skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to pick on Roger he writes well and his stuff is way higher quality than most DPReview content.

He rents lenses, and a big point of what I'm saying is these fancy lenses are very often specialist tools that are much better to rent from someone like him occasionally when you need something very special, but that doesn't make them better items to own vs the less expensive & smaller/lighter 50mm lenses.
That's the point though: the quantization absolutely introduces errors, but there were there to begin with. You're comparing the computed result of my "cheap camera" not with its competitor's sensor output but with the hypothetical focal plane of the competitor's lens. And that's wrong, because the competitor has pixels too.

The error you get out is of the order of the sampling error you put in. That's true of all lenses.
It does certainly verge on being a tabloid at times.

While I don’t know that it’s a reputable source, neither is the NYT, or public health for that matter, when it comes to matters with clear elements of race. When you sign an open letter saying that police violence is as much a public health threat to Blacks as the pandemic, you’ve lost all credibility. I don’t know that we even posses the capacity to know the truth anymore.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jyfn4Wd2i6bRi12ePghMHtX3ys1...
If you fall in the water strapped into a chair you will drown.
Also very curious why would anyone take issue with that comment.
Self-promotion and exaggeration of mediocre achievements as the path to success has been around since time immemorial. If you can't do, talk.

Julius Caesar didn't become dictator for life by doing a great job repressing the Gauls. He became dictator for life by doing a great job of talking about how bad-ass the Gauls were, and how hard he had to work to repress them.
Show HN: Scammer taking advantage of Coinbase's bad customer service
I have been waiting for weeks for Coinbase to help me with a simple issue (verifying my account so that I can move money received in my Coinbase wallet)

I tweeted at the official https://twitter.com/coinbasesupport account (which is what Coinbase recommends) but did not get any reply. I also have not heard back over email.

This scam account however did reply, and you can see that they sent > 400 tweets with the same M.O.:

https://twitter.com/Coinbasewallet_/with_replies

"Hello. We would like to inform you that we cannot give specific account information over social media for security reasons.
Please, send us a private message and we will be more than happy to help you!D"

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Bad Coinbase customer support has created this opportunity...

On this note, does anyone know how to reach someone at Coinbase? I should probably just move my money elsewhere at this point. Any reccomendations? Thanks
What large social media sites do you consider better moderated than Facebook?
IBM and MIT kickstarted the age of quantum computing in 1981
Oh, do you happen to remember this OpenDoc vs OLE (with Gates) t-shirt?

https://www.depop.com/products/chard_on-vintage-microsoft-op...

I went to a big computer trade show at Jacob Javitz center in the 90s and got this same shirt.

On a side note, my memory of OpenDoc isn't as rosy as others. It was very slow and memory hog, when memory cost was astronomical. Use cases was too niche for ordinary users.
Excellent point!

We know that evolution is optimizing for continuation or duration (technically "evolution" isn't a thing, it's a non-volitional chemical tautology with no purpose or intrinsic meaning so "it" cannot optimize, however, in practice, life is optimizing for more and continued life, overcoming radiation, impacts, and it's own consequences (like the advent of oxygen and aerobic metabolism)) so what is the other system optimizing for?

(As an aside, is "life is optimizing for more and continued life" a definition for "life"?)
Q: Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works?

A: Medecine.

I think many old remedies have been tested and then get refined to work better. Willow bark was used for thousands of years as pain relief but now those chemicals found in the bark have been refined into aspirin.
> today's culture

Not a historian but I strongly suspect self-promotion is not something new.
Deepnote – The modern way to teach Data Science
Apparently not, because you don't know that he gives credit to his employees. You also say he calls himself a genius, but I've never heard him say that - although technically he may well be. Certainly he's well above average intelligence to teach himself rocket science.

You have this opinion of him in your head and you're just trying to say that's the real Elon Musk. But it's not, and you haven't actually seen enough of him to know that. It's a strong opinion held in ignorance - which is something the world could use less of.
Some authors seem to chop up their novels into 3 or more novellas. Vandermeer's Southern Reach was all released around the same time and could have been one book from the outset. He would probably deny it, but w/e. Can't say I blame authors.

Word is that people on average don't read more or less than in the past. If that's true I wonder what's responsible for disparity. Are there more authors than before?
sounds like escheat?

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/799345159

>QUINN: Yes. We forget about retirement accounts, insurance policies, safe deposit boxes. When you forget about stuff like that, after a certain amount of time, the state is able to step in, take ownership of your unclaimed stuff and hold onto it until you can come and claim it.
A while ago I read a comment that was really eye opener: most big YouTube photography channels out there are mostly about gear, not about "taking pictures". It shows how much money the industry moves (or how prevalent GAS is).
If I sleep with a slight breeze on my face, I will sometimes wake up with a mild sore throat. There can be half truths in these types of beliefs.
Not many under 13 years olds I know get unrestricted access to the internet.
As someone else mentioned, the civil asset forfeiture has surpassed burglary. With that continuing to increase, it might actually be statistically safer to keep it under your bed than at the bank's safety deposit. I guess it depends on a deeper analysis, but with just that info it starts to become comparable.
Roger Cicala knows a lot about lenses and pushed lens manufacturers to have better testing and quality, he created https://www.lensrentals.com/ because he got sick with low quality checks of lenses:

When I started Lensrentals I had a lot of conversations with service centers that went like this. Me: "That lens you repaired still sucks". Person at service center: "No, it’s within specs". Me: "What are the specs?" Service center: "We can’t tell you". One day, after I raised hell with a factory service manager, he patted me on the head and said, “testing lenses is complicated; you don’t have the background to understand.”

Any of you who has ever seen a physician after someone says something like ‘you wouldn't understand; it’s complicated’ knows what happened next. I had no option but to spend a couple of years buying testing equipment, offering internships to really smart optical engineering students, and developing a lens testing center and methodology that was as good as anything in the industry.

He is also capable of writing about hard topics in a way that most people can understand them.

Anyone interested in camera lenses should read also his previous posts https://www.dpreview.com/members/1329131098
There’s a lot that worries me the these days. Covid, global warming, inflation. But nothing worries me more than the cultivated disinterest and lack of knowledge in American civil liberties in our country.

People should read this story and see it as a brazen abuse of your 4th amendment rights. It should be upsetting, and worrying.

It seems that our liberty is under attack on almost every front. The “speech is literally violence” crew, those that cheer the abuse of state surveillance because the target is a political enemy, and the “blue lives matter” crew who close their eyes to police tactics that are literally killing innocence people.

These civil liberties are not additive qualities to the American constitution. They’re foundational elements that can’t be removed without a collapse.
In summary, the universal Turing machine uses a non-binary alphabet but is only meant to simulate Turing machines with a binary alphabet given a description of the Turing machine in a defined format and its input. By making the initial tape content of the simulated Turing machine non-binary, the universal Turing machine can be made to execute a further Turing machine contained in the input of the simulated Turing machine. Whether this works also depends on the description of the simulated Turing machine but the authors claim that most machine descriptions are exploitable but without any further discussion of this.

A possible fix would probably be to simply halt when the Universal Turing machine encounters something other than zero or one in the region of the tape that represents the tape of the simulated Turing machine except for the symbol indicting the head of the simulated Turing machine.
I have to ask, what’s the benefit of the app to Facebook? Are they serving ads to kids? Or are they hoping to bring them up with Facebook firmly as part of their digital identity?
Britannica lists him[0] as physicist as well.

[0]: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Bardeen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

> His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication.[4][5] Cliffhanger endings in his serial publications kept readers in suspense.[6] The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback.[5] For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens improved the character with positive features.[7] His plots were carefully constructed and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives.[8] Masses of the illiterate poor would individually pay a halfpenny to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.
It's not that clear-cut.

There are debates as to what "relates to" (wording of GDPR) means, and that seems to be open to interpretation depending on context and data. Unless there is a definitive decision on this, I think it is reasonable to claim that source code is not personal data.
Oh, great - now you make me one of the lucky 10,000 to discover this today and there goes a half hour down the existential rabbit-hole - too much fun!

(srsly, good reading, thx!)
“This is art.”
Pharaohs these days seem to have much tackier taste than they used to.
Even if ssivark's position that 'squared' would be less appropriate than 'double copy' were debatable, would it really help you to understand what is going on here to call it squaring rather than double copying, or would it just be giving the impression that it is clearer because it is expressed with a term that you are more familiar with? All I can say is that it would not make me more enlightened.
Good point. I would imagine/hope there's some kind of compressed air device that would inflate upon impact with water.
Nijute: How to Solve Impossible Problems
I've noticed all my life, that governement and community buildings are very strange - all purpose-built. A courthouse; a post office. Laid out to be just that one thing.

What it means is over the years as communities grow, they get to be too small to manage the increased traffic. So another one gets built. Then another one. Each purpose-built again. My town has 3 old post offices. Two old libraries. Old newspaper offices. Old courthouse. Old jail.

And since they were purpose-built, the old building is not good for much. It gets used as a makeshift office space or gutted and split into badly lit low-rent apartments.

Why not build community buildings to be general-purpose? Why not just use a regular commercial building and lay out the offices and cubicles and storerooms like any other business would?

Just one of the odd human things, that's bothered me all my life.
China's privacy laws could be stronger than America's
isn't that just a headless CMS set up?
I hacked something like that for my wife so she can blog...It uses Hexo [1] and a web-ui and a bash script that opens up the localhost/admin url into a fresh browser and then when she closes the script it kills it and frees resources back :)

[1] https://hexo.io/
It's not that I don't trust the burnout, but I want to know what aspect is causing burnout. Is it talking all day? Is there stress because someone is watching you work? Are you not taking enough breaks? These things aren't all specific to pairing, which means that pairing wouldn't always be the issue.

Sure, some people are just not the type of people that are good at pairing, and that's valid, but it's important to identify the problem. That's where trust and support comes in. If you can't talk about why you are feeling burnt out with your team, then there is a deeper issue that your team needs to figure out.
Dollars. Somebody's going to follow the dollars. If it costs less to build a toothbrush without bluetooth (and it absolutely does), and if the most of public doesn't care enough about bluetooth to pay more for a toothbrush, then the one who makes bluetooth-less toothbrushes will make more money. Somebody will do that.
I love my Contax Zeiss Planar 50/1.4. It's small and compact, feels like a precision instrument, has lovely rendition, is sharp as a tack in the center at f/2 and sharp corner-to-corner at f/4, built like a tank, has a super long focus throw for precision focusing, and cheaper than most equivalent modern lenses.

It's perhaps my second most frequently used lens, after the 28/2 "Hollywood" Distagon (which isn't really all that sharp off-center, and sports very strong vignetting, but produces a beautiful, dramatic quality).
Chinese team designs 62-qubit quantum processor
It really depends on the individual, more so than the company. We have one team member who previously lived in NYC, then moved during the pandemic. This has been classified as a "convenience" and requires a continuation of taxes in the state. If they re-enter the state in the new tax year, the state can argue a continuation of this. The point isn't that the state is right, the point is the risk of an audit and overhead of dealing with it is high and we don't want to expose team members to that nightmare.
Whither the Price of Bitcoin? (2019)
It’s not slavery. But, I didn’t say “slavery” so don’t use straw man tactics.

It is better than before. But it’s still oppressive. There are shades of grey.

In medieval times the relationship between serf and lord was also couched in the fancy language of promises and debts. That doesn’t change anything. And bear in mind that those stocks represent permanent ownership of the work output of people who may not have even been born yet.

When the slaves in the American south were freed, in many cases they continued to work at the same plantations under the same masters as sharecroppers instead of slaves, with the ownership of property and land used as a lever to get them to work instead of owning the people themselves. A positive step? Yes. At least it wasn’t actual slavery anymore. And modern day workers have considerably better conditions than sharecroppers did. But there remains room for improvement.

You probably can’t get rid of all forms of unfair leverage and exploitation. There is no such thing as utopia. But I do believe that every worker ought to own the products of their own labor.
Entirely depends on which is more likely, which probably depends a lot on where you live. No such thing as perfect security etc. but the trade off could make sense.
> Not-So-Safe-Deposit Boxes: States Seize Citizens' Property to Balance Their Budgets (2008)

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4832471&page=1
I've always had my eye out for time travelers from our future (I've had my eye out for UFOs as well, with about the same rate of success). It sounds like Bardeen could make the short list.

To this point I had been focusing on Edwin Howard Armstrong....

;-)
You'd drown strapped into the shown equipment too. Getting out of a chair is probably easier.
Ach, I'm a little jelly (jealous.) :) That's so cool!

How old is it? How is the taste? Is the cane woody or is it more like bamboo or something else? Does it flower?
On the other hand the large retailers can stock huge amounts of books. There is no limit anymore.

That said, I tend to pick my books from the top lists. But I'm not a frequent reader.
For some highly complex books, a reread is more like a re-analysis of the text based off of ones existing knowledge. There will be nuances and details that were missed the first go around, that is uncovered the second time around, making the understanding of the piece richer. It’s like mathematics- everything is built on fundamentals.

(Some people also derive comfort in familiar stories.)
If you have a scalable product there is usually no middle ground. Either you are getting rich or just getting by, or even not getting by (last one the most likely one)
Are you burnt out? Every person needs a break. Well in the end, programming is a means to an end. Sometimes people obsess and see the skill as the ends. Some others see it as a tool to achieve their goals. Anyways maybe take a break/vacation or something.
Arguably, the dominant OS nowadays is whatever your phone runs, plus whatever serves the websites you consume. Microsoft Office reigns unchallenged though.
1000 books sold does not imply 1000 true fans. Just because someone spent $10-$30 on a book, that doesn't mean they read the book, or like the book, or are willing to drop $100 for the author's next book (or next 12 months' output).
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death. We like to imagine we’ve come a long way from treating ghosts in your blood with cocaine, but we haven’t.

https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139
I also find re-reading books frequently have diminishing returns, but after some time, you and your world changes, which results in you having a different point of view when you re-read the book.

As you change, the meaning of the book to you changes as well, and gives you new perspectives along with new ideas. E.g. a specific villain or a side character in the book might not be attractive or simply confusing to you, but as you re-read the book, you realize that you get them and they now make perfect sense.
Windows may be the dominant desktop OS, but Linux (via Android) has a larger install base now.

As for office software, G Suite took over the top spot from MS Office a few years ago.
Quite an assumption to make about those that don’t like to re-read books. I love reading, I’m very picky about the books I read, and yet I find I’m only re-reading a small handful of books, many years after I last read them.

What am I to read in the mean time?
Better performance for dynamic linking with -fno-semantic-interposition
I agree completely. I guess I'm around 15 years in and I've had enough setbacks, mental and physical, to know that just making it from the bed in the morning to the barbell at some point in the day is excellent on its own. Regardless, I get a real kick out of that feedback - seeing evidence of my strength increasing.

> You'll be amazed how quickly you can build strength back up

You're not kidding. My most recent break was my longest, and I was dreading coming back to it. I felt like a hot sack of garbage, any exercise was awful, and I was soft as it gets. But maybe 2 months after I started up again, my lifts were not all that far from where I left them. I had no idea I had it in me. I guess I took almost 3 years off from any regular lifting (had a baby and life got away from me).

These days I don't really lift for anything other than strength and general well-being, though I started with a pretty explicit focus on building muscle, haha. I stick to a fairly basic 3x3 routine rotating a handful of compound lifts, then I've got a handful of calisthenics-based exercises I've come to really enjoy. Weighted pull ups, dips, push ups, some ring exercises, etc. I keep my reps low there too, usually between 5 and 10.

I really love 3x3 these days because I find I can go hard without overdoing it. I used to do a 5x5 routine and sometimes, shit, I just don't want the extra reps at all. I don't need them. I'm there to condition my body, not beat the hell out of myself. With 3x3 I'm arguably stronger than I've ever been, less muscular, and definitely less injured. I never got hurt too much, but those nagging pains and aches aren't as much of a thing anymore even though I'm older and shittier than ever. It's definitely an individual choice, though. Some people love the higher rep, lighter weight thing. I'm a slow, lazy, poorly motivated person who's pretty please if they just manage to show up.
There really is no need to hack the firmware to do that. You just have to replace the battery with a cheap passive nfc tag configured with your malicious URL.
That is sad. :( In happier news, I wonder if you can look at things in terms of "creators of entertainment" rather than just authors and get a happier picture.

Like, for example, let's just consider authors and video game creators. Let's suppose that in the fifties, before video games, there were, say, 100,000 full-time fiction authors in the US. (That number sounds awfully high to me, but maybe.) Today, according to this article, there can only be at most about 7,000 full time fiction authors in the US. But according to this page[1], there are 260,000 people working in the videogaming industry. So if we only consider these two industries, that's 160,000 more people getting paid full time wages to create entertainment.

That's sad if you want to be an author, but if you're concerned about the overall creation mix of society, then maybe it's not so sad.

[1]: https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/employment/vid...
Youtube for kids is fine - at least the Apple TV app. it's carefully curated. They show The Wiggles, Yo Gabba Gabba, Kid's Bop, and some Sesame Street. It may make parents want to run and hide but I'll happily leave my 3 year old in front of it.

There are ads, of course, but tolerable ones. Certainly not any worse than what I watched on commercial television back in the day.
Sure, more examples are CSP solvers and AMPL. They are all somewhat specific though. I was wondering if it would be possible to make one that's "general purpose" in the same sense you call programming languages "general purpose", i.e. one you'd write application software in.
Pirated ebooks have definitely chiselled away at the business. I haven’t paid for a work of fiction in nearly a decade thanks to ebook-sharing communities. Just 2–3 years ago LibGen was something known only to a niche of torrentfreaks, but it seems like suddenly all of my bookish friends know about it and use it.

(The exception is when I like a classic work of literature enough to want to buy a hardback copy that will last the decades. But that almost always means buying on the used market, because older hardbacks had quality sewn bindings, while hardbacks today are likely to have flimsy glued bindings. So, thanks to publishers skimping on quality, the author gets no remuneration even when a reader of the ebook decides to purchase the physical artifact.)