skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty cool, though I'd just want an app that shows hiking/walking tracks, even when zoomed out. OSM has such a great db of tracks, but trying to discover them is near impossible unless you know they're there. (you gotta zoom in so far, as soon as you try to get an overview the tracks disappear)
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Because deep down, it's not what they do. They are optics and camera hardware companies. In the race between physics and software, they are on the physics side. This is evident in the entire user experience. They keep missing the boat with the way people actually use photography today, and don't even seem to care much. There's not much evidence they have the kind of research expertise that Apple, Google or Adobe built in signal processing and image processing, either.

See also https://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/news-archives/nikon-201... and https://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/news-archives/nikon-201...
>Someone you follow, presumably?

No.

>Are you really expecting an algorithm to make a judgement call on that? Maybe that IS how Twitter is 'supposed' to work - if it is, then I'm glad that's not how it seems to be working for me!

A direct reply has higher notification worthiness than something it thinks I might be interested in. This shouldn't be controversial.
One of the best features of legislating against non-competes is that an employer can't sue a former employee for violating a non-compete. Right now, for most occupations in my jurisdiction (Indiana, USA), non-competes are usually not enforceable, but it costs $500-$2500 to get these lawsuits thrown out. Some employers will sue former employees knowing they can't afford a defense, or just to throw shade on them at their new job.
Exactly. IIRC "data licencing" is about $400M/year which would make it more than 10% but still a relatively small part.
Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas compared to CO2, but also stays in the atmosphere much less long (on the order of a few decades).
> Asking low-income Twitter users to

I'm curious how many low-income Twitter users now have a blue-check.
Circuit City stores, back when they had entire walls of VCRs and tape decks and receivers, all of which were "on sale" (ahem), instructed their salespeople to always give customers definitive advice in their price range. "Oh, this Sony is the absolute best tape deck." Once people had reassurance that they were making the right choice, even from a total stranger, they'd open their wallets. But not before.
Because Nikon's target audience (photographers) don't want that "fancy post-processing" done by their camera.
Virtually all streaming services still have ads at the paid tier: sponsored content in YouTube videos, product placement everywhere, athletes that are living billboards.
If they're that important, then the company should pay a significant percentage of their pay to keep them from doing their profession, or GTFO.
I assume I’m getting downvoted in the parent because there’s some implication that I’m judging them for it?

But I’m not. I was simply saying that the sanctions have nothing to do with their ability to obtain western tech.
I think the expensive part comes mostly from the part that it is hard to make anonymous payment. Sending money is kind of a verification (unless dogecoin is accepted ;) ).

I still have no clue why bots would care to have it though, since there is obviously a very high percentage of people who don't.
The UK has had a government call for evidence on the subject of non-compete, with the aim of limiting them as well, but nothing has been done so far.

I'm myself in the long, lengthy and costly process of trying to fight a two years non-compete (well, 1yr garden leave + 1yr non-compete), and it's taxing. It adds stress, makes it harder to market yourself, and on top of that there is this clear asymmetry where the costs if it was to go to high court (£150k) would be huge for you, but petty change for your employer. On top of that, they'd get to claim these as expenses (so pre-tax), but you couldn't get any kind of tax-credit (so effectively post-tax). System is biased, it's about time they would change it.
I think it might have been a misinterpretation on my part - I took the original comment to mean the equator would be at the latitude corresponding to the closest point to the sun, which doesn't really make sense now that I look back at it. My apologies for the mistake.
Can Mastodon ever reach the scale of Twitter? Does their architecture answer the question of what happens when Obama tweets an image to 150 million followers? Hopefully the answer is not "the local Mastodon instance owner gets a $100k AWS bill next month."

Currently Mastodon.social, which I understand to be the largest instance, has tragic performance with only ~125k users. Every page load takes multiple minutes. It leaves me wondering how Mastodon can replace Twitter in practice.

Edit: and when I say "multiple minutes" that's an estimate ... it's been several minutes and there's no sign that it will ever render.
A good reason to own a Ricoh GR IIIx (or Ricoh GR III, which has a 28mm equiv. lense instead of 40mm on the "x" version). It looks very simple and non-professional, but the picture quality is comparable with the latest Fuji X100 series cameras.
Don't humans generally value relative wealth, which would also make it a zero sum game?

E.g., someone in poverty today isn't particularly comforted by knowing they have luxuries that former kings didn't have, like plumbing, because well-being is tied to relative scales
I'm using the word as broadly as it's meant to be used.
I would consider myself barely passable in skills compared to the average hobbyist photographer and have never seen in-phone computational work that I would take over what can be done manually in Lightroom, or if you want to go the automatic route, with Skylum's offerings.
> See: every streaming service. (Edit: ok some streaming services have ads, but for most online content - video, journalism, etc, if you subscribe there are no ads, it's just nickle-and-diming users to give them a bunch of ads, particularly when the marginal cost for Twitter Blue is essentially zero).

Even after your edit, this isn't true. NYTimes includes ads in their paid subscription products. AFAIK, most premium news and editorial still includes ads. It's not nearly as many or as intrusive as the free pubs like NYPost, but there's still ads even though I'm paying $20/mo for NYTimes
I mean, the alternative is arguably that artists become indentured servants to scraping/training models that benefit the people who are doing the scraping/training, at the arguable expense of the artist.
Water falls to the earth as rain
We don’t know that yet.
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Ask HN: Why are ringtones not interesting anymore?
Back in the Nokia days until the early smartphone days, custom phone ringtones were popular things to have.

I think the main reasons were distinguishability in crowded places and the demand for individualisation. I believe they were also one of the first digital assets, that were sold.

Nowadays, most people seem to have settled on either the vintage phone sound, or the default factory setting.
Which leads to indistinguishability and homogenisation.

What are your thoughts on the reasons for that?
That would be a cool tool to have. In the end, it still comes down to humans being conscientious every time they add something to the library. The equivalent would be having really nice software development lifecycle processes: test suites, merge request gating, etc, and once in a while (ha ha) people still manage to push out half-baked changes when they're in a hurry. In the end it's a human issue, tools only do so much. And in domains outside of coding, it's harder to find regressions automatically, so they tend to go uncaught and accumulate.
We may not like it, but your last point is almost the exact definition of what a "price" is. Things don't have objective "prices" as an intrinsic quality. They don't even have "reasonable" prices intrinsically. A price is no more, and no less than an agreement between buyer and seller to make a transaction happen.

"how much you can be fleeced into paying" while a proactive way to phrase it, is also "What you are willing to pay." Key words - "you are willing". If it's too high, then it isn't a price, as there is no agreement.

Seller wants highest price, and buyer wants lowest.

When it's a commodity, like apples at the store, with many sellers of a basically undifferentiated product, prices average out to something we think of as "fair." But when a product is unique, or there is a monopoly on it, seller has a huge advantage in pricing.
> A lot of people aren't groking what this means

There is no mystery here. It went like this:

1. Musk signed a binding agreement to buy Twitter.

2. And then he got cold feet when he decided he didn't like the deal he made and he spent six months desperately trying to not buy Twitter.

3. And then he finally understood that he would lose the court case and that he had to live up to the contract and so he bought Twitter at the originally agreed price.

4. And now Musk wants Twitter users to pay for his poor business decision and fund him out of his debt.
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I'm not sure why blocklists aren't sufficient. Users with similar interests pool together to block content that they find disagreeable, so that others with similar views also aren't subjected to that content. It's basically an opt-in filter bubble. If your views change, so then can your filter bubble.

All of the existing moderators at Twitter could do their exact same job--the difference is that users get to choose whether or not they subscribe to their filter or not (which even makes the filter more of an editorial product).
In my modern, urban, life I have 1000 different options for my food supply or friendships or housing or employment. Aside from a very unengaged, far away, government there is no centralised entity in my life. And even that I can replace by moving country.

100 years ago, there was one major employer in my area (east London), a few grocers and bakers, people's activities were tightly controlled and linked to family status. Participation in all elements of economic and social life was tightly controlled by a small clique of economic, clerical and political elites.

People think about centralisation as a corporate or government thing and a unitary national authority. But it's not. It's part of every later of society. When we lived in tribes, the chief had totally centralised power over almost everything. Villages were the same with an overlord somewhere you'd never see. Towns were lighter but still quite centralised. Modern cities and urban life is about as decentralized as it is possible to be.

That's my understanding of centralisation. Sorry it's not better explained.
This is cool, but my browser already has a bookmarks manager which does pretty much the same thing. I'm not going to sign up for a new service for that functionality.
Do the jpegs (or hief?) look as good on a 27-inch monitor, or just on the phone screen?

Capturing non-raw in my experience (iPhone 6S, now have 13 mini) the jpegs are heavily de-noised, and really don't look that good 1:1 on a large monitor: on the iphone screen they look very good, as they're downsampled.

The article mentions the 'watercolor' effect since the iPhone 8, but I definitely had the issue with all the jpegs taken on my iPhone 6S since 2015...

DNGs however DO look very good, so clearly the sensor is capable of pretty nice images.
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Yes and be just as anoying. I'm not sure that anyone would see a value of just seeing half the amount of ads on a page.
I'm gonna try to answer your questions in order.

- usually they have alts, you can send them a message to please update their twitter bio with the link to their main mastadon account.

- You can not stop someone from impersonating you; however even the most infamous/famous characters on the fediverse have links to their channels, websites and blogs that link back to that account; so this doesn't happen often, it's very rare.

- Even though i don't appreciate your dismissal of a very real problem; there is no protection, however it is very easy to set up your own instance if you feel your voice is being wrongfully censored. As a consequence, no one is ever truly "banned".

- Ignore the hype, I love the fediverse but it has some severe issues; the protocol is never the issue as we are dealing with human beings here.

Instead of advertising, we rely on donations and the good will of the community, advertisers are scum in the fedi world. If you know anyone thinking they can rep their product on it they will be in for one heck of a backlash.
The rise of the 'chief remote officer'
There’s enough places where I would hold off on patching critical vulnerabilities as well. Practically all vulnerabilities require some specific to be in place to be exploitable. It’s up to the engineers to determine whether they are affected. Heartbleed for example was ranked as critical, but if your public SSL sessions terminated at a server running some other TLS stack, you could hold off with patching and roll it into the general patch cycle. Why should you invest time into an out of cycle patch for no gain other than the fuzzy feeling of having patched.
Even if the actual EV (money you spend vs. money ultimately in your bank account) were positive, it still might be a bad bet.

If you look at it as an investment, at the very least you have to take into consideration risk and opportunity costs. The risk is enormous, to get 50/50 odds you would need to invest 400 Million. Imagine what else you could do with that money instead, without it being a 50% chance of loosing everything.
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It varies. A couple of times I just sent an email and they told me when/where to pick it up. Other times they wanted to see my work - a few of these, a personal blog with basically no traffic was enough to pass muster, a few, they wanted to see me working at some sort of actual publication (digital was fine, but it needed to be more than "cthalupa's concert blog")
"Half" ads is extremely common. Disney and Netflix are doing it, and even if you don't have platform ads, the content embeds ads.
I would approach the issue rom the opposite direction.

What is the minimum failure of any CA required for me to get popped? If some malicious actor goes through the effort to get me, how many other clients/servers on the internet can get from the same CA breach / malicious cert?

How would you know to un-trust a CA you already trust until after the incident (a malicious certificate issued) had already happened? Even if the incident happened, someone still needs to alert you to un-trust the CA involved. That takes time.

History of mistakes / bad decisions by cert authorities: https://sslmate.com/resources/certificate_authority_failures

> who is issuing certificates some lunatic wrote nonsense into, but which you trust

Do you know every CA your OS and each browser trusts out of the box? Have you done an audit of each one of them? Does an audit 100% prevent a breach from happening in the future?

What are the odds that their policies are perfectly followed every time and that no employee in the right place can be bribed/blackmailed?

Remember Cert Authorities are watering holes. Almost all of the internet trusts a few of them. By breaching one (which may be very significant, either technically or reputationally), the payoff can be massive.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey to remain invested in the company under Elon Musk
> lifting low-dimensional data into higher dimensional spaces

This is only useful if you actually do something with the extra dimensions, e.g. lifting with a kernel. Duplicating the exact same data into more dimensions is not helpful
I read that as "we built the detector to be sensitive to the wavelengths of the minerals we wanted to monitor, and methane's spectra are in that range, so it works well for picking it up".
I don't think he mentioned communists anywhere in his comment.
Physiological and perceptual consequences of trust in collaborative robots
It's not that straight forward.

It's a moving target, if an instance is blocked enough it will move to a different domain and start federating again.

It's just something to keep in mind.
How to Detect a Man-Made Biothreat
The way methane "exits" the atmosphere is by becoming CO2, so it's strictly worse.
> At $8/month, that's patently not true.

Who needs one that cannot afford $8/month? Does anyone really need it?

> Why should verification be anything other than a pay-once deal, if it has to be paid for at all?

It is not just verification though. Verification is just part of the subscription.
One other benefit of tying online groups to offline groups is that they are able to moderate themselves. Schools aren’t perfect but they can deal with cyber bullying if all parties are students at that school.
Twitter is currently free.

This proposed subscription prioritizes content based on who can/decides to pay $8 a month.

How exactly is this leveling the playing field?
Depends: Is the code readable and understandable? Some familiarity with the platform, toolchain, and language is enough.

Is this a good use of DI, annotations. etc, you need enough direct experience for an informed opinion.

Lastly, a steaming pile is easier to identify than brilliant code, which might look odd at first.
If one in five current blue ticks paid $20 a month that would raise just under $15 million a year for Twitter

Until suddenly there are yellow checkmarks available for $100/month, and red checkmarks available for $500/month, and enterprise-only green checkmarks for $5,000/month.
Should one presume bad faith here?
The only value I can see after the fact is if the technical interviews were relevant, then the quality of new hires would be high and I enjoy working with capable co-workers.
Brands don't post to be nice. They are posting ads for their business.
1. I like this style of work. I cannot make this style of work. I will pay this artist to produce this style of work.

2. I like this style of work. I cannot make this style of work. I will not pay the artist. I will instead take copyrighted material, and process it into a result using a machine that is not able to ethically refuse.

2.1. I like this style of work. I cannot make this style of work. I will not pay the artist. I will use this model someone else made to produce this style of work.
Still a lot of Musk fanboys.

And it's still a large, complex, big-name Tech company; experience with working on problems at that scale could open doors later, regardless of who is calling the shots at the top.
I'd expect those two to intersect for sure, but I imagine there are plenty of people with enough disposable cash that enjoy twitter but contribute very little. Or maybe I am just an extreme outlier :)
They are the one experiencing the bug. I can't file the bug because I don't know and can't investigate the cause. If they are experiencing an issue, and they find the cause, they should file the bug. But they probably won't bother, seeing as they'd rather blame me. I'm willing to file it for them, and that's probably better anyway as I have WebKit committer status. Bugs filed by me may have more weight as I have filed and fixed many before.
These people do not understand what a “joke” is

It was not included in their NPC software update
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Discovery Is Messy: How Do We Keep Track of All That We Are Learning?
Yeah, there were ads in Newspapers and Magazines too that you paid money.

There is an entire generation of entitled people who grew up in 0% VC-funded businesses who are accustomed to getting great products for free who have to adjust to the reality of cost of capital.
Of course they could have known that beforehand, but it sounds like they weren’t designing a methane detector so the fact that it works so well as one is what “turned out” I think. Also articles are really good and taking one quote from a big technical answer and making the speaker sound stupid
Truly unacceptable behavior, I hope u/breck gets compensated for the lost karma.
Sure, if you build your own model, train it on copyrighted works, then use it to create art; or if you use someone else's model which properly license its copyrighted sources, and use that to create art. In both cases your output is a new creative work sufficiently different from its parents to not constitute infringement and enjoy its own copyright protection.

However, the model creator/distributor will never be able to claim fair use on the model itself, which is choke full of unlicensed material and can only exist if trained on such material. It's not really a subtle or particularly difficult legal distinction, in traditional terms it's like an artistic collage (model output) vs a database of copyrighted works (trained model).

The trained model is not a sufficiently different work that stands on its own, in fact it is just a compressed algorithmic representation of the works used to train it, legally speaking it is those works.
Will be interesting to see how this capability unfolds. They’ve proven this can be done using an instrument not even designed for the task. A specialized instrument may be able to detect other greenhouse emissions. Imagine the kind of high resolution accountability that might be possible. But does the political will exist in the US to expose ourselves that way? Our political donors that way? Our country as one of the largest emitters?
Yeah, because they are only this advanced because they stole US technology. Chinese people can't be as intelligent as american.