skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a $200 consumer unit, an upgrade from a $30 unit and it is so much better as to be almost uncomparable. We went from eating rice maybe twice a year to eating it twice a week, just plain old bulk calrose rice and our Zojirushi.
I once (accidentally) took down Netcom with a fork bomb. Not just one node, but all of them.

When I tried to login again after they rebooted everything, I found that my account had been banned. I got a NOC admin on the phone and apologized for my mistake, but also asked him why they did not enforce a maximum number of processes per user (via ulimit). Apparently they had never thought of doing that. He thanked me and my account was restored immediately.
I have an x-t30 and my phone can't even compare. It's an entry level Samsung and those have really bad and slow cameras, esp in low light. A flagship might be a different story. Tbh, I wasn't that impressed with the fuji camera with the included 15-45 kit lens, which is rather mediocre. But after getting the 35mm f2 I can really appreciate the difference in the quality of photos. The other part is doing a course on photography and learning the manual settings. Without that, there is really no reason to use anything but a smartphone.
Bah. The F3 was their last great camera. After that it's been nothing but pointless 'hi tech' bells and whistles /s
Rails is not vanilla Ruby. And web apps are not the only software that needs to be written.

I moved on from Ruby land right as AWS was blowing up, and admitted I have never worked in Rails.
Why do you think there would be no ads? There's just no way that 100% of FB users would be willing to pay for it like you are. As an example, Hulu membership costs money AND you still have ads. Newspapers cost money AND have ads (the ads subsidized the cost but didn't make it free).
If anyone is interested in this topic, here's a comparison between the different modes/constructions of AES and other popular ciphers: https://soatok.blog/2020/07/12/comparison-of-symmetric-encry...
The problem is that Apple would have to establish its own private Ministry of Labour to meet this level of accountability, telling everyone exactly what their labor standards need to be and deputizing investigators to go poke around in response to any accusations. I don't think Apple should have that level of power over other companies, especially if we don't think they have a strong ethical commitment to the cause of workers' rights!
Yes, it's common practice to perform due diligence and regular audits on your manufacturing chains, especially ones that yearly get news articles about how many of your workers commit suicide.
OSS is an important part of hardware ownership. If I cannot control the software running on my device do I really own the device? If I do not fully control the hardware and software of my devices my ability to participate in the Information Age is limited.

OSS is an important aspect of being a free citizen in the Information Age.
Great work.

Is there a Terminal UI for this? Many users love to have simple programs in the Terminal itself.
Even if the Russians wanted to poison that piece of shit. They could rid of him wiser in Russia without any trace. Navalny is Russian his fammily Russians and his friends are Russians and even buisiness ir Russian. So after poisoning him. Russians delivers him from a door in Russia to a door in Germany.
The main question: what is wrong with him? He is willing to harm people? Russian citizens to receive sanctions? Rather he is secret agent send by KGB had already deceived everyone, and EU officials went to him in Germany. Where talking about what they thought they would do to Russia or what they can. The Russians now know who is who and what they think. It can be a diversion.
Though the online classes can be scaled fairly easily, administrators seem to follow a different rate. The growth rate of college students is slower than of administrators. Their pay is also up there so the total payout is also growing fast.
Oh wow. This reminds me of a game my friends and I created in college: System32 Roulette.

It was a drinking game where we would set up a Windows 98 machine and take turns randomly deleting a file found in the system32 folder, then rebooting.

If the computer fails to boot sufficiently to allow the game to continue, you lose and finish your drink (and have to reinstall windows).

It was pretty fun because windows was quite good and whining and complaining about countless problems but still being functional.
It wouldn't be a good look for a very popular GNU package to not adopt the hot new license they'd been working on for years.
I imagine so.

At the risk of angering Leica fans: they’re shipping not exactly state of the art technology at very high prices, with a lot of the R&D actually being done by Panasonic. (Or, in the case of their Lux compact cameras, they’re literally shipping Panasonic cameras with a different sticker on them.)

Look at the Leica Q2: it costs $5000. The Fuji X100V costs $1300. I know there’s a bigger sensor in the Q2, but, c’mon, there’s not $2000 worth of magic hiding in there.
what example page is in spanish? i don't remember any page in spanish? transactions are handled by paypal (checkout button..... it's not sexy; but works...!) i can't use stripe because my leak of ssn....
demo store in: https://tinystore.online/sb977 (my own)
They have a bit more polished UI than Emacs has, which even in the GUI version is mostly a thin shell around a fundamentally character-based UI. Personally, I have stuck mostly to Slime and Emacs, as it works well and I prefer the native Emacs feel. Another advantage of the Emacs route is, that it works with most Lisp implementations, so I was able to use Slime with SBCL and Allegro, sometimes in the same Emacs session :)
Nikon sells much more than just cameras. I only know their excellent microscope product line (https://www.nikon.com/products/business/biomedical/), but it looks like they are also in the lithography business https://www.nikon.com/products/#ps-biz
Kodak had what, printers?
I really liked the idea, then I checked out the prices. Bye bye. I understand the scale is different. I think privacy is/will be another luxury reserved for rich people.
You know what's even more acceptable? Dismissing any criticism of Israel as "anti-semitism", absolving them of any wrongdoing whatsoever. This happens every time like clockwork when talking about the Israeli defense industry and the horrible things they do.
> users have to have an account to even see what you say

fwiw, I thought the same until recently but discovered they are visible with the following format:

https://parler.com/profile/[username]/posts
I think cameras are done. And not because of cellphones. I think Lytro did them in.

First a cop out to what I'm about to say. My arguments are specifically for geometric optics as used in photography. Also, my argument is in the limit that (non-optical) technology gets better. Also, while I took (and loved) many optics classes at university a lifetime ago, I ultimately did not become an optical engineer. I'm sure there are many nuances in my arguments bellow.

But largely they should be correct.

The Lytro camera is a camera that records the angle of incidence of light rays. If you have the angle of incidence of rays then the entire problem of (geometric) lens design is finished. Everything a lens can do can be done in software. Think of Lytro as software defined radio.

With a light field camera you can design the physical lens with a single objective: f-stop. Gather as much light as possible. You can adjust everything else in software. This is like SDR where (I guess) you optimize the antenna for bandwidth and noise.

By adjust I don't mean "adjust" as in apply AI or heuristic to make it appear as if you've achieved a goal. This is what your cellphone does. I actually change the lens. Since you have the ray's angle of incidence you can roll the rays back to before they reached the camera lens, and then put your own, software defined, lenses. This is probably not how you would implement the algorithm, but it illustrates the point.

Therefore you can change focal length, aperture, break physical limits (ridiculous index of refractions with no dispersion. infinitely thin lens).

Back to reality, what does it take to achieve all of this? Optically the Lytro all ready did all of this. It failed, but for the reasons that an Apple product would hit it out of the ballpark - implementation. With better software/computer power the product would be easier more convenient to use. With bigger, better sensors (to better capture the ray's angle) the camera would be able to emulate more lenses.

Therefore, 20th century type photography is dead. A modern photographer could just take a camera out, really take a shot without minding much about aiming it [1], completely ignore light and focus, and everything else could be done in software.

Frankly I think this will kill photography - but honestly, I think cell phones have killed most non-art, non-professional photography already. Amateurs are far worse (i.e. boring) photographers today then 30 years ago. That's a judgement call, sure, but that's what I enjoy.

[1] As long as the subject is captured, it won't really matter. You can pan in post processing. You can even adjust for perspective [2]! Just roll the rays outside the physical lens, and move your software lens to where you want it.

[2] Perspective - the size of elements of the scene wrt to each other - is strictly about where the camera is wrt to the subject. It has nothing to do with the lens. Lazy photographers make the mistake of "zooming" into the subject to get close - but the subject is as flat. In software, you can move the lens, and therefore even change perspective.
I think nobody would mind advertisers being able to target to "subscribers". What people don't want is the ability of advertisers to target "white male who works at ACME, lives in north Fairview and bought a car last week" (which might narrow it down to just you).

That said, I definitely believe that collecting subscription money would not stop them from trying to collect data about you, for advertising purposes. They'd view subscription as just a new revenue stream (yay!).
We need more articles like this. Just get to the point, no fluff.
Really happy to see this practice banned. Sadly it will not take effect for another year.

Unfortunately, this is only one of many significant issues with US healthcare.
Does that mean we might be nearing the end of camera bumps on phones?
That might work for Computer Science where grads can be employed quickly and at very solid wages but it won't meaningfully apply for most fields like business, chemistry or physics.
This is a common pattern for OSM. The tool to use the data helps locate areas where the data isn't complete (say you plan a route through an area you know and it doesn't make sense).
Interesting journalistic work by ... CNN!
We're probably decades away from Shor's algorithm. Right now we're mostly dealing in the realm of "Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum" machines (NISQ). The abstract of this paper gives a good summary of where we're at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00862

The "operating system" has little to do with accelerating that (outside of maybe cutting out some development cost + time), though in theory they can provide some algorithms and optimizations that minimize noise and decoherence.
ASU had a lock step 1yr MS in DIS and then Information Systems for a very reasonable price. Finish in late 90s basically to get in front of quality recruiters. For the opportunity it provided me and other fellow graduates it was an excellent deal. Our counterparts who were doing MS in Accounting were being paid half the money at graduation for a very similar degree.
that is after the so many restrictions and precautions with Corona. if not for these, the numbers would be way different.
we need to get away from this "only this; not that" approach.
It may be a rich attitude, but wasn't RHEL the distribution that shipped its kernel patches as single massive diff file for a while to spite Oracle?
May develop a bad case of defenestration. Kinda stunning how bad that guy's opsec was, but on the other hand Putin wants people to know he was behind the assassination, otherwise he wouldn't have used Novichok. So maybe those involved don't feel the need to be super cagey about it.
Someone above brought up a very good point that YouTube really only has to do content reviews on videos that get watched. It's cheaper for YouTube for everyone to watch the same 30 videos than it is to spread those out, because then they have to brand safety reviews on each video.

There's also going to be pushback from creators (and especially large creators) when they find out that YouTube is adding backpressure to their success. It's going to mean the algo helps you get some level of popular, and then it fights you getting really popular.

> For a good example, see this video by "How to Cook That" author that laments how all the content farms around baking have gamed YouTube's algorithm so that real bakers (who show recipes that actually work) have been pushed out by content farms showing eye candy on loops with impossible recipes

That author is misunderstanding the market. I know a lot of people who watch those; they have 0 intentions of actually cooking the things they see. To them it's closer to art than it is cooking, where they appreciate the end result and don't really care how the creator got there. I don't know why it doesn't seem obvious from the format. Those quick clips are an awful way to give cooking instructions, and they give none of the usual tips like "when you're done whipping, it should have the texture of...".

I think the style is inherited from Pinterest, where people constantly pin things they have no intention of actually doing. I had an ex that loved Pinterest, but her whole feed was pretty much just "Here's 1,000 things you don't have time to do unless you're a professional creator".
I should have also mentioned that they are very fiscally conservative. They barely carry any debt. A lot of their cost-cutting is proactive, as opposed to reactive.

That's a philosophy that I have followed, myself, and I find it is quite effective.
"I wrote a BB&B coupon scraper in Rust"
We do a lot of things that we couldn't before. A lot of it produced loud laughter 100 years before.

If I understand it properly the author suggests we should find the time to play with these things. Who knows what might happen? It will no doubt be interesting.

Our indevidual performance is certainly mind blowing in a play settings. I see "players" do what seems impossible to me every day.
Guide to Secure Infrastructure Access
Poetry vs. programming: Wandering the intersection of literature and code
Hard disagree. This is in fact how society advances. We do something and make mistakes. We learn from those mistakes and try again. Our current society is a system of rules and conventions built on thousands of years of humans trying things, making mistakes, learning and trying again. Just look how food safety laws have changed over the last 200 years or how labor laws have evolved. The same will happen with Internet companies like Facebook if we are diligent and work to make the system of society better (instead of the current fad of thinking we could ditch society altogether and not end up in disaster).
> Aren’t RSUs taxed at the time of grant? Therefore in a refresh grant, the employee would get hit with a large tax bill on the fair market price of the equity, even with an 83(b) election.

Usually, some portion of the vested RSUs are sold to cover the tax liability, and the rest go into your investment account. The tax rate is the same as regular income.
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I loved the old D70. It's still a useful camera for me for the electronic shutter which handily means you can sync the with flash at any speed.
Totally.

Another thing is that outside of scientific data applications, ordinary data processing apps at scale have been map-reduce for a long time. That's an inherently functional paradigm that's closer to Python.

Having parallelized heavily OO Ruby code across machines by unrolling it into functions that could be sent data payloads... that's not a fun thing to sell in an OO culture. In Python you're kind of already writing code that way, so increasing performance by splitting the data onto different machines is simple.
What is a letter? Literary correspondence in the age of instant communications
First Dose First
This outline link works if you prefer not to sign up for a free account to read the original article. https://outline.com/gkGUud
Electronic voting machines are a terrible idea and always have been. Not necessarily because they’re insecure but because of the perception of insecurity.

In 2004 people were screaming about Diebold, now Dominion. It’s all nonsense but the costs of electronic voting clearly exceed the benefits.
Very cool stuff! I think built-in excellent support for large files & large repos could be a huge driver of adoption vs git (which, of course, has poor support for those things).

(At work we use git, but split into many repos, which is a pain, and with git-lfs, which is also a (mild) pain.)
And here's the specific video where he speaks with the FSB agent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqiet6Bg38
I think this is common misunderstanding.

Imagine I had a free app, I was showing ads, when there was IDFA, Facebook audience network was pricing individuals, you had value $1 (for sake of argument lets say 10% chance to buy what is advertised) for some advertisement, I had maybe $0.01 (0.1% chance to buy).

Imagine I had 1000 users, 10 like you, 990 like me. Total value was $19.9 ( will net approx 2 sales )

Now we are a 1000 user pool with chance to buy (0.2%), and will be priced accordingly, will be like approx $0.02.

Actually nothing will be changed. Except, the middle man, facebook, will compete with other ad networks with commission, it means more revenue for developers. More privacy for consumers.

For advertisers, on bigger ones, there will be not much effect.

For smaller advertisers, there will be more work involved, but ad networks will manage that (from opt-in IDFA users). Ad networks eventually will discover you sources (apps you can advertise on positive ROI)

Eventually some small advertisers may have small disadvantage on this.
Got it. So you have literally zero examples besides your wild, baseless speculation.
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I still get that excitement from new technologies, sometomes even from discovering cool libs for my use cases. For me its just not weeks of researching anymore, making the whole excitement less memorable i guess
This kinda misses the point of the core. 3D printing transfers power inward vs outward. When this happens innovation explodes as the average individual has much more ability to produce on their own. Localized manufacturing is a subtle huge boom similar to computation.
What I got from this is how fast Crystal is :).
The articles defines its sense of commutation as "meaning that if the two changes could be written without knowledge of each other, they can be applied in any order"

But, this seems to require semantic level understanding of the code, which generally can't be done. For instance, say Alice adds a call to foo() while Bob changes foo to require some precondition that doesn't hold in Alice's case. That's going to appear to commute as these changes would touch completely separate files, but actually the resulting code won't work. In a normal git flow, this would be a case of whoever gets the commit in and passes CI first "wins", and the second commit fails CI and requires the issue to be fixed. This method seems to rely inherently on the fact that git commits are ordered. How would this work with a pijul-based flow?
There are better ways to socialize.
Then those schools will be disincentivized to charge people for degrees that won't pay for themselves, which is good

which will result in more people going into degrees where people can be employed quickly at solid wages, which is good

which will result in a scarcity of people going into the fields you mentioned, which will increase the wages in those fields which will incentivize people to go into them

this, like most things, is a supply and demand problem, and we have created too much supply in certain areas
The reason they don't is because they don't want to find out things like this. There's no reason a company as rich as apple _can't_ do such interviews...
I joined a Mac software startup in 1986. The two founders told me about going to the first Mac developers conference, they claimed it was them, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and a dozen or so other people from other companies.
Apple Car said to be released in third quarter of 2021
Navalny's poisoning was most likely a false flag operation by the CIA.

Russians would have no interests in doing it - as the opposition leader Navalny was neutralized years ago, when they seized all his money.

The only country that gained anything from this poisoning is US - they got nice pretext to introduce sanctions against Russia, especially Nord Stream.
> same meager living working in the commune

Thanks for the laugh.
If nothing gives you an excited feeling...

... it might be 2020? :(
> ...at startups as employees, you dont get to see the cap table, so the whole maze is invisible too!

I've never heard it adequately explained why employees should accept this state of affairs. Not only is the cap table invisible, but the fully-diluted cap table and terms of dilution and many other terms and conditions are also hidden from non-founders/investors at most startups I've read about. I've heard so many stories of shares getting diluted right out from under employees immediately before a liquidity event that it has become a trope. IMHO that's not investing into a startup; that's buying a lottery ticket.

What am I missing here about typical startup stock options where the same terms and conditions founders and investors see are not accessible to employees?
Which is nonsense, because the default behavior is not a permanent dock, it is a hidden dock that appears on mouseover. And it is tuned perfectly IMO, it never comes up by accident and always comes up when I intended to do so.

I agree with the rationale about not having a visible dock, the extra space and lack of distraction is great. But Dash to Dock doesn't harm that goal whatsoever IMO.
I didn't think this was true until I read Permanent Record, where Snowden talks about how the agencies could get stuff done through bribes or planted employees. Since knowing that, I've become a lot less certain.
That is what I meant.
thanks for the comment. what are some other manufacturing techniques you think warrant more attention and research?
>> what would be the most secure way to keep and use a mobile phone?

My opinion: there is no secure way.
My initial solution: build a home phone based on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ (with touch screen).

I already built this home phone for myself. It does only voice and SMS/MMS. It only works over Ethernet or Wi-Fi.It uses mains electricity. I wrote the software -it's Python3 and C.

I've been using this phone as my daily driver for the last year. It is very reliable.

I plan to start making it available in Jan 2021. Look for more posts here.
FTC Demands Social Media Firms' User Data, Harvesting Tactics
Conflict of Pinterest: Women-friendly on the outside, toxic on the inside
That’s true for sales jobs. I was under the impression he was asking about it for all key employees.
Is there really that many watchmakers on their deathbeds? Every couple of months I'll spend several hours wasting time looking for watch styles I like and I'm amazed at how many traditional watchmakers are still out there, some with 0 smartwatch offerings.