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People use the equipment they like with good ergonomics—equipment they are familiar with. Very few people understand their equipment well enough and understand the physics well enough to justify their choices from a purely technical image-quality standpoint, and very few people actually try out different equipment to see what the results are (which might cost thousands of dollars, just for starters).

Instead, most people come up with all sorts of justifications for why their equipment is the best. And that’s ok. In the end, photographers take good pictures and we are happy. There is no underlying need for photographers to use the “best” equipment available to them, and in actual practice, you will find photos in galleries taken using a camera phone or a cheap plastic Holga, hung right next to pictures taken on a 4x5" that look immaculate.

> Perhaps you get some advantage of more depth of field, but 35mm camera lenses can be stopped down to achieve the same effect, when it is desired.

The premise I’m operating under is that you’ll make, more or less, the same artistic choices with different equipment. In other words, if you shoot micro four thirds and switch to 35mm, you double the ƒ-number (e.g. go from ƒ/11 to ƒ/22), get roughly the same depth of field, roughly the same field of view, roughly the same image sharpness.

There are two problems here. One problem is that the image is not particularly sharp to begin with, so any extra resolution provided by a better sensor is wasted. The second problem is that larger lenses are operated farther from their ideal focal distances.

The formula for focal distance of an ideal lens is

1/ƒ = 1/d1 + 1/d2,

where ƒ is the focal length, d1 is the subject distance, and d2 is the distance to the image. Normally, d1 >> d2, and you can consider a 50mm lens on a 35mm camera as the same as a 25mm lens on micro four thirds. For macrophotography, d1 ≈ d2, and changing the sensor size has a radical impact on how far a lens must be moved to remain in focus in relative terms. That is, when you double the sensor size, you have to more than double the distance you move the lens.

This means that larger lenses are operating farther outside their ideal focal distances, and this has a negative impact on image sharpness. Macro lenses are specifically designed to be operated in this range, but the fact remains, larger lenses are still operating in a more extreme regime compared to smaller lenses.

You get pretty good results by just copying what most people use, but the fact than 90+% of people are using equipment X does not mean that equipment X is ideal. Plenty of musicians have completely incorrect notions about what kind of impact various choices they make about their gear has on how they sound, too—these beliefs often completely fail to hold up under any reasonable amount of scrutiny.

Photographers commonly believe that larger lenses take better pictures. Reality is more complicated—there are a ton of tradeoffs both with lens design from a practical perspective and tradeoffs involving the underlying physics that make the situation much more complicated.
What? Do you mean SSRIs specifically? Or are you including SNRIs, α2 blockers, MAO inhibitors etc? Do you have any evidence to support this or just anecdotes?
There's a drug to protect the most vulnerable from Covid-19
So, how does one start DIYing this in the meantime?
What would you do with 10k instead?
> May be Microsoft,

Is there a Jira replacement/offering in the Microsoft 365 suite?
The price per ounce/kg/whatever must be about as close to infinite as you can get (for a physical object).
> but it's unlikely that it encompasses the sole reason their marriage fell apart

And he says as much in the article. It's frustrating to read all these comments that are clearly written without reading the entire thing!
All he did was go to another country and spread truthful information.

So did the Rosenbergs. So did Ephialtes of Trachis. I know we've been enjoying a few decades of touchy-feely existence but collaborating with the murderous enemies of your nation traditionally gets you hanged for treason. Five years is a relative slap on the wrist.
Just in term of user interface, actually. Something makes me feel awkard, I don’t know why... It looks like I am manipulating colored potatoes, while I am expecting to manipulate data, by writing pure functions... ;-)

But maybe children love the way Scrath looks?
To me the point being made is that there will never be a "cure in a pill" for many things, including depression. Medication may help, but really getting past it will also take active effort.

If you're overweight, you can't get lean and fit by taking a pill (much as many would like it to be true). You will have to make some effort by eating less (actively resisting feelings of hunger) and getting more physically active.
Is the space of "cool sounding project names" so small that re-use like this is inevitable? Facebook's Aquila was a direct competitor to Google's Titan HALE UAV. Both UAV projects are since dead, but it seems like we can probably pull new names out of the box rather than recycling quite so rapidly.
> All he did was go to another country and spread truthful information.

Compare these two statements:

"Mr. Kim, you can transfer money between bank accounts using wire transfers!"

and

"Mr. Kim, if you wire money to this bank account and paper the transaction in this specific way, no one will know you are evading sanctions!"

Both are "spreading truthful information." One is illegal, and one isn't. I think most people can figure out which is which, and I don't think that just changing the underlying medium from "bank account" to "crypto wallet" muddies the issue at all.
Yes, it's directly comparable. You can interconvert mechanical work and electricity freely; electricity isn't like heat. Everyday machinery does it with 95% efficiency, but there's no fundamental limit.
In some industries, three nines isn't exactly stellar. Every service I've worked on recently has demanded five nines of uptime and tons of reporting on latency and even seconds-long outages.

I've been on-call during a total infrastructure outage whose root cause was a service my team owned [1]. Our CEO was aware of it. Customers and business partners were aware of it. Other CEOs were aware of it. The media, you name it.

Some outages can be "business ending" or "business damaging". That's why we made a practice and process of performing regular disaster recovery exercises, had exceptionally well documented runbooks, had monitoring attached to everything, and engineered for resilience.

Though I'm not familiar with how Atlassian runs, I think this is an "engineering culture" thing or can be mitigated with a proper approach.

[1] The company has only had a few of these in total, and no member of our team was culpable for the complicated failure.
Who is he higher than? He's tied for last as of current ratings on the fide website, or does that not yet include results from grand prix round 3? (Which would put him ahead of Teimor and Duda, presumably)

> seems his strategy is just to survive the openings and then try to outplay or flag people later on, which is a surprisingly viable strategy.

This doesn't work when people are both stronger middlegame players than you and know your strategy. And of course Ian and Alireza are liable to put hikaru in time pressure even if they don't straight outplay him.
Strange, I find the same idea immensely reassuring/satisfying…
> Using hydrogen would make no sense whatsoever since hydrogen could be stored anyway.

Storing and using hydrogen to turn it back to electricity at scale is not a simple problem (see my other comment in this thread).

> "fragment state" is something that does not exists.

In the article they are pretty clear about using very small particulate, both for the 'pure' state as well as for the 'burned' state.

> You got a large vessel of molten iron, you pour that into a form, take the slack off and that is it.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the process as described in the article, you are discussing the casting of pig iron, here we are talking about an oxidization and a reduction process based on powder sized grains of iron.

> Maybe one could use a fall tower to make small iron pellets like the ones used for making lead shot.
> That would need to be done in an oxygen free environment using some inert gas.

This also has absolutely nothing to do with the process as described in the article.

> The whole process seems quite impractical.

That's the problem with strawmen.

> And something else: Pure Iron rusts quite easily so how do you store it? You can not store a large bucket full of iron pellets for your oven in a cellar.
> So storage would need an enclosed container.

Yes, like the storage for any other kind of fuel.

> The whole idea is just weird.

It's weird because you don't appear to understand the first principles of the process described in the article, which is already operating at a smaller scale and which they will now scale up to 5 MW to gather more data about costs and scaling efficiency.

>
I think you're over-reacting. Stories like this tend to be rorschach tests, and it's easy to see what you believe in these vague details.

In fact, it appears he was helping NK avoid sanctions by using crypto, in an effort to increase crypto acceptance in NK.

The details are (apparently) in the original complaint. Bad journalism/summaries strike again?

> It looks like it wasn't just speaking at a conference after being denied permission from the US that got him in trouble, it looks like both before and after the trip he was working on a variety of ways to get the North Korean government more onboard with cryptocurrency, including discussions about mining ventures, moving funds in and out of the country, and offering connections with other cryptocurrency people.
Resentment can compound over small things, but I've also found from my friends failed marriages that physical attraction is big deal. One or both of the partners let themselves go physically.

Now we can't stop aging, but we shouldn't lie to ourselves that physical attractiveness doesn't matter.

The Halo effect is a real thing.
First it was https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit then replaced with https://github.com/microsoft/scalar and then into their git fork https://github.com/microsoft/git
I have built multiple multi-tenancy platforms and I never create separate databases for each customer. If you have separate databases, it's almost impossible to run meaningful queries across all of them. That architectural choice creates far more headaches than it solves. Usually people end up with the split-database architecture when they want a quick retrofit for a system that wasn't designed with multiple tenants.

I've also had to restore partial data from backups on a few occasions when customers fat-fingered some data and asked pretty-please to undo. If someone on staff understands the system well, it's not hard. I suspect Atlassian suffers from a complicated schema and a post-IPO brain drain.
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Active is a bad word to describe what I meant. I don't mean to say that a depressed mind is not thinking, just that it may not be able to get itself out of the place it is in without "active" effort (as in therapy - self-therapy or mediated by others). The conundrum is that putting in that effort may not possible because all energy is already spent - as you pointed out.
My suggestion is that psychedelics opens space for these thoughts to be actively dealt with in a productive way.

There is also mounting evidence that depression is a symptom and not a single disease, and the symptom may be originating from multiple causes. This view is supported by the extreme between-subject variability seen in imaging studies [1].
That being the case, maybe not all causes would require an "active" approach, just as maybe not all will respond to psychedelics.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-00789-3
Ask HN: B2C product owners how has inflation affected your revenue?
1. I'm seeing drop in revenue for my B2C products over past couple of months which I assume is due to rising worldwide inflation and consumers cutting down on non-essential expenses.

So if you are a B2C product owner, Has inflation affected your revenue and if so how are you managing it?

2. Also patrons for my free/open-source projects have dropped drastically which is quite worrying as we've known that financial backing for other larger, more important open-source projects were already hard to come by.

So if you are free/open-source project developer relying on donors, How has inflation affected you?
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I really hope she cheats on her husband with the dashing and handsome science fiction novelist character.
Outages definitely happen with on-premise software.

At some point the logo on the engineer’s badge doesn’t really matter.
> rich private currency economy will grow unmolested by tax collectors

Honestly I wouldn't mind that either. Governments in general are absurdly corrupt and taxes finance that corruption the same way drug users finance cartels.
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Oh thanks! Cool. Love the didactic approach.
I’m just a user but totally happy with all our Atlassian apps. Confluence is a huge win across our multi-thousand person company and the best teams use it very well. I like the integration between Jira and Bitbucket. We don’t over complicate things and it works fine.

It’s like my taste in wine. I don’t want an overdeveloped sense of taste where only a $400 bottle will do. I’m fine with what we have because the work is what excites me and if people are documenting projects and managing workloads and committing code, we’re 90% of the way there.
Anybody have more color on the nature of the "recent, very unfortunate series of events in one of our clusters [such that] multiple disks failed in short succession"? What kind of "events"? A failed climate-control system? A berserk employee with a sledge hammer? Russian hackers? The Spanish Inquisition?

It seems odd that they'd be quite so vague and circumspect about it. Why not just say what it was, so we're not all left to speculate, perhaps for the worst?
> It's pretty cool that you can get such nice results from a phone. But you'd probably have an easier time of it on a five year old aps-c camera with a macro lens, to say nothing of modern 35mm cameras.

Sure, but how often do you have them on your person in time to take candid photos?

I am in a lot of entomology and myrmecology online groups and people are able to take clear photos of insects that look like professional macro photos using their phones. Before that, only a handful of pro/powerusers were able to share this kind of quality.

When asked what camera he used, one popular youtuber (I cannot remember the exact context) explained that while expensive cameras are better on paper he often relies on his iPhone + a cheap ring light clipped on it. Animals often act in interesting ways when you are not ready for it. The ease of using the device that is in your pocket often outweight the potential increase in quality that would come from setting up a studio level setup. The best picture is the one you are able to take.
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I don't think their intent was ever to act unlike a government. But then again who can really divine intent? All we can do is live by laws.

But even a self-limiting government has to play politics internationally, and that requires a specific set of tools. I don't see anything here that trips alarms to me.
This is the way. I get that not doing small-scale things yourself saves costs and that's why "cloud" exists, but if something is important to you or your organization, I cannot stress enough how useful having just a simple old data copy is. I've lost data to bad drives too often myself. Microsoft can erroneously close your paid-for account without recourse, or ransomware can try to extort you, but your data will simply not be lost if you have an offline (or more advanced: append-only) system with an hourly/daily/... backup on it.

There are various options here but the one I happened to have read up on (and then contributed documentation to make it easier to use safely) is Restic with Rest-server in append-only mode. It's not perfect (e.g. no compression yet, only dedup) but it's pretty good. If you're an individual or small–medium business, put your favorite raspberry pi equivalent in a closet and invest a hundred bucks in a hard drive big enough for the important documents, pictures of loved ones, etc.

A single drive shouldn't be your only backup, just don't put 100% of your trust in magic cloud. See also Atlassian this week: it may be down, but if you need to access the data of ticket xyz for a lead this week and you have a local data export, you can find the needed data.
My wife gave me a huge ration of shit the first year of our marriage for leaving a coffee mug in the sink and not putting it in the dishwasher then spent the next 10 years leaving dishes all over the house. It still pisses me off every single f-ing time I see one.
Right. They only have about 30% of the planet as monthly active users.
Answer: it depends on the application. For example big social app is not going to provision a new db for every user, or for every customer that runs an ad. Likewise, a lot of enterprise software fits a model where each customer getting it's own db makes sense. So, really, just a design decision.
Hm. I'm not aware of anything specifically about inflation, but IMHO it would be very hard to compare due to the plethora of variables - e.g. rationing, destruction, death, all of which would be deflationary.
It's hard to see Bitcoin's value proposition when you live a life of financial privilege. Bitcoin's value proposition is this: censorship-resistant money. If you don't care about being censored, you won't see the value proposition. If civil asset forfeiture seems like no big deal, then Bitcoin will seem dumb. If routing literally every payment you make through a surveillance apparatus seems fine then Bitcoin makes no sense. If weaponization of your local currency to fight those who disagree with the regime in power seems legit, Bitcoin is just a scam.

Here's the problem: you give a government an inch and they'll take a foot. Give them a foot and they'll take a yard.

The financial weaponization and surveillance policies put in place by western "democracies" are never, ever going away. They will only be expanded. Today they knock on the door of the crackpot. Tomorrow it could be your door they're knocking on. It's easy to stay blind to this simple fact until it's far too late to respond.
For the love of god, stop using CPU limits on Kubernetes
To be fair to both sides of this argument. Yes, if follow the "popular" of any of these sites... Jesus fucking Christ, it's incredibly bland and derivative. Even more so than what it was like in the 90s and 2000s with "popular media" at the time. Algorithms favor repetition, not originality.

That being said! If you're a totalitarian dictator in how you curate your feeds, you'll get the good stuff. Like, my YouTube feed has zero "surprised fucking stupid face" thumbnail channels. If I check incognito mode YouTube, that's all I ever see and it's all derivative, low effort. I have tech essays, writing essays, woodblock printing, photography tutorials and lots of other good stuff on my heavily curated feeds. I also make it a habit to follow up on creators recommendations.

There's effort in finding cool stuff... and to be fair, I feel there always was a certain amount of effort to find "the cool". So... maybe you're putting too much faith in the almighty algorithm.
You can't look at the failure of the Merkel-Steinmeier in isolation and say "we tried that".

At the same time the US encircled Russia with bases, weapons and nukes. At the same time the US bombed Russian allied states.
0.7.0 update of the Qdrant open source neural search engine went live.

New version supports JSON as a payload.
It redeems a lost API. Alias API in gRPC is available.
0.7.0 provides new filtering conditions: refactoring, bool, IsEmpty, and ValuesCount filters are available.
It has a lot of improvements regarding geo payload indexing, HNSW performance, and many more.

Read detailed release notes on GitHub.
If they don't lose data, two weeks of downtime every few years might be cheaper than the cost of switching. Plus, it's not like you know the thing you switch to will be any better, if it's another SaaS.
They way I understand it this is used as a cycle so it won't be transported other than during the initial construction of the plant.

There are some properties here that are interesting (see other comment in this thread) and that may make this into a viable technology for specific applications.
I've never said anything about Hikarus performance or goal in the Grand Prix. I said he was middle of the pack going in. You're trying to argue about things I never said, to defend hikaru against accusations I never made. Which is fine, but admit you're defending him if you're going to do that, don't pretend you aren't.
"The playing cards aren't right."

<side eye>
Interesting. Reminds me of my time at university using something called Progol. You gave it positive and negative cases and it's algorithm would (very slowly) try and come up with Prolog code that fit it.

It was an interesting idea but in reality we spent so much time having to spoon-feed it more and more carefully constructed examples that it just seemed pointless.

Not to say that this will suffer from the same issue, but I do wonder if the benefit will really be significant enough to make it worth it.
What a fun video regardless of whether it's correct or not. It comes across as an asmovian psychohistory and that's a fun lens to play with regardless of its utility.

Assuming it's a useful model, where does that leave us? Basically with nothing. The author suggests "spending less than we make, and treating each other well." Or in other words, fiscal austerity and compromising with non-compromisers. If Dalio has examples of nations retreating from the inevitability of collapse, or engineering soft landings, he doesn't share it in the video. Either way, why should a system which inevitably results in big cycles stop producing big cycles. Of course each empire wants to avoid its demise. Wanting to avoid demise isn't a sufficient condition.

What I hoped Dalio would confront, was the possibility of changing cycle producing machine itself. You can start to see where this is going by identifying the change needed in each of the sub-components. Eliminate economic systems which create wealth gaps. Upend the global reserve system entirely. End Westphalian sovereignty. &c &c. Any or all of these naturally lead to big cycle formation and resistance toward changing the system creating big cycles is a tacit endorsement of the big cycle machine which I fully expect to receive (big cycles are good actually!) :)
And HVDC lines coupling areas far away from each other can help to deal with overcast and even offset some of the day/night cycle.
This is quite true. Many of the calls for regulation by "crypto people" which I've seen are really just a reaction against an uncertain regulatory environment. In short, they just want the regulators to make up their minds already. The biggest wildcard and source of volatility in the crypto space, IMHO, lies in the inconsistent and unpredictable responses we've seen from politicians and bureaucrats, not the tech, the state of the market, or the possibility of falling for some kind of scam.

However, one should keep in mind that certainty is not necessarily better—it depends on what the rules are. Operating in a grey area is better than being banned outright, and overly strict regulation can nullify all the advantages of a new system by forcing it into the mold of the old system it's meant to replace. The ideal outcome is that they explicitly adopt a hands-off approach so that the threat of adverse regulation is removed without being replaced by known adverse regulation in the present.