skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rectangle (and spectacle before it) is one of those absolutely essential tools for me when working on my mac. I didn't realize how essential it was to my workflow until it was accidentally disabled a few days ago and I struggled hard to use my laptop.

Happily donated to the author of an app so essential for my day to day productivity to show my gratitude for making it and making it open source. If the author happens to read this: thank you!
True. That is indeed an implication, unless some other facility is available. The necessity of meta-programming, and if so, the extent of it, is one if the biggest uncertainties I have currently, which could be determined at this time, by input from someone more knowledgeable and more familiar with it.

Some of the related points from the article:

> Will likely need to be able to treat code-as-data. Might need compile-time macros.

> Meta-programming: No first-class macros (runtime), since it is a too powerful footgun. But should have compile-time macros.

Thanks for the compliment!
The thing about games vs cars is games aren't even supply-constrained; you just download a copy from the store!

Even if you buy the physical games, they're almost always available within a few days of release at most. Just not a good idea to preorder games.
Since children can't provide their own informed consent, its very morally dubious to give them medical treatments for something that is unlikely to make them sick, and seems on balance for the benefit of the parents. This is quite different from the other vaccines they currently take.

In the event that the covid vaccine turn out to have long term health effects, a child has a long life to live with those side effects, unlike a 70 year old. So their risk is greater, and their potential suffering much longer lasting.

Societies have generally made sacrifices for their children, and not sacrificed their children for the benefit of the elderly. The courts have also generally held the interests of the child supersedes the interests of the parents.
>The premise of Idiocracy is that dumb people reproduce more and society gets dumber. Eugenical yuckness aside, the reality is that IQ has been rising.

The movie reminded me of the Despair. inc poster "Meetings: None of us is as dumb as All of Us"

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0535/6917/products/meeting...
The value of those rankings is very low, the methodology is flawed. And doesn't accurately reflect the relative inconvenience of flaws.

Tesla for EV have had pretty amazing success in terms of battery and drive train reliability.

If you are going to consider a Corolla, you were not the target audience in the first place and even if Tesla was literally the best company in terms of reliability it wouldn't make you a potential costumer either.
Question to the employers or managers: do you think that this is bad thing?
I've done tons of work during meetings. Only need to listen like 4% of the time.
Nothing at all. It’s honestly surprising that it’s not a bigger thing.

Guessing what stops you is that the Apple team that makes camera software has a budget that makes the Nikon pc app team look quite small.
It wouldn’t make any difference in this instance, all the computational stuff still happens.

I just took a long exposure on my 12 Pro and purposely moved the camera around a bit and my phone produced a sharp RAW image.
There are actually numbers for this (that I'm sadly to lazy to look up on my phone), taking fixed inflation adjusted income thresholds, more people are moving into higher than lower brackets out of the shrinking middle, especially if you consider the starting sizes of these groups.
Heads turn into leaves, windows turn into Ryan Gosling, the power of image post processing using ML.
No. Even among the top 100 sites a fair few are 4 only
They still caught a break.

Here people are like “lol Apple” and understand it’s the fault of the software and there isn’t incipient malice intended. Whereas on the other hand people are apt to make it into something it isn’t.
From my reading they did

> If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:

> A. retain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the Licensed Material:

> i. identification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner requested by the Licensor (including by pseudonym if designated);

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
I use amethyst.

https://ianyh.com/amethyst/
Obviously shit earphones are going to sound shit. That’s true whether they’re bass heavy or not. So its a sentiment that is not contradictory to my point.

My point is having earphones and headphones that can offer a deep and rich low end without sacrificing sharpness a not novelty feature. And there are earphones and headphones out there that can do that. I know this because I’ve owned plenty over the years. :)
What an Amazon Dispatcher Sees While You're Delivering
Intelligence is a heritable (h^2) trait. So there’s no questions that Intelligence has genetic components.
I think this answers a question in my other comment. Not sure if I agree, but at least it feels like I start to get your point. Need to get some sleep, cause this mood makes me sound unpleasing sometimes, sorry if that manifested too much.
In the real world, outside FAANGistan , paying 50k for a car, IS a luxury. I said that as a fellow FAANGistanian.
You can buy MSG on amazon and instantly make anything taste great.
Any reason it can’t be brought back?
To clarify a common point of confusion: what you seem to be describing (personal property, market economy) is not unique to capitalism. Market socialism is not command economy and involves the use of markets and money to efficiently allocate resources. However, there's a substantial difference in corporate / business ownership; profits are generally redistributed to the workers and thus reward labor over capital accumulation.
My understanding of the automotive industry is that they cut corners everywhere they can because they know it’ll save more money than a lawsuit or recall will cost. Do they do these things and when someone dies or raises a stink only then do they do the recall.
[pulls up chair, sits backwards]

OK so this is a question I'm arguably qualified to talk about -- I focus on usability and promoting it within a large tech company.

The problem that I see a lot is that engineers are not well-versed in what I will call 'imaginative empathy'[1], which, as I define it, is the ability to creatively conceive of end-user needs by reflecting at length on who those people are, what they desire, and what they expect, _even when the end user is a very different kind of person than the developer_, with different strengths, weaknesses, and expectations.

I'm at this moment setting up an internal programme to try to beef up imaginative empathy among engineers. My premise is that imaginative empathy is actually not hard to train for -- people in helping professions (counsellors, therapists, social workers) get pretty good at it, as do novelists; but, like any muscle, it can atrophy, and it is emphatically not something that is tested for in most interviews. Therefore, since it is not selected for, it is often not in abundance on any particular engineering team.

A book that inspired me in this approach is _Anthro-vision_, by Gillian Tett, which is a gift to anyone who makes anything for another human being, and wants them to enjoy it.

1. Empathy on its own isn't enough -- people tend to empathize most with people who are most like them. Sometimes this is enough on its own -- if you're a neovim obsessive (like me :D) and you're making an extension for other neovim obsessives, you can run on just regular empathy. But most of the code I write is not written for 'people like me', it's written for people in the general case, and that means a cognitive stretch. Imagining the Other and attempting to be of service to them requires imagination. I'm inspired in this observation by Buddhist 'metta' practice, and the ways in which the Buddhist conception of 'compassion' differs markedly from what is often called empathy by contemporary professional psychologists.
Tesla's manufacturing capabilities are notoriously bad.

the inconsistency in their finishing on the cars is telling.
the tech inside the cars is amazing, but not being able to do things like proper bodywork or having lots of cars with after production line installs is a sure sign of an immature production process.
I have not heard about this, and the concept sounds very scary. Old abandoned Swedish mines have a tendency to poison ground water with metals and other pollution unearthed by the mining process.

https://www.sgu.se/mineralnaring/gruvor-och-miljopaverkan/
I wonder if there are more virtual machines than bare metal hosts. There must be, right?

Even with paravirtualization as an option I feel like many users of VMs would opt for the advantages of full virtualization.
I’m half of these examples (Reddit, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and many more), the user is not the customer. Products will always optimize for the customer and do the bare minimum to maintain their product. The customer is advertisers for these platforms, not users. The users are the product.

The other aspect though is that devs don’t test in bad conditions. Most modern dev is done on a top of the line MacBook on a fiber connection. With that kind of setup you get spoiled.

It’s been a constant annoyance for me as well, and is part of the reason why I challenged myself to write my latest SPA in vanilla js rather than using a framework. Is it harder to do? Absolutely. But my full SPA is around 300kb of js. Overall the development work to do this took around 2x the time it’d have taken me to use a framework and other plugins to get the work done - most teams aren’t comfortable with that tradeoff.
Race to the bottom. Faster!
I agree. There's no need for a sticky header here.
Definitely possible. Steam had something similar a while back caused by caching issues [1]. I have no idea about Facebook specifically though.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/12/25/steam-is-...
You can only choose two: cheap, good, fast. Most developers are not in position to make this decision. You see from major companies is not developer's fault but management obsessed over revenue metrics. It is easy to tie new feature to revenue goal than performance optimization or quality improvements.

For example, for Blizzard management it is easy to release half finished, buggy Warcraft 3 reforged because they can make money. Microsoft has no problem in putting ads in your start menu in OS that you paid for. Firefox can fire developers working on browser innovation (servo) and pay more to CEO. Apple and Intel can manufacture in almost slave labor conditions even having billions in theirs accounts because that what make them more money.

That is few problems

- most users do not understand software or computers
- building software is hard
- users do not care enough two boycott companies
- unrestricted capitalism create conditions for abuse
This is the "smart HDR" option on an iPhone, described as "In difficult lighting, the best parts of multiple exposures are combined into a single image".

So there is the middle ground of disabling this. Or, alternatively, just not caring about such an error once in a million shots.

(as an aside, I'm pretty sure the structure of the leaves is responsible for this error, as it's an area with usually many strong edges in a somewhat repetitive pattern. That invites misalignments.
> no-one wanted to run anything other than rather specialised programs on a Cray 1 or any of its descendants because it was just not very fast for that

That’s not at all true. Cray-1 and immediate descendants were just as good at scalar workloads as vector (their killer advantage over the likes of STAR-100 etc). Their major issues came from having crummy early 1960s-style memory management - never really fixed - making them pretty awful Unix (or even just shared) machines. As effectively single threaded workload batch targets under COS (regurgitated CDC yuck) they were the awesome Fortran machines they were designed to be.
Nothing prevents that, but if there is a lot of movement (which would be the point of using video) then the great results aren’t as easy to get. You can’t take a still of someone dancing in a dark room with an iPhone, you can take a still of someone standing reasonably still in a dark room.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13923
Recent iPhones (and many Android phones) have optical image stabilization; an element in the lens moves to compensate if the phone shakes during the exposure. Very new iPhones (and some Android devices) also have sensor-shift image stabilization, which moves the image sensor.

These features are also available on many dedicated cameras and interchangeable camera lenses.
Wow, that's not an encouraging paper!

It doesn't just say that "efficacy of the vaccines dwindles over time," but that the 2-dose vaccine effectiveness against omicron is significantly negative in the 91-150 day bucket.
> Authoritarianism is about taking things from me. Communism, in its noncorporeal theoretical form, is about giving things away

That seems slightly wrong to me. I feel like this is comparing apples to oranges. Authoritarianism is a ruling arrangement, but communism is an economic arrangement.

In a way, democracy is to the right to rule as what communism is to the right to wealth.

In a democracy, all citizen has equal right to rule, everyone gets one vote. In communism, all citizen has equal right to wealth, everyone gets the same amount of ownership into the sum total wealth of the country. (in practice, just like there are false democracies where fraud is rampant and not everyone truly gets an equal vote, communism in practice till now seem to not have truly given equal wealth to all)

Why has there never been a democratic communist country is a good question, but there are quite a few social democracies and those have worked quite well till now... like most western countries except the US (and even the US has quite a lot of socialism built in and is really a social democracy even if maybe more libertarian than others).

I'm not saying that communism would work better, but I do find it annoying when people restrict the search space into alternative economic arrangements by pointing out the correlation between communism and authoritarianism.

I see communism as more of giving me things, then giving things away. It only seems to give things away if you start with the assumption you own more things to begin with. But the current distribution is that communism should in theory give more people more things, while only taking away from a small percentage which currently disproportionately own most wealth.

The counterpoint being the size of the pie. If we all own an equal share of a small pie, you might still have less pie than if you were to own the smallest slice of a much bigger pie. This is the best argument I've heard for capitalism. And with a little sprinkle of socialism, you can regulate capitalism so that there are limits on how small a slice can be, giving people a reasonable living baseline and growing the overall size of the pie at the same time.

The weaker part of this argument is establishing a proof that there are no other ways that would also yield a bigger pie while also having a more even distribution of it.
I'm confused-- these seem like 2 totally separate issues. The Model 3 issue doesn't even sound like a trunk latching issue, it sounds like a cable-harness-in-a-hinge issue?

I actually have a Model 3 that exhibited an annoying rear camera problem (now fixed). It had to "go in" to be fixed 3 times, for complicated reasons, but I found the ultimate fix (an OTA update) to be annoying. I had read on the forums that harness damage was not-uncommon, particularly among people who had installed a power trunk closing retrofit and somehow managed to damage the harness in the process (oops!)

Basically:

* When the car was new, rear camera did turn on 100% of the time, but failure rate was pretty low. The car had a few minor bugs and the camera seemed to be one. Within a few months most of the bugs were sorted and I had no regular issues with the camera anymore. (way less than 1% failure rate I'd say -- not unlike I've noticed in other cars).

* ~ April 2021 the camera started failing to come up with some regularity, immediately after a software update, so I suspected a bug, and just waited for it to get fixed. I think it basically never worked at this point. But it didn't get fixed in the next few updates. (this was when the car was 3 or 4 years old)

* A few months later, I took the car in for its final "warranty about to expire" visit. Probably the car's 2nd time at the service center in 3 years? I mentioned the camera along with a few other minor issues. They said they'd replace the harness through the trunklid if they had one, but thought it was out of stock. Sure enough, it was out of stock and they never 'fixed' it.

* Mobile service visit, came to my house and replaced the harness in about 20 minutes. But it didn't solve the problem. The tech said likely the FRONT coax harness would need to be replaced, which was much more involved and would require a service center visit.

* Scheduled service center visit.

* The night before the visit, they called and said "hey, is your camera fixed? We pushed an update". Well, I don't know. Even if it IS working, 12 hours isn't enough to tel whether an intermittent problem is permanently fixed.

* Took the car in, they examined everything, said it was fine, and it has been ever since.

The car's been relatively trouble free but I want to say this is the second time (possibly for the same camera issue) someone at Tesla pushed a update to the car the night before a service center visit, in the hope it fixed the problem. Why not prioritize these fixes for, I don't know, a few days before the visit, if you want to fix things OTA and limit the load on service centers?
Block matching is a somewhat popular noise removal technique predating neural networks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block-matching_and_3D_filterin...
> "very popular, stable API in an API marketplace made by a single person".

Could you explain this a bit please? Or give a few examples? It's getting late here and I can't wrap my head around this. :) Thanks!
> Capitalism is private (not personal, but private) ownership

Note that the sense of “private property” used in the definition of capitalism by its critics is not typically used or understood within capitalism except by people who follow the theory of those critics, and that “private property” to people more immersed in the theories supportive of capitalism tends to just mean non-public property.
The camera moving?
Did you try feeding it with something else f.e. human faces only? It looks like it should already be able to generate faces as good as Nvidia StyleGAN.

Pikachu variations from a single image are still way too good for anything we have seen before. It apparently understood the face part well and applied variations, for the rest it did as much as it understood.

What else did you try after Pokémon and can you share those results?
It's important to note that recent iPhones contain the same M1 chip as last year's MacBooks. They are not limited by processing power.

DSLR and mirrorless cameras have better optical properties. But they are held back by starting too late and being much worse when it comes to software. These cameras also are limited by their CPUs, which are a decade behind, and by their batteries, which are much smaller but expected to last for thousands of exposures.
You had this whole thing locked and loaded, it must have been so exciting when someone mentioned politics.
I don't think it was about specific algorithms, but about the entire system. And AFAICT it is often said by people who have monetary incentives to convince others hire them, so i'd take it with a grain of salt or two.
Not a really bad fever, and try not to treat it with anything but fluids.. remember that a fever is a more often than not a GOOD thing. its the body raising the alarm system wide. let it do its thing (to a degree, you don't want it too high for too long. obviously. Also seek medical advice from a medical practitioner)
Most copied snippet is a basic operation when dealing with data. That's a testemant to how unintuitive Pandas is.
We are a global community devoted to protecting health
Isn't that what Lightroom is for?
I think they fooled themselves into believing that low gas prices were a norm and that filling up a huge tank shouldn't be that expensive. I don't remember the details exactly because it didn't affect me, but I'm thinking back to a similar thing ~15 years ago where Hummers got super popular due to a combination of aesthetics and favorable tax treatment, but then the price of gas shot up following some reversal in the Middle East and lots of people decided the total cost of ownership wasn't that great after all.
We should reject this simply because it does not provide any clear benefits, but meanwhile asks for a lot. People to learn the FK names in their DB, people to learn new SQL syntax (and tooling to support it).

It's actually difficult to list all the problems with this proposal. It's just unnecessary and the effort required to predict all the problems it will cause isn't worth doing.
The only constant I've seen in 20 years is terrible documentation, which highlights the most common mistake all engineers make: we hyperfocus on the how, and forget to consider the why.

Learn how to explain and document why you chose an architecture for a problem. It's a habit that'll set you apart from your peers.
> Rights are a fundamental consequence of human nature.

What does that mean? If someone stronger forces you to do work for them and beats you if you refuse, that seems like a “fundamental consequence of human nature” a lot more than saying that they shouldn’t.

To me, the “natural state” is for that you can do whatever you can get away with. Any limitation we place on that is our attempt to impose our conception of humanity on nature.

To put it another way, what about the state of nature would imply that we have ANY of the fundamental rights people speak of as being such? The natural rights I see are what animals have; the right to try to survive as best you can, by doing whatever you can.

Now, I am in no way arguing for anarchy or anything, just that there is nothing ‘natural’ about our concepts of rights.
But it’s also just weird. That’s not my daughter’s skin in the photo, it’s 1000 other people’s skin blended together and textured in.
He tells you that he distrusts a popular authority, so you cite a popular authority.
Share Your Plans for 2022
Hi All. Previously today I created a post about 2021 -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29737535

I can start:

1. Do workouts regularly, running at least 2 times a week

2. Walk around 1500km in a year

3. Finish a new personal project (app for Android/iOS) on Flutter

4. Move all scripts from Python to Go

5. Periodically write updates about my life and events around me (like a diary)
No, rampant corruption in your government and an active criminal investigation against you makes you a disgrace.
They asked for their phone to make a best effort to stack many pictures into one, cleverly aligning objects as well as possible.

And the camera failed. The alternatives would have been an extremely dark picture of a person without a leaf-face, or an extremely blurry picture of a person without a leaf-face.
He is not disgraced for his political beliefs, but because he was caught red-handed involved in government corruption and political meddling by foreign nations[1].

[1] Short summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiza_affair