skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree but do not care nevertheless. Still using a small sensor Ricoh GR Digital III most of the time. If I ever want background separation I just pick up the m43. It's good enough. Most people are happy with a phone camera. All of them have really obvious distortion. It's great that there are so many choices to choose from.
I used to program a Y-MP2 around 1990. That had an SSD and was the abolute fastest machine I had ever used at that time.
Eek! I guess I'm more OK with this now...
Nuclear bombs can be very clean these days. They've come a long way since the 1950's.
AI Weiwei with DJ Spooky
You don't think Trump was influenced by powerful zionists including AIPAC and his son-in-law? Why else would he care?
Sorry, it's been a while, I don't quite remember, but I think I either replied to the mail they sent informing me of the lock or it was a support contact address in that email. And they never replied, I just logged into my account the next day and the lock was gone. I wonder if a real person ever read my mail or if I simply solved some sort of CAPTCHA by writing that mail.
Most mirrorless mounts are significantly wider (diameter wise) and closer to the sensors so they are able to develop new lenses that can take advantage of that.
I agree that Rust has some really great concepts. The example code makes heavy use of traits for example, which are very ergonomic and provide a dynamic feel.

The context is a rewrite AKA runtime optimization. So the result is already understood. A great use-case for Rust is top-down implementation.

Also the code doesn't show any of the more painful cases. From the article:

> There are some inefficiencies visible here, and they're probably the most important spots for performance improvements. But they're still there as fixing them was too hard and/or time-consuming for me.

Resolving these "inefficiencies" is where Rust really shines. Because it _can_ resolve them and does it internally consistent on top of it. But at the same time, this is where you really _slow down_ in development and need to think about the more complex and intricate concepts such as lifetimes and borrow semantics.
MiHsC/wuantized inertia would be fringe
I think it is more accurate to say that wealth growth at the low end is not as rapid as wealth growth at the high end.

Nothing is driving wealth down. Wealth is increasing for everyone, generally speaking. This observation is important because it recognizes that wealth is created, not allocated. This is not a zero-sum game.

You say it seems unlikely that actual value is increasing at the high end but I do not think this opinion holds up to scrutiny. I think it is very likely that value at the high end has increased by multiples -- white collar jobs have become vastly more productive with the introduction of technology. Correspondingly, low value work has not. In fact, many of our most common low value jobs (retail, driving) risk going the way of the switchboard operator. There was no conspiracy to devalue the work of the switchboard operator; rather, so called "high value" tech jobs made this type of lower value work entirely obsolete.

I think it is unsurprising that high end work is rising in relative value while low end work is falling. I don't see any basis for imagining political or economic conspiracies: What we see in terms of value is exactly what we ought to expect.
There's also no evolutionary incentive for it to be more deadly either. From the perspective of the virus, it has no incentive to kill its host -- if anything, it would want to keep them alive (and functioning) for as long as possible.
Doom can record game sessions to LMP file format, which is a recording of the inputs on every frame. That's usually how people share runs in the Doom speedrun community. So yeah a LMP-to-video converter could be legitimately useful to some people.

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Demo#Custom_demos
America's Only Crewed Deep Sea Submarine Can Now Access 99% of Ocean Floor
So we're back to Custom Tags from ColdFusion :-)
Yeah, just insisted we're all coupon-obsessed penny counters.
Ehhhh... I've owned a bunch of digital Leica gear, and I'll flatly say that the M lenses produce some of the best images you'll see from a raw optical pipeline. A 50mm APO Summicron is an exceptional lens for its optical characteristics; same goes for most of their 'cron and 'lux models.

By contrast, Leica's digital M bodies have always been at least a generation behind... at their time of release. The way you deal with this is correct exposure discipline, such that there's less to deal with in post. Newer M bodies have gotten much better, however.

The Q is a really interesting line, since I assume it's a collaborative project between Panasonic, Tower Jazz, and Leica. Frankly, the images for both the Q and Q2 are outstanding, and I'd throw down another $5k for a 50mm Q2. If you seriously think an X100V can compete with a Q2 for full pipeline imaging (capture to print), you're nuts. I've personally seen large prints come out of my Epson P800 from an XE-3 + 23/1.4 and my Q2 and the noise reduction artifacts inherent to the X-trans filter are noticeable on paper. If all you're doing is posting to IG or Flickr, Fuji is amazing for the money.
At the moment the main difference is just price. However if I find that people are interested in Atlas as it is, I plan on adding other features and plans.
> leaving stuff unfinished

Depends on what you define as "the dirty work". Actually making it run is something the developer should be responsible for. Shepherding JIRA tickets through the different workflows, keeping builds straight, deploying to various environments and coordinating testing are also things that developers shouldn't (but are too often expected to) be wasting time with. There's a reason why lawyers hire paralegals to do things that don't require a law degree.
> "Poor taste"? Seriously?

Yes, seriously. No need to get defensive.

> I didn't say this is slavery, did I?

No, you're just pointing out that some slaves across history have been paid better than some modern workers. This is of course factually true, but also factually irrelevant.

On an emotional level however, it sounds like "Apple pays its workers less than slaves". Saying it plainly like that would be too obviously disingenuous, so you're going for the "I'll just leave these numbers here!" kind of middleground. Again, that's not wrong, that's just in poor taste (for me).

> I don't know what your standard for "a bad paycheck" is, but I suppose, given how you were fine with this being equal to actual slaves' wages, I shouldn't be surprised that less than half the average salary for a person who build products for the world's richest company isn't bad enough for you.

I don't actually know what these engineers were expected to earn in their respective market, but considering that they voluntarily entered into these contracts assuming to actually get paid that much, it must've been the best offer they have received. Consider that gatekeeping can keep earned wages high while simultaneously leaving a lot of otherwise qualified workers out of a job entirely.

If that salary is lower than whatever certain slaves may have earned at some point in history, that may be unfortunate, but again, factually irrelevant.
Not entirely, if you don't owe AMT in subsequent tax years then you get the money back as a tax credit.

https://www.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/t055-c000-s001-the-a...
My suspicion is that Private Equity has been funneled in healthcare for two decades intentionally distorting the market behaviors for increased profitability which is why the US has such excessive healthcare costs without any apparent justification.

I do not believe that is the primary driver of costs, but it definitely does not help.

For those who don't know what we're talking about, private equity looks for companies with stable revenue streams such that if you find days to make lots of cuts, the revenue stream will continue for a long time. They then strike an agreement with the current owner to buy the company by having the company take a large loan (actually issue bonds, but it comes to the same thing) to pay off the current owners. That's called a "leveraged buyout" (in finance debt is often called leverage).

They then make those cuts and use the difference between revenue and costs to pay off the debt. They then try to juice up the corpse in various ways to find someone to sell the company to before the long-term impact of the cuts becomes obvious.

This happens in any industry with stable revenue streams. And healthcare has exactly that characteristic.

See https://ourfuture.org/20120913/sick-money-how-mitt-romneys-b... for an article on this exact phenomena.
Wouldn't that be even more pressure on the pricing system, though?

If statistics about refused services were kept, we could see where the various providers are pricing in-demand services out of reach of those who need them. Or conversely, what services were advised above and beyond actual need.

We could see pressure on providers to bring costs in line with the benefits of each code/procedure, and the ripple effects could help reduce the premium->insurer->provider cost overages for everyone.

Mind you, I still believe single payer will be the eventual end game, but this could be a solid step in the right direction.
Ohm's Law says 5.2V @ 770A is only 4.004kW. With one of these on each of the three phases, that's a total of 12,012kW.

So where did the rest of the power go, into cooling? Perhaps it was a linear power supply instead of a switcher? That would make for lots of inefficiency.
> The thing about self hosting too is that you then own your identity.

You can do this without self-hosting, though. As long as you control the domain and MX records, you can just switch providers when you need to.

A lot of people are now doing the "your domain + Fastmail" approach, for example (or at least they were before Australia's government went completely insane).
So weird to draw attention to the bundle size rather than the fact that it involves server-side rendering. The first would never imply the latter and is not really a big deal to begin with. Also it is technically not even true because you obviously still transfer data to the front-end.

The server-side rendering aspect is pretty cool though.
I can't imagine why I am so unmoved by this tale of woe of the horrible government intervention.
Does openlibrary.org support Z39.50 access?

The way the openlibrary.org site is constructed seems better than the others that came before, e.g., WorldCat. Every page is not just HTML but JSON, too. Omit the slug and add .json after the ID.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25498127

This is without even considering the availability of bulk data dumps. A+
Oh, thanks for the explanation. That makes things very clear.

I'm not sure when I'll get time to play with GameLisp, but it looks absolutely brilliant. I'll keep an eye on it; maybe some interesting open-source project will turn up that I can hack on.
I'd love to hear what you think about https://dagshub.com/. We're building it with community collaboration in mind. It doesn't cover all the bases you mention, but we do:
* data and model storage
* experiment tracking
* pipeline management
* access control
* data, model, code, pipeline versioning

We're also strictly based on Git and other Open Source formats and tools so connecting with other tools you use like Colab for IDEs or Jenkins/Kubeflow for training is super straightforward (we have examples for some)
The bit about Conway's Law

>Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

is mind blowing. How did I not notice this the whole time?

Awesome article. <3
The question I'm most curious about: Does the vaccine(s) we've hustled to get developed, produced, and distributed over the last few months basically get invalidated because of the new strain?
A 600mm F/4 lens gathers a lot of light per-unit sensor-area, and there are many reasons why professional nature photographers have historically needed such a large lens

(1) Older digital sensors weren't good at all with high-iso (high read-noise, low photon-electron conversion efficiency, etc)

(2) An off-sensor DSLR AutoFocus array has a very small effective-aperture, making the lens aperture very important in low-light situations for autofocus (which a lot of nature photography is)

(3) Bokeh - Ofcource nothing beats large aperture bokeh, but this can be tackled perhaps through computation?

For (1) and (2) Modern imaging sensors perform beautifully in high-iso scenarios. Also, with mirrorless, there are cameras that can AF down to F/22 - something unimaginable (and impossible) with DSLRs.

While the demand for 600mm F/4 is there from a professional standpoint, there is an even larger demand for cheaper options - and.. this point is important, you can produce award-worthy images using those cheaper potions. In fact if you look at any nature competition a lot of the awards go to images made with cheap/budget gear.
Swing O Chucky – A Trebuchet
AWS Trainium – High performance machine learning training chip
Very cool, though I find there's a lack of discoverability as to what I can do with it, and no help is provided if there's an error.

pi() => 3.14...
sin(3.14 rad) => 0.00..
sin(pi() rad) => err

No idea why there's that error.
I mean Clojure is still running on JVM so there will be at least that difference. AFAIK Clojure is slower than Java so there's that also.
Is your eyesight really that good?

I've worked on a 13" screen all day long and have terrible eyesight and usually eye discomfort is that last thing I feel.
Musical Wires: Spotify and the future of energy
Yes, and if you read outside of the title (which is in title case), it's Apple silicon everywhere else. If it was a trade name, it would have been "Apple Silicon" instead.
AWS Inferentia – High performance machine learning inference chip
I've also been self hosting since the last century, and as you point out, the big issue these days is making your email server play with all the other email services, including those that aren't always playing nicely.

Not to mention that not all hosters are too keen on having people run mail servers due to the danger of hosting spammers and getting blacklisted. With the last two or three hosters, I had to jump through a couple of hoops every time and get permission to run one.

I still think it's worth it, especially if you own a bunch of domains, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to someone starting from scratch these days.
>The optimal spot is somewhere in the middle, where the student has an escape valve - but one that is only feasible to take if you have no significant assets by the time you're 30 or 35.

The optimal spot is to not let 18 to 21 year olds borrow six figure sums without understanding the ramifications of it. There is no need for these loans to exist. The cost of higher education is high because the loans exist. The loans exist because exemptions to bankruptcy law were created specifically for those loans.
Most of these systems works like an extra payroll tax: it is a tax on salary as percentage, as opposed to a car or house insurance that is linked to the value of the risks insured, not the income of the payer. This is why some people are opposing to that system, the tax vs insurance debate.
That might now be Oracle Linux. https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/
If you are feeling overwhelmed with yet another machine learning pipeline automation framework, you should check out Kedro (https://github.com/quantumblacklabs/kedro).

Kedro has the simplest, leanest, functional-programming inspired pipeline definition and also spits out AirFlow and other formats readily + comes in with an integrated visualisation framework which is stunning & effective.
I think the argument is that you can put exactly as much dark matter anywhere you want to explain whatever you want. Sure it has to be "a particle that feels gravity but not electromagnetism", but that just means it's invisible and the only effect it has is the exact effect you want.

So it's basically being able to add whatever number you want to one side of an equation to get it to balance out.
i like how in the end the system was replaced by a database solution

every language need easy access to a query-ble database
many problems are a lot simple when solved declaratively
as a query-ble database

the relational model, is functional, and is a very good solution to a wide range of problems

i think the Sqlite engine should be integrated in the standard library of every language, and either use sql, or the language can provide a native sql alternative in the original language itself, or we can create a new standard language (because yes, sql can be improved upon)

I think Chris Date D language can be a place to start to investigate SQL alternative , or as a language that can be more easily emulated in other languages
>RHEL's only real value is the looong support cycle.

They also have in-house expertise for most critical Linux subsystems, which could in theory be useful if you are a paying customer.
Ok, there could be multiple problems.

One problem with health care in the U.S. is that prices are hidden from the customers. That interferes with a free market. Tax regulations incentivized tying health care to employment and Obamacare making it difficult to get catastrophic care both interfere with a free market, etc.

Another set of problems, as you describe, is the ability for private equity funds to collude and impeded free markets. Especially lobbyists getting laws passed in their favor, medical associations limiting the supply of doctors, doctors incentivized to prescribe opioids, etc.

The original post in this thread referred to our current health care system as a free market, and that is not accurate. That's probably just as wrong as saying that we currently have socialized medicine, and its not working.

I would say that our current health care system is a not a free market and is not socialized, it is broken mix of the two.

It won't be reformed any time soon because millions of insurance industry jobs would need to be eliminated to save any money. Good luck with that.
Show HN: Yet another seam carver implementation
I see this complaint about poor recommendations very often.

But the recommendations seem to work perfectly for me - I wonder whether that is the case for the silent majority?

The match % is usually spot on for me, and I've never seen it recommend any titles I've given a thumbs-down to.
Yeah, as if the Osborne effect was not bad enough (people skipping on existing products when announcing new) - he basically went out and said "all of our products are worthless and we dont have anything new to replace it anytime soon". I mean, even if when it is true, you just don't say anything like that - ever.
There are multiple separate weird gravitational observations besides galexy rotation such as galaxy clusters structure formations etc and while dark matter explains them all MOND does not
I imagine this will lead to many more nodejs servers.. and in turn many more CPU/s spent per user than mostly static cachable resources.

Will it have a big impact on aws usage?
And this still happens in Texas where it is suppose to be illegal as well. I called provider multiple times and explained the rate from my insurer. They of course sent to collections, but they know they can't enforce it in court, but that doesn't matter. Most people are just going to pay.

What really got to me was it was ER visit and the Doc(extortionist) spent maybe 5 minutes with me before having the nurse fix me up. After insurance $250 to hospital, and $2000 bill for the Doc.
AI Algorithms Are Slimming Down to Fit in Your Fridge
Facebook is a hammer. Multiple small hammers are less effective than one big hammer.
Hi everyone,

I've been working on this project for the last few months. I'm glad you find it interesting!

I won't reiterate what my advisor has already said, but like mentioned in the README of the linked repository, if you just want to try it, you can clone the emulator here, which includes a RISC-V image: https://github.com/solbjorg/oberon-riscv-emu

The port should also be quite easy to hack on, if you so wish. :) I'm happy to answer any questions as well.
May I suggest https://www.cotse.net/ ? They don't do this kind of stuff. I'm a long-time user/fan of them.
> Go low level.

Pick up a retrocomputer and try to do something useful with it, there's a lot of unwarranted excitement to have and it's fairly cheap.
The next battle in the culture wars? Traffic bollards
Love Soulver and Calca looks great too, thanks for pointing that out! Personally I would love a tool like one of those but with built in unit handling/dimensional analysis capabilities equal or better to the Google search bar...
You asked a very good question...but there is a terrible trend where criticism of the crimes of Israel results in obfuscation and claims of unwarranted persecution, instead of focusing on the actual topic.

Pure deflection to cover up what should be objectively viewed as criminal activity in my opinion.
I had a quick look and that seems very convoluted. How do you decide which jsx goes to server and which to the client? Do you need to maintain jsx in both files? How to avoid duplication of code?
Agree that this is an issue
If they are, I can't imagine how they'd get an edge in a literal arms race against organizations with combined budgets of more than $1 trillion.

I don't see any reason China won't soon become a dystopian society with a combination of facial recognition and autonomous drones enforcing the will of the CCP.

The only way to protect yourself from that kind of situation is to try to prevent small groups from accumulating too much power (whether they're government officials, corporations, or even lobbyist groups).
That's a pretty fine line. Butcher isn't the protagonist anyway, which is good because he's the weakest aspect of the story. He hurtles from one situation to another, bringing no resources of his own other than a generalized ill humor. Some CIA bureaucrat bails him out today, a long-lost aunt cheerfully abides the total destruction of her neighborhood tomorrow, a rando schlub turns into the James Bond/MacGuyver hybrid he needs next week. Plot armor is not meant for deuteragonists; Butcher should definitely have been killed off sometime in second season.
Personally using https://soverin.net/ atm.

No idea if it's better than any of the other alternatives. I also still have my Gmail account, as it would take way too much effort to change emails on all the websites I use.
Try out https://www.haiku-os.org it's the spiritual successor and binary compatible.
At this moment in time, $200k total comp at a Bay Area FAANG is roughly... an engineer 1-2 year out of university.

Given that so many of the hot startups are in the Bay, I'd say only fresh college grads are looking at remotely similar comp between the two. Everyone else is playing the options lottery.
Same as code refactoring, needing it is a very subjective matter even is similar circumstances.
That makes perfect sense, assuming your annual deductible was met after you paid your $500 copay. Deductible means you pay for the first $x in a year. After that, your insurer starts paying some portion (your portion is called copay). Then you hit your out of pocket maximum (for in network services), after which insurer pays 100%.
Tokyo doesn't really radiate from a single center anyway. It's really an agglomeration of centers of activity. This is also true of NYC to some degree (but in a different way). "Downtown," i.e. Wall Street, isn't the cultural and social center.
Show HN: I implemented async/await in JavaScript using only generators
Thanks for noticing it!

Unfortunately it seems units cannot be applied to function results. It must be fixed, I noted down, thanks!