skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm in that particular case I'd say it's a little bit more on the "you're getting things you don't want" more than just a lack. There's a kind of aggression of being surrounded by people in a very different state of mind. My 2 cents
IMO when the forming of militias became "extreme" (even though it's in the constitution) is when the writing was on the wall. You can't maintain freedom from the govt without keeping it in check.

The public grew an aversion to militia's and we've been boiling the frog with more laws since.
> how is it that you go 5 years after acquisition and NOT retire the technical debt?

That seems like the most simple thing in the world to me- you just ignore it. Have you ever talked to a product manager about "technical debt"? Newsflash- they don't give a shit.

I don't know how things are run at Twitter but in general, people want to do "impactful" things and get promoted/get raises. Paying down technical debt is the opposite of that.

You're moralizing about "this is your job" and all that junk. Feel free to do that, but the incentive structures are what they are. And it really ain't about morality, Jack. I'm not saying it's right or good, of course.
the biggest problem are that there are thousands of garbage closed source/commerical packages. basically only a few good oss packages out there. and sadly some good oss packages moved to commerical licenses (I can understand that) but it's sad that something like epplus started to be a commerical thing.

the thing is java has the apache foundation which publishes so much great libraries for java. dotnet misses something like that. I mean dotnet basically has no good pdf library like pdfbox. of course there are thousand commerical vendors but some of them are either bad, some have stupid pricing (itext, lul) or don't have modern features and basically are only money grab.
the good thing is, is that microsoft provided tons of libraries upfront and that linking with native code is simple.
Every single Google service is currently out, including their cloud conso (cont)
The user interface in my A7ii is actually Android, mostly. Responsive Android is absolutely doable if you design it a certain way, and there is no need to remove features like removable batteries or literally anything else.

There is also absolutely no need for it to introduce artifacts into your images. RAW+JPEG is already good enough for this.

The actual advantage of an open camera are huge. For example, it would be trivial to adapt the camera to literally any mount, from EF to E to G and so on, which in and of itself is completely disruptive.

Phone processors have other aces up their sleeve. For example, unlike the Canon EOS R5, they can actually process 8K video indefinitely without breaking a sweat.

As for battery life, you're once again very wrong. The biggest draws in battery life in a camera are the processor and the sensor. Using a phone processor would allow for much lower energy usage as the lithography is incredibly more efficient, and all the high-battery-usage parts of a phone would disappear, such as always-on LTE modems, background processing, and so on.

For boot, Android with a camera sized battery and no modem can last weeks in standby, months in sleep mode. Your camera already doesn't turn off, but instead enters a low-power state. Try removing the battery of an A7 or EOS R, discharging the internal energy storage, and see how long it takes to start.

The actual advantage of this is that it allows you to become a camera manufacturer for much lower costs, meaning that you don't have to limit yourself to a single mount, and can outsource some R&D externally. For example, you won't need to be Fuji to have accurate film sims, you won't need to be Canon to have native level EF compatibility, and you'd even be able to do revolutionary things like autofocus manual lenses.

Beyond that, you'd be able to do things like temporal noise reduction, 3D depth mapping for haze removal, and so on, that can be either used for automatic processing and/or made available in RAW format for further editing.

Basically, you're describing "what if a phone company made a bad camera". What I'm talking about at least is "what if photographers made a camera untethered by the restrictions of existing cameras using commodity hardware". I think the second has the potential of seriously providing value.
any suggestion for a good opensource browser? Firefox is my main browser (and the only one recommended by privacytools.io), but having a chromium-based one is good to have too.

- Brave: it has been pushing opt-in-by-default ads and crypto widgets

- Vivaldi: 5% closed source

- Edge: not open source (yet?)

- Chromium: lacks too many features
Doesn't sound much different than getting paid in equity at a startup.
Very cool service, great looking site - thanks for the js tutorial. Will definitely keep Cotter in mind for our roadmap.
I think you may have missed this part:

>The problem with these manuals was not that O'Reilly Associates charged a price for printed copies—that in itself is fine.
I appreciate my loneliness. For me, even though I feel bad, that feeling of loneliness has become my normal and it feels like I'm in my "safe space".
Wasn't it obvious to anyone who play-tested on last-gen consoles that the game is nearly unplayable and so will receive horrendous reviews? Presumably CDPR employees are not afraid to convey such bad news to the management. So why did the management still decide to go ahead with the release this year?

After reading this transcript, I didn't find the answer to these questions.

"Underestimated the scale and complexity of the issues": it's not like they needed to estimate anything. This is not an MMO that behaves differently after the million users log in. This is not a PC that behaves differently on unpredictable end-user's systems. This is not a game where problems only occur under some rare combinations of factors.

"We ignored the signals about the need for additional time to refine the game": signals implies some indirect evidence that can be interpreted differently. It seems, however, that the management would have a pretty unambiguous information at their disposal.
That sounds a lot like a hacker space. While with paid time and less beer, it's not that dissimilar. I still think cities should create these spaces, not just support them... and unfortunately even support is almost never given.
Gawker was bankrupted because they outed a closeted gay billionaire who was publicly, financially supporting anti-LGBT politicians. Said gay billionaire went on a crusade, funding a number of lawsuits against Gawker. Hulk Hogan's was but one of them, and the former wrestler was less concerned about his body being on display than of the video evidence of him calling his daughter's black boyfriend a "fucking nigger" (and before anyone flags me for that word, I use it purposely to drive home the point of which issue Hogan was likely most worried about, by way of their relative responses to that phrase vs the mental image of Hogan's phallus).

It should be noted that this billionaire none other than Peter Thiel, who was at one point, after this debacle, affiliated with Y Combinator. To speak to one of the higher up comments questioning the rise of authoritarianism on HN: here you have an example of two public individuals who HN readers are likely to side, or at least identify, with versus a quasi-journalistic entity.
Ah that makes a lot of sense. Here in NZ most of our cattle are grass fed with very little feed transportation. Some farmers do use feed pads but when they do they are being fooled by the big dairy companies putting pressure on the farmers to get the milk solid production up. The tends to mean the farms revenue goes up but the costs go way up so they increase work and decrease profit. So not many of them keep up the practice. I'm guessing our climate allows us to farm differently, as we have few droughts and warm winters.
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1. That's right! But it's not really on the roadmaps either. One can hope that someone in the community writes a fancy web app wrapper for GitHub's API or something.

2. Yeah, it's really really convenient to submit a quick PR entirely in the GitHub Web UI. But I admit, we have some work to do make the previewing experience a bit better.
Things may have 100% changed and all porn sites are now completely safe, but I am not adventurous enough to find out.
Quoting one of the comments in this thread: “maybe you don’t yourself notice your own mistakes in the first place”
I assure you they are not empty words. I mean them, and I suspect those who choose to use the badges do too.
> > No, dear white flight homeowner, we will not build you a tunnel just to avoid taking a few houses through eminent domain.

> What makes someone so callous about using the power of the state to expropriate people from their homes?

First: "Expropriate" is both emotionally loaded and inaccurate. It looks like you're trying to be manipulative here rather than present a sound argument.

Second: If we're going to build a road or a rail line, we're either going to spend some money and buy peoples' homes, or we're going to spend more money and create a tunnel. But money doesn't grow on trees for local governments; if they spend it, they have to take it. So either we're going to take money from people to buy houses from people, or we're going to take more money from people to create a tunnel. Why should they take more money from people to save peoples' houses? Why should my taxes go up to save your house?

Note that this is a completely separate discussion from whether eminent domain actually pays people market prices for their homes.
It's one of the last growing sector, where there's a lot of value added.
Gmail is pretty broken, one day after an outage
It's funny how the majority of people on hacker news were ignoring and laughing about cancel culture and the more right-wing sites getting deplatformed from other payment processors before.

But they they come for you...

Shortsightedness.
Yeah the sensor really needs daylight to get acceptable picture quality, ideally a cloudy day because it doesn't have the latitude to deal with the highlight/shadows of direct sunlight. It might be possible to get slightly more from the sensor for static scenes using astrophotography techniques like stacking but in most cases that won't be practical.
Yeah it confirms the sort of teachings of the mythical man month.
“can you tell me your email password? I wanna check something in your emails..."
The EU as a whole is much more consistent than individual countries, in fact, standardization is one of it's biggest strengths.

I used to work for the national vehicle registry in my country. European vehicles were easily registered using standard European "Whole Vehicle Type Approvals". Each new European car came with a type approval number linked to it's info, no problem.

American cars were a nightmare. Every new vehicle type came with it's own adventure of Googling or otherwise gathering information about the vehicle (number of doors, engine size etc...). Just no standards whatsoever. Horrible.
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You can also SSH -X and start a GUI app on the remote machine. (you can install Xserver on both Mac and Windows) Although you need low latency/ping or it will lag.
Could you elaborate on what those protocols are, how they help, what their weaknesses are, and what work remains? I'm really curious to learn more about this area. (Even just a link summarizing this would be awesome.)
There is a maxim from the essay "The Mythical Man-Month" saying that adding people to a late software project makes it later.

It takes time for new people to become productive, communication becomes difficult and some tasks can't be "parallelized".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
PostgresSQL is better. We're all aware of that. But it's miniscule in importance. Especially if you use the ORMs and other decent tooling. The move to git isn't MySQL's fault. It's so more and bigger than that.
If that was the case, the least that would be called for is to eliminate all other apex predators, have herbivore population grow and open up hunting in those areas. Removing apex predators and using human hunters instead has no side effects that are harmful to humans.

Yet, this idea would not fly in the west. I know other countries where this would be preferred. The western governments put pressure on those poorer governments to "conserve" those species. The only reason this would be unacceptable to Christians is the Noah's arc story. Yet westerners would justify it with completely unsubstantiated "oh there are other imbalances that we can't forsee", at best.

That's just a start. A human-centric approach would see little value in other ecosystems which evolved with humans completely outside of the picture and have nothing to do with humans. Humans are a part of very specific parts of very specific ecosystems. Most of others have nothing to do with humans and at best are a nuisance and potential disease risk, at worst are directly detrimental. It can be argued that some of them may be of medicinal value but it can also be argued that they could be breeding ground for future pandemics.

Yet, even talking about this to westerners who are otherwise "believers of evolution" and "anti-Christianity" will hit deep sentiments and they'll be seen grasping at straws to justify their position... which could be anything... any position is OK as long as it is pro saving all the species that Noah intended to save.
I remember an episode from a TV show with a Canadian cop doing this manually based on a recording. This memory from my childhood stuck with me, since I have seen an interview with the actor saying that was one of the most ridiculous scripts they played—he was saying something like this is impossible. I guess he was wrong!
Thank you for the kind words! If you try it let me know what you think, we're always looking for constructive feedback.
They can see ads. You just can't process their PII for them.

You know, it used to be that ads were targeted by where they were shown, not by who was looking. That's a return to that model.
You missed the "Do you take a lot of pictures with your phone?" If the answer is yes, you won't get to the mini.
+1 Stay woke, go broke
Companies still compete to attract and retain top devs. What if those devs insisted that the companies they work for sponsor open source, and prefer sponsoring companies when making decisions about where they'll work? If companies spent just somewhere near 1% of what they spend on devs on open source sponsorship they could transform the ecosystem. As a result they'd have more and better open source to leverage. That's before you consider the risk mitigation of ensuring stable suppliers.
Mann refers to an app called "Halide mk 2" [1]. That's an interesting choice of brand name. It matches the language used by some camera processing software [2]. Of course, it's not limited to image processing, just happens to be used there. As best I can tell this is just a funny coincidence.

[1] https://halide.cam/

[2] https://halide-lang.org/
The average New Yorker has a mere one-third of the carbon emissions as the average American. This is really bad for the climate overall. Dense city living is very efficient; living in the suburbs and driving everywhere is not. NYC is the densest city we have.
I'm not really arguing for or against direct representation as such. I tend to judge democratic systems by their practical effects. Do they result in governments that act with popular support? Are the individuals who achieve power within those governments accountable to the people they supposedly act for, such that there will be consequences for them personally if they don't faithfully act for the people and do a decent job of it?

It's true that directly elected representatives are, in some situations, more likely to meet those standards. Indirectly elected officials are, by the nature of the system, not in need of a personal popular mandate to achieve power, nor directly accountable to the people, and the gap widens as more levels of indirection separate the official from someone who actually had to win a popular vote.

But I'm not necessarily arguing for directly electing everyone in public office. I don't think that works very well in practice either, because voters get election fatigue and anything but the big ticket elections can easily end up being more about which candidates have the best PR and spin rather than the best policies on the issues.

What I do think would be a big improvement in many cases is directly electing the people at the top of a system of government and having appointed officials subordinate to them. Many of the democratic deficits identified in this discussion, from forming the European Commission to choosing the PM and by extension the government in the UK, are examples where the lower level representatives are the only ones who actually have to win an election, and then some number of averages of averages up the tree you get the people with most of the real power being isolated from needing to attract or maintain popular support. I don't think this kind of arrangement is healthy for democracy, and I think forcing direct elections for those most senior positions would go some way to fixing the problem.
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> I use RAW files and full manual because I have an actual workflow where I shoot a bunch of photos in similar setting and want to be able to create Lightroom preset and apply to all photos shot with same place, lighting and exposure.

This is basically a scene-referred workflow, but without any standardization (like ACES). Because all the files conform to the same transfer function, you can grade ("create a LR preset", which is just like grading just worse UX) once to create a look and then apply that look to all footage ("photographies") at once to get a very consistent look. I've said it before, I'll say it again, the movie industry has this figured out, they got standards (ACES) and tooling for this. (And, movie tools are far, far superior to any photo tool I've seen yet when it comes to color. All the photo editing tools seem to be stuck in some kind of moronic hellhole were half of them get disqualified from the start for being destructive editors and the other half has bad UX and is basically limited to an operational vocabulary straight from a darkroom).

Apart from stuff like this there are some scenarios in which RAW might still result in a better overall IQ but the JPEG engines in cameras are really, really good and for practically any scene they're fine, and even for most very high contrast scenes (like shadow + oncoming sun) they'll still produce fine images.
My sanity tests started acting flaky ~3 hours ago, I never thought it was Gmail...

Kind of happy I had to do something else and I didn't burn hours investigating.
Not OP but for me it's - how does he have this much energy to keep testing, posting and showcasing new features? Maybe he could offer up a t2.small bit of it to some of us.
Maybe not to run, but the capital investment is probably higher. As well as things like subways, which there isn't one of in Austin.
is the inverted side of "no preorders" also "No epic games"? Something has to fund development and at a certain point investors will not risk the lack of sales. Versus a preorder is an actual sale.
Yup. It also seems to be affecting some of our G Suite accounts - although not all(?)

Not a good week for Google
They are doing that already. When Trump kept claiming that they wouldn't let the observers see the signatures, he was neglecting to also point out that the signatures are compared electronically, and only failed signatures are reviewed by a human before getting rejected altogether. This is partly why the court dismissed this particular claim.
Amazon CloudSearch hasn't had any serious updates in 6 years [1]. It is Apache Solr behind the scenes, but with a proprietary API on top. I suspect everyone with serious search requirements has moved to Elasticsearch or another product by now.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguid...
I feel like it's more complementary then that. You need the PhDs to develop core theories and technology, and you need the young engineers and devs to understand it enough to apply it in other domains.

Both can be described as doing "cutting-edge DL work" but just in different domains. And, the young devs don't need to try and catch up, they need to be generalists.
Stealth is a bigger part than most would think about, but it is a big benefit with most camera bodies being a dark color. Holding it close to your body instead of extended arms allows that dark color to blend in especially if the photog is also wearing dark colors.
> There is a reason that the people with the most aggressive social policies tend to also be the least in favor of federalism/local politics, because of this exact problem: people will just leave.

I don't think that has anything to do with it. Whether people are in favor of or against local politics is mostly based on whether or not they share the same opinions as their local politicians. For example, look at the fight over California Emission standards. People just want to have things their way - everything else is just hot air and posturing.
Yep, there was a very similar event yesterday, approx. 22 hours ago: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=10...
I'm generally in the same place as you but I gotta say combat is pretty shit. The AI is bonehead stupid, I've killed a guy (not using a silencer) that was standing three feet from another guy and his partner didn't alert. Meanwhile 5 guys from outside the building did, rushed in the building then stopped dead and didn't ever shoot.
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Probably it's better to write it off as a loss than lower the rent
the other guy deleted his reply :( I liked the added information
The libsodium's docs [1] are awesome in this regard, particularly the sections (and subsections) on secret-key and public-key cryptography.

If you study those docs you'll get the modern terminology used by most other libraries as well as the intended use-cases for the different cryptographic constructs.

Your examples point to public-key use-cases, and I don't see any public-key crypto support in this Orion library, so probably you just wouldn't use it ;)

[1] https://doc.libsodium.org/
I hope they find a way to join forces, and sooner the better.
There is already Pinephone 2 and it's called Librem 5 :)
The internet was such a big deal because groups of people could finally interact without the mediation and filtering of a large (typically corporate) entity determining what's "fit to print". You don't have to search very hard to find the bounds of acceptable thought from corporate-sponsored media, even pre-internet. I don't think I'm alone in feeling constrained and frustrated with that situation. Sure, it's not a North Korea situation, but it's not great either.

There are some very real problems with unfettered access to communication, and I don't think we've solved them yet. I am very concerned that this law will have a range of unintended negative consequences, and I don't think defending our existing (flawed) structure really proves that it'll all be fine.

Specifically we're talking about moving from a model of centralized media control (eg: media companies and the conglomerates that own them) to one where a select group of people get to manage the filtering of content on the largest platforms. That seems like something that will be almost impossible to manage properly, and ripe for (at a minimum) political manipulation.
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That's one definition of the word, but several others are also in use, endlessly confusing these discussions.