skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an either-or. Diffraction makes things a lot harder, and some phone lenses are indeed essentially diffraction limted

Secondly, I'm actually comparing resolution at fixed FoV, not a fixed focal length.

Again, the sensor size doesn't matter, what matters is the focal length. The focal length of an iPhone main lens isn't 10mm, the sensor size is 8.5mm but the focal length is actually around 5mm. You find the theoretical maximum linear resolution is more around 300-400 lp/mm. If you run the numbers, at f/1.6 the airy disk diameter is already bigger than the pixel pitch (2.11 microns airy disk and 1.7 micron pixel pitch). The resolution is already being seriously degraded by diffraction, although it's not completely diffraction yet. Lens aberrations make it even worse, of course. All in all, realistically the resolution is pretty much at its limit.

If you work at this regime where the linear resolution is close to equal to the airy disk, you start having a type of abberation where changing the wavelength of the system causes a change in the resolution, which can't be fixed. So pretty much in practice you can't really exceed the resolution we see now even in perfect light with a perfect lens, because you start having unavoidable abberrations that are very significant to the image.
You made a good point but accepting JS in a currency field requires validation + sanitization.

Validate for functional errors then sanitize for injection issues.

Hope it makes more sense now!
Sorry for any confusion from previous comments or post
Stamping out the above board market for hacks, is not a perfect solution. But limiting the free flow of these hacks from private companies to law enforcement and governments will decrease their availability and abuse. The expertise to build these hacks is high, and so is the potential for abuse. If government needs to build it in house instead of calling up a vendor like NSO and forking over a few, we can expect a better outcome.
"TypeScript is the best programming language right now" is a weird thing to say, given how strong of a claim it is. You could avoid this problem by just saying "because I like TypeScript" (or "it's familiar").
Indeed, but the crypto keyword made us click on the article.
Otherwise it would have been quite a common article with some commonsense advices on basic web security...
we scale up to about 100 machines. We use spot instances EXTENSIVELY. And that configuration was tricky actually. Its been a couple of months now. Works pretty ok.

k3s is actually pretty simple to use now. the tricky part was to integrate with https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws and https://github.com/DirectXMan12/k8s-prometheus-adapter

The hardest part is to get it to work with spot instances. we use https://github.com/AutoSpotting/AutoSpotting to integrate with it.
The days games where complete packaged single player experiences are long gone (unless you're Nintendo). Games are tools: kids see each other in a game of Fortnite and visit concerts together. That makes Fortnite a communication/messenger tool and a browser too. Same for other community-based stuff like Roblox or Minecraft.
It's hard to tell from the article where to draw the line between the Raytheons of the world and NSO Group. Is business only allowed to sell dumb weapons to government?

Looks like international trade in zero-days already is treated as potential weapons[1]. Is the point that Facebook et al object to being primary targets of hostile international actors? Using the same logic, though, if I'm feeling insecure about foreign air power do I sue JSC Sukhoi Company?

[1] https://www.justsecurity.org/5703/export-control-arrangement...
Like Apples monitor that also has a fan?
On the contrary, I think we'll look back on this era and be sad about how we swung between extremes and lost the middle ground. Lost the concept of redemption and the understanding that most people are not one-sided and can be both forces for good and make mistakes at the same time.
We live in a world where google exists, hell where scihub exists. It's extremely suspicious to show up in a forum "asking questions" when these resources exist. Getting told to "fuck off" in this context is basically being told to RTFM. You can look in my comment history to find just how easy it was to compile some sources to discredit the idea that trans women in sports is some unknown taboo.

If we spent just a fraction of the effort making spaces safer for marginalized groups as we do debating bad faith actors the internet would be a much better place in my opinion.
Finally made an account to respond to this. I completely agree with your take on ORMs and learning SQL.

One thing that people get confused with about CoreData is treating it like an ORM; it is not. CoreData is an object persistence framework more in line with object databases than relational databases. The ability to use SQLite is just an implementation detail. It's like how Datomic can use a SQL db as a datastore however does not present data relationally.

When porting apps back and forth between Android and iOS, the biggest thing I miss on Android is CoreData. CoreData is exceptional at what it does and its a shame that more iOS education doesn't focus more on CoreData.
This is what I do for both work-related (and as of this year, recreational) video conferences. At the start of the pandemic, I only had an older webcam which maxed out at 1280x720, didn't have much in the way of onboard hardware processing capability, and looked generally cruddy. Set up OBS initially so I could use the basic color correction and then moved on to playing around with chromakey backgrounds (sure beats the software chroma in Zoom and Webex).

Once C920 came back in stock (at non-scalper prices) I did pick one up and it was a modest improvement. Overall performance is just better across the board. Only real annoyance is how I have to reconfigure the video options every time I start OBS since the cam likes to revert back to auto white balance/focus/exposure. Still, it takes less than a minute to set it back to where I want it.

For lighting, I have a couple of those clamp-on utility lights that are sold at just about any hardware store. Each one has a sheet of kitchen parchment paper clipped to the housing to act as a basic diffuser. Between whatever desk lamp or sunlight I have coming in, the two clamp lights let me set up a reasonable 3-point lighting and avoid any weird shadows.

For audio, I have an old Tascam USB audio interface with 1/4" and XLR inputs along with headphone monitor out. Hooked up an old Shure vocal mic on a stand and I get quality and a pickup pattern I just couldn't touch with a headset or desktop condenser mic.

A lot of this was only affordable because I had some of the stuff (mic, USB interface) laying around already, but that was sort of the takeaway. Make use of the best stuff you already own, consider what hacky solutions you might use to fill in some gaps, and only then spend more money on a better camera, lights, etc.
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EdTech is "enterprise software" in the sense that the people controlling the purse strings are very removed from the actual users. In education, the decision makers are the school district leadership team, while the actual users are twice removed - students.

This scenario encourages focus on features that are important for the decision makers and less focus on the features (or usability) important for the actual users - exactly as you describe.

A bottom-up approach where students and teachers would identify what works best for them and push for it is extremely hard. Teachers try the best but are limited by their budgets (many pay out of their own purse for tools and equipment!) and students have basically no say.

This leads to the situation where most successful (profitable, largest) edtech software has no relation to what actually might be the best tool.
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I wouldn't put much stock in page made just in 2016 that started like this https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bare-metal_server...
The entire situation you described is perfectly relatable if you’ve read The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan [1]. In it, Caplan argues that the true purpose of education is not to improve students but for students to signal their worth as employees to their future employers. He backs up this argument with a bibliography of studies many pages long.

I read the book as part of a philosophy course I took in university and as a decidedly non-libertarian person (Caplan is a libertarian economist), I found it a very challenging argument to confront. What was so vexing was how much his points seemed to agree with my experiences.

My peers and fellow classmates were doing exactly as he described in the book: taking “bird courses” instead of challenging ones, only taking the minimum requirements for their degree and avoiding the optional challenging electives, memorizing / begging / borrowing / stealing / cheating their way to the best grades possible in their classes at the expense of actual learning.

In the COVID era of online classes, class averages have gone way up. The academic integrity offices of most faculties have been overwhelmed with cheating cases. If the true purpose of education is to better oneself, why are so many people taking the opportunity to cheat at a time when schools have less ability to monitor for it? This is a question that vexes me endlessly, as a student trying to get the most out of his education. I have been taking as many challenging courses as I can, and plan to continue doing so for the remainder of my degree. I don’t cheat and consequently I find myself well below the high class averages.

It leaves me wondering: am I the naïve one?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education
The AWS Managed Policies Trap
It isn’t a backdoor or spy tool. It cannot be used for surveillance.
The pandemic could have crushed WeWork. It may have saved it instead
For clarity the Control plane High-Availability and Service type LoadBalancer is all provided by kube-vip.io out of the box. The goal is to provide as "close to cloud provider" environment as possible :-)
If that's the only bit you read yeah probably does from your pov

Not really the message, but at least you read some of it :)
Yes but OP is not tone policing to hide the truth.

It's literally trying to understand the truth from the messages
The article seems to make it all about race, but I really don’t see how race has anything to do with all the ways American education is broken. This is a case of perverse incentives. American K-12 schools are set up first and foremost as holding tanks for kids while parents work. This by itself sets a low standard for education, but a high bar for control of students. This control requirement simply gets translated to software, so there’s no surprise that we get dystopian spyware disguised as educational packages. My very white child, who is stuck doing remote learning, is held under the same thumb as the 45% of kids in her class who are black. The major difference between my kid and others is that I turn off her internet access at random intervals in order to create some unstructured time for her. School teaches nothing of value anyway - why waste time on it?
Security disclosure and private work have some responsible disclosure policies.

I've added added the public bug bounty website for the last one!
those are trying
> then for the exact same internals you need different models where the power cords are different

The IEC 60320 connectors were specified for exactly that reason. Honestly, I don't get why these were not made mandatory for all kinds of appliances. There are even locking variants available if vibration is of concern.
Ever read "unseen before footage", "exclusive archive content", "behind the scenes"? These come from content they didn't use and stashed away. If they just package it all with the initial product, they more or less kill the potential of exploiting their own IP later down the line.
I get that -- just not happy about being compared to war criminals. And annoyingly there are real conversations to be had on the topic of Big Tech being too big or too powerful, which are hard with all the rhetoric in the way.
I don't buy a lot of computers, so this can change at any time without me noticing, but: I think there's basically two Dells. There's the Dell that sells the cheapest equipment you can buy. This Dell sucks as much as anyone else. Don't expect miracles. Then there's the Dell that sells upscale gear. This is usually pretty good, or at least has the ability to be pretty good. I have appreciated the ready access to service manuals and such, too.

I say this because it's unwise to hear that Dell has pretty good gear, then go to their site and buy the cheap stuff. It isn't necessarily any worse cheap stuff than anybody else, but it's not what people mean when they say Dell can have pretty good gear.
Keyboards are MUCH easier to produce than LCD displays or cameras.

The problem is that there's only so many companies that truly design and manufacture photographic sensors, lenses and LCD panels. And all the downstream "brands" that assemble this technology into cheap plastic cases to sell to consumers can only do so much to differentiate. Add neon lights for gamers. Make it look dull for business users. Etc. They also sell TVs and have thousands of other SKUs, so they really don't care about any individual product.

Apple is both incentivized (due to their ongoing customer relationships) and able to break out of this mold because they:

a) Produce a tighter number of SKUs

and

b) Do enough volume to control and change what the original equipment manufacturers are producing
Proctorio’s behavior is certainly appalling. There should be restrictions on how much DMCA abuse is tolerated before sticking them into “timeout”. And if a legitimate need arises while in timeout, too bad so sad.

The court case is particularly disgusting. He should win and get treble his court fees, though dunno if Canada has that.

But having said that, I feel for schools as they have to do SOMETHING and there is just nothing good. Can’t have just the honor system cuz that’s worked so well. But if these systems are over the top (and they are) what do you do?

I’m glad I’m not having to take tests using this kind of software. I tend to look around at other things when deep thinking. Even if no music on, I use N/C headphones to keep sounds out. Hell, if it’s particular hard problem I might start sub vocalizing as I work it through. All habits that would get me dinged left and right.
Truth of Oracle Cloud Always free tier
Oracle says

"Use your Always Free resources as long as you want with no time constraints—subject only to the capacity limits noted. When your 30-day trial period for the expanded set of services ends, you can continue using Always Free services with no interruption.

Always Free and Free Trial instances can be seamlessly upgraded to paid at any time. Existing Oracle Cloud customers have access to Always Free services automatically—no new sign up required."

Fact: your account will be terminated IMMEDIATELY after the trial, no reason given and no warning given.

And what the cloud support has to say:

"We see the System terminated your account and unfortunately we can't reactivate or restore the account. Thank you for chatting with us. Have a good day!"
and terminated the web chat.

Dear Oracle, please update this page to say, "always free is only for those who buy something from us within trial period." :D
The counterweight to this is that there's an enormous prestige benefit for any scientist who conclusively overturns the established scientific consensus. This is why Einstein became so famous in his lifetime: not just because he had some elegant theories, but because he had theories that unambiguously matched the experimental evidence (and even offered new predictions) in ways the previous scientific consensus could not. And even though a few skeptics tried to resist his ideas, the scientific consensus worked in exactly the ways we'd expect it to as the evidence came in.

I have no idea what the situation is with current theories on the motion of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. I'm guessing you also have an incomplete picture of the evidence, but you've got an alternative pet theory that explains some inconsistencies in the consensus theory. I'm also guessing your theory isn't a slam dunk, i.e., that there's good evidence against it and/or there's a distinct lack of evidence in favor of it. But I strongly suspect you're not going to present me with all of the negative evidence for your own theory in an HN comment: I would have to get the impressions of other people in the field in order to actually get a fair evaluation of the evidence. That's what scientific consensus is supposed to offer, and as imperfect as it is, it usually works better than trusting the opinions of a single enthusiast.
I guess this kind of exists in the form of wide windows. In Europe buildings with narrow stairs often have windows that appear conveniently placed to move large furniture in and out via crane or lift. See also e.g. [1] for various devices advertised for just this purpose.

Palletizing everything on top of that would make sense to reduce how long the moving van is required, at the expense of adding more steps. I'm not sure if that's economical.

1 https://www.erento.com/mieten/baumaschinen_baustelle/aufzug_...
>It's incredibly easy to open bank accounts online

I didn't know this, is this country specific or available to anyone?
Don't most pirate stream facilitators sit offshore?
I genuinely tried to complied the issues and yes, most of them are crypto websites.

Sorry for any confusion created by the title!
My solution: Download DroidCam, use your phone's camera as a webcam. Night and day difference versus awful built-in laptop cameras, only takes a few minutes to pair the first time.

Granted, the positioning is a bit annoying. If I did it more often, I'd get a tripod.
"Do very well" in a community and business sense are two very, very different things.
The HA control plane and service type LB is all handled by https://kube-vip.io and is designed to be as transparent to the user as possible.
Can't wait for the memes about the wheel prices here.
you could treat it with something like tung oil instead, though you would have to recoat somewhat more frequently
That is the plan eventually so that I can do node upgrades with lil downtime
It does suggest a possible new privacy-respecting phone, though, that does not store any phone numbers, messages, voicemails, or other sensitive information. It also does not allow any telecom or other organization like NSO to monitor your phone calls, because it doesn't allow you to make any. We could call it the iBrick (tm).
It helps it exactly as much as I think. Obviously the only one who said anything like that is you though. And now you’re falsely claiming that they intentionally targeted unarmed civilians.
I think that it is supposedly a lot of something that hasn’t been predicted or detected in any other way that is considered problematic. It has to interact at least with other dark matter in some other form than via gravity to clump together.
TBH if the rays only hit the feet (which wasn't the case with this machine, it was far from "tight" and radiation escaped in all directions), total health concern would be smaller.

Hands and feet can tolerate bigger radiation doses than our internal organs. Muscle and bone is not that sensitive, most damage will be on skin.

https://www.env.go.jp/en/chemi/rhm/basic-info/1st/03-02-07.h...
Did she hide her identity?
The world view is simply that this technology arms race performs no useful work to society. It's simply people with capital investing enormous sums into gaming a system and extracting $$. Okay, this so far is not even a view, it's just how things are. The "view" is that it is wrong x) Much like one could argue that e.g. the yacht industry diverts resources and people from other more pressing needs.

As for "my" set of facts... well they're just facts :) not "mine" or "yours".
Totes agree, I think I got the vms set up once a long time ago before k3s and it was some real work
Trying to understand the facts should never be attacked.
Re: accellerating expansion, I was only commenting on how the expansion itself is a consequence of GE.

Thanks for your point about the constant being actually required. I do not understand the math, but is this similar on how integrals always have a constant as a free parameter that need to be determined by other means?

I assume that Einstein originally set the constant to exactly balance the expansion, but later set it to zero. In bot cases you are picking arbitrar values but the actual value need to determined by empirical observeations.
Well I was assuming that Ripple would fall on the news that the SEC is suing the company who runs it.

That makes two which is, checks definition in dictionary, a few:)

I'm not exactly sure what you want me to respond to:)
>without in-app purchases

Is that so bad?

There are certainly a lot of loot box patterns that are unseemly, but I'm not sure I understand a wholesale prohibition of in-app purchases entirely.
I was on a team that used Core Data and a team that used Realm instead. We had much more success with less headaches by using realm. https://realm.io/
Another cheap tip:

On your side monitor(s), set a couple of desktops with plain white, pink, and beige backgrounds. When you're on video, switch to the blank backgrounds to use as a soft fill light.
Can You Hypnotize a Chicken?
I have used phones with obs.ninja to stream the camera output to OBS over the local network and then send that to conference applications with OBS's virtual camera plugin.

It sounds janky (and it kinda is) but compared to some of the client/server app pairs I'd messed with earlier, it works more reliably. One plus is that I don't need to install anything on my phone since it just uses WebRTC in the browser to send the cam/mic feeds to OBS.

Of course, even once you get it set up on a tripod and pointed at your face, you will want to turn down screen brightness and keep it plugged in. It works and it works well, but your phone may get warm and drain some battery if you are using it for hours at a time. In the end I consider it a good backup option (used it when I forgot my webcam at another location) but I prefer the ease of a dedicated camera if I have the option.
Love roguelikes. Ever played IVAN?
Here is the secret: most leftists don't like tankies. Ban them as well I say! I people want to defend Stalin's murderous regime then I don't want them there either. Appealing to some hypocrisy here isn't super useful since the large bulk of people who don't want fascists on their webforums also don't want tankies.
It's not easy to open bank accounts online unless you are rich (250k deposit) or know a private banker, although due to corona it has gotten easier for Americans and probably others. However a TW Borderless account is good enough for Shopify Payments.

Source: I have opened at least 5 bank accounts via private bankers over the years and multiple TW accounts and have used many processors with many types of accounts.
Can it cope with services that disallow certain characters? Can it cope with services that require e.g. at least one digit, symbol, and capital letter?