skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really contradicts my own experience, with both Sony and Nikon RAWs, as I see no difference in highlights/darks recovery with my photos. Thing is, Darktable is super technical unlike Lightroom or most commercial software, and hides very little from the user, so it's fairly demanding to user's knowledge. Just like processing in Photoshop that Lightroom doesn't replace for all cases because LR is more oriented towards magic.

What I like about Darktable is vastly superior color uniformity and handling, and its tone equalizer module that allows for visual zoning control; it replaces most 3rd party plugins for Photoshop. PS really feels more and more outdated at this point for the de facto most popular software for photo manipulation, since it doesn't include modern tools and you have to construct massive workarounds or buy additional plugins.

What I dislike about Darktable is lack of persistent masking; currently all masks are generated by previous modules in the pixelpipe, so going back in editing can alter the mask.
The submitted title was "Tell HN: Brave doesn't want you to use a VPN". Then the submitter changed it to "[Ignore this]".

Submitters: please don't do either of those things! Both are against the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I have actually been trying to get into Twitter but it is such a toxic cesspool I can't do it. Trying to start the day reading Twitter is such a massive negative.

It is literally a platform for recreational outrage and recreational topic anger at this point.

I don't have the time to curate who I follow to the level needed when the toxicity is so prevalent.
Are you sure you're not just experiencing a bit of Baader–Meinhof?
The wonderful thing is that since Blender is totally scriptable in Python, and Python is the lingua franca of machine learning, you can seamlessly and efficiently use Blender to do all kinds of cool things with machine learning and AI!

Both creating ML-enhanced content creation and editing tools of course, but also synthesizing images, videos, 2D and 3D content for ML training.

For example, you can use using GPU-accelerated ray tracing and procedural character animation in photorealistic environments to train body tracking and pose estimation networks, since you get the precise "ground truth" and pixel-perfect semantic segmentation for free without enlisting Mechanical Turk to tediously and unreliably annotate millions of video frames.

And you can use randomization and retexturing to plug in different body types, skin tones, hair styles, clothing, etc, to train it to work with diverse sets of people, in a wide range of environments, camera angles, and lighting conditions.

BlenderAI : Artificial Intelligence in Blender:

https://download.blender.org/documentation/bc2008/BlenderAI....

Blender for AI Devs, pt. 1: Overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtRxC9HPGd0

Blender pipeline to generate images for deep learning (BlenderProc) - Maximilian Denninger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AvY_iS6xQA

>Using blender to generate realistic images for ML training:

>This is a two parts talk. It is based on the papers "3D Scene Reconstruction from a Single Viewport" presented at ECCV 2020 and the "BlenderProc" paper. The speaker is the main author of both papers. This is the recording of part 2.

>Recording of part 1:

https://youtu.be/cGGm3Vjdp8s

>References to everything covered in the talk:

https://www.reddit.com/r/2D3DAI/comments/jbkjdy/references_f...

>Lecture abstract: We present BlenderProc, which is a modular procedural pipeline, helping in generating real looking images for the training of convolutional neural networks. These can be used in a variety of use cases including segmentation, depth, normal and pose estimation and many others. A key feature of our extension of blender is the simple to use modular pipeline, which was designed to be easily extendable. By offering standard modules, which cover a variety of scenarios, we provide a starting point on which new modules can be created.

>arxiv:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01911

>git:

https://github.com/DLR-RM/BlenderProc
It's the same in California. The problem is that the delivery charges are also calculated per kWh (so, the cost of delivering a single unit of electricity to your house). But what happens when the net electricity delivered is zero?

You could argue that customers should be charged for both the electricity delivered to their house and the electricity taken away from their house, since they are using the grid and other expensive infrastructure for both. However you are now disincentivising people from installing solar and giving back their excess power.
> I have tried and, dude, my group will just not change from their pre-installed messaging apps, except for 2 of them. They don't care that it's more secure (arguably) or that you can pull it up on your computer (my main reason for using it), they just have no interest.

How close is your group? It's probably feasible to convince best friends and family to switch, but if your group contains a lot of less close friends and acquaintances, I doubt it's possible for one person to initiate a switch.

Also, it helps if you're willing to be a bit difficult, and refuse to continue to use the old app. But that only works with people who are close enough to care about communicating with you.
Feels like Yahoo in the days it realized it was losing the search arms race to Google and Microsoft. There was this uneasy sense of the underlying seismic shift and that the game had changed and you didn't have the best hand.
Integza's channel is fun, but he repeatedly does dangerous things. Please don't use him as a learning resource.

There's a great tech ingredients series on homemade rockets and motors -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiAlUojF3Wo&list=PLzrI14lOlS...

NAR also has some good resource pages -- https://www.nar.org/
True IBM PCs (up until the PC-AT, I believe) would also boot into BASIC if the floppy drive was empty and there was no fixed disk. In fact, in early versions of PC-DOS, all the basic command did was bootstrap the ROM BASIC, so it didn’t work on later clones.
Agreed. Having commands for "the DOS" (in the generic sense of a disk operating system) commingled with BASIC was the norm for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit machines. The PC was definitely the oddball when it came to having a separate DOS command line and BASIC interpreter.

ROM BASIC was available on IBM PCs but clones typically didn't have it.
Since covid started, I've been consciously avoiding the comments of anything political or covid-related, and I've not noticed any change in tone or constructive criticism. Dunning-Kruger i guess?

As an aside, I also stop reading after "I think it's funny..." or "Interesting that..." because it's usually something very passive-aggressive
Well the book is separate from the medium, and even just in paper/softcover there are possibly multiple editions available, some with better printing than others. Indian editions are typically cheaper and printed on inferior paper. Regardless I think the common understanding is that the content of the book should be reviewed, not its incidental presentation.
I’m tired of all these text messaging silos. Email is ubiquitous because no one owns it. RCS can’t come fast enough.
I wonder if a minimal location change rate or policy would work? If if your coordinates don’t change often enough then you get rate limited gradually down to a HughesNet rate. Want mobility? Then it’s 1/10th the speed while you’re outside your home region. Stay in a region long enough and you get the worst rates or a change of region. Oh and charge differently for different regions.
Possibly right but in an ideal world for maximum welfare, prices should signal costs or externalities.
To be fair, the herd immunity idea was floated around quite early in beginning of the pandemic. But it was quickly thrown out when governments saw the infection rates and deaths spike up. Ever since, vaccination has been the dominant (hammer) solution for the virus. (Vaccination) Has been the background track for this pandemic and still is to date. Natural immunity is only coming back because Omicron is not as deadly as the previous strains. It was never an option before.
Are there a lot of examples of this? In general when Trump said the right thing it seems like the media didn't go too far overboard. The most obvious example was about vaccination itself. While people were worried that he would push out a vaccine that wasn't ready, people were on board with vaccination.

That said, I do think that Trump's brand was largely about division on social issues. So to that extent he often put at the forefront of his narratives positions that forced you to take a side. E.g., should Kaepernick be fired or not. Etc...
Really, in deregulated markets, a similar concept should apply to wind/solar generators. They should be forced to guarantee 100% reliable production, which means that they are responsible for the batteries or gas plants as well.

Then they won't get to financially destabilize the reliable power producers by shifting the costs of having a plant sitting around idle for most of the year to some other org that has to balance the books.
That is interesting, because presumably self-driving cars, like all cars, are more dangerous to pedestrians than (that or other) vehicle occupants.
We can solve the challenges with modern development of containerized applications in Kubernetes at https://codezero.io, greatly eliminating the hidden cost. Alas, physical containers - that's a hardware problem....
I haven't noticed such a change. The comments are generally polite, even if often critical.
Haha!

I would have bought "Veganize.It" if it was available. EatKind.co is short and easy to remember. Which was important to me. Also, anyone who has decided to cut down or eliminate meat and dairy would do it some kind reason. They are my target market. Negative trollers won't really use this anyway.
There's Modern, and then there's modern.
I use SingleFileZ for saving the bookmark, and then run it through recoll-we to search them. The search is not perfect, but it has augmented my memory several times already.
The pre-order queue might not be a thing anymore. At least for me, I ordered the antenna in January 2022 and got it the same month.
I remember seeing either Mythbusters or TopGear episode where they tested this.
I ran our satellite internet service out of Iraq when I was deployed there* - I think it was HughesNet or Bently Walker. It was one of the only ways to get unfiltered open source internet at the time, which was a requirement for our mission, and a nice bonus for us in general. Compared to no internet, satellite internet is pretty good. Compared to anything else? Take anything else.

*To be fair this was also like, 10 years ago now, and Iraq sucked anyway - but I'm pretty sure bandwidth needs for general internet usage haven't gotten any lighter since then so I suspect the performance is just as atrocious as I remember.
The Zimbardo experiment, at least, has actually been falsified, so I don't think it's right to call it unfalsifiable.
Maybe? PTFE (Teflon) has a melting point around 325 °C; this plastic could be higher. The point of my comment was to qualify what the person above me stated.
Tennessee.
I think you’re both right. Vitalik is not a shill; his clarification is useful. And there are, objectively, lots of crypto shills around, engaging in pump and dump etc. I don’t think the GP was necessarily saying that all crypto people are shills.
It isn't even allowed to put jake brakes on trucks here, the model would not be certified as the noise emission limits have to be adhered at all times during the operation of the vehicle.
The engine itself has no braking due to the lack of the variable air-intake that gasoline engines have that would otherwise starve the engine for air especially when downshifting and closing the throttle.

Specifically on non-big-rigs, modern diesel cars and pickups create engine braking using a small turbo and tighten the spline or in some cases have an exhaust feedback baffle or flap, varies with year/model. Big rigs still use jake-brakes.
> Vim Vixen plugin for Firefox

These days, on Firefox, Tridactyl is the way to go for me.
No they used "only" as in "not very long". The question is asking how can you say it's not very long when the covid vaccination lasts less than a year in comparison
> Zuckerberg got lucky and then executed brilliantly, transitioned from nerd hacker to CEO amazingly well. He deserves a lot of credit for that.

I used to work for an extremely unfashionable website that nevertheless was one of the most visited on the web (even though you'd probably be surprised by that if you knew the site) and my experience there was that leadership tried to replicate that success with dozens of other products and never once was able to do it. So much of what made the original site successful was timing and luck.
People have seen this net metering problem coming from far off. I wrote a very unpolished undergrad thesis on this a while ago. Some standout articles from back then showed how net metering leads to a positive feedback of solar adoption [1] because of how rates are structured throughout this country (and the world for that matter), and it was time to consider modifying the rate setting process [2]. My conclusion was that net metering ends up being a regressive tax on those who can't afford the upfront capital to install solar themselves.

It's been a while since I looked at residential solar tariffs, but there were a lot of ingenious solutions being proposed to deal with the downsides of net metering and poorly set feed-in tariff rates. Minnesota's Value of Solar tariff [3] is the one that comes to mind as being pretty clever.

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10406...

[3]: https://www.mnseia.org/value-solar
I had fears of that when we moved into our house surrounded not only by woods, but wetlands and farm fields. We were pleasantly surprised how little problems we've had from creatures. We do see animals of all kinds wandering on the property - deer, squirrels, rabbits, racoons, opossum, coyotes, owls, hawks, eagles... you name it. The tracks in the winter are even more evidence that we are surrounded by wildlife. But they honestly aren't a problem. They leave the home alone. We have had one mouse in our first year here. A few ants and flies last summer. Honestly, we had bigger problems in the city. My only guess is that there is such a strong natural ecosystem here that they simply don't need anything from our home, so they are just as happy to leave it to us humans.
Engines that massively polluted did.
Brakes without traction control are worse
Airbags without computers go off too often
Power steering driven by a pump and a belt was very inefficient, more fuel wasted
Weirdly you don't hear alarms going off much now, wonder if they're smarter somehow....
Cars are much more reliable these days

"in the 1960s and 1970s, the typical car reached its end of life around 100,000 miles (160,000 km), but due to manufacturing improvements in the 2000s, such as tighter tolerances and better anti-corrosion coatings, the typical car lasts closer to 200,000 miles (320,000 km)"

Not sure why you think a load of extra moving parts is going to be more reliable than some solid state electronics.
Firefox only matches the page title and the URL, plus the search box doesn't allow querying by time. Those are the two most common things I need from my bookmark storage.
Its very cool, technically.

My biggest issue with a lot of the defi lending stuff is that it attempts to mix the on-chain concept of immutable trust, with the human and legal-level trust necessary to facilitate lending. When I borrow money from a bank, its being lent to a person, who can be tracked down, brought to court, assets repossessed, and all of this while being horrific for the person going through it, is necessary to increase the probability of loan repayment. Increasing the probability of loan repayment is directly correlative with increasing the amount of money capable of being lent out, and the frequency of loans.

In other words; the US financial system actually consists of two inextricable systems: the financial system, and the legal system. One system is on the ledger, the other isn't.

The way some lending platforms have gotten around this is to require 100% collateralization of the loan amount, with in-kind assets. There's some mildly interesting reasons why this is useful, primarily tax related, but it certainly looks quite different from how most loans work in traditional finance systems; examples, a SoFi personal loan is of-course not 100% collateralized; a mortgage is more-or-less a 100% collateralized loan but not with in-kind assets; for very high-wealth borrowers you oftentimes see loans that are structured like personal loans but 100% collateralized against physical assets the individual owns (eg house) or corporate shares; but "I'll give you $100, you give me $100, and I'll pay you back $105 in a year" just isn't common.

To be clear: I think on-chain verification of off-chain trust/identities in web3 will happen eventually. It'll piss off a lot of crypto die-hards. It'll lead to a lot of anti-crypto chads screaming about "whats the point"; and they have a valid argument. But when viewed through the lens of a value addition which enables greater access to more traditional financial vehicles and regulation, without compromising the original promise of more equitable access to financial systems, it could be a best case of both worlds.

In other words; it'd be like having access to the core American ACH system, but global, but maybe some institutions won't do business with you (or your wallet) unless that wallet has a verified real identity tied to it. You can still transact with people who don't require such a verification; which is more than you can say for the current system, and has been the source of tremendous socioeconomic hardship for massive portions of the world.
Ever try to convince an exchange or hosted wallet to give you back your money when it thinks otherwise?
Exactly. I feel like there are people who see people being shut down, but it hasn't happened in any venue I'm familiar with.
This one's a bit disturbing.

Problem words: lower the bar

Suggested Alternatives: simplify, inclusive, make more accessible
Cool article, but this is literally the first chapter of any Econ 101 textbook. Nothing new or groundbreaking is happening in California.
The Fb home feed is becoming a cesspool of brag photos disguised at wanting to share their daily lives with friends and family.

There are better ways to do that than having 500 friends on your list and hoping someone would see it and press like. It feels a bit disgusting now that people actually use it more like their Instagram feed
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN. You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and we ban that sort of account. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

A post like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135338 is particularly bad and will get you banned here if you do it again, so please don't do it again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
You really think that owner operators repair their own trucks? That doesn't make any economic sense. This is not a hobby, they need to drive to make money not to play truck repairman.

I'm always astonished how US Americans try to justify poor engineering with "advantage of simplicity". It's like arguing that you want to program using punch cards because that makes you feel closer to the machine and you have a "physical" copy of your programs.
> The cakewalk was a pre-Civil War dance performed by enslaved people, and the winner of which would be given a cake. This is the original source for the phrases “takes the cake” and “cakewalk.” Because of this history, this word and phrase should be avoided.

> Brown bags trace back to the “brown paper bag test,” which was traditionally used to judge skin color by certain African-American sororities and fraternities. References to a “brown bag” when we are really referencing a get-together over lunch surfaces an ugly period of American history that can alienate and offend people.

> (no can do) What might seem like a folksy, abbreviated version of “I can’t do it” is actually an imitation of Chinese Pidgin English. The phrase dates from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries, an era when Western attitudes towards the Chinese were markedly racist.

> Using the word “pow wow” is cultural misappropriation, and ultimately racist.

> Referring to something as your spirit animal is cultural appropriation.

Some of these are pretty wild.
Dell went public in the 80's, was bought out by its founder in the early 10's, and then did a reverse merger with vmware to go public once again a few years later.
Unrealistic, arbitrary delivery timelines, so that someone looks good on their performance review, leads to cutting corners in development, testing and finally accepting non-showstopper defects as release-ready. Oh, and I don't think teams working in AGILE helps, unless every team is coordinated with others so that no one steps over each other's feet (I've unluckily not been able to see this work).

But this is not a modern problem. I saw this from when I started working in software 25 years ago.
For some of these words it's more about context.

You can call your grandfather like you wish. You can also call stuff black.
>> These connectors are dumb, and I can't think of a good reason they exist. There are ways SpaceX could improve networking hardware, but proprietary non-standard connectors ain't one of 'em.

Did he ever think they might be weather proof? Looks like some rubber seals on those connectors. You know, since the dish is outdoors and has to deal with rain, sleet, or snow. I certainly wouldn't put a standard RJ45 on it.

I'd like to have Starlink at my condo, do they care if I split costs with a few neighbors? Do they have group plans? It seems like having higher usage from a single terminal would be better for them vs having multiple terminals.
Buddy, I think you should smoke some weed. It might expand your universe a little. I think you are suffering from tiny universe syndrome.
It could also be because trucks drive efficiently with little speed variations, at speeds of high fuel efficiency, 80-90 km/h. Drag is actually much more complicated than that, the air being is turbulent.
That's how I feel too but at least I'm disappointed in myself for that which manages to help me feel that I'm better then you which in turns makes me feel just a bit better about me. So, thanks.
Diesel engines themselves have no engine braking. Each personal vehicle implementation of diesel engines have worked around this using different techniques. The most common outside of big-rigs is a turbo that tightens a spline or closes a feedback baffle.

To the operator of the vehicle it will appear there is engine braking on modern diesel engines. Older pickups and cars have no engine braking.
Competing shouldn't mean writing a script though. To me competing implies doing it with sportsmanship.
Yeah I'm sure the 15% tax floor announced by Biden will just be one funny joke that will never happen.
Is there perhaps a guide on your website that could detail the steps involved to get an ASN and ipv6 up and running? Also could you explain the free /48 included? Thanks.