skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As to 1. -- I see no connection to anything we're talking about here so I'll pass.

As to 2. -- it wasn't about "speaking up" (privately or verbally) but rather using company networks to do so (that is, spamming company boards with this nonsense). Which is a rather different matter.
I certainly haven't conducted street surveys of any kind, but yes I actually have asked people in a polite and kind manner why they are wearing mask outside. I did this when I would go pick up my son from his school and we all had to wait out front in about half of the parents were wearing mask while waiting outdoors. As I recall this was in May. I did ask a lady whose daughter was in my son's class. She bluntly stated that it was due to an abundance of caution regarding the virus. In neighboring Boulder County, it was mandatory to wear a mask while picking up children outside of school. I know this for a fact because I accompanied a buddy to pick up his daughter one day and we had to wear masks to comply with the school regulations.

I find it odd that you are expecting me to have a null hypothesis that the masks that have become widely worn in large cities in the midst of a pandemic are not related to the pandemic.

If it was remotely common to see people wearing face coverings 2 years ago I would understand your point. It wasn't as we all know. It became a thing as a result of the pandemic.

That being said all of the explanations you offered are reasonable although the cold sore one was rather amusing to me. I haven't had one in many years but I'm sure by the time I get my next one the masks Will be long gone and I will wish they were a thing again.

The aspect of it that does bug me is the performative nature of explicitly putting on masks in outdoor situations. President Biden came to my area yesterday due to the recent wildfires we experienced. He was outdoors the entire time wearing a mask along with his entire team. He's sitting there trying to connect with people who have lost their homes but they can't see each other's faces at all. For no reason at all based on science. The performative nature of this is rather obvious because you frequently see scenes where they are not wearing a mask of any sort until a camera shows up in which case they immediately put a mask on before posing for the picture.

My primary complaint is not people incidentally wearing a mask as they come out of a building but people who are fairly aggressive and demanding that others wear face coverings outdoors whenever they are near them. I had to go to LA for work several months ago and discovered that it is common to have people yell out their car windows at you if you were walking around on a horse trail in a suburban neighborhood (I was somewhere not too far from Brentwood on this trail) without a mask on. My coworker was laughing when I looked at him with an incredulous face. His response was "that's how it is out here."

Anyway you make a good point that I should not be so quick to judge in the case of the exceptions above. Fair. I will concede. That being said requiring people legally to wear them outdoors is stupid and nonsensical and not in line with any form of science.
I suppose if I had to pick between having a flight control stick or a bathroom, I'd probably pick the bathroom as well. Good point.
My wife uses iPhone, and whenever she sends stuff, it comes over as crap.

So it goes both ways. Maybe you should get an android instead? Or you can continue being snobby about Apple and Google being companies that want closed gardens.
Haha, some of us have a lot less. :)
iPhone is pretty accessible - the SE is a bargain at $399 given the features and how long Apple supports their devices. You only spend $1000 if you are adamant about the “Pro” line.
You can do it now! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212619

I mean, you can't start a FaceTime call, but at least they finally let you join one.
> We can moralize 2nd but fundament is always numbers.

So you think it is moralizing to take people and fairness as the fundament? I certainly prefer that over numbers, if that makes me moralizing then so be it.

What you are implying is that you think the janitor (not an employee of course) of that hightech company who can't afford insurance does not deserve treatment when she gets hit by cancer. Paying for that would be too disincentivizing for the employees and shareholders, and the company should consider moving to another place that is more considerate of its needs.

I think the whole idea of poor people getting the same healthcare as rich people is really what is putting off many people in the US. Even if it would be better for everyone and have no downsides at all, it would still face opposition.
Agreed. Netflix has so much pulp now it's not even funny. It used to produce much higher quality content. After other copyright holders started pulling out they seem to have started focusing on quantity.
My certified pre-owned GMC Acadia has a 5 year GM bumper-to-bumper warranty on top of the original factory warranty. I had to pay for it, but the dealer fudged the financing rate to almost 0% to completely cancel it out over the term of the loan, so the loan "interest" is basically paying GM for the warranty rather than the bank.
My guess is that it's what they've been asked to approve and upon which they've done their due diligence.

For Netflix Originals, I would assume most productions are done on rental gear. The difference between renting an FX3 and an FX6 isn't going to be significant at production-budget scales. (And if you had a real burning reason to use something off-list I would bet they can write you an exception.)
> And?

I can only speculate as to /u/brimnes' point, but there are many ways to measure the effectiveness of different countries' responses to covid. One might be to look at the countries' death rates. By that measure, the US response has been quite a bit worse than Canada's.
It wasn't until reading this article that I have ever heard that the color of the bubble meant anything (I'm an 8-generation iPhone user). Maybe it's my cohort, or the fact that I have a lot of international people on chats, but 100% of my group messaging takes place on Whatsapp, 30% of the time through their web interface on my laptop.
Please note that you are conflating two different things.

This piece is on the fellowship, and the article says: “To date, companies created by Thiel Fellows are together valued at more than $46.8 billion, excluding Ethereum which is valued at $450 billion.”
Right that’s why nobody starts at 0. And you don’t have to only add 1 to be ordered, no DB I’m aware of just adds 1 to sequential UUIDs. There’s always randomness/entropy involved.
> with Earth providing an extra sunshield

Maybe it needs the sun for its solar power?

> And "an unimpeded view" of what?

If hubble is looking at sometihng not perpendicular to its orbit, during half the 90 minutes the target will be "behind" the earth, right? So it can only look at things that are to the left or right of its orbit.
“ Lada Nuzhna: 22, Kyiv, Ukraine

Lada researches and develops biological tools to better visualize and manage biology at the molecular level.”

Um this is pretty cool. Don’t know why you’re categorically dismissive.
There is a list of specific questions JWST was built to answer.

* What were the first stars and galaxies like?

* How do stars come to form deep within a dusty nebula?

* What are the atmospheres of Earth-sized worlds like, and do they contain signatures of life?

* How far away do we need to look to see the pristine, pre-stellar Universe?

* How did the early stars and galaxies assemble to give rise to what we have today?

Once these questions have been answered, answering them again with exact copies of the same instruments at the same fidelity does offer diminishing returns. Sure it will provide valuable data for its whole lifespan, but there are diminishing returns. Better to invest the marginal cost of another JWST in a different instrument that gives us measurements the JWST can’t. There will be successors to the JWST, and that’s where the investment should go.
Many NFTs already do this, but the hash is for IPFS, which is a decentralized file storage system.

In fact decentralized storage being integrated into web3 is I think an element that the OP missed in his analysis.
Yes, unless you consider a trailer a home but then where do you draw the line? One could go as far as considering a tent as a home but come on, we all know what we mean by home. A trailer is just a trailer.
> Hell, they shot 35mm film for SD for decades

They shot 35mm for the big screen.
More than CS:GO I'd choose Assault Cube as it's free as in freedom. It's simplish, ok. But those matches are fast and you can be happy by just playing half an hour instead of a highly consuming MMORPG over a night.
AC has more simplistic graphics and mechanics than CS, so it
will "fill" you faster.
You just play several matches (~10) against friends/bots and that's it.

On roguelikes, as the actions are literal instant based, yoou can play and finish a gameplay under a week with just 20 minutes at every afternoon.

FTL is not a roguelike to me, but Slashem is, and the dungeon rooms never exceed 80x24 chars except for some concrete areas I think.
Thus, the gameplay can be paradoxically both fast paced at the beginning and slowish on the deepest rooms.
> I suspect any film that was good enough could bypass many, many of the guidelines they have for partners...

To clarify, I believe this is for original Netflix content (partners) where Netflix does the production. 3rd party studios licensing their content would be exempt from this (ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX). The big issue is that you have to get pre-approval for non-approved cameras.

I suspect that Netflix/Apple/Amazon is trying to make their name in content beating out cable and movie production studios. High quality 4k video is what people are clamoring for. I've seen a lot of cable/broadcast 1080p (The local CW station comes to mind) that's been recompressed to a lower bit rate. Effectively giving you 720p resolution in 1080p format -- it's not nearly as enjoyable.
> In Sweden and Finland, people can find out about anyone else’s tax returns just by making a phone call, but Norway is the only country where you can just look up that information on a government website.

You can also visit the closest Skatteverket and use their computers, I used to do it as a kid...

Oh and you dont have to speak to anyone or identify yourself to do it either.
It can. That's part of the Blu-ray spec. But it's not standardized in streaming video AFAIK (not that Netflix has to care about that, they have their own player) and, even if the feature exists, somebody still has to go do it.
The last company mentioned does mentions clean energy, but yeah, there is a lot of blockchain here.
Yes, but Apple could make their iMessage features available to non IOS products if their goal was to create a non-discriminatory messaging platform.

They've had many many years to do this. Its simply not part of their plan. Their plan amongst other things involves this little cheap tactic of utilizing social engineering to draw users into their platform, when it doesn't have to.
What about readability? It's harder to read green bubbles and you can show it with accessibility metrics. If you think about luminance contrast, blue is much darker than green. So the blue bubble text is easier to read, because the text is white.
The way around it is students "Went" to school 5 days a week. somedays they were on campus, and some days they were remote learning. I know of several schools in my immediate area that implemented such a system.
You are missing the point, it is unreasonable to expect everyone who wants to participate to be able to run their own server. It is too specific a skill.

Imagine if you had to learn how to be a mechanic in order to own a car, the number of people who would able to dedicate the time to own a car would be far fewer.
I see electric planes and telemedicine, which are both climate related.

And an even bigger one:

> Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments.
> Discord and Slack have the great advantage of being freemium proprietary software that don't have to inter-operate with any software not written by their own companies.

While that indeed is an advantage, it's not why they're dominant, and I'm not sure it's simply a question of funding either.

Let's be honest, compared to IRC, Discord and Slack are very easy to use. All it takes to join a server is clicking a link. IRC protocol is just as old as me, and I, to this day, remember the struggle as a kid of joining empty channels before finally understanding the concept of networks. Back in the day, you'd need a special friend with ZNC to be the cool kid. Since then, audience has changed dramatically and most people don't even know what "protocol" means.

IRC just doesn't offer what it takes to get everyone on board.
> Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments.

Also, not everyone has to frame and align every single one of their actions in accordance with the "progressive" view.
> So the "direct control" you're describing isn't actually direct; it's mediated by the avionics, just like Dragon.

Very true, but I'm more describing the difference in the UX of how pilots access the avionics rather than arguing for fully manual control. Most pilots raised on FBW would find fully manual flight rather tricky (think an F-16 pilot stepping into a P-51), so I'm not suggesting we do that. It's just that Dragon's design philosophy seems like kind of an interesting departure from conventional wisdom.

> The pace of operations in space is also much, much slower than it is in the air. These aren't ace top guns doing split-second maneuvers with lightning reflexes. They aren't even airline pilots switching off the autopilot at 100' AGL. Docking is slow. Don't let the orbital velocities or the excitement of launch and reentry fool you--spaceflight is much more like sailing than it is like aviation.

This is a pretty solid point, and one I hadn't really considered. Leave that up to Hollywood and Kerbal Space Program for misleading everyone on how fast-paced spaceflight really is, heh!
Perhaps Stellarium? https://stellarium.org/
Bring all your chats together
On set, depending on the size of crew, part of the job for an AC or 1st AC is to make a camera report. Each shot is logged to note things like which lens was used, what filters were used, the height of the camera from the floor, the distance of the film plane to the focus point, the frame rate, aperture, ISO, etc. All of this info can then be used if they needed to do a pick up later to put the camera in the same setup. Also, it can be used in post production so that the camera can be recreated in 3D to have the special f/x match.

Also, log can refer to the gamma curve which affects how roll-offs in highlights/shadows are saved (rough description).

"Log" is still used daily in production work.
In an industry where Wordpress plugins and JavaScript frameworks buy people their houses, the ideas of stability and stationary targets become negative attributes.
You can look up actual Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) for Omicron: https://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/omicron-and-wani...
I think the concern is that they are taking money from someone with highly debatable/questionable ethics.
You could maybe do a deal with a bigger outfit to contribute some capital for some gear and get a cut when they rent it? But for having your own rental company (for the kind of people you want to rent to), you need to invest in lot of gear because they want to hire as much as possible from as few places as possible. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in cameras, accessories, lenses (especially important), lights, rigging gear etc.
There is no reason to be so entitled thinking other people have to buy a > $1000 phone just because Apple gimps on their messaging app. If you want him to text you a better quality video, buy him a phone, or better yet don't because that's their choice.
I assumed they meant having other kids be surrogates, so representing both themselves as well as another student. Could work in the right environment I suppose, but US public school culture is a million miles from that of Japan.
Come on...before you post complaints about how someone else is literally giving away millions of dollars to the wrong promising young people, maybe actually read the list of projects?

"Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments." He's literally funding clean energy.

And even if this year's list didn't have that in the list, let's celebrate someone doing good instead of lobbing stones from the sidelines about how they didn't do it the exact way we would have.
Italy: WhatsApp > Telegram > Messenger. Maybe Apple users use iMessage between them but given that they are using WA with everybody else and in group chats I'm not sure it's popular even there.
> Also it looks like 4K is their minimum standard now. I bet the higher resolution makes it easier, with big*ss GPUs to clean up the raw footage.

Resolution is far less important than bit color depth. We barely need 4K(Alexa used to be 2K) much less 8K footage for something to look good on a tv.
I think there is a mistake when calling the setup_camera function in main. You call setup not setup_function, which I think is incorrect. Thanks for writing that up! Great article.
There's a really simple test - try texting or calling somebody as clock strikes midnight on new year's.
The Ten Million Room Hotel
Primetime TV shows were shot 35mm. Lower budget was shot on 16mm.

They weren't doing for screen size considerations. It's just what they had. You shot 35/16 or you shot video (shudder).
I think it's very interesting that a proxied version of the site is 4 times more performant than the original
Okay, but when I hear "homeless" I think "unsheltered". That's what it means in colloquial use.
Isn’t that true of any public company though? And likely most private ones as well.
Its kind if funny that Apple Facetime and Facebook are the way my child speeks with his grandmother. He loves his grandma, but the tech will forever be old and lame as a result.

The same will happen to Discord, too. Personally, I still think ICQ and IRC are the epitome of chat applications.
That's extremely glass half-empty of you. There's a surprising number of companies in this list that are about sustainable production. And Zeno Power is developing clean (nuclear) energy.
They're shipped in oxygen free containers to prevent ripening and bruises while in transit, and then are over oxygenated to quickly ripen once unloaded to dockside facilities.

Before that, shipping distances were limited and the majority of what was unloaded had to be trashed before making it to market.

Only one interesting aspect of an extremely interesting historical topic.

Highly recommend starting with the story of Samuel Zemurray for those interested in the topic, who sold his company to united fruit then promptly turned around and took charge of it for the next twenty years in a hostile takeover.
Authors and 11 questions they think 2022 will answer
I don't get any... whats you're browser history again?
I’m sure if we ever have sufficient technology to build a city on the moon, the first museum exhibit will be a captured JWST
The McDonald's of TV show production. With very, very few exceptions (Midnight Mass, maybe?) I at least know what I'm getting into: designed-by-committee, very very "safe", out of place (most likely contracted) references to other Netflix shows to try to cross-pollinate viewers... not exactly a recipe for success.

Similar to how Amazon Originals now seem synonymous with "we cut the writer's outline from 12 episodes to 6, enjoy the rushed character and plot development!"
The first person is working electric aviation (but their website mentions military uses alongside the usual medical aid ones - point for honesty?)

Another one is about small scale nuclear reactors.

So it this just about the term? It the people?

It’s not very environmental directed, but not everything has to be.
Proof it and sell it to the NYT, they’d love to see their competitor go down in flames. Or to Google, because Apple’s reputation would also suffer.

That opportunity also exists for any insider with actual knowledge. None of them coming forward is a pretty good indication it’s bullshit.

And who, exactly, is the seller here? Is it the publishing company? In that case they would seem to be underreporting their income, which is a crime. Trump could have ended the NYT if he had managed to substantiate the charge.

Or is it individual reporters? In that case, the publisher is the largest single victim of this dynamic, since they aren’t getting any cash but carry all the risk. They would have an interest to stop it and obviously a rather good position to do so.
He looks fit and healthy to me, for someone who isn't an athlete.

No diet builds muscle.
Do you even know what the Thiel Fellowships are? Whatever you think of his politics, he literally gives away money to promising young people to help them realize their dreams...in exchange for no equity. Are you really saying that, because you dislike Thiel, you'd never do business with anyone who accepted free money from him?
They're young (and some live in foreign countries) and in any case probably have no idea what Thiel is really about. I say give them a chance to repent and rehabilitate.

I'd definitely not want to work for a company that takes Thiel's money or has any of his acolytes or close associates on board, though.
You seem to argue against something I didn't say.

I understand it observes a different frequency range than Hubble, but it can still "observe anything in the sky, and get the most detailed pictures ever seen of them".
There’s nothing wrong with lightning, I think it’s an excellently designed connector. I like that they seem to be sticking with it.

However, the fact that it doesn’t support USB three speeds is… baffling. I hope they fix that.

I was listening to a podcast last week (The Talk Show?) And they were talking about the fact that you can take this glorious 4K footage on the newest iPhones and everything looks amazing and it takes FOREVER to transfer it off the phone because you have to do it at USB 2.0 speeds or Wi-Fi speeds.

They can fix that without a new connector.

Sidenote: I find this kind of hilarious. So many people were up in arms when they introduced lightning because they were changing things and making things obsolescent and people had to buy all new stuff.

Here we are a few years later and all sorts of people are mad that Apple is not introducing a new connector and forcing everyone to buy all new stuff.

I understand the desire. It’s just sort of an ironic situation.
It's not rocket science starting a race car for the most part. you turn on the car's power system and then press the starter button.