skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had (still have!) two Zenit E’s. Both were given to me for free - as is the way with Zenits - one in 1976 by a friend, and the other in 2004 by my father. Both of them still work and under the right conditions take great photos. The lenses give wonderful swirling bokeh that is difficult to reproduce with other lens+camera combinations. They are both as heavy as a Russian tank and I would not want to carry more than one at a time as in the article, kudos to them for that.
This reminds me I have a 200MHZ capable osciloscope that I only used when I opened the package and only tested the built-in function generator :(

Good thing I bought it cheap from China.
Really nice tip. I also struggle with this. Will try to use it.
I like this and think it reads true. Asides from the content, I also like the writing style and wish more pieces were similarly succinct and not weighted down with unnecessary pages of text before getting to the point.

That said, ending the piece with an allusion to "The Road Not Taken," a poem about how meaningless decisions make you incorrectly feel like you're in control, is an odd choice.
I had the impression that parent was implying that it’s not surprising for China to invoke IP protection - which is not the case with crime syndicates for obvious reasons.
Most bans are done by moderators, and moderators don't have access to upvote information.
(Largely anecdotal) I live in Vietnam. The garbage collection system here consists of setting small trash bags on the curb or just throwing trash in the gutter. Each night, scavengers tear open the bags and scatter the trash looking for items of value. Later, trash collectors sweep up the mess.

As you can imagine, this process means lots of trash never makes it to the landfill. Vietnam is one long coast with several major, densely populated river deltas. All that loose trash makes it’s way to the sea, to be broken down into micro-plastics by the sun and wave action. Those micro-plastics bioaggregate in some of our favorite fish and crustaceans. I suppose it is fitting that we consume it ourselves.

Recently, I travelled to Delhi where there is a ban in single use plastic. There was a lot less litter. This could be due to different a trash collection system, culture, etc. There was some paper litter, but I didn’t see the epidemic of plastic food containers I see in VN, Thailand, and Cambodia.
Is Interactive Video the New Normal for ECommerce?
Also, film the police.
I don't even know what I use. It probably changes in different repositories. I've never cared enough to check or set it one way or the other, and definitely don't care enough to have a 20 minute meeting with my team to decide.
The problem lies in the assumption that work you enjoy is better for your health than work you don't enjoy. I question that assumption. They're both work, they both take the same toll on your body, but one releases a neurotransmitter to tell you it's fun. Why would that difference make it healthier?
That's not a bonkers 3 wing airliner concept, this is a bonkers 3 (x3) wing airliner concept:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Caproni_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60
So Vale, Rio Tinto and BHP are behind all weapons in the world?
I guess I’m skeptical as to what is being claimed here. There have been various attempts to use the Greek phonetic values and logograms of Linear B to reconstruct Linear A equivalents. The only known sentences partially deciphered are votive formulations. Knowing the sound values doesn’t really help you anyway as we have virtually no information on Linear A at all. It’s pretty hard to understand sign equivalencies if you can’t even understand how a sign is being used.

The article is pretty vague; I’m not sure what these sign equivalences are supposed to be.
That wasn’t what I read, but it’s a lovely idea. Is that something we can have?
Tires and therefor cars.
I don’t understand the complaining. Sounds like a great camera for the type of camera it is.
I've always written "a", just because I think the other style is ugly. I have a Christmas stocking which I insisted, long ago, on having embroidered with the same style of "a".

I tried once to write "g" with loop below as commonly printed, but I couldn't make it look decent.
Global warming is an emergency. Ultimately what matters is minimizing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. You could do that by pumping oil into a landfill in a way that it can't be burned (note that it could be burned in its original state, that's why it was extracted for fuel!), or you could do it by taking CO2 out. CO2 is CO2. You should do whichever will reduce atmospheric CO2 most effectively.
Would we call this language Minoan to be more accurate? Just like we separate Latin from Italian.
It would surprise me a lot if there were no people inside both Israel and Palestinians that has the resources and international connections to buy high resolution imagery or simply direct access to satellites. Given a few millions in capital and a few shell companies, finding a commercial entity willing to lend access to a satellite for a few hours seems likely, unless control over satellites are much more militarized than I might think.
Generally nouns prefixed with mis- do; sometimes you just remove the mis- part eg. understanding vs misunderstanding, management vs mismanagement etc.
"Despite the frequent errors, courts typically treat certified narcotics dogs as infallible, allowing law enforcement agencies to use them like blank permission slips to enter vehicles"

The article gets it wrong, this is the idea.
Horizontal spacing differences are much easier to spot than vertical, with the images side-by-side as they are; would be interesting to offer the images one atop the other and see what difference that makes to the result.
Not intending to make the case that Covid-19 would barely be on anyone's radar, but here is a comparison with some past pandemics that went relatively unnoticed (afaik):

1957-1958 H2N2 pandemic[1]

- 1.1 million deaths worldwide (0.04% of world population of 2.9 billion)

- 116,000 deaths in the US (0.07% of US population of 174.9 million)

1968 H3N2 pandemic[2]

- 1 million deaths worldwide (0.03% of world population of 3.5 billion)

- 100,000 deaths in the US (0.05% of US population of 200 million)

Covid pandemic (so far)

- 3.39 million deaths worldwide (0.04% of world population of 7.9 billion)

- 586,000 deaths in the US (0.18% of US population of 330 million)

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[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemi...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.htm...
No it wasn't. I will keep repeating this fact on HN until my fingers fall off - lockdowns do not work. They. Do. Not. Work. The data is in and the data is unambiguous, lockdowns have no effect at all. The UK having worse outcomes than some other regions that had far less strict measures should be enough to kill this idea off completely, yet you cite that very fact even though it clearly disproves the notion that lockdown timing had anything to do with the UK's results.

As for your cited quote, would you like me to cite the thousands of other things government leaders have said over the course of the year that support my point? Yes, the PM is a naturally optimistic guy. None of the people around him are, and they've all been ramping the fear factor to 11 continuously, and in particular they controlled the public messaging not the PM. With the result that there is now a serious problem in the UK with people who are afraid to leave their own homes.
What percentage of single use plastics is responsibly disposed of? That's the question and answer to your question.
But I guess to OPs point, you could make a non-authoritative map based on satellite imagery, it just wouldn’t be legal to use in China.
The "viable" in the "Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable" is doing a lot of legwork there.
Once, a large city had a rat problem. The pests were everywhere, and none of the usual measures seemed to eradicate them. So the mayor posted a bounty on rats. For every dead rat turned in, the city would pay $5.

This strategy (although certainly better-intentioned) failed for the same reason your proposal would fail.
Surprised that nobody has noticed that the “a” - with a tiny riser - is used in Roman version of many typefaces and the other “a” is used in the italic version of the font. See this article for more information on that https://creativepro.com/dont-commit-the-type-crime-of-applyi... I see this mistake being made all over the place which as a former graphic designer makes me sad.
How do sobriety tests work with people with disabilities that don't themselves prevent the individual from driving? Hint often not well. If you can afford competent counsel you may well get the case tossed out if there isn't any actual evidence of impairment after they try to coerce you with threats of scary long prison sentences.

If there is anything that sounds reasonable about law enforcement in America cops all over America will nearly without a doubt find a way to make it unreasonable.
> ending the piece with an allusion to "The Road Not Taken," a poem about how meaningless decisions make you incorrectly feel like you're in control, is an odd choice.

I remember liking this poem but I never knew about this interpretation of it.

I looked it up on Wikipedia and Wikipedia agrees with you, kind of.

> It is a frequently misunderstood poem, often read simply as a poem that champions the idea of "following your own path," but rather it expresses some irony regarding such an idea.

> [...]

> According to Lawrance Thompson, Frost's biographer, as Frost was once about to read the poem, he commented to his audience, "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem—very tricky," perhaps intending to suggest the poem's ironic possibilities.

> Thompson suggests that the poem's narrator is "one who habitually wastes energy in regretting any choice made: belatedly but wistfully he sighs over the attractive alternative rejected." Thompson also says that when introducing the poem in readings, Frost would say that the speaker was based on his friend Edward Thomas. In Frost's words, Thomas was "a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other. He was hard on himself that way."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken
And the US government is dictated by a Israel-first policy. At least in view of the UNSC vetoes [0] and the weapons it supplies.

[0] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/43-times-us-has-used-veto...
Yes, and they display the converse. It's the existence of the converse behaviour which is distinguishing.

A machine which is just pruning a search space with a low-quality valuation strategy isn't doing anything very impressive; only very fast.

A human with a very high quality valuation technique, but a slow search pace, is relevantly impressive.
FWIW I'm going to defer to the virology experts on this one. I know when I am out of my depth, and when to seek expert advise.

https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/13942570285586391...
The whole point of running such a stand is to get high quality data from players and make the AI learn from them.

You don't 'patch' a reinforcement learning model, you just give it data to train on.
You'd hope, but people gotta peep.
The Colonial Pipeline Was Fine, Shutdown to Make Sure Its Owner Would Get Paid
What is the accuracy of GPS surveying?

I briefely looked through the pdf, and probally missed it?

I live in the Bay Area, and homeowners are concerned over a few inches.

(There's a huge need for cheap surveys. Until GPS gets it to under a inch, traditional surveys will off pipes, and landmarks, is here to stay? Or, am I wrong?)
One of the problems with these types of pieces that focus on trying to encourage activism rather than reporting on newsworthy topics they generally don't know the relevant facts in the areas being discussed. 20 firms is a surprising amount of diversity given the current level of concentration in manufacturing, which is well know to have economies of scale. Well known, that is, except to the BBC. Imagine how much more diversity we'd have if the top 20 producers in auto, airplane, laptop, cellphone, or chip manufacturing only had 50% of the market. That would really add more competition.

To put numbers on on this, in 2012 (I know, it was the latest I could find) concentration ratios in manufacturing were that the top 20 companies averaged 65% of market share for each NAICS manufacturing category (I am averaging along NAICS classifications in sections 31-33, not market share).

So the idea that in manufacturing you have economies of scale and so concentration is something that used to be part of a general reporter's education, so they could understand how uninteresting it is that half of all plastic packaging is made by 20 companies. But it's strange how unaware even the BBC seems to be of these topics.

Next up, they will publish a stunning reveal that lower priced products tend to outsell more expensive products. After that, a ground breaking story that firms which produce more goods tend to have lower average costs per unit produced.
I don't think that its existence was disputed. But banning people for their views doesn't convince me of there being no controversy. I think this is typical behavior if someone challenges dogmata.
Would it increase security if I ssh from a docker container?
They are hiding the scale of it. Destroyed houses, trees, farms in Palestine. It is a map, it shows the scale immediately
Yes so you can choose these fantastic cars..
https://www.locardeals.com/best-current-sleeper-cars/
Maybe because it claims "they are unrelated" and then spends some time describing the relation? That is, between cracking shareware and its language filter to avoid said cracking.
> “Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,”

> It's a pretty big problem for society when hospitals, universities, and countless business have been ransomed.

Well, at least their "ethics" page does state that they will not attack "hospitals, hospices, schools, universities, non-profit organizations, or government agencies".
Pretty much every nation that has a trade surplus with the USA, worse it's also possible that a trade surplus between two non USA countries can result in the purchase of treasuries if they transact in USD.

I say "worse", because this money can only enter the US economy by making the government run a deficit, if it does not do this then unavoidable unemployment is the consequence.
I think there is some evidence that lockdowns at least offered partial mitigation, but my memory is fuzzy on that.

If you remember, please do post so I can take a look. Because, the evidence I've seen is all completely unambiguous and resolves the question completely in favour of "lockdowns do not work and have no effect". And actually there are now many simple examples of that, of places where restrictions were not applied, or were applied much less strictly, or were lifted, and no differences were observed in outcomes (e.g. Sweden, Florida, Texas, South Dakota, Belarus, Japan etc).

It is entirely possible that everyone wearing masks + distancing + limited contact duration may be "effective".

If that were the case then sudden behavioural changes caused by mask mandates should reliably cause graphs to drop or obviously inflect to a lower growth rate. That should happen everywhere mask mandates come in and are well enforced (which they are, this has been measured). But we don't see that. Of course you can cherry pick a few graphs where there seem to be such inflections, but when you look at lots of them it becomes clear there's no correlation with anything.

I doubt(/hope) no one believes that if I take a healthy and infected person, give them both surgical masks, and lock them in a small room together for a few hours, that the masks will prevent the healthy person from contracting covid.

I see people wearing masks outside all the time, as well as in empty cars. Health 'experts' say nothing about any of this. So, I'm pretty sure lots of people do believe that unfortunately :(
Every time there is some news on some research breakthrough in a technological field, lots of people comment how it is unrealistic, not yet a working product...

Yes, it's research if they had a product they would have founded a company and made lots of money already. I suspect these comments are due to the fact that many here are in software, where an idea can essentially instantly transition from research to production. In hardware that can take decades (and there might be lots of deal breakers discovered along the way).

Now if the complaint is about the press releases reporting on those breakthroughs. That is a problem with the pressure on scientists to work on relevant problems (often strongly called for by the same people who then complain it's not a product yet), and demonstrate impact.
At the end, signed up for the mailing list but their address indicates this is a project from within Facebook? Like a sneaky recruiting project?
Yes, but there is a limited supply of demand, so to say. Though someone can create as many currencies as they like, they need people to be interested and this is not so easy. So, there will be a long tail of crapcoins and a few that will take 99% of the market.
Nice tutorial. I like the examples of using debug pod with a command to troubleshoot a crashing pod, and the one for logging into the node as well.
Terms and Conditions Game
civilizations come and gone, hopefully throughout the universe, are such a deep romance to me. the ancient egyptians should be enough to get you to this mental state. one of the largest and most mysterious structures in the world was built by them and still exists. expand this concept to the entire universe and boom my mind is blasted.
I don't quite understand the value of using a LaTeX editor in JupyterLab. For most purposes, JupyterLab already supports a subset of LaTeX within the Markdown cells.

Perhaps, the objective is to make JupyterLab the IDE for everything. I just hope JupyterLab doesn't go down the path of becoming everything for everything because honestly, I just don't see why the community's attention should be divided to solve problems that they aren't in the business of in the first place. But as a demonstration that you can run a latex compiler with JupyterLab plugins, great!

I recently started using Texpad [1]. A pretty fair $30/year/seat price point, if you want a local alternative to Overleaf [2]. Their incremental compilation is delightfully real-time; the lag from typing to rendering the PDF is virtually zero.

There are a few unsupported packages which I think are mostly not needed [3]. For instance, the minted package for code highlighting is something that I felt I needed, but then almost never do. The support for microtype package is hopefully coming soon. In any case, the usual fallback is available to MacTex and is supported within Texpad.

[1]: https://www.texpad.com

[2]: https://www.overleaf.com

[3]: https://www.texpad.com/docs/tutorials/tex/typesetters/texpad...
It's not clear it's helpful in understanding intelligence to simply redefine terms to be "whatever the computer happens to be doing". In this way it will always appear that a computer is intelligent; trivially.

Rather we should start with what known intelligent systems (ie., animals) are actually doing, and then compare.

I think it's extremely unlikely the mechanism of intuition in relevant animals (esp. humans) has anything to do with heuristics for pruning a search space.
> I remember growing up in the 90's and happily learning in school and on TV that it was my civic duty to recycle.

You probably learned the three R's, reduce, reuse and recycle, in that order. On the whole we've mostly forgotten about the first two and with plastics they're the only 2 that really apply. Before they were banned by the holier than though types I would at least re-use plastic shopping bags as rubbish bags, that was way less environmentally destructive than pretending to recycle the plastic packaging they were filled with.

There's more to recycling than plastic though, glass and cans can be recycled indefinitely.
But Google are claiming that the erratic behaviour was caused by the remote assistance in this case. So they must be able to control the car.

Yes, VR is far from perfect, granted. But is it worse than what they appear to be using instead? Apparently they couldn't see the traffic cones properly from whatever system they were using and repeatedly gave it bad instructions, even though what to do was obvious to the person in the car. It seems like VR should be compared to the existing system rather than theoretically perfect vision.
Because if you use HTTP over VPN, then you really have to trust your VPN provider. Why should you do that?
Rocket is unguided. Missile is guided.

ATGM are missiles, but they are close range and used to attack vehicles (armored usually) - they are not useful for attacking long range or building/bases.
Is there a justice system anywhere in the world that actually does state-driven financial punishment on police to disincentivize false arrest? (E.g. all costs stemming from a false arrest being taken as treble damages from the department and awarded to the innocent accused, automatically, without the accused having to bother to sue?)
Isn't an heuristic the exact definition of an intuition (i.e. a way to evaluate a complex situation using simpler rules that woks most of the times)?
Does this come in book form? Or does someone have any good recommendations for good books that have this kind of format with a lot of different vegetables?

Would love to hear recommendations for general gardening books too.
ESP32 SmartClock Kit with Weather Forecasting
Turns out, Karma isn't a bitch after all.
Huh, TIL! It'd be interesting to see what percentage of users got waivers vs charges over time.
Why are people insisting this came from a guy eating a bat-burger and bat-fries meal with absolutely no evidence?

My common sense info is that a super-virus popped up right down the street from a lab designed to create super-viruses(funding signed off by Fauci, and much historic public info/discussion exists about what type of work was being done at the Wuhan lab), China disappeared the lab people, and biggest red-flag of all is that the corrupt propaganda media (CNN, MSNBC, Business Insider, etc) is trying to rub it in everyone's face that the lab story isn't true.

Next line of discussion is how much jail time Fauci should get for enabling blatant malpractice while setting himself up to make a fortune.
I am not nearly as knowledgeable about this as many of you and I took my time through the test. It was interesting though parts were not challenging.

I was most disappointed though to find that the text in the button to "Show my score" that allows you to see how well you did seems to have an extra space between 'my' and 'score'.

Thanks for an interesting diversion.
Reminds me of how they're using machine learning these days.
It meets your criteria in a loose sense but I’d recommend Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
If the penalties are a slap on the wrist, I'll be thinking of starting a life of crime, its gotta be easier than than hard work.
Can you please elaborate on what this has to do with the topic at-hand?
Higher taxes for single-use plastics will just mean that the consumer ends up with less money and the same environmental damage (they'll pay for it). What's the point? Such issues should be solved with technological innovation.
The 68 was a lot more deadly amongst the young. Shutting the world was a political decision not a fact of the virus' behavior.
Fashion Brands All Seem to Be Using the Same Font
This declassified video is maybe relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ujx_pND9wg