skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah they greenlight almost anything. It means they take a lot of risks which can produce some really creative and unexpected treasures but also a ton of crap. It's basically the VC model applied to content creation. One blockbuster is worth ten flops.
Most facts are incomplete, it's almost impossible to give all the context to any given data point unless you just give people a URL and tell people to read for themselves.

For example, it's an incomplete fact to say that "if you live in a trailer park, you are considered homeless", but thankfully you provided the link to the complete fact!

From your source, a little more completeness for your fact:

"living in ...trailer parks... due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations"

Thankfully, it is not true that everyone whose permanent residence is a trailer park is counted as homeless.
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The New Hampshire legislature has a ‘liberty’ caucus composed of libertarians (but members of the Republican Party). This bill is sponsored by a very progressive democrat and another member who’s a physician who recently switched parties (R->D) basically because of the libertarian’s opposition to Covid policies. So it will be interesting how the “freedom” fighters vote on this bill given their tension with the bill’s sponsors.
I'm a millennial and we don't use texts in most of the world either. Sticking to SMS and SMS-adjacent stuff like iMessage seems to be a fairly uniquely American thing. The last time I had an SMS conversation was... May 2020. And before that it was October 2019. Everything else is verification/notification SMSes.

In Europe you'll find people using WhatsApp or Telegram; in Japan and Taiwan, LINE is king, and of course in China there's WeChat. There's also Twitter DMs. Discord has been becoming increasingly popular lately, especially among the tech/game and adjacent crowds. Nobody has used SMSes by default for years.
> The problem with this counterexample is that these are fringe platforms. Thriving in their own right, resilient, but a rounding error in chat and web traffic, respectively.

Which makes them the perfect place to incubate misconceptions that everybody loves hosting servers and decentralized platforms.

If all of your friends are doing it and talking about it and enthusiastic about it, it feels like everyone agrees with you. Yet these places are basically a tiny filter bubble, not an accurate cross-section of the internet or general public.
Great website, and it seems completely non-commercial.
So, I'm not Cart, but I'm a major contributor. My vision for this is as both an entrant and a logic-backend for GUI. In terms of use cases, I expect that: games > servers > scientific simulation > pure GUI, but all four are something we're trying to be actively mindful of. Accessibility matters, but native-look-and-feel is effectively a non-goal at the engine level; there's a lot of other frameworks that can provide this and cross-platform unification is more important.

We're planning to follow Godot and dogfood the UI to build out the editor, so support for pure GUI applications is something that we'll be actively testing.
TLDR: Not really. At the distance of the JWST, a single pixel on the hubble's camera is about 700m across, or roughly 30 times the size of the JWST.

The L2 point is about 1.5 million km from earth [0]. The smallest size Hubble can resolve is about 1/20 arcsecond [1]. It's in a pretty low orbit, so is effectively "on earth" relative to the distance to the L2 point where JWST is. Calculating the size of an angular measure at a given distance [2], you get about 727m [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point#L2_point

[1] https://illuminateduniverse.org/2019/04/11/angular-resolutio...

[2] https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/a/20728

[3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tan%28%281+arcsec%29%2...
I'll give my own n=1 response:

I use Arch Linux for comparison.

The framework is not the best short-term laptop I've ever had, but it's Solid and if the company sticks around should be the best _long-term_ laptop I've ever owned.

- Deep sleep works fine; wake works fine (with a ~10s delay; that's just linux i think)

- Battery is far better than my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen. (have not really tested, but at a guess, solid 6-8 hours; which for linux is solidly average-to-good i think)

- Never freezes

- Fans are fine (way, way better than my 2018 macbook pro...)

- Network is fine (I had issues at first, but was my fault due to faulty systemd configuration)

- Hinges could be tighter, but no issue with practical use (I'm typing on this on my lap right now and it's fine)

- I use it practically every day for hours at a time.

- I've dropped it at least 2 times -- once from ~3-4 feet high (onto carpet). Totally fine functionally; though the monitor back now has a slight protrusion.

- but hey, it's modular so I can just replace the screen at some point if I really want to (nit: hopefully they'll come out with a matte screen)

Basically the original post here is n=1 so, i mean... the framework is the most exciting laptop "ideology" frankly ever. And even this first 'beta' version is super solid.
"...due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations"

It isn't true that children whose permanent residence is a trailer park are counted as homeless.
Yeah, footage.
Negative spot prices are not good for a market, and lead to overall higher prices, not lower ones.

It's a mechanism of the market over correcting.

Investors don't want to spend capital for a product that they might have to regularly pay someone to "buy".
This is one of those "technically correct" statements that is mostly useless.

Yes, some people do want to run their own servers. The vast majority -- more than 99%, by the article's own admission -- do not. To me, "people don't want to run their own servers, and never will" is completely accurate.

I am a "nerd" by Moxie's definition, and I mostly do not want to run my own servers. I have a VPS[0] that I use as a playground, and to run some useful but non-critical things, but it doesn't run anything remotely critical, and if it went down for hours or days, it wouldn't be a big deal.

The idea of running my own infra that's critical or at least important to my participation in digital matters does not interest me at all. For a "web0" example, I absolutely would not want to run my own email server. (I did this when I was much younger, and regretted doing so.)

I also disagree that the small, sub-1% faction that will run servers is enough for this web3 decentralization-for-the-masses world. Ultimately someone else is controlling your traffic and your content, and there are a limited number of others you can switch to if you don't like the current steward you've chosen.

[0] And also consider that having a VPS is only partially running my own server. I'm running the OS and applications on it (or, rather, on a VM running on that server), but someone else makes sure the server hardware and network are functioning, and is on the hook to fix them if they aren't.
They all spy on all of us all the time, Apple is no different. Apple probably has more data on their users than any other company out there. So far there are no known instances of Apple selling this information, most likely because they believe they get better value by keeping the information for themselves. But they still spy on users and it is only one step from keeping all that data for themselves to selling it to boost profits or charging fees to keep it private.
All that color science just for some lazy editor to drop a blue LUT over it and make everything nice and drab and samey.
The audience is not intelligent enough to see the irony.
Ask HN: Future-proof my skills for work
I often read comments from other HN members, saying how they kept there skills up to date keeping them employable in a changing work place. As a Linux device driver developer, what new skills/technology can I learn to future-proof myself in terms of work?
Unless you're the camera operator. Shooting motion on a stills camera in a cinema environment is absolutely attrocious. While the small form factors are attractive for various reasons, they are notoriously hated to actually operate. Tiny tiny buttons. The most actively used button start/stop tends to be in a difficult location to access when not being used as point-n-shoot style camera. Mounted on gear, it becomes difficult to access. Accessing other settings is also tucked away on the smaller camera as well that have discreet/dedicated knobs/buttons on a cinema camera. Some times, small can be too small to be friendly. Some of these can now be accessed via app to help, but it's still a pain.

If you're a youtube creator, these cameras can make you look "pro" for a small budget. The price points to entry because of this type of gear brings the creation market to a much wider market, which can be a good thing. Bringing this gear to a full camera crew with DP, AC, etc makes integration harder. Good times!
>To which the direct counterpart is: what happens on a blockchain if you get scammed and want your money back? Do you really want the authorities to do what the blockchain says, or do you want your money back?

I think you're misunderstanding this particular example. If someone sends me ~$50 BTC out of the blue and then somehow contacts me to say "oops can I have that back?". There are only two options with a block chain: (1) I send it back or (2) I'm up $50. With Venmo, and this has happened to people, there's (3) I send the $50 back, but the original $50 was from a pending deposit that was fraudulent, so Venmo decides I owe Venmo $50, and now I'm down $50, the thief is up $50, and Venmo is square.

This will probably come as a tremendous shock to a lot of people in this forum but Venmo is going to look out for itself before it looks out for you. There are many cooperative scams (of multiple people vs Venmo) and it is not always easy for Venmo to determine exactly what is going on or who is scamming who.
Potato-quality happens the other way too, for what it's worth. I tend to believe it's the fault of iPhones, because sending media Android->Android over MMS works fine.
It went horribly wrong when people realized that theft is easy and it wasn't covered by insurance. https://www.documentary.org/column/peer-peer-rental-cautiona...
The streaming services are in strong competition for original content. Sometimes buying exclusive rights to completed work off the shelf. This content seems to get labeled as an "XYZ original," be it Apple, Netflix or something else.

Do you differentiate between content greenlit and produced by the streaming services from those purchased? I'm curious because they are two different capabilities and it seems each service is attempting some amount of both.
IMO, it's familiarity. As soon as the unknown is introduced group decision becomes more and more useless.
Improved privacy and better control over owning your own content. Both of these things, of course, are currently looking completely irrelevant to like 99.9% of people online, but as the surveillance increases exponentially this might change. Or not, we'll see.
Of course, nothing is perfect they will have to adjust position over time and have accounted for all of it with possible robotic missions in the future to extend and refuel as necessary, although that is a "hope" rather a surety.
i remember last year there was some mention about a new edition coming out. is that in the works or planned ?
Indeed! Maintainer here. I just lived in Korea for a while and remembered a Korean dish while trying to find a project name.

tl;dr no particular reason. :)
Yeah this attacks a straw man version of the original article. Obviously Moxie did not mean that literally nobody wants to run their own servers, just that one lesson from web2’s success is that very few do and as a result systems will tend towards centralization in the favor of the people who do run their own servers.
'Security' is an English word that exists outside US law, and refers to contracts in a more general sense than strictly 'investment'. I don't think OP was using the word that way, hence my response.

The comment I was responding too seemed to add meaning that I didn't read in the OPs comment. I may be wrong, but it was my intent to clarify based on my own reading.
I tried it. Doesn’t work so well in practice since you have to book several days in advance to actually get a car sometimes.
But the point from the original Moxie article was petty clear: web3 protocols are designed in a way that is only distributed if everyone runs their own server. You can't access the Blockchain from a client (e.g. a mobile device). You can either run your own server, just for you; or, you can rely on the next Facebook or Amazon to run a node for you to connect to from your mobile device.

So, the fact that a few people can and will run their own servers doesn't help the vast majority who will not. Just like the fact that someone is running their own mail server will not allow me to have an email address: I can either run my ownail server, or use Gmail or maybe some smaller provider.

And in the past, the vast majority have chosen Gmail, because the email protocol didn't have a client app that could connect to the distributed mail network.

Similarly, the vast majority will choose, say, OpenSea if there is no client that can talk directly to the distributed NFT system in the Blockchain. And if everyone is using OpenSea, the Blockchain becomes irrelevant, just like the email standards are quasi-irrelevant for Gmail.
Since the username on this throwaway account contained the original name of the OP, and we've randomized their account by request, I've updated the username here too.

Normally we never rename accounts without permission (or edit posts without permission) but redacting someone else's personal name or identifying info is an exception (probably the only exception, actually). When we do that, we always make the minimal possible edit.
PRG is one of the biggest in the US for camera rentals, its rather unexciting. They have all the cameras, but for whatever reason most of them you have to specifically ask for. https://prggear.com/product-category/camera/camera-camera/ca...
> I bet the higher resolution makes it easier, with big*ss GPUs to clean up the raw footage.

Even if you don't do any other post-processing, downscaled video looks better than video captured at sensor resolution. This is because you can implement a steeper low-pass filter (closer to ideal brick-wall filter) in software than you can in actual optics. Hardware lowpass filters tuned to block most stuff above nyquist will also block a lot below it.

A 1080p video captured off a good 1080p sensor will have vastly lower amplitude at, say, 500 line pair vertical than a 1080p video captured on a 4k sensor and lowpassed in software with a good filter.
It's not a bad gig but you need contacts and one of your primary competitors is a camera manufacturer, I think it was Panavision that has a big rental branch (and they rent Arri or Red too I think).
Walking has the same problem really. It's not low-impact. You may be feeling pain in your ankles, knees, feet, etc., for a few days. It's likely to negatively impact your general activity level during that time. You may still not "regret" it, but it's a very strange statement to say nobody ever has. I know I have!

If you're 100lbs overweight, it's roughly the same effort & same strain on joints as a person 100lbs lighter carrying a 100lb backpack.
There’s no way in hell I’d voluntarily lock myself into a Facebook service. WhatsApp’s a non-starter.
Perfectionists don't ship, take an extra slice of pie!
This article starts by making a hilarious strawman. I clicked through to see if it was as hilarious as suspected, and it was. Which is great. Clearly Moxie did not mean “literally no single person wants to run a server” I mean come on. It is trivially true that “people” don’t want to run a server. It would be hard to generalize the category of “people” in a way to come to any other conclusion.
Mutation is a random process. It is neither god nor bad and does not have a purpose or direction.

Natural selection, -should- do those things, but we can't count on it, because we are humans, and natural selection in us works in a different way. We basically have stopped it as part of our own evolution. Nobody needs to run faster, develop claws or climb better than predators anymore

The biggest problem with Covid is that it spreads -before- people have symptoms. Flu spreads when and after, but not before. An Omicron "improved" to kill people in a few days would still travel perfectly.
I know we can't do this here, but can we talk about the scroll-locked header which takes almost a third of my screen?
There are 344 individual items that can make the $10 billion satellite be a paper weight in orbit. Those are the very definition of single points of failure.
Of course. They dabbed in all sorts of wild theories and con schemes; it was very on brand not to get the vaccine.
The really interesting part is that ARRI Alexa was pretty much the #1 camera in Hollywood but Netflix won't accept it because it's not 4K.
The lack of feature parity on the sms side (poor quality videos, stupid text responses when ppl like something) is annoying .. but if you're ostracized because of the green bubble, that may turn out better for you anyway. My kids don't have phones yet, but I'm pretty sure I would be very unsympathetic to pleas for an iphone so they can fit in. It's hard being a kid/teenager, but I'd rather them learn early how stupid/shallow this is, even if (or because) it's painful.
Books have been remote learning for hundreds of years, whats wrong with remote learning especially now pupils can ask questions straight away from a pool of teachers online?
Vaccinated women pass Covid-19 antibodies to breastfeeding babies
What do you mean by "skepticism in the existing covid vaccines"? Are you saying that people are disapointed that the vaccines aren't better at preventing disease and spread? I'm pretty sure that everyone falls into that category. But is there anything better available? Is there any better strategy than trying to continue to improve the vaccines and do more research hoping to someday get a handle on this?

If we compare these vaccines to non-existent ones that we believe should be better, then we are disappointed. If we compare them to the possibility of having developed worse vaccines, then we would be elated.
Sure, but Moxie's point was that current Blockchain protocols are designed for the latter: you either run your own server, or connect to some platform's server that is exposing whatever data they want over some other protocol. There is no client you can run that can talk to the distributed server network.
Dolby's DialNorm setting was their true bit of gold. Incorrectly setting that value on surround encodings had a huge impact. Correctly getting that DialNorm value required Dolby gear. Many people could not afford that gear, so a -27 value was set across the board whether it was correct or not.

Metadata only isn't a panacea
US millennials I am in contact with run their lives through SMS, or “whatever happens when I tell my phone to send a text message to someone in my contacts”.

Source: Am US millennial in a dozen text groups.
To me, this is just another example of Apple's hypocrisy, where they claim to be all about inclusivity, but then build in exclusivity (read: being non-inclusive to a certain group of the population) in their products to induce FOMO and "status" among peers.
The next sentence explains why this is a problem.

> This means that sound can be muffled, because its drowned out by the incidental noise that comes from the left/right channel.
A separate stereo audio mix.
Thread about City Journal article on Kriegman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29823289
Apparently the launch and mid course burn were precise enough that it should have enough remaining propellant for a bit more than 10 years of station keeping.
At the directors approval
They would, if CPUs were still capable of generating any useful amount.
AFAIK it was Epson who did it first (over 20 years ago now): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25054177 (you'll need to read the article from the Internet archive, since it has unfortunately disappeared)

The chip is just an EEPROM. The printer presumably has a pretty accurate estimate given that it knows how many pixels were printed, and the volume of each one.
Viruses Have No Color
Most of what you say is just plain wrong.

- Masking is highly effective and just a bit inconvenient.

- Lockdowns are extremely effective just very expensive.

- Vaccines are very effective even against transmission.

- Nobody is aiming for 0 Covid anymore (except some Australians and China I guess), but getting through the winter wave without too many fellow citizens dead should be something we spend some effort on.

Covid isn't tearing societies apart if everybody just has a bit of compassion and does the right thing (get vaxxed, masks, reduce in-person meetings).
This is really high end stuff. Makes me realize how much I'm getting for just 10 bucks.
Yeah I guess I should have narrowed my statement to the “capturing frames” aspect, surely the interface is better adapted to specific use case like you say.

Though you definitely hear about productions using them anyway.
> Also, the organizations that somehow couldn’t figure out how to use and maintain traditional init systems were the ones that produced the current generation replacements and pushed them so hard.

This is revisionist. The organizations that built the current generation were those who had to support those who couldn't figure out how to use and maintain "traditional" init systems. Distro init scripts were (usually, and at great effort) decent, whether from Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, etc. (just don't ask too hard about why they were different). But the third-party (often, but not exclusively, proprietary) software vendors looking to support even a single distro were godawful. Eventually the support burden for e.g. Red Hat got large enough it made more sense to replace it wholesale than keep mentoring the latest batch of e.g. Oracle interns in how to write half-decent shell scripts.
I think you're right, I mistook OPs comment about the video, not the sound. Does seem weird they wouldn't have minimum sound quality, but it is a tricky thing moving 5.1 to stereo, so that's more about the mixing.
The divide in this country is just getting larger and lager. You have those who just no longer care about COVID, and those (like the kid in the article) who treat COVID as the most important control in their life.

Are COVID deaths higher in the places that ignore? Not that I could see.

There's going to be such a divide as these kids grow up.

Personally? It's time to move on. Get vaccinated (no boosters), and then ignore COVID. Every time you get exposed is like another booster to the immune system. By getting vaccinated first you cut disk of death to almost nothing.

It's time for the world to move on.
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There's cheap cafes everywhere, so going on a date is easy. For feeling each other up, you can go to a karaoke place, they'll have semi public rooms. For more, there's hotels you can rent by the hour, usually within walking distance of clubs and karaoke bars. Plus all of these countries are warm enough that you can also just cuddle in a park, at the beach, or in the rainforest.
Books are remote learning, this isn't a Khan Academy thing, arguably its an introvert/extrovert thing.
That’s true, and I do use public transit for about 80% of my travel, which I can only do since I live in a major city. Problem is that I also need to make 1–2 hr trips to the suburbs and out of state every week, and I can’t get away from car ownership for that. Rental cars could fill this gap if they were available more reliably and without having to spend 45 mins in line to get one.
How else would you mix the dialogue except to come out of both speakers though?