skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the better mirrorless cameras have some extra moving parts, for the anti-shake mechanism, which is capable of moving the sensor around to cancel out the movement of the camera. Yes, you can do anti-shake in the lens, but I think there are some advantages to having it in the body as well.

My camera isn't a mirrorless, but I'm actually glad it still has the focus motor inside it, because that means that I can go and buy an old cheap (but still good) second-hand lens that still uses the mechanical focus gear, and get autofocus. Some other camera bodies don't have that motor, so those older lenses are manual focus only with them. With the mirrorless, by dint of having a brand new lens mount, they were able to mandate that each lens has its own autofocus motor, but I just thought I'd point this reason to have more mechanical stuff in the camera out.

And of course I also have somewhere an old film camera where absolutely everything (except the lightmeter) works if you take the battery out. Quite how they got the precision to be able to set shutter speeds between seconds and 1/2000th of a second is quite beyond me.
>Can't this have the SSID/password too?

Already linked by people in this topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Joining_a_Wi%E2%80%91F...

>All too often you see what should be simple textual data wrapped in this obtuse form which only specific machines can read.

>See: <https://twitter.com/adambowie/status/1521078234057695233> for context

This is misuse of QR code; QR codes should be used to encode large data or some other clunky data that is hard for people to process that's why it is easier to look up such data/information with QR code and process/read it digitally. After all you have a camera in your pocket and a preinstalled QR code scanner(at least all new Android phones have). The main use case of QR codes that I see is simply linking you to a website. For example your favorite food brand links you to their website to explore their offering.

>Text and a QR code can be read by everyone.

Yea I agree with you that both plain text and a QR code should be shared so people can use what suits them the best at that particular moment.
> They haven't sorted it out, but it's also fundamentally not really something that Google can sort out.

This isn't really true. The main grievance people have with Google is that they've automated _everything_ to the point where it's impossible to escalate to a real person. They enable this type of abuse because they make it easy for people to abuse the DMCA system with impunity.

Even massive channels and companies have a hard time fighting back. A recent example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/bungie-slams-you...
https://archive.ph/Rn1O6
I have all three editions. The 1st one is 32-bit only, the 2nd covers both 32 and 64-bit and the 3rd is 64-bit only.

If you can, buy the 3rd edition (this is one of the few books worth its price) and then pickup the 1st edition for cheap/free from somewhere. Try for Used/Secondhand copies to save money.

There is a lot to learn from the book; all of them necessary for a beginner to connect the dots and get the full picture. So don't get stuck on any one chapter/problem but make sure to cover all the chapters in sequence skipping over unnecessary details in the first couple of passes. As an example you don't need to know the nitty-gritty of PIC/GOTs/PLTs/Assembly minutiae etc. in the beginning but just understand the concepts of Relocatable code and Executable vs. Shared Object files.
SF cops want real-time access to private security cameras for surveillance
> Jump as a concrete implementation is easy to understand (it's just math on a program counter).

This doesn't take into account what happens to memory on the stack if you jump into or out of the scope of a local variable. You can say that memory and initialization is not the implementation's problem and rely on the compiler to emit instructions that correctly adjust or initialize the stack before and after jumps. Then, yes, you get a very simple jump implementation.

But you also get an architecture that must either do stack analysis before it can safely run code, or you get an unsafe architecture. Those are both valid choices (the JVM does the former and native architectures do the latter), but there are real trade-offs with them.

A third way, that WASM does, is to say that control flow isn't simple, but that you get safe stack management for free with it.
Ten Percent of the Brain Myth
Call me naive, but if Uber exploits workers, why don’t they choose some other employer? If it’s the workers’ best choice, then thank goodness for Uber, right?
Bright eyed PMs whispering "statistically significant" to themselves over and over as they nervously scan their data aggregation dashboards for wiggles.
Low euro should make exports more competitive, no?

I remember after 2008, greece and other countries, couldn't devalue currency enough to help them get out of the recession as they were all tied to the euro; that extended their pain longer than otherwise would have been expected.
"a reduction in the current passenger cap from 101,500 to 100,000"

Doesn't seem that dramatic?
Gravitational lensing. From the description[0]:

Other features include the prominent arcs in this field. The powerful gravitational field of a galaxy cluster can bend the light rays from more distant galaxies behind it, just as a magnifying glass bends and warps images. Stars are also captured with prominent diffraction spikes, as they appear brighter at shorter wavelengths.

[0] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2...
Nice, but I don't like such being forced to be a static PSK.

Instead, could also make an e-paper device for this. Perhaps it would work on badgerOS?
Currently can't find any reference to this in the Chron, Merc, or Mission Local.
Thanks for posting these links! It was frustrating that the main NASA PR pages linked photos that were 1280x720. I guess that's to protect their bandwidth costs since much of the general public is probably viewing on mobile anyway and higher res would not only be slower but wasted bits.

I just wish NASA had provided a link at the bottom of their low-res image pages to intermediate sized images (~4k) for desktop viewing.
This was also recently posted on reddit: https://johnedchristensen.github.io/WebbCompare/
Use Unicode CLDR data.

https://cldr.unicode.org/
I can think of two ways:

First, many English-speakers are familiar with -stan, which is used in seven different country names, plus some region names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-stan

For most of these, you can get an ethnonym or demonym by removing -stan or -istan.

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"!
> That convenience wasn't lost on BMW, which for the 2019 model year turned CarPlay from a $300 stand-alone option into a subscription through its ConnectedDrive suite of app services, at $80 per year or $300 for 20 years.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30139034/bmw-apple-carpla...
Nothing’s Phone (1) is official
https://archive.ph/hKdNp
I can thank Rangarok Online and Lineage 2 for teaching me Unix administration and scripting at a young age. While the eAthena project has rested, there is a fork rAthena that is still surprisingly running. The truth though is that Aegis (the official software) was stolen by an RDP hack on Gravity's servers back in the day. That was a boon to the jAthena and later eAthena projects.
ASN.1 has been around _dramatically_ longer than protobufs - I don't think I can take lack of libraries as a legitimate reason.
I had always assumed they were doing it completely mathematically though. Like collating spectrometry readings to know what elements were present where and figuring out the temperature for blackbody emission or something, or even just linearly transforming the raw data from the spectrum the telescope can receive to the visible spectrum.

Kinda disappointing if it's really just a paint by numbers Photoshop to look nice
Yes, it is distorted by a gravitational lensing effect of a massive galaxy cluster. Each image has a short discussion at this link, and a longer discussion linked via "Learn more about this image" for even more info: https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
The fundamental error is confusing free "as in beer" with free "as in freedom." The two are unrelated or in some cases even at odds with one another, such as when "free" stuff is used as a barbed hook to bait people into closed SaaS or surveillance based ecosystems.

The reality is that software is extremely expensive, especially polished software with a good user experience that's usable by non-experts. Good UX can take many times more effort than just getting something working. Without an economic model, FOSS will always lose in the general market.

I've been ranting about this for years on this site and elsewhere. Doctrinaire FOSS people seem to largely not get it or not care.

If you try to introduce any alternative license or distribution model it'll be rejected by the OSI, which is largely captured by the big surveillance capitalist companies like Facebook and Google. These have no incentive to change anything about the landscape. They're perfectly happy with open source as free labor for them and with competitors being unable to grow revenue.
I agree with this.

I have heard that some folks use DMCA as, basically, a "protection racket." Not sure why they would do that, because there are probably easier (and less risky) ways.

But, as long as there's no penalty for filing a false DMCA claim, there's nothing stopping the "blunderbuss approach," which is hugely popular, with lawyers.
Thanks for the insight, that's really helpful.

Do you think you might be able to share some of the forums I could look for additional information? (Either here or through email if that's more comfortable)

I've tried searching and found a infrequently used forum at CanadaVisa, and an even smaller/older one at Immigroup, but neither had much.
As others have said: there is frequency shifting done. However, it is important to know that distant galaxies are red shifted making the visible spectrum be in IR. In the case of JWST the frequency shifted images may be close to the non-redshifted visible spectrum.
Thank you. The linked website is horrendous.
Very insightful way to evaluate our tools for discovery and understanding
nope - keep it in mint condition and try selling after production has stopped :) collectors item etc.
I fear there won't be any more JWSTs at all. People are already bitching about how much it cost and that all it does is make pretty pictures right here in this thread and there were many times that it came within a hair of having its budget slashed.

Super happy we have one JWST, and I hope fervently that it will outlast its original mission by a large fraction, every sign right now points in that direction.
Well wasm doesn't have exceptions right now either! The exceptions proposal is also in phase 3, like tail-calls. Right now wasm just supports traps, which can't be caught or inspected from within wasm code, and don't actually need to record stack frames (but the JavaScript host does in web browsers). I'm not sure what benefit exposing the wasm part of the stack for traps gives the JavaScript host side except perhaps easing debugging? (though that is important, I think there are other valid solutions for that)

To be clear, I do want wasm to support the major language use cases, and I think implementing exception support is a good (though tricky, see the exceptions proposal) idea.
They had a TGI Fridays on the US military bases in Afghanistan.
6+ years... wow.

I'm afraid I'll end up like this:

- unable to use Adsense/Admob for years

- and not getting the money

- money becomes basically nothing because of inflation
I suppose it was inevitable but it breaks my heart.

I shot on film in high school. I had a decent job so I could buy enough film and processing that I didn't worry too much about "wasting" shots.

I used various point-and-shoots in the late 90s and early 2000's. I constantly had "battery anxiety". I missed a lot of good shots because I kept the camera powered-off for fear of draining the battery. When I threw caution to the wind and kept the camera on the battery would inevitably die and I'd miss shots. I was constantly thinking about my battery. It sapped a lot of the joy from shooting pictures.

I never worry about that with my Nikon DSLRs. I can grab the camera when I head out in the morning and know I can shoot as much as I want, all day, and never run out of battery. (Realistically a big shooting day for me is only 400-500 shots. Still...)

Given how long my D30, D3100, and now D7200 have lasted I guess I can find some inventory blowout on a couple newer cameras and hoard them away.
You’re aware that this is just the observable universe? It may be completely irrelevant relative to the total universe. ;)
Recursion has been a part of programming and programming languages for a very long time, and not just the functional ones. See ALGOL for recursion from very early on.
The abuse of this system is only going to get worse as high profile cases like Bungie's [1] highlight how exploitable it is, even against big companies. It seems to me, as an outsider to YouTube's systems, that the system of "copyright strikes" (which is not prescribed by the DMCA, it's a more recent demand concocted by MPAA and RIAA lawyers) has caused a lot of harm to good faith creators while determined infringers simply make a new account when one gets banned. Is there any real helpful effect of using strikes that copyright owners couldn't get from just taking action on individual videos?

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/digital-trails-how-bungie-identifie...
[1] appears to be one of the web sites generated by either GPT-3 or something like it. Don't trust anything it says.

Doing a web search specifically for "standard galactic alphabet quake 4" doesn't appear to produce any interesting results, so I think it's false.

Get a good read on [1]. Learning how to identify those web sites is rapidly becoming an important skill. Today you're just learning something a bit wrong about Quake 4 because the transformer model thought that sounded plausible, tomorrow it could be something much more dangerously wrong.
I agree on that. There's no back door in the UK system, whereas the US system seems to be a front door with 1% acceptance plus a back door with maybe 40%. Choose your door with money.

In the UK system, even if you do have privilege, you still have to do the same exercises and the same work, and impress the same person to get in.
Speaking of cherry-picking. Which European fab is ASML selling to? Being able to manufacture one machine for one stage of the process doesn't make an industry. Europe has some great niche companies, but has a real problem fostering an actual ecosystem.

Europe has sleep-walked into technological irrelevance since at least the early 2000s. In 10 years or so, all there's left in European tech that's competitive is going to be aviation, and agriculture and fashion if you count them as tech.

> People get real holiday, great purchasing power (sure, not as high as a US tech worker, but pretty darn good), healthcare that doesn’t bankrupt them, proper mental health treatment so walking down a street isn’t a gamble, great affordable education, and the pleasure of not having a mass shooting multiple times a week. But yeah, the US has some big companies. Good for you bud.

US tech workers have PTO, and Europe has mass shootings as well, and war and migrant crisis on the border. FANNG's profit is not just big, they are so massive, they dwarf many European countries' GDP.

The truth is hard to swallow, but if Europe doesn't recognize just how far behind you are, you are never going to catch up, or even better, produce some industrial leaders once in a while.
Hmm, weird, I don't know. I only got as far as Turbo C 2.0 and then jumped ship to Turbo Pascal for the next several years (I know, I know.. not a great decision in hindsight!) ;-)
I believe this page has what you want: https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages Click on the image, twice, to get to a large-but-not-crazy resolution photo.
These are two disconnected things.

Google has a style guide for documentation that suggests that people do not include certain kinds of words. This does not imply that users posting content with these words will trigger policy violations.
The loss of the prosumer market is the one that will hurt the most - professionals can support a smallish group of companies/models, but prosumers buy way more camera than they need.
But it's not.
Podcast Interviews: Bretton Goods, Plugged In
We are peculiarly inclined to suppress whatever impugns the security of that to which we have given our allegiance.

- Walter Lippman, The Basic Problem of Democracy, 1919 (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1919/11/the-bas...)
I've seen this website before but I forgot about it...
Comments like this break the site guidelines.

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's because, overwhelmingly, cases like this where people are convinced that something seems "totally astroturfed" turn out to simply be people disagreeing with each other. The community is divided on divisive issues like this one. To a first approximation, it really is as simple as that.

Of course there are also various kinds of manipulation, but because of what I said in the previous paragraph, the only legitimate way to address those is to look for evidence—that means something objective, which is not just based on people having opinions that seem obviously wrong or bad (i.e. sufficiently different from one's own).

This phenomenon is extremely well established and you can find many years of past explanation about it here:
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
.

Edit: incidentally, perceptions like "Every single time there's an article about $topic..." are also hopelessly subject to cognitive bias. HN has had many, many threads about Uber which have been dominated by negative sentiment.
Ugh, you could literally pay a UBI from that and CO2 dividends, yes it will be small but it would be fair.
If you care about computational efficiency, build a lookup table and cache it. Flight models generally deal with a known, bounded problem space rather than novel inputs.
I do not understand why this leak portrays Uber badly.

Is there anything wrong with having a kill switch? Is there anything wrong with breaking laws that entrench local monopolies.

Laws are not always good. I won't say this is the next civil rights movement, but sometimes extrajudicial measures are needed for reform.
> Quite how they got the precision to be able to set shutter speeds between seconds and 1/2000th of a second is quite beyond me.

If you meet the engineers and scientists that do this, you would understand. It's almost a religious obligation.

Also, I think a lot of anti-shake is now done with piezo. Not "true" "no moving parts," but close.
I’m excited to see the new database and data management and ingestion solutions that will come out of this.

Anyone know if ZFS is playing a role?
> It’s between an underpaid job, and a well paid job with less profits for shareholders and owners

what reason you have to believe that is in fact the option? there are really quite few businesses with profit margins so high you could meaningfully raise pay purely by reducing profits.

> If your particular business can’t exist and pay people well, it needs to die to make room for one that can.

and how does that unspecified higher-margin business (if one even exists) achieve it? presumably the main way would be to be much smaller, charge higher fees & target more exclusive customers, so that only the rich get the benefits of the business, and vastly fewer people even get the opportunity for a job. sounds great.

trade-offs exist and your inability to acknowledge them is not constructive
Quite possible, I think. I've heard quite a bit of buzz around jailbreaking Teslas for unpaid for features.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mb3w/people-are-jailbreaki...
Heh. I’ve stopped clicking remember me boxes because they never work.
You can’t blame Uber for workers who make bad decisions, can you?
If the amount is low enough you can sue them in small claims court in the US, which the amount is dependent on the state. Small claims court is geared more towards people self defending.
Insurance seems to be a good place for jobs like this.
Back in the 2000s pretty much everyone knew not to run un-trusted code ("don't open that email attachment"). But then javascript happened and the utility was so profound everyone decided to forget.
Use Unicode CLDR data.

License: https://unicode.org/copyright.html
<bad-idea>

Maybe what will evolve the space is automatic translation from any possible format to any other format using AI.

You don't need to manage a server or store anything in any particular way in any particular place.

Instead, you expose whatever you want in any way you want, whether that's uploading a video to some big tech host, or exposing a bunch of XML over FTP, or a RESTful endpoint that serves binary encoding pictures of cats.

My user agent scoops up everything and presents it to me in a way that I like.

There would need to be some creative ideas involved for, say, "replying" (hashes? webmentions?)

In other words, maybe innovation on the demand side is where the fun is.

</bad-idea>
How the FBI Wiretapped the World
At one point I was trying to set up my grandma with a popular video calling app on a dedicated device so we could stay in touch.

Before I could give her the freshly grandparent-proofed device, said video calling app upgraded on my parents' PC first and changed literally every single element of the UI beyond recognition. To someone the age of my grandma, that would be literally like bricking the device remotely, because none of the buttons would look the same, and she would not be able to work out how to use the new interface.

STOP CHANGING THINGS! Even if the new UI is better (debatable), some people just like or rely on a particular layout to operate the device or app. Don't rearrange without giving a ~permanent setting to use the old layout.
fyi these ideas are from Rob Walling fwiw
Great pictures
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/07/12/11110028...
I use ansible to configure the OS and to maintain my home. From there I am able to spawn my environment within minutes on a fresh installed system.

Local history of data (not backup) is done by scheduled file system snapshots (zfsnap). I use this whenever I accidentally delete files or directories. It saved my a55 at least once within all the years I have it running.

For instant sync of data between laptops and remote systems, I use syncthing (direct connection through ssh tunnels)

And to the question of backup: borgbackup. But only selected directories of my home. The rest can be reinstalled via ansible.