skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me, or anyone else is feeling all of the examples of grain simulation (I even followed links in the comments here on HN to papers and plugins) all feel a bit "off" in comparison to real film pictures? Probably film enthusiasts would agree, else they would not be shooting on film even today.

My best guess is that besides grain digital photos have a different dynamic range. The whole stack from silicon sensor, raw processing, etc, including screen manufacturing is trying to get to "real" images, in the sense that it is similar to what the human eye of the photographer saw in site. Film also tried to do the same, yet, I guess there are more characteristics than we can simulate with math.

I bet if someone gathers enough data an AI based plugin might get closer to the actual film look rather hand-coded math based plugins will be able to.
Meat, and food in general in the UK is incredibly cheap, one pig farm closing down won't affect your ability to get cheap food. Regardless, most people eat too much, too lacking in quality meat, a bit of scarcity will do everyone some good in this regard.
I lived near a pig farm in the UK for a couple of years in the 1990s. Seen some shit that turned me into a vegetarian ever since. Animal welfare is a fucking joke. It is literally only rolled out for the inspectors. The folk who work on the farms and the abattoirs end up dehumanised as well leading to stuff like this: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/former-slaug... . I don't judge people for eating meat. That's your decision. But I can't support this industry.
Is everyone fleeing exchanges and just buying classic BTC and Eth?
We used to use Zenni, until they stopped shipping here. More recently, my wife tried https://www.polette.com/ and has been quite happy with the result.
They're abusing animals. Please don't support animal abuse. It's easy for you to eat something else.
Correct URL to windmill on GitHub

https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

(Or @rubenfiszel could edit their post)
> A software engineer from India says he was fired by Meta 2 days after he moved to Canada for his job
If there's a problem sending too much data between back end services, perhaps there's just more data being sent than necessary. Perhaps there's some data usage costs or introduced latencies involved somehow?
It also doesn’t require the continuous input of the power requirements of a European nation to keep gold existing.
Because crypto doesn't work yet (which is OK, it's new and experimental), but people want to pretend is does. Same as as these people people building allegedly quantum computers but where the real work is done by classical computers.
The use of supposed mental illness being used to discount any opposing belief is terrifying. Did you ever stop and consider that maybe empathizing in this situation is wrong?
The moral of the story is leave when Renaud does.
Exactly... these are mental costs that many of us who have done the move understand and feel deeply as it has been experienced. For everyone else, we rely on their ability to empathize. Empathy, compassion, and life experiences make it easier to understand people.
BTC has survived a lot of "crypto scams" though
Software services are at the top of the pyramid. You need a lot of other things to be in the right place for software services to happen.

You need to be able to have electricity, infrastructure, food, and an educated population. That's a tall order in many places, and it's going to be taller moving forward.

And I'm not even mentioning computers. They're not going to get more affordable without China, but the opposite. Software development will adapt? Sure, things will move to the cloud as they've been moving for years already, but that puts a heavier load on having the right infrastructure for it.
I use them in the UK too. Had 4 pairs from them now and never had an issue

Of course this doesn't help if they're in mainland Europe
Being able to evade tracking and disappear may be the biggest selling point for some.
>Perl's nature encourages the use of regular expressions almost to the exclusion of all other techniques

I like Perl, but that is true. Despite the pretty rich set of built-ins, for example, there's not a top-level string replace function. You have to roll your own with index and substr.
Show HN: Conversation card game with unlimited possibility thanks to AI
My point is not performance, I'd agree you can get far. My point is that when selling a service it seems somewhat irresponsible to run it on such a clear single point of failure.
IMO free will is only the guarantee by God that he won't be messing with our program while it's running. Ie. He won't use His debugger to change our state, or make us do things that are not in our programming. Free will is us programs running NOT under God's debugger.

This is not to say that we don't have a say in our ultimate wants, assuming we can't change them. Perhaps we (our soul) still decided on them originally.
Elon would definitely behave like this. a perfect example imo. Him being forced by law or PR to give people more time doesn’t show his character or how he is.

Elon — the classist, union busting, worker rights abusing (like how he treated lower working class workers during lockdown or how he will randomly fire you while walking around a factory), hyper capitalist. He is definitely okay with this. Can’t imagine him not wanting to do this if he could get away with it.
What's collapsing again and again are the companies that try to force TradFi ideas onto the DeFi ecosystem.

So, in terms of "crypto scam," there's nothing to see here.
What constitutes good quality glasses? Or rather: good quality lenses? The frames are mostly a matter of taste, but for the optical component, is a €150 piece of glass significantly better than a €100 piece of glass? Who has the lead in material science here? Japan, Germany? Any good sources on that topic?
The faces look pretty good for the most part, but there a few things that usually give away the generated photos:

- artifacts in backgrounds;

- weird patterns in clothes;

- clothes that are very ill-fitting.
https://www.ft.com/content/428c7800-c72d-4c59-9940-4376fea6e...

> Sam Bankman-Fried stormed on to the US political scene with multimillion-dollar donations that led lawmakers, particularly Democrats, to believe he was ushering in the next generation of donors. But in a matter of days, his business empire collapsed into bankruptcy and the prospect of millions more in donations evaporated.

https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-joe-bid... (https://archive.ph/BBpQN#selection-417.0-424.0)

> The 30-year-old Bankman-Fried has been a major force in Democratic politics, ranking as the party’s second-biggest individual donor in the 2021–2022 election cycle, according to Open Secrets, with donations totaling $39.8 million. That ranks only behind George Soros (about $128 million) but ahead of many other big names, including Michael Bloomberg ($28.3 million). What’s more, he had promised to spend far more on Democrats moving forward, predicting in May that he’d fund “north of $100 million” and had a “soft ceiling” of $1 billion for the 2024 elections.
From the article:

> In 2020, Viva! published footage of its investigation into the farm.

> The video showed feral cats eating pigs alive, rotting corpses, and emaciated and sick pigs living in squalid conditions.

Hence, I beg to differ.
It piqued my interest enough to google it and it seems like it’s actually a notable thing in the online betting world and is indeed fairly sophisticated and purpose-built.

One example blog post:
https://csgobetting.com/iesnare-how-youre-being-made-paranoi...
Hey everyone,

I'm thinking of introducing an Individual pricing plan (one user only) in which we strip away all team features. This would help bring much better user experiences since there was no unnecessary clutter or noise.

I'd like to hear your thoughts about it.
Knuth is still writing TAoCP, and it is older than any of the books you mention.
Any kind of electronic gambling setup is amenable to insider scams.

Keep it low-key, don't get greedy, and you can probably milk it forever.
A very large pool of people have skin in the BTC game, some of them are billionaires with market manipulation power, like the Winklevoss twins.
Ah yes, fair enough. I had spotted they were non-profit, but not that they were actually free on top of that.
On the upside of such a shitty situation, being there will bring the guy a lot of other opportunities too to resolve that fast. Or result in something even better than originally thought.
> perpetrators are smart enough to avoid being caught.

IMO, many startups are scams on some level. VC A funds company X. VC A also funds company Y. Company Y 'decides' to use company X's hot new product and has a lofty enterprise license. This happens a few more times. Company X now has very large revenues, VC's friends at big-nation-bank decide it's time to IPO and cash out.
If you're in Germany, read https://www.mydealz.de/share-deal-from-app/396772
In other words, take advantage of Fielmann price matching.
Binance boss says no one can be protected from a ‘bad player’
No, it was an arithmetic expression related to labels. And yes I'd agree that it working in... I want to say intel and not at&t (might be the other way around) is a bug/missing feature. Didn't bother fixing or reporting it at the time though.
3 months notice, while retaining access to company networks and campus?

I support "keeping them on the books" for purposes of visa and health insurance, for example, but there are legitimate security reasons to have people cut off quickly when they've been laid off or fired.
Clarification: depositors are considered a banks senior creditors. They get paid before the other creditors.

The reason a bank would suspend withdrawals is so it can be either taken over in an orderly fashion (in the US supervised by the FDIC) or so they can get a liquidity infusion (in the US, depending on their charter, from the fed).

Those regulatory agencies and bankruptcy rules don’t exist for a crypto exchange so there is very little an exchange can be doing when suspending withdrawals that doesn’t end with the exchange going bust.
Concourse CI – an open-source continuous thing-doer
"I’ve wanted to write a book for a long time: Why does art exist? Why do we have aesthetic preferences? There are all sorts of ways of explaining this. Some of them are biological: We like things that are red because it’s the same color as blood and sex organs and that sort of thing. But there are much more interesting ways of saying what the role of art is in the maintenance of a society. I don’t want to die before I get that done. [Laughs.] What I want to say is that culture — art, if you like — has an important set of functions in preparing us for the future. [When] you read a book... you’re surrendering to a world with certain values and attributes and seeing what it feels like. Then, when you see something a bit like that starting to exist, you have a way of understanding it and how that might feel.

"When you go and look at something new, what you’re saying is, “What’s different about this experience?” In many instances, there won’t be anything different, in which case you’re not that interested. But if you can look at it and say, “That’s more angular. That’s fuzzier. That’s much more this, much more that” — we’re very good at understanding differences in feeling within our own long narrative of looking at pieces of work. But what does it mean, for example, when a picture is scratchier than another? You read that as, This is urgent. The artist didn’t have time to make it pretty.

"One of the epidemics of now is the inability to focus or concentrate. [...]watching someone at lunchtime today[...] She had a book and was on her earphones and on the phone. There could be a postmodern argument for saying that this is a new way of absorbing and collaging material together. I personally find that quite hard to do. I’m addicted to the idea that you put yourself in a place and surrender to it. It’s about making space for a kind of attention that you’re not normally offered by entertainment media."

"I think we’re in for a hard ride for maybe half a century. Then it will either be the end of civilization or a reborn humanity with a different set of ideas about who we are and where we belong and how we must relate to things in order to survive. _I see this point at which we either really fail or we start to succeed._*

"What happens to humans when they multiply their feelings together? We’ve been so atomized over the last 50, 100 years and told that we have to have our own completely independent lives and that the real human is the one who can stand alone. The real human, to me, seems like the one who can support his neighbors and work with them. That’s a feeling that I pursue. Whenever I see it, I want to encourage it."
> Should META have preemptively rescinded this employee's offer so they got nothing but at least didn't move? Maybe.

Yes, 100%. Relocating internationally is extremely taxing. Dealing with immigration stuff, even if another company "handles it" for you, it's still a huge toll on you mentally.

I would pay $$$ to avoid a needless relocation.
Mister Spex is utter trash, the way they fit the lenses in the frame is atrocious. My gf brought one of their glasses to a third-party optician for repairs, and it turned out they had used superglue to fit the much thicker lenses inside the frame. It was very visible and low quality.
In the title, "Source code is not enough".
You missed an "l" with 1. https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/

Even for the simplest and my own sites, I usually typed it out in the browser and copy-paste. :-)
I’ve been seeing him called “Fried Bank Man”.
Proposed class action alleges that Apple tracks users despite privacy assurances
Launch HN: Unthread (YC S22) – Customer support, entirely within Slack
Howdy HN! Tom and Jake here from Unthread (https://unthread.io). We make it easy for businesses to manage customer experience (CX) end-to-end inside of Slack. We automatically create tickets for new conversations, handle assignments & escalations, triage with other teams, etc — all without leaving Slack.

Here’s a quick Loom showing how it works: https://www.loom.com/share/8158371d29c84550863adbd6719bb112

Unthread was born out of a failed B2B SaaS startup that we were running for about 2 years. We found clients preferred sending bug reports and feature requests through Slack instead of email or the Intercom widget embedded in our app. This was great for us - Slack is a tool we were already using every day, it’s quick and easy to respond, and it’s less formal than composing an email. The problem is that chat != ticketing, and we struggled to keep track of what needed responses or follow-ups. We used a combination of “mark unread”, “remind me”, and DMs to try to triage, and things still slipped through the cracks.

We started building Unthread to manage our own customers’ requests inside of Slack. After piloting with other companies in our YC batch who were having the same pain point, we decided to pivot to it being our product.

Unthread automatically tracks incoming messages to a channel. We use some basic NLP to determine if it’s an issue or a friendly hello. If it’s an issue, we create a ticket, assign an owner, and send a private message to the assignee that they need to respond. We have an “inbox” in Slack where you can see all of the open conversations that are assigned to you, manage the status of each conversation, and close them out when you're done. If you’re also doing email support, you can forward emails into a Slack channel where reps can compose a response to be sent via email.

The unique approach Unthread takes is that none of this is visible to the end customer. We use a combination of ephemeral messages (only visible to your team) and DMs to keep things private. Customers don’t want to talk to a chatbot, so we help support reps provide real responses to customers by giving them the tools behind the scenes to organize and collaborate.

We also have an escalation system (think PagerDuty for Slack messages) to notify a backup person if there hasn’t been a response in time. You can configure this on a per-customer basis to set shorter SLAs for more valuable accounts, and we’re working on adding rotations of who’s the primary point of contact.

Anyone in the HN community can install the Slack app directly by using this special link: unthread.io/?referral=hn.

We’re excited to hear how this resonates with folks’ current experience using Slack for CX! I imagine there are some opinionated workflows out there :)
i think you're asking for https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean. there's nothing stopping someone from building that out; we released it as FOSS hoping someone would pick it up and finish it off. Yay open source.
Ask HN: Anyone knows how to simplify taxes?
> There's 2-3 trillion dollars in crypto at this point...

No, there's not.

Issuing a trillion CJCOINs and selling one for $1 gives me a trillion dollar market cap, by cryptocurrency valuation standards. There's not actually a trillion dollars invested into the CJCOIN ecosystem.
Is it actually making things less reliable to run things on a single instance though? In my experience, why things go down tend to be because humans deploy changes, not because one instance went down because of hardware failures or connectivity issues. I've outlined more of this thought here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593361
Non-Extradition Countries
Some people don't want to be alone, interacting with a JIRA queue their whole life. I miss coffee with coworkers. I miss being human at work.
fixed, thanks :)
FTX’s Collapse Casts a Pall on Effective Altruism Philanthropy Movement
Crypto has attracted almost every type of criminal under the sun, to the detriment of 'regular' people who got conned into this stuff and is now left holding the bags.

That German saying is on point and really sad.
It won't. Because the resources are going to be more expensive, and between "going green" (if they can even afford it) but being miserable, or burning coal (or gas if you're lucky) but improving your living standards, people will choose the latter.

There's a reason Germany is burning lignite now after spending billions on renewable energies.
Every collapse has been self made. I don t see how the institution have anything to do with that.
I'm not surprised people are being banned when they violate Twitter's long standing Terms of Service for the purpose of getting into the news. They knew what they were doing.
I think this works on two levels. Yes, pay good severance packages which includes keep paying for the benefits. And in addition find them another sponsor. The sponsor thing is what is different for immigrants from all the other situations you mentioned. This should also be up to the government. When you get fired you shouldn’t outright lose your permit.
“Barely human”.. that’s a pretty nazi-esque way of looking at others. Perhaps people simply have different opinions and priorities.
Products can hide all sorts of “bad acting” in the supply/manufacturing chain. Companies that are willing and able to [use indentured servants, etc] will be able to sell a product cheaper than a competitor that holds themselves to higher standards.

The appearance of ethics/morals might be a benefit, but true ethics/morals are often a cost.
Foundry is no match to either of these tools, but it's not open source. Thanks for sharing!
This has been my solution as well.

At some point in the last few (3-5 years?) I just gave up. My communication with important people hasn't really changed. I star important people by default and just glance over at them.

I've also trained those same important people that I always pick up my phone, so they feel like they can call me if it's urgent or important.

My output is higher now and I just don't think about email. Sometimes I miss things that people ask of me. They either come back around, because they are actually important, or they die on the vine.

I'm also very specific about what/who an important person is, so there just aren't that many important emails.
I don't think there are enough people believing in crypto or specifically BTC. I believe that it's all insider trading, and fraud that keeps the price above $0.
I think the effect is the same. Either plots get smaller or the other heirs have to seek alternative work to even more devalued work on the farm.
Sorry. With institutions, I meant companies like FTX.
I've had something similar to this happen to me, luckily my visa wasn't dependent on it but it was still a giant kick in the balls.
I think they're implying they should've learned that lesson much earlier with much smaller amounts, and that if they haven't by now, you should assume they won't ever.
2022 feels like the year the sheen of genius wears off our tech overlords.
Using protobuf to shift-left your entire schema management
For anything to do with embedded development, this is not reasonable.
> He had vowed to give up to $1bn to political candidates linked to causes he supported, a pledge from which he later backed away.

I can too promise the moon and never deliver.
That is US federal taxes. Now go grab your check and see how much you are paying in taxes that are not called that. Then remember you also pay taxes when you buy things too. Also remember your must carry insurance (3 of those). Also in some cases just for owning something. Plus state and local. My theory is We did not really lower taxes that much. We just itemized the bill to make it look smaller.
Is it possible to test without code?