skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few who have ever taken macro photographs would claim this is a "fixed issue". Macro photography is a giant pain. Further the difference between a 4mm focal length and a 50mm focal length, as a function of DoF, is massively larger than that 50mm going between f2.8 to f16. You'd have to go to a hypothetical F/512 to get the same advantage in that particular realm (though in reality small apertures suffer from their own problems).

This is basic math. It's interesting that someone else claimed it's "physics" as a retort, when yes indeed it IS physics. It's why you can make a tiny lens fixed focus camera that seems to have everything in focus, from near to far, because the DoF becomes enormous.
A number of trans rights activists (TRAs) are trying to erase the concept of 'sex' entirely, including sex-based differences. Although this seems absurd on its face, TRAs came to this point in the debate gradually: initially there was a focus on making the claim that gender is short for 'gender identity', which is in their view entirely unrelated to biological sex. This seemed agreeable to a broad audience, but committed TRAs then started looking to erode the sex-based separation seen in spaces such as bathrooms, sports, and more. The Biden administration took this further by redefining the word 'sex' when it comes to official law and policy (example: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-hhs-redefines-sex-...). Now TRAs are pushing for drivers licenses and birth certificates to allow self-identified information in the 'sex' field. Doctors and activists in the medical world are ceasing to use words like 'mother' and instead are using terms like 'birthing person' or 'uterus owner'. Sex-based sexual orientation (like 'lesbian') is being replaced as activists push for redefining it in terms of gender identity. These days, even pointing out that the word "woman" is defined as "adult human female", where "female" is defined biologically, is deemed "hate speech" by TRAs on Twitter.

For sports specifically, it is worth listening to this Megyn Kelly podcast episode where she speaks to two girls affected by this issue in high school sports, as well as two sports biology researchers - one of whom is trans - discussing sex-based differences in sports: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trans-athletes-deb...

In depth, balanced discussions around this issue are also difficult to come by because of censorship and vitriol. A good listen on this facet of the issue is this interview of journalist Abigail Shrier, whose recent book drew the ire of TRAs:
https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/3054d6c7/courage...
Many people equate programming languages with their ecosystem. That’s how you get people claiming that $newlang is so much worse than $oldlang, because it has no tools, no libraries, the compiler generates slow code, there is no community, and you can’t get commercial support.

That may be true, but that doesn’t say which language is better.
My project is small and it's amazing fast to me as well. It's basically just outsource its job to another cli. I used esbuild-plugin-sass

This is the gist
https://gist.github.com/v9n/c40a6ad2078d09dd86117924b415b7fb

As far as I know, esbuild has no intention to integrate with CSS and will outsorce it to plugin.

I used
Opinion and personal experience.
"... Social Security numbers were contained in HTML source code of the pages."

"Gov. Mike Parson was labeling the Post-Dispatch reporter a 'hacker' and vowing to seek criminal prosecution."

L O L. Everyone who has hit F12 in a browser is now considered a hacker.

I hope the prosecutors and law enforcement come to the right conclusion quickly and tell the governor no crime was committed. My experiences have left me with little faith of that happening.
You got a win in the Cold War which was far from settled otherwise. If China instead had a détente with the USSR and they both made the transition to their current economies together we'd have a very, very different world, to the American detriment.
I have a couple of PowerMac G5s that I use for retro gaming with my dad. I find them to be fun and nostalgic. I find it really neat when folks are still developing and maintaining software for older machines. It’s a sad day that TenFourFox development has ended, though understandable. With dual 2.5Ghz G5s, Reddit, eBay and other websites could barely render. Some would just lag the whole machine out, like Amazon. I kinda wish websites would be more optimized for older machines, but I’m sure it’s just not worth it for businesses.
If you have an f12 key on your keyboard, you are now a hacker. Bad ass.
If the scenario being proposed is that the reporter publicly searched teachers on the site and then noticed that SSNs were returned in hidden HTML or an endpoint returned it from an API directly, that is a facepalm and they’re fine.

If the reporter searched teachers and located (for example) their teacher ID, then discovered an endpoint (from looking at the JS) that took the ID as input and returned an SSN, they have potentially violated the CFAA (as written).

Do I agree that they should be prosecuted? No.

Is the CFAA a terrible law that criminalizes most netsec research? Yes.
I'm not a user but I know Blender had existed for quite a while but how is it gaining traction a lot these days suddenly?

Is there something that makes it a first choice for many professional users?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866805
I think what's happening is people not understanding what http:// means. They think it's a magic invocation that one uses to tell computers "take me to the following". Maybe.

Anyway, I disagree with some other responses here -- good UI should help teach users what they need to know to navigate effectively. Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

If you believe it's possible to effectively use the web without knowing what a web site is or which web site you're on at any moment, then yes, you might design the omnibar and you might hide the URL details in the address bar. (Or if you benefit financially from people's ignorance.) But if you think users should know these things to effectively and safely navigate the web, then ideally your UI should not only empower knowledgeable users but help inform non-knowledgeable ones.
That's a good point, the point where common marketing/PR transitions to a "stunt" or "is over the top" is really subjective. A lot of people put space flight on a pedestal and so have a low bar for such a stunt.
Until the US has dramatically clearer and more sane laws around hacking and responsible disclosure our security will not improve.
Gitlab is definitely very neat. But I always worry when these sorts of companies go to IPO. What is their financial situation like? Are they currently able to become profitable without drastically changing the deal with users?
Github has been a social network for years. You can follow users and "star" repositories.

It has its merits for search and discovery.
Why it's always the dumbest people that are elected to govern ?!
Indeed human cannot read...

Not sure what you are rehashing the same content in these words...
At this point, your anecdote doesn't help - heck, DMV's inefficiencies are so widely known and even featured in some movies: https://www.google.com/search?q=dmv+sloth
I really like Jonathan Blow, but I sometimes wish he would substantiate these kind of claims more so an outsider could learn what he is actually saying and why. I've watched a lengthy video of his on that topic but I didn't get out anything other than "you don't need it". No concrete implementation cases where it gets in the way or how a category of problems is better modeled in a different way.
> a normal fit 0 to 40 year old shouldn't get a new vaccine which has no long-term test data for an illness that statistically has a very low risk for them:

Covid is not low risk for 35-40 year olds. Someone age 25 with both vaccination doses is at higher risk of death than an unvaccinated 12 year old. How you've managed to extrapolate from this to "low risk to people up to age 40" is baffling, especially when you spend the rest of your post talking about how bad people are at understanding data.
Trains have the benefit of exceptionally smooth "roads"
When the president qualifies for the 25th amendment, it's reasonable to question whether his ideas and policies will negligently kill people.
Quantum tunneling is a step into weird.
This is what happens now when the media is portrayed as a political actor and everything can be "the other sided".

“political game by what is supposed to be one of Missouri’s news outlets.” Now they get to ignore any and all responsibility and the governor is seen as standing up to the liberal media. It did not even have to be a big deal, just fix it, say its been resolved and move on. Everything is gamified and politicized now; to the point they are willing to send someone to jail over their own flaw. Its not even about being good leaders and helping citizens its just about winning elections and owning the libs or conservatives or your favorite brand of "snowflake". Human decency has left the building. I wish we could go back to business as usual but we have really entered a post truth society.
Milvus is an OSS vector db for embedding similarity search and AI applications
> Parson said he had referred the matter to the Cole County Prosecutor and has asked the Missouri State Highway Patrol to investigate.

Was this a drive-by "view source"? Why is the highway patrol investigating?
> I believe that people should have a basic knowledge of the tools they are using.

I strongly disagree with this.

Does anyone remember what connecting to Wifi looked like? I'm talking 15+ years ago. Here's how it would go:

1. Click a network

2. Choose an option from WEP, WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2 and WPA-PSK

3. Be prompted with a either a password, a key selection or a box that generates a bunch of keys. Enter what you think the password is somewhere;

4. If it doesn't work, return to (2) and try something else.

5. If it works, you win.

That was literally how it worked. And then Apple came along and just prompted you for password. Why? Because the OS can figure out the rest so why ask the user?

You can argue "the user should have basic knowledge of the tools they're using". After all, if they're connecting to a WEP network, they should be aware it's not secure.

But users don't care about any of that so there's no point in asking them. You're just forcing users to make decisions they don't care about, don't need to know it and aren't interested in. For what?

That's what great product design and interface design is.

Let's also refer to Joel Spolsky's classic "Choices" [1] where he quotes:

> Every time you provide an option, you’re asking the user to make a decision.

and then goes on to (correctly) say:

> That means they will have to think about something and decide about it. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but, in general, you should always try to minimize the number of decisions that people have to make.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/12/choices/
I bought a 2017 Bolt and am eagerly awaiting a brand new battery pack with extended warranty.

Also, I forgot to say in my initial comment, I'm sorry you had to move so far from where you'd clearly rather be. That sucks. :(
That’s a neat approach. I like it.
Absolutely. Just to add to your examples of why soluicide is systematically under-reported in certain countries, in many Eastern Orthodox countries (Eastern Europe, Russia, Greece), suicide is considered a mortal sin and victims of suicide are denied burial in religious cemeteries (and denied normal religious burial rights) by the church.
Competing with Florida looks weird.
Very unlikely they'd use that code directly - would likely be easier to re-implement the features wanted natively in the blender codebase...

On top of that, there were always suspicions that some of the Shake codebase didn't come from perfectly 'legal' origins from an IP perspective in the early days (its API was very similar to something Alias was working on at the time, and became Maya).
I've heard rumours that was a reason the people responsible for Shake were never considered for SciTech awards.
Nothing is sprung on a wheel loader or a scaper.
a little odd to have this stance No?
Its almost as if hes punishing the reporter for the discovery .. which makes me wonder was it being siphoned politically beforehand and hes trying to direct the story away from whoever may have been siphoning it..to the false story of ... the reporter discovering the siphoning.
Any sufficiently advanced search engine is indistinguishable from hacking.
I think Blender does have a Python API [1]. I used this somewhat during my graduate school days to do rendering.

[1]: https://docs.blender.org/api/current/index.html
> luthier

I had to look up what this is. What a cool hobby! Do you mind if I ask how you got into it? Is it like building a PC where there are a lot of resources, kits, interchangeable parts, etc? Or do you just buy some blueprints and hit home depot? (In case it wasn’t abundantly clear I have not a musical bone in my body and know nothing about music or instruments. So apologies if these are silly questions, I’m merely curious how someone found such a niche hobby! Or maybe it’s not so niche and I just need to add some musically-inclined friends to my social circle!)
Google used to (c. 2005-2008) let you freely download your contacts & email from GMail, either as a file or an API. Facebook used this to seed Facebook. When you signed up with an @gmail.com account for Facebook, it'd prompt you to import all your contacts, and then send them all an e-mail inviting them to sign up for Facebook.

Google's requests for some reciprocity from Facebook, where users would own their own social graph through technologies like OpenSocial, naturally fell on deaf ears. Google walled off their own platform and decided to abandon open standards for proprietary systems a couple years later, and this is a large reason why we can't have nice things.

I believe GDPR enforces the ability to download all your data and both Google and Facebook offer it, but it's practically useless now. GDPR also makes the regulatory burden of starting a new social network impractical, so it's not like we could get an ecosystem of interoperable competitors.
Beet juice is soooooooo much better for the environment than the salts it is replacing. Unfortunately it is slightly more expensive so we get to continue poisoning our waterways with salts.
American schools gave kids laptops during the pandemic. Then they spied on them
The problem with that article is it confuses NFTs with NFTs being used as collectibles.

It’s like criticising the JPG file format because a lot of people use it to just store pictures of cats.

The practical use-cases for NFTs, tokenisation of real world items, identities, proofs, certificates etc., goes far beyond the collectibles market.

NFTs are going to play a massive role in our lives in the future. Criticising them because of one trivial (albeit lucrative) aspect is missing the forest for the trees.
Meh. Invisible man in the sky not doing it for me. Too much pain and suffering on this planet. I used to believe in God. Until I learned about the Holocaust.
One death camp survivor wrote: "If there's a God he owes me an apology.
On Apple GPUs (including M1 Macs), an OpenGL->Metal layer is used.
> the angel who teaches astrology and spells to drive away demons in the Book of Tobit

I think we need to be careful in how we are using words like "astrology" and "spells", since it is easy to group many ideas under those umbrellas in a way that people living long ago wouldn't have.

For a start, I don't see any mention in Tobit chapter 6 of astrology[0], and the technique given for driving away a particular demon is "thou shalt take the ashes of perfume, and shalt lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shalt make a smoke with it: And the devil shall smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more" followed by "and pray to God".

We wouldn't say that someone is casting a spell if they used cayenne pepper to keep cats away from their garden, and early readers of Tobit wouldn't have considered fish organs to be an unholy or forbidden substance. For a process to deserve the designation of a "spell", it would have to involve either a means or an ends that was forbidden by God.

[0] https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Tobit-Chapter-6/
Texas state and municipal governments [1] are mostly willing to do sweetheart deals with miners. I hope that this helps stabilize the grid here, which was nearly knocked out last year due to a combination of events, but not holding out any hope.

[1] https://marketcapitalize.com/denton-has-become-a-cryptocurre...
Sometimes foam is used rather than water.
Advertising and promotion plays a huge role in consumer preferences.

It’s not like people are picking any product or service in a vacuum. They’re heavily influenced by culture and what’s “cool”.

And what’s “cool” can be influenced by racism, sexism, etc.
That's fair to me.
Everything is finite. Solar and other "renewables" aren't clean or renewable because the components don't live forever and their manufacturing requires rare earths which are a finite and very unclean to mine. AFAIK rare earths are not being recycled so we are just sweeping the dirty under the carpet and not really greenifying the energy. But for countries that currently burn coal anything would be an improvement.

Nuclear is finite but so is coal and oil and we are nowhere close of running out of it. New reserves will be discovered once there's demand. And used fuel can be recycled in breeder reactors.
What is sham, what is a shell?
From what I have read (I don't do 3D modeling myself) Blender has overhauled its UI significantly over the past couple of years to great praise of a lot of people.
"unencrypted the source code" means they ran an unminify tool. Very advanced; criminal masterminds. /s
You have no idea what lengths some state employees will go through to cover their ass and not get fired. It's especially dangerous when cops and prosecutors do it.
Why is this Chromium-only?
I have heard great things about PopOS but haven't tried it personally. Hopefully you find the right distro for you.
I started to call this 'weather randomization' because thats what it is.
To quote Yes Minister: "The Official Secrets Act is not there to protect secrets, it is there to protect officials."
> A random bloke on the Internet just is trying to optimize for 1 problem, getting the right answer

Most random folks on the internet seem to be optimizing for dopamine hits, not correct answers. Anyone with an audience is optimizing for subscription uptake, which seems to reliably lead in the opposite direction from correct answers.

> Stuff about "mainstream [media] outlets" shunning all "decent journalists"

This kind of silliness does nothing but weaken the rest of your arguments, IMO.
Data is Illness. Minimization is the Cure
That's the point. He's being sarcastic and calling "atmospheric air" "nitro oxygen"
The governor is making a fool of himself.
Given that other recent article about university students who don't know what files are, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if this is considered esoteric.
Have you ever seen an experienced user demonstrate some use cases? I'm in the same boat as you but that convinced me because some of it was like magic. I don't think the value is in uniqueness of function, right, but the sort of swiftness of expression you can get.

More like having you workbench set up just perfectly, less like having irreplaceable tools. But the start up cost is what keeps me out - learning it, trying to integrate it into other tools that I don't fully understand anyway (VSCode in my case), etc etc.
> limited discretionary income and limited ability get money from the 'college' bucket to the discretionary bucket

He did say he was funding college from a margin loan on his stock portfolio, however.
Why is everyone here acting like the governor is merely stupid? He is not arguing from ignorance, he is arguing in bad faith. Mike Parson wants to feed the narrative that the American free press is the "enemy of the people" because it suits his politics, nothing more.

The only message here is "be careful embarrassing fascists."
Yet. Wait for them to evaluate the blowback, and then the walkback from the comment.
You're describing the social constructs we currently have in place. Science, the practice, doesn't require complex machines. If it did, dissecting animals with knives and drawing what you see with pencil and paper and describing what you did and how you suspect the body works wouldn't be Science, but I believe that it is.

Today we have peer review journals, LHC, computers etc and we use that when we practice Science but the tools and the social structure are not Science. Science is a process and anyone can do it.
You're conflating correlation and causation. Unified URL and search was initially introduced by Firefox (via the awesomebar) in 2008, because they'd observed in user testing that users couldn't tell the difference between search text box and URL text box and were disinclined to learn; rather than continue to retrain users (which they'd attempted with multiple iterations of resizing, new icons, etc.), they unified the features and relied upon the two inputs having wildly different shapes of text to disambiguate.

Chrome followed suit later that year, because by the time Chrome hit the market, awesomebar had demonstrated its utility for end users.
The 3rd step above would have protected me but I'm not sure everyone would be so cautious as that.

In my case, the attacker had control of my solicitor's email.

A few days before he sent me a letter instructing me to deposit money to the correct account, the attacker sent an email from the solicitors email server (Dkim verified by Gmail), with a different account.

This was in the context of a thread about the conveyancing on a house purchase so I was expecting to have to transfer money somewhere.

I admit my own failure in the process but I think there's room for improvement in the whole process of buying a house too (like why don't solicitors get buyers to enter the correct account info proactively at the beginning of the process)
> Was this a drive-by "view source"? Why is the highway patrol investigating?

In a number of states, the “Highway Patrol” is—either through role expansion, merger with a preexisting State Police, or otherwise—the general-jurisdiction law enforcement agency of the State.
Soapbox much?

The dude's clearly a moron but this isn't a thread about any of the topics mentioned in your quote. You're actively making HN a shittier place with comments like this.
Yeah this should be a "get a the computers guy in here" moment. Then someone explains and everyone moves on.
You make it sound simple. It's not when I'm commuting. Even to use the sprayfoam sealers - I need to first identify the puncture and that's not always obvious. I've usually just changed the entire tube.
Like redacting a public document by making the redacted parts have a black background with black text. If people can't see it, it is secure.
Pretty big if this gets accepted... And an interesting approach to the problem.
This was very cool to read; thanks for such an informative comment.

I imagine this will sound naive, but I wonder why this sort of vibration can't be addressed with shock absorbers in the seats?