skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an old DSLR (Nikon D90, circa 2008) and hadn't taken it anywhere in quite some time (due to it being big and heavy and smartphones being more or less good enough). However, I had been slightly disappointed with the vacation photos I was getting on my iPhone 11.

So I dug out the old DSLR and brought (lugged?) it with me on a recent vacation to Peru. I threw in the largest SD card it would accommodate (32GB), which gave me literally thousands of photos at the highest quality JPEG setting (don't really want to deal with post-processing RAW images). The only lens I brought was a 35mm 1.8 DX lens.

I have to say that the quality of my photos was much better than I had seen in quite some time. It is hands down better than my smartphone. Even though they are both ostensibly 12MP, the larger sensor and lens make a big difference. The two things I missed from my iPhone were super wide angle shots and low light. Since I had my iPhone with me, I could just pull that out if needed.

I briefly thought about buying a new DSLR or a mirrorless, but really my old one is good enough. I will probably just buy an 18-55 zoom or something for my next vacation.
It is a sign of dictatorship. Just like in the video The Dictator.
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HN needs to work on this, IMO. It works way too well here.

Should I flag this post? Feels a bit over the top. At the same time I can't downvote it. shrug
Yes, this Chen person is so so wrong.

She says that meditation is for some monastic elites, but that is far from the truth. Who even chose to publish her book?

Buddha himself said to Ananda that several thousand of his household desciples attained Nirvana. Not only did these "laymen" did meditation, they even attained Nirvana.
I think you're looking at the past with rose-colored glasses.

ActiveX allowed the execution of unsandboxed x86 code from controls embedded in webpages and was enabled by default in Internet Explorer, the dominant browser of the time.

Javascript caught on because it's at least interpreted and sandboxed, a huge step up from what ActiveX was.
I see a selection bias in your comments there. There may be numbers of people who manage to achieve it but you can't strictly say if it was difficult or not unless you compare the number of people who tried and failed. You can't say it was not expensive unless you can demonstrate that some significant proportion of those who made it did not spend much money doing so.
Thanks for 3. Without the explanation it really did come off as doctoring data to be more artistic.
I really appreciate you pointing out that difference. Critical reading is a skill.
I'm confident hosts would step in to make money if YouTube's monopoly on combo hosting+discovery were broken. Folks tend to like making money. No reason they couldn't put their own ads on the videos, like YouTube does, to cover costs for creators who want free hosting. All kinds of angles to provide free hosting to feed the ol' marketing funnel, just like all kinds of other hosts, like limiting quality (so, drastically reducing bandwidth costs—SD video with modern codecs can be tiny)

I find the push-back on this baffling. It's like if web hosting were all but completely controlled by one monopolist and questioning that drew all kinds of "LOL how could web hosting even work without one monopolist controlling the whole thing and dictating what can and cannot be hosted, it's impossible, you're nuts, no-one could ever start a hobby website again without that monopolist".
Taking HN threads further into hellish flamewar is against the site guidelines, so please don't.

Attacking someone personally is not ok. We're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

Having a flamewar about the definition of a word is particularly pointless because different people have very different associations with the same word—especially when you remember that this place literally has commenters coming from all over the world.

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in other threads as well, e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32050947. We eventually ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I saw it and I started crying, it's beautiful beyond description and belief.
I would have expected ImageJ has plugins better suited to work on science
I think you may be confusing satiety with being "full".

You can eat 500 calories of butter and not feel even slightly full, but 500 calories of raw potato would have you full to bursting.
> adblockers will exist for as long as Google deems them unproblematic (...) the existence of such piracy is heavily dependent on the providing body, and as such, are existant by benevolence

Mmm, what? Adblockers aren't piracy.
How is every single title considered clickbait? I'm at the point I don't even know what clickbait is anymore. Every HN thread I open, someone is saying the title is clickbait, even when the title is literally what is happening.

To me, clickbait is along the lines of "10 ways to lose 100lbs in 1 hour!" and it's an article about throwing out two 50lb weights. Or otherwise where the title is clearly not representative of the article itself.

But here we have...

>Effectively immediately, Heathrow has requested:

-the closure for sale of all flights departing from the airport until 11th September

- a reduction in the current passenger cap from 101,500 to 100,000

That seems to match the title exactly? Which part is clickbait? Or what has changed in the definition of clickbait that I'm too out of touch to have learned?
> Sisvel's AV1 license is 15c, which is imo fair for a 200$ HW, but not for a 1$ ad-less video app.

Yeah that's the problem. There is a multitude of business models, and some vendors give away their software for free completely. E.g. Mozilla ships their software to >200 monthly active users for free and only very weakly monetizes it. That means slightly over 2 USD of revenue per user in 2020. For comparison, Meta had 40 USD in 2021.
Don't book flights with layover in London if you have checkin luggage.

You WILL lose your luggage and it will take days to get it back! DAYS! If you HAVE to, make sure to have enough supplies in your carry-on.
In what sense? Not choosing the shortest path for example?
True, A could be “annoy users” and B could be “don’t annoy users”, and A could perform better overall, but in this framework you might be missing C which is “annoy users except those already deep in the funnel”.
No, there's none of that. These pictures aren't being used for any kind of science. They're 100% PR pieces, made to look pretty - which is fine!
a simple mechanism is using a smart contract to map your key (0x123) to an identity (@alice). the contract can allow you to transfer that identity to a different key (important for key rotation) and also to set up a recovery key that is also authorized to transfer the key if the primary key is lost.

our recovery system for Farcaster has a few more bells and whistles, and you can read about it here: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol#33-recovery
But no more ticket sale is a big deal I think. Particularly business travelers.
You do NOT want to sterilize straw, or indeed most substrates. You typically only want to pasteurize your substrate, sterilization is what you want for for your grain spawn. There are all kinds of beneficial microorganisms you are killing off if you do, which help to prevent contamimation/re-colonization from wild micro-organisms. Pasteurization of the substrate is intended to kill off competitive fungus and mold spores while leaving these helpful organisms alive.

You can get away with sterilizing your grain spawn because you keep it isolated in a sealed jar, away from environmental contaminants, until it is completely colonized by mycelium. But since substrate is exposed to wild molds and other ambient contaminants, it needs it's microbial defense team.

Straw is quite a hassle, it contaminates with mold super easily, and is and about 20 years out-of-date to current practice. Yes, the Stamets book calls for it. The Stamets book is old. Any advise older than about ~5 years in this field is questionable at best.

Most folk these days use coconut coir (shredded husk) as a substrate. It's cheap, convenient to ship and store, and it is more resistant to contaminant growth. Coir comes in compressed bricks, you rehydrate it in water just off boil, it expands about 10:1, then you psuedo-"pasteurize" by letting it sit in an insulated cooler for 2 or 3 hours until it is below 170F.
I think it's a really, really tough sell to move people off YouTube. The network effects are just too good. I might be projecting my preferences onto the masses here, but I suspect this is a common feeling.

I've been watching quite a few videos from a fairly popular Youtube channel, tldrnews. At the beginning of a lot of their videos, they've been advertising an alternate video platform, Nebula, with exclusive and more in-depth videos. Thing is, even though I might want to watch those videos, I've never been tempted to even click on the link.

It's not that Nebula costs money. Even if it were free, I don't really want to be watching videos on other services. I hate the way YouTube is run. I hate ContentID, I hate the copyright strike system, I hate the recommendation algorithm, I hate how difficult it is to get a real human to deal with the issues on the site. But everything's there, and that's what I want most of all.

It's a strange position to take, especially when I wish everyone would go back to having their own sites rather than just post on social media, but when it comes to video content, I want it to be like Star Trek. I want to be able to search in one place and be able to find exactly what I'm looking for.

I know it's greedy and irrational, but I want everything centralized into one service so I don't have to think about where to go to watch a thing. I want a monopoly, but without the problems that come with a monopoly, and I suspect a large enough percentage of users feel the same way that other platforms just can't get off the ground.
> Are 200-3kb/s sufficient for a realistic attack?

Yes.
This is nothing special - at current bitcoin prices, I don't see how a miner could be profitable with electricity above $100/MWh. They're shutting down (for peak hours) because it's not economic to keep running. The regulator asking for conservation is just window dressing.
I've just come back from holiday via Heathrow - having had my original flights cancelled by BA at the last minute. The experience of getting back through passport control was pretty bad - took about an hour, with the usual combination of poor queue management, useless e-gates and only 2 passport control staff initially on duty to take those who the e-gates failed for (which was about 50%, and always happens to me as I have a common name so there are always people wanted with my name, according to local passport officers).

It certainly wasn't this bad last time I flew via there (pre-pandemic, I'm not a regular flier), but something needs to be done, for sure.
Oh, for sure. The investor should sue, any driver that feels exploited should think about it (but most will be better by simply changing to a competitor), and the government sure as hell should do its work.

But the investors don't seem to care, they are losing the drivers, and the government seems to be acting quite well against them (at least here it is). So, again, why should I bother?

Anyway, AFAIK:

> If they put all that funds and effort into an actual honest non-exploitative effort for a flying car...

They would be squashed (literally) by the taxi mafia. That's why nobody did it before them.

(About the "hiding rapes & assaults" thing, do they still do that? They tried it here and it backfired quite strongly (as it should), so now they have a policy to help the police on those cases. If they are indeed doing that somewhere, well, maybe people should look at the other end of the problem, it's way more effective to fix it there.)
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Netflix introduces spatial audio for Stranger Things and other originals
Probably because of how much money is sloshing around the home improvement industry. We're in the wrong business.
You don't need any of those things for a couple of years on a new car, and most of them never in five years. If you're buying new, as most electric car people are, it's the same burden.
I'm not sure they solve the same problems; if you NEED the REST api and want to keep all of that consistent then something like react makes more sense.

If you're just building a webapp then you can do a low-js SPA app that's often significantly simpler AND more performant with HTMX.

But as always, different projects have different needs. <3
It’s mostly tat. Everything I actually need is not Prime Day discounted.
It depends whether you interpret "23:59:59" as being an instant (1 second before the end of most days) or a duration (the last second of most days).

23:59:59.500 is after 23:59:59 when interpreted as an instant, but it is part of 23:59:59 as a duration.
>They’re taking up space, driving labor markets, altering our basic perception of what work is.

Yes, because a larger number individuals choose to work for them instead of not work. If everyone (or even just a simple majority) decided not to work for them, then the company would likely die.

But to your point, I don't agree that the existence of Uber warps the labor landscape in such a way that it removes previously available jobs in other sectors. It would make them more available (and employers more desperate), if other workers moved from those jobs to work for Uber.

>Second, the logic you just used could easily justify feudal serfdom.

I don't know enough about feudal serfdom to comment on that, but I would point out that you haven't shown where my logic is wrong/flawed. Only that you think it justifies something bad. I would ask that you point out the flaw in the logic instead.
The additional detail of the red spiral galaxy around 12:30 is stark by comparison to others. Any ideas on why?
What the James Webb Telescope Images Mean for Space
At what time of the day, day of the week?
I hear about instances like this a lot. Did a broken request just resolve to the contents of the file that created it, or did it just spit itself out in your browser console?
Protonmail is awesome. Even though I have been a paid customer for years, mostly to support them, I only recently started to actually use the products and they are really good and I love the focus on privacy.
New benchmarks comming in [1]. Not a landslide, but still 20% faster - which is little.

ps.

Node: 156.15/s

Bun: 283.51/s

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/vwuxqr/node_is_3_time...
Didn’t work for me: https://ibb.co/56rr18X
They did with Hubble:

https://hla.stsci.edu/

This article goes through processing a Hubble image of one of the same objects that Webb did today and includes an example of what it looks like before adjusting for contrast and tone.

https://www.rocketstem.org/2015/04/20/how-astronomers-proces...
You get vastly better results if your team has culture of having smaller pull requests. The effort required to review a PR is non-linear, so make sure that:

- high-level tests can be submitted before code implementing them exists, they just need to be disabled and then selectively re-enabled in subsequent PRs - this way any logical design issues should surface in tests which should be much cheaper to deliver and iterate on than implementation

- any refactoring is submitted separately (it's easy to verify because it doesn't affect any valuable tests, so it leaves out a whole class of issues), even if it didn't happen "organically" during development - take some of the burden on you so that your reviewers don't have to waste time trying to logically unlink these things in their head - it should be much easier for you, you wrote that code

- features are delivered in an incremental fashion whenever it makes sense - you probably don't need to submit a fully working solution, you can prop it up it with fakes or simply not expose the changes to the user (feature flags, or just simply not hooking up a feature yet)

If you do that, it makes things much more digestible, at some cost of understanding of the overall solution (starting with tests and necessary refactoring should help here describe what you want to achieve) and burden from having to split things. It has worked very well for me, in multiple companies.
It’s an expressive type system, but ime it allows developers to go crazy on type interdependencies and general entanglement, so you can’t just go to the “header” and quickly figure out what your method or a return value really is, despite TS has structural typing.

E.g. look at this: https://github.com/telegraf/telegraf/blob/v4/src/telegram-ty...
I know nothing about optics. What is the effect that causes the 6 or 8 points of light of come off of bright objects? Does it have to do with the hex-shaped mirrors on JWT?
If Albert Einstein's brain uses exactly same energy as mine, then 90% of latter is going to nowhere.
What we need is the ability to face our accuser. YouTube is more or less doing the right thing execpt they are not giving anyone the legal contact information of the accuser. If I post something, and it is reported I should have the option to take my accuser to court for a false accusation.
You don't need fancy machine vision when you can just count events in a database.
I am freaking tired of QR codes. I recently moved to another country (SG) and QR codes are literally used for almost everything now, essentially requiring a phone (and good lighting and a clean camera) to do almost anything. At least once a week I have to idle around waiting for a link to load in order to pay a vendor because scanning a qr-code under a glossy plastic standee is taking too long to read.

I love how developers are all so lovingly inconsistent. On one hand they swear up and down that binary formats are shite and now human-readable formats are the new thing (or at least that was the story a few years back with various markup languages and json) but now, for those stupid fucking idiot users opaque formats that require a functioning camera line of sight clear to a piece of paper are now IN. Minimized urls are too passe, I suppose?

And it's great too, because scammers and hackers are now dropping QR codes on the ground or leaflets, or placing stickers on the QR codes that dot the landscape (like on public info posters or ads put up in HDBs) so poor folks who have learned that the QR code is how you do things now just load up the QR codes without asking. Again, opaque formats are NOT good for many reasons, ease of hacking/social engineering is one reason obvious reason! Of course you can put a sticker on poster on a url but it's easy to recognize the difference between mysite.com/about and something else vs qr code 1 and qr code 2.
What makes you think what goes on in SEA today is the actual Buddhism?

This is so wrong.

The current practices in SEA is so far from what the Buddha actually taught.
You still need to go through a port with Blazor, but you can minimize those calls for the most part. DOM manipulation was slow as recently as a few years ago, but improvements to Blink have made it blazingly fast. I agree with Svelte that we no longer need a virtual DOM

https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead

Edit: I didn't answer your question. There's nothing wrong with JS bindings. Both Blazor and Dart use them, which could get awkward going from Blazor -> Dart (as JS) -> JavaScript lib. I'm considering TypeScript again because no port is needed to call JS libs.
> Please stop using human-unreadable protocols if opposite is possible

how about use both
So, what you are trying to say is: "Please stop sending us your well educated and skilled people - we need to spend more money on our country and citizens, not absurd wages for tech"?

That's super kind of you, I think Europe could get back on its feet with that kind of leg up.
Of course using Debian you can decode that QR (don't remember how from the top of my head, but I remember decoding my EU COVID-19 certificate. Well, unless you don't even have a digital camera with some data path to your Debian.
If you keep posting like this we're going to end up having to ban you again, so please stop.

Flamewar comments are not ok, and personal attacks are very not ok. No more of this please, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can imagine the performance boost putting higher strain on the battery, increasing wear and risk of overheating various components that are under warranty, so unlocks like these could be less than pure greed.
Thank you for your comment. I also have a similar view - folks working at Facebook et al often might suspect/know what they're doing is misleading at best to illegal (dark patterns for eg), but the cognitive dissonance (esp regarding regulations) is a bit too much.

I'm not trying to have a holier than thou approach - lots of people simply need a job, and humans are only human in their actions - but I would be curious to see how opinions of folks working at small startups differ from those working at GAAFA/FAANG etc.

(To be clear, opinions are your personal subjective thought and I don't think they can just be "wrong", I'm just curious on if there's a difference in who thinks what how.)
I am genuinely asking, is your position that a compiler cannot convert:

g():
a = 1+1;
b = 2+a;
print(b);
return f()

into code that does not allocate stack space and just reuses the frame allocated for g()?
not a dumb question.

if you squint, the protocol i've described is really a fancy version of RSS. In fact, the original brainstorm doc for this idea was titled RSS+ :)
I absolutely hate to see consortiums patent and license out standards. I sort of get it if it’s a company patenting it, but a consortium should be separate from the business side of it.
Just release a Commander Keen game pack for the Switch.
Do you want to see what Linux looks like when it’s distributed as a binary with DRM? Because this is probably the best way to achieve that.

“Abolishing copyright” is not the same as “abolishing people not wanting to cooperate”
> this is the extreme, extreme minority of features from an extreme minority of cars, by the extreme of car manufactures.

the problem is you don't see the big picture: all modern tractors are internet connected and farmers are not allowed to repair them.

all TVs are smart, you cant't buy a new 'dumb' TV. Philips recently added adslvertisements to TVs people bought years ago.

This isn't some niche thing that won't affect you, this is a paradigme shift like we haven't seen in a century.

if you rent an apartment in 2050, it will come with a smart oven, frisge and toilet. The oven will be brans-locked to wallmart and if you buy food somewhere else it will refuse to turn on with the warning "unauthorised substance detected"