skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Me. I was an amateur and was definitely buying in the low end of the SLR spectrum, but I kind of stopped when iphone cameras started getting very good. I thought that photography was a cool hobby and liked being able to control a bunch of parameters, but once the iphones got good enough cameras, it was not cool anymore to hang out in bars and cafes with a huge slr camera, it was not conversation starter, and at some point the camera just got too much of a pain to take with me when i went out, so i started leaving it home, and I stopped spending money on it, and eventually i just kind of put it away.
Your mistake is using default aircraft - most consumer simulators will have poor renditions of aircraft that ship with the base game, mainly because the majority of development time is spent on core mechanics and the game engine. Download some high quality 3rd party aircraft and it’ll change your mind.
we just had the news yesterday of the fairly large youtube channel that was automatically permanently closed due to false dmca claims.

it would be fascinating to see if anyone were thoroughly outraged by the automated failures in youtube’s dmca channel closure system yet defend amazon automating the firing of workers.

i’m guessing we’d find more than a few people defending one while being outraged by the other.

at the end of the day we need to consider that maybe we need to put more resources towards human intervention in certain areas where automation seems to be causing harm needlessly to quite a few people where the path to rectify the situation seems anything but clear.
Firmware is automatically updated/managed. Not sure I would trust that. What are the odds they're monitoring usage to improve the system?
You prefer getting vaguer metrics to work towards? Sucky and misaimed metrics exist with the qualatative too. Blaming quantitative efforts is misplaced. Subjectivity is not your friend.
Ask HN: Best Low-Addictive Phone?
A lot has been written about the damaging effects of modern smartphone use/addiction recently. I'd love to give up my aging Android phone for something with a good camera, good battery life, and no Internet browser / social media. I still need WhatsApp, Google Maps, Uber, and a few other basic apps for work, but I want to get rid of anything with the potential to keep me scrolling infinitely. Has anyone else succeeded in this task? Are there good modern phones which can be successfully locked down to such a degree?
Getting a benefit from building a network is not lottery odds. It's certainly benefitted my career multiple times.
Increasingly on the big 3 American cloud I can tell you that.
Sure, if things go to shit to the point where I am defending my property, the money wont matter.

But if I have ~$2MM in an index fund just sitting around, even a conservative 7.5% return YOY will afford me $150,000 per year in potential cash to pull out (without depleting the original principle) that nets me 112,500 after the maximum theoretical capital gains (just assume a naïve, flat 25%) which is more than enough to keep the lights on if I own my home, car, and do 90% of building maintenance myself.

The advantage here is that this part of the system is what the ultra wealthy rely on to amass more wealth so it's going to be one of the last institutions in society to fall apart because the wealthy and powerful will fight tooth and nail to make sure they can keep making money.
https://youtu.be/9i1WlcCudpU
Right? To add,

These guys have been doing exactly that for decades, and with very simple sensors and microcontrollers,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IngelKjmecg
Probably. I used to take either my SLR or mirrorless camera with me almost everywhere I went a decade or so ago. I don't anymore because my phone camera is good enough for most things.

If I'm going somewhere nice and know I know I'll want to take pictures I'll still take my mirrorless camera, but honestly phone cameras have gotten to the point where for a lot of shots the average person won't be able to tell the difference anyway. Dedicated cameras only really shine in extremes now, or if you're looking for a very specific shot.
Protip: Just book VIP to avoid troubles when arriving/departing at LHR. https://www.heathrowvip.com/

Same goes for Schiphol https://www.schiphol.nl/en/page/schiphol-vip-service/

For relatively little money, the private terminal services offer you a very high quality stress-free experience. No need to navigate crowded airports or tow your luggage around. They’ll drive you from a comfortable lounge straight to the plane (and vice-versa). For passport control, you just sit in a comfy armchair as the border force girl comes to check your documents.

Depending on the airline and airport you depart from, your luggage will often get binned separately in order to guarantee a super fast delivery to the VIP terminal.
> I'm honestly not sure why Google doesn't push for ['integrator' or 'reseller' — a smaller-scale but still-large entity that you'd have a support contract with] model.

Isn't this kinda what multi-channel networks are?
So I generally agree with all this. But in my opinion there's a limit to how much money you can justify with "it's art". If you're making 150 of something, you shouldn't be justifying a particularly huge price with it being art. If it really cost that much, and the price of making just one would have been ridiculously huge, then there is a point where I'd say the whole project is not worth it, is not making the world a better place. (Note: I am not stating any opinion on where this watch is relative to that level.)

Or to restate and elaborate on my original point: 99% of the time, it's fine to use art as a reason to buy something. You don't always have to be donating every dollar to charities. But for any level of justification you want to reach for the price of a piece of art, the dollar amount that fits under "justified" depends on how many copies are being made.
It might be only my bubble (of non-tech-savvy people), but recently I started to use QR code to share my WiFi and there was never such friction you described. I don't do it with a printed out image, but my phone has an option to share the WiFi via QR code. Also, modern phones have a direct button from the WiFi connection screen to directly scan a QR and connect to WiFi... This is a thing... and it's easier to use it as typing `ShinyTortoise78`...
Absolutely. For example, my parents in law, who are very much non-technical, had a Canon DSLR, and a film SLR before digital, that they used to take normal family/vacation photos. They've long since switched to just using their phone. I think you're underestimating the number of people who bought low-end (D)SLRs with the cheap kit zoom lens and used them for regular, non-enthusiast, non-professional photography without ever taking the lens off let alone buying higher end ones.

The alternative used to be a compact or bridge camera without an interchangeable lens, and those too have gone close to extinct.

Essentially, the market served by (D)SLRs has changed to be almost entirely pros and dedicated hobbyist photographers, which is a small market compared to "everyone who takes photos". And now, mirrorless is well on the way to taking over that small market. I'm an enthusiastic hobbyist photographer, and switched to mirrorless in 2014 (Fuji X-T1). I knew immediately after getting my first mirrorless camera that I would never buy another DSLR.
That was a lot of fun. Thanks!
Section 230 only provides more legal shield, not less. The OP to which I responded did not name other, non-DMCA legislation.

A much stronger statement would be defending their right not to do it and then, crucially, not doing it.
Yup - it's my first thought whenever I see these nostalgic accounts of Blockbuster - "What? People are pining for the bad guy again?!?"
Another recent Honda keyfob vulnerability: https://github.com/HackingIntoYourHeart/Unoriginal-Rice-Patt...
Yeah but they also lighten the ad servers' load by not downloading the ads themselves, so it evens out. And considering most load from modern websites is indeed tracking and ads, I might even argue that adblocking saves the website money when I was never going to click on an ad anyway.

If a website needs money to exist, paywalls and donations exist. If a website serves content without payment, that's their problem not mine.
What an excellent write up.

I agree with the sentiment on AB testing but I think the bigger insight is that we need to be reminded to see the forest for the trees with any process, tool, or goal.

Sometimes these intangibles are hard to measure and almost need to be sensed.

It reminds me of how you can see the exact same development methodology used at two different companies, where at one company it works beautifully and at the other it becomes a bureaucratic albatross.
I wrote an essay about this problem in the 01990s: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html
This is a common misconception. Bitcoin mining is taking electricity generation that would otherwise be wasted. In non-peak demand times the energy is generated anyway and would simply be wasted. Bitcoin mining takes that energy and does something productive with it.
> let service providers renegotiate and pay their staff more

That is impossible, they cannot raise the agreed-upon rates without terminating the contract and holding a fully new tender process. Contract termination would require agreement of both parties, but no vendor would ever agree to the termination of a contract if they could not be sure to win the new tender.
My explanation, on the other hand, also explains why it's not a billion.

So my explanation has more explanatory power than yours.
Austere Unification Scholar
You're going to need a decent definition of exploitation or better word if you want to make any Headway with people.

Some people claim that every employer is exploiting their workers

It is a separate but related issue then the law-breaking. They need to be discussed separately.

Most people recognize that there are bad laws that should be broken, and bad laws that should be changed.

If Uber broke a bad law, the most important solution is to fix the law.
If Uber broke a good law, the most important solution is to stop them.
I don't think web assembly is low level at all. Actually the name is confusing because it's really not much like an assembly language.
The feature is sold for much less than $2K. In the article it mentions $400 for a lifetime subscription. What could be attractive to that executives is an opportunity to broaden the market for this feature.

I.e. instead of having only one chance to sell you this feature at the time of order, they now can let you trial this after the purchase. They might even run a promo during a cold streak for free (just like SiriusXM gives free access during major holidays). $18/mo is there just to make $406 number more attractive.

I think people are too distracted by the subscription aspect and missing the fact that the "conversion rate" for heated seats purchases could be improved.
OpenLDAP's license is a pretty standard BSD 3-clause.
Even if Amazon gets in trouble for union busting, it may be the case that the consequences of getting caught are outweighed by the costs associated with rising wages/benefits/conditions for labor under a union.
Wait, so it's not "Berm-uh" and "My-ahn-mar" ?
Depending on the orientation, you wouldn't have the right pixels to put for the angle of view from straight on.

Eg, you'd normally see the side view of an object, but the lensing gets you the top and bottom views
As I always say: whatever you want - it's up to you what apps you install and use. It's all about the self discipline.

I have an iPhone but I don't use any social media (beside business related topics). At a certain hour, I switch on do not disturb mode - and problems are for tomorrow.
I've always wondered how for example private WoW servers work. Do they replicate the whole backend based on observations of how the actual game works and the network requests being made? How is that even possible without knowing all the quirks and other indirect behaviors you have no visibility of? E.g. when the server game loop ticks a thousand things happen that are not transmitted to the clients.
Ours don’t. Precommit formatters and linters do the drudge work. Tests check the logic. Critiquing the design takes ten mins. Gitlab shows the context.

Do in the morning or end of day, if in the zone.
Agreed. And once you have a list of interesting contenders, sites like justwatch.com will help you track down where you can find them.
> I'm impressed with how many people really do not understand the meaning of these terms.

When multiple people tell you that you’re wrong and no one else is taking your side, the rational response is to consider that you may be wrong. But, as humans, we sometimes lack the willingness (or perhaps ability) to do so.
The insurance is to satisfy the lender's requirement for lending me money to buy the house.

But if I did not have a redundant house or enough money to pay for a new home, I would also want the insurance to rebuild or repair a house. It is possible to have enough cash to replace your needed belongings, but not enough cash to rebuild the house after a fire.

I am fortunate to have more than $25k available for immediate concerns. But I often find people who have more than sufficient cash such that they have already insured themself to buy additional low deductible insurance. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but in the age of low cost broad market index funds, I say why not cut out the middleman.
Not just in astronomy but also in biology, pretty much anyone working with images uses photoshop at least for the final layout. In biology where the rgb overlay is paramount for result interpretation, generally it’s frowned upon to play with channels too much.

But when you have 10k x 5k pixel images and channels that don’t directly correlate with visual spectrum I don’t see why using photoshop extensively is wrong especially for images to be released to the general public. I’m even sure some local touch up is acceptable for me.
Could it be the case that the US is ~30x larger than Germany?
Google TechTalks: Bayesian Optimization May Power the Next Generation of DL
Could you point me to some further info on this?
It’s refreshing to see these stories. As someone from the commercial film world, these stories often end in “long term relationships that are incredibly mutually beneficial and profitable for all” or “someone got something for free off me knowing full well they had no intention of ever talking to me again.”

It’s tough knowing the difference. A lot of people baulk when I say I won’t “go the extra mile” sometimes, but frankly I just have to make my own calculations and sometimes you (royal you) are just being greedy. If I “go the extra” mile as a video producer for every person who asks me, not only am I potentially setting steeper expectations for next time (because it is NEVER just once with most people and they may tell others), but I am also taking on more work for less pay. That’s other work I could be doing, that’s being with my kids, that’s all sorts of valuable time for potentially nothing.

I don’t know. I hope this little rant has something useful in it haha
What expensive equipment? It's a VM.
DONT THINK I WONT
The problem with testing, is the people who optimize for testing guaranteed do not give a shit about the actual work.
Have you entertained the possibility that we can tell, in said call, that the person who immediately requested the call needs the email explained to them (or asks multiple questions recapitulating the basics of the email) before they can contribute?

I'm not complaining about people asking questions to clarify or build on their understanding of the email. (Or even a lack of understanding; it's hard to build enough shared context to communicate well.)

You're the one here uncharitably projecting the assumption that we're punishing people for asking reasonable questions about something they made an effort to read.
> guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week

This I think is part of the huge problem with modern "low level"/minimum wage jobs. Companies don't pay enough to live of of one salary but expect to have full say over their employees time just for their own convenience in scheduling and staffing.
Funny I was just at Bletchley park and one of the exhibits mentions you JGC for contacting Gordon Brown in 2009 about Alan Turing's pardon :)
When reading the article, I was reminded of how things must have been working as a slave laborer in the underground Nordhausen rocket factory in 1944.
Sounds like constructive dismissal.
We're comparing headline numbers, not economic cost. There are so many other economic costs to hiring someone that it would be almost impossible to compare. The most blaring one of course is healthcare cost. In the US, the employer bears this cost which is enormous (as healthcare is astronomically expensive in the US) and by your argument this would reduce "your likelihood of receiving a certain level of take-home pay"

And yet incomes are much higher in the US than in Germany.

I think headline numbers are the only useful thing to compare here.
He didn't invest much time, just the time on the call and the time to determine it wasn't a fit. So I wouldn't call it optimizing for lottery. Instead, I'd call it optimizing for reputation. And you can't know what doors your reputation will open for you. You just can't.

What's the alternative? If he'd fibbed and tried to make it work, and then wasted everyone's time during the sales process. Or worse had an unhappy team at the end of the POC or a contract that the company wouldn't renew?

I guess he could have not taken the call, but I think if a client asks you to do that and it isn't invasive in terms of effort, most consulting folks would do it.
that was my immediate first question
That's an argument for the acquisition of YT by Google being net positive, but it doesn't answer the OP's question, which he specifically restricts to the "less tangible parts of the smaller company".
> Google Chat) doesn't even have feature parity

Which features are you missing?
For someone about to go knees deep into Blazor very soon.

Do you have any gotchas which isn't really mentioned on MS documentation site? primarily related to performance, since it will be one of my main concerns.
Filmot – Search within YouTube subtitles
So is there any reason not to point this at Proxima Centauri b, like, ASAP?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b
Calling a publisher and developer a "player" in the context of video games makes your sentence confusing to parse.
Biiiig part of the equation people don’t consider when they ask us to “go the extra mile” repeatedly. It’s ok for us to ask, “well…what have you done for me lately or can commit to now?” once in a while.
It's relevant, but not quite what's described.

Seems like you're addressing the difference between the concept of Social Contract and the concept of Law.

The Social Contract is exactly what you described: the implicit permissions and offenses that a body of people will tolerate. It is, by definition, equal to the current will of the people, and as you said requires discovery. But it requires constant discovery, as the list of permissions and offenses may change over time, and is not necessarily consistent.

Law is an explicit agreement on what permissions and offenses that body of people will tolerate. Ideally it would match the social contract's list of permissions and offenses, but in reality it will always be lagging behind, and it's a social responsibility to try and keep it up to date. Unlike the Social Contract, the law is codified and constant, requiring no discovery.

In small groups of people, coexisting with just the social contract can be all you need. But as the group grows, it becomes less and less possible to predict what the current body of permissions is, leading to people committing offenses without malicious intent; there was no way for them to know beforehand that an action was an offense. And because the body of permissions changes constantly, it's also not something that can be relied on practically after the discovery. We must always suffer the anxiety of taking an action that will condemn us.

Law provides an easier means to get along by providing a constant and predictable list of permissions and offenses. It changes too, but only by announcement, allowing the populace to stay abreast of the updates. This offers a relief to the anxiety presented in a strictly Social Contract setting, and encourages people to act and be involved in daily life rather than avoidant of it.

The offenses you're describing seem to fall under the concept of De minimis[1], which establishes that there are offenses to a rule that just aren't worth acting on. We all know they're against the law, but not necessarily against the spirit of the law, and the cost of acting on those offenses are greater than the benefits. So we allow them to happen, by virtue of the Social Contract overriding the Law in minor circumstances.

But that doesn't mean that the rules and regulations aren't important and larger offenses should never be acted on. The Law is still the Law and for good reason. Ignore it, and that anxiety returns to plague anyone without the power to force their will.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis
Five Pillars of Building Developer Communities at HashiCorp
Yet it says nothing. Large companies are slow and stubborn.
Agent-based modeling looks like an interesting topic, something ripe for fun little side projects. The short (three paragraph) "Crash course on agent based modeling" [1] from the package docs gave me an idea of why ABM is useful. And scrolling through the example model [2] kinda answers what conveniences the package gives me, over implementing the simulation myself.

Has anyone here used ABM for a serious project? Fields like economics and sociology are mentioned, but how prevalent is Agent-based modeling in those fields in practice?

[1] https://juliadynamics.github.io/Agents.jl/stable/#Crash-cour...
[2] https://juliadynamics.github.io/Agents.jl/stable/examples/sc...
Well you clearly can't use 24:00:00 universally as the end of your day because sometimes there's a 24:00:01 on some days?
The Z9 has made quite a splash, though. So it's hard to criticize Nikon's most recent moves. That said, I switched to Fuji (from Canon SLRs) almost 10 years ago, and Fuji certainly makes the most interesting cameras to me as a dedicated but decidedly non-professional photographer with a real interest in cameras themselves. For example, Fuji's rangefinder-style cameras with a hybrid optical/electronic viewfinder are just plain cool (X-Pro and X100 series).
Charcuterie’s link to colon cancer confirmed by French authorities
It's unclear what the business relationship is when you click on a link. I click on a link in a tweet, and I'm taken to a site and apparently I've agreed to be shown ads? No. Plenty of sites I visit are not trying to monetize my eyeballs. Calling using software to give you a choice about what you agree to "piracy" seems wrong.

If sites offered consent - like "Welcome to this site, you'll see 10 ads per page, sold through google's ad network. Our content is written by humans not robots. Please disable adblock and proceed." That's a different relationship. Perhaps then it's more like taking something without paying ("piracy").

Perhaps in a sustained relationship, where you repeatedly visit a site, you know what it offers you and you want it, but are unwilling to pay the price of ads... maybe that starts to edge towards a piracy like situation.
This is some next-gen level bait. Gotta admire it.
A shortened URL is just as opaque for humans as a QR code.

http://bit.ly/gAtJlyc

Would you trust this URL?
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