skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a bit of a rant.

Shooting raw lets me save a few percent of photos where exposure is a little wrong. This is huge on its own, and you mention it.

It also lets me stretch things and make scenes work which would otherwise exceed the dynamic range of the exposure and the built in tone mapping would guess wrong.

Storage is cheap these days. If you're not doing something boost-shooting/burst intensive, why not shoot raw? Most of the time the result will be the same, and occasionally it will let you do much more.

And, here, IMO, the rant is particularly off base. A big part of ProRAW is being able to have big linear HDR stacks, which is immensely powerful and absolutely will let you do things you couldn't do any other way.
I think I understand where you're coming from, but your responses are very specific. I don't think this is the common case. I believe, the common case is that most engineering jobs are dull and boring and are not breaking new ground. Tirelessly testing software, or polishing UI or to take my workplace (vaccine r&d) performing the same set of tests/experiments/assays/etc over and over again. I'd go far as to say that you have to be self-motivated to be successful in most jobs. There is a limit to which management can coddle you.
So it sounds like the regulators should focus on forcing every web property to give equal access to all crawlers. Why steal Google's investment and hard work and innovation?
I don’t think you’re wrong about the lack of VC funding having an effect on the European startup scene.

That said, I’m a little baffled that Ottawa can produce a behemoth like Shopify which has a market cap ($130bn) larger than Spotify (~$60bn) and Adyen (~55Bn) combined.
>Very nice write up. However, who is the audience?

Any pixel-peeping digital photographer, so millions...

>A serious photographer will try to maximize quality with camera gear that starts out with strong baseline IQ potential - Pro camera, large sensor, quality lenses.*

You'd be surprised. There are other elements "serious photographers" sometimes optimize for, including weight, stealth, convenience, and so on.
> Can a citizen who is governed by the EU meaningfully influence who is doing that governing? In particular, can a large group of citizens affect who holds power within the EU and vote out those individuals they don't want, so any individual office holder has some degree of personal accountability to the electorate?

Erm yes. A large group of citizen can apply pressure to its local government to push for change in the EU, they can also to the same via MEP elections. You just need to remember that a "large group" need to be very large to be considered important relative to the EU 450 million citizens. The UK's total population only makes up 14% of the total EU population, what gives us the right to dictate terms over the remaining 86%?

National governments pick the members of the European Commision, so if you're not happy with your European Commission representative, take it up with your national government. As for the member picked by other governments, well you wouldn't expect to have power over an MP that doesn't represent you.

> It is debatable whether even the European Parliament does

The European Parliament obviously does. The only reason why the UK keeps getting short changed by the European Parliament is because we keep electing idiots into power. Most because our national government like to pretend MEPs don't exist, thus doesn't educate people on the importance of MEP elections, then acts surprised when the European Parliament doesn't represent the UK population.

> If you don't think it matters that many of our population have little influence over who occupies Number 10

I think it does matter, I think it matter quite a bit. But I'm not convinced that the general public is the best body to make that choice directly. The whole point of have a representatives is that they have the time and resources to educate themselves on the minutiae of state, and make better decisions than the general public. Not because they're smarter or better, but because they're better informed.

My view on the EU debate in the UK has always boiled down to the fact the UK public has simply not bothered to engage with the democratic systems in the EU, so it's not a surprise that those systems don't represent us. The fix here was always for the UK to actually participate in the EU, not just strope, but that would require the UK national government to stop using the EU as it scapegoat for its own domestic failures. At least with Brexit the UK government won't be able to blame the EU for everything anymore, and we might actually get some competent leaders with a real vision for the UK.
> as far as cultural attitudes and preferences go, a person from New York has more in common with someone from Mexico City or Sao Paolo than someone from Paris or London.

Interesting—do you mind expanding on this?
>I think Scott Forstall should be brought back into the CEO role to replace Tim Cook.

I am glad I am not the only one. This is the same as Intel pushing out Pat Gelsinger. The product people get pushed out by sales and marketing. Which are increasingly running the show at Apple.
And if they don't have the money to pay the fines we can keep them in a work camp...

I hope you are joking about this.
Every big iPhone/iOS keynote I think "this is the year!", but it never happens .
Imagine a Magsafe camera lens / sensor with some kind of high speed wireless interconnect to iPhone:

https://daxpix.medium.com/can-the-magsafe-hold-a-camera-lens...
When you consider the complexity of the act of driving I'd say a majority of people driving are pretty good drivers, the alternative would be a significant accident rate resulting in impassable roads.
That stack trick is ingenious. I've done next to no 2600 programming but I've done enough 6502 to appreciate that one.

I am remound of the perennial HN favorite: http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-gam...
> Could you explain what rule it is you think people are too stupid to follow?

I see face masks everywhere, even in places where you have a trash can every 20-30 meters.

How hard is it to put the mask in the trash can or in your pocket? It takes no space in a pocket and you can put it in a plastic bag for an extra safety.
How are you blocking the exhale valve? Just actually covering it, or some sort of filter?
> Can a citizen who is governed by the EU meaningfully influence who is doing that governing? In particular, can a large group of citizens affect who holds power within the EU and vote out those individuals they don't want, so any individual office holder has some degree of personal accountability to the electorate?

In theory, yes. But it would take a huge group of people. Which is practically impossible these days.

So you are right, there is a serious deficit of democracy, not only in the EU, but everywhere imo.
Now with online media you carry it into the bathroom.

(Low quality comment, I know. I'll see myself out.)
EU have about much power to imprison you as Apple does, as in they can't unless they can convince the local police you have committed some crime. They lack power compared to US feds.
Will this be like Vine > Tiktok all over again?
That's not a true statement about HN. Less than 10% of the community is in SV—it's all over the world and has tons of different "very specific parts of wider society". That's one reason why people argue so much about this stuff. If you think the HN community is SV-friendly or even startup-friendly, it may surprise you that many people in those communities feel like it's exactly the other way around.
Just to emphasize this. Closed the site when I saw oauth only.

... and this is after having a similar idea recently, and being really curious.
It was pretty easy to bump into them depending on what industry (construction was a BIG one) or neighbourhood you were in. I just happened to be in a hotbed of mob activity and goons. That made it real easy for people around the area to claim they "know a guy" because it was likely true.
>> You're conflating several things. Yes, censorship by a third party has similar effects to government censorship, but we treat them differently

> My post was discussing whether censorship occurred and whose freedom was affected. While it did mention certain explictly public schemes, it nowhere argued that other schemes should be treated as government censorship, so you are inventing a position here for the sole purpose of claiming it is in error and a conflation of different things.

You brought up the 'third party vs government' dynamic; I was merely mentioning that it's distinct from the dynamic of 'freedom to speak' vs 'freedom to hear'. I specifically never claimed that you were arguing that we should treat third parties the same as the government. No need to speculate about my motives.
For instance, see this recent post about using TLA+ to find a concurrency bug in glibc's implementation of pthreads:

https://probablydance.com/2020/10/31/using-tla-in-the-real-w...
Is there any datasets made available about this? Given our current inability to discuss things online without disastrous consequences, seem like it could be useful.

Presumably you are talking about HN discussions but what your are saying sounds extremely general
I would be surprised if any US company would have had the foresight to call European authorities within 3 days of a serious issue in 2018 .. especially with whatever skeleton crews are working over Christmas.

It's been a learning curve, and things like this have been good lessons to bring us to where we are.
You may be interested in watching the Lightspark (https://lightspark.github.io/) project - an open source implementation of the flash player.
People who say that masks aren’t the answer frankly mystify me.

If you were to tell a child “there is a disease that is spread from our breath. What do you think a good solution would be?” I would be dollars to donuts that their answer would be “what about a mask?”

The answer is so obvious that even a child could come up with it. And it takes an adult to convince themselves otherwise. Even science says that masks are effective.
I just went through the "process" of installing Grafana, Loki, Promtail and Prometheus on an ubuntu box and it is almost like the company behind all of this has gone out of the their way to make it hard. It isn't really _that_ difficult to get set up, but it also isn't 'apt install' easy (you really want me to create my own startup scripts?) and required me to build my own documentation on how I installed everything.
Attitude can do wonders

Yes, attitude can work wonders when you are a black man and encounter police in the South.
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Sure, some don't, but most do (at least unconsciously), that's just how people behave. Some people consciously try to avoid "playing on a team" with various degrees of success, but it's a bit unnatural and actually quite hard to do.
> Jury's still out on that one, Apple Music is making very large in roads, and Spotify is starting to struggle.

Large in roads amongst Apple customers or large in roads to the general market?
HN is not my own personal wishlist. However, it is often how I discover new and interesting things. As a result, whenever someone posts a link to a new tool or service, I tend to react to it with a personal evaluation. I rarely post a comment with my reaction; usually, it's to make a critique about a particular feature, design element, or bug that I notice.

In this case, my original comment was too succinct to be useful to anyone else, which I believe is your point. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
Yep. Turns out that milk is actually really healthy for you, at least if you belong to a population group that evolved the ability to digest lactose.

(Lactose-free milk is getting better, though it's still too sweet; A2 milk (w/o the A1 proteins) is an interesting option for some people).

I get it, the cows aren't living their most self-actualized life, but I basically sit in a stall all day producing code and documentation, so while I can empathize with them, it doesn't mean I want to pay a bunch more so _they_ get to go outside all day while I'm still stuck here on the git treadmill.
2600 cartridges can contain any amount of extra RAM or even CPU hardware.

But this pretty well isn't real. There's no way you could drive a workable Ethernet connection just from an RF output. Also the "screenshot" is completely fake, the 2600 has nowhere near enough video objects to output all of that.
Sony cameras secretly are Android devices. You can write your own Android apps for them[1].

Why this isn't advertised, promoted, & made available? Why digital cameras seem to want to get their lunch taken by phones? Not sure!

I think it was way too soon, but Samsung had a good go with a series of Samsung Galaxy Cameras[2] that were proud Android brandishing devices. Android has gotten better, mobile chips have gotten way better. But even something more like the unofficial OMF that I linked, a Sony camera, that doesn't look like an Android system, it looks like a camera, but is really Android and can run Android? That makes hella-sense to me.

[1] https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Framework

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_NX
Perhaps their mission statement extends slightly beyond "an increase in quarterly return".
Any reason why you went with the "P"100 (resistant to oils) instead of the regular "N"100?
> For example, they are more likely to call up past memories and ponder future scenarios. This may be a mechanism to help them escape from their loneliness.

and

> “In the absence of desired social experiences,” the authors write, “lonely individuals may be biased towards internally directed cognitions,” as if “to fill the social void.”

I would say they have this exactly backwards. The act of conjuring up these desired scenarios while not being in such a situation 'creates' the feeling of loneliness. So the sequence as I see it is: person likes company, person has free time to ponder and imagines social situations, then feels lonely. I also recall interactions and play out future possible situations or memories. I don't however long for them, rather it's usually more analytical as what should I do if that should come to pass or what could I have done differently/better. It's not that I want to be in those situations. I do miss diversity of activity alone or socially.
Same. I've been seeing more "the boot is justified unless proven otherwise, and no I don't need to provide a source; and if it is proven otherwise, I've already lost interest and moved on." and less "innocent until proven guilty." Obviously there's some of both and always has been, but I feel the same as you do.

I remember when a website counting how many days James Clapper has avoided a prison sentence after he gave a false statement was big on the front page a while back.

Just the other day there was a thread about experts identifying an illegal toxin used on protestors in Portland while LE illegally blocks access to storm drains so that further evidence of it cannot be collected.

Both threads pertain to law enforcement overstepping their bounds with impunity and secrecy. The toxic gas one was flagged off the front page despite 125 upvotes in a short time.

https://futurehuman.medium.com/scientists-identified-a-green...
Good question. I don't know but I know from another effort that was at Sun way back in the day it is really difficult to create curvature in a system that wants flat optical masks and flat processing.

There are at least two challenges, one is curve itself, and the other is laying out the sensor to be linear across the curved surface. I'm wondering if they are going to do a Hot Chips presentation, that has been where most of the coolest advances in chip making have been detailed.

A friend speculated they might be doing a mems sort of thing where they make a 'thick' chip and then etch down to the layers of sensors, perhaps polishing, as a glass lens might be made, but for me that seems like it would be too risky. Thinning and bending is a possibility of course you need to account for the final topology in your layout.

Definitely a fun puzzle to speculate about.
I think JWZ may be one of the few people that can criticize Perl and I'll be like "fair enough." Most people have never used Perl and just parrot the standard line about it being write-only without actually having used it.

> It combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different
sublanguages in one monolithic executable.

Believe it or not, I used to be a Perl hater and a Lisp (or Scheme) weenie. But having worked with Perl, Common Lisp, Ruby, NodeJS, and Scheme, I really have to say that I'd take Perl over all of those. The worst aspect of C would be pointers and unsafe memory access, which Perl doesn't have. And the worst parts of Common Lisp would be the massive, inconsistent, designed-by-committee language, CLOS, and macros. Oh, and LOOP (I shouldn't need to dig out a reference book to remember how to do looping each time I need to. Seriously.) S-expressions have also worn their welcome on me. I'm just tired of brace matching (yes, even with your silly fancy IDE).

Perl is by no means perfect, but I've found it does more things right than wrong. Blaming Perl for regexes being useful is like blaming a hammer for nails being ubiquitous. What? You're going to hand code a lexer each time you need to parse a phone number or a zip code? If there was a better alternative we would be using it.
Nothing new under the Sun, only the tools have changed. Everyone has been doing this for centuries.

Why is Facebook choosing the spill the beans publicly against France now is what is probably interesting to find out.
> 3M P100 industrial respirator with a retrofitted exhalation valve filter

do you have the model number for this mask? why did you have to retrofit it?
> ancestors literally fought for 2000 years to overcome, with literally millions dead.

Not sure how good your history is. But the EU was built by an ancestors who were fed of fighting and dying by the millions in wars that did nothing to actually improve people lives.

The whole purpose of the EU from day zero was to ensure lasting peace in Europe, and given there haven't been any domestic European wars since its creation, I would say it's been pretty successful.
The money for huge clientele networks milking the EU funds in Eastern Europe and the money for propping up losing businesses and bloated social services in Western Europe have to come from somewhere.
>As if that knowledge would somehow materially affect your Instagram photo result.

People don't just read things that "materially affect" their results.

If we did we would read 10% of what we actually read in HN...
If it's the only way to compete in the world, one may have no other practical choice.

iBorg :-)
Nice simple forwarding service. I need something slightly more complex --- I want store and forward/routing/hub mailbox with API control.

I need API access to obtain sender and destination address of mailbox item and then decide how to dispense with it, either delete, retrieve or forward to a different destination. "Destination" may involve dozens of addresses. Reply address may be changed.

To minimize storage and costs, any item over 24 hours old can be deleted.
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I actually agree with you on this. I can't blame people for just rolling out what we had as fast as possible and dealing with the consequences later. It's frustrating but undoubtedly a good call in the moment.

But I hope that we eventually get to the point where we have most people using reusable masks and that the disposable ones are biodegradable.
honest question - which cities/states/countries dump trash in the ocean?
> and really, what's the harm?

If people think a mask offers them more protection than it really does, they might engage in riskier behavior.

When I see people out walking around the neighborhood with masks on, I really wonder what they're trying to accomplish. You're not going to get covid walking outdoors passing within 6 feet of someone for 5 seconds.

These days, my theory is more people get infected at home than out in public.
I always had a hard time remembering the regex syntax and form until I learned about scanners/lexers/tokenizers and finite state machines. Then it really clicked and made a lot of sense.
Some useful tools for journalists at risk to help manage their digital and physical security:

Surveillance Self Defence (mostly digital security, strong US material in particular)
https://ssd.eff.org/en

Security in a Box (mostly digital security)
https://securityinabox.org/en/

Umbrella App (built by my team) on iOS, Android (a mix of everything from digital to physical surveillance, protest, kidnap etc.)
https://secfirst.org/umbrella/
or web (Beta) https://umbrella.secfirst.org
Spotify has advertising and does sell its abilities to target segments of users.
This thread is triggering rate limiting:

> I'll just come out and say it: You are not arguing in good faith. You have 0 interest in considering the merits of the police accountability movement. You trying to discredit the movement by pointing to the minority of opportunists who have sprung up.

No, the people who protest in a productive and lawful manner I genuinely support. They are the victims of opportunists who riot, and make it so that the former cannot peacefully assemble. When a protest turns into a riot, and a curfew or dispersal order is issued it is the opportunists and rioters who deprived the legitimate protestors of their opportunity to speak. That is part of why it's so important to detain and charge rioters: it's not just the direct harm of violence, it's also the indirect harm of inhibiting peaceful demonstration.

But back to the original point, referencing a sharp increase in arrests while ignoring a sharp increase in riots is just willful ignorance. That's really what it is. What were the biggest riots we had in 2019? In 2018? Were they even remotely as big as the summer 2020 riots?
Well, only the older ones, the A7iii and onward don't have an accessible Android subsystem. But even for those before the A7iii, it's more of a subsystem and doesn't have access to a lot of functions that are done by specialized chips.
I get the request, but it seems like the outcome is better achieved with Terraform or Pulumi.
Re:Amaze Push Campaigns
> The MIT CS guy did end up getting a great dev job right out of the program.

I have no doubts he would. I'm doubting his very existence. Or, pretty sure he didn't pay retail on the bootcamp.

I think going from absolutely no code experience to 70K by doing a 6 months bootcamp is simply impossible. The many articles on lambda illustrate that.

For someone with a real CS or Engineering degree, I wouldn't waste any time or money on a bootcamp unless my employer was paying for it.
People have been doing Chaos Engineering, and the more general category of "DevOps", for years before those things were given labels. I think we may credit Netflix with the awesome name of Chaos Monkey and for building a systemic in-house practice, but they were not the first to perform intentional destructive resilience testing in production.

Case in point, I've been yanking out active drives, cables, PSUs and CPUs since the 1980s, and not always by accident.

What's more, I was taught to do by someone who'd been babysitting VAXes for years; they had a ceramic axe that, at the age of fourteen, I'd seen them swing right through a three-phase minicomputer power feed at my local university's data center "for test purposes".
Yep, it's pretty frustrating, I see them outdoors all the time. Not quite as frustrating as people who fill doggie bags then leave them on the side of the trap for the crap fairies to pick up.

Easy come/ easy go.
Regarding "be a useful signal to law enforcement that someone isn't there to make a disturbance , and also regarding the notion that anyone could slap a press sign on themselves... seems apparent that, to a certain extent, there's an amount of civilization's underpinnings assume well-intent.