skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by "undeniable steep gradient towards extremism" - it was undeniable that more people were becoming extremists via YouTube? I thought that is what we are discussing? Whether YouTube algorithm tries to show you extremism is another question. I am not defending the YouTube algorithm - presumably more extreme things lead to more engagement.
Good point. The issue I have with water futures in particular is two fold:

It solidifies the notion of privately owned water sources in a general sense: That's too much "free market" for my taste and goes against my ethical disposition.

Secondly it doesn't solve any problems and challenges. The incentive here is to profit from making market predictions. No more, no less.

There are more balanced approaches to handle water distribution. Via public commissions and regulated use for example.
> Let's take a minute to remember that our brains are shaped, by millions of years of evolution, to model existential threats and act accordingly. I would say that what we deem "imaginable" is a pretty good proxy to what is "probable", especially in the long run.

It is not a good proxy at all. The environment in which we lived for millions of years does not correspond well to our modern civilization. Being killed by a member of another tribe was a likely event for most of human and animal history. Today, being killed by a toaster is many orders of magnitude more likely than being killed by a terrorist. Yet many people fear terrorists, while no one fears toasters.
Even then, in general code size is not a significant part of an application's size, various assets are. I'm working on a 10k lines rust application with 74 direct and indirect dependencies and the resulting static binary is less than 3MB in size (less than 1MB xz-compressed). That would've been a significant amount of storage in the 90s but it's almost negligible nowadays.

And given that shared libraries need to be installed and updated separately and they have to ship the entire code of the library (whereas a static binary can be link-time-optimized to get rid of unused code) it might not always be a win in terms of total bandwidth.
https://app.diagrams.net/

Versioned, text format diagrams.

Alternately as mentioned, the mermaid DSL or similar, but this is daunting for non-technical users. I'm more a fan of having people be able to think and communicate visually, as the technical users are both the least likely to need the visuals, and if capable of creating them, the visuals are less valuable.

Mermaid is a great output format for documentation though if you're rendering these from API/code.
Funny you should choose Ghana as an example. They have actually overbuilt their power generating capacity in recent years and are looking for ways to fruitfully soak up the excess electricity (e.g. electric vehicles https://cleantechnica.com/2020/07/20/ghana-pushes-for-adopti...)
> From my personal experience the 'stable' releases are just to slow to keep up with the demands on frequency of updates.

You are missing the point that it's a desired feature of CentOS distro that is targeted at servers - stability is valued more over running the latest versions of some software that isn't tested over a long period of time and may or may not have bugs.

Most people use CentOS in servers because it provided a very easy migration "upgrade" in the future to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (CentOS is a near clone of RHEL, without the Red Hat branding). Now nobody will consider it anymore because the new CentOS is not tested for stability (using tried and tested bug-free softwares) and won't provide an easy migration path to RHEL anymore.
Do a five whys.

Why were the police breaking into her house to steal her publishing tools in the first place?

Why was there a search warrant?

Why did the prosecutor seek one?

Two more and you get to the real problem.

Hint: it had nothing to do with "unauthorized access", or whatever.
> No more awkward meetings where 20 people understand each other reasonably well, but not the single UK representative... (true story)

I'm confused by this. Are you saying that the native English speaker in the room was the one having difficulty understanding what the other non-native speakers were saying?
If the Windows program uses the Vulkan API, I imagine the Wine layer wouldn't be doing much work, would it? My guess is that the function-call conversion doesn't cost much on modern CPUs.
Node is the standard web environment, even frontend code is built 90% of the time using Webpack or another bundler running in a node environment and pulling from node_modules.

I don't think you can blame the incumbent tool with complete market dominance for "poor compatibility"...

I really like the direction of the Node compatibility layer though https://deno.land/std@0.80.0/node, I suspect it will be enough to make Deno a drop in replacement soon. Now it just needs support for normal `import` statements from node_modules instead of just `require()`.
There was nothing. Would you think a suppression of doubt about the accusation should be removed?
Your second claim has a simple counter-argument: the government has allocated wealth so well in the past 100 years that they are responsible for some major tech innovations (nasa, CERN, every startup that began in a public college) and subsidise private industries that would die without them (Starlink, The corn industry).
You are right, this is a challenge. The wavelength of the light cannot be measured directly, only inferred by the intensity of the pixels with the different color filters. On the other side, most reproductions of photos are reproducing the original frequencies either. A computer screen has red, green and blue dots, which produce light at the corresponding wave lenghts. So if you have orange light, you have a signal on the green and red pixels and the green and red dots on your screen will light up. Which will be detected by the sensors for red and green light in your eyes. No where in the chain, not even in your eye, is a sensor for "orange" directly, it is just the mixture of the red and green sensitivity.

It is important to note, that neither the sensor pixels nor your eyes have a complete separate reaction to a wavelength. The sensitive area strongly overlaps. So for hues of green which have rather long wavelengths, you get some reaction on the red pixels, which gets stronger as you move towards orange, where both red and green pixels detect until it gets more and more red and less green. The exact absorption curve of the sensore color filters matters here, that is one reason, different manufacturers have slightly different color rendition. On top of that is calibration, when converting the raw image into a proper RGB-image, one can further balance the response. For that, the color calibration targets are used, which have like 24 patches of different colors. Taking a phone of this target, the calibration software can both calibrate for the light illuminating the target as well as the color response of your camera.

A common reason for red-green colorblindness is that the affected persons have the sensitivity between the red and green colors overlapping too strongly, so they loose the ability to differentiate. A green creates almost as strong a signal in the "red" cells. A way to improve the color vision for those people are glasses which increase that separation by absorbing the frequencies between the red and green colors.
You talk about fixing water infrastructure like it is really hard (so hard you need the British to do it) and your alternative is to eliminate a significant potion of the population? You think that is easier? Not to even talk of the ethical concerns or the unintended consequences, just from a logistical standpoint, your statement is absurd. There is no way that is is easier to reduce a human population than it is to increase water availability. I don't usually attack people (and technically I'm only criticizing your statement, not attacking you directly) but when malthusians start talking I immediately know that they don't know what they're talking about.

And on an ethical note, managing populations is something you do with sheep and cattle, not human beings.
As a hobby photographer, this is simply amazing and the most intuitive article I’ve come across. This is a must read.

I am curious, however, why we still can’t digitally reproduce bokeh. Apple is getting close. I thought LiDAR would theoretically solve that and could yield indistinguishable renders compared to analog lenses. That would be a game changer in my view and why I would like to see Apple develop a full-frame sensor coupled with their technology.
The article is very good but you have to consider the existence of other filters, not only the Bayer one.

And the Canon Dual Pixel AF that works a bit different than the article explains https://www.canonwatch.com/dual-pixel-af-has-become-a-canon-... (but the substance is the same)
I mean that's a neat feature and all, but my primary use for Javascript/Typescript is to write frontend and backend code using the tens of millions of lines of useful library code available in the existing JS/npm ecosystem.

It's strange to me that Deno seems as if it could decide overnight to be a drop-in replacement, but there's deliberate friction designed into the system here to try and push people away from node_modules? The upshot of that choice is that I'm unlikely to switch to Deno until that's changed (and I suspect that's the case for many other companies as well).

I love the direction the node compatibility layer is going in though https://deno.land/std@0.80.0/node, now I just wish it supported normal import statements from node_modules (not just require()). I'm quite excited about Deno overall, just waiting for it to get to drop-in point.
My understanding is that the speed didn't get low enough for landing legs to deploy.
The only way it would be harmless is if you postulate that propaganda doesn't work.
Wait so is CentOS8 effectively EOLing within a year?
I redesigned my SaaS (before and after pictures)
Not an expert but: orange color code is FFA500.
It has red and green. I expect when orange hits the sensor, it will register as X amount of read and less than X green?
> There was nothing.

That wasn't my understanding and that's the reason I'm poking at this a bit. To see if I was mistaken and to what extent. The other replies seem to be confirming my feeling that "nothing" is at the very least an overstatement.
> What happens when there's a drought and the million gallons of water that farmer ordered can't be delivered?

That would be specified in the contracts. Existing contracts for eg soy beans already have to take these possibilities into account.

> What happens when speculators drive prices up because they know the people that actually need/want that water have to pay or risk losing their crops.

If current future prices are clearly higher than what I expect spot prices to be in the future, I'd sell future contracts and make a killing.

> Water is important enough that it should be publicly owned and distributed. This is pretty much the only way it can be effectively managed and distributed, rather than hoarded and scalped as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

What makes you think that public ownership and distribution is so effective? And what are the limits of these benefits, so that they only apply to important goods? Why wouldn't we want even goods of lesser importance enjoy these benefits?
Yeah this is exactly how I feel too.

Rails really is something special that can't be replicated by simply leaving the Ruby ecosystem and trying to reinvent "the good parts" in another language / framework.

You'll be missing out on one of the best parts of Rails which is an actual business extracts features into Rails from real world usage. That and Shopify + GitHub + Basecamp are running Rails master so by the time regular folks like us use a release it's already insanely tested in the real world with hundreds of millions of requests passing through these features. The confidence level that brings to the table that it's going to work for your app is unrivaled.

The massive amount of community support (gorails, etc.) and library ecosystem is icing on the cake.
Instagram DMs are also affected.
Per https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/ the trailing 20 years of SPY returns, critically including dividend reinvestment, is something like 7% outright or 5% adjusted for inflation.

Did your calculations refer to the real total return?
I'm very confused by your take here... SpaceX made it clear beforehand that the primary objectives of this test were the ascent and descent, not the landing. The "belly flop" horizontal descent is entirely new, and something they have only modeled so far.

The primary objectives of the test were completed without any issues. If that doesn't meet your definition of success, I don't know what to tell you...
No, the courts are the arbiter of truth we should accept. And since many of these videos are alleging things that multiple court cases (including the US Supreme Court) have already thoroughly debunked, Youtube should not be getting flak for removing the content.
That's why there is a legal system in place for disagreements, not at the discretion of some corporation.

It is tyrannical, voices of concerned are silenced, it is wrong, it is evil.
DNS-over-HTTPS already took that away from you
Jedis 3.4.0 was just Released Packed with new features and couple of bug fixes
In Northern Ireland there are small pockets of people learning it purely out of nationalist sentiment. Sinn Fein have been trying to force an Irish language act through for years which would see us become more like the south in that regard despite virtually nobody speaking it (the south, at least, has areas in the west of the country where it is actually a first language and therefore justifiable).

It's very frustrating because we do foreign languages so badly but instead of making an effort to improve our foreign language skills they're trying to push a largely dead language for purely symbolic reasons.
OK, that's fair to a point, I'm just saying taking away wealth from the people that built it in the first place and putting it under the control of people who have not demonstrated those skills (whatever skills they do have) isn't necessarily a good idea.

As long as the capital is being employed productively and managed by the most competent people to do so, we all benefit. I'm carefully trying to avoid a 'tax bad, government bad' position and the phrasing you pointed out quite reasonably might have given that impression.
I'm not defending Trump. He's a terrible person.

But, to me, he's not much worse than other Presidents. Other Presidents have started wars. Tortured people. Persecuted whistleblowers. Spied on the American people.

Generally speaking, Trump continued those things, as would Biden.
Feels intentional. Last time fb was being probed, the site went down too.
I appreciate the work you put in. It's amazing guide, I'll dig deep as soon as I get a free time. Thanks.
Yes, Stuxnet probably cost more. But Stuxnet was a higher level op, the target was also a nation state.

In this case they went after the tools to avoid detection and/or attribution in future ops. They could instead contract a company like their victim to develop such tools from scratch for about $10M.

Also, we're talking about nation states other than US.
Back to SMS.
* 50 users continued the discussion on Hacker News
Lol. You're assuming facebook is that organised...
They work exactly the same as a screen. Orange is not pure red, it is red + yellow, and yellow is red + green. So orange is red + _some_ green. The in-camera processing will render the image based on the sensor input and the known properties of the filter (think of it as a color profile, a mapping between what the sensors read and the color). And the processing includes color interpolation for each pixel, as each pixel (photosite) only has one color filter, but the resulting image pixel has all three colors; these are calculated based on the neighbor photosites.

Different sensors/cameras have different filters, and combined with the manufacturer specific post-processing this gives different cameras/manufacturers a different color rendition and feel.
If flash won’t be getting security patches, disabling it completely is the most responsible thing to do.

Otherwise, users will be taught to ignore the warnings.
Facebook, Messenger and Instagram All Crash
Yeah. For perfectionists and procrastinators, it's good to focus more on small chunks of work in order to make more measurable progress... but in general, I feel that what the world needs is people moving less (movement is not always progress) and being more reflective. Working towards resilience and accessibility, not just output.
Cyberpunk 2077's release version is still buggy as hell
1001 films to see before you die
Dlna can be used in different places here. You could also drive it as a Bluetooth sink from another Dlna server. Or use it as a spotify mode. It's not obvious.
The additional benefit of this approach is that you can then build your application such that it works with all standards-compatible browsers, such as Firefox.
PS5 is outselling Xbox Series X/S consoles 2-to-1 on a popular reseller site
Making water tradeable in the presence of scarcity will ultimately redistribute some water from where it’s plentiful to people who can pay more for it.

i.e it will even further increase inequality..

Of course it’s all rosy and perfect in free market Econ 101 theory land but that’s not how things tend to play out under conditions of inequality in knowledge and access to capital. One example is - if a speculator expects water to get scarcer in the future, they will buy it today and hold it completely unused just to sell it later. The same situation is playing out in the housing market in some cities and now empty homes taxes are being introduced. Of course no one will ever learn from real life, only half baked Econ theory so we will run into the same problems with water a decade later
The point of the test was the ascent and "belly flop" descent, which all seemed to work very well.

Landing was a secondary objective, and even there they seem to know exactly what went wrong (which means it was a very good test).
Nothing other than it being a huge cost and commitment for no actual gain.
I don't really see the hype, I think it's just the intersection of a few factors:

- Languages like Rust which have an ecosystem that evolves very quickly (and uses complex symbol mangling schemes that would break all the time) wouldn't fare very well with dynamic linking in the first place. What good is dynamic linking if you need a different version of your .so file for every binary?

- Dynamic linking is not quite as useful today a it was in the past. Code size is not usually very significant, either on cold storage or in RAM. Actually for RAM it's cache usage that matters most, and static linking can usually be more efficient here through LTO.

- Over the past ~2 decades a new generation of developer arrived and many of them (in my experience) barely use "low level" compile-to-machine-code languages. They often specialize in scripting languages or languages that require a framework. Some of these developers are now learning Go or Rust and for them the idea of shipping a single ELF binary that packages the entire app might be seen as a novelty or maybe even as an innovation.
I specifically added that I haven't validated the numbers, how is that "confirmation bias". I googled merely for the numbers of deaths in previous years. Do you know the numbers, and are the numbers in the article wrong? Or are you using your "confirmation bias" to assume they have to be wrong?

Using their numbers, I am not sure how CDC arrives at their estimate of 300K excess deaths, either. The average 2017-2019 appears to be 2833507. With three weeks to go in 2020, according to the CDC there are 2703232 deaths so far in 2020. So using the average of 60k deaths of the previous weeks, we should be arriving at around 2900K deaths, maybe 2950k. That's 120k more than the average, not 300k excess deaths. Jumps of up to 90K more deaths in the yearly account also seem to be not uncommon (among other things because of rising population size).

Maybe there is a delay with death certificates registering, but then the precise numbers don't make sense to begin with, and we'll really have to wait a couple of months for final results.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

12% big enough to worry about - worry maybe, but will it register as a significant event with hindsight (like 10 years down the road)? And the argument of it being "with lockdowns in place" is not really convincing, as other countries with fewer lockdowns have not necessarily fared worse (afaik Sweden does not have more excess deaths than in some especially flu heavy previous years, for example). Also, the claim was that we will wonder about our stupidity of not having more draconian lockdowns.
Now, these same sites that grew to prominence based on the efforts of pirates are now going to lengths to thwart them.

Is there a better example of pulling the ladder up behind you than this? I can't think of one.
Not relating to this project, but there's no reason you can't do offline facial recognition. I've blogged about doing offline object detection on raspberry pi and facial recognition is much simpler [0]. I've done it using the face_recognition [1] python package although I never released anything and it works fine. Only catch is you can only process a few frames a second, but unless you're trying to capture faces in fast moving environment, this should be fine.

I will note that aws facial recognition is far superior to the python package. If you need accuracy I would suggest an ensemble method where you use an inferior model (python package) to some level of confidence then offload it to the superior model that's off device for the final call and saving down the vectors.

[0] https://medium.com/ml-everything/offline-object-detection-an...

[1] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition
>> It seems to me that the proportion of those that were first unconvinced

That population is every person ever born - no one was born believing in Anti-semitism or Nazism.

>> and then read such material

Wait - we're not just limited to first order effects, someone who reads may relay those ideas to another in a different form. E.g. by starting a social gathering of some sort.

>> and become convinced by it is negligibly small

The Nazi party membership reached over 8 million people.

>> There is very few news that is not fake

Poor wording on my part, i meant specifically Islamic terrorist propaganda not fake news more generally.
Thanks for the addition!
OpenSSF CVE Benchmark
"The issue appears to be affecting thousands of users across the UK and Europe, with around 80 per cent claiming to be having trouble sending and receiving messages.

A further 20 per cent are reporting problems logging in."

Seems the problem were broader, impacting some systems whech rely on them as also.
The idea is that the server base is rock-stable, and then you judiciously install newer versions of software that is central to you and your business (or activities).

So you would install a newer Ruby, maybe even JRuby?, and a newer Rails, but you're probably not interested in time-consumingly maintaining postfix. Or systemd. Or gcc. Or the GNU userland.
That is correct. The sensitivity of the "red" and "green" pixels overlaps in the orange light frequencies.