skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree 100%. One of the biggest things I'm curious about is how bad the artifacting is on features like focus racking and the macro lens. Sure it's cool to see a photography showcase, but it doesn't really feel substantial as a review. His rhetoric is also extremely awkward, like here for example:

> As I watched this piece, particularly the interview in Cinematic mode, it dawned on me that we’re moving beyond the world of just computational photography and into the realm of computational videography. The release of Cinematic mode marks another one of those fundamental shifts where software, unbounded by the limitations of hardware, has opened up entirely new possibilities in the creative process.

This is not a new experience, it's just one that Apple put inside your iPhone. Reading stuff like this really makes me wonder how critical they're being here, because it seems like "it shoots photos better than the last one" is enough to warrant a perfect review. And if that's the case, every camera system on every phone ever is perfect and there's no point to reviewing them at all, because you can rest assured knowing your next phone will have 25% better digital zoom, or whatever.
> to the usefulness of said bigger fish in comparison to bitcoin

So far bitcoin has negative utility even aside from environmental disaster (ransomware).
Indeed. There's a huge difference between one or several actions and habitual behavior. You can find a method to get away with anything once. Operating on a daily basis where the government only has to catch you once is far less practical.
Also try to alternate the instances, always solves it for me.
I used to try to do that. Now I keep a list of potential palaces and do everything just-in-time.

Preparing a memory palace is just yet another skill. At first it seems like a big "job" to do. Later, it's like nothing, you float through it once, done. Especially if you reuse systems like Roman room because that makes a lot of decisions by rules.

Also because you're trying to link knowledge to what you know well you don't need to have amazing recall of the place. Just a sense of a room that you know about, eventually will be enough. If you can recall furniture or whatever, then use that it will help. But if you're straining to recall... you might not get much additional benefit by trying to photographically document the space in your mind.
Anybody know anything about Strada?
Some China FUD on the last Friday of the month that is an almost verbatim reprint of headlines printed a couple months ago... You surely realize the purpose of this right? Just look at all those 40k strike puts...
Empty shelves, gasoline shortages? Britain is facing a ‘difficult winter’
It's already illegal for lobbyists to pay for dinners or meals of any kind, including at a McDonald's.
Great post - highly recommend Citizen Scholar!
Learning new skills by imagining visual affordances
What Type of Programmer Are You?
Yep. It's a completely made up problem. It's maybe useful in enforcing existing IP law (i.e., I can prove that that picture is mine), but even that is questionable (proof of ownership of digital IP has already been proven satisfactorily for courts of law to rule on it).

The fact there is a new way of proving ownership doesn't make the thing owned valuable.
Totally. Much preferable model.
The pre-edited photos are in proRaw format, is that format viewable in a browser? Outside of posting the raw files for download, any means of making them viewable on the web would involve some form of editing, even if it's the process iOS does automatically.

I do agree though that it would be useful to state how much time and effort was spent in lightroom and PS.
AFAIK there aren't any exchanges in mainland china, so everyone there has their crypto in offshore accounts that aren't subject to such regulations.
Read this book too - great synthesis of ideas swirling out there. Will check out the post!
It's a big backpedal from "Google sells your data to advertisers" to "Google allows advertisers to target groups with particular interests, and in the extremely unlikely event that they guess what group you're in and you click the ad and they're able to match your IP or browser fingerprint to somehow identify you, then they might be able to infer some of your data."
> What is this? "Everglade"

GP needs to learn to spell

Evergrande is an indebted chinese property developer which is the current ticking financial time bomb this week in China.
Can or did? I'd rather placate the people that want to be involved than placate those that would exclude them, even if that is what is happening.

If I'm doing that wrong, I'll change my ways. e.g the person saying that it hints towards folks not being men or women if they have transitioned and we use different words which is a fair point, I'll have to look into that.

As for losing the meaning of my comment - A lot of my comments get downvoted because I'm crap at getting an idea down without editing it (we're on the 5th edit as I write). That is nothing new.

If my comment is meaningless give it a downvote
> i don't see what AI is included in this

Yeah, I also had my doubts, but basically it's for people whose veins are so covered by fat that you can't just easily spot them
Is there any map of land cables ? I know more about the few submarine cables between south and north america than how the internet actually arrives to inland cities of my state.
Oldest human footprints in North America found in U.S. park
To be fair the cost of ads varies based on demand; advertisers wouldn't pay more than the ROI they're seeing from their ads, so the prices have the cost of ad fraud somewhat priced in?
Then either do without (because, come on, nobody's gonna die if they can't watch reality TV), buy it on disc, or pirate it? Netflix is blocking IP ranges so hard that residential space is getting caught in the blast radius. It's a cat and mouse game that you'll only win by refusing to play.
https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-intensifies-vpn-ban-and-tar...
>The ongoing crisis with Everglade

You mean Evergrande (3333.HK)
Sure, sorry for being a little curt.

It’s possible that were politicians only in seat for a short period, some of them would succumb to the incentive to “make the most of it” personally. Since this would leave lobbyists as the most “senior” people on Capitol Hill with the most experience managing these interactions, they’d be able to optimize for providing lucrative payouts to these short-timer politicians.

I’m not saying this is guaranteed, just that there are incentives toward that outcome and also that experience gives power in “repeated game” scenarios. A converse example of this is the lifetime appointment for judges, ensuring them stability to help minimize the appeal of maximizing short-term gains.
Isn't Lustre designed specifically for ZFS as its backing filesystem?
Coming soon to a country nearby you…

Plebs cannot be allowed to have access to sound money, otherwise financial parasites can’t exists.
You don't. There is NO real world use case to do that. It seems like they exist, but every time you dig into the details you discover that there is a horrible edge case that makes it a stupid idea.

What you do is buy not one drive, but a set of drives and add an second array to the system. Then RAID-0 between the two arrays.
I have an iPhone and I am always disappointed with the results when compared to a mirror less and DSLR. If you see the lions picture closely there is no sharpness. There is a lot of computational color magic that goes behind the scenes to make the images pop but when you look closer they are obviously no where close to pro-am cameras.
You say that as if it was a good thing. This "realization" people made is why modern software is so depressingly shitty.
I'm not sure I totally agree, sure I don't know every single employee, but I use Nord because I like and respect Tom Okman[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Okman
It'd be useful for desktop convergence, but I think the power isn't quite there (especially on current Linux devices).
Pre-edited photo is a myth. Cameras capture light values far exceeding dynamic range of any output media. Fitting scene-referred data into capabilities of screens or paper is always a subjective art and is ultimately photographer’s job.

In digital, all “unedited” means is using camera firmware’s interpretation of raw values; especially with complex processing in modern phones this isn’t a very good measure as scene recognition can be hit or miss and the algorithm is a black box.

(What could be indicative is posting scene raws alongside exhaustive development presets, of course.)
I never knew about this...is this true for resumes converted to pdf from latex? Is there a way I can check my resume to see if it is getting parsed correctly?
Hi there! I'm on the team, and we're going to invest a bunch of time and effort on making this experience much better. Happy to hear any specific feedback if you'd like, and I'll prioritise it. Feel free to reply here, or DM me on twitter @threepointone.

Stay tuned, things should get better soon.
That detailed research by Stephenson also served as the foundation for the fiber optic cable laying and data haven subplot in Cryptonomicon.
It's all about how much work the reward pays for. At current Bitcoin prices of around $43k, the block reward pays miners $14,125,500,000/year to spin ASICs all day. That kind of money buys a lot of wasted power.

If PoW is still around, but the price dumps low enough that miners are only burning, say, $1,000,000 a year worth of power, that'd be a great improvement.
Afaik, there is effectively "the Chinese domestic stock market" and "the rest of the world's stock market."

Chinese citizens can invest in the former, but (via government currency exchange controls) can't participate meaningfully in the latter.

So if China exits global stock markets... there isn't that much Chinese money being pulled out of them, because there wasn't that much in them.

What money China is investing internationally appears to mostly go to bonds, construction financing, and asset leases / purchases.

PS: What this appears to really be about is severing links for extraordinarily wealthy Chinese citizens to move money outside the reach of the PRC.

Which, if you were running an expansionist monetary policy intended to facilitate domestic economic growth, while simultaneously cracking down on the wealthy in pursuit of equality, is presumably something you'd take very seriously (as a command economy). Lest all that new & old money just fly offshores.
Even if it cannot connect to the internet, the psp van still run games, can't it? That isn't "useless" in my jargon
"The Internet today" friggin' blows. Get off my lawn indeed, lol
If you expected that, then you probably assumed that other factors remained the same? That isn't the case.

First, countries with high vaccination rates have lightened other restrictions.

Second, countries with high vaccination rates may have many infected people, but few hospitalisations. Where I live, the share of infections that require hospitalisation has dropped by ~80% since the vaccinations started. (The number of infections as a share of population has gone up and down, the share of infections that require hospitalisation has shrunk steadily.)
And no wonder! All of those things you listed as benefits sound shady and illegitimate to people who aren't very tech savvy or have a poor understanding of their rights to a free web. Notice you're using words like "Trick" and "deceive" good luck selling that!
Votes in a bug tracker don't represent the priorities of developers or even a representative audience of users. Yes, it's a known issue, but there are trade-offs and a lot of work involved. Most people just aren't aware of the complexity involved in file chooser implementations and APIs.

The file chooser issue is more often raised in the context of internet abuse than good faith user requests. That doesn't mean it's not real, it just means it's fodder for precisely the kind of document we're responding to.
What REALLY pisses me off is that if I put my computer to sleep for the night, and windows then runs some updates, it doesn't put the computer back to sleep! Why not? Why should it run all night instead of going back to sleep, what the hell microsoft
On Instagram the content itself resembles ads. It's not hard for me to imagine that an ad for something you could actually buy might be more interesting than an ad for some dork's fake online persona you can buy into.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23011467
I don't think they did tweak it that much. The chromatic aberration and distortion from the lens is still visible. Maybe a bit of colour work and changing the shadows was done. Probably still very representative of what the iPhone's camera can do.
> Then again, if human inspection is just as good with detection with a high resolution infrared camera and leds, [...]

Yeah, but afaik it just isn't, so this would be in that way really useful for a lot of people working those kind of jobs
All these companies seem to have a different understanding of what business ethics are.
That bad, huh :( But I hear you. I'm working on making this better right now, I'd be happy to hear any complaints you have, and I hope we can get you back.
I strongly doubt there are any non-fiber submarine cables. Fiber's main strength is range; trying to run signals over electrical conductors over hundred-km-plus distances is not cost-effective and hasn't been for decades.

(It's been done historically, but with very heavy cables, very high endpoint power levels, lots of repeaters, and really poor throughput.)
"Yo dawg I heard you like queries so I wrote 76,000 queries about queries so you can answer queries about queries."
These nation state level actors would need to convert their Bitcoin into something that they can actually spend. Governments need to pay employees, contractors, and suppliers. These people want actual currency they can spend.

The main alternative would be to issue a Bitcoin backed currency. But then you're just re-creating the gold standard, and all of the problems that go along with that.
That's terribly easy to get around. The rich don't operate as sole proprietorships. Instead, it's a family business with money held in trusts and word of mouth contracts. "Falling out of favor with the family" is a euphemism for violating some form of an agreement. And when you hold public office, there are plenty options to deal with dissenters.

Placing restrictions on what investments a person holding public office can hold is a very naive solution. Instead, acting on material nonpublic information is what should be against the law.
Is there any electoral system that has both representatives for districts and fully proportional representation that doesn't have this problem? It seems this kind of problem is inherent in combining the two.
If you take `[sql]` off the search, many in the first page of results are tagged `mysql` and not `sql`.
Whoa whoa slow down there, what are we, a free market?

That's only for HNWI and hedge funds.
Some of us would like to get home country news besides the quite poor international channels, it is not always about Netflix.
Circumventing geoblocking is legit, but don't tell people that VPNs are about "security".
Do you even know what you're talking about?

In the US, a billionaire has more money at the end of the day if they just pay taxes on it than if they give it to charity and take the deduction.

The only other way a charity helps a billionaire save on taxes is if they use the charity's assets (e.g. boats, helicopers, real estate) as personal assets. But that's felony tax fraud. A billionaire wouldn't be likely to risk prison for that kind of chump change.

The crooked thing about charities is the people who run them, focus on fundraising, and pay themselves a huge salary. But those people aren't billionaires.

Now, you could rent your real estate to a charity you control at an inflated price, or sell them other services, but I think that's probably an edge case.
In a similar vein, I recommend Neil Postman's book "How to Watch TV News". It's a little dated, but his recommendations are still relevant to modern media formats. One of his most interesting (and obvious in hindsight) insights is that "news" is NOT what is happening around you; it's what someone else TELLS YOU is happening around you, based on a complex set of criteria that they use to prioritize, include, and exclude information, and is not in any way comprehensive. This is necessary due to the limits of communication, but can also have profound effects on the impressions we then carry with us regarding what we think about the world around us. The book is short, but rich; I highly recommend it.
I just do software dev, but cp with reflink is absolutely killer, and the only reason I don't just go with ext4. Unless I'm crazy, ext4 doesn't seem to have any simple copy-on-write feature I can use to copy/paste an entire project directory instantly. I sometimes do that so I can have two instances of the same app running at the same time, on different branches. I've also used reflink in automated tests, testing a tool that relies on and changes a project's file structure. I can just duplicate an entire dummy project, operate on it, then throw it out and it's fast since it doesn't need to copy bit-by-bit.
Not sure how we got to $0.01/kWh (half the cost of the lowest PPAs ever signed for solar in Saudi Arabia), but if the electricity cost is 10x lower than current California prices, I see how electrofuels could pencil.
Did you have anything specific in mind? Because otherwise that statement could apply to anything.
I thought about this for a while as well, especially as I'm both a Go and .NET programmer, and made the following observation: Go and .NET have something that's viral about their IO code. In Go's case it's errors, in .NET's case it's async. Then I realised that basically all code that is async in .NET is I/O code just like all code in Go that throws runtime errors is I/O code as well. This is not a perfect heuristic, but it works 95% of the time.

Which means that .NET code tends to suffer from the same issue as Go code. The solution is the same as well:
Separate out the code that does logic processing from the code that does I/O. This way only a few top level functions will become async. I find that this makes my code cleaner and more testable as well.
You can use https://satoshivpn.com if you want to be anonymous. You get access to your own private server, and user registration is not even possible.
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou expected to resolve US charges in Brooklyn court
I'd go a step further and restrict them to index funds. Even just holding a stock could affect their judgement. So they might not trade it to their benefit, but they might make the wrong policy decision for the country.
If I were supreme, I’d make all publicly traded trades public. Publish the identities of the trading counterparties along with the volume and price of the trade. I mean these markets are supposed to be public. You get better price discovery and less stealing from insider information… to know your counterparty is like rule number 1 in any business. Somehow in the ambiguously public, public markets, it’s private.
"And anyway, if the problem is storing value, why you don't buy gold or dollars, yens or something like that?"

Those are the traditional means and are usually banned or strongly regulated, if the states money is at stake.
Is this not a super standard FOIA response?
Which you can call directly from Swift.
You just sold the phone for me though, instead of having to carry around a DSLR on a safari he carried a phone that would fit in the side pocket of the average camera case and still got magic...
But an iPhone fits in your pocket.

I have a DSLR and I now don't bring it along anymore. I have three kids, so I already have to carry around a lot of stuff and children, so there is no more room or energy for my DSLR. My phone is always in my pocket though.

I recently invested in some phone lenses by Moment and I am very excited about them. They also fit in my pocket and I can pop one on my phone in about 10 seconds.
Thanks, I'll be sure to post on HN when it is done. Guix is still pretty new, but there's also Nix in a similar space (but not Scheme). And it has certainly been a learning experience, in a very good sense!
Yeah, we recently made improvements so `wrangler tail` works without falling over, and we also show logs directly in the dashboard now (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-dashboard-lo...) More improvements coming, I promise.
I'm suprised how well connected Guam is. Are there reasons?
This must be why FB is dumping money into the metaverse.
No cables between South America and Africa? Flat Earth!
I'm guessing what the parent might have wanted is something straight out of the Camera app (or Halide), without any further post-processing.
It is - they know their market and they serve them well. One of the few VPNs that actually don't log traffic.

That said, I've had websites flat-out refuse me because of using Mullvad (not just because it's a VPN, but a supposedly "disreputable" VPN). Meaning blackhats love it. Meaning it works.
> At best, you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations. At worst, it's a government agency honeypot or someone like Facebook.

My ISP is required by law to be an informant for government agencies, so the VPN can only be equal or better than my ISP.
An exhaust fan doesn't work in a bag.
It would not. Hardly anyone mines in Europe. Ironically power shortages are due to ESG initiatives that phased out power stations using fossil fuels and left unreliable power sources of wind and solar
> I strongly doubt there are any non-fiber submarine cables.

I strongly doubt electrical cables are fiber cables for example :-)

On a more serious note, I was thinking that there are perhaps copper cables used for telephone communications that are still used simply because they haven't yet failed, but I assume fiber has perhaps been the standard for backbones long before it became something people have in their homes.
One of our product managers is a grandmother (she is actually taking an early retirement soon because her 4th grandchild is on the way).

We are in the B2B/B2EDU space so the "As a grandmother, I think..." line of thought does not apply. However, she has frequently had insights and observations that none of us would have come up with. Once implemented, they have been very successful/profitable.

So yes, absolutely, unless your company wants to be in a very specific niche, the lack of true diversity in your company is a drag on your success.

PS - my grandfather had a tech job in Sunnyvale. He passed away last year at the age of 92. Point is - everyone alive has lived in a world with pervasive technology and computing. "They're old and can't understand this stuff" is pure BS.
Most marketing departments I've met don't check their ROI. They request budget, spend it on campaign, then make power points to tell the rest of the company that they were successful.
The idea that crypto mining is bad for the climate is short-sighted. It is based on the wrong assumption of a static universe.

But this world is not static. Let's say for example, all goverments would become more strict in taxing energy consumption. (Presumably to help save the climate.)

Now at some point there is a market incentive to develop mining techniques that optimize for less energy consumption above all else. This would lead to better technologies and thus environment friendly mining techniques.

So this would mean that two factors in this world have changed. Namely taxation on energy and energy consumption while mining crypto.

But this goes further. What if the usage of crypto enables reduction in carbon imprint in other sectors? This could be a possible development.

And so on. The world is always changing.
To pirate it you need a VPN, in countries that have a surveilled internet and laws that enable suing file sharers. Germany for example.