skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a Fujifilm X-T4 for my first "big boy" camera last year and the deciding factor in my head was that the best camera is one you want to carry. The 18-55mm kit lens is one of the best + the X-T4 has easy knobs and settings for great snaps out of the box.

I shoot everything JPEG, usually 16:9, immediately download to phone, and basically delete the raw as soon as the edits are done in Snapseed or VN. Photography in the age of social media is highly ephemeral. It's there for a day and then people are onto the next story or snap dopamine hit. I prefer a form of photography that is more like blitz chess, which is to see how quickly you can snap something good and create/post a decent edit.
One description I've heard is web 3.0 people are mostly people who saw the financial crash in the late aughts and thought the only thing wrong with it was they didn't get to participate directly.
You might say they are using humans as an MVP/POC test for what their robots should be like. Make the humans as robotic as possible to see what features are really needed in the robots they eventually use.
This is super cool and would be awesome for situations where your guests are familiar with QR codes. But from my experience the process would go something like this:

Visitor: What's your wifi password?

Me: No password needed! We have a cool QR code you can scan that will auto-join you!

Visitor: Oh cool, how do I use a QR code? Do I need an app?

Me: Nope, just point your camera at it.

Visitor: Like .. .take a picture of it? And then what, do I...

Me: No just point your camera at it.

Visitor: Ok let me try it ... oh cool it's prompting me to join your wifi network? what do I do now

Me: Yes Yes, just proceed, that's what it's for.

Visitor: That's soo cool, thanks.

Vs

Visitor: What's your wifi password?

Me: ShinyTortoise78
> People are already bitching about how much it cost

I like to point out that Microsoft could have paid for seven JWSTs (development costs and all) with what they paid for one Activision.
> Next to some hotels, a message that supply was limited.

It's also worth noting that there's no way in hell they actually know that with any sort of precision. No GDS has proper up-to-date knowledge of bookings from all the various sources that hotel reservations actually go through (they overbook airline flights). What they're really saying is that the small inventory of rooms that are reserved for them to book exclusively are almost gone.
One of the things that I believe I see now is that the guess library is much larger... which I (again) believe suggests a much larger library of songs to draw from.
Guidelines were changed for laypeople a while back because it turned out continuous chest compressions moved enough air and was more impactful in the first few minutes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484593/
Need to get new Phil Mosbey prints of this on hex prints.

(Phil mosbey is the astro-photographer who made the hex print of JWT which nasa bought and placed in lobby (if you havent seen his space calandar, its amazing.)

he grew up with my younger brother, and I have some art/prints in my house of his.

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Although, I agree with some other folks ; Why cant we point Hubble or JWT at the planets in our solar system, or the closest objects to us.

The deep-field view of both hubble and JWT are wonderful, but whats the diff on pointing it to closer objects.

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Further, /noStupidQuestions: Why at out level of tech and the fact that all of these projects are funded by tax money (as a portion) can we not have live streaming (even if high latency) from all such projects?

What is the national security preventing us from having a space (or any other) telescope funded by public taxes from having the ability to see what it sees, even if with reasonable delay...

Wouldn't it be interesting to bounty analysis from such ;

Basically, allow for arm-chair amateur space-folks-ham-radio-style to do submit findings for bounties on discoveries?
Interesting link, thank you. Sorry for the late reply. The idea of wearing camouflaged contact lenses, and the work to defeat the attempt is interesting.
Maybe it was inaccurate but I got what you were trying to say -- that "incoherent execution" is difficult on SIMD machines.

> You may be interested to consider how incredibly complex the modern x86 architecture is to implement because it supports sequential program execution as a core invariant principle. As a result, modern computers (which strive to be faster than a PDP-11) have to do a massive amount of work to parallelize that sequential code because parallel execution is the only frontier of fast computation that remains.

I'm aware what recent CPUs do with ISA instructions. That flies very badly in the face of the minimum complexity principle as well. The amount of physical resources dedicated these days to making your legacy code run just slightly faster is exceptionally wasteful.

> but in modern times calling jump "low level" (or, for that matter, calling branching in general low level) is a very "Do you think that's air your breathing?" kind of position

Well, it's low-level for the kind of minimum complexity system that I'd consider ideal. Not necessarily for the abominations forced on us as an accident of history.
> Boot sector viruses were already hardly common before Secure Boot. [...] t is not that easy to write to the hard disk boot sector from a running operating system,

I wonder why... could it be that even then the risk was understood and there were attempts to mitigate? I hope you remember the option in BIOS called "Master Boot Record Protection".

Your "it's uncommon now, so it must not be a problem" argument is tedious at best. Precautions were taken, the worst case has been avoided and that's not an argument supporting not having any precautions.

> then it is much easier to write your payload somewhere else in the host OS (with all the OS functionality at your disposal) rather than the boot sector.

Sure, as long as you can launch before the AV or perpetually keep it at bay without making noise. Getting your malware to run sooner or even as part of the system gives you a very valuable advantage. It's ridiculous to even imply that it wouldn't have become a big problem.
At least in the US typical deductibles are typically in the $500-$2000k range for structure and contents. Where on earth are you getting $25k from?
> Is there anything wrong with breaking laws that entrench local monopolies.

Yeah, there is. Even if there's a point somewhere in there (there's not), Uber is not qualified to make those judgement calls.

Save the greater good bullshit for the company picnic.
> Second, the -ar in particular has a lot of trouble with non-rhotic English accents, where "Myanmar" might already be pronounced the same as "Myanma"!

It's supposed to be. Both names, "Burma" and "Myanmar", are formed under the assumption that your English pronunciation is non-rhotic.

The same is true of the common Korean surname "Park", which does not contain any R-like sound. British spellings of foreign words really cause tremendous damage to the pronunciations used by rhotic speakers.
Any real science will be done on the raw images, not on the color composites released for the public.

These color composite images really show off how awesome JWST is. They're meant for the public to enjoy (astronomers enjoy them too).
We shouldn't have GC, Exceptions or Tail calls in WASM, as long as the compiler can provide them.

I’m not a compiler guy, but spent my time with runtimes closely, and can say that befriending GCs/RCs, exceptions, continuations, etc between them was my least favorite part.

That said, wasm is already a potential target for different runtimes built with no common vm in mind, so interop headaches are imminent either way.
To solve this, they could index article content for search. It probably has a too high cost over benefit.
One difference with NYSE or NASDAQ is that those companies could release a dividend or get bought and either of those events would put actual hard currency in your pocket and the price of the stock is (theoretically) based on those events happening.
> it could not meet NLRB demands in a subpoena to provide the thousands of disciplinary notices it delivered to employees that year, calling the requirement “unduly burdensome.”

That must be parody on the part of the legal team... The irony.
Consider disabling javascript on websites by default and only allowing it on those that you trust. e.g. uBlock origin has that built in.
You'd be surprised how much still works perfectly fine and of cause, which sites break for no good reason.
Just a couple of days ago there was a Noam Chomsky interview on the Machine Learning Street Talk channel. The whole video is almost 4h long, including a long intro. The MLST crew worked for months on it, posted it, and it got promptly banned.

https://mobile.twitter.com/danbri/status/1545760855052193792

The reason - they quoted a small Richard Feynman clip from an archive BBC show. After fixing it took 12 more hours to unblock the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axuGfh4UR9Q

Way to go BBC, protect your rights, make sure nobody cites any of your precious videos. /s
The thing is, you haven’t really shown that these sites aren’t successfully optimizing for conversions. Couldn’t it very well be the case that UI which annoys some high-intent users by interrupting them or adding steps to the checkout process also increases overall conversions?
It is not unlikely that the "taxi mafia" was created by a similar mix or lobbying and corruption. Basically, it looks like a mafia replacing another mafia.
Sounds like it. Other alternatives:

- general paranoia

- Persecutory delusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion

- Victim playing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_playing
It's amazing that anyone is willing to do this, just so that other people can play the game.

Then again, once you've done it, now you can turn off your internet and play the game in peace, so it's not 100% only altruistic.
I guess it just feels a little elitist to assume she didn't know what she was doing because she was a real estate agent. She definitely was a part of the scene way before most people, so hindsight makes me think she should get some benefit of the doubt. Like yea, she sells real estate, but maybe likes to socialize with a more tech-oriented crowd, or used to work in tech herself but chose real estate to have better hours, etc.
Between all of my appliances and furniture and clothes and electronics, I do not think they would total to my $25k deductible. I buy and use cheap stuff from IKEA or Costco or Uniqlo or Next or Apple.

What I’m saying is, I would just take the hit and move on and spend a few thousand on buying replacement items.

Obviously this depends on one’s preferred lifestyle. If you have a Design Within Reach home where each piece of furniture is thousands of dollars, then cataloguing is worth it.
It’s funny you say this, because it’s precisely because of my fundamentalist Christian worldview that allows me to love and accept the world as it is.

Sounds like you’ve had some bad run-ins with Christian fundamentalists. Sure the world is broken, but most Christians realize the world is inherently beautiful (not to be confused with ‘good’).

If the God of the universe died to save it, there’s got to be fundamental value there. Therefore if someone thinks the world is ugly and can’t enjoy it, that’s an internal thing they gotta fix, not an immutable, self-evident truth about the world… again it’s precisely because of the Bible that I believe these things.
- The thing with online codes is that while they are quite efficient in data overhead (a few %) they only start working when you have enough data ( > X MB). (check!)

- another problem is that since the system that you need to solve to get your data back is large and random, so in-place updates of the data are impossible. In other words: they only work for immutable data (check!)

- The extra information to counter lost messages is scattered over all messages so the client doesn't need to figure out which ones are missing (and doesn't need to tell the server, in this case the telescope). This makes them highly suited for high latency communication (and storage which is in essence the same thing, but that's another story) (check!)

They (online codes) were designed for this exact use case.
Dongles are generally understood to be more secure than TOTP because they have to be physically stolen (unlike TOTP seeds, which are just information). Google is giving away thousands of physical keys maybe to drum up goodwill among the python community, maybe because it's a trivial expense for them and they have an institutional interest is seeing PyPI succeed. I dunno, but it doesn't really seem all that sinister.

Just FYI, you don't need a smartphone to use TOTP. You can download 'pyotp' from PyPI and use it with any python interpreter. Anybody publishing packages to PyPI would have access to that.
I agree, although I concede that this rational could be (and often is) used to justify terrible things.
Not authoritative but Mozilla Hacks, CSS Tricks, Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), Smashing Magazine, Dev.to and devdocs.io are all my go to staples. There are many more resources but those have served me well over the years.
"GB" vs "uk"
What's wrong with JS bindings? Surely DOM manipulation is slow enough for WASM/JS overhead not being noticeable.
> That's not in line with the common definition of exploitation

What’s that definition?

I’m using exploitation
in the common sense of “treating someone unfairly” or “making use of someone for your own gain”.

Work relationships are not always exploitive. Ideally they are mutually beneficial. Sometimes they’re slightly skewed where one party profits a little more than they other. None of that is what we’re talking about.
Long overdue. If it's not true, it should be.

As much as I love my Nikon DSLR, MILC has surpassed it as a technological possibilities. They needed to pour all of their available resources into MILC 4 years ago.

The Z9 was a big release for Nikon, proving they could rival Sony's dominance and match the performance of the D6.

The Z6/7 releases were great proof of concepts but not competitive cameras, at least not in a ring with Sony and Canon. And now that we know they can, they need to put it all on the line as their market share just keeps declining.
This weekend I went to my dacha neighbor to ask a wifi password. All I had is a laptop with half-tuned Debian (do not use no smartphones). He gave me that QR and I could not read it because QR is not text. He is not a technician and I did not want to persist in my ask, so the situation ended up with no internets for me :( Please stop using human-unreadable protocols if opposite is possible.
It was a leading question, answer to which only you can know based on your threat model. I did however say what you can do if you don't trust Microsoft, which also makes the question quite irrelevant.
traditional hedgefund money is in a bank - a court can freeze their account, give it to their creditors, seize any new money that goes in it, etc.

Crypto hedge-funds money is a cold-wallet protected by a 12 words phrase (some anyway - if they are smart). No one can really get to them.

(yes - the founder can go to jail. But, funds could stay locked forever)
Netflix is an easy example.

In a ways, definitely yes. But I was speaking more in terms of modifying frontends to convince providers' backends to grant stuff straight from the source, not reuploaded to a mirror.

WoW server patches and pirated backends I would count since you're getting pirated content on a mostly official frontend.

Though the argument is somewhat flimsy. Can't say I've played many games with reverse-engineered servers.
Or if they've run off (not saying they have). With a traditional account, a court could force the bank to transfer assets. Unless there is a third-party custodian of the accounts, there is no recourse. Not your keys, not your coins after all.
Ask HN: Is there anything worth getting on Prime Day?
The DMCA has provisions that is supposed to protect against copyright false claims. But every article I read about false claims always ends with some kind of definition of copyright. Like in this article, 'What is Copyright?'.

It never goes beyond that ever. What about restitution to the people who were wrongly taken down? Why is false DMCA takedowns so prevalent if it's illegal per DMCA? Turns out NO ONE has ever been convicted of a false DMCA claim, and that's by design. In fact, the phenomenon has its own name: Copyfraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud

That's what happens when we let businessmen write our laws. A fix to how Google handles DMCA isn't enough, DMCA is fundamentally user hostile. We need to fix this at the political level.
I find service often poor inside buildings even with a new phone and using Verizon towers, so I always connect to WiFi if it's present.
Not this one in particular, but the general idea of decentralizing social networks often seems to miss the necessary ingredient that drove people to social networks in the first place and overlooks what social networks originally were - social proof.

Start with the use case, not the tech. I joked that facebook was invented as a way to let people know you went to harvard without having to say you went to harvard. It started by solving the h-bomb problem whereby having a thefacebook account they created an online way to say you went to school "in Boston," which they then extended to "in Newhaven," "New Jersey" and then to any college affiliation at all (.edu domain requirement). That signalling was the use case. It expanded to include people without that status but wanted access to it, and the only way to "win" at facebook was either an Ivy school education or becoming a celebrity. Once it opened up to everyone else, it finally became the cruel spectacle it is today, and the source of our cultural discord.

A decentralized social network isn't a protocol problem. The hardest thing to face is that nobody wants to join decentralized social networks because they confer no signalling benefits or meaningful status to users the way central ones did. It wasn't an artifact of the technology that made the handful of social networks successful, it was their use case.

Clubhouse almost replicated it, but like any elite organization, 80% of the game became not-being the person who recommends someone off brand or un-cool, and so it became contrived and over gatekept, and its growth atrophied from the anxiety.

Git is probably the closest thing to a decentralized social network that confers tenuously analogous status to what FB originally did, where instead of your school tribe and pictures of your butt, it's a competence graph with localized hierarchies.

It's like we can solve every problem except how to become attractive to users, probably because we're indexed not on being attractive, but on emmulating what we percieve as smart and powerful and solving a problem, which is the very thing repelling users from decentralized social networks: The products are self-defined as inferior to the problems they oppose, and not as sharing access to a desirable resource - like powerful tribes and butt pictures. Nobody wants to become like decentralized social users.

Twitter's blue checks are similar, where you can affilliate with people close to the source of official power narrative by "following" them. If they follow you back, it's an endorsement of your identity and status. If I join a decentralized social network, what do I get? A bunch of anonymous fugitives pushing newsletters explaining why it's someone else's fault they're unhappy.

This is a message of mercy to decentralized social projects. Focus on the use cases and build things for specific people you sincerely like and who sincerely like you back, and not anti-solutions to anti-problems for aspirational audiences using obfuscated proxies to simple experiences.
I wonder how Türkiyish people feel about this change
amateur astronomer here. (https://www.instagram.com/mead_observatory/)

1. photoshop is really good at composing different (spectral) layers together. There is alternatives to this like pixinight that are more geared toward deep sky astronomy work but I'm sure it's easier to hire people that can just take a Photoshop class.

there are many layers/masks involved for different filters. the filters accept or reject certain wavelengths of light and may be designed for specific elements on the periodic table. people often talk about hydrogen filters or oxygen filters, sulfer filters etc. the color distinction you see is actually indicating elemental composition much of the time. I'm not sure what filters webb is using.

2. modern telescopes clean up their images by taking a "master dark frame" that is a stacked frame of many frames taken with the lens cap on. The goal there is to compute the noise profile of the sensor. I'm sure before launch the darks for the sensors were determined and are at the ready to correct and calibrate images coming from the telescope. think of it as applying a bespoke noise filter for that sensor. It's a fast process to apply it, but not to generate it. If they really make the raws available I'm sure we'll see more noise there.

3. the touch up you see them doing is the removal of a hot pixel which survived the calibration process with the dark frame. no doubt on space telescopes they still get errant hot pixel of some kind of particle or cosmic ray they don't want makes it to the sensor and flips a bit (and is therefore not account for in the master dark). happens all the time. they're probably keeping a map of where they're getting hot pixels.
> Uber had built a dummy version of its own app

Is this why Uber had problem controlling the app size? https://eng.uber.com/how-uber-deals-with-large-ios-app-size/
May anyone please ELI5 how to interpret the WASP-96 water spectrum graph above?
I write A/B tests for headlines for a news site, this is too broad a generalization. Clickbait titles aren't great for building subscribers or establishing trust, which is what we really care about (LTV). To the author's credit, our deepest testing insights come from analyzing a lot of historical data (not just last week's).
You seem knowledgeable about the Nikon world. The current Z9 is being touted as the first ILC with a completely electronic shutter. How is this possible without having an impact on image quality when so many DSLRs/MILCs have been dependent on physical shutters?
It does, if the assumption is that laws are passed by a democratic society for the benefit of said society. That's not always the case, but when it comes to something tangential to protecting consumer rights (like this case), evading these laws seems suspicious.
More like, "comes through the country".
> Long story short, it is an ongoing problem that pirates receive a superior product. (A problem for publishers anyways, not one for pirates.)

Yep. Also, don't forget: an even bigger problem for legitimate users.
I really wish they sourced the graph talking about the atmosphere becoming unbreathable.
Yes and I blame the manufacturers for this. They turned the hobby into a gear sport, spent decades convincing this exact segment that step zero to taking "real" pictures was to buy about $5000 worth of equipment. It worked well and made a lot of money for a long time... but also completely took all the fun out of photography imo. People were more likely to sit around arguing on online forums about "bokeh" and f-stops than go out and actually shoot pictures. Now suddenly everyone has an amazing camera sitting in their pocket, everyone is a photographer, picture taking has increased, what, ten-thousand fold? Photography is fun again ... and they are not even in the conversation. You reap what you sow.
If it helps others like me, I found it easier to download the images through wget and then open the local file through browser.
I bet you've also got 3 Spoon engines, and just came into Harry's and ordered 3 T66 turbos with NOS and a Motec System Exhaust.