skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting statistic you should note. When people are asked whether they are happier with or without children most people pick happier. There is a positive correlation between picking happier and how wealthy someone is.

Interestingly, when asking people how happy they are on a scale of 1 to 10 without bringing children into the picture what you see is that people without children are always happier.

What I'm thinking is this. People are generally unhappier with children but certain things in the brain block most people from realizing it. How effective this block is depends on how unhappy you actually are. A person in poverty will be more self aware of the unhappiness brought on by their two screaming kids then the rich person. Not all people have this thing in the brain.

I suspect you rate high on psychopathy so you're able to see truth where other people's views are clouded and deluded by an endorphin rush. Like I mentioned you should also ask yourself how rich you are, but I think this is irrelevant to you given how you mentioned you derive zero energy from being with kids.
Why would you trust his opinion on BTC? Does anybody here think he spent hours studying how it works to be able to make an informed comment? Would you ask your grandfather about Netflix or smartphones? This guy didn't invest in neither Microsoft or Apple. Can he be trusted to be on top of the latest technology that if it works is not even going to affect him in any way? I don't think he knows enough about BTC to make such a claim.
Found a replacement for the (broken) video link in "WATCH THE VERY FIRST FILM VERSION OF ‘ALICE IN WONDERLAND’ FROM 1903":

https://youtu.be/zeIXfdogJbA
The hacking group reportedly responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown
Responsible to his shareholders, who want a maximum return on their investment. He may be a clown, but the fact is that he is very good at giving his shareholders a return.

These industries are legal. If you think they should be abolished, fine -- but don't go around getting angry that people are investing in legal businesses that produce popular, if harmful, products. Until these industries are illegal, someone is going to invest in them, and because these industries are extremely popular those who invest in them will see their wealth expand.
Sony DSC F1, 25 years later review
> * Redundancy (if you are on holiday or sick somebody else still knows the code deeply)

This is the part I’m always puzzled by. I read and understand every line of code my team merges in. If I don’t feel like I fully understand it, I ask questions, in code review. If I’m still not getting it I may ask for a zoom meeting. But that’s maybe once a week. Consequently I can jump in and manage issues or bugs pretty much anywhere in the product, and it’s fairly complex.

I think there are two kinds of programmers, those who quickly read and understand code and those who more quickly understand from talking about the code, and these two groups will always talk past each other when discussing pair programming.
The Three Body Problem trilogy also leans heavily into that theme.

It's a good series at first, but gets very woo-woo by the end.

Spoilers:

All aliens are actively hostile to others. Any civilizations they find, they destroy.
Can we talk about how Microsoft made Windows 10 unusable on hard drives?
like snake oil ?
The Cloudflare __cfduid cookie is gone
> Production of low-margin processors, such as those used to weigh clothes in a washing machine or toast bread in a smart toaster

Oh no! What will we ever do? Have to toast bread by pushing down the lever? How barbaric.
Also traceable.
Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys General Say
What is more fun is the latency those effects add to images. Found that out the hard way playing some twitchy 'have to be just right' on the controls games. In my case it was almost 1/4-1/2 of a second. Even with all of the settings 'off' there is still a decent latency on the screen (down to about 70ms) which is just enough to mess me up on some games but not all.
> there should have been at least 1 swing up or down by a lot.

says who? why is this your criteria for "manipulation"? Are you saying that it's only been manipulated for the last 8 weeks?
Correct - the general assumption at the time is that GNU Hurd was about to bust out and become the main free software kernel. Remember that computers that COULD run practical Unix for home use had just become relatively available - and Linus wanted to play with his new 386 and the fun instructions provided therein.
According to the article real wages have been climbing for the past 20 years or so and only in the last year have caught up to the average wage in 1974. I don’t believe the article states what you claim.

Based on your experience which of the following have increased in price less than wages have increased over the past N years?

- Housing / residential real estate
- Commercial/Industrial real estate
- Stocks
- Cryptocurrencies
- Healthcare
- Higher Education

The article specifically discusses asset inflation which you ignore. Consumer price inflation only applies if you live in rented housing, never aspire for higher education, never get sick or old. For the rest of us asset price inflation is just as relevant as consumer price inflation.
Foreign Entrepreneurs to Gain More Access to (US) Immigration Program
It seems like a solution in search of a problem? How often do you need to embed a spreadsheet in word-processing document?

Furthermore, making components from multiple independent vendors interact seamlessly is just an incredibly complex problem. The web is probably the most successful decentralized system, and this is because the common integration point which all must support is very very simple: URL's and links.
Apple Gave Zoom Special API Access for iPad Camera During SplitView Multitasking
> Luckily I was (mostly) able to stay tech-focussed rather than moving into pure management

Can you expand on this? Like what was the title, or was this a unique role to your business?

This thread has really resonated with me and where I might want to be taking my career.
The one constant in life:

Though frequently illegal, duels often avoided prosecution, possibly because the participants tended to hold positions of power, such as United States senator.
Scams are inimical to civilzation, and hated by Hacker News posters. I don't see the contradiction here.
I am curious what kind of problems have you seen? I am transitioning some of my systems to journald, and I am very interested in things that could go wrong.

So far, I tried looking at logs from the dead system using “journalctl -D” - it seemed to work. And the way how the log files from each boot are always separate is pretty handy. Other than that, the only problems I have seen were having more to type and having to learn more commands.

Am I in for a nasty surprise?
It's either donating or contributing work hours to the FF codebase, otherwise it's not really conducive towards ensuring FF succeeds.
They already do a lot of passport issuance and the like, so probably wouldn’t be too much of a problem to expand if they did it gradually.

That said, they’re currently struggling to even deliver packages or letters under
the new leadership (around the time of the election I had multiple mailed checks go missing permanently, and a letter take a month+ to go within the state where it’s usually 3 days max), so maybe putting our hopes on them to save the economy through a massive new program is not a good idea?
I wonder how quickly one would sink in one of those things. Definitely does not look like it would be easy to swim in.
What I don't understand isn't the design of the lenses, which are chasing ever-tightening windows of precision in a competetive market with high margins and discriminating consumers. Of course they're going to be overdesigned.

What gets me is that lens distortion is a fully reversible convolution. It's not lossy, at all. Or rather, it's only lossy in the sense that the existing quantization in the sensor is already lossy: pixel boundaries, spectrum of the color sensors, etc... all have straightforward analogs in both space and frequency domain.

Basically: why hasn't someone come out with a camera with a junky single-piece lens and a fancy image processing backend and won the market?
Six day work week isn't even that uncommon anymore. Lots of people work 9-10 hours, including one weekend day (maybe a bit lighter that day).
There was also a resurgence in Soft F/X type filters until the Photoshop in a Can type of makeups came out.
It's a really common theme actually, almost a trope in sci fi.
Interestingly, I tried several modern Canon lenses about 8-10 years ago and very quickly sold them because they were all not only producing subpar images compared to almost all my lenses from the 1960s-1980s, but they were also made of f-ing plastic and had an incredible amount of backlash in the rings.
If we’re recommending series in general, I recommend the Broken Earth Trilogy be NK Jemisin and The Poppy War series by RF Kuang. These series have a completely different approach to fantasy as a lens of society that I really adore.

I’m also a big fan of the Daevabod Series by SA Chakraborty. That is also hella.
Either your decision/deduction procedure terminates on all inputs. Then the property you're going after is trivial. Or it doesn't and then the property you're going after is generally undecidable.

If you can symbolically evaluate a program and this always works for all input programs, your input programs are already restricted in that they are not computationally complete.
It’s your right in Europe. It’s offensive that some would expect a non-European organization to comply.
> Presumably they would reshuffle things in order to fund Firefox's development, too.

What makes you presume this?

> If at some point those donations outpaced Google, or the stability of Google's funding comes into question for some reason, then I'd like to show there are other funding models available

The problem with this is timeline. If the donations naturaly outpaced Google's funding that'd be great, but it seems unlikely. On the other hand, if the stability of Google's funding came into question, how long would it take to ramp up alternative income sources? This isn't something that could be done overnight: it needs to be called out and contingencies considered early (now).

> I also like their non-Firefox work

I also like some of their non-Firefox work, but none of it is unique/essential. If Mozilla stopped all their other work tomorrow, and only developed Firefox, there would still be good alternatives out their to their other works (e.g. Lockbox->Bitwarden, MozVPN->Mullvad).

Good alternatives to Firefox are much rarer, and most truly open alternatives are incredibly small niche projects like Dillo or Otter Browser that aren't really very mainstream-usage-ready.
Ask HN: How are you storing your crypto?
Curious how security conscious users are going about the secure longterm storage of their wallets.
Pairing all day, every day is a relatively rare version of pair programming. In every case I’ve seen, pair programming was only done for a few hours a day or in select circumstances such as architecting a system.

Browsing the comments, that seems to agree with what most people have experienced at their jobs, with the exception of a few horror stories about companies that forced 8-hour per day pairing and paid the price for it.
I despise code reviews, because the criticism is shallow, and offered too late, after the work has been done. I want the review in real time, and at a greater depth of insight. This is what pairing provides.
To be fair, nobody's wages were particularly high 30 years ago.

Although the money has been decent, programming complicated devices has spoiled me for one thing..I have just about essentially zero interest in web technologies, products, languages. I've always gotten to work on the sexier version of embedded work and so feel really blessed, it's not all about the lucre.
It's 100% true. HD changed everything from the makeup to how sets are constructed, painted and lit. Even at the level of your local newscast.
There are several high visibility papers on lack of reproducibility in drug development by Pharma, so I don't think there is a particular bias in less reproducible research. Indeed, since life sciences research in academia is almost all funded by the NIH, with grant reviews/renewals every 3-5 years, there is probably more scrutiny of academic research than commercial.
A number of countries have used postal services for banking with good success (especially early on). I’m decently familiar with Singapore’s, but have heard of others.

When doing some searches I randomly ran across [http://www.campaignforpostalbanking.org/know-the-facts/] which seems to be strongly advocating for it.
Montage of Atonia
just finished editing this 3 part vid remix series which i mostly created during the first year of the pandemic. an expression of my spending too much time stuck inside browsing r/catastrophicfailure vids & staring out my window contemplating the meaning of our loss. i miss u. [OC] / remixed content
Ok, that's on my Amazon Wishlist now...

With that out of the way - could this be one of the devices that have been used/spotted at high altitudes by plane pilots?
"Sell 30 April at 142!"
After the simplification of spelling system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1... ), German got a big advantage: you can write and read nearly everything, even if you don't know its meaning.

Due to much more complicated grammar German is much more difficult to learn than English, but at least the spelling is easy.

I wonder why more languages never try to simplify their orthographies. Children could spend years learning useful things, instead of wasting time on spelling.

Controversial opinion here: they should have removed ß (sharffes S) completely. It is still used in some relatively rare cases.
> If someone invents a device that lets any random teenager easily and cheaply release an aerosolized neurotoxin into a city center and kill thousands of people

Replace neurotoxin with chemical weapon and this is already a thing — I may be overestimating the industriousness of teenagers, but there is a toxic chemical a motivated teenager can make in two distinct ways using only things found in a normal kitchen.

Thankfully it was a rubbish chemical weapon even when deployed militarily in WW1, but it is a possibility.
Yeah, modern lenses are definitely computer-designed but if there's any ML being used, it's almost certainly very recent.
James Bond comes to life. Goldfinger was ahead of its time.

https://www.bondsuits.com/007-coolest-james-bond-suit-moment...
"A full 40 percent of the drugs behind the pharmacist’s counter in the Western world are derived from plants that people have used for centuries, including the top 20 best selling prescription drugs in the United States today. For example, quinine extracted from the bark of the South American cinchona tree (Cinchona calisaya) relieves malaria, and licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) has been an ingredient in cough drops for more than 3,500 years."
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/medicinal/inde...
I bring up the existing documentation, and have them run through it mostly on their own with me sitting there, asking me whenever they have questions. I watch over their shoulder and nudge them if I see something going awry. They jot down notes that they'll use to update the documentation later. Once they're up and running, they ping me whenever they get stuck, and then jot down notes for the documentation later.

The important part is that they read the docs (as a sanity check that the docs still make sense to a newcomer) and perform the actions themselves. I don't touch the keyboard except when it's a complicated, exceptional issue that they're not expected to deal with at this level.

The other important part is that they update the documentation.
Most newer TVs have a game mode that significantly reduces latency by getting rid of almost all processing, including stuff that you otherwise can't disable in the menu.
These tests are done by infosec staff who don't know how to code or contribute anything useful to a company, great reason to fire the whole department and start over
I feel that online office suites only became viable because they had multiplayer Word and Excel before Microsoft did (and Google Docs was free).

The "online" aspect was so good that people overlooked the shortcomings compared to Office.
CVE?
> satellite data has ruled out any habitable planets in a close enough radius to ever be detectable by seti even if they did have intelligent life

Satellite data? What Satellite data? What do you define as "close enough radius"? Why?
But the question is specifically about that edge case! So how to handle it, if the "robust battle-tested parser" is of no help?
But of course they have - every major smartphone manufacturer is eating the whole consumer camera market alive for quite few years now.
calling yourself an "elitist" is definitely a word.
I've been using a 46in 4K TV as a monitor, and the lag from the video processing felt super odd, until I switched the HDMI input to "game mode".
I have to wonder how many of those gigs are getting an ugly legacy codewad dumped in your lap with a short deadline to add features to somebody's automatic swimming pool cleaning product.
For a select few: Yes.

For most: No.

Joining that select few is extremely hard, and becomes harder as the space gets more crowded. The winners approach it as a business with a lot of effort, money, and even risky bets poured into making it work.

The real money doesn’t come from YouTube any more. It comes from sponsorships. You have to be able to invest the years it takes to build an audience of millions before you can get decent sponsorship money.
Not many. I was doing short term contracts for a while, anything from a single day to three or four weeks on site. Over the five years I was doing that I visited a lot of companies. I could count the number I would consider working for on one hand.
Just curious, what’s included in the “sexier” version of embedded work?
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3247...
Always listen to your grandma.

Most people understand their parents' generation fairly well, but there is a lot of knowledge in generations further removed from our own that generally gets dismissed. That's not to say we should easily believe things from the past without evidence, but there's merit looking into and formally testing old ideas.
I can not comprehend the mindset that would let someone work for years on building something, and then go, "I know what I want this to be used for: Murder!"
So edifying! Deserves its own post really. They encoded data in a covert channel using backspaces, which is super interesting. The next level was looking for a way to change the contents of a message and potentially a code book update.
Are bots allowed here? I've never seen the kind of utility bot that is common on Reddit.
I’m reminded of the KISS principle - which is held in high regard on a number of distros.

I would interpret “no handholding” to mean “easy to implement”.

As I understand it - Simple, as a term of art, doesn’t often mean easy. Simplicity is elegance in design, though not necessarily elegance in implementation.
In many cases, we're not being given the choice. Nobody builds 1,000sqft houses. When they build 1,000sqft apartments, the rent is mortgage-level. When they build 500sqft apartments, the rent is, at best, a couple hundred dollars cheaper. Few cheaper options exist, aside from co-living with other people/couples/families.

I'm reminded of Innuendo Studios' statement about porn: what becomes standard is not often what the majority wants, but what a minority wants and the majority will tolerate.

Developers optimize for developer profits. They know a bigger house will sell for more than a smaller one, so nobody builds smaller ones. And since "no housing" isn't an option, people will begrudgingly accept housing that is bigger and more expensive than they want, if it's the only realistic option.

My choices aren't constrained by my own greed; they're constrained by that of people with far more capital than me.
I wish they disclosed a country of origin for each organisation participating in the project. I had to click through a lot to find out some of them are based in countries with appalling human rights track record.
Now I am thinking whether the agenda to bring open computing is genuine or is it a front to make dictatorships independent from western technology?
Is it fair to compare OpenDoc with something like Notion? It has the same concept of being able to construct documents from many smaller relatively independent parts, except of course that the parts are all created by the same company.
"debunked"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235018/
I would argue that this happened with smartphones. "Real" cameras are generally for people who want to chase that optical precision, but for people who are satisfied with a good-enough post-processing solution will generally be satisfied with their phones.
Nobody has done this with a full frame sensor, as far as I know. I'd be interested to see smartphone image processing with a sensor that size.
CPR is about 5% effective:

https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/shows.php?shows=0_wz98...

Furthermore "AED and CPR Are Equally Helpful for Sudden Cardiac Arrest in the Home":

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/automated-exte...

So this app is not likely worthwhile. And the article quotes no statistics that indicate the app is worthwhile.
FAI – Fully Automatic Installation
Great explanation, thank you
oh batched '__') that makes sense..
clickhouse also fast if batched, but not fast when stormed with lots of small requests
1080p HDR does exist (video games, mostly) but the lack of it is basically tied to the fact that there are no consumer TVs that can do HDR but not 4K.
Isn't that exactly what modern smartphones are doing? I think it's quite impressive what Apple and Google are able to do with clever image processing.
possible yet improbable
Not sure if this is what you're implying but OpenDoc wasn't a competitor to Office, it was a development framework.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
I love 50mm lenses but a lot of this stuff is ridiculously academic since photography is artistic & creative in nature.

DPreview largely seems to write for the crowd that doesn't even care about the art aspect and just wants validation that they have better photo gear than others.

These new 50mm lenses often defeat the point cause they're enormous, heavy, very expensive, and have little benefit over the slower versions of old lenses since most of the time we don't walk around shooting everything at f/1.0-f/1.4, and when we do we're actually looking for some artistic weirdness.

I've mostly had Canon.. I've owned the old f/1.8, the f/1.4, currently have the newer f/1.8, and have rented the f/1.2.

Even the Canon f/1.2, it's older, and not as big/heavy as some of these more recent ones, but it's already so big it feels silly most of the time compared to the smaller/cheaper ones.

It was useful as a rental for specific scenarios, and the new huge/expensive ones are likewise. They're great though if you're going to compare your gear collection instead of your photographs though.
Avoiding meat is the 'single biggest way' to reduce your environmental impact