skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely in terms of image quality, we are indeed seeing better photography than 10 years ago (controlling for sensor size).

I also think comments about "the camera [...] doing the work for you" or about sharp lenses not necessarily leading to fun or interesting pictures sort of misses the point. If you're a terrible piano player, you're going to be just as bad on a $100K Steinway grand as you are on a used $5K upright. But there are difficult and beautiful things you can do on the Steinway that are impossible, or least much more difficult, on the upright. Example: any piece requiring rapid soft passages, which is facilitated by the double escapement mechanism on the grand. There are amazing YouTube videos of pros playing virtuoso works on beaten-up street pianos, but I don't think any of them would deny their job would be easier on a well-maintained grand.

The same is true for photography.

Also, let's face up to the fact that judging additional distortion to be aesthetically pleasing is just nostalgia tripping. Back in the bad old days of film, lens designers worked like dogs to minimize it. (Same with film companies and grain – it was undesirable, not retro!) I'm not saying this means your aesthetic judgement is wrong or anything like that, just ... that's clearly the mechanism behind it. Someone without that cultural baggage is probably going to prefer the more correctly proportioned photo, all else being equal.

Sorry for being a little prickly here. But new lenses really are better! They're engineering marvels.

Now – for most people, taking photos that are going to be compressed (lossy) and shared online, and viewed on laptop or cell phone screens – can you really tell the difference between an old metal Nikon and a new Z series lens? Especially after distortion and tint correction in Photoshop? I think that is a much better question, and a much better argument in favor of eBaying old lenses. But again, it's an issue of choosing the right tool for the job. For big prints, you probably want the sharper, less distorted, less tinted lens. (But who among us routinely makes big prints? Not I.)
I got 15 cheeses from FR a few days ago (all French cheeses from the vicinity of Blois) and it had 100% of them wrong. Cheese 16 was a cheddar and it categorised that as Comte, but now I see here that it only recognises French ones? I do like the idea though; my wife can recognise many on sight and smell but I am more of a barbarian and know practically nothing about these except that I like or not like; it would be a handy app for me anyway if it performed better.
The number of people who will share when you appeal to woke ideology + those who will hate share in order to ridicule any such instance = more engagement.
It's not a market. There's no way for parents to make an informed choice, no way to opt out, no way for the state to opt out of serving as a backup.

Also, massively inefficient in terms of minivan miles per pupil per day.
2000+ people using the google drive? Yikes!!

This doesn't answer your question but my Gdrive is a mess and I'm only one person. Typically I download the the contents on an annual basis in zip files, extract them to a Month/Year named folder on a portable drive and start fresh with a clean Gdrive until the next time it gets out of hand.

I would think Downloading first then using parsing tools locally would make things much easier to organize than doing it through Googles front end.

After thinking a bit more about it, what you probably need to do is make a requirement for all internal emails to be CC'd to a central address then use that address to download and or synchronize itself to an offline drive where perma links can be issued.
Can't you replace the desktop environment anymore? I remember there used to be explorer replacements and Microsoft even told you how to go back to progman.exe.
Compared to fusion, the better play is in space-based powersats and off-planet computation. BTC on cubesats. Then what will they complain about?
You can use a bit more logic than that.
Very cool.

We're designing an open source automations engine for Kubernetes ("Zapier/IFTTT for devops") and have thought about adding a UI for automating stuff visually. So far, simple YAML configurations have won out and we're still debating the benefits of a UI.

Does anyone have experience using tools like this at scale or for technical domains? (E.g. devops.) Would love to hear a convincing case why a UI is better than YAML. You can see the configuration we currently offer at http://robusta.dev/
In short, it's a theorem proving that quantum randomness can not be the result of local hidden variables.

That is, quantum randomness is distinguishable from some hypothetical hissen classical processes we've yet to discover.

It's one of the big "well, shit"-moments for the early 20th century quantum skeptics like Einstein.
In this thread: people with zero knowledge who can cut costs drastically without impacting the service (that they have never used and don't understand).
Depends entirely on the context, ie. what's the scope of `fullname`.

If this is a variable in a 20LOC func, f is completely sufficient, easier to type, easier to read.

In the other extreme, names can also be too meaningful: ´ThingMessageRelayAdministratorMiddlewareComposer` or `storage_access_administrator_storageshelf_listview` are jacked full of meaning, and about as useful as a hammer without a handle.
Covid-19 breakthrough data
This might be ideal for side roads leading to a few houses but if it's major parts of a town aren't you just move the cost of roads somewhere else?

i.e. "I hope you can afford a truck, SUV, or constant repairs to your suspensions/tires"
Entirely fair comment, especially considering the night sky-less city experience will be a subset of "urban":

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/urban-and-rural-populatio...
> the author of the article uses the term URL a few times

Just once, in reference to the domain name, which does in turn link to a URL.

> Curious for an "internet historian".

Where do the authors claim to be internet historians?

More striking for me was the idea that the webpage was in any way advanced for its time. That's certainly not the case. Their Higher Source home page had a much stronger design aesthetic, albeit now incredible dated looking, but even then I can think of far more sophisticated examples from that period.
I've been on 11 now for a few months as part of the preview program. I'm happy with it. I like the Windows 11 interface because it's cleaner and nicer looking. I built Serenity OS in WSL2 with Ubuntu installed yesterday and it launched in QEMU without problem. I have Windows 10 running in a VMWare VM if I need it for some reason.

That said, I can't really think of a reason a 10 user would upgrade. It's my impression that it's primarily for new machines. On the other hand, Microsoft may starting building improvements to 11 that won't make it to 10, which is why I upgraded.
,,,says somebody who hasn't experienced any deep emotion in years? Other than mild internet irritation followed by sarcastic commenting, which doesn't count.
The thing holding me back from the win11 upgrade is turning on my TPM. Not a fan.
That's true but aren't the feds already able to request that as metadata?
What about Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?
We also made a joke about kids in Waco only having two options on what to do for the weekend: North or South. Dallas or Austin.
Funny, that. In my psychology 101 class, I was thought that random and intermittent rewards work better for conditioning behaviour than consistent rewards.

So in a way, the inconsistency might've pulled more people in.
Yes, it can be considered unfair but life is not fair or unfair by itself, it's just life.

As an employer I would like to know who I am hiring and their history, good or bad. I have absolutely no problem hiring an ex-convict, but I care what is the crime and what position would make it not eligible - for example I would hire a thief, but not as a warehouse manager. In fact, not knowing about a potential problem is a bigger problem than "being unfair". I believe in redemption, but not in "born again".
Who is Danielle Conway? Google links me to some lawyer.
It's his hobby project that he turned into this, it runs completely by his philosophy, and it's decent money for the country he's in. I think he's won.
IMO, land tax usually refers to a Georgist land value tax. That certainly would increase taxes for underdeveloped, large plots.

I do wonder though if it's fair to expect people who live in high-density areas to pay for the lifestyle of people who want to get away from society. I wish we could have a true land tax that's fairly high and identical regardless where the land is. Sprawl has a lot of negative externalities; financial for city and states as well as environmental.
Even at the time it's not a super convincing statement. They talk like the 'Next Level' is coming soon and say at the end: "The true meaning of 'suicide' is to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered."
There is a huge difference between forever and 7 days of inactivity.
This is in a large part because of the fact that salaries are paid with "license payers' money" and the scrutiny that comes with this.
This is one of the least surprising TLDs I've seen.
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Well yes, that's one reason it probably isn't being raised. But if you could let the people know that "hey, this is going directly into fixing the roads, and your property tax will only go up $8 per month to afford it, otherwise your roads will stay shitty", I think most people could be convinced to go along with it.
As far as I can tell, the city I live in isn’t substantially subsidizing the towns and suburbs nearby, isn’t paying for their roads, bridges, and snow removal, and surely isn’t doing that for the ones 30 miles away in another state entirely.
Developing countries are more likely to ban crypto mining because they subsidize electricity prices. Economically it just doesn’t make sense for them, though one could easily argue that their utility pricing is designed to be gamed in the first place. Developed countries are much less likely to ban crypto mining because they charge market rates (or more) for electricity. Russia, ironically, fits more into the former rather than latter category, so they might just ban crypto mining as a pragmatic concern.
It does not have to be that different, Internet is a lot more than an archive, but it includes that capability.
History has shown that newer releases don't equate to direct upgrades.
He also wrote a good book on Autism called Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire
How to introduce opaque bloat to one of the best sites on the whole Internet.
There are a couple good ideas in the article my favorite is:

"As a town we are essentially a fixed plot of land cultivating a crop of buildings which we tax to fund our [town]."

But myopic statements like "We can’t raise our property taxes, and we can’t raise any of the other taxes to make up for the difference." just strike at the heart of American self defeating ideologies.

Also the statement "By being incorporated, our town is essentially a corporation where the citizens are the investors and stakeholders in the business that is Galesburg Inc." is deeply misinformed. It's like saying "We have some strawberry jam so we should us it to hold open this door because it's a jam."
Can you really drive on those at high speeds, is it dangerous?
There's a few short blocks in NYC that are still cobblestone and even at 30mph it sucks.
Can you claim an exemption for traveling for work? Maybe your ‘clients’ are really on the coast of France, in the Tyrol, or northern Sardinia.
‘I Was Not Whole’: Why a Grandfather Went Back to College
> protecting the public

Are you serious? This isn't high on their agenda at all.

> surely there's tech people whose job is to explain this to politicians

You have a very, very optimistic view of the world. If the government needs to get a consultant, they'll just find one who agrees with them.
Azure is vastly bigger than VS Code and GitHub. In my opinion the monetization needed for a hard carry would risk their popularity. There is potential for interesting synergies but there has always been potential, just ask Ray Ozzie how that went.
The power law - how venture capital ate the stock market
Seems to me its the people in the government who are widely responsible for child abuse.

Just ask Prince Andrew.
Perhaps the most appropriate term would be fault-tolerant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_tolerance
If the constant scams in cryptocurrency space show anything it's that they trust each other way too much. "Trust less" is a sort of aesthetic pose more than anything
Righto, it was "the medias" fault, not the government running the country for 10+ years.

It is in Tory DNA to be authoritarian, the pandemic was simply an opportunity to act on those impulses. While laughing about it from No. 10 (see Cummings, the parties, et al).

The UK is barely-democratic. All key decisions are controlled by Westminster and number 10. The rights under devolution for Scotland and Wales (such as they are) are "lent" and can be taken back.

Real democracies have regional federated governments with real powers to set taxes etc. The UK is a bureaucratic monolith with almost 70 million people controlled by one office in Westminster.

I think only France has a similar centralization of power.
Even urbanites have been known to lose themselves on Hampstead Heath or in Central Park.
Reminded me of the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Shop_sketch
Off topic.

Why aren't content access permissions for extensions domain based?

You either have to grant access to all sites, grant access to a predefined list of sites, or not install the extension.

I want certain extensions to only have access to certain sites that I get to decide because it is my computer.
Folders are so common still in part because many of us want them to the point that both Fastmail and Gmail lets you use tags in ways that behaves almost entirely like folders, including a hierarchy.

I'd never consider an e-mail system (or a filesystem) that doesn't allow me to at least very closely approximate that structure.
Look at the examples given in your own article - they aren't going to translate to this situation. They're talking about contracts involving unique items where simply cancelling the contract can't resolve it. If you buy something and what turns up isn't what you want you can just return it.
“adding a new class, catastrophic forgetting, and retraining” is … exactly true for DNNs.
Sarcasm, as if switching from Microsoft to Nintendo was any better.
"Bitcoin’s value isn’t coupled to energy."

Sorry, but it is?

"The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending
resources to add gold to circulation. In our case, it is CPU time and electricity that is expended."
I can't talk about others, but for me, the number one reason is the UI. If I could be 100% sure that updating to a newer version would keep my UI just the way I know it, and that no workflow is going to be broken, I would probably update as soon as possible. I still do that with a lot of other software. On the contrary, Windows is very fond of changing everything whenever they can, and it becomes tiresome fast. For example, several versions ago (it started with Vista, I think), someone decided that updating the file association info and the commands associated with each file type could no longer be accessed from the file explorer. Instead, you need to access the registry. Cue the myriad of different small tools, each with a slightly different and possibly incomplete behaviour.

It's very telling that extensions like OpenShell and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker are so common. Also, I'm still salty at the removal of the Windows Classic theme and of the detailed. I use WindowBlinds as a patch of sorts, but there is still a lot of customisation missing. Customisation that used to be available in older Windows.
The case study would be that unless you are more popular than Hacker News and Lichess by more than a magnitude, you probably doesn’t need K8s?
As long as the release is still supported by MS, what’s the problem? I use Windows for a very narrow use case: run games. I never interact with windows itself and the software it ships with beyond the most basic system maintenance, so there’s a very low chance that I’ll benefit noticeably from an upgrade. However, there’s a good chance that some games won’t run as well or not yet until more people upgrade and the kinks get worked out. It’s perfectly reasonable to delay your upgrade by as long as MS still supports 10.
Don't forget to promote chopping off everyone's hands.

I hear some
ultra-right-wing people might be typing their nonsense with their hands. So we should make sure no one has hands, that'll get em.

~ Also, this list of US news vendors' articles against e2ee is kinda evidence that it's not just the UK going on a campaign.
There is a balance between two good things: (1) understandable names and (2) compact code that fits on the screen and avoids excessive line breaks. As opposed to DesignPatterns style names I often like names like FunctionThatThrows. I love writing tests where the name of the function says outright what the test does, even if the test name is 40 characters long (not like you're going to type it again!)

People get in a lot of trouble when they try to write descriptive names for everything.

It was one of the most interesting things in the Lenat/Guha book on Cyc that people get fooled by labels that look like natural language. If you really have a database of unique concepts and try to attach meaningful labels you are going to have an increasingly hard time when n goes past 1,000,000. Wikipedia does about as well as can be done. There's something to say about lowering your cognitive load and using names like "that", for instance

return this.add(that)
Thanks, I learned something (record and replay programs in GDB! )
No, that's what a Garden Of Eden state is and they are extremely different from the configuration for this theorem. A Garden of Eden state at time t has no possible states before time t - there is nothing that could have produced it. It can only be reached by starting with GoL set to it, it has no past - only a future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden_(cellular_autom...

Conway's theorem asks whether there is a self-replicating pattern whose only ancestor is itself. By induction, this also means its only predecessor is also itself. The states that satisfy this theorem have infinite past and future states that all contain the same specific pattern.
It's true that they don't care about pirating any more, but I think it's more because the vast majority of Windows revenue comes from OEM's. Certainly getting more users on the latest version is more important to them.

Unactivated Windows 10 shows a barely-perceptible 'Activate Windows' overlay in the bottom corner, and doesn't let you change the wallpaper. Big whoop.
Because gender is a made up thing informed by social norms. Not all societies abide the gender binary. Gender studies are a sociological study because there is no gender without some social structure enforcing it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Bugis_society

Go learn in some depth of “woke” ideology before getting fired up online about it. Learn it from “woke” people and talk with them and take it seriously and maybe next time you might bring some critical thought to the table instead of the same rote “woke people bad and anti-science” drivel.
"great cheeses" is rather subjective...
Wikipedia (and my personally biased experience confirms) states who has got the most cheese variety:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_cheeses

I would argue that it is more probable to find more "great cheeses" where you have many different varieties.
Start charging $20k property tax and you'll probably accelerate the decline of Galesburg as people scramble to relocate to more affordable areas.
SGU was really interested in who had a crush on whom, who was a bad husband/wife, who had degenerative diseases, and who was cheating with whom.

I wanted to see Stargate-related and exploration-related things.
First, apologies, yes, I was clearly over-generalizing from what you wrote.

And to be very clear, I am addressing a deep pet peeve of mine, which is related to the topic but not necessarily a direct descendant.

Your post uses Apple as an example of how a company prioritizes cost/pricing decisions, and suggests that this, if applied to Galesburg, might allow them to fix their budget.

Which is not exactly what I was responding to.
Thank you for the feedback! This is definitely something I have yet to overcome. A few users asked for features that will allow Brew to head in this direction. I'm exploring solutions, and might even introduce a Pioneer.app like program, but for artists.

On the scalability: I'm a big fan of not overcomplicating things early on. However, I'm planning to build a feature that lets you select a daily/weekly preference so you simply get a summary of what was added that day/week. I'm also planning on auto-tagging genres based on the track previews using essentia.js, so I don't have to spam metal heads with EDM daily. Lots of room for improvement, but waiting for it to become a problem first.
If the "nearest city" includes the edge of the suburbs, then perhaps. But there's a whole lot of sprawl in the US that has smeared the population across the landscape, with corresponding strip malls that have blazing lights 24/7.

There are a lot of hot spots on this map:

* https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

For the US, one-third of the population lives in coastal counties:

* https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/07/millions-of-a...

Two-thirds of the US population lives within 100mi (160km) of the border:

* https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
If you have a stake in cryptocurrencies, you share part of the responsibility to make this possible.
> people really don't trust each other

Not even that. A large majority of Bitcoin holders actually store 'their' Bitcoin in exchanges (who are known to be completely untrustworthy). Binance's cold wallet is actually the largest single holder of Bitcoin. It's just a get rich quick scheme
In the case of Windows 11, it is not feature complete - there are things in 10 not in 11. Additionally, hardware support is different, and if you have some things that cannot go to 11, why take anything to 11 and have an inconsistent set of devices? 10 is still fully supported.

In the case of macOS 10.14, it has 32-bit support and .15 doesn't. macOS also has gotten increasingly user and developer hostile every release (my opinion, of course).

In the case of iPadOS 15, in my opinion it entirely broke multitasking and I wish I could go back.

Some Linux users are still suffering from the "upgrade" to systemd.

In general I have found over the last decade that OS "upgrades" change things, break things, cause regressions and make my life unhappy. I wouldn't mind so much if it was once every 3-5 years but this annual cycle of breaking and changing things is tiresome to me.
Netherlands? Germany (1 border) or France (2 borders) are fine. NL (I am from there but moved away a long time ago for this and other reasons) is more of an exception than a rule I would say.
Thanks for catching! Will take a look & fix
I got a discrete TPM for my desktop. This way I can take it with me or move it to a new machine if I want.
I work in a tenure based field (academia) and years of exp are the main ingredient in your payscale.
Most people buy Bitcoin on exchanges. That negates trustlessness
Sure, but quantity does not equal to quality.
This will sound off-topic. Not being snarky, but genuinely curious about answers:

How do you ensure equality of opportunity to all students everywhere if the quality of education they receive is tied to how wealthy their town is?

Surely, there can be a better answer for small towns.