skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also compression. ARRI 2.5k cameras made decent images as they were lot less compressed as some 4K cameras at the time.

Netflix streams 4K but often doesn’t look so great over internet compared to any cinema in my area which projects only 2K on a huge screen but from bigger files.
That's why nobody I know is buying HP, only Brother.
Appreciated the article. Elevating the status of Quadrant IV activity probably makes sense.

Now for the ‘but...’ which shouldn’t detract from the rest of the article:

‘As the famous phrase goes, “The peerless samurai walks the path of hardship, the light-hearted fool walks the path of providence.” ‘

I can neither find a reference to this quote online nor do I understand how it fits the article’s broader message.
I've done the same, using pg_cron to execute `VACUUM ANALYZE` - works just fine.
I've got a 720p $50 (pre-pandemic price) Logitech at home. I regularly answer to the same questions about picture quality. This is because everyone are using Apple laptops with awfully shitty cameras and just used to it.
Youth suicide is a very scary thing. I can’t imagine the grief it brings on the parents who are already suffering so much at the hands of this terrible situation. And let’s not forget about those who are single and the social isolation issues among other things.

This thing has wrought havoc on so many of our lives. So much of the world is suffering.

We thought there was light of the end of the tunnel, then omicron. It’s possible omicron won’t even be the last.

Please take an extra moment to show a little bit extra patience, understanding, compassion, empathy, for everyone, as many of us are suffering, actively or passively, in some way, as a result of the collective trauma on our society.
For that matter, how is that even a criticism? A thermostat sits on your (interior) wall; If you want it to be aware of the outside temperature for any reason, you either provide additional equipment that consumers need to mount outside their building (in such a way as to get an accurate reading whilst being weatherproof and having reliable power/connectivity)... or you just fetch it from an API based on your postal code like a sane person would
I always get flamed when I mention this (I don't mind it, btw) but...

I find it pretty interesting that for the DB write-intensive portion[0] of the TechEmpower web framework benchmarks, you must go further than entry 150 (sorted by most requests-per-second) to find MySQL used, compared to PostgreSQL or Mongo. For the DB read-intensive portion[1], only 15 of the top 100 use MySQL (the rest in that bracket use PostgreSQL), and the first entry there comes in at number 44. Important: if you examine the entries, you'll find that some of the frameworks have multiple listings for different configurations, including the use of MySQL vs PostgreSQL (in other words: same framework, but only the DB is different, in the same test).

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
Read: I own a lot of digital tulips.
I’d argue all of those setups combined would amount to less than 1% of internet users, so I’d hardly call them mainstream.
Most printers and routers are running webservers. Some camera sd cards run servers. My ereader runs a webserver, it works well.
Indeed, thank you for your kind reply. I resonate hard with your first paragraph :)

I do feel anger sometimes, but after all they're pleasant folks to work with, and I feel I shouldn't blame them just because they're born in richer places than me. I'd probably still finish my PhD :) But I do admire your resolution to become a professor, as I have been nothing but impatient with teaching other people things I understand. Your blog does have many insights that are rare in academia, with so many people rushing to get more papers published. I hope you'd have a successful career as a professor.
I use HP toner and expense it :)
The big difference is that in the Linux world, updates are in your control and the other way around. You're free to skip the updates, disable the notification, uninstall the thing that auto-fetches the package list, uninstall the package manager even. You can install a package that will silently install security-critical, or other updates for you. There's an upgrade that can even update the kernel itself while running. Simple updates will tell you to restart, but you don't have to - it's fine to use the machine even if it tells you you better restart.

Updates are frequent in both worlds because the high-speed always-on internet enables and requires it. But while Linux gives you options to deal with this, Microsoft decided to remotely manage your computer instead.
It's funny how Microsoft seems unable to do "security" without veering into megalomanic authoritarian schemes. See also Palladium.

What about trying to secure your software without building the infrastructure for an oppressive dystopian future? Too much to ask?
> separating mechanism from policy as a key component of unix philosophy

Can you please elaborate on this? It sounds like a very desirable approach, but I don't really see it "in unix". (I can think of a few program suites that use processes and piping between them as the "protocol", eg. cups, the executable files in a directory that are then launched in a loop pattern is more common, but that seems to lack the policy part. Whereas OpenSSH for example lacks this.)
It's still very early and very alpha - enough that it'll probably massively block at least one of your important production releases.

It's promising though, although it doesn't really solve the same kind of issues as Flutter - Flutter is a UI library first and formost. While Kotlin Multiplatform will most likely replace cases where we use C++ for porability now - internal, shared libraries.
Most excellent!

An incredible feat by all the engineers working on this!
The responsible thing to do is issue new software that doesn’t complain in the first place & any needed firmware updates for the printers.
used ionic for some small stuff years ago. Kind of assumed it had lost the cross platform race considering how little I see about it. I thought React Native was the lead runner in the cross platform wars right now, anyone care to correct me or give me their take on where it's all at?
There are few airlines who could purchase an airplane from Boeing while there are millions of farmers who could purchase a traktor. Corporate greed is endless and every single corporation wants to sell subscription services while denying right to repair.
For Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eql5.andro...

https://gitlab.com/eql/EQL5-Android/
Naming things remains hard, and not only in software development. I suspect it's a human weakness, giving in to oversimplification, cultural preferences, or just bad habits. We could name examples ad infinitum.
It's just money and the market, it's not about decentralisation as a good thing for people, it's about making money. That's why people will split hairs about the infrastructure and technology and miss the forest which is about selling stuff.
Thanks for mentioning EB2-NIW, I didn't know that before, and I'll definitely look into it. Regarding O1, one of the PhDs I admire most failed to get an O1 despite his success. I guess publishing papers in our fields is kind of hard and maybe some fields are more easy to get an O1 than others :)
On iOS, key features are not available in browsers, notably notifications.
Why Don’t Medicare and Medicaid Cover Dental Health Services?
I don't have links right now, but if you search for something like "online postgres config tool", you should find two different pages that do the same thing - you enter some data about your environment, and it spits out recommended settings.
> In Europe you'll find people using WhatsApp or Telegram

For whatever reason, in my country, everybody use FB Messenger for the absolute majority of their texting. And by "everybody" I mean teenagers, young adults, parents and the elerderly.

It's only if you've had prolonged stays in other countries (or is exposed to international communication in other ways) that people will be familiar with WhatsApp and I'd guess that very few have ever heard of Telegram here.
We are all tech people here, lets not pretend like there is no difference between self hosting and cloud hosting.

Pretty much everything you do on OpenSea requires indexing/processing, there is no way to do this on the blockchain (atm) so all of these platforms crawl the chain and keep their own indexes.

OpenSea never claimed to be decentralised, its a centralised marketplace. The difference is, When they deplatform you, all they can do is remove their copy.

They cant remove your nfts from the blockchain, they can delist you from the blockain and for the purposes of listing/curation, you can still see your nfts on other platforms.
the two types of diabetes are sometimes called "insulin dependent" and "insulin resistant"
If there is concerns about cameras on drones, what about CCTV cameras in general?

My mother just recently paid to have a few cameras installed, the cameras are magically on the cloud and accessible from her phone/ tablet, so that the footage could be viewed anywhere

I've not had time to look at these cmeras yet but I suspect the cameras are sending the images back to the country of origin; where all the live video data would be extremly useful to a foreign miltary.

a few ideas come to mind eg face recognition, number plate recognition, your wifi and password for other equipment to connect to, potential to access your local LAN etc..
It’s really strange to me that regulators let it happen. The UK just ruled that Facebook must divest from Giphy of all things but somehow a single company can own the majority of the online match making market.

I don’t what percentage of coupling and relationships are dependent today on Match.com et al but I bet it’s substantial at least in the major western markets.

The sheer amount of potential social engineering one achieve by cornering the market is pretty frightening.

It’s the same issue I have with the likes of Facebook and Google they really can control the lives of people far beyond what most can even imagine.

For most of us life isn’t some great plan, it’s all a series of small inconsequential events that roll into big life changing ones.

Some of your biggest moments in life can be “traced back” to a single inconsequential random moment and companies like Google and Facebook control a lot of these moments today.
It's probably not practical for JWST, but starlight is actually fairly bright. If you travel to somewhere with essentially zero light pollution, like a desert, if it's a clear sky you can see with starlight. At the South Pole on a clear night we would walk out to the dark sector (where the telescopes are) with our headlamps off because it just wasn't necessary. The only illumination sources outside were red safety lights[1] and we'd normally turn those off for long exposure photography. You do need a fast lens though, and that inevitably means lots of glass.

Whether the telescope is reflective enough to get a good photo is another matter - I would guess not, it's designed to minimise stray light.

As for IR, the telescope is probably bright compared to the background at least for now. The main issue though is whether you'd need to actively cool the engineering camera. Cooling stuff in space is difficult because you can only really dump heat via radiation. It's probably not worth the weight to carry a separate cryocooler just for that. The inability to conduct heat is partly why it takes so long to cool down, aside from minimising thermal stress on the infrastructure.

[1] The main reason they exist is so that you have a point of reference when walking about outside, particularly on foggy or cloud days. The meteo folks also use them as visibility markers in winter - e.g. IceCube is something like 1km from the station by line-of-sight. Turning them off for a brief period is usually fine and we'd notify the station before we did it. On a clear night though you don't need them at all.
Isn't the point that "win" here means "progress in one's career"? I think the comment is pointing out that promotions and salary increases depend on the perceptions of those in a position to grant them. (See also: Goodhart's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law )
Not sure why this is being downvoted.

Seems many commentators here don't believe that discrimination vs green bubbles is really a thing. I witnessed a LOT of "anti-green bubble discrimination" as an Android user. Furthermore, the people doing this discrimination were exclusively white.

Ignoring obvious racist parallels (or downvoting them, as the community has down here) is a sign of the systemic racism that folks here feel in their hearts. Please stop and rather than knee jerk reject a comment because it's too "social justicy for us", critically consider the many factors than encourage shitty behavior like this.
He states in the article that he currently does not own any cryptocurrencies.
I actually have something to show, it's open source and currently I'm showing a code
Of course https://github.com/PozitivnaMirta
My guess is “red and at” -> “redundant”
GS being scum is not a subjective opinion.

"I was just doing my job" is why the planet is so fucked, and it's better to realise that at the outset of your career than the end.
Bond Ratings Are for Investors (Not Taxpayers) (2021)
I didn't specify which kind of pills they took, did I?

A small hint: never tell anyone what they experienced, unless you were there or you're a godlike creature.

Edit: I asked again which pills, it was anti depressants. It was half a lifetime ago, doesn't change my or their experience.
This is a peculiarity of the GTK developers, not anything to do with systemd or fd.o. I maintained a popular GTK-but-explicitly-not-GNOME application long before the days of systemd and they had the same attitude.
> Bitcoin never solved any of the problems it was originally intended to solve

Private transactions allowing to buy drugs of the internet for example? Darknets actually reduce incentives for drug gangs, at least according to this undercover cop [1] - 11th minute but I recommend watch the whole thing.

[1] https://youtu.be/y_TV4GuXFoA
Azul – Desktop GUI Framework
Having (untreated) ADHD and spending 8 hours in an office is quite literally torture.

Even being able to only spend 2 hours max on actual work I was still seen as one of the more productive people in the company, ironically. But those 6 hours of either doing nothing or trying really hard to force your attention to come together are the actual work.

I'm very happy with remote work. I can actually find things to do in between that would definitely not be considered working that lets me spend more time being productive overall.
> I certainly do not want to exploit students.

Then you must tell them that when they do “non-core-work“ they are essentially wasting their time; at least if they intend to stay in academia.

Sure there is some technical housekeeping necessary to get research done and papers written. But it must be kept to an absolute minimum.

It is nice to have students who polish the web site or set up CI on GitHub. But these students will almost certainly have fewer research results to show at the end of their PhD, compared to their officemates who just focus 100% on their research.

I don’t like it either but it’s the painful truth. I’ve seen way too many PhD students wasting their time doing incredibly valuable work for the lab but failing to publish their own work. It‘s the responsibility of the PI to make it absolutely clear to those students what is happening and that they should focus on a career outside academia if they enjoy doing such things.
I know this is in specific domain, but trademark on common word seems strange to me.
> Not only that, the larger the company you work for, the more likely the more people will be involved in your project.

I was very unprepared for this when I worked for my first large company. The first three months of a project was figuring out who was who, the politics and making connections.
Is that universally true, or just in areas with a lot of sunshine? Might there be a lot of marginal farmland in colder/darker areas where the crops only just get enough heat/light?

And if it’s such a no-brainer to cover crops to increase yield, why is it done so rarely?
They randomize the hashing to protect against DoS attacks. You have to go to lengths to preserve the order.
That's a bullshit scenario.

There are way more android and apple devices online than PCs. No ISP would do anything for PCs alone and if they did, I could easily turn my PC into an "Android Tablet". So Microsoft would have to get Google and Apple behind the same plan and then phase out all existing devices and force all ISPs to implement this. This would yield a huge public outrage because the first states to follow would be China et. al., where remote attestation would enforce you to install the latest government, ahem, upgrade, to your device. Of course the US government and various European nations would very much like to follow suit, but they would be slower than China and then look like they follow the authoritarian path a bit too closely.

Remote attestation will be sold to streaming providers so they can extend their DRM to cover unpatched systems. Maybe multiplayer games will follow. This ain't gonna happen at the ISP level.
> Yes, it'll be heavier, and that will cost more.

It won't just cost more, it'll be impossible. Aircraft care a lot about weight, spacecraft are obsessed with it, because it's often an absolute limit based on what launch technology you have available and where you're trying to get. JWST doesn't have any spare weight to try to build more redundancy.

> But suppose for $1B one could build a less reliable JWST

Well, the calculus of many single failure points makes this questionable. Even if you're 99% confident in each point of failure, with 390 failure points you have a 2% chance of success. You need extremely reliable components. Also, it's not clear that the majority of the budget is being spent on increasing that reliability: certainly a lot goes into testing, but all of that testing is generally a lot cheaper than a launch and rebuild.
As I understand it, or at least as the narrative goes, printer manufacturers subsidise the cost of the printer by expecting people will buy genuine cartridges. It brings down the RRP of the printer, thereby making it look more competitive than it really is.

It is a risk that users might not buy your cartridges. That is a risk these manufacturers accept when they sell their product below market value.

Loading up your printer with DRM is having your cake and eating it. It is anti-competitive and ought be outlawed. Either sell the unit at the real price you want to get from it, or accept the risk that your get rich scheme might not work.
How to check you're in the initial pid namespace?
Is there a high level description of the algorithm? Sorry, I just don't understand what I'm looking at.
Flutter seems to have been gaining a lot - React Native is still popular due to size of the web crowd who refuses to look outside their little ecosystem box. But mostly, companies have been reporting that Flutter is much easier to maintain and much easier to reliably deploy across devices - it also doesn't suffer from NPM hell / dependency rot in the same way RN projects do.

I'd say both are on about the equal footing these days.
I guess an old Soviet anecdote is very relevant here:

US citizen: I live in a free country! Nobody will prosecute me if I go next to White House and shout out loud "<name of US president>! You are an old stupid son of a bitch!"

USSR citizen: I also live in a free country! Nobody will prosecute me if I go to Red Square and shout out loud "<name of US president>! You are an old stupid son of a bitch!"

Let's go Brandon is not widely known, I am inclined to think, to the typical audience of President's Christmas Eve address. It does not warrant any action because of this.
“People who write the code get to make the rules” is perhaps the most fundamental part of bazaar development ideology. If you don’t like it, write more code.
Sunglasses for the most part don’t control who you spend your time and life with or have children, Match.com does at least partially.
Newsflash: a PDF viewer is not a programming IDE.
I reward them sometimes by buying the original Brother TN-2320 (for ca. €60) - but this happens once a few years as I print something like 20 pages a month.
The way you wrote your first paragraph is, honestly, condescending, whether you intended it or not, and gives exactly that impression.
This is why you should use an open standard like Matrix and a client like Element where key verification is a first-class citizen.
Are Traffic Engineers Sociopaths? (2021)
Alpine is working on it: https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html
>It’s a common fallacy of tech people to think that all problems are of a technical nature, and that if we could just have the right technology they would go away and we would be living in a utopia. The fact is, the problems are with human behavior and any technology created will serve to further that behavior.

I agree with you. This can be applied to the solutions we are looking to solve climate change.
On my machine jq depends on oniguruma. Both node and onigurama should be easy to install from your distro package manager.
The problem with ink printers of all kinds is that they dry out. Your laser printer can sit unused for 2 years, then you turn it on and get impeccable print-outs. I'm not going to babysit my printer just to make sure there are no problems when I need a quick print-out, that's just unnecessary hassle.
I PCR'd my omicron-wave case daily under high-doses of an everyday food compound
Oh, yes, but the cures of individual people cannot wait.
You know why people don't run their own servers?
as other comment pointed out, nobody is making a value comparison, but since you are at it, at least let's not be derogatory about farmers life. there is still a good portion of the world population living that lifestyle. Having been closely in touch with some, a few interesting things stood out to me: they have outstanding communication skills and are very pragmatic, down to earth when assessing their own situation vs the urbanised population, are far less easily influenced and seem to have a gotten a far more hollistic education. they navigate a difficult economy where they produce undoubtly tremendous value yet get a small share of the reward and respect.
To get back on the thread subject, I don't recall having seen any sleep deprived farmers, despite the hard labour they have to participate in each day of their hardship seasons.
I'm not sure what is their only perspective, it may well be to be a farmer, I never asked that question since it appeared to me that they aren't suffering existential issues.
what is your perspective(s) in life? other than being able to read, write and not being a farmer?
NH's state government is one of the smallest in the union; there's no sales or income tax and only about a million people.

So what you suggest would be more viable in almost every other state in the US or EU.
More accurately, people are really good at sniffing out lies when it benefits their worldview somehow (and terrible when it doesn't). Why people think conspiracy theories benefit their worldview is a different and stickier question, but somehow they do, so they're hypersensitive to any lies deployed against the lies they prefer.
And you really believe that? He’s building a company on top of it.
fair enough, maybe this has reversed recently.

public opinion here also seems to suggest that my experience is less trustworthy than your feeling and tbh i mostly don't care wich flavor of unix is running my wm and browser.