people? No. It does not. Americans did it out of fear, not out of evil.

There is a huge difference here. When you say genocide, it is equivalent to holocaust. When you say concentration camp it's equivalent to gitmo at worst or the japanese concentration camps. Both could be happening but one is drastically worse than the other and genocide needs confirmation.
You should definitely take a look at it - Caddy works fantastically well.

To give you an idea about the compatibility differences, it's like the upgrade from Vue.js 2 to Vue.js 3. Some changes to format are necessary for the new architecture. But you can always just run the older version (that's what I do). And swapping to the new one isn't terribly painful if your just using vanilla (for Caddy 1 extensions, which weren't created by the developer himself most of the time, I'm sure Caddy 2 versions will pop up over time).
I don't think it's a niche issue outside of the United States, in countries where English is widely known. It makes it pretty much impossible to use Siri on Apple TV for example, because so many movies or TV series are named in English but also in the local language.
And its not if trash tabloids don't cancel and destroy people all the time.
I think the whole point of these reviews are...how will the images look on Instagram not necessarily for pixel peepers.

I agree with you completely, that when it comes down to the full image, the results are usually grainy and pixelated. That's why I'm sticking with my Sony camera.
What if something goes horribly normally and you catch the virus the vaccine is supposed to prevent?

It's a risk tradeoff, different between the phases. I'd probably volunteer for a phase 3 trial if one was available in my area. Phase 1 would be a bit too hot for me.
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It is commercial, and sadly their GC algorithms are patented. I'm really anxious for those patents to start running out because the functionality is quite clever.

Basically one main reason you need to stop the world in common GC's right now (and thus cause pauses) is because if you want to compact memory a GC thread has no idea if other threads reads/writes to an object while moving leading to worst case corrupt/lost writes.

What Azul does is to make the pages in question invalid for reading/writing so any access to them would page-fault and then proceeds to move the objects without worrying about other threads. Since the hardware provides the page-fault "for-free" this protection doesn't cost anything in terms of runtime performance in the common case (compared to the new ZGC made by Oracle that has read-write barriers that steals some mutator performance), worst case if another thread tries to read/write memory that is being moved a specialized page-fault handler detects if this was an page that was in motion and can then do a slower read-write but ONLY in the seldom cases where this occurs (compared to all the time of f.ex. ZGC)
> "The more they exercise their own prerogatives in removing content, the more they're no longer some sort of vital communication platform"

The usage and network effects by the public is what determines the ubiquity and utility of the platform.

Just because it's served by private entities doesn't change the fact that social media is very much on the verge of becoming public utility. Twitter's own CEO claims that social media is a human right.
Most new cameras have WiFi capability syncing to your phone. It's an extra step but it's not as bad as it used to be. Finally snapseed and lightroom for Android are good enough for basic editing in the field. At least that's what I do and I'm quite satisfied. With the resolution Facebook and Instagram presents photos the phone apps are more than sufficient at raw processing.
The term was not used with any degree of precision forty-five years ago, believe me.
Navigating a menu (with a limited set of choices) could be actually useful, and - given the limited amount of "valid" commands - it should be possible to overcome/filter background noise.
What a hot mess.

I am imagining those years of looking at terrible National Enquirer headlines at store checkouts. This kind of terrible reporting as always existed, but for some reason (luckily I guess) they never crossed over into national discourse the way that stories do online.

I never begrudged the store for carrying them and selling them. If Wal-Mart suddenly felt the need to arbitrate on the accuracy of every periodical they sold, I'm not sure if I would feel better or worse.

I also don't know how to handle the people who are saying the story is fake or terribly reported, but we have a right to be misinformed if we want to be.
I do most note-taking on paper. Problem with paper is that it's not searchable, as I discovered to my cost trying to find some specific reference details for a job I did last year and am repeating today. My problems are probably more due to ad hoc disorganisation - particularly, sometimes going off-piste and making critical notes on random sheets of paper, away from my main notebooks.

I'd love some kind of e-paper solution, in a notebook form, but I've no idea how it could gracefully and capably mimic the act of turning pages and having a chrono-spacial awareness of where the content in each of those pages lie.

In some far future we'll have paper-thin writeable electronic displays and can literally make a notebook to rule them all, but it'll be a while. And even then, likely very expensive.
No, it's not. My experience is that for poor programmers, Java is easy because they lack the fundamental skills, and are familiar w/ the mechanics of Java. Of course this is a broad generalization and terribly unfair empirical anecdata.
> Is bathroom choice a problem of the relatively wealthy?

Your rephrase lost an important nuance. I said "problems the relatively wealthy face." Bathroom choice is a problem wealth can't really solve or mitigate, so it's one they still face (either directly or through their children or peers).

> but it also affects a fair number of the wealthy, quite possibly in numbers greater than their proportion in the population. (It's hard to judge because every celebrity overdose will be widely reported, so availability bias might be affecting my perception.)

IMO, celebrity drug abuse is kinda a different thing, because celebrities are a special, tiny class that's easy to hold yourself apart from.
A lot of comments seem to be picky with the photo of the lady in the parka. As I mentioned in another comment, I read the article itself and that photo in particular was a hand-held 3-second long exposure in near-complete darkness. It was a test of the Night Mode for portraits.

It was literally just to see how the new LIDAR stuff can help with a nearly impossibly dark shot.

Of course a DSLR/mirrorless with proper lighting and a tripod would actually look good.

I don't think that was the point with that test shot, though.
Some of them were posted here but it wasn’t regularly updated. http://watrophy.com/
> we're not trying to pretend something and actually use data is a bad way

When it comes to privacy, people actually want to know that YOU can't be exploited to giving information. If you can access something, what prevents someone from hacking your system and getting our data? That's the point, not your intent. It's that you are an attack vector now. What are you doing to mitigate this?
Would it be fair to call this a kind of "pervasive eval"?
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Mostly correct - however, the period after the Civil War moved the country distinctly back towards the right. Chinese Exclusion Act, among others, would not have been considered mainstream in the early 1800s. This continued well into the 1900s - which is when all the confederate hero statues were built (mostly by private funding). Many are being removed now.

In this case it's possible the Overton Window may finally be shifting back leftward on race and history regarding the Civil War.
It doesn't matter if there are dozens of CDNs. Look at what happened to dailystormer, they were unable to find a CDN. Yes, they are bad nazis and are pretty much underserving of anybody's pity, but it still shows how easily those few market players (and an angry twitter mob) can banish stuff from the internet, driven by some public outrage.

There is a handful of CC companies and payment processors. Look at what happened to adult performers and sex workers (even the ones operating completely within the law): they cannot even get a bank account once they are found out to be in those businesses.

Want to run a legal dispensary selling legal weed? Though luck, no banking for you either, and even finding a datacenter that will take your servers will be tough.

The market position of the big players, network effects and also often the regulatory capture makes sure you cannot just "build your own" in a lot of areas. And even if there is competition - like there is with hosting - you'd be hard pressed to find a hoster that will have you. And even once you found such a hoster, it probably will not last because angry mobs start to write emails to that hoster, or DDoS it.
Does the DSLR automatically upload photos to iCloud or your photo stream?

Looks like EyeFi (WiFi-equipped SD cards) isn't a thing anymore: http://www.eyefi.com/ "Welcome to nginx!"
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Here's a fun little quirk in TCL that cost me about a day of debugging. An unmatched bracket in a comment, depending on the placement, can cause an error. :)

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Why+can+I+not+place+unmatched...
Thanks for mentioning "Parsing with Zippers"! I read "Parsing with Derivatives" last week and wondered if that could be taken further. The paper can be found here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3408990
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As someone who reads the NYPost regularly, I find that it's an interesting outlet. It publishes a lot of "tabloid" stuff that's worth skipping - celebrity sitings, silly videos that went virals about cats or people trying to escape the police by doing cartwheels, and outlandish headlines. But if you read certain sections (Sports, Business, Metro), the articles are written as they would be in any other outlet (with the exception that maybe the Opinion & Editorial section is more conservative leaning than other NY newspapers).
You're very right. I am guilty of not being familiar with Middle-Eastern contributions to Science, although I am familiar with extensive mathematics contributions. I'll look through this. Thank you!
Except that you can take the laptop with you when you leave your desk.

Obviously there's a tradeoff, but the point is you can get many of the advantages of both fairly easily.
I thought it was interesting that this construct is linked in the paper to a slight variant of System F, which tells me that (a) it's probably pretty rigorously rationalized (b) it can be utilized in future formal work, so (c) future formal work doesn't have to do closure allocation as much.
Mostly, because as of 2020, most things don't use UUIDs. See e.g.

1) https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/insta...

2) man fdisk

3) man mkfs

And so on. The /dev/sd_ is primary, with UUIDs as kind of an afterthought

It ought to be the other way around, with UUIDs as the primary, proper, canonical name and interface, and a legacy backwards-compatibility layer for /dev/sd_ devices. It's even reflected in the directory structure. Yes, I CAN list disk "by-uuid," label, id, partuuid, or path, but those are special cases with sd_ as canonical.

It's kinda retrokludged in there. I never said USB/etc. didn't work. Just that it wasn't architected for it.