skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People used to make similar arguments about injket printer drivers (where the computer does dithering, head scheduling, etc).

Over time the open source crowd implemented the state of the art image processing techniques once, then pointed them at reverse engineered backend drivers for each model.

The result was better than what the manufacturers (especially HP, but also canon, etc) could do.

I'm hoping history repeats itself with these camera sensors.
Not supposed to. These are all valid options.
What about UTM - https://mac.getutm.app/ - based on QEMU? VM applications - Parallels, VMWare, Virtualbox etc. - have long been available on macOS and so its not as if nobody suddenly wants it just because their macOS is running on ARM SoC. There can be many reasons why they haven't yet migrated to Apple Silicon Macs, some of which may be the smaller userbase, the cost of migrating to a new platform, lack of literature or support from Apple, Apple not allowing them to offer their virtualising application using their own custom kernel extensions or Apple asking them to wait and use their virtualisation API under development.

To be clear, I don't believe there is anything wrong with Apple offering built-in OS API solution for applications like firewall, virtualisation, graphic engines etc. The problem is when they say you can only use those and don't allow competition.

When a particular type of software on macOS is forced to use just one particular API, it stunts all such softwares using the APIS as they can't really offer any major distinction and can only offer the limited features the API provides. Worse still is when such practices is actually meant to restrict competition to protect their business interest. For example, it is clear that Apple is pivoting more and more into commercialising user privacy (monetised through its services) and advertising (by data mining personal data through these same services). In such a case, existing softwares that offer privacy protections (like application firewalls and even alternate operating systems on macs) are examples of competing system softwares that impede this goal. Obviously Apple cannot directly ban these softwares without negative user backlash. But it can ensure that such softwares are crippled by forcing users to use limited API's and / or by limiting the operating environment they run on. (The frog is slowly boiling - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog - and we developers and users are slowly losing more a more control over our Apple computers and device).
The elephant in the room with VR is wearing goggles which, no matter how you slice and dice them, just feel dumb to most people. It's why VR is a novelty that creates a laugh at Christmas but get dumped in the unused bin after new year.

For me, I think the winning strategy of VR is to not have to wear goggles and something that can generate smells as this is our most powerful sense.
The middle of nowhere has plenty of barking dogs, gunshots, dirtbikes, quads, jubilant hollering, and fireworks :-)
Character.ai (chatbot) drama due to censorship
Previous discussion on HN about the website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020694

For the last few days, there seem to be a lot of new users discovering the website, due to word of it spreading within the vtuber community, and a Washington Post article.

Currently, the website has been down for almost an entire day now. I assume the devs are trying to figure out how to deal with this.

The devs apparently wrote a statement which then got deleted from some reason (TLDR: They say some of the issues were unintended side effects of changes made to handle the increase in users, and the devs are trying to fix the issues. There's also a separate set of issues that were side effects from a change intended to censor NSFW stuff.) https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/comments/y03ncu/newsupd...

Some users are extremely angry, and their discord got so bad that they had to (justifiably) shut down it completely (hopefully temporarily). And I've heard of harassment and even suicide threats (Can't find the source though).
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Many of them just lie. For example all of the ones that pretend you can carmelize onions in 10 minutes.
I was trying to create PDF files from photos taken with a phone camera (aka docscanner) and tried to compress as good as possible, when I realized that PNG supports 1 bit mode, with a palette of only 2 entries...

Combined with adaptive thresholding (e.g. Sauvola) this resulted in extremely compressed but still readable images.

I wrote a little C# tool called shrivel for my requirements: https://github.com/sandreas/shrivel/blob/main/shrivel/Comman...

No release but it works like this:

shrivel process ./images/input/ --filter=resize[1750,1750] --filter=adaptivethreshold --output-template="{inputDirectory}/processed/{name}.pdf" --merge-pdf="./small_merged.pdf"
Happiness indexes are rather meaningless and arbitrary, often reflecting more the political biases of the index creators rather than things that regular people care about. Instead of making indexes it's better to look at revealed preferences in terms of voluntary migration rate. The USA has a positive net migration rate with all major European countries despite having lower index scores.
Edge. Best Vertical Tabs implementation. Basically Chrome. Don't act like FF/Chrome don't already eat your data.
I think this fundamentally misses the point of VR and buys into to the advertisements too much.

Yes, titles need to be better at seated play, because it is a reasonable way to play, given almost no one has enough room to actually walk around.

But the entire point of VR is the controllers, not the headset. The headset is a huge pain in the ass, annoying, blurry, and tiring to use. No one would put on a headset if it were possible to transfer hand movements to a game world any other way. The monitor has to be glued to your face, but that is a downside, not the benefit.
You are correct, it's article 17 of the Grundgesetz [1] and due to the stipulation of "jedermann" (everyone) any person regardless of age, place of residency or citizenship has the right to petition the German parliament.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_17.html
it works if you want to read a thread exactly once and then never come back to it. if it's an ongoing discussion that you want to visit even just two times, you'll just end up reading all the same comments again and struggle to find anything new
> This is nonsensical.

Can you please keep it civil and avoid devolving into insults? I don't spend my time online to get treated like a fool. Now please restrain yourself from trolling even further and say "well, then don't say foolish things" because I'd flag you.

If you bothered reading the article, a paragraph reads that this particular form of screening did have an impact. Just not as significant as the community thought.

The study is about _one particular form of screening_ that might might have been oversold. Perfectly consistent with the parent observation and my own: screening is significant, curing cancer isn't as easy as avoiding it altogether.

Now, if you have something constructive to add please do so. Otherwise, please shut up and move on to some Reddit sub.
Very neat. Vaporwave-like. Fitting for Cali. It's like watching the movie Chinatown.
I assume it's because tuning a string up can break it, while tuning it down is harmless.
Painstakingly.
Most recent is the news coming out of FL where they are arresting qualified licensed roofers who just happen to have the licenses in another state other than Florida for daring to try to help people repair their roofs after a hurricane [1]. They are not claiming he was scamming people, door poor work, or anything other than not paying the fee and kissing the ring of the local economic protection guild AKA licensing board

Combination of this there are several licensed FL contractors currently being investigated for Fraud because they promised Homeowers work they never delivered. The Trades are FULL of licensed scam artists

Building Contractors are by far the best example I could give.

Personally I do not want to get to a situation where my Open Source Code is downloaded by someone in say California and the next thing I know I am being arrested for "Developing with out a license"

Hell if there was a License requirement for development when I was a teen I likely would have never learned how to develop code in the first place, I though HN was all about equality seems odd you would promote blocking out people and only allowing in the elite.

Here is your $25 pi to learn to code on, but if you want to release your code you must first pay thousands of dollars and get approval from the code guild.... No thanks

[1]https://nbc-2.com/news/local/charlotte-county/2022/10/08/roo...
I do the later so I don't get stuck, i.e. if I have mastery over language/framework/etc then I'll not get stuck, because when I do get stuck my stress goes to cloud 9 and rapidly start losing hope. Spend days alternating between procrastinating and trying things which feels like putting hands on sizzling pan. But "the PROS" I've seen encounter bigger problems and move past them in a day or two, without going through entire cycle of despair.
that only really works for responses to your comments and top level comment chains though.
May I recommend an ORM for any such project? hand rolling SQL statement aren't going to scale.

Here's my shameless plug: `pip install sqlitedao`: https://github.com/Aperocky/sqlitedao
I put in a qualification:

> ... the usual assumption in the physics is that the math ...

Soooo, you got into the physics. I avoided getting into the physics. E.g., when Newton wrote out his second law or Maxwell wrote out his equations, it was just math and the assumption was as I mentioned R^3. Stokes theorem, the Navier-Stokes equations were implicitly in R^3.
I have an aunt who, when she was renovating the kitchen and discovered how much custom cabinets cost, had a second dishwasher installed instead. It didn't cost much more and now she has a cabinet that can also clean the dishes as well as storing them.
Assume I have an existing bean supplier for a built brand I want to pull into your network, and don’t mind if others leverage them for their own brands, in order to outsource more of what your org offers (to go hands off). Is that possible?
i worry about spammers coming across my soon-to-be-hosted forum. What mechanism can one do to prevent fraudulent signups?
For all of the corporate onboarding ethics training courses I’ve participated in, not once have I seen a course on what to say to your manager when you are asked to violate your ethics.
Interesting, thanks. I do wonder how much space it would take to cache every bookstore.
Yep, so it doesn't "just happen" - you need to build a pump first, and you need to keep it running for the water to flow uphill.

But it can be done.
I can't disagree with this point, at all.

But I also remember my "I'm invincible" years where I did a lot of stupid shit because it was novel and/or entertaining. I'm mildly shocked that it's just my knees that I gripe about.
I use 1001 tracklists for this - you can search by track and it will surface DJ sets where the song was played.

https://www.1001tracklists.com/
interesting. does SD enable this by default?
https://blogless.datenbrei.de/license/ MIT + a TinyMCE dependency.
Hollywood and Netflix Report Top Piracy Threats to US Govt
It's easy to game military spending metrics depending on what you choose to include. For example, some countries include pension payments for retired veterans and others do not.
The app looks great, but since no source code is provided knowing that it's made with Flutter and Rust isn't really of much use for anyone (esp. for learning purposes).

For anyone interested, I found a nice open source tuner for Android https://github.com/thetwom/Tuner
Good point. Though a significant part of typing speed is your _spacial_ memory (where is the J key on the keyboard?).

Your _muscle_ memory makes you good at moving your fingers (or thumbs) to an absolute position on your keyboard (or screen) - but to do that you must first decide what absolute position your finger (or thumb) should move to (where is the J key?).
Physics are a limitation but not a blocker. The only major limitation imho is focal length. There's only so much optical zoom you can fit into the smartphone form factor. AI post processing will probably make digital "zoom" much less of an issue in the near future.

I'm an amateur photographer. I do mostly street and architecture with a bit of landscape. Right now my primary cameras are an ASP-C DSLR, a Sony RX100, as well as a selection of 35mm, MF, and instant film cameras.

All of these bring different strengths to the table but my DSLR and RX100 stay at home more often than not these days. The in-camera processing just can't compare to smartphones.

The fact that it is possible to apply the similar processing to DSLR or full-frame mirrorless images doesn't make those cameras any less expensive, heavy, or bulky. For most people, those are the points that matter. The destination of most images is social media more often than 8x10s, the ever shrinking quality advantages offered by "proper" cameras are outweighed by the convenience of having something more than adequate in their pocket at all times.

After all, as the cliched advice goes: "The best camera is the one you have with you.", Or for old film photojournalists: "F8 and be there."
Was one of those NSS? "Worked fine" doesn't necessarily mean that it performs well, especially under contention. It's absolutely trivial to write code that will happily consume non-blocking descriptors, or nominally provide them, while still blocking all over the place behind the scenes. Most often this happens because all real work is shoved to separate worker threads, like Linux AIO did for a long time, but there are other ways it can happen too.

When I was adding SSL/TLS support to Gluster, I also worked with three libraries. NSS was tied with OpenSSL for the worst API, and was definitely the worst for performance. Maybe it doesn't matter when you never stress it, but I was stressing it so I could tell. Because of that experience I knew exactly what to look for, and was very unsurprised when I saw the familiar old symptoms. I even considered spending some time to fix it, but dealing with those super-hairy interfaces and crazy build systems etc. seemed like a poor fit for my first post-retirement project. I'll probably do some work on sshfs first, since it currently lacks a maintainer and is a better fit for me, then maybe I'll look into getting elbow deep in Firefox's "unique" codebase.
The Gamification of Humanity
I do that, but have a "location" for home and work. I flip them when I get on/off my company network (VPN or on-prem).

I haven't had an issue with Firefox with that.

Are you doing something nicer than manually flipping location or going into the network settings and turning the proxy on/off?
I do still wonder why the fast and responsive software can't invest a little bit into design in order to not look like complete shit.

Sure something like phpBB is light, but the UX is also barely usable. Give me something like Reddit or Discourse over that any day. Why can't we have the best of both worlds?

Hackernews on the other hand manages to lack both (in some speculations intentionally), with neither usable design nor speed.
I'm not so sure about all these insights, but I agree with the gist of what he has to say - quality of UX is going to be key with this stuff. Even more than it was with the smartphone revolution. When you are inside of a world and something doesn't work very well, the feeling of frustration is much more intense than when it's just your phone or computer screen. Getting that right will be an enormous project.

My own suspicion is that the one company that can make a substantial move on this space has done extensive research on this topic and that they're waiting patiently until the technology gets to just the right sweet spot. I'm talking about screen resolution, processor size/speed/power, miniaturization, inside-out hand-tracking etc. But once that device gets rolling, developers will have a lot of work on their hands figuring out how to design these sorts of spaces and how to make work comfortable and natural in these sorts of environments.
Sleep quality and stress level matter far, far more than languages or practices
I guess it 'renders' the whole frame in some buffer, and then copy-pasting it to Notepad takes less than 1ms, leaving you with at least 940ms of each second waiting for key input (assuming 60fps). And might have overestimated the copying time by few orders of magnitude, maybe copying takes just a microsecond ?

Another thought: do you even need to bring notepad to focus in order to copy contents to it? Maybe it's not in focus at all, and just happens to be the only thing on the screen?
Was Edge based on Trident? I thought they re-wrote an engine from scratch.
This is actually fairly big news. This will impact many consumer routers/firewalls and some Wifi access points that are using ISC's DHCPD. They appear to suggest an alternative that uses a RDBMS backend and implements API's. That will be an interesting migration for those that incorporate DHCP and DHCP network relays into Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Cobbler, etc... I've seen some fairly complex setups. I suppose that makes sense in a corporate/production environment but may be a bit overkill for small networks and network devices.

What alternatives [1] are others switching to? udhcpd? I believe some here already use dnsmasq. I want to say I've run into problems on some alternatives with some of the more obscure dhcp vendor options but it's been a while.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DHCP_server_soft...
Yeah the one in downtown Berkeley is fantastic!
I won't say I'm pushed, but rather I get put a knife to throat, each time that has happened it has chipped away at my passion for programming in general. Now that I think of coding then the emotions that come up are negative. When I was a beginner emotions were positive and exhilarating, like I couldn't wait to wake up tomorrow and try this new thing. I believe it's all thanks "being pushed". I hate managers who think like this.
No. Someone holding bitcoin is not the same as someone convincing others to invest in a wholly controlled fund in which you pay for withdrawals with new investment money.
so .. micro-dosing YES? no??
I just realized that OpenBSD unbound was likely named as a counter to ISC BIND. Similar to Sun Java and the Eclipse Foundation.
What does someone's music say about their personality?
The context of this thread is specifically American-style free speech, which protects people from government interference in speech, but does not compel others to publish speech on your behalf.

I am criticizing SV for their choices, but I don't think they should be forced to do what I think is right.
And yet the phrase "merciless Indian Savages" is literally in the Declaration of Independance.
I loved Fitaly and the associated ecosystem. Palm, Handspring, the usable stylus on a 160x160 screen...
Here's another one for you:
https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry
Curses does not exist on Windows, but this could be done easily using Windows's console API or ANSI escape sequences. Wouldn't be nearly as fun, though.
I think what really is missing here would be a full text search. I have currently multiple thousands of bookmarks. Sometimes remembering the title just doesn't cut it.

Also I have a severe fear of link rot. I developed the habit of putting every link I would bookmark into web.archive.org and archive.is as well.
So a nice tool should do that too (and of course store the generated link). Some folks might even would want to have it stored offline.
I cannot imagine Gorilla tag. I think I am extremely hard to get nausious. I did not feel a thing for months using the Quest. But grabbing onto things in vr and climbing around like that, I am still feeling nauseous from playing Bonelabs yesterday.
I have news about some people's approach to wives.
My point is that Brave shouldn't have to do this.
It says you are supposed to be an ethical member of society generally, it just doesn't explicitly spell out every possible issue (this seems to be a sign of a good code of ethics, it is guidance for your ethical reasoning, not a set of rules to follow to the letter).

1.02, 1.07, 2.07, 4.01, and 8.07 could be seen to have some thoughts on some current hotbutton issues I guess.
I don't know that I'd agree with you re: smell. It's strongly tied to memory, and can be tied with emotions via memory, but it's not "more powerful" than vision or audition. what would that comparison even mean?
> best to stick to the high-level concepts and not get involved with all of the drama that surrounds

In my experience this is true of most things.
> Soooo, you got into the physics. I avoided getting into the physics.

What did you think that Feynman's Lectures on Physics were about?
>Acknowledging the presence of native American towns, cities, farmlands, etc... would have brought up the inconvenient subject of ownership of the land.

I am highly skeptical of these types of sentiments. They are simply projections of modern sensibilities to the period of European settlement.

At the time, might by right was the default in Europe, with near constant wars of conquest. outside of Europe, entire islands in the Caribbean were enslaved and depopulated.

Given this context, I don't think information about Native American towns was suppressed to protect the delicate sensibilities of the settlers.
It sticks with the MSRV of Firefox, which is currently 1.61.
The US could easily take much of that military funding and put it into infrastructure, job programs and healthcare spending and allow European countries to increase their military spending. This would keep our GDP and reduce our deficit with tax collection.

Every time I suggest this, however, I seem to be downvoted into oblivion and poopooed by the Europeans on the forum. I guess a more isolationist policy isn't that great of an idea after all.
That's pretty fun to watch. It also reminds me of CGA graphics from back in the day, where you'd have magenta buildings and vehicles everywhere--with the video's plum-colored cars, plum-colored tires, plum-colored highway signs xD, and so on...

Ideally the next iteration of the coloring algorithm can at least draw on an improved model for some of those samey-colored objects though. Maybe there's already something that can do this? Like, "OK that's 86% a '48 Chevy Fleetline, so let's pick the most common color for that thing, which turns out to be
Chev Liveoak Green Metallic," or whatever it was.
Imaginairy is great.
Lovely people who overwhelmingly support death sentence for apostasy.
The flag itself no, but trying to link in os_unfair_lock_lock_with_options could be caught.
> Sure you can get some bargain basement i7 computer for half the price of a Mac but you will need to buy a new one in half the time of a Mac.

Can you fucking Apple zealots even read?
The operational uselessness of X-37 is demonstrated by their leaving it parked in orbit for months or even years at a stretch.

Apparently they park it in orbit instead of a hangar to make it look as if it is actually "on a mission".
I don't know how long this flag has been there, but -z does mean compression in-flight in rsync.

> -z, --compress compress file data during the transfer
Bit of a weird opening with the car crash stuff considering that driving is one of the most dangerous actives people do every day, and lots of people still die or are hurt by/from vehicles every day.

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.ht...
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What exactly does that illustrate about settlements in North America?

Of course the Colonists knew that Native Americans existed. They interacted with them constantly.