skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the canon 100L macro lens last spring for my 6D mark II (after drooling over it for literally 10 years), and ended up getting the iPhone 13 Pro when it came out. So I'm a macro noob with no other equipment.

Can confirm, everything out of my dslr + macro lens comes out perfect. It's ridiculous how hard it is to take a bad picture with those. Fluorescent lights, cloudy days, handheld, they're all perfect.

That being said I've definitely used and shared more images from my iPhone macro mode. There have been a bunch of misfires, lighting is hard, sharpness is not there across the board - but it definitely scratches that itch and I find myself using my macro lens less.

Although after writing this I fully expect to run around my house for an hour next time the sun is out to take some macro shots with the macro lens :D

TL;DR - even as a pixel peeper the convenience of having macro on the phone puts dust on my dslr macro lens.
Yeah, productive ways exist, but is that enough? Again, thinking of Brandolini's Law, it would need to be an order of magnitive more productive than before in order to reach parity.
Seven days, 18,000 deaths: A look at omicron’s deadliest week
https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower for the code.
This is totally impractical, and I love it.
Aesthetic Preference Recognition as a Potential Authentication Factor
Oh wow, that's a pretty new feature! It was added in v569, 2020[1].

[1]: https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/6a070fc53799fb86e0fe3880...
Regulators discover and patch regulatory gaps. One might say that’s doing their job, versus overzealousness.
The founder of Ferdi has deleted all his accounts (GitHub, Twitter, Instagram) etc. as well. Let's hope nothing bad happened here.
If all of that ends up working out, and considering no other restrictions are put in place: How are people going to pay their taxes?

Being the exclusive currency accepted for tax payment is an important part of what makes fiat currencies money.
Thank you Vinay! We recorded a lot of personalized demos with you guys :)
There's a tax change that will tackle it, that should become active relatively soon.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2021/03/25/wetsv...
I have used a parallel port to drive a JTAG port on a different device to program a boot ROM.
Fair enough, but general formatting codes would overlap with what is already supported in rich-text formats like HTML or LaTeX. Unicode is a standard for encoding characters, it is not supposed to be a rich-text document format itself.
On the leaf image:
“The reason I like this so much is the obvious layering. The depth of field created with the iPhone here very clearly shows you what the focal point is, and represents a fantastic example of how good the software is at completely isolating the foreground, leaving the background blurry. A perfect example of computational depth of field.” — Peter McKinnon

Is this correct? From what I've shot in macro on my DSLR, the blur is natural because the focus plane is so thin. I realize the phone has a much smaller sensor, but is the blur in macro mode computational? I thought that effect was only applied in portrait mode shots.
Mangling your distribution version in your Apt sources for fun and profit
Of course. Iron has an anode voltage of 0.2V though. A far-cry from Li-ion's more useful 3.7V.

EDIT: My search-engine abilities apparently failed me. I'm seeing 0.44V as the voltage... well... whatever Iron's voltage is... it is pretty small. That's my point.

There's a reason we didn't make Iron batteries. Iron definitely stores electrons, but the voltage dropoff leaves a lot to be desired...
When I was learning statistical hypothesis testing, I once wrote notes that looked like "H_0: mu ⋚ a <--> p-value: P(T(X) ⋛ T(a))", although I didn't include the equal-to bar.
Yawn. A ton of those do not claim any predictions related to value, just state some facts and opinions about it. For example: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-is-just-a-crappy-tech-stock/
Trading (around crypto) made me realize that systems will always get twisted in all possible ways as long as some group can find a way to benefit. The finance world is filled with subsystems with different information sources and interest. This led to recurrent patterns and more subtle ideas. You cannot know this unless you are in these groups, or pay to be taught a few or wait years to discover it. It's always a blend of opposing forces of various nature. It's probably a very general principle (society works like that too)
Who thinks what feature was inspired from what language is irrelevant.

A language that tries to advance the state of programming is the only selling point worth noting. This is a toy language, which means it either adds to the noise or will disappear.
what about the second statement from wikipedia's principles: it is not a soapbox. It would be interesting to put banks to a vote with the same kind of arguments as well
That article itself isn't exactly free of bias nor is it fully accurate, some of the things listed as not being mentioned are.
He's very impressive to watch. Whenever I play blitz I can get easily flustered and end up playing terrible moves. He will have 10 seconds left and is still explaining things or just casually chatting and still playing at a high accuracy. I get why people like him.

I agree though. He can be difficult to watch. He acts like a small child when he loses, even sometimes when he doesn't. It's really not surprising to learn from this article that no one in the high level chess world likes him.
Ironically you're more likely to have such an experience paying with cash these days.

I tried to buy a pizza from Dominos last week. Order online, pick up in person and pay with cash. Should have been simple, but it devolved into 5 minutes of Domino's employees trying to figure out "who's on cash?" (Had the credentials to open the cash drawer.) That person was apparently taking a smoke break, but when they came back it still took them another minute of furious hollywood hacker style keyboard pounding at the POS systems (accidental dual acronym of 'Point of Sale' and 'Piece of Shit'?) to open the cash drawer and give me my $1.20 change. Great job guys.

If you forgive me for being a little conspiratorial, I think point of sale systems must be designed to streamline credit card payments while artificially stalling cash transactions, as part of the financial industry's war against the cash economy.
Apparently ferdi started disappearing a while ago? https://twitter.com/EggermontRomain/status/14837540947246243...
I'm sure that to someone carrying a knife for protection also thinks it "makes sense" — and I'm sure it actually does in some contexts. In a gunfight, however, does it still?
AutoMicroFarm: Grow The Food Your Family Needs In Your Yard
Just FYI, this article is from January.
The distribution of ages wasn't hugely different except at the ends of the bell curve. Now, many more people make it past infancy and live past 75.
Oh this takes me back! I spent an afternoon soldering my own null modem cable so I could transfer large files without the hassle of spreading them across multiple diskettes (and play games, of course!)
That’s what I want to use it for right now. Does anybody know if it’s possible?
Seems plausible, but from the linked stackexchange question:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/640588/what-is-%E2%8...

> It appeared in the entity set ISOAMSA, which, regardless of the name, had no connection with the American Mathematical Society.
Toast isn't fresh bread.

(I like both, they aren't the same thing)
Good old laplink. I've still got a "hydra" cable in my desk drawer.

Back in the 90s I used the parallel port to interface a PC to a TRS-80 to allow me to store games on the PC. As another commenter has mentioned, the parallel cable isn't fully bidirectional so I used the printer ready, paper out and other signals as imput lines and wrote a nybble (half a byte) based protocol between the two. Fun times.
Waste heat and heat pumps are not mutually exclusive. For example a data center may use heat pumps for cooling, and that exhaust heat is used along with more heat pumps to heat water in district heating circuits. There are lots of these in Europe.
Same here. I specifically wired everything in my new house, including Chromecasts. There's enough going wrong with random software that adding a wireless link into the mix doesn't help.
None of those have any claims about short-term BTC value.

>https://99bitcoins.com/category/bitcoin-obituaries/2022/
42% rise in new ransomware programs in 2021
Eh, I find Stjepan a bit too scattered in his discussion. He takes tangents that can confuse beginners (under 1200 or so) when trying to comprehend the openings he is discussing.

Learning from online YTubers/Twitch streamers can be a mixed bag. They make the moves seem so easy and logical, without explaining a lot of the why's. Danya is one I love to watch, but he just sees things that players below his level have a hard time envisioning. Rosen is the chillest to watch, but his love of dubious gambits can encourage bad habits as well.
That is indeed a big problem. I wouldn't be surprised if this marking as a risk factor wasn't even backed by data. (Note that even if it was backed by data, it would still be wrong).
You will never get bureaucracy out of Europe anymore, it is a done deal. Worse, surveillance will be extremely expanded with the AI act and police forces will be consolidated. Of course that won't help against criminal cases like this at all. It is truly the old continent by now. Taxes must be so high because the system will leech all that money, such schemes will be just a side note.
Beware there are two incompatible rename programs in the wild. :(

What you have installed, and what Debian and its derivates ship is this: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/File-Rename/rename.PL

Most(?) other distros ship the one from util-linux: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rename.1.html
Yeah, the same is for cannabis industry.
You will need to provide some evidence to your claims. There is another choice though, stop printing money for a while.
I didn’t think long-term capital gains rate was lower to account for risk, it was to account for:1) inflation, since you pay taxes on nominal not real gains unlike income which has indexed brackets and 2) to incentivize long term investment over short term investment which is taxed at a higher rate.
Besides the difference between the abstract and unlimited Unicode and the encodings, our current "modern" encodings, UTF-8 and the new UTF-16 are artificially restricted and can be trivially expanded into a huge number of codepoints just by removing those restrictions.
I did summarize them. I'll do it for you again here: we withdrew from multiple peace treaties with Russia, provided lethal arms to Ukraine, and performed large scale military exercises on Russia's border. There's plenty more but those are some highlights.
Note that the rename tool bundled with some distributions is not the Perl version. If someone is looking to install it, it may also be called perl-rename.
>few hundred on apps

I don't even understand what you think you're going to buy that will make you a good macro photographer for hundreds of dollars. Hundreds on apps instead of dedicated macro hardware? I can't imagine that will do anything but waste hundreds of dollars.
“electronic dance music particularly could be made completely interchangeably by any artist, no one seems to have their own design flair any more”

Very wrong. Streaming and DAWs have led to an explosion of creatives in a wide variety of directions. Not sure how you could view Kygo, Lil Uzi Vert, Bladee, Porter Robinson, Dylan Brady / 100 gecs, and Cashmere Cat as interchangeable.
Rust has extremely useful "?" operator.
Hey purpleidea, I was listening your presentation(s) about mgmt-config & graphs on Fosdem and these were very entertaining. Good work!

Some time later tried to use it and it seemed project was abandoned. Not sure if it was but there were no recent commits and I felt quite sad. Happy to see the project is back to life!
Unrelated to this good work directly, but I experienced a funny moment yesterday. My new employer issued me a 16 inch M1 Pro - naturally, I installed Rust :)

The thing cargo builds (in release, no less) about as fast as my previous machine could npm install on a particular project.

I realize this is all M1 just absolutely chewing through it, but as long as compiler time improvements remain steady and constant I don't think I'll have a ton to complain about.
Hey Francisco, thank you for building RunKit!:)

We have goals on our roadmap which will make the experience much better and near instant. The time and our execution will tell.
Jesus, HN has been a nostalgia machine recently. That's another thing I didn't realise I had forgotten.
Author here.

- What if ... forgets this "Wq = K.Null_Wq" check : The goal was to KISS. Air bagging such trivial code never crossed my mind in regard to the original intent; Share Ada's raw power, no fuss.

- ... still plain pointers underneath ...: Well when you need to survive, the dirty blade is still an option. That is what keeps it so powerful too. If there were no pointers, another pal would come and say: "aargh, another sandboxed language...". Actually, Ada is healthy about pointers and I would think twice before getting rid of them completely.

- There are no destructors ...: Well yes, controlled types. You are welcome to give a try to bring them in kernel space. I did not have the time to even try. Maybe it is low hanging, really I dont know.

- Extra "unsafety"... "printk" security vulnerabilities : Were there claims to harden the Linux API? I do not recall.

- Extra "unsafety"... re-implementation ... likely break : To be fair, I think I repeated three times in the series a version of "we do not recommend re-implementation, reconstruction of APIs. wrappers inherit fixes, its only to show nuts and bolts, etc"

With all due respect, I think you should at least re-read the introduction and the "Linux Driver Experiment In Ada, But Why?" section. It gives a good common sense view of the intended scope of the series: no more, no less.

With all that said, addressing your points would make an interesting follow-up series. Maybe if I find the time or you decide to take up on the task we could see where it leads!

Thanks for chipping in.
It's like the icon in question is a drunk / mirrored version of this one, from memory, drawn behind the back.

It's like o7 vs 7o; if you know you know: http://i.imgur.com/ZjhHU87.jpg
Yes, it could technically be extended, but the transition would be a massive undertaking, so in practice the encodings do limit the number of codepoints. UTF-16, which creates the limitation, is very widely used and required by major programming language standards like ECMAScript. A lot of software still can't cope with codepoints outside the BMP, and they were established with UTF-16 in 1996.
>Why? Because unlike the American pension system which is mostly backed by the stock market, European pension systems depend on young and healthy workers to pay the pensions of the current pensioner generation.

Which IMHO the European pension system is massively flawed as it's basically a Ponzi scheme that requires more and more people to keep the system going, more people that will consume more resources and need more real estate to live in, real-este which governments and banks have turned into a speculation vehicle making them unaffordable for the new generation of young people who are supposed to be many and pay into the system.
You joke, but that's exactly what domain names are.
> I have severe doubts that iron has as much energy density as methane or propane.

The heat of reaction of elemental iron oxidizing to rust is about 1648kJ per 4 moles Iron. Propane burning is about 2220kJ per mole. Also, Iron atoms are heavier than molecules of propane (55.8g/mol vs 44.1g/mol). This means that propane has an energy density of about 50 joules/gram while Iron has about 7 Joules/gram. So no, not very energy dense on a per kilogram basis.

However, energy density is only relevant to cost of transportation. If elemental iron is stupid cheap compared to methane due to taxation of external costs associated with emitting carbon dioxide, then the additional cost to transport it would be less relevant. In addition, since it is renewable, the cost could be reduced further. But yeah, we are a long way from that since methane and propane are very cheap right now.
If I was an AML analyst I'd scrutinize NFT/crypto transactions much more than Apple paying out (what looks like) a legitimate app development company.
It seems like all of our modern abstraction layers have lead to a dirth of tinkerers on the edge between metal and software. There isn't any easy gpio on your standard Chromebook or desktop for instance. Yeah you can get a usb to gpio or make one. But being able to sit down at any computer and do something low level was nice.
Because of this, there aren't laws for it as far as I know, only internal ethics docs. Might be more requirements for public companies, but still not the same as insider trading.
>the star headed monstrosity pointing to doom from the heavens

That sounds like a useful reaction/ response these days.
I think that’s completely justifiable. He and his family are a massive target for kidnapping and assassination.
We had the same idea at the same time. For a command line newbie trying to follow a tutorial, it can certainly be confusing.
I started out with 10mbps links and those were gloriously fast. I even had a 3com card in a 386 that was running linux.
The article makes a decent case for the symbol to be a chart symbol that means "no right angle". The zig zag arrow apparently being a shorthand for "no" in that particular circle.

It looks like a symbol that someone added for completeness but isn't particularly useful even in the field.
They claim ~65% round trip currently and think they can improve to 75%. Not great, but polysilicon solar panels are cheap cheap cheap so charging efficiency doesn't matter much.

It's being sold as a complementary solution to more efficient LFP cells (for evening peak shifting), and as an alternative to pumped hydro and peaking gas turbines.
There’s a reason lots of places require leak pans for washing machines, dishwashers, water heaters, and so on. It will eventually happen so it’s often best to prepare for it, especially if on a wood floor. Water damage is very bas for a structure.
Thank you for pointing that out. I guess I should not have used the mass adjective.
Related : Japanese Ninjitsu Manuals; some ideas are still applicable with contextual modifications.

1) Shoninki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dninki

2) Bansenshukai - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bansensh%C5%ABkai

3) Ninpiden - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninpiden

The Arthashastra by Kautilya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthashastra) has lots of details on Spycraft. A very good translation is Patrick Olivelle's King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India: Kautilya's Arthasastra.

Indic Roots of Espionage - https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/the-indic-roots-of-espionage...
It's a prototyping tool, I don't believe it has any codegen facilities. It used to be a Quartz Composer framework and then it evolved in to a standalone app.
Lock up the rear wheel. Heavy chain to a post. Remove the display that controls the motor.
https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/why-static-languages-suffer...

Dynamic typing didn't come to dominate for no reason.
Original post from January 2022: https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/
Thank you. Yes I think it is something to do with a combination of a lack of motivation and a lack of self belief. If I see something that needs doing, I don't believe in my abilities to address it and so I just let it slide because I assume someone more qualified will deal with it.

Good food for thought.
My best use of LapLink was as a teen helping migrate a library off an old system. I think it was using NetWare 2.x with some DOS emulation for a library card catalog. Couldn't get it to talk IPX to the existing NetWare stuff (5.x) we were migrating to. But the DOS emulation was complete enough for us to install LapLink and bring over the files for the program!

I still have the yellow parallel cable and blue serial cables at my parents' house.

Also pretty sure I used the blue cable to do Command & Conquer over null modem to the next room at home before I figured out how to install IPX/SPX and get the machines to talk over the 10Base2 that was between them.
I think it's pretty pointless to have a discussion about this unless you first have a discussion about what Film critics are doing. What they're doing, most often, is not giving a rating out of 10. They're generally looking at a film and evaluating a huge number of things - do the individual parts of the film work, the cinematography, the script, the pacing, the acting, the set design etc. There are lots of mechanical things they're judging. They're also judging the film in the context of other films. What is the message of this film - what is it adding to the genre, what is it trying to say and does it succeed in getting across that message. Does it even have a message? What does it do compared to other films in the genre?

The Metascore takes all those different features and goes BANG "1-10".

What are IMDB scores noting? Did I like this Movie rating 1-10.

Note how those two things are fundamentally different (and one of them is a highly questionable metric anyway). I think the relevant question here is what is the expected correlation between those two metrics. I'd guess it should be positive - well made movies should generally be more enjoyable than badly made movies. But is it 1? Hell no, you can make a great movie that only a niche audience will enjoy. So when we say "The correlation of these two metrics have moved from 0.75 to 0.65" I'm not sure what that even means.
People suggesting other chess channels misunderstand what Hikaru is about. It's about the memes, chat spam and interaction with other non-chess streamers. He's part of a bigger Twitch community of streamers that has become like its own reality show.
You're old and generalizing.

Finding good content always has and likely always will be like swimming in an ocean of mediocrity and clinging to a piece of floating weeknight saving originality. Often those are the things that survive the test of time while all the meh to okay content is forgotten about.
All Macro photography requires extra light, it's not just anything to do specific to cell phones. That's why there are so many flash rigs designed for this.

Also, the iPhone 13 camera has ridiculously fast lenses[0]:

Pro 12MP camera system: Telephoto, Wide, and Ultra Wide cameras

Telephoto: ƒ/2.8 aperture

Wide: ƒ/1.5 aperture

Ultra Wide: ƒ/1.8 aperture and 120° field of view

If you search for lenses for "real" cameras with those apertures and focal lengths, you'll find 4 digit price tags for each one.

Sounds like you need some more research into macrophotography

[0]https://www.apple.com/iphone-13-pro/specs/
Ask HN: What happened to Apple's self service repair program?
https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-se...

This was announced in November 2021, but there hasn't been any development since. The cynic in me thinks this was just a PR move to quell EU right to repair regulations, but I really hope that's not the case.