skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Québec we have the most restrictive measures in Canada and probably the Americas. All private assemblies banned, vaccine passport for restaurants and other public spaces (soon to be extended to big surface stores such as Walmart and Costco), booster shots now required for the vaccine passport and finally curfew.

And now I just received a recruitment pamphlet from the government for a "citizen digital identity" which will be used on smart phones.

Am I the only one seeing a pattern here?
> a global id system where the "miners" are countries.

Can I mine on this blockchain? If not, what stops me? If it's some permission I need, then what's the point of using a blockchain? Why not just have countries issue digital certificates for passports?

It sounds like you're in the "Blockchain not Bitcoin" phase that was all the rage around 2017 or so ("we're going to put cows on the blockchain!"). Most of us either moved on from that to purely on-chain financial chicanery (defi, nft) or became disillusioned with it.
> which was obviously a poor experience and increased friction even in cases where a refund was desired by both the developer and user.

I've had much more luck with apple than I have with "developers". NYT is the textbook example that comes up here. You can sign up in one click but cancelling still requires phoning them up.

It's also analogous to a physical store; I don't ask kellogs for a refund if my cereal doesn't work, I ask the grocery store.
It "inspired" them because dwm is functionally incomplete and requires a complete redesign. Something like xmonad also does the "my wm is actually library and I wrote the wm with it" approach, but is designed in a way to support code reuse and sharing. It's infinitely better, imo.
And yet Twitter waited until after it got hundreds of millions of users to start limiting visibility. I wonder if it would have gotten so popular if it worked this way from the start? Along with the mandatory phone-number to sign-up (that they still aren't up-front about, letting you sign-up and then auto-locking your account until you provide your phone).

If this restriction was out of concern for their users, they'd let them toggle it.
Right when it wasn’t subject to centralized control which could actually, easily, and covertly scam people. Just because you say something doesn’t mean it’s true or smart. Being short in the delusion of being clever is a sin of rationality and you should repent to Hitchens as soon as you can.
I would consider this to be a corner case, that does not disprove the point I made.
I started with SLR's in high school photography and loved how you could see just what the camera was doing. Using the Pentax K1000 with a 50mm 2.0 lens (at the time was a super cheap combo kit) just inspired me to really learn more about photography. When I moved to DSLR's later, it was even better, I could now see the images and taken nearly endless amount photos.

But I started to get bogged down trying to take a full bag of lenses and large DSLR to social events or traveling. I found that I was spending more time behind the lens with the technical side vs spending time capturing the moment. Sold off my kit and went with a Fuji X100T, fixed length compact camera. It's not great for action but worked wonderfully capturing the kids and with the fully silent mode, very well for weddings.

Once my phone camera quality started to approach my camera, I stopped using the Fuji as much and followed the rule of "the best camera you have is the one you carry". While I love having that dedicated camera, just having the live cloud backup, apps to edit, made my next decision to be an upgraded phone over a camera. It's hard to hear the news about Canon especially, the 70-200mm F/2.8 IS lens is simply amazing and I rented a 85mm f/1.2 which is the lens for portraits.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(market)
I understand options, and certainly using puts to cover the downside. I'm just paranoid about accidentally f*king that up and taking a bath to end all baths.
I had the same thoughts; it seems to present a friendly picture but there are a lot of unanswered problems with this technology, even if only used for fraud protection.

What if clients use it for tracking and other shady purposes, would they do something about it?

Btw I tried with Tor Browser and it did not accurately fingerprint it between sessions which makes me wonder how effective it really is. Especially for fraudsters; intentional bad actors, I think it would be quite easy to bypass.
> "Fully accepting the costs and risks needed to get there" sounds like you're preparing for a hike to the antarctic or something. Not all changes have to be this dire. Deciding to get fit is not really a sacrifice. Rather, it is turning certain disciplines into habits.

I think you're downplaying what it's like for many people to start making fitness a larger part of their life. It might as well be a hike to the antarctic. In the beginning, the costs can seem very, very high, even if they get easier with time. What makes those costs bearable is a genuine acceptance of them, and what oftentimes triggers that genuine acceptance is a health scare that shows people what the alternative is.
Four Main Roles of Government:

1. Keep a rule of law

2. Maintain a stable & competitive economy

3. Turn taxes into public services (defense, roads, etc)

4. Lie
Given that there’s really no way around Safari on the iPhone, developers should perhaps just not use IndexedDB if the browser is Safari, given how buggy the implementation is.

It pretty clear that Apple isn’t giving Safari/WebKit the focus it needs, but it’s also clear that developers just continue to push for more and more features in the browser. I’d much prefer that browsers started to cut back. While Google is excellent about updates, remember that critical bugs are found in Chrome constantly.
Nope. Go Pro still images look terrible once you go deeper and lose a bit of natural light. They don't really work with external strobes either. But for video they do fine as long as you have good lights.

The preferred hobby tier underwater still camera is now the Olympus TG-6 with a cheap plastic housing.
> I think this sentence has been carefully constructed to be kind of true. The original author certainly knew what "boob" mean at the time.

Maybe, but not certainly. Do not assume too much English proficiency in France in 2010. It has changed a lot in the past decade, with most of the French hacker spaces disappearing or fusing in the global internet, but I still remember the 2000s, when we were hanging around in French IRC channels or forums.
Spotify can’t drop Rogan in the sense that they have an exclusive arrangement with him. “Dropping” him is to let him be everywhere.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52736364
Phones have surely gotten better, but boy have they gotten bigger. The iPhone Pro Max is more than halfway to the weight of a X100V, and only 100 grams lighter than my Olympus. I still like having a small phone with me all the time and a camera sometimes. It's nice to not have to have the greatest camera phone available because it's all you're going to shoot with.

Plus, phones are just never going to manage decent shots on any focal length that's not wide as hell. I know they have long lenses now, but they are crazy slow and useless in anything but direct sunlight. I mostly take photos of people and almost never choose to shoot wide. Phones cut me right out of how I want to shoot. I've actually started putting a long prime on my camera and using my phone at the same time if I want a landscape. Works pretty darn well.
So, in plain English, what you're saying is to not obsess over fixing neuroses because it's an addiction in itself that leads to other negative traits?
What is it with all the fuzz a out fungi in space lately? Is Discovery so well-liked or is it the other way around?

Serious question: How does the fungus release the energy? heat? Could we use them as some kind of biological radiation thermal panels on Mars?
SLRs even more so
Because no matter how many times history repeats itself people dismiss the warnings as "conspiracy" because people want to believe the government is inherently good, or has good intentions, this is a false belief.
FTA: " In the new game, GSC said, players could buy and sell NFTs of items like clothing for their in-game characters. The company heralded the move as a “transformative step” toward the virtual world known as the metaverse."

... HOW is this different from in-app purchases where you buy hats like in Team Fortress (or many many others)?

This is BS. There's no story here.
What's wrong is wealth inequality. It all rolls downhill from that. Minimum wage is not enough to make ends meet and rent + food is through the roof. That's what is wrong. Imagine being scheduled to work 39 hours on purpose to avoid being full-time and getting benefits. That's just one problem in a laundry list of problems.

An entire generation was sold a dream and now people are waking up.
Maybe they help to close exploits used by competition?

Or ones they are not planning to use anyway, but are possible to be used by competition?

Or for marketing purposes to be not known as 100% clearly evil?

Or for marketing purposes to be better known?
The term 'tidal wave' has been deprecated for some time, as they are not gravity-driven, but it does capture how the wave does not just break on the shoreline like an ocean roller, it keeps on coming.
Try looking into why these investments have higher returns than a bank account. The risk profile isn't the same at all.

If you want returns in traditional finance, you don't stick money in a bank account. You buy bonds and/or stocks.
I find the experience of going trough 300 raw images and developing them the worst part of using DSLR and why I prefer modern phones with AI based image processing.

But you can’t argue with dslr results though. And when we talk about pro sport photography, well exactly same demands for large aperture, large and variable focal length, high iso with low noise, fast focusing and fast shooter speeds also apply to us amateurs taking pictures of our kids in poorly lit indoor sport events.
Part 1 (linked on HN) - https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/1.html - Tek Fog: An App With BJP Footprints for Cyber Troops to Automate Hate, Manipulate Trends

Part 2 - https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/2.html - Tek Fog: Morphing URLs to Make Real News Fake, 'Hijacking' WhatsApp to Drive BJP Propaganda -

Part 3 - https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/3.html - Tek Fog in Action: Targeting Women Journalists, Pushing Communal Narrative on COVID, Delhi Violence -

Discussion with the journalists - https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/s4jfw7/hey_reddit_in... - Hey, Reddit India. We are the team behind the Tek Fog investigation, which uncovered the BJP-affiliated app for social media manipulation. ASK US ANYTHING
How does rambling garbage like this with no information keep getting to the front page lately, what is happening?

Edit: Currently second page, my mistake.
It’s true that most people switched because convenience and marginal cost usually beats quality. That’s how we went from landlines to “can you hear me now.” But I have the latest iPhone and a low end SLR and the SLR blows it out of the water for photos of my kids. All but one of the photos on our wall are from the SLR even though 90% of our overall photos are from the SLR.
You can be. What's stopping you? Go out and start a competitive team that can win against other colleges that sink millions of dollars into their program.

If that sounds like too much work, then, well, yeah.
We already have a system for that in the US. Just in the visible spectrum.

https://www.cato.org/blog/judge-allows-warrantless-aerial-su...
So, no rich text?
At least in the US (relevant because the Washington Post is a US outlet) privacy-related skepticism of contact tracing apps was never seen as a conspiracy theory in the first place. Mainstream organizations expressed significant skepticism and the few contact tracing apps which have gained traction here are built to be structurally incapable of releasing personal information in any circumstances.
> However, if you can use a permutation as a hash function, you might be fine with just using the identity function.

This certainly isn't true for 8-bit characters using ASCII.

The top-bit of all ASCII strings is always zero, its effectively a wasted bit. Permuting all ASCII characters to randomly use all 8-bits means a better distribution in virtually any hash-based data-structure. (ex: 64 slot hashtable will have fewer collisions after you permute the 7-bit ASCII into an 8-bit random permutation)
> Because they aren't "disproportionately excluded from the education, economic and other systems of society"

Of course they are, this is pretty much what marginalization means. My point is precisely that real-world marginalization can be an outcome of identity politics, especially when minorities differ in their overall attitudes towards education or economic development.
> vintage glass has become a lucrative option for filmmakers and creatives alike

Can someone explain to me what this means? How does one make money with old camera lenses? Buying and selling them online?
You've gone full circle then. Someone was pointing out that salaries are lower in Europe, someone else replied that on the other hand costs are lower (for example health insurance). To which you reply that it's fine because salary are lower.
People this uninformed are somehow the vocal majority of blockchain talk on HackerNews. What a seriously embarrassing misconception which demonstrates ignorance on a fundamental level.
Just letting you know, it's also the name of a pretty well known gardening/farming implement that humanity has been using for thousands of years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade
"And a lot of the old glass makes nicer pictures — not sharper, but nicer."

I hear this a lot, and every time I grow more skeptical. On every conceivable technical measure, new lenses are superior to older ones. The single advantage of old lenses is, as you say, they are cheap. (I got a metal Nikon 50mm f/1.4, manual focus, for less than $100 on eBay!)

Unless you can point to some objective property of older lenses in general that assists them in taking better pictures, I'm forced to conclude that this claim is just a photographic superstition.

For certain lenses, like the old Nikon 105 2.5, you might be able to do this! But for old lenses in general I think not.

(Another thought: maybe you find the extra distortion and tint of old lenses pleasing?)
The smartest people in the workforce know this.

They aren't useless. They are perfectly capable of accomplishment, but know that taking on more responsibilities or assisting will make them miserable in the long run.

I've seen this with some of the highest ranking & paid engineers/PMs in big tech. I usually give the benefit of the doubt that everybody:

1. Has a sense of autonomy
2. Has a sense of competence
3. Has a sense of relatedness

If at anytime any of these are put into jeopardy, a wonderful tactic is to "be useless". There's many bullshit jobs out there that use you and your abilities for the bullshit job holder's personal gain. This is one of the best tactics to take a stand for yourself in corporate America.
I've put together new introductory tutorials here:
https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/NewTutorialReview

Using a virtual machine with Ubuntu 21.04 and installing using the PPA is a good way to test it out:
https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/InstallingGR#Ubuntu_PPA_...

More background information on the tutorials, future plans, etc.
https://www.wavewalkerdsp.com/2022/01/13/gnu-radio-tutorials...
Actually, this kind of a collective lie perpetrated in the synth community. MIDI's version number never changed from 1.0, but it has had numerous revisions, including LSB+MSB CC values, NRPN and RPN, General MIDI definitions, MIDI Show control, MIDI Machine control, MTC, MIDI file formats, etc. etc. And of course recently MPE. The original version was quite primitive.

I'm looking at the so-called "1.0 Specification" circa 1995, and it's document version 4.2.
Agreed. I hope it will be finally a movement. Judging from online communities, it already is.
> I would imagine all purchases to be a low dispute risk, as the merchant can simply offer refunds to all no questions asked.

That only works if you offer a no questions asked refund, and even at that, that doesn't imply 0 risk. Cards get stolen and tested on low value purchases all the time; if a scammer decides to check 1000 credit cards on your app, you're going to have a very bad time.
I used to be an avid photographer. Then got drowned in an overkill of technology since then. I preferred the look of AA filter sensors.

Modern lenses and modern cameras are so tack sharp that to me photos feel like they are beyond reality. Too much of everything. I have difficulties to connect to the image itself. Much more of an craft you learn than art you explore. Keeping a piece of the world to carry with you to revisit and to remember or to cherrish.

Only Ricoh managed to have a line up that keeps me interested. Seems if the photo bug bites again I'm happy with old gear.
For Samsung - not for you. Brilliant!
...most of telco. Seriously, mainstream stuff is interesting and all, but there are hundreds of protocols needing a retrofit (or actually being re-encapsulated in TCP) in that industry.
I think there's a cost to constant striving, and it's insidious.
In my experience, learning the theory behind them helps you understand how to derive the scale in your head but it doesn’t actually help you get muscle memory for the specific patterns. This is like multiplication tables versus knowing how to multiply.
"Strong waves" may be anything from "measurably stronger wave" to "0.5m tsunami wave that requires evacuation from flat coastal areas"
Nope it’s just trading one set of gatekeepers for another. The new gatekeepers are also much less honest about their being gatekeepers.
> assign it to the correct person ...

That's the mapping function in action. It's not really sorting.

It's a good story for teaching cooperation. If you wanted to apply it to an algorithm, it would look a lot like multi-agent modeling where you have a dozen kids, a dozen balloons, and each kid doing a single mapping function. In the inefficient model, each kid was doing a search function. In the efficient model, each kid was doing a map function.

Also: It reminds me of statistical analysis. An example of that is, if a PIN number fails at 3 attempts in a certain time frame, and you have hundreds of accounts, you are more likely to succeed if you use 1 pin for all accounts, and then increment the pin attempts each round, versus trying all pins on each account and getting locked out on the third attempt before you increment accounts each time. Statistically you'll get more hits faster one way over the other by the time the algorithm completes.
> But players said they see the moves as a blatant cash grab.

It seems ironic to call out a "blatant cash grab" with a piece on a controversial topic that is primarily sourced with the musings of "thousands of fans on Twitter and Reddit".
Doesn't levels.fyi focus on engineering salaries? What type of employees is hellofresh made of?
"noteworthy", ha. I see what you did there :)
> all it does is assert that Malone's positions are wrong and dangerous. Are they?

Yes.

To point one not directly related to COVID/vaccines, I was particularly surprised by his claims that strokes in children are zero (and that basically all paediatric strokes are caused by COVID vaccines).

In actual paediatric medicine, stroke is among the top 10 causes of death in children, precisely because people think it doesn't happen, so even though the symptoms are well known, the required medical attention is fatally delayed.
> I like that you can see how the film simulation and exposure will look before you take the shot.

This is an important insight. Optical viewfinders show you what will hit the sensor. Electronic viewfinders show you what you get.
I've found https://github.com/salt-die/nurses_2 recently , if you're looking for more graphics in the console.
Especially if the goal of this is to pressure management into increasing pay, people will absolutely lie, if only to stir the pot.
I get why this is happening but it still makes me sad. There's really no better experience than being able to look through the viewfinder, track the target and have a pretty good idea of the composition (the viewfinder is typically 95-99% of the frame). Any mirrorless system has limitations on low light and latency (of reading the light and then displaying it on a separate screen). This has gotten better but it can never really compete with the sensitivity of a human eye and low latency of passing through a prism (or mirror).

The article mentioned compatibility and flange distance but didn't really explain why this is the case. Take the two big 35mm DSLR players of the 20th century Nikon and Canon. Nikon introduced the F mount in 1959 [1]. These were manual focus lenses. Autofocus came much later. Nikon chose compatibility to the point that you can buy a DSLR and a manual focus F mount lens from 1960 and it will work.

Canon OTOH had a number of lens mounts (eg FD). When Canon introduced autofocus they bit the bullet and broke backwards compatibility to introduce a new mount, the EF [2] in 1987. Oddly, this situation kind of reminds me of how Java and C# introduced generics, each with a different philosophy.

But the point is that Canon learned from its "mistakes" and corrected them with EF and benefitted from it.

None of this really explains why DSLRs are dying though. This chart [3] does. Digital cameras in part funded DSLR development and phones killed the digital camera market (~85% drop in sales from the peak).

I like digital cameras. Generally speaking picture quality is better, optics are better, framerates are better and the form factor allows things that phones can't do (eg waterproof to 40m, shooting 1080p at ~1000fps, 100x optical zooms).

But they're a pain in the ass to use. I think this is a failing of camera manufacturers not to integrate seamlessly with phones. Like why can't I pair a camera with my phone and have photos just transfer to the phone automatically? I end up never using digital cameras because I simply can't be bothered with the steps required to do something with that photo. Phones solve that so much better.

Lastly, it's worth pointing out that at this point only two companies produce digital camera sensors at any kind of volume: Canon and Sony. Sony literally produces almost everything else. This volume and market hold gives them economies of scale that no one can compete with.

But Sony also makes phone camera sensors so Sony really doesn't lose anything if you buy a camera instead of a phone of vice versa. This probably contributed to manufacturers not caring at the smartphone revolution that literally destroyed that industry.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F-mount

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_lens_mount

[3]: https://www.statista.com/chart/5782/digital-camera-shipments...
Although I don't agree with the article, I can understand how someone could start hating work and the urge to be always productive. Our economy promotes competitiveness, which of course creates progress and brought us where we are now, but I think covid worked as catalyst for all the pressure the workers were feeling because of this. And when you are so distressed by the system it's way easier to believe that you don't have to work as hard to be happy instead of starting to push harder
Face Masks and Shields During the Covid-19 Pandemic