skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think we as a society are over-prioritizing personal safety.

This is called safetyism. It’s the notion that perfectly safe conditions are worth the immense tradeoff they require, like removing individual freedom and agency. But it is also the recent trend of claiming safety matters above all other factors to an absolute degree, and that everyone should be forced to value it as such. We see this manifested in political actions that are absolute (mandates, bans etc). There are other definitions for safetyism as well (https://quillette.com/2018/09/02/is-safetyism-destroying-a-g... ). But my point is that life isn’t one size fits all and our policies shouldn’t be either.

Thanks for sharing your experience of working with wood alongside your family. These experiences and their value are unknown to most city dwellers, and they default to assigning zero value on these things when they propose banning everything that isn’t part of their own life. I get what you’re saying about a wood stove. There is value in that ritual and tradition and life’s pleasures. I personally love a gas range for a similar reason, which is that cooking over a flame is culturally important to me. I also find it is simply far better than my induction top for most cooking (except boiling water, for which I have a $20 electric kettle anyways).

In the case of gas stoves and gas furnaces, it’s astonishing that people ignore that most new setups vent to the outside, which is required in many areas. Even if NO2 is elevated, my feeling is that not everything in life has to be 100% clean or safe, since life inherently comes with risks and it is up to each individual to make personal choices about what risks to tolerate for the benefits. Most people cooking daily with gas stoves live long healthy lives and don’t have issues stemming from NO2 exposure and very few are sensitive enough that a minor elevation of NO2 would cause health issues. This is only a problem for the most sensitive of people.

So are gas ranges really a problem or just an overblown fear by proponents of safetyism or climate activists used to justify top down gas bans?
What year is that quote from? I feel like religion is back on the out again.
> Depends on your lifestyle but for the bulk of Americans $120k is extremely cushy, at nearly 4x the median salary of $35k

True, though it is closer to 3×
It's sad how buggy IndexedDB is in Safari, and in general how much pain Safari causes to web developers and consequently their users.

I hope regulators will eventually force support for other browsers (that can install apps) in iOS, I don't understand how Apple is allowed to have such a tight control on the market.
It is less about image quality but more about what you can do with the cameras. Smaller? 60fps? 120fps? 360°? AI? 40MP? 100MP? All of this _can_ be an argument to upgrade, even if image quality has improved zero.
It's not really a trap -- it's more a rhetorical tactic.

The trick is that when you say "I used to believe X, but now I've realized I was wrong and believe Y", you can get away without giving evidence for why X was wrong and Y is right. You appeal to a commonality between you and your audience (your audience believes X, you used to believe X) and by presenting your change you imply that they are being left behind, that they have missed something you have seen.

It's such an effective rhetorical tactic that speakers will sometimes make up a conversion experience to use in their evangelism, even if they have always been a member of the faith.

There's nothing wrong with changing your mind, with adapting to new evidence. But you shouldn't confuse someone's declaration that they have changed their mind with evidence for the position they have adopted; that's where logic and rhetoric diverge.

(And again, I'm not trying to start something with the GP; I am fascinated by the universal utility of the rhetorical device more than this specific case.)
Another factor working against them is that we're starting to see bodies that are very comparable to M43 ones.

Sony's full frame A7C is 124 x 71 x 60 mm.

For comparison a Panasonic GH5 is 138.5 x 98.1 x 87.4 mm and an Olympus's OMD em10 120 x 83 x 47 mm.
This B2/CloudFlare combination is a good one.

CloudFlare are about to launch their own object/file store with native CDN called R2. They have even come up with a wonderful trick for migrating to it from S3 and it’s looks like it’s going to have an incredible generous level of free egress. I suspect that it will beat out the B2/CloudFlare combination once it launches.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/

Edit: Typo
Oh no! Both links are a 404 now. Why didn't I save them :(
Metal breaks too. It entirely depends on how it's engineered. Cheapest plastic sucks a lot more ass than the cheapest metal, but when engineered for permanence, plastics can be superb materials.
Indeed, I was expecting something like this: https://fly.io/blog/the-5-hour-content-delivery-network/

Good thing it already exists!
Seems to be from the 10 October 2011 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/10/life-of-brian-t...
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>But when you dig a bit deeper, you'll find that there is true technical and financial innovation.

I will give you the technical innovation, but I really have not found anything financially innovative about cryptocurrency. What does crypto do that traditional currencies or payments systems don't? The only thing I see is that it largely replaces the old financial elite with a new financial elite and maybe under the right circumstances reduces fees for transferring money. That seems to be it unless you count circumventing financial regulation as a financial innovation.
Luca app was widely criticized from the start for this being possible, so this isn't really an example of this.
you seem confused, jack left twitter to focus on squareblock's shift toward bitcoin, not web3 scams
Learn PWA
When did he say that? Today you couldn't make Life of Brian because it makes fun of the transgendered.
Dear lord what a screed. I wish Very Excited People would tone down their keyword-laden rhetoric so I can actually understand what they're trying to say.
Great read, thanks for sharing. Particularly reading about founder stress is cathartic.
I’d been waiting for this book to come out. Seems like a fun way to learn whenever the parts are more available.
Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

I think I learned more about eastern philosophy by taking a taichi class than I ever did reading about it or listening to lectures. Taichi is not Taoist but good luck finding a good instructor who never mentions it. I've never met a group of martial artists so unanimous about the idea that there are some things you cannot learn from a book or videos. Both assert that there are some things you can know that you cannot put into words.

Western psychology is coming at this from the opposite direction: Intellectualizing won't fix all of your problems. But by god are we (especially CS folks) gonna die trying.
This is complete bullshit.

https://eurokera.com/blog/professional-chefs-love-induction-...

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/78mvqa/why-londons-top-c...

https://www.treehugger.com/professional-chefs-are-dumping-ga...

It's one thing to have a preference, and another thing altogether to lie about the things you don't like to bolster your preference.
Because those categories are not so neatly separated as you think they are. Most work is done in teams, and some enable others to churn out project after project by takingn care of the maintenance, meetings, documentation, etc. It's hard to say who did more, but it's also hard to say someone in the team has more output than others.

Are the wheels of the car more productive than the frame? I agree with those that say this is a discussion not worth ones time. I can always go to another team, or go at it myself, if the pay isn't what I want.
Right, but ideally it would be that Apple would step in for cases where the developer is not cooperating. For cases where the developer wants to give you your money back, they still have to refer you to Apple so that they can make their own decision on whether you’re owed a refund, which is kind of stupid.
> tips were probably 150% of my income

That makes you an entrepreneur.

But unlike other entrepreneurs, you don’t get to deduct the costs involved with turning up to the market.
Really interesting.

A key part of the cultural argument is about the change in art over the centuries. Of the sculptor of the Tetrarchs, the author says:

> The artist is not trying to represent the emperors photographically, but rather trying – and succeeding – at representing the ideal emperors, who fully embody the qualities an emperor should.

And:

> Often this transition is, I think, misunderstood by students whose knowledge of artwork essentially ‘skips’ Late Antiquity... and leads some to conclude that the fall of Rome made the artists ‘bad.’ There are two problems: the decline here isn’t in quality and moreover the change didn’t happen with the fall of the Roman Empire but quite a bit earlier.

How do we know that?

One interpretation of the Tetrarchs sculpture vis-a-vis the "verist" sculpture c. 60 BC is that the artist was trying to do something different. Another is that he was just less capable. The earlier artist could capture a realistic portrait of an individual; the later artist couldn't.

How do we know that the first interpretation is the right one?

The author's argument is that the later artist was still really skilful - as he puts it, "look at those folds!" Yeah, sure, he sculpts way better than I could! But that doesn't seem to prove that he is as skilful as the first artist.
I don't think this is useful because you may install this on your browser but what about others who are on same network?
Accounting for inaccuracy, temperature changes along the way, wave diffraction, etc., I'd say you heard it.
The government massively depreciated the purchasing power of the dollar, trading is one of the few ways to get ahead. And the secret is it’s not always as hard as the professionals claim, especially when the government is money printing
There seems to definitely be some astroturfing going on with respect to anti-work, pro-union sentiment, and I agree it seems to have found Hackernews recently, from my perspective it looks like a sudden influx.

That said, I agree with at least the headline in your second point - making any kind of positive change requires accepting the current state of affairs as it is first. I've found that the phases in my life where I feel content and not constantly needing to 'change' were actually those times where I was able to most consolidate the gains I was struggling towards the rest of the time. I think it might have something to do with not being in crisis management mode that allows the mind to relax into new configurations. Of course, YMMV.
Readout of White House Meeting on Software Security
their employer wants you to think that - more money for them
Maybe over 2 billion years nature has created as efficient as we can get, and it would be best to have hybrid life that is a mix of nano-tech and biological cells. Is it a given that we could create tiny factories more efficiently than cells?
It's not clear how much longer that'll be a thing.

Olympus divested its camera operations to some third-party holding company. I am skeptical they'll have the capital and expertise to really be competitive. (https://www.dpreview.com/news/0412395347/olympus-finalizes-d...)

And Panasonic doesn't seem to really be in it anymore, save for their video-focused cameras. They have a new full-frame mount now.
Haven't a lot of people on HN warned against using Backblaze for backup because of issues restoring from backup? I recall reading someone having to pay to have a physical drive sent to them to restore a backup because of speed/cost issues trying to restore over network.
Tor-Browser 11.0.4 Released
Maybe these competing for resources around stars is the future of life
I feel like this gets tried in various ways at different companies. One of the antipatterns it tends toward is that people try to get moved away from teams that don't directly increase KPIs. Things like writing documentation, doing customer support, building internal tools, and other unsexy features get left behind. Meanwhile, all the most ambitious people move toward features that get people to buy things, click on things, focus attention on things, get angry at things, or be stuck on the platform.
I have always found that phrasing to be confusing. Consider the reciprocal, “half as cheap”. Should that be interpreted as… double?

Say “half the cost” or “cheaper by half”.
Just letting you know, it's also a very derogatory racist term.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spade
Just letting you know Ace of Spades was really cool voxel-based shooter game that was later remade in a terrible commercial version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(video_game)

(And of course, it has modern community ports https://www.buildandshoot.com/)
"Before TCP/IP" = NCP.

> The original specification for the File Transfer Protocol was written by Abhay Bhushan and published as RFC 114 on 16 April 1971. Until 1980, FTP ran on NCP, the predecessor of TCP/IP.[2] The protocol was later replaced by a TCP/IP version, RFC 765 (June 1980) and RFC 959 (October 1985), the current specification.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol

Unlike TCP or UDP, NCP was not duplex:

> NCP preceded the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as a transport layer protocol used during the early ARPANET. NCP was a simplex protocol that utilized two port addresses, establishing two connections, for two-way communications. An odd and an even port were reserved for each application layer application or protocol. The standardization of TCP and UDP reduced the need for the use of two simplex ports for each application down to one duplex port.[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Control_Program

So the original transport layer that FTP relied on necessitated two ports, and when the move to a newer transport layer occurred the use of two ports was carried over for simplicity's sake. And several decades later that design still exists.

> FTP needs two ports (one for sending and one for receiving) because it was originally designed to operate on Network Control Program (NCP), which was a simplex protocol that utilized two port addresses, establishing two connections, for two-way communications. An odd and an even port were reserved for each application layer application or protocol.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol

Per RFC 114, responses from the server are considered a data type: when a user sends a command to the server, sometimes the response is a status update ('MKDIR successful'†) and sometimes the response is the requested file.

The data structure of the response has fields to say what's coming back on the data channel for the requested transaction.

† MKDIR was not a command, just using it as an modern example.
web3 is a recycled 5 year old meme from the ico craze. it worked back then to separate the ignorant from bitcoin. try not to let web3 memes distract you from understanding how the emergence of peer to peer electronic cash and a new base layer money will actually affect you moving forward
> The spreadsheet will be shared with your work email address.

That means the company knows you’re doing this. It’s not legal for them to retaliate for it, but people do stuff that’s not legal.
That's not the same thing as value being destroyed.

Indeed, Japanese companies have on the whole been profitable throughout that time and have passed on some of those profits to their owners, so value has been created.

The stock market bubble bursting didn't destroy value, it simply revealed that some investors overpaid
I worked for decades on software for DSLRs.

I completely agree that they need to go away, and that new lens tech needs to appear.

But I think that we are -just now- starting to get to the point where we can have truly excellent mirrorless cameras that actually can replace (and will surpass) DSLRs.

A lot of it has to do with on-chip computational photography. All the camera companies are coming up with custom image processing chips, and these are what makes the difference.

Lag time needs to be in the single-to-mid-double-digit ms range. I don't remember what the number was, but the company that I worked for, did some research, on what the maximum allowable lag time on a viewfinder could be, and I think it was like 50ms. That means that you need to expose the chip, scan the image from it, do the A/D conversion, demosaic, gamma correct, color correct, denoise, vignette correct, distortion manage, remove chromatic aberration (because cheap lenses), and all the rest of the image processing, then, display it on the screen, continuously, within 50ms per frame, while also not draining the battery. Also, pixel density has a big impact on this performance. More pixels, more milliseconds; more battery drainage.

Not a simple task. You can do tricks like scale down the image early on, and eschew some of the finer image processing tasks, but you still need that viewfinder image to be right on the money, and to the standards of a very picky photographer.

Also sensor physical size has a lot to do with the image quality, bokeh, and what-have-you. A big issue with smartphone cameras (and point-and-shoot cameras), is that small sensors mean that there's little control over DoF (Depth of Field). Apple has introduced artificial bokeh, with their software.

Sensor size, and the length of the optical path, are what really drive lens size. They discuss that, in the article. Hasselblad and Phase One (if they still do that stuff) cameras have these monster sensors. They still need big lenses.
How did you validate the AnExplorer idea? What is it that makes this app unique among all the alternatives that exist? Thanks and congrats
Yes, they will make great propaganda when Russia buys Youtube ads with visibly brutalized people admitting to be CIA assets working for US interest to destabilize Ukraine and invade mother Russia.
Our "Be Productive or Feel Bad" predisposition is a very powerful meme (in the original sense of the word) in that it is very good for Society at the expense of the individual.
Use ublock origin and add
Block Access to LAN filter list.
It was heard in NZ, some as south as Christchurch claiming to have heard it. In in Christchurch and didn't hear it but did see changes in air pressure was the sound waves went through.
Community driven project to list all of Microsoft’s portals
> Framed in terms of today, we should not reduce ourselves to tools that serve others, or the economy, the greater good, or even our future selves (for example, the urge for young workers to work very hard to secure their future career).

I'm trying not to be cynical but when I read this sort of advice I can't help but think "it's easy to say this, but we all need money, and life's costs tend to go up". It seems like a lot of the folks talking about living simply or with less anxiety, etc, are already wealthy (but of course that is selection bias).

How do you reconcile the need for money with the need for youth to not secure their careers?
They won't slow it, but pause effects for a short while. The CO2 would still be there afterwards and all the while increasing, the oceans will still be acidifying, etc.

The next years after would still be as bad as predicted
Is anyone building CDN service on top of IPFS? IPFS is certainly too slow for many applications but perhaps there are tiny niches where it makes sense today? More like tape drive storage?
AWS does not have any trouble moving money around or writing programs to move money around. Finance has been digitized for ages.

You might say "those are just digital abstractions — this is native." But so what? What does it matter if my money transfer routine talks to a bank or broadcasts a new block? It does the same thing in the end, except that the blockchain version is slower and more expensive.

Blockchain offers no concrete advantages over traditional finance except for decreased regulation. That's why it's so hard to argue in favour of blockchain as a replacement for traditional financial systems. You end up constructing weak arguments, because you can't play to blockchain's strengths.

Let me present the strong argument in favour of blockchain: "Blockchain helps you make lots of anonymous money through pump & dumps, ransomware, and other assorted scams." This is an unethical argument, but a concretely fact-based one. The track record speaks for itself.

Look how much more robust the strong argument is than any argument about decentralization for its own sake, or about the "native"ness of bitcoin transfers. Occam's razor suggests that the strong argument is the driving force behind blockchain adoption, not the weak ones. Nobody cares about decentralization. They just wanna make a buck.
This isn't available on my model. I think it's only 2019 and newer? The exploit seems to cover some older models as well.
Do they offer any alternative? I'm all for payment shifting from 'buts in seats' to 'paid for productivity' if there's proper allowance for taking time for quality, but somehow that doesn't seem the kind of direction people are thinking in.
Scroll down past the files to the readme. It's not unusual for github links to be posted on HN.
Mistaking the path for the journey.

(Or more prosaically, mistaking the how for the what or the process for the goal)
Show HN: Teyit – Automatically format your Python unittest assertions
I think this is wide of the mark. Smalltalk has a filesystem: the global dictionary. Sure, it's flat, but so was the root directory in DOS 1 and CP/M. See Self for an evolution of this idea toward something better. Smalltalk has a command line: literally every editable text field, but in particular the code pane of the system browser. Furthermore, not everything in Unix is a text file. It's... not easy working with a.out, .a, .tar, .Z, .so etc using a text editor.
> getting equal pay.

To be clear, IMO, people want equal total comp per input. We have to consider all inputs like, including the person themselves (some comp is worthless to me personally, eg certain health benefits for situations I will never have, or considerations for needs that I do not have.

* average and best/work weeks of hours worked

* stress load

* future value of today's learnings

* inconvenience factors - like do I have to work during my kids' <important event>

* feel good factor -- obviously personal Am i working on shiny fluffy things or bombs?

* extrinsic compensation like "clout" or "status" -- Do you think working at google might give you some "cred" or greater viability in the dating pool? that's a form of comp

I'm sure the list goes on an on, hence one reason that seeing Engineer 5 yrs exp, $X comp is too little info to compare what you _should_ be paid, though informative of what you _could_ be paid if you conformed to all the variables of that job .