skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. This technology is very dangerous if used to compress & then 'uncompress' medical images. I used to be a bit more cautious but I think if the model was specifically trained on x-rays or some type of medical images, it could do a very good job. I think the original image should always be shown in addition to the AI upscaled image. Having both the original plus a AI upscaled image that is 'correct' 90% of the time could be very useful.

When it comes to things like distinguishing a shadow on a scan, I think AI might actually be better 'detecting' whether something is a real shadow or just very similar to a shadow. I think it's just one of those things where AI up-scaling improves stuff ~80% of the time but is worse the other ~20%. The fundamental issue may become the same with self driving cars; people trust the AI too much and become inattentive themselves.

While you certainly can't add 'correct' information that doesn't already exist in an image, the upscaling could correctly make existing information more obvious. Assuming that the human brain functions pretty much like AI (or rather the opposite) then at some point AI will become as competent which means that eventually with enough training & tweaking it should be as good or better than having a second human perspective.
I wish people in tech (in the US anyway) would stop making this particular claim

> But software engineers are more likely to have mental health problems than those who perform mechanical labor, and I think our problem-oriented world-view has something to do with that.

I've heard this said before, and as someone with lifelong mental illness, and having spent a solid decade and a half of my life in low-wage "mechanical labor" roles prior to becoming a well-paid software engineer, I've always found this assertion to be very, very bizarre, and extremely out of touch. It's so clearly wrong given just a little bit of thought or research.

I don't want to minimize anyone's mental health situation. Techies suffer from mental illness too, it's true. But the reality is that, at least for most people suffering from mental illness, having your agency restricted exacerbates symptoms. And nothing restricts your agency like being low income. And to be sure, most (certainly not all) people in "mechanical labor" professions are low income.

When you're low income, you're forced to work jobs where you have to tolerate abuse from customers and managers, your work is largely not valued because you're completely fungible so you are treated like shit, and in some cases you have to endure operational abuse/humiliation like having to ask permission to use the bathroom. You have to endure long commutes, unpredictable schedules that change from week to week, and unstable/dangerous living conditions. And that's hardly the half of it.

That's not even to mention that being low income in the United States means it's somewhere between extremely challenging and impossible to 1. afford therapy/mental healthcare, 2. get time off from your job to go to therapy/psychiatric sessions.

Anyway, I'm glad that a source was finally cited this time. The source cited in turn cites this source

http://www.ijhssi.org/papers/v3(2)/Version-2/G0322052056.pdf

Namely, an Indian paper which compares software developers with railway laborers and hospitality workers in India. I think it's pretty obvious that the findings here can't be safely generalized to the US -- there are serious economic differences and not to mention cultural differences at play here.

Anyway, I think it's an attractive fantasy among American engineers that low-waged workers are happy and uncomplicated and untormented by the same demons that torture the more sophisticated souls that sling code for a living. But it's absolute bullshit, and doing a small amount of research on this (not to mention talking to low income folks in your life about mental health) will show you that it's dead wrong.
OP isn't saying the OS goes through the same review processes, but (some) 1p apps do.

For example, Apple Music should not have privileged access to location services - it should be using the exact same location APIs and permissions as 3p apps.
7 octaves above cover the UV spectrum and 7 octaves below cover the IR spectrum. I guess our eyes could see 14 octaves with 50 instead of 3 sensors per pixel.

A more practical solution is a separate device, I mean organ, that works like our ear but for em waves: just one "pixel" but with lots of sensors and complex postprocessing to detect harmonics. This way we could hear em waves.

Such a device can be built, actually.
If you happen to already be a Vim/Neovim user, the Vlime plugin + Parinfer (or at least Paredit) is pretty good.

If you don't use either Vim or Emacs... that's harder. You can use the Lispworks IDE, although that's limited if you're not paying for it.

I don't think the lack of tooling in Common Lisp is for lack of trying, but for lack of person-hours dedicated to open-source.

That said, there are a lot of gaps in the overall Lisp experience:

- Quicklisp is very unusual, and while it's quite an impressive effort (and definitely a good thing to have in the world), it's a bit odd coming from other programming languages.

- Roswell is great, but under-documented in some areas, and appears to be outright missing features that are actually specified in the docs.

- Qlot, like Roswell, is under-documented in some areas. In particular, using it in conjunction with Roswell can be unintuitive, and there's no guide out there (that I know of) to help with this.

- ASDF itself has the weird restriction that all of your source code has to be in one single directory. A lot of Lisp users I've spoken to don't see this as a problem, but that in and of itself I think is a problem and a reflection of the problems with the Lisp world when seen from the outside. Of course, Qlot alleviates this issue, but see above.

- There is a huge documentation discoverability gap in general. Docs tend to have very trivial examples, and hardcore reference material, with nothing in between. Figuring out how to use even popular libraries like Hunchentoot is not a trivial task.

- There's no actual spec for the SWANK protocol (that I know of), which makes it difficult to build new tooling around it.

- Editing s-expressions efficiently requires special tooling. Paredit is table stakes, but Parinfer is really what you need once you learn the basics and you understand how indentation works in Lisp code style.

Experienced programmers don't need a GUI IDE to get started. But they do need a base of sensible tooling. There will always be a push and pull between "harnessing the full power of Lisp" and "making the power of Lisp accessible outside of some very specific text editors".
Tough on Crime? Pfizer and the CIHR (2010)
How do you expect an algorithm to create information out of nowhere to fill in these details exactly as they were in the source photo?
...in a heavy, almost incomprehensible (to his audience) southern accent.
The point of Lisp is to use it to create good tooling. Whether it's MOP or Racket's macro system or ELisp... the point has always been maximal power and customizability.

Lisp is the system to create systems. It's not the endgame. It's not a finished product. That is the point.

What is better tooling? What improvements can be made? How can it be done?

These questions are wonderful questions to consider and experiment with. Every lisper does - it's the entire point of using lisp. Everybody has answers.

There are, however, some lispers who, never thinking they could provide all the answers, spent countless days to create tools to make it easier for other people to express their answers. Macro systems... ELisp... MOP...

We shouldn't expect all the answers to be given to us. It's not wrong, but it's so limiting.

(P.S. JavaScript is what happened when Brendan Eich was tasked with adding Lisp to the browser, but was asked by the suits to make it look like Java. The entire area of thought comparing JavaScript tooling to Lisp tooling runs really deep. Are they even different?)
Would have been a go-to viable option had it not been for the Framework Laptops and the Apple Silicon lineup.

I doubt the battery life on this thing is going to last a single day or even more than 12 hours compared with the Apple Silicon laptops out there or even the upcoming M1X Laptops.

Hence this, I am in no hurry to rush into buying this contraption and will just skip it for the alternatives.
That’s plausible if you ignore pay. Pay is the one area where it’s self evident that something has gone horribly awry, which makes it hard to accept the “labor won” argument. Obviously other factors can be at play here, but it’s certainly not the case that everything is honky dory and that’s why workers stopped unionizing. The decline of union membership over this time frame is not conclusive, but it’s something worth investigating!

Well that and there’s Frito Lay workers striking to end “suicide shifts” that literally killed people from exhaustion. It’s kind of hard to argue that labor won these issues when they’re dragging the corpse of a worker off the assembly line of the potato chip factory after working 12 hour days for weeks on end without a day off finally killed them. That it took a strike to fix that also implies that labor law needs some more work.
I think they are suggesting to move the justification section of the github page to the top of the github readme. (Instead of posting another comment on HN)
https://xkcd.com/539/
Having seen the coalface, the problem is not the OS, it's the (stupendously retarded) application model.

There's very little (interesting) you can do when application developers are (for the most part) incapable and unwilling to embrace anything even remotely different from the DOS application model.

The OS is, at its heart, a mapping from that application model onto the hardware. If a hardware feature or characteristic can't be expressed / surfaced within the application model, then there's little to no value in attempting to exploit it.

Someone like  at least has internal customers, and a vertically-integrated embedded system can sometimes do better, but general-purpose systems are shackled to some minor variation on the POSIX application model for the forseeable future.
Not octaves. An octave is a doubling of frequency. When you go seven octaves below 'red' you are much, much lower than IR and when you go 7 octaves above blue you are way higher than UV.
If you can prove that violence among labor organizers was more prevalent than violence by bosses towards workers, I’d like to see it. I personally am quite dubious.
Yeah, that's what we decided when figuring this out at our company. Everyone is spending thousands of dollars a month of the company's money (their time). We either trust them to spend our money wisely, or we don't (and they should work elsewhere). So we don't have all these policies. Having said that, these policies are a result of size. You wouldn't spend money poorly when the company is just you and four friends in a garage. But when you're big enough, hiring problematic people is absolutely going to happen and they just see the company's money as a free money pot. We're in a middle ground right now, but, as we grow, are finding it hard to avoid trending more towards the meme corporate policies.
Here are the colour versions of that screenshot.

https://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/acl_ide.lhtml

http://www.lispworks.com/products/lispworks.html

https://ccl.clozure.com/docs/ccl.html

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/clozure-cl/id489900618?mt=12
South Korea to grant legal status to animals to tackle abuse
Oh that's great to hear. I'm slowly losing my hearing and to know that there are solutions that work even with music now is super good. Do you happen to know how many channels your implant has and whether it has any particular tricks up its sleeve? Maybe make & model?
I'd just add that while he's a high-school teacher, much of the content would be equally applicable to undergrads or to anyone wanting to brush up on subjects like calculus and trigonometry.
That's not what I meant though? The GDPR, as you clearly laid out, applies to you if you do business on EU territory, regardless of where you are. The Korean Regulation can similarly apply if you're physically operating in Korea or not as long as you offer service to Korean developers.
Add these to hosts:

0.0.0.0 www.google.com

0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com

0.0.0.0 www.googletagmanager.com

0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com

0.0.0.0 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

0.0.0.0 fonts.googleapis.com

0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com

0.0.0.0 twitter.com

0.0.0.0 platform.twitter.com
That’s surprisingly cheap
What's ironic is that all those lame shows turned out to simply be way ahead of their time. Who's laughing at those memes now?
Docker desktop no longer free (for over 250 employees OR $10M rev.)
GM – Say It Back
gm everyone
Here,

https://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/acl_ide.lhtml

http://www.lispworks.com/products/lispworks.html

Emacs is a subset of the whole experience.
I’m sorry that you’ve had some bad experiences, but a few personal anecdotes are not persuasive about such large scale concerns. Obviously seeing someone physically abused by a union member is bad, but “unions are bad” does not logically follow from that experience.
Interested! Email me at my nick @ google's mail
If you're worried that Emacs is what's holding Lisp back, the answer is definitely to build first class VSCode support, not to try to make a new modern Lisp environment.
I am yet to see a lambda calculus compiler.
I wonder about AMD support, I've been running Pop OS on a Thinkpad A285 for a while and the computer freezes pretty consistently. I'm not sure if it's related to video playback but it seems like it might be a pattern.

I've tried multiple kernel versions to no avail.
Also, there/are were other tech centers that proved just as if not more attractive than Silicon Valley.

Over 10 years ago, I had a coworker who remarked that all her classmates who stayed in China had become rich. She said that it was because it was an open field.

All you had to do was take a proven American concept and apply it to China. Since there was no existing infrastructure or competition, you had the whole market to yourself.

This wasn't just applicable to tech. People were doing things like opening coffee shops (queue the Luckin Coffee fraud 10 years later).

Also, look at Spotify, JetBrains, WhatsApp, and Shopify.
Neat, just watched his video on how to brighten yellowed plastic on old computers.

A great storyteller I enjoy is the professor from computerphile:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUTypj9XuPp4YBaHucPvr-z...
If we look at 20th century newspapers we can see that a lot of political enemies are categorised as terrorists.
Wild cockatoos make their own cutlery sets
Well, he doesn't seem to even be aware of Allegro, LispWorks and Clozure CL.
Why I Don't yet Own an Electric Car
You mean, you actually have to read the article?
the idea is not bad, but we need a better alternative to electron.
There should be low-hanging-fruit NetBSD ports, or even a UNIX 32v or v7 or BSD4.2 clean port for this. 68xxx was pretty much ground zero for SunOS 1.
They exist, but keep being ignored by FOSS devs, because "evil commercial vendors" buuu.

https://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/acl_ide.lhtml

http://www.lispworks.com/products/lispworks.html
There exists a product that meets most of the suggestions in this article called LispWorks. It has an IDE runs on multiple platform and has the features that a majority of Lisp programmers would consider mandatory. There is a listener, editor, debugger, various browsers and more. You can deploy stand-alone binaries for the supported platforms. The user interface library uses native widgets for each platform. There are iOS and Android runtimes for core library code. There is FFI support for calling code outside of Lisp. LispWorks is a high-quality, professional product.

So what are the downsides? It isn't open source and you have to pay for it. At some point developers decided that they wouldn't pay for development tools. This has mostly been positive, but languages on the edges have suffered because of it. Yes, you can cobble something together using VSCode and various plugins, or use an Emacs environment. To me, the ergonomics of these solutions are inferior to an integrated solution like LispWorks and perhaps some of the other commercial Lisps I haven't used.

Some of the examples the author mentions were also tightly integrated environments. If you ever used Dylan, or Self, of any of the other commercial Lisps that have come and gone over the years you can see the allure of an integrated IDE.

LispWorks has been almost magical for me. It was expensive, $3100 for the 64-bit IDE and another $1000 for the mobile runtime, but the ability to develop/debug the core engine code in Lisp with the benefits of an integrated IDE, live code editing, REPL, etc. is more than worth it. The mobile products have native UI for the platform, but everything else is Lisp. You can most certainly develop and ship modern applications for desktop and mobile using LispWorks.
Cooperative Package Management for Python
Robert Sapolsky on Depression (2009)
So you have a tool that your team use daily, but won’t pay a small license for it? I’m not sure I understand that logic. If the tool you have worked for you when it was free, it still works for you when you pay a small cost per month. Unless the cost is really that huge, I don’t see why that would be a reason to change.
Stanford: All You Need to Know About Venture Capital [YouTube]
Why do computers stop and what can be done about it? (1985) [pdf]
Like half of them were originally the Northwest territory, the Midwest territory was never a thing.
This is like asking "why not use Haskell?" in a Kotlin thread.
> The [cut and paste] keys are not compatible with MacOS - why not? Surely this is an obvious need.

"Obvious"? Typical conceited Mac user. It's not as if the Mac were dominant in the computer or OS market.

> I seem to recall the cut and paste keys aren't even compatible with Windows.

Depends: Your whine doesn't mention what these "incompatible" keys you're whining about actually are. If they're [Ctrl]-[Ins], [Shift]-[Ins], and [Shift]-[Del], then those are actually the Windows CUA standard ones. The silly [Ctrl]-[C|V|X] alternatives copied from Apple are not standard.
13 Nominated AAT members
(1) The Minister may, by writing, nominate a person who holds one of the following appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to issue warrants under this Part:
(a) Deputy President;
(b) senior member (of any level);
(c) member (of any level).

(2) Despite subsection (1), the Minister must not nominate a person who holds an appointment as a part‑time senior member or a member of the Tribunal unless the person:
(a) is enrolled as a legal practitioner of the High Court, of another federal court or of the Supreme Court of a State or of the Australian Capital Territory; and
(b) has been so enrolled for not less than 5 years.

(3) A nomination ceases to have effect if:
(a) the nominated AAT member ceases to hold an appointment described in subsection (1); or
(b) the Minister, by writing, withdraws the nomination.

(4) A nominated AAT member has, in relation to the performance or exercise of a function or power conferred on a nominated AAT member by this Act, the same protection and immunity as a Justice of the High Court has in relation to proceedings in the High Court.

Source: Section 13 of the law https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017C00193
Businesses that would knowingly risk this? Small.

Businesses that would unknowingly risk this because some engineer just went and installed Docker Desktop because they couldn't be bothered chasing this through management and procurement? Well..
if you think ansible yaml structure is awful, meet k8s you will be suffered even more XD
RAM disk is way faster and more reliable than SD cards. You can even remove the SD cards after boot.
Am I? 7 octaves above 400nm is 3-4nm, somewhere between extreme UV and x-ray. 7 octaves below 700nm is about 0.7mm - the end of IR and beginning of microwave spectrum. Unless I'm really missing something in my calculations.
Building something related at https://bruzu.com but for all type of images.

Is there a demo I can try?
For comparison, Fugger's net worth today at the peak would have been 400 billion $. Not revenue, net worth.

Also keep in mind that revenue is not market value nor is it wealth/net worth.
Creative PDF Page Organizer Tool Mixes Pages of Multiple PDFs
Very cool app. My kids will love this. I will be unlocking it for them nice work on the family sharing.
It sounds like there's a layer of code that has to bridge the NFT with some registrar.

How does that work? Isn't it centralized?

It sounds like the NFT doesn't add any value here because DNS is centralized and so must this product be.
It always amazes that the universal response to arguments about reducing parking in cities is that someone will immediately cry “well what about the country!” It’s always hard to come up with a response more polite than “I wasn’t talking about them, why are you bringing it up?”
>I've been looking for arguments in favor of gccrs, but was not able to find any.

GCC can be faster in some cases and despite other claims there are many platforms that only work with GCC, I was offered in the past a job to work on implementing code optimizations for gcc by a company that had such a embeded board platform - so if Rust wants to run everywhere C runs then the community should try to explain the fanboys that gcc is not a bad thing.
Check out Portacle [1], or if you already are rocking Emacs and SBCL and just want the bare minimum dot-emacs to kick around Lisp, check out emacs4cl [2]. There is an older project called "Lisp In A Box", but it hasn't been kept up to date so most beginners start with Portacle these days.

[1] https://portacle.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl
> a 360-degree camera was a non-negotiable feature for me

I'd just turn my head, to be honest
Ask HN: What to charge for support SLA for one-person SaaS
Hi HN.

I have a SaaS that has quite a few small and big customers. I am now in the process of negotiating terms with another potential big customer. And they want an SLA for support. Their suggestion on emergency incidents is 30 minutes response 24/7.

The nature of the service tells me it's not going to be any emergency incidents, but I don't like to put it there in writing. I am one person, and I love to sleep.

It's also not suggested this would cost them extra, but I will for sure charge for the SLA separately.

So 2 questions:
- What would you state as emergency response time?
- What would you charge?

Thanks for any and all answers!
I've never used it, but I've heard good things about Tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri