skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a RAW image with your phone, take a JPEG of the same scene, and then compare.

If the scene is challenging at all, the JPEG may look fine, but the RAW will look like it came out of a 1990s webcam. No dynamic range. Fuzzy focus. Harsh/blown out highlights and muddy shadows.

There is astounding computational sorcery that smartphones use to make that tiny dot of a lens and sensor produce acceptable photos and videos.
For years McDonalds and other fast foods in America bundled toys with Happy Meals. Building cheap little toys is way less expensive than big budget media.
Nice intro, but it's very vague and not nearly a complete overview.

There is a good book written by Jens Gustedt [0] which is a great guide for C with all the new stuff. The book itself is CC licensed and code examples are MIT licensed. Jens is one of the good guys.

[0] https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/
Thanks for this link. Bought!
I have a hard time believing that a business will go out on a limb to take over an open network, with the plan to expand it and commercialize it, while also thinking "let's make it more like 8chan".
That's called profits and they are getting plenty of that.
It actually looks like the Blu-Ray DVD of The Fugitive is $10. Though in general, older content (whether e-book, streaming movies, or purchased music) never seems to be as much cheaper as you'd think it "should" be. I imagine most of the rights holders don't want to get into a race to the bottom for non-blockbuster content so they tend to stay around industry price norms for newer material.
The Russian language does not have the present tense of "to be", i.e. "is", "am", or "are". It is simply omitted, which can be confusing at first for some learners (like myself). The infinitive "to be" exists though.
That latter aspect, registering your account with NickServ does seem to sucks somewhat.. Apparently there have been some bots active which have registered a whole bunch of nicks which previously existed on FreeNode. #libera is full of people (including myself) who are asking if staff can do something about this nick squatting. Understandably that will take time and I've simply registered another nick, but man, you get attached to a 15+ year old nick you've been using on OFTC, FreeNode and a bunch of other ye olde IRC networks..
Has a lot of sound and music though. Its an animated square with jump anims etc. A lot more work went into that game than whats described above.
Ah yes, I misunderstood what they were saying. I was confused because the details didn't quite match up...
> I also don't like how there looks to be an upcoming split in the plugin community when Vimscript 9 releases and the neovim community will ignore it while plugin authors in the vim camp (e.g tpope) may start moving their plugins over to it.

Honestly Vimscript 9 always felt like a serious case of "not invented here". Bram could have easily chosen one of many existing languages, but instead decided to take Vimscript and make it even more bizarre (this was even more so the case at first as IIRC block delimiters for example were really odd).

Setting that aside, you could also argue that people moving their Vimscript plugins over to Vimscript 9 is a problem on their end because it makes the plugins incompatible with NeoVim. In other words, the argument is basically silly.
Yes, this and the very common use of passive voice (at least in LATAM): El vaso se rompió vs Rompí el vaso.
"Floppy" refers to the media, not the packaging; some (3.5") had harder plastic shells, but inside was the same floppy plastic material.
Hard disk platters were/are rigid (metal or glass).
Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich's colleagues fear for their lives
And this should be a sign to every founder-wannabe and capitalist:

You can buy hardware, trademarks, and DNS, and stuff.

YOU CANNOT BUY COMMUNITY.

YOU CANNOT BUY GOODWILL.
"IFR" (infection fatality rate) is not the be-all end-all metric of danger.

you don't have to die to suffer harmful long-term consequences from COVID, it appears to cause all kinds of organ damage including to the brain, this includes "the young", and these people usually did not suffer "severe" acute reactions during their infection.

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4470

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210401/many-show-long-term...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/health/covid-psychosis-me...

it's not safe to get covid period the end, even if you're "young" and even if it doesn't kill you outright or even hospitalize you. it's still a dangerous disease and the spread still needs to be minimized.
I am glad you asked this question because this is what is missing in these situations.

Where does the individual bear responsibility in any of this?

Instead the public tends to focus on the huge evil corporation who struggles to even keep up with our demand for the very product we are damning them for.

There are 1.4 Billion cars on the road.[0] Somehow that is Shells fault? Really?

I'm not saying Shell has not committed any sins but we will need to do something about the 1.4 Billion cars before anything changes. All of those cars need to be fed. Someone will feed them.

[0] https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-advice/how-many-cars-are-th...
NeoVIM seems like a big upgrade over a lot of editors.

As a very casual Emacs user who never got excited enough for the "self-documenting and programmable editor" idea, VIM gets more appealing by the day for me. I am also using Spacemacs for a year or so and it's definitely better than normal Emacs. Haven't tried Doom Emacs and I doubt that I will, regardless of a lot of positive feedback.

I mean, Emacs is alright but I am just not in the club of the people who'll use 25% of their workday chasing an Elisp error and maybe fix a plugin in the process. Always hated the heavy IDEs like Eclipse and IDEA so this led me to Emacs but I still prefer stuff to come semi-configured out of the box. I know that NeoVIM will require some love for that but I'm prepared to do it because it looks like much less work than Emacs.

I'll try Emacs' `native-comp` branch for supposed quicker Elisp operation but I don't have much hope that it will help my grievances.

Sadly, my 19 years of casual Emacs usage are coming to an end soon.

I'm looking forward to trying NeoVIM.
The drops in the graphs speak volumes, i wonder how they'll look in a week or something...

https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
Good point. I've been happy with our current 2016 LG device but will only buy dumb TVs/monitors/panels going forward.
True or not True
Ive always used benchy the boat.

www.3dbenchy.com
The problem with neovim is that it's often not available on corporate environments whereas vim usually is. But nice work anyways
IE6 and below had no end of trouble with PNG transparency. IIRC it only supported transparency correctly on PNG8 images but only in img tags, not backgrounds, and ignored the alpha channel entirely on PNG32.

There were some IE-specific hacks you could use with their proprietary CSS extensions but they were really annoying. I think IE7 finally fixed the transparency bugs but since there was still a huge IE6 cohort it was still a crapshoot relying on transparent PNGs.
Even on that chart if you were hired mid 2019 you'd be looking at a 5% loss if paid in USD. That can be considerable. Of course the reverse could be true benefitting the worker as well.

But more generally I'm assuming this is a problem that some companies must have a solution for, even if its "tough luck".
I tried starting with emacs. Then I tried Spacemacs and Doom Emacs, and began to realize that if the way to make emacs manageable was to treat it like vim, I might was well just do that. So now I use neovim.
Google Fuchsia OS is finally out
Not to mention that the US had a huge antiwar movement, a widely despised draft, and a media which actually did real reporting on the war.

Without these it's quite possible that the US might have used overwhelming force (like nukes) to "win" the Vietnam War.[1]

[1] - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nixon-want...
So confused.

"Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal." -- Immortal Technique
Stargate Atlantis might be a better starting point. It had the benefit of a fully-built world before the protagonist power creep hit its stride.
> I'd say they're just trying to rebuild their old house.

I guess that gets into a semantic (or even existential) question: if it's in a different place, and the original house is still there (if damaged and usurped), even if it is built identically, is it the old house, or a new one?

But yes, that's also a perfectly reasonable way of analogizing Libera.chat, as I understand the situation.
> So who did own the infrastructure, and where did they stand on all of this?

All hardware was owned by various organizations acting as "sponsors". But at this point most of it might have been replaced by servers owned by Lee.

One of the sponsors, whose server hosted freenode's email server, pulled out shortly after the volunteers left.
lol not sure if you're serious or not, as Elixir job offers are certainly still on the rise.
If UX isn’t much of a moat, why do most of the streaming platforms get it wrong? Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime have terrible UX for example. You might argue people don’t care about UX and that’s why it’s not a moat, and maybe they don’t, but personally I wish everyone would just plug their content into netflix and I could use that as the only platform.
Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
It's funny you say that because that's effectively what Unreal Engine 5 is doing with it's Nanite technology. Also released in early access today.

I do wonder what the problem was that needed to be solved before we got Nanite. Everyone knew that automatically optimising the geometry for the size on the screen was doable. Maybe it was a storage limitation?
I'm not here to convince anyone that dislikes freenode, I'm here to balance the echo chamber to outside observers aren't terrified to stay with freenode.

> then dismissing their post as an opinion

Yes, the vocal minority has expressed their opinion, and when I challenge it with an opinion of my own, it somehow doesn't measure up to your standards.

> It's also a weird way to try to get a seat at the table in one of the communities that was deciding between comms platforms.

As if I'm not part of communities that are on freenode? Is there something you believe gives your opinion more value than mine?

You know what's weird, in all the channels I'm on in freenode, none of them have been disrupted. I guess it's because they just kept doing what they were doing and not trying to encourage others to abandon it. Funny how that works.
Been in usenet for a while now. 4k remux all the way!
> "The W3C standards process is neutered at best, and corrupt at worst."

Bear in mind the W3C hasn't been driving standards for many years. The WHATWG has been effectively in charge of steering that process. They're made up of all large browser vendors, which is why they had the effective power to do this.

While Google is a key player in the WHATWG, they're definitely not the only ones proposing and testing new features. Both Apple and Mozilla also test new APIs. Mozilla is the most reserved, but Apple hasn't been shy about testing new features either. It's why we have prefers-color-scheme now.

> "They can trial and enforce FLoC, Manifest v3, and other changes that take away user control."

I don't see how FLoC takes away user control, personally. It should be trivial to opt out of a cohort if you wish. It's an over-engineered solution but it's one that strikes a compromise between ad networks and users' privacy concerns.

Why should we compromise at all, you ask? Because millions of small businesses rely on ads to stay afloat. Decimating the ad networks overnight will have far more casualties than Google's coffers. We need to transition the ad ecosystem to one that's privacy-conscious.

Manifest v3 is a massive API change so you'll need to be more specific there. If you're referring to their content blocking API, it's essentially a more powerful version of Safari's content blocker. They've addressed most of the criticisms people had early on (eg. dynamic rules, header blocking). They're switching to a declarative model to prevent malicious extensions from tracking users.

> "Most webby runtimes like Electron, and most third party browsers, will also embed some variant of Blink these days. This leads to browser engine monoculture, and is capital-B Bad."

I agree that monoculture is bad, but it's a product of their own success. Blink and V8 are more portable than Gecko or even Trident, and that allows them to be embedded in applications like Electron.

Servo would have been Mozilla's answer to this, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards now.

> "The effort needed to build a new, compatible browser engine is more akin to building something like Wine[0] from scratch."

I agree. Personally I'd like to see certain APIs (like IndexedDB) deprecated to reduce that complexity, but the web has a strong focus on preserving backwards compatibility.

> "What changed now, all of a sudden?"

I can only speculate, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a legal concern. ie. these users are using our services but haven't agreed to our terms of use.
Offtopic, but I wish the author would add a bit of whitespace on the left and right sides. In my browser (Firefox) the text touches the outside edges and gives the impression that I need to horizontally scroll.
Can’t wait for the Google recruiting billboards in On the Waterfront.
The point is that Super Meat Boy would still be a fun game even if the player character was just a red square. It wouldn't have the same commercial success without the artwork and music, but you can easily see how you could make an MVP and have it still be a fun game, then add the graphics after.
Am I the only one who finds it weird that somebody is living with his lawyer and family?
lmao, read up on this "member of royalty" Lee Seok, he's kind of a prick. Basically goes around and swinging his "heritage" and generally being unpleasant to everyone around him.
Maybe I'm in the minority but I definitely see the rise of mega corps as directly affecting me. They funnel obscene amount of wealth and resources(and thus political power) to a few individuals, lessening my democratic impact; they aren't beholden to any particular community and thus often are worse for workers and demonstrate worse negative externalities (such as environmentally); and so on...

The thing is I just feel helpless to do much about it. I can shop locally, but that feels pretty insignificant. Lately it's not even useful to vote any particular way (in the US), since it seems bigcorps have essentially captured both major parties.
Also glue traps are heinously cruel.
What is back to normal like in Isreal? Do you go maskless when you are murdering Palestinian children?
Ha! In 24 years I never made that connection.
Lol, just start your own country then.
Perhaps in Europe, but globally, I can think of plenty of others off the top of my head: the various religions of Native Americans/First Nations peoples, the beliefs of Aboriginal people in Australia, even Japanese Shinto probably qualifies.
Between virtualized geometry and raytracing the amount of work to make a game is steadily going down. Artists can simply make objects at full quality (no more manual LOD creation!) and put stuff in a scene and the lights _just work_.
> http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.com/2018/06/space-trucker...

Both the film and that blog's stylesheet are the embodiment of 'so bad it has to be good'.
Totally agree with that. But that "other group" needs about the highest level of ops you can get (i.e., staff level). When your new Andrew-approved staff then starts de-opping ops in ~700 channels, sets up a new #freenode-services channel where you can beg to get your ops back, where they first tell you NO because the channel that was previously yours violates some new instated FreeNode policy which prohibits referencing via topic (and including talking about?) other networks like Libera..

That's when people on all sides pack up shop and leave.
That was all fun to read until, at the middle of it, I realize that I remembered reading it a few years ago.

Oh no.
Those are still getting software updates even though they aren’t on the market anymore. Additionally, they spawned the “Big Picture” mode, an absurdly robust controller mapping feature, and a Wine variant that benefits all Linux gamers.

Every time Valve makes a hardware product, Steam gets some new killer feature.
Internet Memes: Leaflet Propaganda of the Digital Age
The entire thing was at the direct orders of the US. What isn’t “forced down” about being denied airspace until you need to make an emergency landing?
Starting a Company in a Space You’re Not an Expert: 6 Lessons from Irving Fain
Is this intended to be a for-profit business? A business that just does autocomplete in the terminal? I'm surprised there is a market for this, but I'm not a mac user so I'm not very familiar with its users and ecosystem.
People still play that old game?
This is a key point.

People forget that IRC works like any other product: at the end of the day, someone "owns" the customer (in the sense of having the strongest relationship with them).

In this case, it's pretty clear it isn't freenode.

The actual relationship is owned by the OSS projects and their teams. If they kill the freenode link as an official channel, people shrug and use the new link.

The entire calculus on freenode's side seems to be stuck in the 1990s.
It's because of the first sale doctrine. Redbox and family video can buy DVDs and Blu-Rays (at a maximum) at the same price as consumer DVD/Blu-Ray--and rent them out without permission from the copyright holder. That means video rental stores can undercut the VOD prices.

Consumers are willing to pay more for VOD because its easier. Having to return the disc is a pain in the ass.
All the respiratory viruses we currently live with probably started as pandemics. The 1918 flu became seasonal flu, other human coronaviruses probably were much worse when they first jumped to humans.

> Taming a pandemic

> One year after its emergence, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become so widespread that there is little hope of elimination. There are, however, several other human coronaviruses that are endemic and cause multiple reinfections that engender sufficient immunity to protect against severe adult disease. By making assumptions about acquired immunity from its already endemic relatives, Lavine et al. developed a model with which to analyze the trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 into endemicity. The model accounts for SARS-CoV-2's age-structured disease profile and assesses the impact of vaccination. The transition from epidemic to endemic dynamics is associated with a shift in the age distribution of primary infections to younger age groups, which in turn depends on how fast the virus spreads. Longer-lasting sterilizing immunity will slow the transition to endemicity. Depending on the type of immune response it engenders, a vaccine could accelerate establishment of a state of mild disease endemicity.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6530/741
You need to be familiar with Java types and differences between them (Integer, BigInteger) and how Math.pow() behaves with different types. This is more up to Java, rather than Clojure.

No need to pull the library for this, Clojure already has (biginteger) for that:

user=> (.pow (biginteger 33) 33)
129110040087761027839616029934664535539337183380513
Wow, the site is very clean and smooth. Nice job
> they want one stop shopping and be told what to use

Until that app becomes unusable / bought by Andrew Lee and they wish there was an alternative they could easily migrate to.
I’m not saying it’s “business as usual” — I’m saying that the US government is the world’s most active and most effective terrorist operation, effective to the point where its terrorism is normalized as just part of life.
Vimscript is terrible though. I switched from Emacs to Vim (and later, neovim) last year and the shock of going from elisp to vimscript was intense.

I even contributed some small patches to a couple of vim plugins which meant writing and debugging vimscript, I hated every second of it.

I'm not a huge fan of Lua either mind you, but I'll take it any day of the week over vimscript.
Are you seriously implying that the only negative outcome is death?

Some people have long term side effects. Even if you fully recover if you have a bad case you could be out of work for a long period of time. The negative impact is significantly higher on the poor who can't afford health insurance or to take time off.

Stop looking at death and look at the total impact.
Yes, but I've had 4K monitors and 4K TV for almost as long as the Link has existed. It very quickly became useless to me the moment I upgraded to a 4K TV. The Steam controller is also an utterly horrible UX so the pair were just a waste of money that sat in a drawer until I stuck them on eBay.

A 4K Steam Link should have been an obvious iteration, and a controller with actual buttons and sticks (I half-joke about the controller, I know some love its touch nature, I just hated it, could never keep my thumbs in the right spot).
And the population of the solar system is heavily concentrated on just one planet.
I recommend jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/). It will require some tech skills to setup, but after that accessing it is as simple as going to the website address it is hosted at.

The best thing about Jellyfin is that it is free software: open source, permissive license, and no paid features (which alternatives like Plex have).

You can host Jellyfin on your own VPS, I host mine on a Hetzner VPS for just over 10 eur / month but that is very overkill, you can host one for far less. The only thing to keep in mind is that transcoding (streaming in a different resolution to the stored media) is quite computationally expensive so if lot's of people are transcoding at once you will need a good CPU.

Then any family member can just visit the IP address of the server in their web browser (or you can buy it a domain name).
Jellyfin has a native iOS app they can use from their phones.
For viewing it on TVs, there is an app for AppleTV which has Jellyfin support (cant remember the name right now but I can find it if you need it).
The Branch Covidians won't go down without a fight, as this thread shows. Now its a "crisis" that toddlers aren't vaccinated. Tomorrow, it will be pets. Who knows what comes after that. Five years from now, no one will admit to being a Branch Covidian.
F# and F# tools update for Visual Studio 16.10
Didn't Clojure use the N suffix for big integers at one point? I don't see one on that output.
It seems like there should be a similar mechanism for VOD. Although, VidAngel tried to do that and was sued almost to death by big media.
Airplanes and airports definitely.

Caught too many viruses going on vacation.
> Half-Life Alyx is almost universally hailed as the best VR game and as good if not better than the previous Half-Life games.

Yet weirdly, Valve refuses to sell their Index VR system to people in Australia.

As I discovered recently, when looking to get one, here in Australia. :/

There are people selling some international version via Amazon, however apparently if any kind of warranty issue happens then you're screwed. So, "no" to that.
True, but I don't think buybacks are likely to be scaled sufficiently to solve the "problem." Apple, maybe. They do have a dividend paying history and they don't like to spread.

The Alphabet & FB buybacks represent about 5% of those companies' cash reserves... not enough to change anything. Apple have $200bn, though I'm not sure if this is net or gross of the buyback.

I think of these buybacks more as supporting evidence to what I said previously. There is a hell of a lot of "what are you going to do with all this cash" pressure on these companies.

That said $77bn (I've seen $90bn reported) is a truly stupendous sum. Has there ever been a buyback at this scale?