skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something worth adding here for those who want to complicate their lives even more, these equivalences get complicated when you need to compare across different sensor formats (full-frame vs crop vs micro-4/3rds). Something I learned recently is that f/5.6 on a 300mm lens on a crop sensor is more similar to something like an f/8 or f/11 on a 450mm on a full frame. Including ISO into this makes that comparison more complicated as well.

More on that subject https://photographylife.com/equivalence-also-includes-apertu...
> Tesla software/user experience is not significantly better than a dumb car with carplay or just an ipad fixed on boar

I'd say it's much worse. Putting all the controls including a/c on the tablet is an extremely bad idea.
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>So why do the the people that are too smart to take on the role of application security champion for the team get promoted, while those security champions are passed over?

To put it bluntly, it's likely because the company doesn't value solving security as much as you may think they should. Solving problems is the same as solving valuable problems. If your goal is to be promotable, the problems you should solve should be as close as possible to the items your company values the most. Unfortunately, things like quality and security are not often valued until after things go wrong.

>The defined expectations for that next level are demonstratably higher.

Maybe I'm misreading this, but it sure seems like you're saying the performance for the higher pay is above and beyond what you're currently doing. Now whether those expectations are above what you're willing to do for the pay is a personal decision.

>That's only true from the employee's perspective if the employer is rewarding that.

This is probably where we fundamentally disagree. I think employees also benefit from being engaged. I've worked with people on assembly lines who were engaged with work that most would find monotonous. Instead of finding the work some tedium to be put up with, they actually found ways of getting personal fulfillment out of it. Same goes for low-status jobs elsewhere I've worked. I think your sentiment here is really what underlies unhappiness with work and you'd eventually find the same regardless of how handsomely you'd get paid.

Everything you've outlined at this point seems to indicate you work at a company that has a culture that is misaligned with what you're after. But you also aren't willing to take a risk of changing that. I doubt there are any silver bullets here that will make some magic happen without professional or personal risk.
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There are legal requirements of banks carrying enough PII on a person to reliably unwind an auth attack (and also to send the cops after them if they are the ones who commit fraud).

This would be one solution. But it would require Google to hold significantly more PII, explicitly, on every Gmail user than they do right now (and make the process of opening a Gmail account take a bit of time, like it does at a bank). This is one of the better suggestions I've heard, though it would threaten the integrity of the existing 1.5 billion accounts unless Google grandfathered them into a "low-identification" status.
I'll agree with you here. I had a MacBook pro (2015) and switched to a system76 popOS linux notebook (8th gen intel, its really a "clevo" OEMed notebook). Its not quite as well built, but the Matt screen is nice, the keyboard and trackpad are good enough, and it has NVIDIA acceleration. Yeah, when pushed the fans spin up, the battery life if mediocre at best, but it can game (thanks steam) and its really fast. Its really not bad at all.

I got an Linux AMD laptop for work this year, much better on the battery and still very fast. Its been great.
This is a moot point. The moment any significant quantity of nuclear missiles are launched it’s the end of the world as we know it due to nuclear winter
Lol, leave it to Google to make a simple list of pngs incompatible with Firefox. Wtf is data-srcset?
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That still doesnt answer the question of why pixels.

You can scale invariance and fractals with squares, triangles, or whatever shape you want.
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This feels like it could be part of an import pipeline, though? Simplification of the models can't be automated at all?
On the flip side, the child didn't consent to being born, and indirectly any suffering a child endures can be traced back to a parent's decision to bring them into the world.
The other thread here explains from the perspective of someone who tried why you may be over-trivializing this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32311254
Standard practice in a turnaround is that if a loss is unavoidable anyway, you might as well make it as bad as possible (i.e. jam future bad news into it).

But as you point out I am not privy to Intel's actual practice here and haven't bothered to read the 10-Q.
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A lesson that needs to be learned in my opinion. I learned it the hard way, why provide guardrails I didn't have and expect my kids to come out better? I'd rather just re-create as best I can what I had access to and provide advice where I had none. Any attempt I make to restrict thigns further than what I had is just going to back-fire.
This really got me too when I went from film to digital. I still really miss having so much range in the highlights.
XMMS2 is a bit more recent: https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel/releases/tag/0.9.1
Also an important takeaway from TMMM: people were having the same problems and trying the same approaches to solve them over 50 years ago.
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Its been a few months since we have had one of these. Pro tip leave contact info in profile as these types of threads don't always get read the same day.
We don't have anything that can handle more than an hour or two at the big Gigawatt solar/wind generators and you know it, none of them can economically provide even power at night let alone during peak demand periods. All they can do is help smooth out fluctuations for temporary cloud cover/no wind conditions and such. Technology will have to have a 10x leap or we'll have to wait 30 years for incremental improvements in battery tech to get there. Nuclear is available now. With a "to the moon or bust" attitude that we had in the 60s we could be there in less than 10 years.
I work in robotics, I understand that every robotics company builds substantially similar core autonomy for different industrial vehicles, so I definitely see the value of what you're creating. However, every company needs to figure out how their autonomy will handle their specific vehicle's dynamics and their specific physical environment. For vehicle dynamics, they have to model things like wheel slippage on rough terrain, articulating joints on multi-axle vehicles, braking distance while hauling a load. For physical environment, they have to figure out how dust, fog, and poor lighting conditions affect their sensing and perception. Do you intend to make custom sim vehicles for each of your customers? Will you simulate each customer's particular camera/lidar/other sensor in their specific environment?
Dubai has a much larger collection of fancy restaurants from top chefs from any cuisine in the world.

Singapore has a much better street and regular local/Chinese/Indian/SE Asian food scene.
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I think you’d be hard pressed to find a credible source that predicts that level of catastrophe. I like to read Climate Feedback[0], a website where scientists review media claims on climate. 95% are fact checking denialists, but some are the opposite, fact checking claims that severely overstate the danger.

The problem is that overstated danger muddles the message and gives further ammunition to deniers to dunk of the whole movement for green energy.

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I remember visiting AutoCAD in SF once, and they had a driving simulator for the newly constructed Presidio Parkway Tunnels, which were designed in AutoCAD. Simulation of real spaces is an interesting niche that I suspect will get leveraged way, way more as the data becomes pervasive.
There were very good reasons why people opposed the TPP. The devil was in the details.

Even Biden said (in 2019) that he would not rejoin the TPP as it was initially put forward, and would insist that we renegotiate pieces of that.

> insists on bringing their broken clock.

I assume you're suggesting that the "everything Trump does is wrong" crowd doesn't exist? To the contrary, their influence is so great that even Thomas Friedman, a vocal opponent of Trump, felt it necessary to call them out:

"One of the hardest things to accept for all of us who want Donald Trump to be a one-term president is the fact that some things are true even if Donald Trump believes them!"

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How does one appease quarter-to-quarter returns chasing investors with that?
Dedicated batteries are not cheaper yet, but (a) price is still on a rapid downward trend, (b) repurposing old batteries from electric cars once the batteries are no longer good enough for transport is cheaper, and (c) it isn't the only storage mechanism, for example pumped hydroelectric and hydrogen are both really cheap.

The battery production capacity is currently in a rapid growth phase. I'm not sure what timescales you think are "for some time longer", but I think 10 (optimistic) to 20 years (pessimistic) would be enough to see the global electricity market almost totally (95% or more) transformed to renewables.

While I personally am relaxed about nuclear power if it's done right, the political realities are that it terrifies people and that corners get cut just often enough to make the terror not entirely unjustified, so it's not going to happen on a significant scale unless there's a reason for the government to ignore the will of the people.
I was using regular NodeJS server on EC2 or similar services from cloud providers and wanted learn Serverless because at the peak times I was struggling to manage servers for https://nureply.com.

It turned out great and I am almost paying nothing. It is a bit slow if there are no active users but at the peak times there is no cold starts and comparable to regular Ubuntu server.

Vendor lock in is true but I can copy paste a lot of code to make it a regular server again.

Also there are limitations for long running tasks but for these kind of tasks I can create a thin server.

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Do you think it might be possible for adult humans to simulate the curiosity that young minds are capable of? Perhaps even in short bursts?
I remember this best as the essay in which Gibson compares Singapore to the burbclaves from Snow Crash, which struck me as the literary equivalent of when a band plays the Weird Al spoof of their own song. (Don McLean and Barenaked Ladies are known to have done this.)
yes exactly! i thought insane design was such a weird way to describe it... the fact that it is functional and emergent means is has a satisfying cleanliness, even if we don't fully understand it yet.

another natural phenomenon that gets me like that is the balance of the innate/adaptive immune systems. the fact it all works on chemical physics (don't know the right word here) just blows my mind in the best way possible.
Why don't we just switch to that now?
UE5's Nanite might be able to handle all the detail. I'd be curious to hear if anyone has tried it.
Where in the US, outside of less than a handful of large urban centers, is overpopulated?

It's not a very densely populated country, with density of 33.6/km².

Compare that to Taiwan at 650/km².

New York City is 778.2/km².
Like household products marketed as "not tested on animals" when all the compounds in the product were already tested on animals a century ago and the overhead for using any novel compounds would mean a vastly higher price (and probably animal testing).
That's a pretty [citation needed] assertion. Again, we're talking a risk surface stretched across 1.5 billion users. There are few architectures of that scale in existence today; we're talking Chinese government, every-bank-on-Earth numbers.

I'd be interested to see a workable solution but, to-date, I never have.
Oh irony, a post about overcoming distraction gets 232+ comments.
Nvidia is working on a platform, Omniverse, to do exactly this using Pixar's Universal Scene Description format.
I'm amazed when people describe Rust as singularly obsessed with memory safety
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What the Duck?
Please hint me to a source on this. I wonder since some time what will happen when you use a VR headset with see-trough cameras and change the color mapping.
I'm in love of Black formatter for python code: it leaves almost no option for formatting preferences. Format on save and you are done. It clears mental cycles for the important problems and make formatting discussions a thing of the past.
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This is something that often bothers me about the "real food" or similar debate that is largely emotional more than anything else.

What this should all build down to is the nutritional content of the food. Just because I go to a local farmers market and buy the greatest "organic" or "non-gmo" (or insert some other mostly meaningless thing that has been turned into a way to scare consumers to spend more money) and buy the greatest looking apples I can find.

That isn't going to do a damn thing if I turn around and try to replicate the McDonalds (or I guess Popeyes now?) fried apple pie. It is still horrible for me and I highly doubt there is much if any difference in the little bit of vitamins I would get from the apples still in the pie.

Meanwhile I can go for about as processed as you can get, and do Soylent or Huel and have a pretty damn balanced diet if I could somehow sustain myself entirely on that (more of a willpower thing and not an issue with the food itself).

This also ignores the major clasism that has made its way into how people eat and what food they have access to. There is a reason it tends to be urban well off white people going on and on about this stuff.

I cringe anytime I hear the words "real" or "whole" food as if that has any real meaning outside of a marketing term.

If anything this tells me that we need to do better with how we process food, not that processed food itself is the issue.
If you are following an object, the saccades routine itself is put on hold and you get more or less continuous eye motion, complete with smooth focus and field-of-view adjustments. I'm doing this for fun when walking alongside slow-rolling cars - the end result occasionally "looks like" a tracking shot straight out of a movie.

Edit: ...OK, field-of-view doesn't vary that much, unless you are Colonel Steve Austin with the telephoto augmentation.
It can be automated but a deep import pipeline would really hurt iteration times. There's also a lot of tuning that goes into what is and is not the important part of a model and whether the simplification removes detail you expect to see.
Names are going to switch to use Å soon and by the time we get to low single digits in that we're certainly going to be needing to move to a whole new computational substrate than MOSFETs to advance.
name, surname sounds unmistakably Latvian. Turing award... and I didn't even know... rest in peace
This is a great idea. I hope that the experiment is successful.
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That seems very disingenuous and disappointing!