skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect if you do a wedding shoot with a 6mp interchangeable lens camera, some customers are rightly going to ask questions when you hand over the work...

Unless you're printing A3 pages, getting gigantic pictures, or cropping aggressively, D70s can still hold up pretty well [0].

> even lens systems get deprecated every 20-30 years too.

Nikon F mount is being deprecated in favor of Z because of mirrorless geometries, not because the lenses or the designs are inferior (given the geometry constraints). Many people still use their old lenses, or nifty fifties are still produced with stellar sharpness levels. I'm not entering into "N" or "L" category of lenses of their respective mounts. Not all of them are post 2000 designs, or redesigns, and they produce extremely good images.

> Newer sensors have vastly more dynamic range than the d70s among other image quality benefits.

As a user of both D70s and A7III I can say that, if there's good enough light (e.g day), one can take pretty nice pictures with a D70s, even today. Yes, it dies pretty fast when light goes low, or it can't focus as fast, or can't take single shot (almost) HDR images (A7III can do that honestly, and that's insane [4]), but unless you're chasing something moving, older cameras are not that bad. [1][2][3]

> I think you argument holds water much more strongly in the context of amateur users, where for sure you can keep getting nice images from old gear for a long time.

Higher end, action oriented professional cameras are not actually built with resolution in mind, especially at the top end. All of the action DSLRs and mirrorless cameras up to a certain point are designed with speed and focus in mind. You can't see A7R or Fuji GFX series in weddings or in stadiums. You'll see A9s, Canon 1D or Nikon D1 series cameras. They're built to be fast. Not high res.

A wedding is more forgiving, but again a high MP camera is not preferred since it's more prone to vibration blurring.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku3lT8MjyFM

[1]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zerocoder/41901384135/in/album...

[2]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zerocoder/28459579257/in/album...

[3]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zerocoder/39910477633/in/album...

[4]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zerocoder/33984196648/in/album...
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Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624341 - March 2021 (116 comments)
Yeah I don't buy that.

Especially not when things like this exist:
https://pkg.go.dev/container

And things like this don't:
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base...

As I mentioned Go does have a great HTTP and TLS stack but that doesn't do enough to put it on the same level.
Protonmail specifically seems to have strange problems with some old and busted email systems, ex: I've seen several government ministries in Taiwan (roc) that for some reason can not send email to protonmail or domains MXed there and no one has been able to explain it to me.
You might like the Rocket Book notebooks. You write with a pen on paper, but then you use the app to scan your notes to email or cloud storage, and then you use a wet cloth to wipe the pages clean. You get digitized notes like an expensive note tablet, but also the feel and replaceability of a plain old notebook.

(Despite making variants of this comment multiple times, I have no affiliation with them beyond happy customer.)
First, I find that Phenylephrine works well enough as a decongestant for me, without the jitters and heart palpitations. Of course, others' mileage may vary.

Second, how did this sentence:

"There are a number of synthetic procedures for doing this, some of them quite alarming, and several of which can indeed be performed in the barn, garage, basement, or trailer park of your choice..."

make it through editing. This reeks of insensitivity and classism.
That looks absolutely awesome.
I am suffering with a bad/cold flu right now and this has made me mad as hell! What if someone is so sick they can't fathom to walk into a pharmacy?

Fuck senators.
> WTF America.

Americans have been programmed to assume anything the government can do, a company can do better.
> Did all the developers do the right thing?

"The right thing" is, for example, simply `System.currentTimeMillis()` in Java. I don't have to think about what 0 means. All I need to know is there's a mapping from an instant to a number.

This representation is arguably closer to the essense of time. Barring relativistic effects, it's just an affine line. Dates and timezones are artificial structure that we put on this line.
Good point. That extends the ROI of the original investment, so it feels like a no brainer.

The big assumption is the retrofit market. Is that something anyone is talking about? Is that something Waymo and the like will be offering?

My point is: it makes sense, but is it the low hanging fruit someone will be going after right way? Or will this happen down the road?
Bitcoin alone, excluding other cryptos, transacts 1500 billion USD per year. How much is lost to fraud yearly? 2 billions? That's 0.13%. Does fiat lose less than 0.13% to fraud?
I’m skeptical the regulations will ever get rolled back, because it’s just so trivially easy to get spooked by the idea of making meth, but as mentioned in this article, I don’t think pseudoephedrine would become a significant source of methamphetamine again if it was made easily available over the counter.

Because the cartels have gotten really, really good at making meth. Extremely pure and extremely cheap, and the proper psychoactive isomer. There’s a massive supply of cheap and “good” crank out there, so I doubt deregulation of Sudafed would really make a blip in the total supply.
That's not much better to be honest. No readme.
And then the rain never came
Study conspiracy theories with compassion
Yes. Issues of poor implementation are not my concern. I think you are very wrong about the difficulties you suggest. What you identify as the 'root' problem is a policy problem best addressed by legislation and not really relevant here. Please don't misunderstand that to be a rejection of your beliefs about policy.
As a good designer, I hope so. I usually feel a good designer is worth way more than that.
JNI will probably never truly die, but it's reasonable to assume that it will eventually become restricted in similar ways.

The motivation is simple: applications should become the arbiters that decide which modules get to invoke native code. Libraries don't get to nilly-willy call non-Java code anymore. If, say, a dependency upgrade introduces changes that involve a new native call, it will be very noticeable.
Not flame proof though. You don’t want to put flammable things in something like a computer case that will be running unattended. I get that people do this stuff all the time with no issue. Just know the risks before taking them.
There are some great answers here. I'd like to add a little.

You used the term "earthed", which means you are searching for a reference to something. An antenna has its own reference: one side is at a different potential than the other due to induction from the receiving RF wave. It's easier to think about with a dipole antenna, where each half of the antenna receives a different phase of the wave: the relative difference between the poles of the antenna is the voltage induced by the changing wave. It is its own reference.

Now in any circuit that is not literally grounded, there is always a reference voltage that is called ground. Everything is referenced and built to this. Whether or not it is "zero volts" is immaterial, since it is the reference: we can make it zero volts by analysis. The potential induced on the antenna is a quantifiable charge can be compared to this reference, and amplified.

Hmmm. That sounded clearer in my mind, but I just wanted to point out the relative nature of a reference ground in a portable circuit.
Mucinex (Guaifenesin) fixed all my illness cough problems. It makes your mucus thinner and produces more of it to make your coughs "more productive" which means you finally get that junk out of your throat. Eliminates tickly throat coughs and also is useful in pretty much all situations that involve coughing. It's a genuine magic bullet for me, where no cough suppressant has ever worked, through my entire 30ish year existence.
You seem to be under the impression that there is some 'advanced technology' out there that will magically solve your problems that the US fails to have.

In my experience, many people have a quasi-religious belief in the capability of modern medicine to perform what would otherwise be called a miracle. This belief is typically held without any evidence whatsoever.

In reality, there are a plethora of conditions, some very common and serious, that medicine simply has no idea how to treat. The set of completely treatable / curable conditions is much much much smaller than the set of all possible diseases, yet people act as if it's the opposite. This is why things like 'evidence based' medicine is so dangerous -- we don't have evidence for the vast majority of impactful conditions, simply ignoring patients with these conditions is not a workable solution.
A slight tangent, but it also seems that the progressive web application (PWA) technique, although briefly recommended[1] for "trial" has been removed from the radar.

[1] - https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/progressive-we...
While the VW scandal is based on facts with hard evidence [1], your other theory is currently conjecture.

[1]
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830414-800-how-did-...

"Volkswagen programmed its on-board software to detect when cars with its TDI diesel engine were undergoing an emissions test, using information from the steering, brakes and accelerator. It then tweaked the engine settings to minimise levels of nitrogen oxides (NOx)."
Lower stakes because of the speed, but a lot of special cases. Higher chance of pedestrians and parked cars in the road for both. Parking lots will have a lot of cars moving in atypical ways, and markings aren't as standardized as on roads.
Related ongoing thread:

SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 - March 2022 (44 comments)
> State Capitol

Missouri never had any rules about travel or super market isles (wait... did any state make laws or regulations about super market isles?!). I visited extended family throughout the spring of 2020 and I wasn't breaking any laws.

More importantly, MO's government is comprised of a conservative governor, a conservative super-majority in the legislature, and conservative courts, all of whom have been aggressively anti-lockdown, and any of whom could reasonably have authored your exact post. The only credible threat to conservatives in Missouri is from the right. Who exactly are these woke baddies in the state capitol?!

My fundamental point is a scientific observation. The only substantive claim you're making in your post that is related to the article is about the source of this rage. That claim is a good one because it is possible to test by running an experiment: put restrictions on one population but not another and determine if levels of rage are elevated in one or both communities.

Your assertion is empirically denied by the fact that people are still enraged at elevated levels even places where these restrictions never existed, or existed for trivial treatment periods several years ago.

The rest of your post sort of reaffirms my belief in my hypothesis.

For example, in God's name, what role does wokeness play in this discussion other than to serve as an associated angry-tickles trigger word?

You managed to blame an aggressively anti-lockdown state government for restrictions that literally never existed and then went on an entirely unrelated rant about wokeness in your first post on this topic -- unprovoked and apropos of absolutely nothing in the article or the comment section.

This reiterates my belief that the rage is manufactured and that propaganda is a likely root cause for the state of the public's mental health. Just keep throwing all those angry words in the angry word soup.

Angry trigger words associate. It's all related by cortisol and negative emotions; the substance of the conversation doesn't matter. Just be angry at all the baddie stuff. The more the better.

(BTW, I'm going to take this opportunity to reiterate the link between stimulus checks and substance abuse, which is apparently less fun to think about than wokeness or whatever trigger word, but is definitely an important root cause for increased rage levels.)
Great question, and yes, some of the better devices implement a small buffer so may be able to keep a day or even two in memory while they're out of cell coverage. If you activate the SIM you might get a small data dump.

GPS doesn't need a SIM, and indeed the devices will have a fix all the time whether activated or not. They do require cell service to send their updates anywhere. They're all simple GPS receivers, not transmitters, thus require an active SIM.
Just use Invidious links instead of going directly to YouTube (for example, yewtu.be for the same remainder of the URL) for viewing. If you're talking about hosting videos, use Vimeo. Even when people post youTube links I use the Invidious alternative to stop feeding Google data. Also invidious has embedded download capability on their various sites.
Just a friendly reminder for Google users, backup your cloud data before you can't.

https://takeout.google.com/
I think the usual counter to this argument is that rather than being the best & brightest, he's a product of his time, place, and circumstances - if he were to remain in Dhaka he likely may not have been noteworthy. We really don't know one way or another.
They did. Feel free to make that argument. Just keep in mind, at one point, people thought Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong were the best competitors competing legitimately, and people came to these sports in droves, so it's not an easy line in the sand to draw. Hell, can you even name the next highest competitor competing legitimately in the Tour de France 1999-2005? It's like those races never happened because so many people were cheating, but people were watching!

Of course I'm not talking about scandals, because anyone who who has lived through this or even looked into this a little bit knows the scandals were devastating for the sports.
>I will assume by "infrastructure code" you mean things like kernels and network stacks.

That, and things like database systems, libraries that are used in a lot of other software or language runtimes for higher level languages.

>The actual heap footprint of the Linux kernel is pretty small

And what would that footprint be if the kernel was written in Java or Go? What would the performance of all those device drivers be?

You can of course write memory efficient code in GC languages by manually managing a bunch of buffers. But I have seen and written quite a bit of that sort of code. It's horribly unsafe and horribly unproductive to write. It's far worse than any C++ code I have ever seen. It's the only choice left when you have boxed yourself into a corner with a language that is unsuitable for the task.

>First, we pay in completely different ways for writing this software in manually-managed languages. Security vulnerabilities. Bugs. Development time

This is not a bad argument, but I think there has always been a very wide range of safety features in non-GC languages. C was never the only language choice. We had the Pascal family of languages. We had ADA. We got "modern" C++, and now we have Rust.

If safety was ever good enough reason to use GC languages for systems/infrastructure, that time is now over.
No, not really. Meth manufacturing is famously a scourge of trailer park communities, where the manufacture itself poses risk to residents that probably outstrip the risks of the drug. Trailers and barns just happen to be an efficient place to stand up makeshift meth labs.
Yep. Luxury goods are at least half aspirational. Until the shortages, always super buys on BMW’s with 15k in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area.
Ask HN: What symbols would you like to add to the standard keyboard?
I'm aware that there are different sets of special characters for different languages, and that some have a menu system (such as the Japanese input).

What would you like to be commonplace on most people's keyboards?

I'll start with ≈.
Deliberately adding latency. Although sometimes you need to because users are so accustomed to slow software that 'fast' reads as 'broken' to them.
That's my point:

OTP lets you use your own app.

Notification-based OTP requires a proprietary app.
enum dispatch in Rust is one of my favorite tricks. Most of the time you have a limited number of implementations, and enum dispatch is often more performant and even less limiting (than say trait objects)
An Audi? Heh heh.
Sorry, missed this as HN doesn't have notifications about comment replies.

My comment about rejecting authority was more about my relationship with my teacher, not internal relationships within the book. Perhaps the paradox was my teacher then, no? Personally, I don't believe in Rand's philosophy. I think Roark is an unbelieveable archetype. If my teacher idolizes Rand and says she agrees with the philosophy, it's _her_ paradox for telling me "no, that's wrong" if I, for example, say that I agree that Roark is Rand's ideal man, but that I believe Gail Wynand is the antithesis of Rand's ideal man because he _has the power_ (and money) to reject the status quo but still refuses to do so (whereas Keating, whom most of the class and the teacher selected as the antithesis, is just a social climber and is working for that power).
I love when self-deluding yourself into believing that men who get cosmetic genital surgery and wear women's clothing are magically women is liberal gospel.
> I could be wrong, but wasn't this the stores setting those rules and not the central government?

The majority of those stores were reacting to the hysteria and outright propaganda being pushed by the political class and their allies in the media.

Do you not remember the cries of "You're killing grandma" and the "naming and shaming" for questioning the orthodoxy promogulated by Fauci et al?
One of the easy things that we could do to improve quality of life and reduce waste would be to increase WFH and also to simply stagger work place start times somthat were not all hammering infrastructure at the same time twice a day.
What sort of collaborative editing does Synology allow? Is there a Nextcloud / Owncloud alternative to Docs / Sheets for collaborative editing?
The CCP currently does seem to want to keep the population happy but I don't agree that it has to nor that the control is fragile.

The bar for revolution is quite high, during Mao and Stalin, people were starving to death and there was massive unrest but still the parties generally kept power. The CCP clearly doesn't want anything close to that, but this demonstrates that no social unrest is a nice-to-have rather than a requirement for an authoritarian government.

Russia is another example. Given the sanctions, economic turmoil, protests about the war it's pretty clear that this special military operation has been a huge net negative for most of the population. In an authoritarian government however there's little need to consider the populace as long as you're above the 'good enough not to revolt' bar. Most focus should be put on the politics of maintaining power.
Do you presume that I should have no say on who I allow to live in the home I bought?

No -- you do not have "no" say. But but the law says there are limits in the criteria you can use to reject candidates.

Of which you (as a landlord) are presumably already perfectly aware. As you are of the fact that minute you move out (and establish another legal residence) -- it's no longer your "home".

It's my property.

Sorry, but this isn't an Ayn Rand novel. In real life, property ownership does not give you 100 percent freedom to do what ever you want with your property. It is a social contract, with obligations and limits.
I live in North America and this is news to me. In recent years there are new requirements, surely. Mostly, but not entirely, they have a rational basis. Then again, I’m old and I’ve seen worse so maybe it’s a matter of perspective. But maybe I’m missing some larger and more specific point.
Can be done even without an amplifier: https://mythbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Tooth_Fillings_Radio_Myt...
> I expect the number of cars on the road to go way up

This could also play out totally opposite to that - think cheaper on demand rides, no need to park near your work if your car can just go do something else, etc. This might play out as actually less people owning a car, or families owning just one car instead of two, etc. I remember a prediction from a few years ago that it may reduce the number of cars by 80%, which I doubt, but I also don't think it will necessarily mean more people buying cars.
Google, Amazon bankrolled ‘grassroots’ activist group to lobby against oversight
Acid3 test itself is pretty old though. There are now stuff that it doesn't cover. I think people should come up with an Acid4 test for that.
And the reason they're both called Dagger is as a play on using a DAG, directed acyclic graph, to model dependencies. Stealing that wittiness and pretending it's their own is pathetic.
> You might disagree with the wars that your country prosecutes, or what the police do, but you cannot just "take the tax money and choose how to spend it" for military, nor police, nor any other commons.

I know that this is not what being discussed, but just for the sake of exchanging some ideas... In my ideal model for governance, this would be possible.

In my ideal taxation model, we would only pay taxes at the most local sphere: municipalities. And everything would be either based/budgeted on either (a) insurance funds or (b) service fees. States and Federal Government would then only as act as managers of mutual insurance funds between the cities themselves.

IOW, it would all be a giant bottom-up insurance/re-insurance system.

This way, the allocation of funds going to military spending wouldn't be determined by the individual, but it would be very close to that. Healthcare as well. Education could be financed both via a "service fee" (to cover the regular, cheap students) and an insurance fee (to cover for students with special needs). So those without kids and those that want to put their kids on private school would be able to claim a deduction for the "service part", but still had to contribute for the insurance part.
In a 'loopstick' antenna, all that's going on is that one side of the coil is receiving the signal before the other. This is what there's a strong null when the coil points towards the source.

A little surprised by one point in the article, as I generally find his articles well-informed. In particular, from the purely theoretical point of view there is no difference between a antenna for tranmitting and receiving - however, from a practical point of view if you try and feed 500KW into a little loopstick antenna it (sans safety circuits) will be quite pretty for a second or so (i.e. transmitting antenna have to be large, just to handle the power).

The problem is even greater at longwave, where amateurs on 137KHz [0] are well aware of the crazy voltages that develop when trying to feed a 'short' antenna at these frequencies (a 1/4 wave is over 500 metres).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2200-meter_band
I think you mean IMAP. Protonmail supports SMTP (the mail-sending protocol; it needs to to interoperate with other mail servers) but not IMAP (the client side mail-reading protocol).

SNMP is something entirely unrelated, afaik.
There's also folks that justify their behavior and choices based on the size of their paychecks. As long as they get big numbers it doesn't matter if others lose their livelihoods arbitrarily and without recourse.