skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still looking for a good resource as someone who's taken their eye off the ball for a decade or so. Things have (and continue to) move at an astounding pace...and I'm needing something that goes from 'Pets and autoconf' to where we are now.
Same happen with Tamron. They new lenses for Sony cameras are great.
They newest "super" zoom 28-200 is basically best zoom of this type from any brand.
>I don't see how something can be dangerous and yet not objectively bad.

Driving a car is inherently dangerous, yet I certainly wouldn't call it objectively bad. There's aspects of driving that are "good" and aspects that are "bad" but it's really a mix.

Concrete philosophical definitions of "good" and "bad" don't really apply to real life. Even the "number one" moral law, don't kill other people, quickly breaks down and society has added a very long list of conditions.

Understanding that my morals are relative doesn't mean I have no concept of "good" and "bad". It means I have my own concepts while understanding that yours may be different.
Logitech Brio is probably the most "state of the art" webcam you can find (and it's a few years old).
Decent quality 4k (or 1080 at buttery FPS) with all manner of gubbins to correct lighting - amount, flicker, hue etc
Oh, and does have depth sensing - with separate lens that'll scan your face and log you into windows (or out when you walk off).
Regardless of whether or not you support Sverigedemokraterna, they are widely considered to be right-wing or far-right [1]. Politico is not taking any stance or making any kind of statement by labelling them as such.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats
> In the speech, Wallace digs into higher education and what the true value of it might be. He suggests that its end-game purpose is not to teach students facts and figures or fill their heads with knowledge – but instead, it brings the most value to students by teaching them how to consciously choose how to think from a perspective that is not your own, think about meaning, and act appropriately in everyday life.

I agree with this... but I got a technical degree and a liberal arts degree when I was an undergrad.

If you are investing in college you need to have a skill that makes you employable once you complete it.

But, there is more to life than making money and learning to have control over yourself and your thoughts, and learning that other people see things differently than you do, pays dividends in both your personal and professional life.
Keep 40% of nothing, and tell him to fuck off for trying to strong arm you
Lots of other factors too, but look closely at your word choices -- "wealth" vs "money." Wealth is mostly tied up in non-money assets (not that it necessarily has to be, but that's the state of things), whereas poor people have some small amount of cash, wages which don't track with inflation, and rent and expenses which do. As money is devalued, non-money assets continue to hold their value (increasing when denominated in dollars), and every financial instrument used by anyone at or below the low/middle middle class is royally shafted in comparison.
The major shift is exactly the right development
Signaling Theory and Portfolios
All the more reason to cheat to get there and cheat to stay in.
> what you describe is the behavior of your classmates, not the purpose of the system

While the GP used the word "purpose", thus prompting your is-ought comment, knowing Caplan, I suspect it was inaccurate. Economics is largely about an emergent phenomenon, thus falling squarely on the "is" side of things.

Emergence is a relatively recent concept in the linguistic timeline. For most of human history, everything seemed to be either of human action and human intention (turning on a light), or neither of human action nor of human intention (the weather). As such, languages did not emerge (ha!) that easily expressed emergent behaviors, things that were of human action but not of human intention (traffic jams).

Similarly, one can see this with the subject of biological evolution (another emergent phenomenon). It's been nearly two centuries since Darwin got that ball rolling, and still almost any discussion about evolution is rife with inaccurately implied intention.

One other consequence of this linguistic difficulty is that it leads people to propose solutions to perceived problems as if they were just about human action/human intention...
You could also spin this argument to say that testosterone aggression causes people to fail to cooperate and societies would soon fall into chaos as everyone is out for themselves. These pseudo/pop scienciness is poor logic and unprofessional.
The film & recorded music industries were built in an era of information scarcity, maintained by tightly controlled distribution. We now live in an era where information is infinite and everywhere.

Criminalising people isn't going to turn back this fundamental sea change.
It's too late for this idea in this situation, but it might be of interest to others thinking about getting into a partnership. Because most partnerships eventually go south, there is something known as the "Shotgun Clause". (I don't know who named it this, but this is what I've always known it as.) If your partner wants you out and comes to you with a lowball offer, you can invoke the Shotgun Clause, which gives you the right to buy him/her out at exactly the same terms, and THEY HAVE to accept. It's the risk they take by making an offer. It's designed to get them to make a "fair" offer, or one that they would accept.
For those interested, here is the abstract and link [1] to the actual article

Abstract "Signals from VLF transmitters can leak from the Earth‐ionosphere wave guide into the inner magnetosphere, where they propagate in the whistler mode and contribute to electron dynamics in the inner radiation belt and slot region. Observations show that the waves from each VLF transmitter are highly localised, peaking on the nightside in the vicinity of the transmitter. In this study we use ~5 years of Van Allen probe observations to construct global statistical models of the bounce‐averaged pitch angle diffusion coefficients for each individual VLF transmitter, as a function of L*, Magnetic Local Time (MLT) and geographic longitude. We construct a 1D pitch‐angle diffusion model with implicit longitude and MLT dependence to show that VLF transmitter waves weakly scatter electrons into the drift loss cone. We find that global averages of the wave power, determined by averaging the wave power over MLT and longitude, capture the long‐term dynamics of the loss process, despite the highly localised nature of the waves in space. We use our new model to assess the role of VLF transmitters waves, hiss waves, and Coulomb collisions on electron loss in the inner radiation belt and slot region. At moderate relativistic energies, E~500 keV, waves from VLF transmitters reduce electron lifetimes by an order of magnitude or more, down to the order of 200 days near the outer edge of the inner radiation belt. However, VLF transmitter waves are ineffective at removing multi‐MeV electrons from either the inner radiation belt or slot region."

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333961385_Effects_o...

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How would this impact fair use? I could see someone sharing something on a monetized YouTube channel that would open you up to potentially being fined.
Japanese folks lag behind in education simply because their language requires them to spend far longer mastering reading. This significantly delays their progress.

https://japaneseruleof7.com/are-japanese-people-retarded/

EDIT: I see the URL seems offensive but it's clickbait, the article is actually serious.
You can’t explore the data. Or rather you have to do it on a different dataset that you collect the traditional way. Federated learning is hard.
"To meet and rebuke this bad habit of the masters, the schoolboy mind, with its accustomed ingenuity, had invented an elaborate system of tradition. Almost every boy kept his own vulgus written out in a book, and these books were duly handed down from boy to boy, till (if the tradition has gone on till now) I suppose the popular boys, in whose hands bequeathed vulgus-books have accumulated, are prepared with three or four vulguses on any subject in heaven or earth, or in “more worlds than one,” which an unfortunate master can pitch upon."

-- From "Tom Brown's School Days"
Generalized Low Rank Models (GLRM)
- What are the "batteries included" in the context of graphics capability?

- Any built in GUI support / library?

- How is the speed of any lobster compiled code when compared with similar C or Python code?

And +1 for the C cheat-sheet - http://aardappel.github.io/lobster/C_style%20language%20Chea... - really helps to understand the language better!
You make a good point.

Still it would be nice if an application provided it's own community platform, maybe as a separate executable.
Believing something doesn't make it true.
The 1st generation Leaf was larger inside.

I like the Leaf's interior much more than the Model 3. (But, overall the Model 3 is a much, much better car.)
I've never heard of that before. Besides, dedicated server is an unfortunate term in practice either; I may pay Hetzner for a bunch of dedicated servers, some run a bunch of VMs, some run Kafka without a virtualization layer. My services in containers on Kubernetes in VMs on dedicated servers are still running on dedicated servers, but definitely not what I'd call bare metal. In my experience, calling the Kafka server "bare metal" is understood by everyone, used by pretty much everyone I've come across and doesn't get mixed up with adjacent concepts so easily. Maybe that's different in niche/research circles where "bare machine" is a concept that's actually relevant in day-to-day work, I wouldn't know. As far as I'm aware, the term is very much alive and kicking.
How fast would you be able to switch the industry you are working in?

I would guess that a lot of the jobs that are discussed in this thread are fairly specialised ones and if that industry would disappear they would be out of work.
> At some point in the Java world, best practice became building abstraction on top of abstraction on top of abstraction.

It really doesn't. There is nothing intrinsic to Java that forces developers to needlessly add abstractions.

If your codebase has too many unwarranted abstractions to the point it adds a toll to your maintenance, it's up to you to refactor your code into maintainability.

And no, n-tier architectures do not add abstractions. They never do. At most, you add an interface to invert the dependencies between outer and inner layers, which does not create an abstraction. Instead they lift the interface that was always there,and ensures that you don't have to touch your inner layers when you need to fix issues in your outer layers.
Even Apple named their API Metal in reference to existing phrases like "running close to the metal" back in 2014 and even then it raised some eyebrows in my opinion, but that usage is still miles better than basically saying you're running a program normally. Since when absence of virtualization requires articles to be written about?
Why do you think they waited this long to join?
I think the best test is to read the code yourself. If it's not obvious what it is doing, the side effects it may produce, or the assumptions made when executing it, then you probably need to add comments or refactor to answer those questions.

I try to keep in mind that the code I'm writing will eventually be maintained by someone else years from now, who never knew the context of why I'm writing this code or the function I am trying to achieve with it.
Right, but that also applies to the original claim I was refuting right?
Does Belgium still have battle tanks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_main_battle_tanks_by_c...:

“Belgium retired its last operational Leopard 1 MBTs in 2014. Some were kept in inventory for training and research purposes.”
They think it's Russia because they waited patiently for the hack and that it's state-run because they used infrastructure not regularly used.

I work in the security industry and I have the ability to do both of these. Does this automatically mean I'm a state-sponsored actor?

We have seen no proof that these latest Solarwinds attacks are from Russia.
Ask HN: Which B2B SaaS marketing playbook resources would you recommend?
The people we're talking about are paid in normal ways, and not via "percentage of the profits, which there will never be" etc
No it would not, because in that case it would be Turkey against NATO. Right now it is a dispute between two members so people are hesitant to meddle.
You should look into whose names are in the "Yea" column for this bill, and what party they belong to. It's publicly accessible.

Also should check out who the sponsoring Senator was for the last version of the amendment in question that failed to get yea votes a few years ago, and what party that person belongs to. That too is publicly accessible.
My bank uses some kind of mandatory javascript malware to make it impossible to paste or password-manage the password they demand. I'm beginning to see this on an increasing number of sites.

Even if I could find out which banks don't make this particular offering to Satan, what would prevent the bank I switch to from adopting this malfeasance next week?
Not a big shock to see both of Georgia's sub-human Senators, Loeffler, and Perdue, on the list of sponsors of this.

Loeffler is a white supremacist. Perdue very actively traded on secret insider pandemic information to enrich himself during the period in which he, and basically all Republicans, were still lying about the pandemic to the American people.
In germany we have a ton of copper pipes and there are no copper minerals going into the water as soon as the oxidatinlayer is there.

Its still standard having copper pipes here; we use plastic after the water arrives at the room.
First commercial 8K video:NFL debuted their 8K endzone camera in football game
svelte
There was a post on the AITA subreddit recently about a father who finds out his son has reported his friends for cheating on a math final. The dad had no problem with cheating whatsoever but took issue with the actions of the son. Whether or not this story is true, it reveals that 99% of people on twitter feel cheating is completely acceptable. In school I was under the impression cheating was relatively rare and no one proud of it, but I learned that I'm really out of touch. https://twitter.com/AITA_reddit/status/1340437223594979334
Do not sell. He’s trying to push you out since it’s primed to blow up. If it becomes 40%of nothing let me know and I’ll build it with you. I’m a full stack entrepreneur who can sell and build. The only real threat that I’ve seen brought up is if he can fire you.
I ended up using my Micro FourThirds mirrorless camera.

At first I used a Panasonic DMC-GH3. There is no official way to stream the image to a PC so I ended up using a HDMI capture box (costs around $50). The image quality with a nice prime lens is fantastic. You get a blurry background and some nice bokeh, something no Logitech camera can give you and it looks great. The camera and the capture box support up to FullHD.

I recently bought a better camera, the Panasonic DC-G9. Panasonic offers a (beta) webcam software for this camera so you can use it as a 1280x720 webcam via USB 3.0.
It also looks fantastic. The resolution is high enough! There is no audio though. For now i use a separate microphone.

If you care about your webcam's image quality, here's my main advice:

- Put the camera at eye height (using a small tripod)! This alone makes a big difference

- Put some light sources behind the camera and not behind the user

- If you want to use the virtual background feature of Zoom etc, use a real greenscreen behind you. They are very cheap and the quality of the virtual background with chroma keying is just so much better!
great startup, thx
Free as in freedom, not price: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software.
We are the fish now.
I didn’t have existing accounts at any of them. The last one I opened ran my application through one of those identity verification services that ask me questions about what prior addresses I had, other accounts on my credit report, etc.
The Great Filter showing a tiny sliver of its feathers. It's already too late for humanity, I'm afraid. :-(
HR1044, repealing per-country cap on employment based immigration. I have heard about strong lobbying in support of this. If enacted, it will increase wait time for immigration from 1-2 years to at least 17 years. It will benefit certain countries who are lobbying in support, but render legal immigration nearly impossible for everyone else.
>Firstly it becomes very difficult to argue your streaming service has no 'commercially significant purpose' other than piracy when you're not making much money.

It is a bit of a concern, but I see it less of a concern than you.

First, we're talking criminal law here, so the state has to argue their case and prove your guilt, not you have to prove your innocence.

Second, you still get 17 U.S. Code § 512 liability protection (DMCA takedown notices and resulting safe harbor) and if you can demonstrate you followed this in court, it would be a lot harder for the state to argue you deliberate did something wrong, especially if this concerns "user generated content" (harder, not impossible).

Third, you're fucked already anyway, ask Kim Dotcom (from megaupload) about it. If the government wants to come after you, it will, regardless of this law, and even regardless of whether you set foot on US soil ever.

>Secondly it gives the copyright enforcing industry a big amount of leverage to pressure you into doing things as failure to cooperate could easily be argued to make your platform intended for piracy.

Again, the law sets out what you have to do to have liability safe harbor under 17 U.S. Code § 512. If you follow that, it would be hard for the music industry to argue otherwise, and it's also not their place to sue you under this law in the first place. It's criminal law, and therefore only the state can prosecute. However, the music industry certainly would try to nudge prosecutors into bringing charges under this law, and/or bring it up in an civil proceedings to bolster their case. It could backfire for them tho, if the state refuses prosecution, then you have an argument in civil court that what you're doing was not considered illegal and the state decided you are not an illegal streaming service (or at least, that there was no sufficient evidence to make that case).

So I think it's not a great law, especially not if you want to do a (user content) streaming startup, but it's not that bad either.
In my humble experience as a full stack dev, backend jobs are going nowhere. Sure stuff like firebase and similar works for CRUD apps but as soon as you want to do more specific stuff they usually are worthless.

I have never used any of these backend as a service but I would assume you would struggle a lot with all kinds of data processing that needs to happen on the server side?
PW513 is available on US sites (e.g. amazon.com/bestbuy.com), but not globally yet.

See also my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25506629
It's almost expected you don't have enough time. When I was at West Point they'd explicitly state that.

Additionally, there was a hard lights off policy at midnight to ensure cadets got enough sleep, yet people invariably would be up with a flashlight underneath their covers trying to get work done until 2am.

Plebes in particular got less time as well, as they'd be subject to additional tasks/hazing until a given time when they couldn't be disturbed (I believe 7pm).
Yeah, I hate that kind of language because it's so dishonest. Number one, a pirate is not a lost sale. Only a small number of pirates would have otherwise bought the product. Number two, the $29b didn't disappear, it was just spent elsewhere. The economy didn't "lose" anything. Number three, the entertainment industry is doing perfectly fine these days, so why should we be cracking down on entertainment which is accessible to poor people? Culture shouldn't belong exclusively for the financially comfortable.
Depending on the family member(s), it’s autism and mild developmental delays with their commonly-associated GI issues and lowered gut motility (and semi-inflexible eating patterns leading to a not-very-balanced diet), and/or good old “Jewish tummy” which while technically not in the DSM is still super-common with its associated constant GI issues and a bunch of relatives on both sides of the family who have developed full-blown IBS and/or Crohn’s disease.
Ok, but do you go to school for the grades or to learn? Grades are like performance reviews. They might matter to your teacher/manager/school/employer, but they sure as hell don’t matter to me because I’m the judge of my own success.
> there is nothing obvious in that deduction.

But it is: The concept of "private property" is pervasive and deeply ingrained in modern Western civilization. You should have very, very good ethical and practical reasons for why this should be changed.

Let me try a different angle: If you put a two-minute video of an albatross gliding through the air on Youtube, should viewers of your video also have the right to see the other five hours of your holiday footage?
This is very cool! Thank you!
Regarding grading: I am a professor at a large American state university where football is king. I have never been pressured to change a grade for the kinds of reasons you mention.

I'm not saying that grading is perfect -- measuring what has been learned is hard, and there can be pressure not to be too harsh overall. But this sort of corruption is, in my observation, not widespread.
Bought a Logitech Brio 4k Streaming before Covid, because I wanted to try out YouTube and using my DSLR was a pain.

Its 200€(pre lockdown) and is just a webcam on steroids.

Now I'm glad I didn't sold it. Almost anyone comments on the image quality - especially when I turned on my 4000lm daylight Phillip's Tornado
>We want them to be really really good at following orders and not to think

I know this is common trope but tends to be more widely held by those with limited military experience.

For example, U.S. Marines are often considered highly disciplined (sometimes conflated with being very good at blindly following orders). From boot camp onward, they are encouraged (sometimes mandated) to read from the Commandant’s reading list. A perennial favorite to assign junior enlisted is A Message to Garcia. However, after nearly 40 years, it was removed from the list explicitly because the message was often misinterpreted as advocating strict obedience and went against the intent to promote independent thought.

Particularly in counter insurgency, the military wants/needs critical thinking, not blind obedience.
NATO is a collective defense agreement, meaning if one nation is attacked all nations respond as if they were attacked, including the United States.
Not quite sure what you’re getting at, I never said there were no differences between cultures.

However the differences are often overstated, and with regards to Japanese culture some people seem to harbor strange preconceptions that make them blind to rather obvious falsehoods, leading to debacles like the New Yorker article described in OP. It goes both ways of course; a lot of Japanese people seem to have bizarre ideas about the US for example, perhaps I would too if I hadn’t lived there for a decade. It’s easy to form a skewed image of Americans if your knowledge only came from Hollywood films.

I’d say that in general, the more years you spend immersed in cultures outside of your own, the more you’ll be able to see beneath the surface and appreciate how similar we all are — for better or worse. Just look at the number of comments in this thread from (presumably) Western expats pointing out how "ordinary" Japan is in reality. That realization comes from actually living here and being directly exposed to the culture. Not from watching anime.