skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sigma tend to do what Canon do; provide a range of similar lenses but with varying features. As an example, I have the 150-600mm Sport lens, which is fantastic; it's weather-sealed, has great autofocus, and full image stabilisation, but it's still ~£1300, which is a lot of money. It also weighs quite a lot. However the image quality is exceptional and by no means worse than anything else on the market in that range; it punches at the same level as the Canon 100-400mm IS II, which is about £800 more.

So they also do a 150-600mm Contemporary model, which has 90% of the performance. It doesn't have full weather-sealing, and it has a different element arrangement which slightly changes the picture quality, but it also drops a huge chunk off the weight and about £400 off the price. It's not quite as solidly built but for a lot of people it's more than enough and provides a good alternative.

In my personal experience Sigma lenses tend to be heavier than Canon for equivalent build quality. ~10 years ago I'd say the picture quality was slightly poorer, but now they compete very well in a variety of ranges.
How would this work, and how would it help?
> Nope, students could enter debt before (and still can outside of) federally subsidized student loans.

Source? I’m not aware of any non government lender that would or has underwritten an 18 year old with no collateral and no co-signer. At least not at any single digit interest rate, and definitely not for tens of thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Do they have an equivalent to Google's auto filtering into primary/updates/promotions/forums?
I'll add my 2 cents here and say I also love Fastmail. Everytime I contact support with a question or suggestions they respond in a day or two and with a real, live person. I've never had an outage that I've personnally noticed in 4 years, not that there haven't been any but I haven't noticed them at least. I also host my DNS with them so i can get email on all my domains and it works well, no automation API but the web UI is easy enough i don't need that for my tiny sites.
Does you filter allow to filter that stuff out, tested and all? What is this filter made of - food grade steel, aluminum, or have some plastic parts/tubing too?
The article doesn't explains what EFE is well.
The ELI5 of MOND is that acceleration due to gravity works in a non-linear the result is that the actual force may be weaker or stronger than what you would expect with Newtonian mechanics.

Because of this there are a few scenarios that may validate MOND or at least post Newtonian/GR physics where G is no longer a constant but needs to be modified based on specific predictions of MOND.
It always amazes that some people have the balls to live like this and stand for something, whereas many of us here lead comparatively chickenshit lives centered around MRR, pageviews or "lessons learned" posts for some superfluous software service.

Navalny isn't alone in this; I get the same reaction when I hear about teenagers lying about their age to go to war, or activists spending decades in prison and continuing to fight as soon as they leave, or even Hannibal crossing the Alps. Independently of whether the overarching cause is rational or beneficial or not, these acts of living are almost completely alien to the sensibilities of a modern day worker in an industrialized attention economy.
It's easy to get to a shallow similarity with Python. I use elpy for Python development in emacs.

My development style is highly iterative and I tend toward functional paradigms. I build up a Python program by evaluating lots of small pieces, slowly building those into the structure of my program. I don't write code into a saved file without first evaluating it in a linked REPL session.

Python does not support the same style of connecting to a live process, like Lisp does. Nor does it have the same facilities of redefining components in a running system.

The surface level actions look similar between my Lisp development and my Python development.
US bans time-honoured typeface (2004)
Or would it be shifted to be more blue??
The lit-key is used on ways and indicates the lighting of it:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lit

The highway=street_lamp tag indicates that there is a lamppost (which can be a navigational aid), but is a much more detailed form of mapping that should be used in addition to the lit-key on the ways themselves.
Wow. I am so scared to talk to a bank or credit card company over the phone ever again.
> The amount of pro-Putin commenters

Exercising my self judgement doesn't make me pro Putin, nor does it make me a conspiracy theorist when I wonder why the flu killed more people in France in one month (jan 2017) than COVID in 10 months.

I have a brain, I use it. Maybe sometimes I come to the wrong conclusion but at least I don't just regurgitate what the media feeds me.

So in this case I find strange that the super Russian spies never manage to kill anyone even when they use military grade chemical agents that are supposed to kill full cities (remember the Skripal case, this one was fishy as hell too).
I can tell you haven’t worked in many startups. The work quality is poor - you are basically firefighting all the time. You’re certainly not building new systems or learning how to scale, etc.

If you work at a startup the trick is you have to take the 5% of your work that’s interesting and try to make it seem like that was the 95%, when in reality the 95% is doing all the grunt work because the company cannot scale staffing to distribute that work evenly or according to specialization.
while i acknolwdge your point about paying everyone the same, no matter how hard they work, this is not the issue here. senior people get paid more than juniors, and those working hard make it to senior faster.

the problem is that women get paid less even if they work as hard or harder than men.

the only way to discover this is to compare salaries.
While he was in the bathroom? That's too risky. You don't stay 24/7 in your hotel room, do you? And when travelling for a few days, you must have spare underpants in your suitcase in your room, right?

Product idea: secure suitcase with a camera that shows people who've tried to open/tamper with it while you were not there.

It'd be interesting if the hotel staff can be questioned about government agents demanding access, but maybe the staff/eyewitness has since been "neutralized". Or if the agents were sophisticated, they'd have used widely available exploits to clone hotel keycards. Or just pick the lock. The guy on the phone even said they only go in when they know it's secure, i.e. after the cameras have been switched off.
That's 1/10th of the military budget for drugs that can be often be manufactured for pennies (drugs with biological elements requiring glass column filtration and such are a different story but are far more rarely used).

A point in case is the Hep C vaccine: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323767#drug-types-...
"People love their insurance!" Is a dead giveaway that a politician is a sock puppet. Biden kept saying it during the primaries.
> I have no choice but to agree.

Another option is to refuse and leave wealth to your descendants.

Even with an example this extreme I don't see what's unfair here. Why is the onus of provided high wage jobs in India is on Apple? Why would it be preferable to regulate it and potentially drive Apple to another country, leaving those workers without any jobs at all?
I believe all of this, but sorry, it wasn't called the web until HTTP and the first web browser arrived.
Things have changed since 2004. Back then there was software engineer R&D teams, research engineers, and the like, that were ideal to push "rockstar devs" towards, due to their nature of liking to solve difficult problems above all else.

Today we have data scientist and research scientist roles. While some data scientists are glorified data analysts, most of them do exclusive R&D work.

This has since created a divide between two types of "rockstar engineers". One type falls to the left side of the Dunning Kruger Effect. They can't understand why everyone else is so stupid. They have a large ego, and they think they're better than everyone else. Then there is the other group, one who specializes in difficult tasks that require a deep domain knowledge. Because of this prerequisite so it can be hard to share work with others, unless they also specialize in that domain.

While at first blush the two groups look similar, they're quite different. One advertises themselves as super, has a huge ego, but really they've just taken on too easy challenges. Then there is the other group, who secretly is quite anxious about their own abilities, because of the massive technical challenges they face and have seen. They learn healthy communication and team skills, because what they are doing is so complex they have no other choice. They may at first not appear like a team player, but it has more to do with the nature of their work.

This is why it is encouraged that management push the rockstar types into more and more challenging R&D type technical roles, which has the nice side effect of shrinking a large ego. Today this means encouraging them move to research roles or data science type roles. No longer are they top dog when this happens. All of a sudden there is a world of challenge beyond what they can comprehend. It's like taking a straight A high school student and dropping them into a good university. Suddenly they're challenged to do more and go beyond what they knew was possible. And best of all, it gets them out of dev circles where team work is a stronger prerequisite. However, this assumes they're actually a rock star driven to be the best at something, not just the first group with a frail supersized ego.
Archived link: https://archive.is/upLCg
It sounds like this conversation needs a usage breakdown to see where most bills come from from a total price experienced perspective.

It seems like most people's greatest fear around hospitals is a surprise ER visit that blows through their savings.
>none of us had to sacrifice competitive salaries for stock options.

Does this map to reality? Are you saying that if you were at Google making 250K in TC the Startups were paying you 250K Base salary + stock options? That seems ludicrous.
Hey Cellebrite it's not just drug dealers and criminals that use Signal. Assholes. And you didn't break shit.
I will also say that fastmail is super cheap if you buy 3 years at once. Like $3 a month
You’re sticking up for the person who wants to pay someone $27/day to be their personal servant? Just to be clear, that’s what they are advocating for.

I don’t think telling them they moved to the wrong country is out of line, move to SEA if you want live-in help for a pittance.
Back when I used Netflix primarily for DVDs, the recommender system worked pretty well for me.

Much later, when they switched to simple thumbs up/down, the recommender system was entirely useless to me. (Not merely because of the dumbed-down rating system; the recommendations were genuinely bad.)

For the time in between, I'm not sure if the degradation was gradual, sporadic, or not degraded at all.
Their recommender system likely has multiple inputs that are under specific constraints and weightings. How well their recommendation algorithms work will probably never be known by the general public as we are force-fed a steady diet of whitelisted staff picks and promotional items.
Link changed from the blogspammy https://futurism.com/the-byte/faulty-planes-reportedly-poiso..., thanks.
“Most economists” are not quite so overtly political about it like this. There are of course many factors; globalization and trade is a big one affecting both labor and labor union power: competition from overseas, direct or indirect, easily eclipses competition from immigrants. The thing is that trade also has massive benefits to real wages, and has boosted national output substantially. Nuanced discussions will try to examine this tradeoff.
I've been on Fastmail for several years since migrating off of Gmail. There are some UX papercuts in their web/mobile apps, but they're more than sufficient for day-to-day use. That's the big draw for me; I'm not happy with any of the desktop IMAP clients, so <whoever>+Thunderbird is off the table for me. Fastmail does a good enough job of offering what I liked from Gmail that I'm happy to use them.
I don’t doubt that happens but the flip side is that in my area the food trucks and mom and pop locations have been getting a big boost from people in the neighboring gentrified neighborhood giving them shout outs or sharing job opportunities. My neighbor has started selling her mother’s tamales starting on next door and now has enough business to stop working in an Amazon warehouse.

My area is probably not representative of most Nextdoor communities however
> What happened to Congressional insider trading earlier this year?

Burr is under investigation by FBI: https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article247137814.html

Loeffler was cleared by Senate ethics committee and isn't being investigated by FBI:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-se...

But is currently running in the GA run off so it's getting discussed, political impact unclear.
It is not about ads, it is about tracking across apps.
ah, and the real world meet language flame war.

both of these codes are awful imo. but real world code always is, so that's not a valid critic.

usually when code pass over errors they are just ignoring design holes and offloading the work to fix the design to the end user, but that's also how real world programs are architected every day.

in the end: great, and bave article, to show how the languages du jour elegant syntax sugars added with formalism and other academic dreams in mind will be bent over backwards to just-get-shit-done in a needlessly complex method that tries to do everything with whatever data structure the underlying library (excell in this case) decided to presented the data instead of the better one for the method logic.
Redis Labs seems an odd inclusion: they specifically have a non-oss version that’s got significant features not available in the oss version.

It seems hard to believe their success could be attributed to “a hosted cloud service” given that the core product didn’t even support TLS or SSL natively until this past year.
What's the deal with openportstats.com?
We are currently discussing a number of ideas for a followup project in addition to creating an FPGA version...

I'm currently digging through the 1992/2005 edition of the Project Oberon book (for the National Semiconductor 32k-based Ceres workstations from ETHZ - https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon1992.pdf). The Ceres Oberon version had a number of additional features, e.g. it could use the MMU for memory protection, which the RISC5 version doesn't support.
The same way you don't get super gouged when choosing a restaurant while hangry - non-urgent shoppers keep prices down across the board, even for urgent participants.

I'm not saying this makes for some total solution - just reacting to rejection of the market dynamic having any worth. It's foolish to cast aside entire paradigms of approaches because they don't fully solve every corner case. (The dual would be to ask how single payer healthcare solves purely elective procedures like cosmetic surgery. It doesn't.)

Obviously any market dynamic for urgent care needs to recognize that no contract has been formed, and so hospitals can't unilaterally set charges under a fallacious idea of contract. For instance when your car gets towed under duress (accident on the highway, expired papers, etc), the state sets the rates they're allowed to charge. They're still inflated, but at least within a factor of 2-3x the usual market.

(FWIW I think single payer is a good pragmatic way forward)
>>Unless you were born in the 60s or earlier...

Just noticed on my most recent birthday I've hit 50 years in computing. I tell my kids "texting is so easy now, in the olden days, we had to go to the data center and take turns messaging each other on the operator console..."

I'm teasing them a bit much because we would go there and message each other, but the neophytes would go to the terminal room and we few cognoscenti would go to the machine room, just down the hall.

However I'm a second generation programmer. My mom learned to program in the era that spanned plugboard machines and mainframe timesharing. Prior to that women who worked in the industry were known as "computers"
Another vote for Fastmail here. They do IMAP right, so you can use just about any third party client without gaps in functionality or odd quirks (unlike gmail), and their webmail is light and snappy. They're also behind JMAP[1], which I think has a fair shot at eventually replacing IMAP.

[1] https://jmap.io/
Orange revolution happened 14 years earlier [1].
One of candidates in presidential campaign was pro-Russian, and other -- wasn't. There was an attempt to poison to death the later one [2] with a toxin that's part for Agent Orange, there is some irony in that, because Yuhscheko's party had orange colors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko#TCDD_poisoni...
It is currently using openstreetmap data to determine if a street is lit or not. There is no user feedback declaring a place "sketchy".
You are probably right. I'm familiar with how Lightning network works in bitcoin, but not super familiar with L2 in ethereum. Do you have some pointers that I can read? I'm also interested in how it'll evolve with ETH 2.
But the * suffix marks functions which might stagger their execution over multiple frames. If a function calls fire-arc* , then that function should also have the * suffix; otherwise, the suffix would be meaningless.

You're asking for the ability to refactor a synchronous function into an asynchronous function without needing to review the function's callsites. By definition, this would come with a high price: when writing a step handler, you'd need to assume that any function call could be refactored so that it doesn't return until several frames in the future. Even for a Lisp, that seems chaotic!
> mostly mention this because I don't like that fact that popular science magazines (or at least their content that I see posted here!) has a bias towards "new and possibly exciting" or "controversial" research. Which I understand - revolution is more interesting that "physicist reduces error bars by 50%. Big picture unchanged". But, if all you read is these articles, you will get a very skewed idea of what the consensus is.

I stopped reading popsci mags for this reason. But I do feel like I'm missing out too. Do you know of any good mags that mostly talk about mainstream stuff, but targeted towards "I studied some of that in college but I don't work in the field"?
Honestly, that will probably end up being what happens. Once node shrinks are exhausted we'll see efforts poured into improving yield and using better materials. It will be less about getting smaller and more about refining everything.

Once the node shrinking stops, that's when you are likely to see R&D funds go away from manufacturing processing and towards chip and architecture design. Because that's the only place you'll see improvements is a more well designed chip.
Incredible. The man manages to remain composed while his assassin describes how his murder was planned.
If it weren’t for all the ubiquitous articles talking about bait and switch startup jobs, poor startup compensation, cheating founders, controlling VCs, slave driver mentality, rip off stock options, and the poor survivability of companies, you might have a point.
The CNN article seems to be claiming a lot of credit, calling it a CNN-Bellingcat investigation. The first Navalny video gives me the impression Bellingcat just gave the finished work to "actual journalism outlets" (although IMO, CNN barely passes for one) to check that their work is solid and was not made up.
Not if you compare like for like in say London FANG's pay very well even at the base salary.
There is a 1998 Will Smith movie, "Enemy of the State", which I love - it's somewhere between good and "so bad it's good".

It always seemed incredibly fanciful and far-fetched - and then Snowden and Trump happened. It turns out the movie was just slightly ahead of its time.
I have a Sigma 150-600mm Sport, which is a hell of a lens, both in quality/features and uh...weight :D

It's totally hand-holdable, but reviews online make me wonder if everyone else has pipe cleaners for arms; it took a couple of weeks to get used to it but I don't have any trouble now. The image quality is fantastic and extremely competitive. The image-stabilisation works superbly, and the autofocus is very good - much better than their older lenses.

I mostly photograph birds and I'm extremely happy with the quality. All the recent bird photos I've uploaded are taken with it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/robotmay/50528664881/in/datepo...
Injection molding can't work with many geometries; for example, complex enough boat has a lot of places where the material has to go along a non-convex paths. 3D printers can print anything, say DMLS, including closed volumes (how to remove material from those volumes is another question). Having many heads the process can be sped up - but with DMLS it's mostly moving mirrors which needs to be parallelized, as laser beams have little inertia.

Comparing with injection molding it seems IM is a good shortcut for many - not all - cases, while 3D printing is a fundamentally generic technology.
I had the same epiphany; the hard-won "best practices" I had discovered in Ruby/Rails ended up looking a lot like second-rate functional programming.

Having spent the last year with Elixir in production, I don't plan to go back. Things like Ecto, ExUnit, error handling using "with", Phoenix Presence, domain modeling using Phoenix Contexts, Absinthe for GraphQL have made programming a joy.
That is not how any of it works.

The factors of production are land, labor and capital. To produce any good or any service, anything of actual value you need them all, and by providing one you are entitled to a share of the profits proportional to whatever it is you put in. Shareholders provide the capital, workers provide the work, landlords provide the place. Workers get wages, shareholders get dividends, landlords get rents.

ALL OF THEM ARE RESPONSABLE FOR THE OUTPUT, you cannot build anything with workers alone.

just because someone doesn’t screw screws doesn’t mean they did nothing to earn the rewards.
They have quite a pull in influencing governments, and if IMF will say "you need to implement social credit system if you want our help", there is not a lot of governments that will say no. Especially in "problematic" countries.
Wi-Fi+IR remote with REST HTTP API is it worth?
What do you think about it.
Is it worth to pledge?
It's seems that the authors of the paper all come from the LCDM/Dark Matter observational testing community, this isn't a paper by MOND theorists.
They were quite likely looking for evidence of dark matter with the ESO survey and found something else.

Right or wrong, this is the definition of good science.
Hey.com - blocks trackers, good modern web apps and mobile apps. Brought to you by the team behind Basecamp. I’ve used it since early access was available and have completely switched over.
I looked at Fastmail and many others when I made this switch at the end of 2018. I moved my whole family's email setup from google. Fastmail is based in Australia, which is a five-eyes country so I ruled it out (sadly, as would have loved to use it). I wrote all of this up here: https://www.gtf.io/musings/moving-away-from-google-email/

Spoiler: ended up using Runbox (www.runbox.com). I disagree with them on this but I think the webmail UI is pretty crap. I don't use it though, and instead use neomutt (on Linux) and Apple Mail (on iOS). I've found it to be pretty reliable and the support is very responsive.
Hey.com for personal + work email and ProtonMail for secure personal mail.