skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, I switched 3-4 years ago. My mistake was using LR and never tried something else for long time and wonder why my color grading skill wasn't improved that much. Once I import the same photo to Capture One and grading color the same way I do in LR, I was having a stupid face because it's so much better in anyway in Capture One. It's amazing.

It's wise that they added the heal and clone tools, many people only use those two in PS.
im a bit confused with your comment, doesn't Stadia Pro supports 4K and HDR ?
Yeah, Dogsheep Beta solves the "how do I search across multiple tables in multiple databases" problem by creating a single "search index" table based on YAML configuration, then using that same YAML configuration for the HTML template fragments used for the different types.
Nonsense. EU exists since 1993 and there were no wars in Europe (except couple of small conflicts) since 1945.
Probably quite substantial. You still need to move it to port and then from port at destination, instead of driving on lorry...
which 23yo bmw do you own?
His "special" skills didn't protect him from getting fired. Not that hard to understand.
Although I am an avid reader and have been reading on average 1 or 2 books each week for the past 15 years, I don't think I've ever read a book than "changed my life". Looking back, I think the most impactfull book for me was The Art of Loving (1956) by Erich Fromm because it opened up a world of psychology and psychoanalysis and significantly altered my view on how humans think.

Among the classic fiction the best so far were: T. Dreiser - The Bulwark, S. Maugham - Of Human Bondage, L. Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata and E. Zola - l'Oeuvre & Germinal.
I can imagine Putin laughing himself to sleep every night thinking about Brexit and Trump.
I don’t think anyone considered data scientists real scientists so what is a PhD even really worth in that field?
> I don't think anyone in the US cares that much.

The US didn't randomly, or even out of generic nosiness/imperialism, become a guarantor of the GFA; the Troubles were a focus of intensive and intensely divisive interest in the US.

The underlying forces in the US that made that true haven't gone away.
The bigotry and ultra-EU nationalism is staggering.

Of course, to suggest that somehow 'EU membership is the only way to get along' is plainly wrong - but it doesn't seem like you're dealing in facts, just hysteria.
Last I checked Capture One was missing multi exposure things like HDR and panorama merging, has this been addressed ?
Throw cores at that particular problem all you want. Throw 64GB RAM at it, and GPU acceleration. Won't help, since that issue is very likely I/O bottlenecked. So it's unfair to blame Lightroom here.

My photos sit on a 5400 RPM, no SSD cache NAS behind 1G LAN. That is incredibly slow compared to local HDD or even SSD. I don't blame Lightroom here. In fact, the software only takes its time when operating on large volumes on that slow connection. CPU-bound tasks have been just fine for me (16k photos catalogue, i7 mobile CPU, 16GB RAM).
5120x1440 120Hz works fine on my MBP?
You're missing the point. It's not just the standards with internationals, its the terms of trade. That's what you win back.

You can directly negotiate and agree terms with any other country freely without consulting the EU, where before the terms were set by the EU.
It won't happen any time soon but I think the Unionist population in NI is seeing that the Union isn't what it once was. A United Ireland is a very real possibility, but I doubt Ireland could afford it.
I worked on getting a data pipeline up and running. It was fun enough that I downloaded rstudio and started playing around with some machine learning methods after the kids went to bed. After a few conversations with higher ups that started with 'hey want to see something cool?' I had the opportunity to start a data team.
Driving assistance is about safety, not about convenience.
So it depends on your goals and the type of work you want to do. I kind of stumbled into Data Science / AI research (came from a Creative Writing background). After spending about 4 years in industry, I decided to go back and pursue a PhD for a mixture of reasons.

If you want a research job at a large tech company or top research institute, you'll need a PhD and a history of publications. That being said, I've found there are opportunities for you be successful and work on interesting problems if you're willing to be creative and flexible.

In larger organizations my experience has been variable. When I was working at Harvard (doing institutional research which was data science for higher ed policy and strategy), my ceiling was definitely capped. There was a ridiculous amount of institutional politics and having a PhD was required for many opportunities. In contrast at Liberty Mutual (large insurance company), I found you could find your way into a data science role and follow traditional ladders for career advancement. A PhD was nice but not necessary. The downside was that your work was very confined, there was massive layers of middle management and bureaucracy, and other challenges. But if that environment was good for you, you could definitely be successful.

I also a had brief stint working as a technical project manager at a AI research institute (Allen AI). There having a PhD was definitely needed to do research. There were research engineer positions, which depending on the research group, could have you implement models, but having a phd was required to actual research.

I ultimately found my sweet spot working a early stage startups. I had the agency and autonomy of researcher at say Google Brain or Facebook, the ability to work on cutting edge problems, and the ability to get involved in other aspects of the business as well. The obvious downside is that startups are volatile (the first one I was at went down under) and while my compensation is more than comfortable (and even better than when I was at Harvard) its nowhere near the compensation of large tech companies or corporations. If you're interested in publishing, it's also a bit tricky to balance your work and carve time to do publishable research. Ultimately, I found work at at the start-up stage was perfect for me but was a bit unsustainable long term.

Ultimately, my choice to go back to grad school for my phd was for mixture of reasons. Personally, I wanted the space and time to build a strong foundation in theory (having come from an applied background), have the ability to do pure research, and ideally put myself in a situation down the line to be competitive for research position at a larger tech company or research institute. A PhD is useful really for two things, one is the credential and two is the time it provides you to build up a publication history and work on a particular problem.
I don't see why you couldn't add another column with an auto-generated phrase/key that can be used after the fact similar to when you enable 2fa. Anonymous posts would have an edit that takes said key which would be saved by the author if they so desired.
The outcry over LTNs is not a culture war – it’s more serious than that
Playing devils advocate it's very easy for a company to set up two shells or 'partner' organizations where the products are targeted to different markets.
If I remember correctly the guy at Wolfram is bringing a new theory of unification forward, isn't he?
Indeed but equally this is something I dislike about Macs - on Windows this software would still work just fine.
That really is a perfect example of why Darktable will never (I know, it's a long time) replace Lightroom on macOS at least.

(Most) users are not going to adjust their core working styles - which have been consistent on the Mac platform for 35+ years - to use a piece of software that gives inferior results, just to save $10 / month - which also gives access to Photoshop, for which there is no true replacement in any case.
I bailed on Adobe products a year or so ago. Their CC app is one of the biggest piles of garbage I have ever had to use. Adobe gave me a free month this year. I tried the latest version of PS vs Affinity and uninstalled after a few minutes. The uninstall process took over 30 minutes because for some reason CC itself was broken and had to be reinstalled before being uninstalled. There is zero reason for this.

PS has a lot of good points, but one giant bad one: no real support for multi-threading. I have a 1GB test folder of images that Affinity can resize in 16 seconds. It takes PS one minute and 15 seconds longer to do the same task. Affinity uses all the cores available to it; PS uses only 1.

I have an old copy of CS6 that I use for adding text to photos, and that's all I use PS for anymore, and maybe the occasional touch up. It is small (install is 500MB), does not require CC to manage it, doesn't spam my system with a zillion services and various programs that launch on start up, and it doesn't need an internet connection to install or use.

Adobe is absolutely sitting still and everyone else is in the process of catching up or outright blowing past them in certain areas. Affinity 2.0 will probably be what a modern version of PS would be if Adobe didn't have outright contempt for their customers.

I've been a PS user since if first came out, and was befuddled as to why they changed some keyboard shortcuts. I tried the new version this year and thought something was wrong with my PC or my keyboard. All of the shortcuts are second nature to me, and changing them after all these years for no good reason is a baffling decision.

Adobe won't change their ways because they have massive lock in with professionals everywhere.
They truly rethought the driving experience right there.
> I live in the UK. Brexit will only make my life worse. I don't see any upside to it.

Brexit has clearly had a significant detrimental effect on your life, given it happened eleven months ago and you’re still writing about it in the future tense.
It has severe disadvantages right now and for the near future, but might possibly lead to some benefits if we’re lucky eventually if you squint right.

You’re not selling me on it.
Apple QC continues to plummet. No surprise, they are woefully understaffed where it matters.
Scan all the last day’s post titles.

Open links immediately with what I believe to be content-rich credible information and perspective relevant to my background and interests, which are many and varied. Source plays a helpful role in determining whether it’s worth an open, but isn’t the sole determinant. Maybe one in thirty.

Read the comments on posts with titles that sound like agitprop, knee-jerkism, marketing or just biased nonsense. Then open the post if

1. it isn’t already objectively trashed and

2. it is impactfully misleading and

3. I may be able to contribute something of substantive value to correct or redirect the post or discussion.

Contribute if I can, otherwise silence is Golden. Getting angry at pixels always seemed silly to me...

More interested in the meta-analysis of why posts are being posted, and the reasoning (or lack of) underlying the post. Where are we in discussion boards like this in the year 2020: posts, audience, moderation, etc.? I cruised ARPANET and punched cards...so where are we in 2020 on HN as compared to USENET, BBSs, GEnie, Compuserve, The Well, mailing lists, blogs, Reddit...

Skip most (but not all) posts on current practice in programming, design, testing, implementation. When I was most active, change control was the brand new concept. I am very old. Open links on legacy systems and ideas.

Skip almost all posts with a living or cultish name in them, unless it is someone who just died and I knew of. Will read a post on Bill Gates’s death, but not anything before...of course hoping that will be a long way in the future. It’s all dust in the wind, folks.
If it seems to be happening why throw money away by investing in Uber? A fair trade alternative they can't buy out is not going to allow them profit until they have a scale advantage that doesn't exist in car services. I.e. they are throwing money away until they have a pure AI fleet and then a new fleet from an automaker has no such debts.
The old real Mavis I have ever heard of is Mavis Leno, the wife of comedian Jay Leno. He used to mention her on his show sometimes.
To some degree I think this begs the question of "what do you think doing data science is/what do you want it to be for you."

You mention "top research jobs" which gives me a reasonable vector to assume on, but I'll make some noise from this corner that there are other routes: I've managed to get my name on some reasonable bits of data-oriented/ML-based patents and publications, while still in a more "typical" career; ranging from sysop/research software support, to a SWE in big-tech doing "data-scienc-ey" work internally, but usually with direct applications as opposed to truly theoretical.

Now, I certainly worked with some PHD data scientists in those jobs, but arrogantly, I did not find myself "at a loss" in terms of providing value and pulling my weight. To your question about how I managed this, I'd attribute it half to having prepared well for this: oriented my undergrad and masters to be a split of CS and applied math, with heavy emphasis on prob/stat, graph theory, vector/discrete math, the sort of things that I got a sense were good to have on a toolbelt; and half to using these in progressively more involved "Data-oriented jobs" that didn't require upfront credentials: adminning petascale clusters, helping researchers utilize them, working in industry spaces heavily overlapping ML, data science tooling, and data/textual processing. Eventually you'll build up a track record such that the PHD isn't necessary to demonstrate that you can deliver good work in that space.

To be evenhanded, I absolutely would have trouble getting a "pure research" position as a PI, or running a lab. But I've never really wanted that, and never really regretted (actually, felt quite vindicated by) my choice to stop at a Masters degree. Again, I just want to emphasize: the most important question to me would be figuring out what YOU want, and whether a PHD is a non-starter to open those doors.

(For instance, I was told years ago it was not realistic to get a job at MSR without a PHD, except as a research-SWE, not a full scientist. This may have changed but I assume it's still roughly true; my wife has run up against similar issues in biotech where to get the "Scientist" title, even if you have the same competencies built up over time in practice, you need a PHD. This is slowly changing over time, especially as programming becomes more critical and the phd system continues to be... a bit disfunctional, but that's a slow slow change.)
I felt the same way. It sort of fell apart during the later seasons. But the final season, especially the second half of it is easily one of my favorite seasons ever. The writing is absolutely incredible, especially as a software developer. Basically like an opposite lost, everything comes together in an incredibly satisfying way.
You are teaching your users that security teams are assholes who deserve whatever petty revenge is possible.

And people will treat you like that, most often behind your back.
RoTS is my second favourite after rogue one. I am just of the age where the prequels were my jam when I was a kid and I love them still to this day.

1. Rogue One
2. Revenge of The Sith
3. Empire Strikes Back
Having started out with Lightroom on their cheap $10/m plan, I tried a number of different tools and quite honestly, none of them came close. That is, until I purchased a license to Luminar AI. I also tried Luminar 4 awhile back, but it was too slow and clunky to replace Lightroom, but Luminar AI is so. damn. good.
Its metadata DB corrupts super easily though, back it up or you'll be sorry.
You're talking about logic - SQL is basically a "logic language", it's just not entirely evident.

Logic programming was the AI paradigm for more or less most of the 20th century and has fallen out of favor.

Many people have talked about combining the neural net/extrapolation/brute-force approach with the logic approach. That hasn't born fluid yet but who knows.
What do you use instead?

I've tried and used 10-15 programming languages in my days, and while I haven't used them all professionally Python is still by far my preferred language out of all that I've tried. TypeScript comes in at a close second, although it depends a lot on what you use it for of course.

I've managed to write both buggy and working code in all languages, and can't say that Python is more buggy than any other. Slower at runtime, for sure. But not less correct.
It is. Membership of the Customs Union makes it so. Agricultural tariffs especially. As we are not in the Customs Union any more, it will be interesting to see what the Customs Schedule for things that UK does not grow but likes to import looks like compared with the Union tariff.
“ The only reason we know about this breach is because, earlier this month, the security company FireEye discovered that it had been hacked. During its own audit of its network, it uncovered the Orion vulnerability and alerted the US government.”

:/
That is correct. Besides reporting a bug, I'm not affiliated with this project. Too bad GP doesn't know much about forking to tell the difference, but is fast enough to blame.
Hmm, I do back it up but I've never had a problem.
Are these all measesues for old people to live few more months? Or is it covid-19 shortening people life more in US than Sweden?

'The observed temporary excess mortality likely arises because people in vulnerable groups die weeks or months earlier than they would otherwise, due to the timing and severity of the unusual external event.'
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v...
I have to agree. Although some of these things are clearly subjective and can't be compared, I think the true mark of a concept living up to its hype is how ubiquitous the approach it pioneered has become. IPhone, for example, can be seen as one clear example of this. The others are a bit harder to verify for their impact.

Electricity, cars, reusable rockets I think all belong to this category yet due to their popularity people don't even consider them as things that at some point were hyped and critiqued.

Opinion of my own is that the actor Daniel Day-Lewis is indeed the greatest actor who has ever lived. It is just his dedication to the craft that sets him apart from the rest so clearly by total immersion to the character which I've never seen anyone else replicate. Many other actors still remain "themselves" in the process but he can truly transform in a way no one else can and with such great range of characters. Granted we do not have accurate historical data over the course of the whole human civilization but well, I'd say it's a good guess.
I really liked DS2, I understand why its the "weak" of the bunch but its still an incredible good game.
‘The Debate of the Next Decade’ – AI Debate 2 Explores AGI and AI Ethics
Possibly those that turned out to be most useful were the importance (and resilience) of integrations (Box guy), the quest to try to create monopolistic situations (Palantir guy), importance of a North star KPI (Facebook guy). But the course has lots of other concepts (understand your customers by doing things that don't scale, focus on what customers want, not on what competitors do, etc).
> No on expects a mailserver cert to be from an authority, you can self sign and it works fine.

Yes, but that's A Bad Thing(TM) -- it means that MITM'ing a mail server also "works fine"!

Now, personally, I'm not a big fan of DNSSEC (especially considering how widespread 512- and 1024-bit keys were!) but I was hopeful that "DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities" (DANE) [0] would become widely supported once it was fully standardized. Unfortunately, that didn't happen -- especially in the browsers!

After the explosion in growth of "HTTPS everywhere", transport security for e-mail was the next big (unencrypted) problem that needed to be addressed in my opinion. Luckily, both Exim and Postfix (my MTA of choice) gained support for DANE so while progress was technically made, widespread adoption never really happened there either (mostly due to the dependency on DNSSEC, AFAICT).

In the meantime, though, "SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS)" appeared on the scene and has since been formalized as RFC8461 [1]. In many ways, it's technically superior to DANE and, importantly, does not rely on DNSSEC. It does have the same reliance on the "WebPKI" as the browsers so it's certainly not perfect; it's still a huge improvement, though, and it's certainly better than opportunistic encryption which is trivial to MITM.

Anyways, as MTA-STS was designed by folks at Google, Microsoft, Comcast, and Oath, I'm hopeful, once again, that we'll eventually get to the point where (at least) the overwhelming majority of e-mail is encrypted in transit as it passes from MTA to MTA on its way to the recipient's mailbox.

One of the few good things about so much of the e-mail nowadays being handled by Google and Microsoft is the huge volume of mail that will suddenly just start being encrypted in transit, overnight, when just those two enable MTA-STS in their mail infrastructure.

I haven't kept up with progress on MTA-STS since leaving my previous job (which included responsibility for the mail infrastructure) about two years ago -- shortly after it became a standard -- but I'd love to find out that it's already been widely rolled out by the big players in the meantime! I suppose it's about time to catch up on the last two year's worth of messages sitting unread in the "mailops" folder in my mailbox!

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8461
It goes without saying that this year has been really difficult for most if not all of us. Not being able to see extended family especially during holiday season can feel lonely and depressing. Please, please, please don't make this a solo suffering, use FaceTime, Xoom, WhatsApp, Meet whatever to talk to friends/family if you can.

If things feel worse - don't keep it to yourself, for those in the US - 1-800-273-8255's the number for National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. And remember - this too shall pass, there is a light at the end of this fucking tunnel and we will get through it.

Take care and happy holidays!
Can you become a millionaire before 35?
Just to clarify the context - I am an old(ish) white guy.
The Colonel has been fictionalized, though. He's moving away from Dave Thomas and toward Santa Claus.
Farage. Cameron. Johnson. Gove. Fox. Grayling. Rees-Mogg. Looking pretty white and pretty old to me...
I've worked on security teams or for security teams for my entire career.

Yes, some things are the security team's problem - as in, security teams are responsible for managing risk. My expectation is for them to do so.

Again, you can perform phishing tests, but I think they're mostly a waste of time, a terrible substitute for real mitigations, and should never come at the cost of your employee's sanity - a security team must build trust with other teams first and foremost, not burn it because "real attackers are mean too".

> dismiss standard methods and models

My opinions are hardly controversial.
The consequences of it are mostly in the future though, right?
It would be neat to be able to select the field from a dropdown or something and then insert a custom value. Do you have any plans for any other sort of functionality in the future? This has some potential to be really cool.
My assertion is precisely that I can find ways to send the message without resorting to this.