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> 70mm film looks great in 4K though (2001, Nolan movies, etc).

Best to leave modern productions (like Nolan) out of the conversation, IMO. It can give an unrealistic picture of what resolution is achievable. Take Lawrence of Arabia for example: it's possibly the paradigmatic example of a 70mm film, and yet in most scenes the resolution is no better than an upscaled 1080p. This is due to a combination of problems: film stock degrades relatively quickly and was generally of lower quality 50+ years ago than today, and focus pulling was not precise enough to take full advantage of the available resolving power of 70mm film.

Unfortunately this is also true for many scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Take a look at these comparisons here: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=12517&d2=12509&s1... You're looking at an upscaled 1080p film versus native 4k (tonemapped to have roughly comparable colors on SDR screens). There's little if any more detail in the 4k image.

On the other hand, 35mm film certainly can have details visible only in 4k, especially more recent stuff. Check out this comparison for Casino (1995), the difference is unbelievable: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=13389&d2=13388&s1=134076&s...

I agree with you about HDR though. It's certainly the most important improvement that's come up in the last decade, much more than the resolution increase.

> It's a shame there is no 1080p HDR content. 35mm movies would benefit a lot more of higher color bit depth that higher resolution. Anyone knows if this is a codec limitation?

Yes and no. The standard for Blu-ray (which uses H.264) is not able to accommodate HDR or 4k, so it was not possible until the release of the UHD Blu-ray standard. Players with the UHD standard support 4k, HDR, and the HEVC codec instead of H.264. HEVC (aka H.265) can support HDR at any resolution, but since you're releasing a "UHD" disc anyway that only people with supporting players can use, you may as well put it on there in 4k anyway. Better for marketing, probably. So it's a bit complicated. If you check bittorrent trackers, you'll probably be able to find 1080p films with HDR (encoded with HEVC), but no one in the industry releases films that way.

(Also, the higher bit depth is not quite as important as the extended dynamic range.)
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Facebook and governments are very experienced at spinning news in a way that makes them look good.

The Australian government was looking for mandatory negotiations with media companies, forcing them to pay for content. They relaxed that "mandatory" clause a bit and added longer periods for notification and negotiation.

In the past year, Facebook has signed revenue-sharing deals with most of the major news platforms in Australia (ongoing) and on Monday of this week, they announced they would be investing $15 million in regional news media.
https://www.fool.com.au/2021/05/10/facebook-to-invest-15-mil...

Google has also signed contracts with some of the major media companies.
The AirTag will start making a sound after a while, and yes they have plans for working for law enforcement: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227#sound

These kind of devices have been available for years, including from Samsung who has just as many phones out there as Apple. Of course as soon as Apple makes one – taking extreme pains to address privacy concerns – everyone pops up to armchair quarterback.
It's not creepy for a manager to notice that you are working 12 hours a day and tell you, "Hey, this doesn't seem long-term sustainable. Why don't you scale things back so we have some slack for when a real emergency happens."
> Mayors, academics, journalists, financial analysts, even pastors — all of them, it seemed, were quitting their jobs.

LOL @ burnout. The people who are really burnt out work in hospitals and we all pressure them not to quit. There's nothing burnout-ish about the pandemic, quite the opposite, it's a long pause, a period of silence which gave people ample time and space to reassess their options.
You have to look at Facebook as a national threat.

Ban it. It's the only way.
I have an infinite backlog of work, and I leave work at 5pm on Friday and don't even check my work e-mail until 9am on Monday.

I had two stakeholders insist that 3 things all get done by the following Monday; I reported that wasn't going to be possible. They could not agree on priorities, so I sent an e-mail with the order I was going to work on them that went unanswered. The 3rd thing on the list didn't get done. My manager asked me why and I showed the e-mail chain. I got a "good job" and never heard about it again.

I would not have had the confidence to do this even just 10 years ago, and I suspect that the majority of junior engineers feel that way, and would work through the weekend to get everything done.

Whose fault would it be if I hadn't set boundaries and burnt out? I think there's shared blame and it depends on details. In this hypothetical situation, did my manager notice a lot of weekend work happening and check in with me? Perhaps they wouldn't because they expect a senior engineer to handle this balance, but they would have checked on a more junior engineer? Things aren't completely cut and dry.
Thank you, I'm so honored by your remarks! I put a lot of sweat into this.
Carriers are dead, thanks to hypersonic missiles. As carriers obsoleted battleships in WWII, hypersonics have obsoleted carriers in the 21st century.
Love it! Really helpful visualization. Gives me a better feel for the mempool.

Some thoughts:

- Why are transactions dropping in bursts?

- Would it make more sense to have the latest block at the bottom, then the white line on top, then the mempool on top of that?

- It might be cool to give some room to a context of the whole blockchain.

- "3 minutes ago" on each transaction hover popup would be helpful.

- It might be fun to add "highlight a transaction", and then someone could use this and see their transaction in the mempool while they wait

- An "ETA" until next block might be helpful

- Perhaps also show $USD?

- Can you make one for BitClout?
There are already many sources of outdoor air quality data, you can find maps like this, for example: https://aqicn.org/map/world/

Monitoring household/office/school indoor air quality seems to be a relatively new trend, but the impact of indoor air quality is actually quite strong so it makes sense.
Isn't it simple? Information is the content of a message from one intelligent being to another such that the recipient can understand the intended meaning of the message.

Random bits a can randomly arrange into a a configuration that looks like information. But that is not information because there is no intended message behind it. Whereas if an intelligent being organizes a set of bits into a configuration say like in a zip-file which looks like random bits, it is information because it can be decoded into meaning.

Information can not exist without "meaning".
If it wasn't completely illegal, I'd argue to give each homeless person $10,000 and to exile them for life from the state of California.

I guess if you get arrested in California after that maybe you get exiled to Siberia or something
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WhatsApp will gradually stop working if you reject its new privacy policy
Most ransomware attacks involve windows domains. The chain of events is usually: land a beach head (perimeter vuln or phishing), find domain admin with bloodhound or similar, steal domain admin creds with mimikatz or similar, encrypt everything.

There's multiple points in that chain to address. You'll get the most leverage by reducing domain admin population size through privileged access management.

Tool to help understand the problem: https://github.com/ericalexanderorg/easyhound
Email for Async/external, some kind of chat for close team Sync. Same thing for 20 years.

I do appreciate a Slack channel in the right conditions.
Thanks! https://soundcloud.com/n-gram-music/sets/formalisms has the concept driven experiments. Details are in the track descriptions. 'look closer' was the morse and images test. The funnier one is 'brainfunk' which was to see if I could encode a brainfuck program in arbitrary lyrics. 'exegesis' is a riff on old 1950s dance instructions, but using PKD's description of what became The Matrix, but in the 70s.

They're contrived, (hence formalisms) and the other play lists are more musical, but I thought these were still fun enough to share.
> Apple has nothing to gain by killing off the Mac via the iPad.

If tablets are going to replace laptops for consumers in the long term, Apple would prefer that those tablets be iPads. If that shift means the iPad eats the Mac, so be it.

This already worked for them once - the iPhone cannibalized the (then-very profitable) iPod business with Apple’s explicit support, and now the company’s worth a trillion dollars.
The original title is WhatsApp will gradually stop you calling or messaging contacts if you don't agree to its new privacy policy, which is 27 characters over the limit. Please feel free to change the title to something more appropriate.
It gives me a cover for my insecurities (I'm "bringing home the bacon" so I have something tangible I contribute) and a low-guilt escape from my family (I'm an introvert, but also have a nagging feeling I should spend more time with my wife and kids).
Ultimately though, if your workload is too high then a manager is the only person who can relieve that pressure valve, just a little bit. They have the power, which means usually they have to adopt the responsibility (what e.g. Junior IC is going to ask their boss for less work while also going through a rough time?)
> The act of trying to force someone to do something, whether by (implied) threat, logic, emotional manipulation, or whatever, can mortally wound a relationship making getting a concession you want moot.

Precisely.

If you want to keep somebody on your team, you don't play this kind of game. These sort of zero-sum take-all-the-marbles negotiations are reserved for when you don't care at all about any future relationship (which should be very close to "never").
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Also consider asking for a small pay increase when you start the remote work conversation.

Justification is the money the company will save on office space and equipment and utilities and snacks when you're working from home.

And then graciously "settle" for maintaining your current wage, having forestalled any talk of lower/location-based pay for remote workers.
Perhaps it's a period a long pause or a period of silence for you, but to assume that's the case for everyone who's not a hospital worker is incredibly naive and harmful.
I'd love to read that too.

Be sure to post it back here when you publish and also link to it from your Github repo (in case it doesn't land on the front page of HN).

I've been playing around with simply building a metronome using nothing but native JS and it's a chore. I'll have to check out Tone.js.

Great work!
Permutation City is the most fresh and insightful view on consciousness I have ever read. Every page is mindblow after mindblow of ideas you thought you knew but have never seen them taken to those consequences. I look at computer science as a beautiful philosophical minefield of interesting takes on language, existence and consciousness, and Greg Egan is a huge part of that. I never found someone who writes like him.
All "pretty" and all, but it's unclear what's happening.

It's necessary to underscore that two wrongs don't make a right:

Israel is wrong for the sniper attacks on unarmed civilians including on women and children, clearing holy sites with "nonlethal" force without provocation, and maintaining a disenfranchisement of and sanctions on Palestinians worse than apartheid. Hamas is also wrong by launching indiscriminate rocket attacks. If Hamas renounced violence, it would have the moral superiority to gain greater recognition as Fatah once did.

All this is happening because Israeli right-wingers assassinated Rabin just before the peace deal so they can keep murdering for ideological reasons ("push them into the sea").

One side has to say "enough" and so either the other side keeps going and is pressured to stop, or it stops of its own accord. There is no winning a war of attrition. The US could make Israel behave if it wanted to, but it's like daddy's little girl who can do no wrong.
I know that it's 1/200th of earth sea level but based on how deep those canyons are you might get 1/20 at the deepest parts. Maybe enough for water to not immediately evaporate.
App Store stopped more than $1.5B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2020
At risk of sounding belittling to those spend their life giving their labor to someone else, I think we can't go on indefinitely because we aspire to get something better out of our lives, and somewhere perhaps deep in our minds or hearts we know we need better.

After all this whole concept of spending a career at someone else's company only started in the late 20th C when the industrial rev created the modern corporation.
I really want a way to take an old eve online thing of charging people who aren't a contact for the ability to ensure delivery.

If I have a business relationship with someone I'll add them to my contact list. I assume they can do the same. Otherwise gimme see BAT or something for the spam
Well,I imagine pretty much all marine researchers like scuba diving. But it only goes the one way. Most of us that like scuba diving will only be occasional visitors to the underwater world.
dear god, why???
It’s funny you mention ThoughtWorks, I’m happily (enough) employed right now. But I’ve thought about applying for years. I appreciate the offer :)
Ditto.

My email account is basically a searchable archive of confirmations and receipts.
Do it enough and it's just easier to leave it on. Especially for females.
Facebook would rather be booted out than remove data collection, because they (probably correctly) have determined that a service like theirs cannot exist without advertising unless a global ban is created.

If they are banned in Europe, the new service will be pay to use in order to generate revenue. In which case, nobody outside Europe would use it. In which case, barely anyone inside Europe would use it.

Facebook knows this, and likely Germany knows this. So, they're really deciding whether they want Facebook or any Facebook like site to exist in Germany. I would be very surprised if Facebook lost this battle.

If you think I'm incorrect, just realize that the only way china was able to get their citizens off of Facebook was to block them entirely. And even then, nobody outside china cares to use their social media platforms.
Everyone knows the true measure is lines of code deleted.

(Congratulations!)
One could view this as the efficiency gains due to economies of scale being passed on to workers.
What happens when you try it? I was able to get it to work: https://rephonic.com/tools/podcast-reach/history
youtube has great content for science, from popularising to courses and conferences. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWvq4kcdNI1r1jZKFw9TiUA
recruiters resorting to cost effective measures to find qualified candidates because supply is limited
Honestly, I thought flask was mostly just in maintenance mode. Glad to see it progress!
So far looks like some internal DNS issue, so unsure how your comment is relevant.
I run my own email server, and have for many years. More recently, Verizon/Aol/Yahoo have been a pain in the butt for our larger email lists, even though we run a very clean operation. Still, our deliverability is, on the whole, better than through the much more expensive providers, such as Mailchimp.
Is anyone using QuestDB in a memory constrained scenario? I've been running InfluxDB 2.0 on a 1GB RAM VPS (+2GB swap, currently collecting data every 5s but would prefer more often) for monitoring my home network, and it gets OOM killed if I try and view more than one day's worth of relatively simple data (ping, jitter, upload/download usage, cake sqm latencies, cpu usage), so I've been looking to replace it with something with a smaller memory footprint.

Most of the DB benchmarks I've seen are missing memory usage, which imo matters more for hobbyist/small scale users who are fine with paying $0-$10/month, but would rather not pay ~$30-40/month for the 8GB RAM minimum a lot of time series DBs seem to want.
I have moved most of my stuff to FastAPI. It’s so much more enjoyable than flask. https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
> What precisely constitutes a burnout?

You know you're burned out when things that used to motivate you to get up early and work through lunch now feel like burdens. Not just work stuff either, but burnout it starts affecting your life outside work, on things that you thought had nothing to do with work.

> a challenging situation

You're challenged when, even if you don't know how to get through it, you have in your mind a structure, a way of getting through it. You know you can figure it out, you just have to work it out, and the process of working through it energizes you. You're over-stressed when you don't see a way through, or when you see the way through but dread doing the necessary things.

Tolerance for stress depends, in part, on a person's level of resilience: your ability to face reality exactly as it is, your sense that what you do will have some meaningful impact, and your self-confidence in your ability to handle the situation. You might remember a time when you were a kid and something you dealt with seemed like the end of the world, but now you look back and wonder what the big deal was. Your ability to manage stressful situations grew.

In short, when you're burnt out, you're tired even when you get enough sleep, you are reflexively cynical and critical of the work, and you begin to feel like problems you should be able to handle require extraordinary efforts. Those feelings happen now and then when you're not burnt out, but if it becomes chronic, that's burnout.
I had the same problem, changing the 'keyring' bit to a smaller one I had laying around helped a lot but it is still bulky.
Deadline approaches for WhatsApp privacy changes to take effect
Thx for those suggestions... I will do all of that.
All depends on how it was encrypted. There's some decryptor options for vulnerable ransomware.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ransomware/decryptor/ech0ra...
You tell me because I don't own a DVD player. :)
HN does not seem to have a DM feature, and the OP does not have any contact credentials listed.

This is off topic, but OP, do you happen to be White in this game? https://lichess.org/0dv2oS4f It recently came up while I was prepping the French from Aagard’s book, and if so: cool, and small world!
When will it happen?
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I’ve always found it funny how I have a degree in engineering and my title is “data scientist” whereas my coworkers have a degree in computer science, yet are called “software engineers”. Business titles are peculiar.
If you depend on PGP, knowing that there's an incentive to break it, and that people are actively trying to do so is good news. It's in your interest for it to be very well tested. "I can break PGP and spoof Debian packages" is an interesting conference talk. "I can break PGP and save your business $40m in ransomware costs and only charge you $10m" is a business.
As casual python user I found Flask really nice for my projects
CIA did it. Dont be stupid.
Will the last person to ever buy a Ford after this has been implemented, please turn out the lights,...
It's kind of horrifying to open my /Applications folder and realise that it contains probably twenty web browsers, eighteen of which are disguised as stand-alone applications. Often very simple ones.

BalenaEtcher, a pretty front-end for a bunch of drive-copying terminal commands, is over 200 megabytes. A competent developer could probably recreate its functionality with 20 kilobytes of shell script. Yes, this script probably wouldn't be cross-platform, but I dare say that there's more than 20 kilobytes of platform-specific code in the current BalenaEtcher app already...
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At old job, I remember working with external orgs and my coworkers. Coworkers would pretty much talk over Slack. We would use email/zoom for communication with external orgs. At new job, we use Slack Connect and I think it replaces a lot o that external emailing.
All those things are possible with tons of device on the market, and has been possible for years. I don't really know what your point is. Yes, this can be used in a bad way. Just like the car you purchase can be used in a bad way, to kill pedestrians. But what is the point of those what-if scenarios?
I've moved most of my Flask projects to Express and NodeJS.

Flask was just a PITA to deploy properly in a way that it could handle lots of concurrent connections without a massive memory footprint, and async in Python is a mess.

The JS ecosystem has on the other hand moved to async and Promises as the standand/default way to implement things, which makes things much easier.

Express middleware is also just easier to write than Flask middleware.
Palestinian Rockets Intercepted by the Iron Dome system over Tel Aviv
It boggles my mind how developers bought the marketing that the iPad Pro can be a good for software development use case. Apple's marketing and distortion field is truly impressive.
Nice, I'm using Starlette on it's own and it's been really nice to work with.
It's a dangerous subject, but it only takes a slight change in wording to turn a take-all-the-marbles conflict into a positive example of you offering them an opportunity. See,

"Give me remote or I walk."

Versus,

"I found this great role at this other company, and the work they do satisfies me on a deep personal level. However, it's not remote, and if you let me stay remote, my present position would be way better. What do you feel would be right?"
I have 5 of the Plantower PMS5003. It's what PurpleAir uses (2x) too.

I used one on an arduino to measure the 2020 Bear Creek fire PM / AQI measurements in Paradise CA. PM 2.5 and 10 were pushing 900+.

Inside, with 2 3M Filtrete 2900 filters with the fan on constantly and a BlueAir 680 the AQI was about 5.
I do wonder if Apple will add monitoring of the speaker output to ensure it's still working. You could actually just do this with just the accelerometer: they might even be able to add it with a firmware update.
Feels a lot like uploading PHP via FTP. The world moved on, I expect to test this stuff locally and if it breaks because of screwed up vendor tools, there better be source code.
Two of the most expensive regions in the US are not representative of talent. The world is a big place with some brilliant engineers at very different pay scales.
For learning, I prefer deep dives. The little progress every day model only works for me when I have a large list of small things to do that incrementally progress forward.

For retention, however, I prefer a hybrid model. With some deep dives to actually get a chance to get into the flow with the topic at hand (and then some), but also breaks to digest the information.
how are people managing healthcare.

COBRA is too expensive for me
ACA plans are terrible unless you go for the most expensive one.