skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's part of the C code running on the phone, recording itself. Kinda meta. :)

There's quite a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignetting going on. Camera sensors have anti-vignetting circuitry that is supposed to eliminate this, but it needs to be calibrated to each module and maybe even enclosure the module is in.

I recorded this via a C program, but you can do the same via v4l2-ctl command line tool and encode the result with ffmpeg.
Hold on. That’s the 40-year old advice ! :)
I guess I don't understand what about it is taking it too far. With a filofax, you're taking all kinds of information down about people. Calendaring is one aspect of it, but it's really an analog personal information manager. People keep yearly archives of the information. So is it that a digital PIM automates some of this process that you object to?
The money supply doesn't go down, but the distribution of that wealth matters a lot. The 0.01%ers don't spend the same way everyone else does. They hoard. The more they get, the more they will hoard and for the rest of society, that means there will be less to go around.
I don't believe in the accuracy of the data I currently have to make any judgements. For several months, I have been measuring my blood pressure and noted the effects of caffeine, alcohol, and exercise. I would like to gauge sleep length and quality to correlate with physical and mental well-being. Ideally, this would be passively measured and monitored, but I haven't gotten that far into it yet.
Isn't there a (non) joke that they just buy whatever the rights to whatever to random independent films anyone makes
Isn't the same true for almost everything? Clothing, electronics, disposal of electronics, plastics, etcetc. Which isn't an excuse, it's just that - i don't know if i can throw a stick and not hit something humanity is actively and aggressively exploiting.

The only way out of this that i see is to make "other things" our slaves. Eg, i don't think we can convince people to always pay for their shirts/phones/etc from ethical sources - even if they had the info to base those decisions off of. However once we get to the point where machines can outcompete slave wages that problem will start to realistically be mitigated.. i hope.

Same is true for everything we're destroying i imagine. Humanity has no moral compass when beyond arms reach.. it seems.
Video game is already mentioned and contrasted in the article.

The difference is (to paraphrase what the author says) playing video games excessively is already frowned on. Watching Netflix is not.
Sounds cool, have you considered putting it on github?
I won! I had to get the bank account number from the JS source however :)
Fingers crossed :-) I have a call with the Post transplant team this after noon so will ask.

Which hospital / trust are you with? I had mine done at Royal Free.
Correct - vessels on US cabotage-restricted routes will always be registered (and crewed etc) in the US.
The thing making this easy in web pages is the _tooling_ though.

The reason this is harder in Android than in web environments is that web tooling is just _very_ mature.

Theoretically nothing is preventing you from exposing this functionality in Android/iOS/flutter/react-native/ whatever.

In practice hot-reloading is a lot more valuable and useful since you edit from your IDE (and not the devtools) and all modern UI platforms (flutter/android jetpack/SwiftUI) support it from what I recall.
Yeah that surprised me, I'm absolutely blown away with how little fresh content I get on Netflix.

During lockdown I have scrolled through it every single day and if I didn't know that lockdown was extremely profitable for companies like them I would have thought they were on life support there has been so little content added over the past few months.

Decided to cancel it this week, going to invest in a Plex server instead.
Given that they could halt the rollout of the vaccine at any point, it makes sense to approve ASAP to get all bureaucratic burdens out of the way, and concurrently analyze the situation. Not saying that this is the case though.

For example, the EU is going to review the Pfizer vaccine on December 29, and they have requested further information.
If everyone does nothing but produce content, who will consume it?
Next up: Against Sugar when using Netflix. How much health is lost when people eat chocolate instead of vegetables during Netflix? Am I being ironic? Who knows, you still "read my blog".
My exact reaction.:) I have friends that openly state that they have "learned valuable life lessons from playing RPG games". From 15 years on I don't watch TV. I stopped video games after WOW madness. Result: Now I play guitar reasonably well, painting is more fun than ever, reading books is like morning coffee:)
I'm very hopeful that this becomes the norm. Even if it's hard to adopt for individuals, I imagine McDonalds would jump at the opportunity to use lab grown meat for their products, should it be actually cheaper. The benefits of this tech are potentially massive!
So for me this pandemic has caused me to be bored with Netflix, TV, all of it. There is zero that holds my attention. I find nothing of interest on Netflix anymore. My friends say have you seen bla...it’s amazing. I cannot make it past the first 2 episodes without being bored. I am working on reading, finish some games I never finished and just spending time with the family playing games.
Be careful with that type of reasonable thinking. Fear and compliance is the way to go.
I agree with you and fully expect this to happen.
I've found reading before bed is better as well.
If anybody wants more in detail knowledge about the region, especially what is happening in the Banana Republic of Pakistan.

NATSECJEFF on twitter is a must follow.

https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff

His podcast is also great.
> So your position is that Day labor and/or independent contracting is only predatory?

Yes, especially when the primary USP is just to lower labour costs compared to having them as employees.

> That people are incapable of looking at a situation and making a choice for themselves if the situation is good for them or not? They must always be protected by the government "for the greater good", and that government regulation is inherently good and noble?

Yes. People in a shite economic position and without any support from a welfare state are rarely in a position to refuse an exploitative relationship.

And yes again, the government is most likely far more "good and noble" than an employer in day labourer relationship - whose primary motive is not one's well-being but profit.

> because after the state of CA passed a law prohibiting independent contracting for a whole host of jobs, many lost 100% of their income, many others lost flexibility in the jobs and other adverse consequences from moving from Independent contracting to employee

A lot of people would lose their job in the insurance industry if universal health care was adopted. But it's still the right thing to do. Furthermore, the only reason why you can use that argument "Ah, it's horrible! They're losing their income!" is because there's no welfare state to help them out in between jobs and/or (re-)education.

> Many people PREFER to be independent as it affords them flexibility and well independence they could not get if they were employee's

Maybe some, sure. Not sure why that's relevant or mutually exclusive to not regress to day labourers.

> it is foolish and ignorant to claim that I have "low empathy with the less fortunate" simply because I prefer less authoritarian government, less regulation and more personal freedom (and responsibility)

A hand-in-hat existence has absolutely nothing to do with freedom, if anything it's its opposite. Freedom for capital, or market freedom etc, does not automatically translate to freedom in its literal sense to the willing or unwilling participants.

The boss is usually the most authoritarian relationship that most people experience from day to day, worsening the less fortunate one are. This would only increase the intensity of that.
Has anyone got any facts about this they can link?

So TV (including streaming) hours watched per year for the last decade or two?
> Most of the world doesn't really care if their meat is cruelty-free

I don't think most of the world views animal husbandry as having inherent cruelty in the first place.
Who is 'we', in the above formulation?
greenlet good! i'll check if it saves & restores the entire callchain or if it only works on the current frame like generators and async already do.
If you read the science, it's much more likely that the vaccine is simply ineffective than would cause any kind of zombie apocalypse.
Agreed. I think the medium has fully matured at this point and is no longer that interesting. There was a bit of a revolution when adult movie fare moved to TV 15 years ago and ideas/plots/characters were given hours of fleshing out instead of 2-3 hours but that has seemingly run its course. I think what we are seeing now is just tail interests being served by the explosion of content, more so than TV quality being better than ever.

Edit: With more thought this might be the same thing to the consumer actually. They don't care how good the average TV show is, just how engrossing the hours of TV they watch every day is. With so much content it's never been easier to make those hours engrossing to you, even if it feels like the average / median TV show isn't really improving and possibly getting much worse.
I sometimes get called a luddite, but I am honestly quite pessimistic about lab-grown meat. It seems like not that long ago we thought to "hack" unsaturated fats in order to give them a buttery texture. Fast-forward 20 years and it turns out biological systems are unimaginably complex, and trans-fats are quite probably inflammatory agents and carcinogens.

There's always some risk in innovation, but it seems like synthetic nutrition is an absolute minefield. It's not just the raw complexity of the field, either. It's also that much of nutrition is junk science, even in the peer-reviewed literature.

On a more conspirational note, I also can't help but to notice that the agro-dietary industry is a pretty low-margin business. It seems like driving up profit margins requires convincing people that existing foods are somehow unsuitable, and that "innovative" products are therefore needed. I think vegan and ecological sensibilities are being instrumentalized to this end.

In any case: this anonymous internet stranger plans on skipping the lab-meat fad.
From the home page, this seems to be a common theme of the authors' works.
Most of the world doesn't even consider it cruelty. Certain barbaric religious customs notwithstanding, modern slaughtering is quick and painless by nearly instantaneously destroying the animal's brain.
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The good thing about this is that there is an endless amount of books out there as well. As the article author says, some people are running out of shows to watch on Netflix. You will literally never run out of books to read.
I can't name my employer (too small - less than a thousand egineers) but I can tell you they are tracking using a plugin for Atlassian. We are an Atlassian shop through and through including our source code control. They deployed this plugin last year. What is really sinister is that it's open to all employees so they can see in real time how they rank against their peers ącross the various metrics.

I'm pretty sure Atlassian peddles this product to everyone who uses their suite.
Japan and South Korea see surge of suicides among young women
you mean you don't support government regulation of tv time for adults because it would be for "the greater good"?

sounds like you might be on the "wrong" side of the political spectrum in 2020.
I don't turn it on until at least 8PM. TV on during the daytime hours is somehow depressing, unless it's some sort of live event.
If you are actually familiar with their processes, you could critique them and tell us where they could be improved. It doesn’t sound like you are, though.
> The source dataset lets those inferences or joins be tied back to the original identifying data.

But if the attacker lacks the source dataset, they can't do this, and if they possess the source dataset, they'd use it for their analysis rather than using the anonymised dataset.
What's your alternative to an NHS style system?
Gladly:

- Procedural GL (https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js) is a JavaScript library for rendering 3D terrains. It is built on top of THREE.js but you don't need to know anything about 3D to use it - a high-level API is provided. The software is open source, but of course you need to supply it with source data, for it to be useful. In particular you need elevation data to give you the shape of the terrain, and aerial imagery to give the color on the terrain.

- NASADEM is an elevation dataset published by NASA and integrated into this library via the https://www.nasadem.xyz/ service. You don't need to understand how this works, all you need is an API key. A free tier is available.

- LINZ is a (incredible and free) basemap provided by the New Zealand government: https://basemaps.linz.govt.nz/. Integrating with Procedural GL was just a matter of configuing the URL for the tiles and adding an API key. Note it is New Zealand only, by default Procedural GL uses www.maptiler.com/ (again a free tier is available)

As for what one would need to do make this for another part of the world:

1) Fork https://github.com/felixpalmer/new-zealand-3d
2) Update the locations of interest in https://github.com/felixpalmer/new-zealand-3d/blob/main/park...
3) Optionally change the imagery datasource (Maptiler, Mapbox etc) [don't forget attribution]
4) Profit
Looking back 2020, I've not regretted my writing journey as a developer
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To me it seems like all of modern streaming media (what's on Netflix, HBO, ...) basically collapsed to be this amorphous blob that mostly hits the same stylistic and emotional notes, regardless of genre. I might be getting old/jaded.

It might also be because I used to have better access to arthouse cinemas that played more experimental, independent titles, while now I'm at the mercy of whatever is available on streaming services. So I end up just supplementing that by watching weird stuff on YouTube, which is somewhat suboptimal.
IMHO, the "deeper truth" is addition is translation and multiplication is rotation/stretching (at least when it comes to rings and fields).

It involves getting a geometric understanding of e to the pi i, and 3blue1brown explains it better than I could:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0yfvm0UoU [6.28 min]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0YEaeIClKY [3.14 min]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvmuCPvRoWQ [25 min]
I was trying to read a play by Brecht last night but my partner made me watch Star Trek...Voyager. smh.
I'm pretty sure that where OP's head is there isn't good enough wifi signal to watch Netflix.
Mind you, this is not 3nm as in physics, rather 3nm™ as in marketing.
I wish something like this existed for garbage-collected languages. The closest thing I know of is the JVM (and other similar VMs), but I'm hoping for ahead-of-time compilation.

The key difficulty in adding garbage collection to code emitted with tools like this is being able to accurately tell what the root set is.

(I know LLVM has support for this in theory, but I have found nothing that tells how to actually use it)
You're ignoring that the externality of meat consumption is massive environmental harm, which disproportionately affects the poor (at least in the case of climate change).

Pricing in the negative externalities of meat is the best way to address this, which has a started goal of reducing the consumption of environmentally harmful meat.

It enables meat that is sustainable to be priced competitively and to shift consumption, but we should be very honest -- the goal of any pigouvian tax is to reduce the consumption of the harmful product.

Thus, meat should become more of a luxury, which means yes, it would be less accessible to the poor. But with billions becoming richer and demanding more meat consumption, the path we are on is entirely unsustainable.
"My god, it's full of cars!"
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I am the author of the post.

The post was in the context of scaling an existing tech stack when you do not have the luxury of time.
Most existing meat substitutes don't match the nutritional profile of meat very well (and even if they do, there are differences between how well animal proteins/fats are made use of by the body compared to plant proteins/fats) and overall are just incredibly processed foods with long ingredient lists full of questionable substances, so that's the draw for me personally.
Thanks for sharing this -- that's an impressive cost amount for that service, in the range of 20 euros for the event with that amount of queries is pretty impressive, with little to no maintenance. The cost makes it sound like a full on win for serverless.

Anything interesting about the deployment method, choice of language, containerization/etc that made it particularly easy? There are tools in this domain (vercel springs to mind) that have adopted the static-site-over-serverless-something) model, but it sounds like you all had an easy time with just loading some workers up, did you do anything fancy to facilitate the frontend serving? I assume with the stripe proxy bit was just using Stripe's various (great) APIs for customer creation, one time charges (I guess?).

Curious about the technicals of the setup, you've baited us (HN) in at this point, give out those gory details!
>Microsoft apologizes

I don't see the word "sorry" or "apologize" anywhere in there.

They made changes.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/12/0...
It's not Netflix's fault that one lacks will power to turn off the screen and chooses to watch eight hours of content vs doing other tasks. There's also nothing wrong with watching eight hours of content if it is one's intent.
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Where's this wilderness that I can go lay claim to and homestead?

The world has changed, and it seems the author has not realized it. Many people who own land had to use lawyers/contracts to get it and may not even own the water or mineral rights. The world isn't simple. It's still harsh, but is so now in the courts and bureaucracy instead of in the fields and natural perils.
Please do whatever you want with an image posted to an internet forum
What do you mean "you put a number on it"? What number? If the number is arbitrary, which is what your explanation suggests, it cannot mean anything.
> And for COVID-19 the risks are very high.

If this is indeed the point of contention - balancing the risk of adverse outcomes from a rushed vaccine vs those from a virus, I think it's inaccurate to say that the risks from this virus, understood generally across the population, are "very high". The likelihood of contracting it is of course very high, but the risk of adverse effects are only high for a relatively small stratum of the population.

It makes sense to reserve "very high" for pathogens like HIV or Ebola, not SARS-CoV-2. For a very large majority of the population, SARS-CoV-2 has approximately equal risk to the four seasonally circulating coronaviruses, so even a small risk from an overlooked data point might be significant.

We need to reach herd immunity one way or another, so I'm not sure the discussion of individual risk is the right one. With no data being available for patients to examine ourselves, it's hard to even know how to make these decisions.
I didn't realise I was on reddit...?
Agree. This is a very West-coast American mentality. Frankly, the majority of the country doesn't see it that way, let alone the rest of the world.

And one often finds that the relationship to food is different outside of the US. It's somehow less of a commodity and more of a meaningful tradition. You'll be hard-pressed to convince Frenchmen to let go of Limousin beef, for example, and in a manner that's markedly different from Texans defending their meat.
Two things to make sure you’re doing:

• Parse according to the URL Standard: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/

• Use the correct base URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#document-base-url; this means largely “take the first base element with an href attribute, if it exists; if so, resolve its href attribute relative to the document URL; otherwise, use the document URL”.
It's a pretty common story that a lot of developers got their start from video games.
>I know, attempts to reproduce similar findings in humans have failed

Specifically with this drug? Source? Not snark; genuinely curious.
To the contrary, there's absolutely nothing wrong with using HTML as text format with helper programs to generate dynamic content. It's how the web started with super-practical, no-nonsense backend scripting. I've worked with React and even like it when it fits (eg. a highly interactive app where everything can change at any time). But it doesn't do anything for content-driven sites yet requires enormous infrastructure compared to just run stuff on the command line.

Where PHP got it wrong is that it did just such a hack job of pasting program output into HTML without HTML-aware, injection-free templating for us to endure in the form of DoS attacks. When all this was readily available - you just don't use SGML processing instructions (eg "<?php ..." which is just a fallback method of last resort) but regular, typed entity expansion, with escaping depending on markup context and content model checking for rejecting eg. script elements in user content.
consequences applies to corrupt officials just like it applies to everybody else

But consequences may not apply to everyone else. What if local bosses make a law that firearms holders have to turn in their firearms? What if local bosses make a law that blacks have to be slaves? What are the consequences that the local bosses are living with? (Assuming no interference by non local authorities.)

How are they going to prevent people from leaving? If the only resources they can draw on are local

Local bosses make law that it's illegal for anyone other than his henchmen and women to have firearms. Local bosses also make law that leaving town is illegal. Local bosses also orders searches of homes to confiscate firearms. Finally, local bosses authorize deadly force to deal with law breakers.

In this scenario, no outside help is necessary for the local bosses. (I suppose the factory they buy their guns from might be from outside the locality, but that's about it.) Heck, the bosses might even have the support of many of the pearl clutching local citizens. Some of whom might even, gasp, sell me out to the local bosses.

This example is contrived, but has happened often enough in human history for me to want to know how the local citizens can leave before I would concede to living under such a system. There has never been an example of such a system in modern history where non-local powers were not involved in liberating the local citizenry. So if you can outline a credible method for the unarmed citizenry to exercise the freedom to move away, I'd certainly be interested in hearing it.
Would one or more of the downvoters be willing to actually answer these claims? I'm not a subject matter expert, but like everyone I have an interest in good nutrition. The micronutrient claim appears prima facie plausible. Even whole organism food like vegetables is poorer in micronutrients today than it was in generations past.

To some extent this is already a problem with real meat, because almost nobody in the USA eats organ meat and it's particularly rich in micronutrients.
Interesting. I tend to cross information from various shows to form new ideas.