skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gather the precise validity of the Friedman equations depends on the universe being "homogeneous and isotropic", on a large-enough scale, yet not so large a scale as to render the terms meaningless.

But we keep finding the universe not to be uniform, even on a 100M parsec scale. A much larger scale would be uncomfortably close to the perceived size of the universe itself, flirting with that meaninglessness. So, it seems hard to know how the results are affected by such non-uniformity, or how much correction is needed.
Or just use your much better iPhone camera via Camo (https://reincubate.com/camo/) w/ great image tuning, etc. since you always have your phone with you and isn't yet another thing to deal with.
Newer models are doing away with this, especially those intended for use with detergent tablets.
you're being obtuse. mcsweeney's is a well known outlet for moderate humor. The articles could be procedurally generated.
I’ll check it out, when it ships.

Webcams are a pain to produce. Someone here, posted a story (maybe a year or so ago), about how they wanted to make a webcam, and gave up, because logistics.
Can recommend Flux: https://justgetflux.com/.
Why not your ISP?
Your argument is refuted by the fact the technology to solve the problem you claim will never be solved literally already exists, one version of which has a market cap of almost $10B.[1]

Claiming that a very obvious engineering problem incentivized to being solved is the same as imagining us being incentivized to regress in the way you mention is also weird.

[1] https://www.avax.network/
There's still plenty of room for improvement, but managing a K8s cluster on-prem is miles better than it was in 2014.
Having to use an ad-blocker for this purpose is a band-aid for a much deeper problem. Running a website isn't free and I want to support them by not blocking their ads. But when the ads are part of a scheme that targets my private and personal information, I'm no longer willing to hold up my end of that contract.
Volumes are one of those things that Just Don't Work, even in normal Docker. Our product's dev containers run fine in Docker on macOS on M1 but the filesystem permissions get messed up when running the same ones on Linux. It's just a silly root:root permissions issue, but it's irritating the problem was hidden when running on a Mac.
I wonder how this compares to the [Webex Desk Camera](https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoin...) which seems to be in a similar price point.
If wishes were horses beggars would ride.
I think its a fair question and wanted to respond. I don't think people should just downvote.

There are a lot of things that we as a society have decided we need, and that everybody should contribute to paying for whether we like it or not.

We pay police salaries to try and prevent crime. We all pay to have waste collected regularly.

But lets be clear, we are not talking all that much money. Australia's ABC runs on about 7c a day per taxpayer. I would happily pay 10 times that.

I think the question of what is "good enough" and how the organization should be run, and how independent it is, are all good questions and something we should all have a say in.
Ah, that wasn't clear from your comment. Thanks.
> This comparison between HIV/AIDS and SarsCov2/Covid is probably the most damning indictment of society’s mismanagement of this virus.

Well, I mean, except that:

(1) It seems to assume a lot of false similarities between HIV and SARS-COV-2, and

(2) It explicitly takes false positions on every question it asks and then answers about the response to HIV (literally everything it says was not done was, in fact, done), and

(3) It fails to recognize that the HIV pandemic itself was badly mismanaged, so that even if it wasn't wrong on analogizing the pandemics and wasn't wrong on all the facts of the HIV response, it would still have no probative value on the point it tries to make.
A counterexample: When it looked like vaccine uptake was good and cases were going down fast, my state removed all restrictions and mask mandates. Then when delta started sweeping though and hospitals started filling up again, the mask mandates came back. So my experience is the opposite of what you are predicting.
The source I was using says clearly that the ethanol was to be used for producing high explosives.

"...a small portion of molasses would be distilled into grain alcohol for rum, but most of it, more than 80 percent, would be distilled into industrial alcohol that would be used as a major ingredient in the production of munitions, especially dynamite, smokeless powder, and other high explosives."

From https://archive.org/details/darktide00step/page/10/mode/2up?...

Of the two specific examples listed, dynamite is unambiguously a high explosive. From what I can tell, smokeless powder is usually classified as low by default, because that's how it behaves during storage, shipping, and handling. But during actual use, it occupies a grey area between the two classifications. I've found several sources saying that it can act as a high explosive under the right circumstances.
I would like to read a point-by-point critique of Shadowstats but have yet to come across one. The wikis you've listed are more muckraking in nature than a technical rebuttal.

A poorly done critique increases rather than diminishes the credibility of the target.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/climate/toyota-electric-h...
Surely if you ensure people can't write macros in your language they'll just wrap the entire language in a pre-processing layer to enable macros which seems obviously worse ?
OP mentioned that the pure-Go version is ~6 times slower, so the cgo calling overhead is clearly made up for by C. Also, I've heard that sqlite is the rare piece of C software that is actually bulletproof, so I don't think the pure-Go version can make the usual boasts about correctness and security in this particular case.

Not needing extra external compilers is still a nice proposition, however.
reddit mobile breaks down 25% of the time for me...
The hard Xi-driven return to Maoism has dried up both funding and operational latitude for most large Chinese companies - tech or otherwise.

Given Xi's family background, combined with his provincial lack of nuance, this isn't remotely surprising.
I have to say, the comparisons don't look very favorable. It looks like they favor image processing vs lens/sensor combo. This is a modern take to be sure; just not one I'm real excited about.
I really don't think this is true anymore at least in my generation. I'm in my late 20s and my family and friends really don't seem to post much content anymore on social media after graduating college. It's pretty much for consumption of memes and other internet content and could be cut out easily since its a time sink, vs years ago when people were much more active and no one ever followed commercial accounts or people they didn't personally know. These days I just call and text people, way less friction and I have everyone's number I care about.
I hope you are incorrect. I will be extremely sad if this mission is not successful.
"They said the action itself is illegal and they're beginning their enforcement actions at Coinbase" - they said no such thing, stop guessing out of your backside to try to strengthen phantom arguments.
Yes, any inflation measure is imperfect, but I'm not sure how it could even theoretically be perfect given changing technology. How do you properly measure substitution effects that the iPhone has had relative to everything it imperfectly replaced; or the way services have replaced ownership in some areas of life? Given the complexity involved, the current measure seems to do the job well enough.

As a side note, this mistrust of the CPI is something Eric Weinstein loves to bring up, too, with the same narrative about CPI being designed by politicians. After watching him try to convince economists [0][1] of the points made in this article (and avoiding questions that get specific or complex), I'm unconvinced I need to care.

[Edited to add second, more relevant video]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5gnATQMtPg

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwiHv7xVQ_c
Quick suggestion to whoever created the website. Please enable an ability to make the video comparisons full-screen-able. I can't gauge as well how good the quality actually is unless I can scale it up.
>> You falsely claim I said this is about limited space. I didn’t use the word “limited” until now

This is what you wrote:

> put them in high orbit so they do useful things in local night, limiting you to a small total count planet-wide

Do you seriously wish to claim this is not a statement about limited space?

> You falsely claim I’m moving the goalposts, when I said it was about safety of overlapping beams

Nobody is disputing that your original argument was about the safety of overlapping beams. You moved the goalposts when you replaced that argument, which was based on your incorrect understanding of orbital geometry, with one about intentional sabotage ("hackers point all the ones visible to NYC at NYC").

> In point of fact, the half-dozen number wouldn’t even be geostationary in the scenario I was envisioning, which ought to have been obvious from even a cursory moment’s thought.

The article linked at the top of this page (you know, the thing we are supposed to be discussing) is about a development program which starts with a LEO demonstrator, followed by a larger MEO demonstrator, followed by GW-class stations in geosynchronous orbit. The latter are the standard commercial scenario which has been envisioned since the 70s.

If you had another scenario in mind, you "forgot" to say so. Again. Even while confirming that the "limit is not how many physically fit in geostationary orbit — I agree that’s fine".

> One misunderstanding is on me, but this many isn’t worth the effort.

No problem, it was obvious from your first reply that you're not interested in a factual discussion.
There are a lot of things the police can't do, but do do and get away unscathed because of union or department backing. I wouldn't be surprised if they beat a person to death for refusing to give this info up.

Personally im not taking a fucking chance. If they ask, I'll provide any info I have. I am trying to live, not demonstrate to a cop that I know my rights he is violating. If you think that's a wrong mentality to have then maybe we should step back and figure out how to make actual progress to de-escalate a police state.
Because very often:

1. It's not about the disagreement. It's about what's behind the disagreement.

2. Many people cannot or will not discuss matters amongst themselves. Getting an impartial third-party engaged (and one who doesn't have a stake in future relationship(s) with the disputants) can have a hugely useful "unsticking" function.

Mind, there are many therapists and therapy methods, not all work, and some practitioners are incredibly ineffective.
The issues with large clusters you've surfaced are ones I've never once experienced in my homelab. I'm already an experienced devops (?) engineer so the transition to k8s only took a few weeks and a couple sleepness nights which will not be everyone's experience, especially beginners. But it's a cohesive system and once you learn it, you understand the various patterns and you make it work for you vs you sucking time into it. For myself, learning k8s was way easier than keeping track of various little scripts to do this or that in a swarm cluster.

Folks here are making sound arguments for swarm and alternatives and they are totally valid. But for an experienced engineer who needed to start their homelab back up after a long hiatus, I will never look back once for choosing k8s. Honestly some of the most fun I've had with computers in a long time and great experience for when I move into a k8s related $job.
That's going to end badly. But I'm only an EE.
The only thing it has a top notch Sony sensor and a glass lens assembly, with f/1.8 equivalent aperture.

It'll have no bokeh or low light sensitivity of an FF or APS-C camera. Also, Sony A7 (first generation) comparison is rigged. Get an A7-III, A7C for $2000, and install latest webcam drivers. Its colors and fidelity will blow Opal out of water, even without trying (both have 6K sensors, too).

The only alleged improvement of Opal is microphone array however, Apple is already good at this. When Zoom & Google's noise cancellation technology is added on top, everything is more than satisfactory, for most scenarios. On this front, I'm not sure that stereo mics of a true mirrorless system would be that behind in focusing sound (if webcam driver can stream the location of the prominent face to the driver, a more advanced sound filtering can be done with a pair of mics, too).

If you're too inclined, you can just throw in a Yeti in a mix and, sound issue will be solved for once and for all.

All in all, it's a good webcam, but they're picking wrong competitors. A modern mirrorless is too powerful for them, and MacBook's pinhole webcam is too good for its size. They need better marketing and targeting IMHO.
> Then they went absolutely crazy over hydrogen - which I always hated

I always loved hydrogen, especially if someone comes up with a better way to generate it. The refueling issue and the chemical disaster with batteries would be solved.
I wonder precisely what DSLR technology is in it... if the answer is "a high-quality sensor", well, that's the D, what about the SLR? :)
It’s not too often this comes up ... but here is an iOS app for finding drinking water fountains and public restrooms using Overpass’s OSM API.

https://github.com/hashFactory/ImThirsty
There is huge need for these skills in astronomy, but it can be tricky to find the right way to plug in.

There is plenty of opportunity to contribute to open-source —-astropy is one of the most active projects, as a starting point.

Deeper (volunteer) engagement probably requires finding a willing scientist to plug you in to a project. That can be tricky get going and to make mutually beneficial.

There are full time research software engineer positions—these will pay less than industry, of course; for some folks the subject matter and environment make that trade worthwhile.
What is Toyota producing batteries for? Vehicles. What is Tesla producing batteries for? Vehicles, charging network, home storage, business storage, small grid storage, large scale grid storage, and probably other things. Tesla is shooting to become an energy company that maybe still makes cars while Toyota is an automotive manufacturer with no known intentions of getting into energy. Comparing the two based on batteries produced is like comparing a banana to an iPhone.
Could you clarify how to read this chart? The y axis is, funding given different plans? Or..
I got the impression that this is meant to depict a relationship between when practical fusion would be developed and how much funding it receives, but I don’t see how to get that from the chart.

Also, not sure why imgur has that image marked as adult content.
Unfortunately, this does sound exactly like something Jobs would do. He was a jerk.
If they do this for long enough, they will be able to identify real people versus pseudonymous accounts on social media. Effectively denying anonymity and free speech online.
I agree that it is probably for those who want "DLSR", or "iPhone 11" if you prefer, quality, but don't want to spend the hassle beyond plugging it in and having it just work.
https://cuelang.org - a (logical) language for config, data, and more. Configure Unify Execute, CUE

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof - flexible code generation, low-code for devs
Ubuntu is good because its popular, which means its well supported and you'll find instructions to get just about anything running. Ubuntu is based on Debian, so just about any Debian based distro will benefit from those docs. Fedora is great too and also just werkz.
>The mind boggles a bit to imagine what might have been for them if they had just moved forward on hybrid, plug in hybrid, full EV path. They could have blended that mix more and more until full EV.

i think there is a speadsheet somewhere inside Toyota where your "nightmarish" - because it cannibalizes significant share of the current revenue from hybrids - scenario is precisely described. The fear of cannibalization of current cash cow (and related internal uphill battle with the top management milking the cow) is frequently the reason behind seemingly obvious blunders by BigCo-s.
Show HN: A free, open-source, collaborative, mock API
Alexis Ohanian tweeted about it earlier, seems real.

https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1435709529308626946...
Anecdotally, ITER was the largest of few options for a fusion researcher to run their experiment in a new tokamak. Everybody wanted to put their work into it, and as more features were added, the more funding it sucked up, leaving less money for other experiments, leading to more people wanting to put their experiment into ITER. Here's a presentation [0] that goes over why SPARC, being so much smaller and simpler than ITER could be more likely to succeed.

[0] https://library.psfc.mit.edu/catalog/online_pubs/iap/iap2016...

This quote from the presentation summarizes it well:

“The more money that's involved, the less risk people want to take. The less risk people want to take, the more they put into their designs, to make sure their subsystem is super-reliable. The more
things they put in, the more expensive the project gets. The more expensive it gets, the more instruments the scientists want to add, because the cost is getting so high that they're afraid there won't be
another opportunity later on- they figure this is the last train out of town. So little by little, the spacecraft becomes gilded. And you have these bad dreams about a spacecraft so bulky and so heavy it
won't get off the ground- never mind the overblown cost.”

“That boils down to the higher the cost, the more you want to protect your investment, so the more money you put into lowering your risk. It becomes a vicious cycle.”
- Rob Manning, Chief spacecraft engineer, JPL
> Oh no, it can't afford to make superhero-themed stuff. We're doomed!

They absolutely can.

If you make a show people want to watch, they'll pay for it.
Try this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/07/17/the-i...
So... they're saying their product is approximately on par with an 8-year-old camera? Though the A7 video still looks better, as expected.

> Macbook Webcam Free https://opalcamera.com/compare-macbook.mp4

> Opal C1 $300 https://opalcamera.com/compare-opal.mp4

> Sony A7 $2050 https://opalcamera.com/compare-sony.mp4

I don't even know where to buy the A7 now, but the A7II could be had for sub-$1k.
"FD 100" was my introduction to programming too! This short post just brought it all back!

I've remembered for years that there was some for loop syntax that I'd used as a kid. I knew it wasn't "for" so seeing "REPEAT 360 [FD 1 RT 1]" was quite a revelation for me just now! (Thanks Susam if you're reading this!) That's exactly what I was writing back then. I think my first instinct at the time was "REPEAT 4 [FD 100 RT 90]" and from there went on to draw pentagons, hexagons, and then at some point had a eureka moment and tried "REPEAT 360".. mind blown!

I was using an Amstrad PCW 8512 [1] and would love to hear from anyone else who had a similar experience.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW#PCW_8256_and_8512
How to Be a Certificate Authority
I agree, It looks like the main difference between the Macbook webcam and the others was the exposure. If the Opal software worked with the Mac camera allowing adjustments of exposure and white balance that would be perfect (with the lack of true depth of field & 4k)

When I read about webcams most of the comments revolve around the microphone quality, I think there should be more focus on that, for example noise reduction technology etc. Marketing could also be made towards video game streamers who often use digital cameras and dedicated mics.
My understanding is that in most early-stage startups the 409a includes the cash in the bank and very little else (and is completely detached from the last fundraising round valuation, where investors are including the growth potential of the company).
Note that the study I'm linking here is all but certainly the one the Gruanaid references. It seems to be the go-to. And it is virtually always hugely misrepresented (as in this particular article).

If you're hand-washing in a pre-filled tub using a few litres/gallons of water, you're about as efficient as a dishwashing machine. In my experience it's nearly as fast (loading/unloading are a considerable time factor), cleanliness is far easier to assure, and wear on dishes, glassware, flatware, and cutlery is vastly reduced. (Though you may break more items if you're clumsy.)
The Dublin boys who ran away to New York
And..having friends on here would be somehow bad?..

I like Clay Shirky's definition of social media, (something like) a website where the users create the content, where the thing wouldn't exist in the same way without the users. But the definition of the word doesn't really matter, I guess. I'm just not sure why not having friends here makes it "ok", and why if you made friends here you'd have to quit because of your policy/your identity as "someone who quit social media years ago".
this is well put, thanks
With Apple encouraging its users to simply hand over their iPhone as Photo ID [0], how long before the police simply dock your voluntarily surrendered phone into some automated search gadget and don't bother asking.

It's already the case that if you let the police search your vehicle, they will, and what's found will be used against you. It seems obvious the same will be applied to smartphones. Protect your rights people.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58422469
I suspect it's less a case of them wanting the web client to suck, and more a case that the people who decide priorities don't care about the web client.

I'd bet there's some super frustrated PM/TL who knows what to do and wants to fix it but isn't allowed to spend any time on it.
This seems very useful but shouldn't it be called "N Y Pee"?
House prices are considered asset prices, not consumer goods.

Only shelter part of housing is in the CPI.
The paragraph immediately below:

> Access the power of Opal Computer Vision within the Opal app. The app allows you fine-grain tuning of your image and access to Machine Learning powered features that help you look your best.

So the software seems to be Mac-only.
Damn - these are full time employment deals for folks. 25 years on one project!

Question - they have a ton of shielding for solar radiation - can they not locate this thing in a shadow area somewhere?
their authority is that they can beat you up and hold you for almost no reason, and 99% of the time they will face no consequences
Had to do it (removing shoes) yesterday going from Amsterdam to Edinburgh. Seems less common but it happens still.
There is also the old debate between monetary inflation and price inflation. Monetary inflation being the fact of just printing money and used to be what you refer to in economics books when you just say “inflation”.
I didn't say it wasn't interesting. But it would have probably been even more interesting without building it up as 'massive creature' that's actually the size of my cat.
think the Qingping air detector lite fits the bill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVzwBGf6woo - available on amazon or aliexpress etc.
GHA definitely far outclasses Jenkins and Travis.

However, having also used Buildkite, I'm not sure I could go back to GHA - it's slightly nicer to target, and at least as large a step towards reliability & predictability as Travis -> GHA was.