skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure cameras don’t do that?

I honestly do not know. They definitely do for still photos—Nikon has had chromatic aberration correction and lens distortion correction for quite a while, and it’s keyed to individual lenses.

If they aren’t doing that in video, I suspect it’s a pure horsepower limitation. Reading the data off the sensor, and applying the corrections in real-time while writing to card may be too computationally intensive or bandwidth-limited.
War, Inflation, Covid – CEOs' Optimism Is Dimming
Creating fake dialogue boxes and windows is nothing new, that has been around forever. Maybe using css to determine the os/browser and mimic each one’s style is the new concept. I’ll believe it when someone can show me a webpage that proves it live.
> Didn’t quite understand why this is news.

Because in Alberta the cost of electricity has essentially doubled in the past 4-6 months (my own cost of electricity went from about $70 a month to $130), and folks who were previously living on the edge are now being pushed over, hence the article noting that "community advocates [are] worried the number of Calgarians facing this scenario will increase, and many don't know what a load limiter is."

Local news stories require understanding the local context.
It's free for now, will see how it goes.
Apple services incl. Maps, App Store and iCloud go DOWN in major global outage
Every industry and every function (marketing, sales, manufacturing) has it's only jargon, slang or lingo.

Strictly everything in the word clouds has a meaning and its fairly specific. I'll be happy to translate if people think these are junk - they aren't.

This is the language of marketing. Missing were "market segment", "value proposition", "lead generation", "on-boarding", etc. But these all have particular meanings as much as "pointer", "functor" or "iterator" do in programming.

Now just as in technical fields, there's a thing known as a newbie who is "buzzword compliant" but not actually understanding jack. Less technical areas (sometimes marketing) will have more people who are buzzword compliant and who get away with never learning beyond that. But strictly you can't last long without "success" and that required grokking such terms effectively.

Programmers have the same level of jargon and slang as marketing people. And sometimes programmers use the terms without understanding them also.
This is the game changer that could turn cities into EV dominated spaces. Imagine if every convenience store had a rack of these out front. It would be even faster to get a charged EV than even to gas up an ICE car at the pump.

These are the things that start becoming possible if we let our idea of an EV move beyond a 4000lb automobile to move your maybe 200lb self. You would have to use a technician to service a car sized EV and swap out the batteries even if they dropped right out easily, just due to the to weight of them. An entire infrastructure that would have to be built just to move around 3800 unnecessary lbs anytime you wanted to go anywhere at all. Meanwhile, if people were merely happy with something the size of an e scooter, converting the population to EVs starts getting a lot simpler just in terms of the physics of it all, and simple low hanging fruit innovations like this are possible.
There is no need to include it, since that's the point of screen readers and all other client-side assistive software.

The problem is that in this page's case all of the decorative text like borders will be "read out" as well.
I'm a privacy lawyer that has worked on cookie consents for a number of commercial websites. Everything you said here is all too true. The real legal answer in a lot of cases is "Do what everyone else is doing. Don't be an outlier. Use industry tools because if there's a problem with an industry tool, they'll go after the tool and not its users."

The comments about cookies not being part of GDPR are grossly wrong. One of the early discussions in the privacy law community was how to handle the collision of the new consent requirements under GDPR with the fact that the ePrivacy Directive requires consent for cookies. Prior to GDPR, a large number of EU jurisdictions allowed for implicit consent through a variety of actions, like scrolling a page, or non-actions, like seeing a banner and not clicking "no". GDPR redefined consent and that's why cookie banners pop up.
Got it - you’re a great customer :)

Thanks again for your input here, very helpful.
You can get a refugee status without an ID.

If ID/passport were a requirement, it would make no sense whatsoever... considering that you're likely fleeing a government that wants to kill you.
These effectively boil down to ROI - it's tricky to quantify what return a tool will give, but its even harder to quantify the cost of switching over. At a big enough company, most will shudder at the thought of a massive migration without an equally passive payoff.
I don't see pricing on Floatplane. Lack of pricing is a non-starter.
I don't know about the latest versions of lightroom (I still use my perpetual license) but the one I have remains untouched by the icy tendrils of "A.I.", and my output is still worlds better than it
Why hasn't Tesla gotten into this sort of battery swap tech for their own cars yet?
Digitalocean spaces is $5 for 250 GB while Contabo offers the same for $2.49 / mo. I'm sure there are others too. I think DO also offers a free CDN with edge caching.

If not, just put it behind a cloudflare or amazon cloudfront proxy and you can stream unlimited videos very cheap (probably in 4k i guess). Also for most cases it works best to use the KISS <video controls> tag instead of any silly skins that make users think.

(1) https://contabo.com/en/object-storage/
How convenient that Patrick Leahy is retiring this year and won’t be on the hook for screwing his voter base.
Thanks for the insights! A related question, have you tried implementing “latent updates” of different IMGUI widgets based on whether their data was updated or not? I was kinda thinking how to avoid redrawing everything in a non-forms UI, like a node editor where each node is a graph, for example.
If you send me a government mandated form, and I scrible on it, you aren't liable for anything. The only potential concern is if the content is deployed through a framework like Wordpress that might add CSS.
> If you don't learn Calculus, and get decent grades doing so, you're not going to be able to get a Masters in Math or CS because you won't get accepted into the program.

> Grad schools are not political. Graduate acceptance is based on merit, not popularity.

I'm sorry, but this is hopelessly naive.

I entered Virginia Tech with enough AP credit to enter as a sophomore, and within one quarter I was a Junior. I finished my B.S.E.E. in 8 quarters with a 3.9+ GPA (I don't remember exactly what it was, but my diploma says Summa Cum Laude.) It took three calendar years because I did two six-month co-op stints at IBM during that time (this was back in the early 80s when IBM was still a cool place to be.) All that was not enough to get me in to MIT or Stanford as a grad student despite the fact that both had accepted me as an undergrad.

Then, when I was a masters student (at Virginia Tech) I served as the student representative on the admissions committee. I went on to a 13-year-long research career at JPL in what was essentially an academic position without teaching responsibilities. I made my living publishing papers, and by the numbers I was very good at it. At one point I was the most referenced CS researcher in all of NASA, and I held that title for many years after I stopped publishing. I've seen first-hand how the sausage is made. So I can tell you from first hand experience it is intensely political. That is one of the reasons that I quit. I realized that I was getting a lot more leverage out of playing politics than I was out of actually doing good technical work. I got very, very good at gaming the system, and I hated it, so I quit.

I got very, very good grades in all my math classes. In my entire career I have never once had to do an integral or solve a differential equation. By way of very stark contrast, I use my social skills every single day. Those were a lot harder to develop because there wasn't a class I could take. But they have proven vastly more useful in day to day life than math.

The biggest mistake I have ever made in my life is taking much too long to realize that the aphorism that "who you know is more important than what you know" is actually true.
That feels like you dodged a bullet based on how I experience using Teams vs Slack.
> last year, joined TikTok to show others how to live like they do

I don't think any further discussion is required
>A real commitment to a policy of free tertiary education would also expand the availability of trade schools not just universities.

This is part of the proposal of progressives. They always emphasized the freedom for a student to choose between trade school or community college, and then move on to a public 4 year school if they chose to do so.
Yeah the link is there with the text “subscription video platform”: https://instillvideo.com/

Took me a minute to find it again because their visited link color is the same as the text color
I tried to reply to another comment that was since deleted. It said something along the lines of:
>I don't get why Tesla would kill their battery-swapping while they are tackling other Hard Problems.

The practicality of battery swapping decreases exponentially as size and weight scale. The cost of building a battery swapping network for western-car-sized battery systems, even once solving the engineering elements (which are manageable), are likely a non-starter. Especially if the other principle technology rival is fast-charging stations.

How much added convenience is required to justify huge mechanical systems with many wear components and large maintenance costs over replacing a few charging cables every X months? Lots.
You see this in New York a lot too. The most popular delivery bikes use a swappable battery.
Because they would need to announce it first, spend 10 years talking about how it's right around the corner but never delivering, and then maybe they could deliver it.

We'll see these battery swaps right after FSD actually becomes L3.
considering everybody is talking about the decline of births, shouldn't we be paying her more?

I don't know if that's a serious question or not, but somebody's gotta square the difference.
Among other things, the senators stress that all government-imposed protection tools and takedown measures will go through a consultation process, where all stakeholders and the public are allowed to have their say.

If history is any indicator, the public can have their say, but that won't be who the government is listening to. That, or it will be the clusterfuck that was the FCC's public comment period on net neutrality. Hope always springs eternal for me that Senators and Congressfolk will act in good faith (EDIT: toward their constituents), but I'm also realistic in that they probably won't.

If one has the time, click the "facts and myths" link in the article[0]. Or as I like to call it "vague rebuttals, and the straw man arguments that they rebut".

[0] https://www.tillis.senate.gov/services/files/BBDBFA87-17CA-4...
> important was added for one reason only: laws in the US that require certain text to be in a given font-size. !important stops the cascade from changing it.

But it doesn't. !important begets more !importants.

Nice to hear the reasoning behind it, but it's a PITA and should never have been added.
> Especially when the law says it's illegal to deny service based on their cookie preference, but some services are literally impossible to provide without a cookie of some form.

To clarify what others are saying here - it is illegal under GDPR to deny service based on people opting out of providing PII in the cases where that PII is not needed for providing the service, not for refusing to accept cookies (although, sure, there can be some relation between these things).

If for example you were providing a service where you sent someone emails on their birthday with autogenerated Love from your AI Momma messages it would not be illegal for you to refuse to provide them access to your service if they opted out of you storing their email and birthday, because those two pieces of PII are needed for the service to work.

That said, most services do not need to store any PII for any length of time to work. Thus if a service says you can't read our medical advice column unless you allow us to store all this stuff we just hoovered up from your browser forever, that would be illegal. Because they don't need any of that stuff to show you the article they already have written and ready to go.
Very cool, thanks for making this! I'm curious if you have any plans to monetize the site, or at least cover your costs? I know the live sports data feeds are not that cheap!
Yeeeeah, that ship has sailed. Look up hypersonic missiles. China and the US have both tested them already, and there is basically no hopes of a counter measure that I'm aware of.
There would obviously be retaliation and a huge number of dead people on both sides. So.. No?

Possibly US would use your reasoning to erase Iraq from map, depending on who the current president is.
There's a reason all the FAANGO companies are are in Cambridge and that's because of MIT.
Just another way that it's incredibly expensive to be poor. Can't get cheap credit to pay for your leaking roof? That's fine, here's a usurious loan. Can't afford a new car? Okay, buy a cheap (well, not anymore...) used one that'll constantly break down and require repairs or replacement. Forget a bill was coming out and accidentally use your overdraft? That's fine, we'll just charge you a hefty fee for that. The list goes on and on...
Potentially yeah. The problem is that it is not just about creating accurate sounds but also often something unique (but not unreasonably unique) or even something that has a subtle call back in peoples memories to something else. The latter would be very hard for an AI to accomplish. But what might be interesting is if a proficient Foley artist could take a unique sound they had recorded and then input that base sound into some kind of AI based software which would then spit out tons of different versions for them to listen to. I would imagine the Foley artist could still do a much better job for the final piece tweaking the sound themselves but it might provide a quick way to get some inspiration on how to edit the audio.
Random, tangentially related thing I just remembered: FreeBSD used to provide its own firmware for (iirc MIPS-like) core used in very early Broadcom NICs. There also used to be a custom firmware for some Adaptec controllers, along with an assembler tool to compile it during kernel build.
Slower than I would like. But this wasn't a particularly important to our requirements. I would much rather they focus on allowing us to manage app config via code for example.
Yeah especially if you know that the competitor’s product is inherently worse than yours (OneWeb vs Starlink).
To really drain Putin’s resources, the EU should offer visa free immigration to any Russian citizen with a STEM college degree.
That's true, although a car passenger does have the ability to see forwards, warn the driver of a problem, and request to be let out immediately if feeling uncomfortable.
They did try it in 2013, but abandoned the idea: https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event
Two potential answers he left out:

- It ships/deploys next month and you'll find out then

- We've been shipping/using it since 2014 and you really should do your homework
> I don't believe you actually have a concrete solution that will eliminate massive inequality and human misery.

Sure don't. But I don't expect my ideas will exacerbate it.
Every tool can be abused and often are.

This is actually saying more about:

* Human leadership and lack thereof at your company

* Poor quality training or hiring

* Lack of process

All are related. And often the real answer is: stop working there and find a better job.
it's not programming, it's markup for a renderer. it's just a different skillset--people who fiddle with shaders in a blender GUI are better prepared to work with CSS than most programmers. i was great at css when i was 12 but wasn't a half-decent programmer until i was 25
The cookie consent stuff has always seemed straight forward to me, but maybe I've had it wrong this whole time. It does really say a lot that 95% of websites had a violation. I wish that we could make the GDPR entirely client-side.

Semi-related: my understanding is that it's impossible for American hosting companies to comply with GDPR (due to the CLOUD act).

If that's the case, and you're American/using an American host, is there any point in even trying to comply?
Ah, so they should blacklist things you don't like. Well, while they're at it, there's plenty of stuff out there I don't like so let's blacklist that as well. I'm fairly sure there are things out there which neither you nor I would want to blacklist but which should be banned according to others who don't care about our blacklists.

Maybe the current system works after all? Just don't visit those instances you dislike, this is what I do. Give people the option to choose for themselves whether they want to partake of material which you or I or my neighbour or his dog finds offending.
how about:

it doesn't solve a problem that we have.

if a tool that i am not using doesn't solve any real, urgent, important, serious or whatever problem, then most likely the cost to switch is going to be greater than the potential gain.

it is of course important to actually understand what the real problems are, instead of what they are imagined to be to avoid solving the wrong problems.

most real problems are measured in cost, lost revenue, reduced profit.

beyond that there are only a few more important reasons: user/developer satisfaction and security.

if your suggestion does not affect those then it's probably not important.

if there is something that makes developers happier, then they are probably already using it. (unless they work in a company with lots of red tape and the answer to the question in the headline is: because we we can't (for whatever reason.))

and i mention security separately, because while it is a real problem, it often doesn't affect revenue/profit (until something happens)

the point is, i don't ask why companies don't use something that i think would be better. you do you. but if you present me with a problem that you'd like me to solve then i'll tell you what i think you should change (and then i won't ask)
If you look at the original CSS spec, you wouldn't be surprised by smug overconfidence in its designers.
We have subscription escooters which seem tempting to me, but the costs never pencil out. They end up being as much as the scooter within a years time or so, plus you are on the hook if some major damage or theft happens. Whats the point of that then? Might as well look for someone who will let you finance an ebike and put it on your renters or homeowners insurance for protection at that rate.
Yeah, anyone who says GDPR is "easy" is just lying through their teeth. It really is folks who have not actually had to implement or try to implement anything.

The best is they claim (falsely) that you don't actually have to pop-up the consent dialogs. Not really true on almost any actual website that does anything anyone wants.
It’s not even that hard or expensive to offer 401k, health, life insurance in a startup. Been there, done that.
Why the Ruble Hasn’t Collapsed Yet
I've used gdb exclusively for over 10 years now (been working on Linux, worked on Windows prior to that). gdb may well be more powerful overall, but for common use cases (setting breakpoints, stepping in/out, examining values) I still miss the Visual Studio debugger. It's the only thing from Windows I miss.
We can start YouTube competitor with your enthusiasm alone and bypass all the T&C violations.
No, ukraine did not have the codes or any way to detonate the bombs otherwise. They were not functional and nukes are made to be extremely hard to detonate without the proper procedures. But most importantly, nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicules are enormously expensive to maintain. Ukraine is already a very poor country now, but there was absolutely no way it could have afforded to maintain a nuclear arsenal in the 1990s. And that's even if they didn't have to reverse engineer an arsenal that it did not even control.

I'll try to find a pretty good thread, written by a nuclear expert who was part of the 1994s negotiations, that went into greater details and explained why ukraine never had the capacity to keep the nukes or even do anything useful with them.
It's because it challenges a strongly held world view and is therefore very hard to swallow.
Having literally less than a handful of HDD manufacturers and few SSD manufactures creates risks for the West as much as it hammers Russia right now.
For a while I worked on a news application that depended on RSS, and a client needed their number of news sources radically increased for their international customer base. I discovered quite a lot of news sites around the world apparently still had a dusty server in a rack (or on a shelf) somewhere spewing out a feed, completely untouched for a decade+. You wouldn't find any links to it in the current UI, but there it was running on its cron job like a good little piece of software.

The problem was when the feed breaks, nobody remembers they had one in the first place...
Well, that's what they sell. Vimeo charges reasonably for transcoding and storing all these different versions of videos. YouTube does it for free to stifle competition and stay the only place advertisers can go if they want a captive audience (with TikTok and Facebook, both also free, being their only real competitors).

If I had to actually recommend a service it'd be Cloudflare Stream[0], which allows you to upload videos, CF transcodes them, and you get a link to a page with just the video player[1], and they offer options like only allowing embeds on certain origins and disabling/enabling MP4 downloads. The pricing is fairly reasonable as well at $1 per 1,000 watch minutes and $5 per 1,000 minutes of stored video.

0: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/

1: https://watch.videodelivery.net/b9d528d5eece459b80113823cefd...
The Swedish text in the image says it's what the producers (Arla) are also saying. Yeah, it's supremely moronic, what is going on? Are customers really boycotting them because of the images? Has there been social media outrage? (which is usually a few loud voices that sometimes should be ignored?) Is it PR-scared people in the company expecting a boycott or an outrage?

I really hope it's just some moronic PR people and not a significant part of society who are that dumb.
You know what I hate about CSS? Having to learn a bunch of "tricks."
That makes no sense. With new battery tech, it's typically the chargers that absorb the complexity, the load is just a load.

So the scooters should be able to handle the new batteries just fine, and it would be on the network operator to upgrade the charging kiosks accordingly. It'd be much easier to rolling-upgrade batteries in a swappable fleet than to call fixed-battery scooters into the shop and swap each one out, as well.
Who the heck WANTS to retire by 30. What a boring life left to live…
this idea raised $850M and failed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
And you? (common errors in capability building)