skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely because most of the difference is in the Qualcomm DSP attached to your phones SoC, not the actual camera module. The mobile phone images contain a lot of postprocessing which the webcams don't do.
Major Design Changes Planned for Gnome 40
I had trouble understanding the example at first. It turns out that it relies on fonts.googleapis.com, so if you block that domain, the barcode is shown as regular text.
>It leads to recursion where iteration is more natural

Viewing iteration as more 'natural' than a fold seems down to mostly taste. And hell, if you really want iteration, you can easily get that in both effectful and non-effectul variants through monads.

>ask a functional programming zealot to implement an O(1) hash map in a pure way—they will usually stammer, try to move goal posts, before finally admitting it's not possible

Except that no one - not even Haskell zealots - will argue that you never need effects, but simply that effects should be encapsulated. In Haskell, nothing prevents you from using mutable state if you really need it and mutable hash tables can be easily implemented using something called functional state threads [1][2].

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hashtables-1.2.4.1
That's a cool app! Thanks for mentioning it.

I did not realize that Corsair owns Elgato.
There are now, DisclosureGroups & OutlineGroup especially would be places in SwiftUI where a NSTreeController might be useful.
The thesis is buried pretty far down: It isn’t enough to have systems and safeguards in place in an organization. The personnel who run the day-to-day operations must know when, where and how to employ them successfully.
The customer persona of "Mom getting something to support her daughter to be musical" is valid though, particularly considering teaching is one of the use cases.
I wrote an article a few months back about this(1) and post when it's directly relevant. Main takeaways: audio is more important than video; get that correct first.

Easiest thing is using a cheap headset microphone. Advanced noice cancellation algorithms with a great microphone placed far away can't complete with the physics of having a mic close to your month.

Since publishing, I also found Webcam Settings, an app for Mac that lets you adjust specific settings on UVC webcams. I use it to correct the horrible auto white balance on my C920 (naturally looks way too blue).

I just wish Apple would make a new version of their iSight camera. Something with a similar physical shape with a cropped DSLR sensor and a fast lens. Basically, same quality as a mirrorless with a fixed f/2 lens but in a single small package.

1 - https://jonpurdy.com/2020/03/how-to-improve-your-zoomskype-t...
Why load balancing gRPC is tricky?
Cellebrite claims to have cracked chat app's encryption
and unfortunately Amazon and Facebook's spy-on-you-all-the-time FaceTime call-style communication products are going to dominate, especially with that demographic.
Of course no one individually wants to sacrifice for society. The point is that if everyone is willing to do it, everyone is better off. By making some sort of collective incentive to have a wider distribution of incomes in neighbourhoods and schools, everyone is better off.

The same is true if we want to moderate extremism. If you kick extremists off the mainstream platform, they become more extreme. It's a hard problem.
Just emulating the commander in chief.
You can just use M lenses on other bodies. With autofocus, even.
Just think, somewhere in Japan there might've been a "Weird America" article in the late 90s about American male and female college students' fascination with Sailor Moon, which was clearly intended for little girls.

Two decades later, a followup might compare the Sailor Moon phenomenon with the fascination among adult American men for the Western series My Little Pony.
Not ironic when you consider people don't always just vote for what will improve their present financial position. Wouldn't you agree that some vote based on their principles?
There are already companies who do this, such as Eizo.

They cost multiple thousands (or tens of thousands for reference monitors with built-in calibration and Dolby Vision certification).
Now that camera costs ~$100[0].

[0] https://www.amazon.de/Logitech-C310-720Pixel-Schwarz-Webcam/...
I won't touch pay to win crap like loot boxes and coins, but IAP for additional content like maps and levels and such is absolutely fine.
>It doesn't make any sense to put up a building that's 10% cheaper, but ugly, when it only makes the whole project 0.1% cheaper.

That's the problem with most of the cheap/tiny/etc. housing schemes. By the time you account for whatever combination of land cost, overhead of common areas/access, utility infrastructure, maintenance, etc., you now have housing that is often substandard in some way that isn't actually much cheaper (and is going to be harder to rent/sell/re-sell).
Wall Street’s latest shiny new thing: quantum computing
DSLR will be larger than mirorrless. go for MFT mount(panasonic/olympus), they have smaller lenses. like the panasonic gh series. if you get older dslr make sure the hdmi is 1080p, not 720p. since you won't do any recording there is nothing else to worry about. you will be piping the image straight into computer via video capture card. if you would want to use it for video elsewhere, make sure you get "video camera" and not "photo camera" because due to import taxes they have limited recording time for 5-15 minutes. the gh series is a sure bet and cheapest option. gh4 is old but will do the job. used gh5 can be got for cheap and if you want to up it a bit get the gh5s.
Should just outright ban use of plastics, and have the companies producing these toxic products cleanup the oceans and drinkable water tables. The O&G industry has literally made billions of dollars for destroying the planet we share.
Consensus Time Series Motifs with Stumpy
Finding motifs (i.e., conserved patterns) in only two time series is so 2020! Check out this new STUMPY tutorial and learn how to discover a “consensus motif” that exists across a set of time series using the latest “ostinato” algorithm:

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You can https://www.e-consystems.com/13mp-autofocus-usb-camera.asp

I bought one of these for using with my lab microscope since the alternatives from thorlabs was 10x more expensive for no reason. It worked fine for a year then it stopped working. Maybe I spillled something on it? Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Since Windows these days handles such scaling just fine, this doesn't seem to be a big deal for consumers.
congress is and always be inertia towards less freedom.

It is truly a bunch of chaos monkeys behind a keyboard. Given enough time, their random strokes will result messy code that , regardless of best efforts at bug work-arounds, it breaks the app.

Something as simple as forcing 2 full reads in the physical presence of all YEA votes could end this 6000 page monstrosity.

Simple rules like random switching of winning candidates between each other (senator for assemblyman, mayor for health commissioner , etc) would take giant lobby money off the table since it introduces risk to any lobby "investment". What a dream to see lobby money at a big risk ! Make them think twice.

Finally, make a hard rule of 99% tax rate on every penny earned above the historical average for any public office holder (pre-election), and you stop the rags-to-riches path by using govt as the path.
I can not understand why I can not use an iPhone, as a webcam for a MacBook without third party tools (eg. epocCam), that require installation of drivers.

To me this is an obvious thing to do since Apple is so proud of its ecosystem. Especially in the time of corona when all the dslr / mirrorless camera manufacturers are releasing software to do just that.
Individuals cheating and lying is to be expected. Trust in institutions is damaged when they get away with it. The most damaging aspect of this story is that the cheats are being allowed to continue on the course.
Address Verification for Financial Services: How to Check Billing Addresses
Correction: "It's really impossible to overstate it."

This is an example of an amazing gap in brains' verbal reasoning apparatus, well attested in many languages. Often, even when the error is carefully explained, people cannot see it. It depends on a level of reasoning oddly inaccessible to many.
Include the DSP then. You have twice the budget of the phone to produce the USB camera.
> Separate containers for multiple services owned by the same team sounds like a lot of overhead. If I want to work on something do I have to spin up a bunch of containers, with all the overhead that brings? Can I easily use a debugger across all of the code that implements a given feature?

Most of the services just ran normally on a developers system, or we had a docker script that could spin things up locally, or you used one of the development sandboxes running on the system.

BTW, we had a system that allowed very low cost creation and management of containers (VMs in our case). I think that is an important detail.

Could you use a debugger for a feature? Most likely not, because a lot of our features already pulled data from external sources which you had no visibility into.

> You're talking like there was a single "owner" for each service? What did you do when they went on holiday / left? How did people share knowledge about the system?

Same problem every development team has. Who setup up the CI server? Who setup the front-end proxy? Who configured the AWS setup? Everything needs redundancy. We had a list of all tools and services and had multiple names assigned to each one. Even without services a team should have this.

> Dealing with an outside service brings a lot of overhead. It's harder to debug, harder to test. When things are maintained by a separate team it makes sense to treat them as an outside service, but within the same team why would you make all that extra work for yourself?

Because it worked really well and we didn't see that extra work. I disagree that external services are hard to interface to. They are hard to work with when they are buggy, but if they hit the specs, they generally are not an issue. I have no problem interfacing to S3. Because of the loose coupling, things were very extensible and easy to modify. A few times we would replace a service with a new one by adding the new one and slowly migrating everything over to use it. In some cases, that migration took over a year, but that was fine.

> Sounds like you need a better language. I agree that anything that might segfault belongs in a separate service, but most of the time the solution is to not use stuff that might segfault.

LOL, it was Python. Bugs happen, things break. Everything can eventually segfault for all kinds of reasons. Run a complex system for a decade and you will see all types of issues. I remember running OpenVZ before switching to KVM and occasionally we would even see kernel panics.

> How does that fit with "services only had to talk to other services from the same commit"?

You conveniently left out "or branch". Listen, I am not trying to sell anything, I don't care what you think. I am just sharing my teams experience. It was overwhelmingly positive using services to build a complex system with real revenue from Fortune 100 customers for almost a decade.
> Second chances here are what result in subpar military officers.

How did you come to this conclusion?

I believe in consequences, but I am neither a professional educator nor a veteran of any armed forces. I would defer to the head of this institution to arrive at an appropriate decision.
Recently I came across a new Ethereum Token (RFI) that automatically redistribute 1% of all transactions to all holders.

This is a Novell idea of redistributing part of the wealth. Since it is built into the tokenomics it works by default without any other intervention.
How Amazon increases conversions with short circuits
In AZ, the legislators tried to
https://patch.com/arizona/across-az/senate-issues-subpoenas-...

So far, the county election supervisors have resisted. I do not know what the next step that would compel them to force an independent audit. Maybe contempt charges?
If you're willing to buy out his share, I would approach the investor, explain the current dead lock, and get his support to force your partner to do a BMBY (Buy Me Buy You), where you offer him a price per his shares, which he either accepts or have to pay the same sum to you and buy your part.
care to elaborate on why your toddler needs so much CPR?
Sweden edges closer to NATO membership
At the beginning of the school year, I noticed some strange HTTP traffic going through my home router to China and India endpoints. So, I traced the traffic to the Chromebooks my kids in public school were using. About that time, my son was unable to access his drum lessons (Steven's Drum Shed, highly recommend) because safety software provided by the school was blocking him. After analyzing the chromebook more, I discovered the traffic going to China was requesting ads and then requesting the hyperlink for the ad (ok, so ad fraud it is). I also noticed that the safety software was logging all HTTP requests to their server. So, I went to the school district and requested they remove it. They initially said, "if we remove it, your kids won't be able to access their academic work." So, I sent a letter to the Superintendent that politely asked they remove the safety software from my family's chromebook as it violated my children's and my family's rights (unreasonable search, get a warrant). I also told them I would hold them responsible for the cost of having the software removed by an expert (which my lawyer suggested would be the thing that got their attention and we'd be able to win in small claims court). The next day, they removed the "safety" software.
PS3 Eye was a good webcam and there are plenty of them out there. Too bad nobody wrote good drivers for them.
> You can’t buy a good webcam because the number of people willing to pay a lot of money for a high end webcam is very small.

And the subset that is not easily fooled by proclaimed premium versions of the same cheap junk is even smaller.
Instead of lost sales, one could easily argue on the side of increased market and mindshare.

I do not think it is guaranteed. But there are no guarantees. Even Nintendo has had misses.
> It's because this really is about people's feelings and sentiments on those topics. And those emotions range wildly from totally supportive to indifferent to deeply threatened.

There's another dimension on top of even this. Nuance and shortcuts to commonly-held understanding, provided by body language and intonation, readily used in spoken discussion, are completely unavailable online. Typing out full, unspoken context for argument points takes far too long. So online discussions distill these deeply, deeply held feelings into a few sentences, which leads to oversimplification of one's own argument, and reductio ad absurdum of the other person's. So while "the internet" gives us this "wonderful" opportunity to discuss things that matter in an open and socialized way, it subtly channels such discussions into the most-hyperbolic form of "discussion" by nature of it being typed. Look no further than Twitter for the "best" example of this phenomenon. #SocialMediaIsDestroyingSociety
Ideology aside, what you describe is the behavior of your classmates, not the purpose of the system. This has always been a paradox in education: It thrives on freedom, yet freedom comes with the freedom to abuse it.

My view is that higher education comes with the flexibility to apply it towards your own use, which you have to decide. If that use is empty "signaling," so be it. If you want a real education, it's probably there for the taking.

Choosing a use for you would make education more paternalistic, and possibly not solve the problem of signaling anyway.

I did the same thing as you are doing, because I had a view of education that came from my family culture. Having no adult responsibilities and being taught higher math and physics for the same price as what my friends were paying for sociology and religion courses seemed like the ultimate cheat. What you learn will be of more lasting importance than your grades, and in any event, employers know the difference between the bird courses and the ones with real meat on the bones.
There are a small handful of panel manufacturers, that's true.

Companies like Eizo typically have agreements where they will take the cream-of-the-crop panels though.
It would be a hobbyist endeavor -- and look like one -- but a Raspberry Pi plus camera module would hit the mark.
Maybe to GP. The generic Japanese names in Japan are Yamada Tarō (male) and Yamada Hanako (female).

My Japanese textbook always had a Suzuki-san conversing with a Tanaka-san, who I guess were the equivalent of the stock characters "Marc" and "Sylvie" I kept meeting when learning French.
Almost 70 officer candidates engaging in conduct unbecoming of an officer at one of the most famous schools in the country*.
I'm surprised that Apple in 2020 still ships magnificent M1-powered Macbooks with crappy webcams.
> If you just look at how to derive the Einstein Field Equation of General Relativity from first principles, the constant should be there

I wouldn't go that far: Rather, adding it doesn't violate any of the heuristics used to come up with the field equations or action. So to avoid bias, one should keep it around. However, in the absence of observational evidence to constrain its value, it's also justified to start any investigation with its value assumed 0...
You can get an IP camera app and just use gstreamer to pipe it to v4l2loopback. Perfectly usable webcam available on /dev/video1.
Agreed with this. Retain your own counsel and do this.
Do NOT sell. keep 40% of nothing, matter of pride first and for all. Secondly, they are more than likely bluffing. They don't want to put advertising that would generate 5k/mo means they are trying to make things look artificially worse so you leave and keep the rest for themselves.

Don't fall for the 40% of nothing once you are close of making money. They just don't want to share the pie.
You generally don't want people that cheat, lie and can't pass calculus in charge of the largest military in the world
I was quite excited to try this when Fujifilm first announced it, but then immediately dissapointed when I found out it does not support the x-t30.
Like people posting leaked porn would bother to change the audio or pixelate mickey.
Google Play rejected Tor Browser update with security fixes
Phones can already be used as a webcam, e.g droidcam app. No need for special hardware.
My problem with this approach is that my system basically handles a complex inventory and allows complex orders out if it, orders you can modify/update/cancel over a very long (months) period.

So we do have data warehouse for strategic analysis and planning, but we need to also manage complex data which has to be consistent and available 24/7.
To mount a camera on my desk, I'm about to purchase this "Neewer Tabletop Light Stand", and a mini ball head with standard 1/4 inch screw for angle adjustment.

I can't vouch for it yet, but hope it arrives and does the job. There's other similar products in other sizes by other brands.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001657723138.html
Can you expand on why they want you out and what happens if you stay?
For any of the more legally erudite commenters here: what are the chances that something like this survives court scrutiny? Something like this seems to run afoul of free speech vis a vis the fair use doctrine as I understand it [1] so how large of a threat is something like this long term outside of it being able to cause an immense amount of pain and corporatist bludgeoning in the meantime?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors
I suppose I'd like to know more about the struggles people have, without the sensationalism and manipulation one usually gets from the the media. For instance, the matter of foodbanks (in the UK). On one hand, they are a great example of private charity, they stop food waste, and give people an option that might let them save money for something else. But on the other hand, usually the media reports it like 'Thousands turning to foodbanks in desperation! Foodbank use up 15,000%! These are dark times!'
On iOS there's an app called Camo. There are probably others.
> The USA is where I have experience specifically.

Found the money launderer ;)
> Windows recommends a hilariously crappy 1.5 scaling.

Windows has multiple GPU-accelerated vector graphics GUI frameworks. Well-written Windows apps look well with non-integer scaling.

> awfully glitchy Windows 10

Here's what you should do with new computers.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Make an installation USB drive, boot from that drive, remove all partitions from the laptop's SSD, perform clean install. You don't need product keys to reinstall Windows as long as the SKU matches (i.e. if you have Win10 home edition, reinstall the same edition).

Don't just blindly click through the wizard, read messages and you'll get better UX (you don't want cortana, personalized ads, geolocation, etc).

Connect to internet, run windows update.

Open device manager. If some devices are left in "unknown device" state, you might need to manually find their drivers. Make sure to only install drivers and not user-mode utilities.
Is this much worse than sharing assignment answers, which literally 100% of students do?
>This release updates Firefox for desktops to 78.6.0esr and Firefox for Android to 84.1.0. This release includes important security updates to Firefox for Desktop, and similar important security updates to Firefox for Android.

>Note: This update is not available on Google Play at this time because the update was rejected during the review process. We are appealing the rejection and working with Google so this update is available as soon as possible.

This was published a week ago. As of today, the latest version available on Google Play is still outdated.
> I dabble in game design and the plan is making the game code open/libre (not the assets or trademarks though) after some time passes (years or maybe even decades, depending on the success) so others can learn from it, extend it and maybe even sell it is quite a draw for me.

Some assets are code (procedural content, for example) though, how do you feel about those?

Also, one thing I've noticed is that for many ostensibly open source game code releases where assets are withheld, often no placeholder assets are provided either, without which the code sometimes can't be built, or if built can't be run or tested, which can present a significant barrier to the use or reuse of the code. All the more so when the original assets are in some idiosyncratic, non-standard, and possibly even undocumented, format.
Innovations in the financial sector leads to global financial crisis without fail.

Innovations themselves are good, but financial sector has the innate ability to run off the cliff with anything new. Neobanks and Fintech will not be an exception. Taking excessive risk with other people's money and government guarantees is rational thing to do.
> reading literature is harder than average with all those kanjis

Do you have a source for this claim? I have a hard time believing the average Japanese person has that much difficulty reading literature in their own language.