skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i remember this era, i remember going to the oreilly oss conference in monterey and all the public terminals were running enlightenment with alpha blended terminals and all the crazy chrome of the time.

personally i hated it, it was laggy, slow and unstable... made a fast linux machine feel like a slow windows thing. i think i ran windowmaker at the time with a color scheme that reminded me of an old indy i used to have. it looked good and stayed out of my way...
I assosciate your rule with Richard Feynman [1] but I'm trying to strip away the hustle and hype to get to something true at the core that may be worth looking at. There was a lot of b.s. in the late 90's but turns out there were acorns of good ideas there waiting to grow into mighty oaks. I'd hate to be an old codger yelling at kids to get off my lawn. It's not a good way to live.

[1] https://morksensei.com/learning-deeply-by-explaining-the-fey...
> you either have to hope for it to be implemented in c++ with python bindings (like opencv) or you are in for a world of pain.

Yes, I agree -- Julia is superior for scientific research -- including developing or working with new, cutting-edge algorithms that are not yet implemented in any third-party library.

That said, if one is willing to do a bit of upfront work, in many and perhaps a majority of cases, it's possible to implement new algorithms/ideas in terms of tensor/matrix/vector operations, i.e., using fast library primitives instead of resorting to slow Python loops.
I'm not sure it makes sense to blame legislators for loopholes. Bugs exist all the time in a variety of products. And few have to withstand the scrutiny of trillion dollar companies paying experts to pour over every aspect to find them.
You probably know more about living on a boat than most people here, you tell us.
Here in New Orleans they take your meter if you report a leak and you can’t get it back for a couple weeks and thousands in reconnection fees because they don’t trust people’s plumbers apparently and have to reinspect everything themselves
I completely agree. The one-year release cadence for JS has been amazing and it's a much-needed improvement over the one every few years model they used to follow.

More importantly though, I think JS has really benefitted from small improvement scopes: there's only a few new features that really matter ever year. That, along with clear roadmaps leading up to a release have made adopting new features easy.
More nuanced than what?
It does make sense. Consider the phrase "twice as cheap"
A Year Without Summer
That’s straight out of Farscape, iirc. I remember watching a living ship fly though space as a kid and it seemed like a giant stretch. But maybe it isn’t.
This seems more or less like the B2 help document on the matter: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666928-Using...
every major university in the us contains physical copies of all the published articles (IE, people who wanted to learn more, but couldn't afford to subscribe to every journal), annd the rest are on arxiv. Nobody is gatekeeping the evidence.

The reality is that average people simply aren't qualified to deal with the subtlety and complexity of ambiguous data, and the adversaries of public health can just make a video that lies and convince millions of people with seductive, but wrong, ideas. It's extremely rare to have a society which is scientifically savvy enough to understand these sorts of things.
It's kind of a compliment

I'm not so sure it is a compliment.

I've heard advertisements on the radio recently for financial and sports programs and web sites where they promise "No hot takes — only real information."
Sure, if it causes intense distress or interpersonal difficulty then just about anything is a mental illness. For every person like that I'm sure there are many for whom it's just a fantasy that excites them to think about but they'd never actually act upon and isn't really a big deal. There are a lot of fantasies (not necessarily sexual ones) similarly enjoyed by mentally healthy people every day.
Manufacturing costs are a big part of it. Its safe to assume the AF Sensors for a given segment (often as much a differentiator as megapixels in DSLRs) are fairly custom/proprietary widgets and thus more expensive, compared to Sensors where often costs are more amortized (i.e. Nikon using Sony sensors.)
ha, yeah. Fortunately there is at least one FinCEN registered money business in US trading fiat/XMR pair, so there's plenty of plausibility it was obtained in a way adhering to regulations.
> Most people just want a shitload of bokeh

There was a point in time when people wanted this because it looked professional, but now bokeh is a dime a dozen.

I think these days people want it because it isolates a subject without them having to do work in thinking of a good composition that isolates the subject with other techniques (e.g. contrast, color, and so on).
I'm sympathetic to the argument, but the data presented is anecdotal, or pure hearsay. Also a bit weird that he's talking about measuring his stove, which he knows produces less emissions than furnaces or water heaters, but ends up measuring his furnace. This is not a compelling argument against gas stoves.
You call it speculation and that’s convenient for your argument. Bitcoin as a store of value is not speculative. It has objective qualities that make it valuable and you dismissing those as speculation lets you be ignorant to the comparable short term success of Bitcoin.
This is the report it is based on and included in the article: https://covid-19.sciensano.be/sites/default/files/Covid19/RA...

What you are looking for ( info about the data) is on page 13, 2nd paragraph under the graph. ( Can't copy the text on my phone)
Maybe the authors can suggest alternatives
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN32974-ATP_3-...

That's a lot of information about the nitty-gritty of IFVs (aka: M2 Bradley).

Weapons discussions are always relevant to the realm of tactics, of which the US Army absolutely makes detailed discussions and manuals about.

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In any case, the field manual absolutely cares about the 25mm to 30mm cannon on the M2 Bradley / IFV platform. The "Combined Arms" battalions follow this guidance, to maximize the amount of uncertainty the opponent faces on the battlefield.

These details matter. And I'm almost certain that the "Laser" weapon will be seen in some kind of light akin to this theory.
Thanks, I had forgotten about this and had actually mixed parts of it up with in-thymic training
It's supposed to compete with kerosene lamps. It's an enormous improvement.
You really want to push an article with garbage phrases like this?

"By far the greater part is the story, sufficiently notorious in its own right, of the well-known anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon: of his work among the Yanomami people of Venezuela and his fame among the science tribe of America."

"during the late 1960s and early 1970s Chagnon had served as a jungle advance man and blood collector."

"Chagnon inscribed these indelible identification numbers on people's arms--barely 20 years after World War II."
It’s a different structure. Google the company still exists and is owned by Alphabet. Its products include Google search and YouTube. There is no longer a company called Facebook; Facebook is a product owned by Meta.
I am a contractor/consultant. I have roughly 3 contracts per year. The only all men team I have seen in the last 5 years was ironically lead and hired by a female manager. Now that I think about it is possible that industries also matter. The team I mentioned worked at heavy machinery manufacturer, teams in health-it, financial, e-commerce, and startups are all super diverse. In health m/f ratio is probably around 3/7. I have no experience with academia
I think GP was making the statement that, holding literally everything else equal, a customer who tips is strictly better than one who does not.

That said, I really prefer the model that tips are rare and employees negotiate with their boss for a real salary.
The parent's perspective does not come across as an evangelist's though. Quite the opposite. It's balanced, seeing the hype for hype, seeing the flaws, and yet seeing that there is still some truth and potential buried in there. The world is grey.
levels.fyi is pretty useless (too few data points) for many international locations.

For example, at point of writing there are exactly 12 salaries listed for HelloFresh in Berlin.
Best in class node desktop automation
They use this phrasing in the article text:

"four tech giants— Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Meta (formerly Facebook ) and Amazon"

So I guess the distinction in their eyes is that Facebook renamed itself whilst Google sold itself to a parent company? Can someone chime in on the legal entities and mechanics used for the two?
Covid-19: Democratic Voters Support Harsh Measures Against Unvaccinated
> Yeah, but this actually works.

I can't use blockchain to pay pretty much any vendor I buy things from without an intermediary - the intermediary requires me to log in to a website and unless I'm willing to go through a lot of trouble (more trouble than dealing with PGP) an intermediary will also be storing my wallet and have "physical" control of all my "coins." Blockchain works to the extent that you aren't really using blockchain but simply a trusted intermediary.

If you're actually personally managing your wallet keys it's worse than PGP. With PGP if you lose your key you just say so and people figure it out, you have to go to some key signing parties. With Bitcoin if you lose your key you have no money, end of story, no recourse.
The Need for Speed: Julia vs. Python
ISS doesn’t have that many windows for a reason.
The Profile can supposedly do the closed-loop trick if you pair it with Heston Cue pans. The manual makes this sound like a real PITA, and do you really want a pan with batteries and bluetooth? The Control Freak is compatible with any sufficiently flat magnetic cookware. Do you really want to be limited to a choice of a whopping three compatible pans? The world is full of excellent pots and pans at varying price points, and these are not compatible with the Cue system. This includes, for example:

Essentially disposable nonstick pans (pay a small premium for induction compatibility).

Enameled cast iron Dutch ovens.

Very high end nitride-coated pans from Hestan, compatible with any induction stove except Hestan Cue.

Plain old cast iron.

Magnetic steel comals.

Carbon steel seasonable pans, paella pans, etc.

A flat-bottom wok.

All of those work on induction stoves, and all work on a device like the Control Freak. Just put them on and set a temperature.

On the other hand, the GE range has an app and buttons. Where’s the knob?
Look at the past 250 years where there is not really any clear indication of deceleration https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html
A bit of a nuanced problem here. I've played a lot of crib too.

I hear your point, I guess my point is that serious measures are taken to dampen the difference between someone who knows poker and someone who doesnt. I've actually found largely candidates do not know the game so the calibrated comparisons is mostly between people who don't know the game.

Crib may actually be a better option -- the more esoteric the game, the less pre-knowledge plays a factor.

Edit: also NB: the only part that was to be implemented was the relative rank of a hand (ie, which hand won) . So the analogous equivalent in the crib example would be just the scoring of each hand.
When we meet some aliens they’re likely to be fungus, at best.
Nethack is fine, but it's a blatantly unfair game with many obtuse mechanics that is close to impossible to win without either knowledge from external sources or run-ending trial and error.

I'd argue that Cogmind, or Brogue CE, or Caves of Qud possess more of the Rogue soul than Nethack does.
I don't think so. Almost every time I have seen good service it is either a function of the person (actually cares about doing their job) or the culture of the establishment. I tip generously because in the US wait staff generally get way below minimum wage so you want to make them whole.

If you do frequent a place then I think consistently good tipping is a factor but your attitude is probably just as important. At the end of this year I got some extra $100 bills that I gave to bartenders and servers that I have seen many times over the year and wanted to show a little extra appreciation.

It's not about service it's about appreciating the people serving you.
Every random flashlight app has full network access, too. It's insane.
What is 440% less than 1, then? In my book, it's -3.4.
It should be percentage points, because "100% cheaper" would already be free.

It probably means AWS is 440% more expensive.
Looks like the site is down, here's a copy: https://owo.whats-th.is/3Co913d.html
Any cheap sensor (electrochemical? single electrode or even dual) sold for amateur use is unlikely to provide any useful measurement, especially if you want to draw any conclusion about concentrations exceeding safety limits like the author is doing. They are a pain to calibrate, the absolute values you get cannot be trusted, the most you can use them for is to say something about trends and spikes. "Look the gas stove is on, there's a NO2 and CO spike!", now let's get a chemoluminescence spectrophotometer to see it we should worry.
This presentation of the data suggests Bitcoin is at a "1998" level of development in terms of total number of users. I'm curious about this "number of users" metric, how would it map to adoption of other tech like telephones, televisions, cell phones, and smart phones.
It's an alternative to the X window system:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/

Appreciate where you're coming from re the detail. It can be hard to know where to draw the line when explaining projects and it depends on the target audience etc.

In this case, I would say it's ok that they don't explain what Wayland is on the project page. Wayland has pretty widespread adoption now and I reckon the vast majority of people that might be interested in projects like tiling window managers for linux will have heard of it (and that has probably been true for quite some time now, Wayland has been around for over a decade).

If you're keen to dig into it more, another popular project in the space is sway https://swaywm.org/.
I think it's still early days in terms of what's been built and what valuable applications have been created, i.e. nothing of note. But it's definitely not early days for investing in tokens - almost all of the top tokens seem completely overvalued. I think the token prices will crash and rise continually over the next 5-10 years as developers and entrepreneurs take the ridiculous amounts of VC money that has been raised to invest in crypto, and ultimately (perhaps) build a handful of useful and popular applications.
Make a case for the proposition opposite the one you believe in: web2 vs. web3
I think there's a lot of contention in a lot of mainstream conversation (esp Twitter) between web2 and web3 critics. I've also found that a lot of times we're always talking around each other and operating with different frames of reference. What I would like to see is some attempt at finding mutual ground to set the stage for actually productive conversations.

I'm curious to hear how someone might try to defend the proposition opposite the one they believe in. In other words, web3 critics comment on why web3 is great; web2 critics comment on why web3 isn't that great. Maybe part of this convo is around how to properly define the two.

Hopefully this isn't too pointless of a question/exercise; but if you do find this interesting, I would definitely like to learn more below.

Also, since there's no way of really checking, I guess it's more of an honor code that you try to make a case for the proposition you oppose rather than the one you support.

Thoughts?
This link may be of interest: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-your-own-anycast-networ...
I think procedural generation, permadeath, and you can unlock tools or advantages that you can take between attempts.

Loop Hero, FTL, etc are examples
You don't have to spend anywhere near that money, though.

When you're spending over 2000 dollars, you're at the point where you're either in a very niche category, or you're paying for convenience.

At 600 dollars, you can get a full-frame Sony A7ii (used). At that point, you can get a 30$ adapter and use manual lenses, and you'll get a very competent collection from 24mm all the way to a 135mm 2.8 for an additional ~500$. This will last you forever, but you won't have any autofocus.

If you want autofocus, you can spend 150$ on a used EF-E adapter, and buy a 50 1.8 for 100$, the venerable 80-200 2.8 for 400$ or so, and a normal zoom for 200-400$ (I got the Tamron 28-75 for 200$). At that point, you'll get essentially any image you could want, at a stellar quality, for 1500$ or so, with autofocus and image stabilization.

Past that point, you're either trying to do something extremely specific, or paying for more convenience. The gear itself will outlast you if you don't do anything stupid with it, and you will get more image quality than you can ask for, and absolute and complete control over every step of the photographic process, for less than the price of an iPhone 13 Pro Max. And if in ten years you get tired of it, you can sell it for at least half the price you paid for it.
Last year, I was going to buy ~$800 camera. I upgraded my iPhone instead.
> Software bokeh isn't really that good though.

I think one of the problems is they don't simulate it correctly. They segment the person with a neural net and then blur the rest by a constant arbitrary amount.

Ideally it should estimate the depth map of the scene and simulate different amounts of blur outside the DOF.

Here's a RealSense-based software bokeh I wrote that interpolates between 2 levels of computed bokeh. If I didn't have to render at 30fps I would actually just compute it on a per-pixel basis.

https://github.com/dheera/bokeh-camera
It was heard easily in North America:

> The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano was heard across the South Pacific, and eventually as far away as the US.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60007119
One of the worst fallouts from the pandemic and the Trump presidency
is the autocratic power that has been seized by a relatively small
group who share a lot of the same political views to be the judge
and jury on what is true.

It has grown from early mild assertion into a politically grounded smug
movement who loves calling out, cancelling, and mocking those who dont
share their world view.

All if that is more or less what you can except for any politically fraction
to seize on. Churches, Guilds whatever is an entity seeking to control speech

The real terror is in the fact that a large part of the population do not only
tolerate it, but to some extent reinforces it and welcomes it.

In times when society is going through something dramatic and frighting
demagogs pop out of their caverns and hope to become the prophet.

For a fraction to decide and dictate to all what is truth may perhaps
start benign but it will metastasize and corrupt into a autocratic
demand for the population to conform unquestionably to the prescribed
dogma.

This is never healthy for society, and the longer it is allowed
to grow. It will grow. This type of dictatorial power does not
reach a steady state, it grows into every crevice of society.
The conflict that arises from society ridding itself of it
can become something similar to a civil war.

In the US today there are two (major) fractions that claim to
hold the truth. If you do not adhere fully with one side,
you will be labelled as a traitor and belonging to the
other side.

This again creates an Overton window where the public is
led to believe that these two views are the only views
that exist. Black and white. Your sports team vs mine.
etc.

This has to stop and the only ones who can stop it are the people.
Thankfully we do not have to live our lives with a radio that
has only one channel (or in this case perhaps two)
We dont have to give our adherence to one or the other.
We can make the choice to ignore them.
Check Usenet and comp.misc plus the comp.lang* hier.
FWIW a partner of mine has been using this setup less for the CDN aspect and more for the free B2 egress, and a TB or two of large encrypted files (rclone crypt remote) have not resulted in any complaints.
"web3 is an attempt to decentralize and democratize finance and business."

this is a utopian dream. The current state of the web3 dotcom bubble is anything but.
My 10 year old self couldn't imagine having these massive artificial brains scattered throughout the world connected by high speed fiber network being a real thing.
Ah, I thought so! And I agree!

I'm hopeful that when the Ponzi schemes fade away, we'll end up with a slightly more informed populace that has inadvertently received an introduction to political science, state-building, the origins of power, etc. Civics teachers take note! :)
But web 1.0 and 2.0 are largely called as much based on what end users did with it and how they interacted with one another. You can't just ignore that vital component in regards to 3.0.
Control channel and data channel makes a lot of sense. And is arguably a simpler and more efficient way to transfer data. You set up transfer via one channel and then you don't need overhead of extra headers and other stuff on the data itself. Compare to HTTP 1.1 for example where you often carry bunch of headers around.
Scanning the LAN through your browser is nothing new. JS-Recon from AnD Labs [0] is a tool from 2010 that could do it. I have seen eBay [1], Facebook [2], and Halifax [3] do it too, albeit for other reasons than scanning for outdated devices (fraud/loss prevention). LexisNexis' ThreatMetrix [4] is commonly used to do this.

Please note that this is a copy of a comment I made 2 years ago and I have not tested the links to see if they are still correct.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20101128053633/http://www.andlab...

[1]: https://forum.ultravnc.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=33509

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNetsec/comments/4j0nas/why_is_fa...

[3]: https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/07/halifax_bank_ports_sc...

[4]: https://risk.lexisnexis.com/products/threatmetrix
DSLR's are dead because they can't do the stuff phone cameras can do on the software side. No DSLR can take 100 raw frames inside 100 milliseconds and do optical flow and stacking to get a higher resolution, reduced noise, nobody-blinks photo.

None have 3 lenses like an iphone to be able to generate a depth map and use it for smart stuff like software-adjustable focus after taking the photo.

Best you can hope for with DSLR's is 10 raw frames in 100 milliseconds, and a lot of effort in lightroom or photoshop to manually overlay and select frames with the least motion blur and best face of each person.
>I tip generously because in the US wait staff generally get way below minimum wage so you want to make them whole.

Ironically, if you didn't tip then they would be made whole by the employer as they would be responsible for making up the difference.
If we had a fungi that could purify water and block out deep space radiation, that would be one sweet mushroom.

Better hope it doesn’t die halway to Mars!
Coinbase has a single salary per band. The only discretionary pay is performance based but everything has the same base salary and equity. I love this model.
Logging is not debugging/print statements.

You also wouldn't generally be debugging a request from random clients. You'd generally be debugging in your local dev environment.
I guess it does to an extent with things like share ownership. Although there are ongoing costs for the various peoples salaries at the institutions involved.
And Gopher.
> I can’t quite RTFA because I have an ad blocker

https://outline.com/ZFnBEd
I guess old school jiggle top pressure cookers are right out too (but I guess anyone buying an induction stove would buy an Instant Pot anyway)
Some ways DNS can break