skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember right, the professional software "DXO Optics Pro" was doing this. Since then, they bundled that functionality into their newer products:

https://www.dxo.com/technology/lens-distortions/

The way it works, iirc, is you can choose the model of your lens and the software fixes things. Works for professional lenses, unsure about others.
Sure, now let me know how that works when you have massive corporations, controlling products that you can't really move completely away from because there is simply no competition, or they also serve (and get revenue from) part of the competition?

My choices are to simply completely disregard a huge chunk of the market, like messengers, I would have to communicate with my family on the other side of the world through some app that my parents or older family members would not use, I would have to train them because the massive corporations bought out all the competition, so I either suffer a massive pain in the ass on every corner of my life or I have to surrender my data. Because I have no other choice: it's my data or death through a thousand cuts over my life due to all the inconveniences when these corps sprawl over more and more markets with their unlimited cash machine coming from the crops of data from all people they sell profiles about.

Either give me regulations to never allow monopolies to ever hint at appearing in a free market or give me regulations about how well my personal data, something that tells a lot about me as a living person, will be treated, marketed, etc. It's a resource being extracted from me, so why the fuck can the free market bleed me out if they are also going to inconvenience my life by taking more and more market share?

The free market is an illusion, it's just an ideology. Not too dissimilar from believing in real communism.
I used unionfs first to combine the sandbox and / where host / is read-only. Then simply bubblewrap into it. I also mounted / to /host if for some reason you wanted to access host fs from inside the sandbox.
> our planet will adapt. We, humans, won't be able to.

We are by far Nature’s most adaptable creation, we live everywhere from the harshest deserts to the frozen tundra. I find the idea that we won’t adapt remarkably laughable.
The assumption that "e a fusion plant had to
be ten times as big and therefore likely ten
times as costly — as a present-day fission plant
to produce the same amount of power" is unreasonable.

Fusion has a lower power density of the reactor itself than a fission reactor, but in terms of size fission reactors are extremely tiny. Nuclear power plants are big because you have a massive containment building around the reactor, and infrastructure both for handling radioactive materials and generating power. Fusion plants don't need the giant containment building and the various additional facilities would be nearly identical for the same level of power production.

Further, costs are not a simple function of size - things much bigger than fission reactors can be built for much cheaper; the problem is that the combination of safety regulations, delays due to public pushback, a lack of standardization, and the loss of a skilled workforce have skyrocketed the price of fission reactors far beyond what the simple engineering considerations would predict. Fusion does not carry fission's stigma, so it should suffer less from excessive regulations and NIMBYism, and engineers can take lessons learned from the history of fission reactors to design fusion reactors that are easily replicated.
He also mentions it explicitly (assuming my memory isn't that faulty) in The Big U.
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Wanted to drop a note from someone who has been burned: avoid .xyz domains like the plague. They can revoke your control of the domain at any time if you end up on a spamhaus (etc.) list. This happened to me even though I was only using my .xyz for a non-prod env shared with a customer. One day control of the domain was just taken by the .xyz org and I had no recourse other than generic ticket submission.
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The people who are trying to sell you "confidential computing" are somehow unaware about data collection on Medium and use dark patterns to make you agree to collecting analytics.

What else are they unaware of?
It's 21 years because that's the longest formal imprisonment sentence allowed for crimes (other than war crimes) in Norway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Norway.

It doesn't mean that such prisoners are definitely released with 21 years - it can (and likely will) be extended indefinitely for as long as a prisoner remains dangerous to society:

> If the prisoner is still considered dangerous after serving the original sentence, the detention can be extended by five years at a time. Renewal of the detention every five years can in theory result in actual life imprisonment.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Hindu nationalism is pretty scary stuff and is relatively under reported in the western world. The body count it's racked up so far is genuinely shocking. One riot[0]in 2002 (some argue it was a pogrom) killed at least 1,000 people. Some people accuse the current prime minister of either initiating it or at least ordering the police to do nothing, since he was the chief minister of the area at the time. I only know about this because of "Behind the Bastards", I've never heard a lick about this stuff in my regular news channels.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots
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I haven't heard that usage of exfiltration.

I have heard of exfiltration in the military context, as in "getting back your own stuff if it's harder than normal for some reason".

Like Saving Private Ryan is about exfiltrating Private Ryan. Or you would exfiltrate a unit stuck behind enemy lines.

That meaning makes sense here.
I don't dispute that there is evidence that 67 phones had been targeted with Pegasus software. I am however skeptical of that justifying an international breaking news story that so-and-so is on the "list" without having checked if their phone has been infected.
I was scanning satellite photos yesterday and came across what I think are ground reference points built to enable determination of exact ground distances using a series of concentric rings and oriented linear features. I believe knowledge of the exact diameter of the rings and length of the chords would allow a user to measure features in the photo with acceptable precision.

I know that early pilots had a series of markers that they could use to keep themselves on track as they flew their long distance routes. These things were oriented concrete markers, some of which are still accessible.

We all need a reference, a way to cross-check or ground truth our results and conclusions.
We do this at Twilio SendGrid
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That is a reasonable concern. Perhaps utilities, or other oligopolies, should have different rules.
Such unverifiable, and easy to claim justifications (often used to whitewash acts of dubious morality, like torture etc.) do not do much though.
When it is locally done, I find it hard to see what isn't too like. That is, if I open an email and it asks if I want to make a reminder or add it to my calendar, that is cool.

When I see that several emails I have not opened are already on my calendar, I am less happy about it.
I bet you could put "Libreoffice Calc" into most of those categories…
> there are so many sex scandals of priests abusing children.

says who?

If anything priesthood is statistically protective against pedophilia, even without accounting for "professions with access".

If I remember, last time I read the literature on the topic, it was quoted as something like 0.2%? As opposed to, say, teachers, which came at a scary 8%, and against a background population level of about 1-2%.

The scandal was about the "handling" of these cases, not about their presumed overwhelming propensity compared to "normal people". So your theory about repressed urges and the like is effectively Bulverism.

Obviously you'd be forgiven for having that impression though. This kind of stuff os golddust for the media. All they have to do is match pedophilia articles with articles about catholics on the front page, and boom -- fact by association.
"They tell Breivik to lie on the ground, and handcuff him. The terrorist tells them that one of his fingers hurt, and asks for a band aid."

Wow.

As chilling as this all is, I appreciate you sharing.
I just wish they’d add a report option for misinformation. There’s just way too much of it and it doesn’t seem Twitter cares. They’ll do something about high profile cases but it’s the smaller boy accounts that ready spread it.

Downvotes/dislikes could help signal their algo if done right and I’d love to see where it goes.
> Individual violence can useful on the path towards a solution, but it is never the solution itself.

That's a bold statement to make. When mankind is a space civilization, the speed of light will prevent any kind of universal police force from responding to events in an expedient manner. The limit of expansion is guilds and retribution. Defense is never impenetrable. Only punishment and retribution deter future infringements. If you cannot extend your philosophy to the future of civilization, it is a flawed one.

Alliances are the way pretty much all sci-fi writers have written the climate of that era. And for good reasons. When you don't have the ability for defensive policing, all you have left is deterrence through retribution. And that is either personalized or clan/guild based.
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He was not sentenced to regular prison, but rather detention[1]. The difference being that the former is a punishment and the latter is to protect the public.

While detention must be evaluated at given intervals, it can be extended indefinitely[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive_detention

[2]: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forvaring
That's assuming a maximally unregulated market is an ideal we're striving for, which isn't the case - at least not in the EU, and that is a good thing.
GSuite and Youtube play by very different rules, though. Youtube is a consumer product and privacy legislation unfortunately doesn't have much in the way of teeth. GSuite is a business product, and there's many industries they'd like to serve that are fairly strict about data breaches.
Probably, but there's a grain of truth in it.

A "1x developer" will do what they're told, write code, do the 9-5 churn, go home, sleep, repeat.

A "10x developer" will / should apply a bit more critical thinking and see if there's a ready-made solution, a product, or a workaround to avoid writing code in the first place. They use their experience and, I presume, personality, to provide 10x more value to their employer or project than the head-down-and-write-code developer.

Remember, code is just a tool to achieve a goal, it is not THE goal itself. At least, it shouldn't be, I've seen enough projects where they turned code and architecture into the goal itself (think: microservices well before launch, Scala to stroke own egoes and weed out mediocre developers, writing your own frameworks or ready-to-run cloud platforms, etc)
AIUI and IIRC, iSH implements just enough of an x86 emulator to be able to interpret x86 binaries and JIT "compile" them to a series of function calls rather than directly to native machine code, and it implements enough of the x86 Linux ABI to be able to run most binaries. In short, it's effectively treating x86 machine code as a scripting language, and Apple does allow scripting languages (e.g. Python) on the App Store.

The iSH team did run into some friction with Apple over the fact that the built-in filesystem image is Alpine and thus includes a package manager, but apparently they were able to resolve that situation in a way that allowed them to keep `apk` in the built-in filesystem image: https://ish.app/blog/app-store-removal
"Great they are doing this" but passing the cost on to their customers, who will foot the bill for it. So maybe you should thank the PG&E customers who will end up paying for it.
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> I also go without restaring the repl for weeks, but there are plenty of situations where you need to restart the repl: adding libraries, servers binding to ports, making sure you have no temporary edits, etc, etc.

True that temporary edits could in theory get in the way, although I never had that happen to me in ~6 years of experience with Clojure. Server bindings to port should not warrant a REPL restart, usually you can save the returned function/data from starting the server to also turn it off (and unbind the sockets).

> The whole 'reloaded workflow' is a workaround to the slow restart IMGO

I disagree with this, it's not a workaround. It's a different workflow, yes, but it is different on purpose, not by accident.

Being able to evaluate and run snippets of code will (for me) always be a faster workflow than even the fastest edit-compile-run languages, since I can evaluate code in the middle of functions and won't have to have any unit tests just to test something temporarily in isolation.
Yup, an he was an early (in this cycle) example of the importance of the Paradox of Tolerance.

"A concept advanced by the philosopher Karl Popper which claims that unlimited tolerance necessarily results in the destruction of the tolerant by the intolerant, resulting in a society in which tolerance is no longer possible. Therefore, while paradoxical to the concept of free speech, it is necessary to be intolerant of intolerance. "[1]

In short, in a society of unlimited tolerance, the intolerant will drive out tolerance and take over. In This murderer's example, by simply eliminating those whose views he doesn't like.

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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It would be definitely interesting to see what would happen and amazing to test out if we could have two parallel universes where in one you will increase taxes.

I wonder if there are any economic simulations done that would represent the actual world most closely to have something to toy with.
> Framebuffer graphics, working Xorg with mouse & keyboard

How performant it is? Does it feel usable on a mediocre host PC?
Even if caller id had been used in this situation, he could have easily spoofed the number to appear to be coming from the neighbors house since they would have already had all the information necessary to do so. The Caller ID system you're thinking of simply does not exist. The current system is much to easy too spoof. Anyone with $15 and a VoIP number can do it.
I appreciate the pristine and untouched beauty of Yosemite as much as anyone, and I backpack in its wilderness at least once a year. But the government could be doing a lot more to clear the forests and prevent the rapid spread of wildfires. Auctioning off the old growth they need to chop down, or clearing the forest floor of fuel where possible could pay for itself, and protect what is left.
Those figures are for water that doesn't enter the plants, though. All that water, except for a tiny fraction represented in the shipped output (nuts, whatever) still ends up locally in the air.

And "disappearing into the ground" is absolutely not water entering an aquifer! All you get is wet dirt. Which then... dries out. Again, this isn't how aquifers work.

There's no free lunch here. Growing plants in a desert under the open sky requires a staggering amount of water. It just does. If you want to push efficiency measures look at greenhouses.
Sure. Toss them on the side or something. Just don't expect them to get brought up often. It shows you code outside of work which some employers value. Add a link to github if they are public.
1. I won't respond to this because this is a wealth inequality question/debate which is much broader in scope.

2. Yes, definitely. Government should step in and run the show only when there's market failure.
OMG - I loved .QWK and the universe around it. Indeed I often lament the wish that web forums would support something like QWK so I could use a reader/editor of my choice - web forums suck.
What a senseless tragedy :(
But how many of those are actually exploited, and how does that compare to the other vectors I mentioned? Media file exploits seem in same class of exploits as spectre/rowhammer. You hear about them often (not as often as spectre/rowhammer, but I frequently see security fixes being mentioned in media player changelogs), but you rarely hear about attacks that use them.
My very good solution on dealing with corporate antivirus: noise cancelling headphones.
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Yes, and the fact that these platforms haven't taken steps to prevent abuse of the cheat code in our psychology means that they find the benefits of outrage to their bottom line outweigh the "unmeasurable" costs such as damage to society and the hollowing out of their platform.
Good luck getting permits for a proscribed burn in California.
In Germany, the average Software Dev salary is about 50k€/year. That's a total payroll cost of about 60k€/year after taxes, social security etc., so around 300€/workday. Add some money for office space, equipment, overhead, etc, and adjust by factor of two in either direction depending on location and role.

Of course if you hire a freelancer, prices are very different and 1500€/day is very reasonable.
Would you buy them again? Or would you rather have something else?
Printing middle grey with an uncalibrated printer is uh... kinda meaningless.

https://smile.amazon.com/WhiBal-White-Balance-Pocket-Card/dp...

I've been using this for my photo adventures; I try to keep it in my wallet at all times (I worry about it getting discolored by rubbing against other cards though) and whenever I notice that the white balance is gonna get fucky (esp when there are multiple light sources) I whip that out and take a picture of it in the same scene.

edit: Also people love to use grey cards for getting exposure right but it's complete bunk science; if you're using the raw workflow (if you're fine tuning white balance you almost definitely are) you should shoot as bright as practically possible and not too bright to prevent clipping and adjust exposure as you see fit in editing.
> Since position and momentum (assuming that's what you meant, since you said location and position which are synonyms)

Yep, sorry, artifact of the editing process.

> they intrinsically have to be related to each other, and the position state (i.e., function) a particle is in fully determines its momentum state.

Sure, but the momentum doesn't determine the position (due to the constant of integration) so you can have two particles with the same momentum functions and different locations, and that leads to my next question...

> Usually when discussing entanglement, though, we're talking about 'distinct'* particles.

That's what I actually meant to ask but didn't phrase clearly: since position and momentum are described by wave functions, can you entangle the positions of two particles? or entangle their momentum?
This is basically cellular automata all over again
Honestly, the last thing I’d want in a situation like this is ”use this chat app we’re using”. I think that is a crappy approach to support, since it is not working alongside a public knowledge base and thus cannot amend an existing pile of related problem-solving knowledge. It mandates processes which generate throwaway solutions and waste everyone’s time. Gitter is not the answer.
To add to your 3rd point, your friends (and possibly you) may have shared yours and other's contact information without them even knowing it. As you said, Facebook is one of the worst offenders of grabbing all the contacts in a phone without the user's knowledge...
I know that bugs in silicon are 100x more expensive to fix. Sometimes if you find a show-stopper bug on your chip after you have "taped-out" (sent the design to the fab' on magnetic tape storage), then you just go bankrupt or the team is fired because you can't pay the ~$10 million for a new silicon manufacturing mask set.
It's buried a bit, but it actually does kind of refute that.

> Here is a 2016 paper [PDF] whose authors "examined 171 software projects conducted between 2006 and 2014," all of which used a methodology called the Team Software Process. The researchers concluded that "the times to resolve issues at different times were usually not significantly different."

Link is to https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04886.pdf
It changed the Labour party, otherwise I don't see any evidence it changed Norway much.
People in technology have a far greater understanding of the depth, breadth and potential consequences of selling data and attention to advertising platforms than the average user. Even then, we still don't necessarily know exactly how normative technology can be. That's like taking payment in the form of a blank cheque and calling it "free".

The business model might be clear enough, but the cost and consequences are not.
I changed the law with a GitHub pull request (2018)
They operate the infrastructure. For me it's clear a SaaS (spyware as a service (TM))

But to avoid the whataboutism, the flip side of the coin is that NSO democratize the access to those tools, normally restricted to just a small group of countries.
All of his videos are absolutely outstanding. Sadly there are not that many x)
The changes he's observing are not just from one year of drought. He specifically highlights a fire in 2018 leaving hills blackened and bare. In summer, the water comes not from rainfall but glaciers that are supposed to build up during winter. It's not just from this year.
Some companies actually try to do that. They are mostly not the best ones, have liquidity problems and incompetent management.

You would have to pay CEO salaries since the responsibility lies on developers.
The wider question is how the nature of consciousness has changed through time and what evidence do we have that it has. The example that has stuck with me is when St. Augustine marvels in his Confessions that Bishop Ambrose of Milan could read without moving his lips, suggesting that at one time all thought was subvocalized speech.

Owen Barfield thought that you could trace the evolution of consciousness through the history of language and made the argument in the book "History in English Words": "In our language alone, not to speak of its many companions, the past history of humanity is spread out in an imperishable map, just as the history of the mineral earth lies embedded in the layers of its outer crust.... Language has preserved for us the inner, living history of our soul. It reveals the evolution of consciousness"