skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like optical viewfinders and say face closeup at an angle in low light can benefit from my discretion on what the best overall focus is rather than one sharp and one blurry eye. I know all of the other ideas like moving further away, or higher f stop and more lights. All I am saying is that once I am already looking at a shallow focus scene it's easier to rotate a ring till it looks good enough to me than hunt for best autofocus points with a joystick. Hopefully EVF distortions can be turned off on good cameras?
seems like a reasonable pace on a Sunday
Help infuriating “sign in with Google” popup
Sorry if this is tech support and not allowed.. feel free to flag.

I do not have a google account and don't use any google services to the best of my knowledge and ability. (Fastmail, DDG, apple maps, etc.)

How do I stop the "sign in with google account" that is now popping up on most sites I visit? Yelp, newspaper, reddit, travel websites, retail websites, etc.

It's possible I had a google account at some point in my life but certainly not any time recently/while using this IP address (to the best of my recollection).

Everything I read online says to stop the banner I have to log into my google account to change the preference. I'm about to lose my mind. Please help.
The New Twitter – what features would you like to see?
What features would you like to see added?
In what way is that question antisemitic?
Wow, that author seems to really work hard on some things.

I hate that he sees the prison employees as enemies. They're just doing a job, and it's a job somebody must do.

It makes you wonder how far in life the author would have got if he hadn't committed the murder. It's a shame, really.
Offline songs is my biggest gripe, they are impossible to find / filter for. To find them (i.e. on a flight) I pretty much have to go into my settings and switch to offline mode.
If 38% of the students are white, then white students are a minority. That's not playing with words, that's a basic understanding of words.
Was the Azores home to an ancient civilisation? [video]
Shouldn't they have an encryption sequence that's required to be performed in sync for them to join? If that's not happening, then it's some really bad model.
Perceived Qualities of Mouthfeel
This comment is just optimizing for outrage and contextless criticism without any informative aspect
That's because it's not--and never was--about any kind of logical, rational argument. There is only people seeking power, looking to exploit any historical injustice, differences between people, and institutional behavior to gain power over others.
Prisons also keep convicts locked up, where they can't kill/injure/steal any longer.

That's an important one.
Kubernetes Networking Bug Uncovered and Fixed
Basically everything he said as a justification (sourcing, firmware, etc.) applies to every sufficiently advanced part of the vehicle. By that logic, they should not be using touchscreens on the center console, etc.
If Khan honestly (and verifiably) offers the Earth an unconditional end to a devastating war that they he and his forces were entirely equipped to continue indefinitely, anybody who turns him down (because they won't get to personally try and execute Khan) is a psychopath who thinks life is a game. If you think Roddenberry would think that was cool, I disagree, but I'd be happy to condemn Roddenberry, too. I'm not bothered by "deviations from Roddenberry's vision" as much as I'm bothered by a show that requires me to identify with objectively awful people to enjoy it.

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> Dictatorships are such fragile things

You know that the writers choose how things turn out, right? It wasn't a real dictatorship, so you shouldn't take any life lessons from how it ended. There won't be any deus ex machina in real life to save elites from the consequences of similar decisions.
Hello. I read your post but it was deleted before I had a chance to respond. There was a lot in there, which makes sense because you’re talking about life. In brief I would say a few things:

1. Don’t count yourself out. On anything. Ever. We all have our strengths and weaknesses.

2. You’re young. You’re starting out. It’s an exciting and scary time. Don’t worry if you don’t yet know how your life will go - no-one does!

3. Passion and meaning can come with time. There are entire branches of life people discover well after your age. For me, I was quite a few years older than you before discovering some things that are great joys to me and a huge part of my life. And some years later I am still finding new ones.

4. You say you’re no super genius and yet you’ve got yourself a valuable internship and possible job? This is much better than the alternative, getting it by being a super genius! Trust me when I tell you that hard work matters more in the long run, and you’ve shown you can do it. Lots of people can’t or won’t. They hit a wall when their ability doesn’t let them do things easily any more. You won’t hit that wall. You’ll just keep going.

5. On the point about relationships or family (I forget), again see points 1 and 2. It’s hard to see now but you are just getting started. Be positive and proactive and you never know who you might meet and where it might lead.

Good luck to you.
English winemakers toast summer heatwaves
You're very right about everything you said.

However at the end of the day, what's important to me is to feel I've tried doing the right thing.

This means I can't do things conditionally or "only if I trust my manger won't take credit for it". If I want to be credited for my work, I feel that it's mostly my responsibility take credit for it.

It can be very difficult to change people, teams, processes, companies so I understand why we may want to get something out of trying hard to improve things we feel others should want to improve as well. It's not always as obvious as "a salary increase" or "public recognition", but employees who try to improve processes indicates to management they are interested in sharing their input and committed to making things better. This fosters credibility, and creates a more positive work environment.

Job hopping may often be easier but is often seen as a red flag by employers and it can make it difficult to build a strong, long-term career.

What is unfortunate in my opinion is working with developers unwilling to learn more about systems and infrastructure. With the rise of DevOps, it's often the norm that many developers don't know how to do some part of their job. As opposed to your comment this is not on the level of "developer who doesn't know how to code" but "developer who don't know how to work with the underlying systems, builds, deployment processes, and the underlying infrastructure powering their code".

When people are unwilling to learn from others, they are missing out on opportunities to grow and improve. This can lead to a feeling of being stuck in a rut, and can ultimately lead to dissatisfaction with one's job or career; as much for people who lack some expertise and are unwilling to learn, than for those who can help them increase their competence in this closely related field of work, who often end up doing most of the work in this field
Moving away from AWS reduced our annual server costs by 80% – from $1M to $200k
Using Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing to Classify Prices of Wine
I'm so glad that you like it!

Currently the UX is not perfect, and I'll definitely try my best to improve it XD.

Looking forward to your advice and feedbacks!
I’d argue that’s a separate and more deeply rooted issue.

At some level of abstraction, most of the currently prosperous IT companies could be seen as barely producing anything of value, and our startup culture kinda goes in the same way (purely looking at the rate of success vs failures gives a grim picture regarding the amount of time dedicated to these failures).

We have many justifications for that, but at no point I’d see our field as being hyperfocused on only solely bringing actual value to the world.

PS: that’s not just our field of course, ad business comes right to my mind, but we probably have many other work field with very little ‘value’ when looked from a high enough perspective.
Which is the mode of operations of the companies we're talking about, yes.
> the person is correctly drug seeking in a situation they've previously had a specific problem diagnosed and have had positive experiences with a therapeutic

I've been in this situation a few times as I've moved around the US for both xanax (as needed) and adderall (daily) concurrently.

The short of it is this: you just have to find the right clinician.

Because of how the system works, you're not limited to psychiatrists. Pretty much anyone with a prescription pad can dispense these in month-sized quantities (primary care, psychiatrists, prescribing nurses, even dentists).

Call providers and tell them explicitly what prescription you need and that you're having trouble finding a doctor to work with you and it's frustrating. A lot of them will say "oh, this practice isn't what you're looking for" and eventually you'll find one that says yes.

Try to think of it as "patient advocacy" instead of "drug seeking behavior" while you're having conversations with professionals.
Keep in mind, if you follow economics, there is not enough money produced by working people to fund the growth of Medicare and NDIS. Not tax, even if they taxed everyone much much more, there will still not be enough money by 2027.
Of course you don't. You were speaking in the first person as if you did, though, so I did as well.

> "My comments are mostly about the likely future of Twitter, which is almost certainly atrophy and death. "

This was already their future, so I guess we can see if they improve at all.
That’s true. Maybe I misread your comment, but it sounded like you were saying that the reason there cannot be stock grants is because Twitter is private. The reason that there cannot be stock grants is because Elon happens to own all the shares, not because Twitter is private.
English sparkling wines challenge champagne, thanks to climate change (2020)
Interesting, so the idea is sort of acting like an automated HR sourcing agency by using "invited by 'big tech', rejected on 2nd interview" as a heuristic to find suitable candidates?

EDIT: The execution is certainly suspicious though. At first I thought this was a new official YC project, until I saw it apparently has no affiliation at all? Also, no imprint, no "Show HN:" type of launch post and from a new (<1h) account..
I’m no expert on this (don’t know if I believe it) but the argument I’ve heard framed is that the neo-liberal approach is a direct reaction to colonialism. So in that sense sure it’s a precondition. Like being sick is a precondition for getting cured.

The idea being that global trade should act as a mutually beneficial agreement without needing force of arms, trade protection or extractive colonial policies. Rather than 1 party sucking all the resources from another in a zero sum way.
There's something lost in the simplification:

Not every code path really has to be tested. Let's imagine that they're e.g. displaying a message box. I feel pretty confident that if I call a system function to display a message box, it'll display a message box. So in C++ I wouldn't test that.

In Ruby, I'd need to make sure that I made calls to both code paths so that if the function signature for displaying a message box changed, that I'd get an error in my tests.

This isn't a hypothetical: I write Qt applications in C++ and Rails apps in Ruby. The pain of switching major versions in Qt is trivial compared to Rails, mainly because once it compiles in C++, it probably also works.

Could you imagine just assuming that a Rails app worked after a major Rails version upgrade just because it didn't throw an error on startup? That's really the experience of working in statically typed languages.
What are the new language features that let you avoid using smart pointers?
Supporters of the PT party number in the tens of millions. What percentage of them would you say have the opinion that the Lava-Jato operation was a farce? 9 out of 10 PT supporters make this claim, that it was a farce. The majority of 'the left' claims this. The people you're referring to is not 'the left'. You said that it's a rare person who says this, which is very, very wrong.
Short version: Dick Cheney hated it & use the excuse/reason of costing too much to kill.
> "humans don't need it so cars should not need it too"

I think of parking and I'm reminded of "the camry dent"

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+camry+dent&iax=images&ia=image...
“Superstar” wines and the uncertain price premium across quality grades (2021)
Ah, the trick is not to have disabled the Google Lens app. I'd seen that video before, but in never clicked that Lens was required. Thanks.
SPyQL – SQL Powered by Python
If they used less hot water they would use less energy heating the water.

That was the original thought until I went off on the tangent about saving the hot water in a separate tank from the bathtub after it is "used" for the bath allowing the heat to be harvested and the water to be re-used.

The original post is about leaving the hot water in the bath to use the energy to heat the house or help heat incoming water. The idea of an external tank made out of conductive material would eliminate some of the problems and also allow the water to be re-used for the toilet.
No it's not!
This is also common for dentists and other outpatient procedures.
> That's why no significant migration to Mastodon will take place.

This sounds great. If we can leave 99% behind and get all substantive people, like John Carlos Baez, into Mastodon, its the best possible world.

People think that all partitions are between people with different opinions, but that's not always the case. Sometimes people with substance from every corner flock into the same arena. For a little time everything is good, then eternal September once again.
It would not surprise me if this is influenced by the Haskell Package Versioning Policy (PVP).

In Haskell the simplest way to convey that there are two supported major versions of a project would be to have two packages “Idris” and “Idris2”.

If the package is thus named “Idris2” then bumping to v0.6.0 would indicate a breaking API change under the PVP. It is commonplace for (roughly speaking) “beta” projects to leave the first digit at 0, though what measure of stability and quality is deemed sufficient to move out of “beta” varies.

https://pvp.haskell.org/
I couldn't agree more.

That type of sentiment is pervasive, and it's absolutely baffling, because we as a society can keep all our excesses and comforts while making the consequential energy expenditures completely green. It seems like people are just incapable of conceiving of solutions that don't involve morally shaming others into being less happy. Or a more cynical take: It seems like a lot of people enjoy "solutions" that stick-it to some other part of the population.

"That shower you enjoy uses too much water, you should take shorter and weaker showers."
"Shame on you for flying to see your distant relatives, you should take fewer flights."
"How dare you use a comfortable car to get around? Unless you're unhappy in a bus with at least 10 other people, you're a bad person."

Without even considering other sources of green energy, there is more than enough solar energy reaching the Earth to allow all 8 billion of us to enjoy consumption levels typical of Western nations.
> 576MP

Actually our eyes are more like 8MP: https://www.picturecorrect.com/what-is-the-resolution-of-the...

Perhaps higher synthetic resolution from moving our eyes about, or perhaps that is meaningless.
Everything is built on the shoulders of others. A 'computer' was once a clever worker with a sliderule and most stop motion is now made in 3D software. We use tools, just as artists will use this to rapid prototype.
Worth noting that Lula is more pro-russian than bolsonoro and blames zelensky for the war equally.

The coming decade is going to be as profound as end of world war
Oh, that looks like a bug... Could you please share the `fidelity` property of your `img2img` process, or share the `AI Parameters` on the right (after you select the generated image) (there should be a little `copy` icon) here? Thanks!
The kids were watching Roddenberry when they should’ve been reading Lem.
The way to joy is Jesus of Nazareth. Partake of the Gospel.

Pleasures are plentiful and transient. Satisfaction can be had in worldly accomplishment, and even philosophy.

Joy under the sun (and beyond) is due neither to the flesh nor the mind, but the soul.
With the end point that this is a horrible thing to have done, will probably win the war, and Sisko will have to live, personally, with the guilt that his actions killed two men.

At no point did the episode show this as a good thing.
politics aside, based on public information it feels like the main difference between this and all the other metadata-type systems in place is the centralised ability to downgrade connections?
> why isn’t the same true for the liberalism which preceded it?
> why not that earlier one too?

I never made any claims on these other eras. It could be, an argument could be made.

but if you agree the Roberts and Rehnquist courts were conservative, then this court simply must be more so. Perhaps not as partisan as some liberal courts. You can't dismiss that this court is partisan simply because you agree with its decisions.
No, it's the rich who want our money. And they were getting better at taking it. With the labor shortage working class folks are starting to realize no one gets rich if there are no workers and people are demanding better pay. Good for them.
More awesome DSP detective work by Daniel Estevez. One of a very small number of authors/sites I upvote reflexively as soon as I see them show up on the page, before even following the link.

If more people understood what this guy is doing, he'd be up there in the HN pantheon with Carmack, Bellard, Ken Shiriff, and Bunnie Huang.
Fast, general purpose, succinct, and non-interactive proofs are pretty new, see SNARK (2013), STARK (2018) and Halo2 (2020). Even more interesting is zkVM like RISC Zero. Practical and open source applications of FHE feels even more nascent than ZK.
No. I just wanted to clarify OP's statement. They weren't claiming that scientists don't know about horizontal gene transfer or that anyone is necessarily neglecting it currently, only that it is a "potential danger," which is true and discussed as a legitmate concern in the literature.
bleh. auto accidents are the #1 preventable cause of death for kids:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventable_causes_of_death#Am...
"certified agile" makes me think of gymnasts
Pshaw. tomsrtbt runs great off a floppy [0]

[0] http://www.toms.net/rb/tomsrtbt.FAQ
Sure, we can get started on that right after we're done with defunding and firing politicians who push their scientific views on young, old, and uneducated people.

Or is that not what you mean when you say that you want science to be disentangled from politics..?

It's weird the same politicians that get their boxers in a twist over scientists doing politics have no qualms about professing all sorts of ignorant and insane opinions on medicine, climate modeling, toxicology, engineering, neurology...
> It is not sufficient if, in aggregate, self-driving cars have fewer accidents

It would be sufficient if it would be the case. With actual proof.

Reality is that in limited abstract situations, self driving card maybe have some advantages. But, that is all that we can claim. And when self driving fails, somehow human is always the cause.
Very cool, I created essentially the same product but hadn't launched due to all the boilerplate I wanted. It's lovely isn't it watching how cleanly the questions and answers come out?
It's important to note that universities have been throwing money at using these proxies but still fall far short.

California's constitution banned affirmative action in the 90s and huge, well-endowed facilities like Berkeley have been unable to remedy their plummeting minority enrollment: https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/end-of-affirmative-acti...

Having spoken to some folks at (admittedly smaller) universities that work with such problems, substitute methods like income and zipcode are simply not as effective – not by a long shot.
3553 is about sentencing. Sentencing includes all sentencing only one part of which is prison. Section 3553 D give authority to a judge to sentence to things like residential drug treatment programs, or giving a term of supervised release after prison. Title 18 §3582 is the statute a judge is required to follow when imposing prison as part of a sentence, and it EXCLUDES BY STATUTE a judge considering rehabilitation when imposing a prison sentence. I show the exact statue that makes it ILLEGAL for a judge to do what you claim, and you repost your incorrect misreading of 3553, and then Hacker News tells me to slow down and prevents me from posting a response for hours.
The irony of complaining about the fragmentation of information and free things being given when a freemium modal block prevents you from reading the screed.
Expecting something like Twitter to moderate it's content doesn't mean we expect corporations to be a police force, judge, jury and executioner.
And you should be able to filter to only accounts that are verified and pay $5/month. I think this is an issue with twitter and their product. "verification" is one possible solution. But, other product changes would probably work better. E.g., I rarely have such negative interactions on hacker news and they don't even require a CC or a phone.
I think the law should treat people in a race blind manner. But race is also a component and proxy for culture and economic and social position. It’s fair game (and important) to talk about white liberals. What they believe, what their motivations are, where their interests lie, etc.
Most 50's, at least down to f1.4 were designed or based on designs from the 1960's. They have really awful optical qualities by modern lens standards.

Of course a good photographer will tell you great photographs have little to do with the camera/lens and everything to do with lighting, framing, subject etc but still...
I saw someone familiar walking around my neighborhood. The view from my window is partially obscured by the garden. So as I turn my gaze, I see a man wearing a hat loosely. The hat was positioned far back on his head, exposing a protruding forehead whose silhouette was amplified by a receding hairline. As the man walked by, it looked like a bald mounds pubis floating along the balcony. The things one can see from their home, right? Who the fuck needs social media when looking for a good laugh?
Curious if he's gonna pull a Trump.
It is not designed to generate pixel art, but you can try something like:

a lovely little cat, pixel art.

It will generate something weird, but (maybe) the quality of the generated image will be better with some tweaks!
A better "answer" might be to make them an option and let the market decide.

For many (MANY) years airbags were fought by the auto industry even though people wanted them.
The various municipalities I've lived in require 5 to 8 feet minimum bury depth for water pipes to avoid freezing. The seasonal property I mentioned earlier being at 3-4 feet depth is likely helped by the fact that snow is not cleared above the run (additional insulation) and it is in one of the milder climate areas where a municipal spec water run would only need 5 feet of bury. It may also have half inch of foam wrap for insulation, I'm not sure.

Agree on the pipe volumes.
Yes, according to those I know at twitter this is the case.