skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just listened to the phone call.

I said it multiple times how ridiculous I find that so many people readily buy into these stories. But... I don't know now, this was pretty convincing, to be honest. Not really a "proof" of anything, of course — this guy could be anyone, and of course it is really weird how he didn't recognize Navalny's voice and talked about all this stuff over the insecure line... But I can believe that. I mean, if it was fake, it was some really impressive fake, with much better script and acting than anything I can now remember. My biggest issue was believing that people doing important stuff in FSS can really be useless idiots, and this was such a convincing portrayal of such an idiot that I'm starting to accept it.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to hear more of that story.
What's especially funny is the latest Tier 4 Health Protection legislation has a specific exception for groups meeting in the grounds of castles...

I can't believe it hasn't made headlines yet...
I’d love to have a pro camera that has a high-speed connection to an iOS device, with an extensive API for programmability.

But I don’t think Apple would do it, because it’s such an ecosystem to build out. Lenses, flashes, adapters, it’s all so much. It’s Nikon’s core business to build such an ecosystem, and they’re not great at it. Never did get a fully fleshed-out set of DX lenses.

Here’s my pipe dream: Apple transitions all iOS devices to USB-C, they cook up a low-latency fast protocol to connect to cameras, and they give the camera manufacturers documentation and support to build out a way to use an interchangeable lens camera that immediately lets you pipe photos and video off the camera into iOS apps for immediate processing and offloading.
Which is a boring meta criticism that adds nothing.
Reminds me that Nikon somewhat recently ended production of their rifle scope line https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/gun-control-nikon-wi...

I wonder if that's related at all.
The race is over, much like in CPU design. It's the end of the road and without the drastic fast improvements of the past merely being mediocre in production quality is enough to keep up.
Sort of.

I can't speak to this being a thing that's always possible in professional environments, but the trick was to aim for reduced volume in everything I do. Much less code - and therefore less of a "product" - but much more intense design/conceptualization. Flexing that crystallized intelligence. I am more attuned to deep dives that aren't just muscle memory acts now. If it does reduce to muscle memory I get suspicious about it being automatable.

This means I don't spend the same kind of time within the feedback loop of the tools like I used to. I am not building big systems, but neither am I fighting them as much.
Allegations against FSFE president Matthias Kirschner
From the article:

> For this hackathon we used data about whether a street is lit or not from Open Street Map. Later we could incorporate official UK gov data about street lighting or even incorporate satellite imaging data.
Python isn't less expressive for the most part except for lack of blocks(although can be emulated with decorators and def _), and ruby's strategic lack of parentheses and not being to add/change methods in c based classes.

Python has just as much access to reflection, it has more powerful and arguably easier to shoot yourself in the foot inheritance (python has multiple inheritance while ruby only has mixins). Python also has method_missing in __getattr__. Arguably python tends to use these less often then ruby but I've definitely used both reflection and __getattr__. I've also once had to debug a really hairy multiple inheritance issue(in a test framework that used base classes to test different hardware features where you might want to have both you'd need to use multiple inheritance and then make sure they were initialized in the right order, multiple inheritance can get really annoying)
They can’t switch the manufacturing location if they want to continue to sell in India at a reasonable price which they definitely do. That’s the benefit of a protectionist economy though it has a myriad other downsides.
Cameroon is the one example I was thinking of that actually isn't a US rival, yes. Nonetheless the US still used the conclusions to justify winding up support & funding to Cameroonian military.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25486191
It's cultural. Americans generally have lower savings rate (when compared to other nations) and a home is one place where 'investing' and spending can overlap in a fairly bespoke way compared to anything else you spend money on.

You can't live in a share of stock, though it may appreciate faster than a house. (You also generally speaking can't use leverage to purchase shares). But even if shares appreciate faster than homes, they don't feed into conspicuous consumption: and that matters to some segment of the population.
I love that phrasing: “hard-won best-practices in Ruby turn out to be merely second-rate functional programming”

That, plus Elixir was literally 5 to 10x faster at a sampling of tasks I threw at both (but this was a few years ago)
What are the main advantages compared to Airflow. We use Airflow to orchestrate ML jobs/tasks, and I found it to be more flexible comparing other tools we tested.
I think we might be making different assumptions. There are 3 options as I see it

1) If the contract signed by the patient is silent on the topic, and you have their information, you are free to contact them.

2) If the contract signed by the patient explicitly says you can not contact them for this reason, then I think it clearly unethical to do so.

3) If the contract is ambiguous, or the intent is unclear, then it is a judgement call.

I am talking about #2 and I think you are talking about #1 & 3.

There are valid reasons why people would want to select #2, and if they do, their wishes should be respected.
My wife was charged $65 "to meet the surgeon" that would be performing procedure if she went ahead with it (she didn't ask to meet him, btw). It was basically just "Hey Bill, can you come over here and say hi to this patient". She had the charges waived pretty easily, but, if you don't call and ask and/or complain, those charges stand.
Thank you for the explanation. Unsure how I wasn't putting 2+2 together. Facebook presumably does have rules against brigading.
Apple does do that.
He is sort of superhuman in that sense. He can take a lot and seem unfazed.
No, can't say there's anything in them that really stands out as new and interesting. It's a Mac with an ARM processor. Don't get me wrong, they are nice hardware and the custom silicon and the overall design is beautifully executed. But there's nothing in there that is a must have.

I might get one in a year or so once the software support is more refined. But then again, if I want to develop on ARM, there are thousands of boards to choose from. I already have four on my desk ready to use for whatever, so I'm not exactly lacking choice.
https://mailbox.org/en/
Helpful support, secure, privacy oriented.
...which in turn is about ads.
The job of astrophysicists is to make models that explain observation.

Explain the bullet cluster observations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
You seem to not know about blender or krita too but commented anyways
Ask HN: Advice for Succeeding as a Junior Engineer?
Starting my first SWE job soon. Super nervous right now, so I just wanted to get people's opinions on what I can do to succeed in my first role. (ex: right mindset to take on, right habits to cultivate, things to learn, etc.) Thanks so much!
I Tried the Wim Hof Method
Are most of the costs even accumulated in hospitals? I'd imagine the price gouging certainly is. We arbitrarily restrict the number of MD students so why shouldn't we expect $1000/hr. bills for care?
Congress (Once Again) Sells Out to Hollywood
Dasel v1.10 released. Query/Update data structures from the commandline
https://github.com/TomWright/dasel

Convert between data formats, insert documents, new selectors and more.
Yes, that's a good point. I can see that it would be worthwile to do privately, for that purpose.
This game was def not in prod for only 4 years. And it's a different team that started working on it. A regular game takes 3 years~~ so imagine a game of that size.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK5qvys_Jz4&feature=youtu.be... according to that video people were working on it before 2012 which makes sense.
That leaves too much patient money on the table, and will lead to patients doing comparison shopping, which is not something the healthcare industry wants.
Your purported statistic about the flu is demonstrably false.

For the entire 2016-2017 flu season, not just January 2017, there were 14,400 deaths from the flu in France. [0]

The latest death count for COVID in France is 60,549, even after all the lockdown measures were put in place.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321906828_Influenza...
I have felt the "sense of enlightenment" referenced in two languages: Common Lisp and Elixir. Not two distinct senses, but the same sense, twice. I've also coded productively in Scheme and Clojure without feeling the same sense.

Watch someone like Notch code in Java; it's possible to achieve it without whatever language feature people think is essential. However, if it's easier to achieve in Lisp, then Lisp will always have value. The enlightenment isn't essential for application development, but it points the gun away from your foot surprisingly often.
Those salary dont make any sense. I suspect there are something going on with contractors and Winstron.
As much as I would want small players to succeed. Email is one of the spaces where it just doesn't make much sense to trust the small guy.
There are actually quite a lot of government regulations without which a search monopoly would be less likely, from the patents Google holds to the CFAA creating uncertainty for small competitors to do the scraping that would be necessary to get as comprehensive an index without being large enough to have sites request indexing to the GDPR increasing compliance costs to the RIAA/MPAA and news sites flinging lawsuits left and right based on overbroad copyright laws to the FCC rules that impair last mile competition that could result in higher upload speeds and thereby greater P2P content hosting which is more easily indexed by search competitors.
Most folks are afraid to tell their boss he is being an ass.
When I see something cool on Kickstarter my brain goes through a few predictable steps.

1. That looks cool

2. I kinda want one

3. But there's a non-zero chance they'll mess it up, or it will be a fraction of the way they're currently pitching it.

4. I'll just wait until it's a product I can buy with a return policy.

Steps 3 and 4 have saved my wallet from draining, and my heart from disappointment.
It’s a fair comparison because many developers, including the author, would have to make a choice between languages, some of which would be GC and while others are non GC.
The article tries in several paragraphs to explain the experience of using it - I'd recommend instead just clicking on the Library Explorer link[1] yourself and actually experiencing it yourself.

There's something to be said for these physical-world-analogue UIs, in my opinion. Even if this is technically the same affordance as provided by old school web directory UIs, there's more of a sense of tangibility and immediacy to this kind of visual presentation, that makes it more appealing and easier to spend longer times in.

[1] https://openlibrary.org/explore
In the above example (consumer 70-300 [often f4.0-5.6], vs pro 70-200 [usually f2.8]), when these lenses are placed on the same cameras, the pro 70-200 will give 4x the light compared to f5.6, or 2x the light compared with f4.0 (consumer zooms are often variable aperture, while pro lenses are more frequently constant aperture). If you were to compare the pro lens on some camera, and the consumer lens on some different sized sensor, the math can get more complicated. Below is an explanation of what f-stops mean, if you're interested.

the maximum f-stop of the lens describes the ratio of sensor length (1D, diagonally is best comparison probably), to the diameter of lens aperture. because the opening and sensor are two dimensional, every sqrt(2) increase in f-stop describes halving the light. for example, a f 1.4 lens can allow ~twice as much light as an f 2.0 lens. Every doubling of light is considered a "stop", like {1.4, 2.0, 2.8, 4.0, 5.6, 8.0}. An important consideration is that this number describes a ratio, not the absolute opening in the lens without respect to sensor size.

One possible conversion method is to consider the sensor size of the system against some popular standard. For example, "aps-c" sized sensors are about 1 stop "slower" than full frame sensors, due to being 1/(2.25) the size of full frame sensors in area, or 1/(1.5) linearly. This means that many lenses can be converted not only on focal length, but also for f-stop, to estimate the total light gathering power of the system, and the output "look" of the image. Full frame sensors (~36mm x 24mm) are most frequently used in the photography world as a standard comparison point. For example, a 50mm 1.4 lens gives 50mm 1.4 on full frame, but that same lens on an aps-c sensor (like a fuji X, sony 6xxx, canon 7d, etc.) would not only give a cropped 75mm [full frame] focal length equivalence, it would also give the depth of field of a 75mm _2.0_ lens [on full frame], not 75mm 1.4. At the same time, the exposure would still benefit from the light gathered at f1.4. This is why many say that smaller sensors give a larger depth of field (more in focus, less out of focus background). In reality, this is due to the lens aperture being measured only as a ratio to the sensor size. Finally, the smaller aps-c sensor will give a larger depth of field at the same f stop, but may also give higher noise at the same ISO (to a similarly advanced full frame sensor). This means that an aps-c camera takes the exact same image when it has ~1 more f stop, ~33% less focal length, ~1 stop lower ISO to the full frame system. A big confusion around any of this "equivalence" discussion is that sometimes people mean equivalence for lens "look", and other times, they mean equivalence for exposure, while others may be talking about absolute image quality and noise. They're actually all related, though much of this discussion isn't important to real world photography.
> There's basically no example of a monopoly forming outside of government regulation.

That's tautological statement. There is no free market without private property protections which do not exist outside of government regulation either.
The opposite happened with ASD. It was Autism and High Functioning Autism and Asperger's and it all got merged into ASD.
i don't think i'm so off the mark: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/bellingcat-can-say-what...

> “I don’t want to be too dramatic, but we love this,” said Marc Polymeropolous, the CIA’s former deputy chief of operations for Europe and Eurasia.

> When former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned, it was Bellingcat that was first to publicly identify the two Russian military intelligence operatives that had traveled to the U.K. to spritz the door handle of the Skripals’ home with the Soviet-era nerve agent.

> “Whenever we had to talk to our liaison partners about it, instead of trying to have things cleared or worry about classification issues, you could just reference their work,” said Polymeropolous, who retired from the CIA in 2019.
Wildlife & nature, architecture, astronomy, any scene that you want to "flatten"...
Yes, it should be "free markets...until the wolves take over the whole system". It's impressive how quickly those profit maximization ideas have caught on, driven by technology (I blame Excel more than anything), and throughout the entire system. The healthcare cash-cow benefits a LOT of people, workers, suppliers, and (especially) administrators at both hospitals and doctors offices. A poor healthcare system is a great way to create BS jobs, and have a de facto welfare system while not actually legislating for it.

It is remarkable how quickly and completely the noble ideals of the professions (medicine and law) have totally fallen to the profit motive. Now, you are a fool if you show self-restraint, because no one will notice, and your unscrupulous competitors will eat your lunch. It's the kind of pervasive corruption that can only happen when literally everyone in the system, including the victims, have given up.
> Google have reversed the User Interface paradigm. Instead of users learning the software and telling it what to do, the software learns the user. I don't necessarily mean NNs or personalisation. I mean that the paraign is software-centric. "If the user does X, how should the software respond?" instead of "If the user user wants Y, how does she make the software do it?" That's great for intuitiveness, but it also creates a frame where the software gets better over time but the user never does.

May I quote you on this?

It is a great description of the 3rd premise in a talk proposal I submitted to LibrePlanet 2021, which goes something like:

- Software freedom is predicated on the notion that users ought to be in control of what runs on their computers.

- I claim that tech literacy is necessary to exercise this control.

- "Google Design" presumes that "nontechnical users" are not and will never be capable of tech literacy.

If all of these are true, then "Google Design" is incompatible with the idea that Software Freedom is for everyone. And indeed, we see this borne out in many people's disdain for copyleft licenses, which impose restrictions on developers in order to guarantee freedoms for end users. That's a logical viewpoint, if you believe that end users wouldn't benefit from software freedom, anyway.

"Google Design" does make software more accessible to end users… at the cost of turning your computer into an appliance. Which makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. People don't magically become tech literate; they intentionally learn the skills so they can achieve something. Remove the power from the tools, and you take away their motivation to become tech literate. I have a great story about my grandma to illustrate this point.

If our goal is to make computing (and, by extension, software freedom) more accessible to everyone, then we need to change our approach. We need to prioritize education and teaching tech literacy. And most of all, we need to write software that is powerful enough that users will see the benefit in learning to use it.

That's they key points from the first half of the talk. The second half is about how we can create software that is powerful without sacrificing usability. It basically boils down to "make simple things easy and hard things possible" — creating software that Just Works™ without configuration, but allows you to customize its behavior if/when you want to. In particular, I'm a fan of embedded scripting interfaces (e.g. spreadsheets), which allow a vast amount of customization without creating "settings overload" that is typical of many FLO[1] programs.

[1]: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/free-libre-open#flo
It takes me into a verification and waiting flow. Useless.
Personally I think it could do without the status and power dynamics. Those other things, sure, as components of intimacy, but ultimately I think it should be about orgasms and babies, and the giving and receiving thereof. I think the giving and receiving of pleasure is an end in and of itself.

In terms of pure thrusting, that is a very narrow view of it. For one thing you're forgetting about sensuality, foreplay, kink, and polyamory, and the immense feeling of satisfaction of blowing off steam that builds up over time.
There are literally Whatsapp accounts where you send them ~$15 and a name/DOB and they'll reply with a full "Dox" of any Russian citizen - it's a free-for-all over there.
Until Dark Matter/Dark Energy theories have been "solved," other theories will continue to exist. That's the way this works.
Building world-class engineering teams in Greece
An Introduction to Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
Non-fearmongering post from 7 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25493773
Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard
Ownership comes with legal protections from being screwed over during a liquidity event.

End of the day, I want to be holding the same type of shares of the founders because I know that our interest are aligned.
I'd love to hear more what you have in mind! Feel free to drop by at our chat at https://gitter.im/metaflow_org/community

While it is true that auto-sizing resources is hard and the easiest approach is to oversize @resources, the situation isn't as bad as it sounds:

1) In Metaflow, @resource requests are specific to a function/step, so you end up using resources only for a short while typically. It would be expensive to keep big boxes idling 24/7 but that's not necessary.

2) You can use spot instances to lower costs, sometimes dramatically.

3) It is pretty easy to see the actual resource consumption on any monitoring system, e.g. CloudWatch, so you can adjust manually if needed.

4) A core value proposition of Metaflow is to make both prototyping and production easy. While optimizing resource consumption may be important for large-scale production workloads, it is rarely the first concern when prototyping.

In practice at Netflix, we start with overprovisioning and then focus on optimizing only the workflows that mature to serious production and end up being too expensive if left unoptimized. It turns out that this is a small % of all workflows.
https://openlibrary.org/explore

Do try out the "Settings" cog at the bottom of the UI -- one thing that makes this interface so powerful is you can add custom queries to transform the entire library (such as to only show kids books, text books, or biographies on any subject).
Every country in the world restricts the number of MD students, bit only the US has truly mind-blowing billing practices, and care costs, and puts the average freshly minted doctor half a million dollars in student debt.
That's a good point about the linguisitic connotations. faitswulff's comment reads so much better to me when you just replace the word 'privilege' with 'virtuous cycle' or 'snowball effect'.
Why not just use those two operators instead of more and next?
No, it wasn't at the time. It was catch up to the entire rest of the world and the mechanisms that led to slavery subsisting, IE the first ten articles of the US Constitution and the electoral college and the economical basis were not changed.

Meanwhile, France changed their entire constitution for much less. So did many other countries. It was basic incremental even for the time.
If the factory is not paying workers, it would be illegal in many countries, I hope it is the same in India, shouldn't the government and court deal with it?
Insider trading is an artificial crime. Top executives are never indicted, even though they trade on inside information all the time. They allow prosecutors to use this regulation only so long as prosecutors are careful to punish relatively-clueless minor defectors from the ongoing conspiracy of corporate executives against the investing public.

Think about the results of "inside" trading. Information that was previously the sole property of insiders is released, through its effect on the prices of securities, to the public at large. This is a good thing for the public. It is a bad thing only for executives who haven't completed the trading schemes they've based on that information.
OIS (optical image stabilization) mistyped or "branded".