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> Emergency laws don’t eliminate rights. They suspend them and courts absolutely have the ability (at least in the US) to get involved and penalize the government if it finds the suspension of rights are unwarranted.

One of the key differences between the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the US Constitution is that the charter was an escape hatch right in section 1:

> The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

When there’s an allegation that someone’s charter rights have been violated by the government, there’s a 3 part test known as the Oakes test that the courts use to determine whether or not the violation is appropriate per section 1. When an action by the government makes it to court and fails the Oakes test, the courts come up with a remedy.

> I don’t believe any Canadian court has found that to be the case in the truckers blockade, which probably reflects that fundamental rights were not suppressed.

I believe you are correct, but with a bit of nuance. From what I can tell, the convoy lawyers are somewhat incompetent. I don’t personally have much of a horse in this race, but as a citizen it would have been a really nice outcome for me to have seen some clarity and consistency come out of the Canadian courts on what exactly is or is not acceptable and when one side is doing a terrible job of arguing their case you end up with weak precedent.

Beyond the trucker convoy, in the past couple of years we have also had several rail lines and an oil refinery blockaded for many weeks. National, provincial, and municipal police forces have handled these situations very differently, the courts have handled them differently, and the current legislative and precedent situation is very very hazy.
Looks cool and would be a neat tool for independent film makers on small budgets or creators on things like YouTube. But I don't see how consolidating motion tracking, rotoscoping, animation, lighting, compositing etc. into a single web app (!) would really help any serious VFX studio.

Seems like it'd be better as a set of distinct tools. E.g. a camera motion tracker, an actor motion tracker, a clean plate generator, HDRI generator, etc. That way it would be easier for a studio to add it to their existing VFX pipeline.
Yeah too tired sometimes. Mine is 2.5 and I can say it doesn't necessarily improves when kid grows up. You get new problems every once for a while.
Someone at Google came up with this internal spreadsheet for everyone to enter their salaries and total comp into while I was there. It made the news but afaik never leaked.

That spreadsheet made very clear that salary was distributed like a Bell curve with the mean being something like $120k and total comp somewhere in the $300-400k range.
Frauds always go bad
It's not only Philips that has bitten the dust, there's been a succession of other large Western electronic companies that have either gone out of business or that are now only a shadow of their former selves. Here's a partial list:

Pye Industries, UK

EMI (Electric & Musical Industries), UK

Marconi, UK

AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australiasia), Australia

Telefunken, Germany

Thompson CSF, France

HP Hewlett Packard, USA

Kodak, USA

Polaroid, USA

Varian Associates, USA

Ampex, USA

General Radio, USA

Philco, USA

Admiral, USA

RCA (Radio Corporation of America), USA

Philips, NL - as mentioned

I used to work for RCA and back then it was the largest electronics company in the world and Philips was second. When RCA failed, Philips became the biggest but unfortunately its time at the top was short-lived.

There's several things that seem to characterize many of these failures, the first is that when founders leave or die companies often seem to lose drive and direction, and second companies become too big and diversification seems to kill their R&D/innovation.

For example, RCA lost its direction and fell apart when its founder David Sarnoff died and his son took the helm. Similarly, another spectacular failure was Hewlett Packard when its last founder died.

That said, there are exceptions such as Apple—but then it may not have been in existence long enough to tell, it hasn't been around anywhere near as long as say, Philips has. Moreover, it's highly dependent on Asian manufacturing, in the long-term, that may be Apple's Achilles's heel.

Still, I think that's only part of the problem. Manufacturing and innovation in Western countries are now in a state of malaise and they're being quickly overtaken by Asian countries such as China. Like it or not, the West generally is in a state of decline.
I think they're probably right about the AI-sharpening using specific knowledge about the moon... However, they are wrong about the detail being gone in the gaussian-blurred image.

If they applied a perfect digital gaussian-blur, then that is reversible (except at the edges of the image, which are black in this case anyway). You still lose some detail due to rounding errors, but not nearly as much as you might expect.

A gaussian blur (and several other kinds of blur) are a convolution of the image with a specific blur function. A convolution is equivalent to simply multiplying pointwise the two functions in frequency space. As long as you know the blur function exactly, you can divide the final image by the gaussian function in frequency space and get the original image back (modulo rounding errors).

It is not totally inconceivable that the AI model could have learned to do this deconvolution with the Gaussian blur function, in order to recover more detail from the image.
7 hours is plenty for some, torture for others.

Not that I have time for everything with how much I get.
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Reminds me of https://www-dagsavisen-no.translate.goog/nyheter/innenriks/2... where swearing at a police officer in Norway was "ok in this instance since they're both northeners and that's just how they talk up there", while in other cases people have been given fines.
You've now pushed the problem to the infra team, thanks.

What happens when the spot instance that pops up is a much older generation, and your app suddenly runs far slower due to reduced memory bandwidth, CPU clock speed, etc.?
> Japan when a national holiday falls on a Sunday, the 'free' part of it gets moved to Monday, so workers don't loose it.

When I was on exchange in Japanese they did the opposite at university. If a national holiday fell on a weekday, the following Saturday or Sunday would be used to make up for it.

Golden week was accounted for so it didn’t require any make up days.
I wrote "reasonable acceptance". You can pay for a taxi, a good quality/touristy restaurant or a safari. You can easily exchange sterling for local currency at banks or currency exchange offices.

Kenya and Egypt are two examples.
> Bad code drives good code out, because good code is easy to understand and change.

I call this the Peter Principle of Programming:

"Code increases in complication to the first level where it is too complicated to understand. It then hovers around this level of complexity as developers fear to touch it, pecking away here and there to add needed features."

http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/peter-principle/
I guess the BIOS is responsible for handling the conversion of some key sequences into extended ASCII, so plausible it could be buggy in this way (but not so plausible for the OP issue). The link doesn't seem to mention a BIOS update or acknowledge it as a known BIOS issue though?
The Crafty Logic That Accompanies Dementia
>And if this goes on for any length of time, you could sue your employer... but lack of payroll would only happen if the company no longer has any money - effectively making them bankrupt. Again you could name SVB in the lawsuit, or the FDIC... but good luck getting blood from the stone.

You could also sue the CEO directly. Failure to pay employee wages is one of the few things that can (somewhat) easily pierce the corporate veil.
> If you set up all the CI/CD pipelines to make that work.

I've been "abusing" GitLab CI pipelines a lot for running periodic background jobs that I'd like to have separated from the "regular" backend and without worrying much about deployment.

It supports Cron Syntax for scheduling, manual re-runs, provides secret management and download of artifacts, alerts me on failure and allows me to easily use the docker images in our registry.

Sure, I'm not storing anything in a database or calling the pipeline via an endpoint. But if that's needed, it should probably be "part of the regular backend".
What’s there to hide in the first place? Do you have such terrible skeletons in your closet or what?
Huawei phones did this a few years back.

You can get sued if you publish someones real pictures without makeup and photo-shopping. AI beatified pictures have the same criteria.
This company put $60 million into its deposit account at SVB. $60 million and they couldn't hire expertise? what about the VCs? Regardless of the risk aspect they were losing probably close to 4% on $60 million. But the risk aspect is not non-obvious. It's something every individual depositor having more than $250,000 is aware particularly after the 2007 financial crisis.
Good.

Toilet:
https://www.trelino.com/collections/composting-toilets/produ...
Shower:
https://www.amazon.com/Ivation-Portable-Outdoor-Battery-Powe...
Teachers’ Unions Capture Increased Public-School Funding
In China, you instead get make up days on Sundays or Saturdays which you have to work
Or better, the AI improves your shitty snapshots so they come out great. Every shot is beautifully framed, perfect composition, correct light balance, worthy of a master photographer. You can point your camera any old way at a thing and the resulting photo will be a masterpiece.

The details don't quite correspond to reality; to get the framing right the AI inserted a tree branch where there wasn't one, or moved that pillar to the left to get the composition lined up. But who care? Gorgeous photo, right?

And the thing is, I don't think anyone would care. You'd get the odd weird comparison where two people take a photo of the same place and it looks different for each of them. And you'd lose the ability to use the collected photos of humanity to map the world properly.

I think it's fascinating. Reality is what we remember it to be. We can have a better reality easily ;)
There is and there isn't, in a sense that there's nothing better than general-purpose backup software. Media is almost always encoded in high-entropy formats thus negating any possible gains from incremental backups. So with common backup tools you only get data consistency checks and encryption, but almost no compression or intra-file deduplication, and to get that you need to reencode your media for storage, which is unfeasible, at least for now.
I apologize for not presenting my experience more clearly then. Ottawa is a city that is used to protest. Being the nations capital, they happen quite frequently. I am quite used to having certain aspects of my day distrupted by protest. So allow me to share some experiences that demonstrates what made this event unique:

- being unable to sleep for weeks due to train horns being blared at all hours of the night.

- having every single one of my friends and family who is some sort of visual minority having racial slurs hurled at them daily.

- seeing someone waving a nazi flag near the War Memorial.

- Having fireworks explode in between apartment buildings right next to where people lived.

- Daily harassment of any medical staff, sometimes coming directly into hospitals to shout conspiracy theories about doctors killing people with vaccines. Nurses self-organized into protection groups and were instructed not to come to work wearing scrubs to avoid harrassment.

- a group of grown men yelling at a kid who could not have been more than 17, who was unfortunate enough to be working at Tim Hortons, calling him a mask wearing faggot.

All these are personal stories either directly from myself or from those who were close to me. I share these because I am well aware of the those attempting to frame these types of stories as small, performed by a few bad actors,not representative of the movement, and that the media was highlighting a few isolated incidents to spin the image as negative. So let me assure you, these types of behaviours were constant, everywhere, and actively encouraged by many who were there. The supposed "media narrative" was quite real, as was apparent by anyone who lived in the area.

I believe in the right to protest, but there is a line where a "protest" becomes harassment to those around you. Let's recall that parliament was remote at the time, so the government who this anger was directed at was not even present at the location. Nor do government employees typically live in the city. So the justification of getting back at those who wronged you was not even present. They weren't even inconveniencing the people they came to protest. Instead they blared horns in residential areas, shot fireworks next to high-rises that were people's homes, threatened health care workers, and yelled at Tim Hortons employees. They had / have a legitimate right to protest. They instead chose to occupy a city who's inhabitants were not even those who they were angry at.
The README says it has been "hacked in an evening"! Have the 10.000 lines of ggml.c been written in an evening, without reusing a lot of pre-existing code? That's quite amazing.
I am not convinced. Looks like a bog standard sharpening alghorithm to me.

I’ve taken pictures of the moon at 100x optical zoom, and if Samsung is really faking this they’re doing a truly awful job of it.
>The way a loan works is: they make a loan to someone and then "just in time", they borrow the money from the Fed to cover that loan.

Ehhh, how does that work exactly? They go up to the discount window and borrow from the Fed every time they issue a loan?
Perl is so ubiquitous that makes awk and sed pretty redundant, if not outright worse. Perl regular expressions are so much better than whatever ugly mishmash sed uses that I haven't touched it in years.
They often use ancient tactics, too [0]

[0] https://medium.com/@ceithernach/ancient-warfare-and-riot-tac...
I read through a decent chunk of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture for class in college in ~2006 and while I was indeed young and impressionable, it left a very bad taste in my mouth for heavily OO’d systems to the extent that it had the opposite effect - I largely avoided them likely longer than I should have.
Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure Is Now Everyone’s Problem
Very cool that it does deduplication. It's a killer feature for Borg, as it saves me tonnes of money. If Kopia's dedup is as good as Borgs, then it's certainly worth looking at.
This is a Mac thread. Virtually everyone is using a PC. I test between a HEDT Linux system and a recent Intel build on Windows 11.

Took me around 8 hours to build and deploy 4bit. 7B and 13B worked great, still working on the quantized 30B weights.
SVB’s Demise Isn’t a Regulatory Failure
True, its just a fun story. This reddit post makes it clear, though, that while people will review the images carefully, they may still not be able to accurately determine differences.

Just take the story above with one more minor step: You snap a pic of the park, briefly glanced at it to make sure it wasn't blurry (which the AI would have fixed anyway) or had an ugly glare (it did, the AI fixed it) or worse a finger (the AI also fixed that).

You're satisfied the image was captured faithfully and you did a good job holding your plastic rectangle to capture unseen sights. You didn't look closely enough to notice all the faked details, because they were so good.

This fake moon super enhance? It already proves people will fall for it. I could easily see people not realizing AI turned the flowers in the picture more red, or the grass just a little too green, etc.
Doubt. Everyone knows what USD is.
In the same vibe I've been using https://darebee.com/ for quite a while. Good exercise library and great programs, all free for everyone.
It is indeed possible, but still too convenient. How many people's phones just happen to be visible in documents left in their car? And how could the owner of the driven-off Tesla not only be so confident as to the number visible inside that car belonging to its owner, but was so quickly able to deduce that the reson his own car had disappeared was that the owner of this one that remains parked must have taken the wrong car?

It just seems that the protagonists of this story were not only able to very quickly understand what should be a very confusing situation, but also somehow out of shere luck came across just the right clues and were right in their assumptions without any significant priors.

Much as I like shitting on the failures of IoT-and-adjacent overtechnification, this story raises many alarm bells in my head.
Did we hug it?

Doctrine \ DBAL \ Driver \ PDOException (1040)
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1040] Too many connections
I think the main use case is "I'm a crummy photographer and all I want is something to remind me that I was there" and "Look at my cat. Look! Look at her!"

That's me. I'm a lousy photographer, as evidenced by all of the photos I shot back when film actually recorded what you pointed it at. My photography has been vastly improved by AI. It hasn't yet reached the point of "No, you idiot, don't take a picture of that. Go left. Left! Ya know what, I'm just gonna make something up," but it should.

I imagine there will remain a use case for people who can actually compose good shots. For the remaining 99% of us, we'll use "Send the camera on vacation and stay home; it's cheaper and produces better pictures" mode.
I guess one way to tell whether the image is processed locally is by disabling every connection, and seeing if the pics still look good.

But there still might be advanced machine learning models, rather than simple filters.
That’s because he was able to base his drawings on cadavers that were first cut open and studied before being buried in the ground or turned to ashes.
> In all of the examples it seems that there is information in the original (dark spots) that are getting boosted.

That was the point of the Gaussian blur. By blurring the source image of the moon before taking its picture, there was no information. The Gaussian blur destroys fine detail, by design.

The image enhancement applied by the Samsung phone is adding detail where there was none originally – not just detail that might be buried in the optics somewhere, but not there at all. It involves a computational model of what the target (here the moon) "should" look like and guesses at what it thinks are the blurry bits.
With photographs it was never true. This is the classical text on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...
That's where fractal Fibonacci retracements come into play. :D ;)

Sarcasm if it wasn't clear
It will work on a RPi4 but the limitations is going to be the quality of the Vulkan drivers, and the memory that can be allocated for graphics.

Also, a Rpi4 is going to be massively underpowered to run most games in any way.

A much better example is the Mini PC with a D2000 Phytium 8 cores ARM process from China, equipped with an AMD RX550 GPU - it can actually run Doom 2016 with Box86 and Box64: https://youtu.be/5JwflzpWDzk?t=614
> tried qemu, and spent many days trying to figure out the correct set of parameters

It's really not that hard, once you get used to it. Or, if you rather not spend that precious time, there is a GUI tool that would configure those parameters for you:

https://virt-manager.org/

Bonus: once started with virt-manager, run "ps ax | grep qemu", et voila - you have your qemu parameters, ready to copy-paste, should you wish to run exact same VM later from a script, or something...
But the point is it’s a valid example of a widely held belief that gets banned, even if you agree with Reddits policy.

The goalpost move I’m referring to is from “Reddit doesn’t ban widely held beliefs “ to “Well Reddit should ban this widely held belief “
This is why I use flutter...not sure why hners hate it
The Turkey example says dollars are not generally accepted, although they are easily changed.
This is just a progression of the nature of our human world - we have been replacing reality with the hyperreal for millennia, and the pace only accelerates. The map is the territory. Korzybski was right, but Baudrillard even more so.
Ask HN: Would you say $100k is the new threshold of middle class in 2023?
A six figure salary isn't what it used to be. With continued inflation and rising costs of living, it would not be unreasonable to say that an annual gross income of $100,000 is the minimum to be middle class, in the United States*.

If it isn't already the case, it soon will be.

Do you agree?

Also, what would you say is the new 6 figures? 400-500k? 800k? 7 figures?
I figured the coach was full of drug money being delivered to Wells Fargo to be laundered.
Just because you can't trade it 1:1 doesn't mean it is not stable. The only question is whether you'd still be able to redeem it 1:1 for USD in the future or not. This has happened before with Tether and they were able to service a huge bank run not so long ago.
I have very little confidence that tether can survive a similar bank run if/when people want to turn in large amounts of it
Doubtful - they’ll just think they’ve taken a great photo because they’re a skilled photographer, and they won’t be shy about telling you so.
But it isn't seeing, right? I mean, seeing a digital image of a thing is totally different from seeing the actual thing.

A digital image is a representation/abstraction/map kind of thing. And then a little bit of mental shorthand inside your head makes a connection and declares the thing and the representation-of-the-thing to be one and the same.

But it isn't the same thing. Not by a million miles.

It's a socially-accepted mindfuck is what it is.
Clock ticking for loan market as Libor nears its end
That’s not denying anyone’s “right to exist.”
That's a great movie. At the time it must have single-handedly massively boosted sales of Kahlua and the popularity of White Russian in France as I remember it.

There was also a drinking game that consisted in watching the movie and drinking (rather large...) glasses of White Russian every one was shown of screen ;)
why is it "too flawless" if photoshop can do it for years :) ?

You can see flaws if you look at the head around 1:56 to 1:58
Do they use SVB for that?
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This seems absurd and insulting "it fundamentally reformulated midwifery as an active process of aid, rather than a passive attendance on an inherently invisible, mysterious, and uncertain event."

Has the author ever met a farmer? You don't get sheep and cows to give birth without getting elbow (or shoulder) deep sometimes. People know how this stuff works and have for a very very long time.
While I understand what the author tries to say, I have to point out that ship has long sailed. Samsung just pushed it a bit too far and slapped a "scene optimizer" label on it.

AI has been used in "cell phone photography" for a few years, at lease since Pixel 2 where a mediocre sensor produced much better pictures than what people expect (maybe there are other players who did this even earlier). And every manufacturer started doing it, including Apple. Otherwise, do you think "night mode" is just pure magic? Of course not, algorithms are used everywhere.

How do you define "fake"? In podcasts, Verge editor Nilay Patel has asked various people "what is a photo", because the concept of a "photo" has become increasingly blurry. That is the question the author is asking, and people may have different answers from the author's.
Gaussian blur is reversible with deconvolution - however that is almost certainly not what is happening here, as it’s fairly computationally expensive.