skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also don't have the money to R&D for a mirrorless camera in such an already competitive landscape dominated by AF and video high level performance.

They could only shine in a niche market, like SIGMA is trying with their fp and sd camera (Foveon triple layer sensor)... and DSLR seems to be a safer market for Pentax with huge heritage and strong fan base. The demand for Optical viewfinder in EVF times is there, and will still probably be way higher in the next years when they'll be the only one to care as Nikon and Canon already told they won't release any lens or body anymore with the DSLR technology.
The existing Pentax lenses are just rebadged Tamron lenses. Tamron and Sigma make a full suite of mirrorless lenses. Of course, they could also use the L-mount.
I doubt a Golden visa would be necessary to conduct such practices.
Hmm I see some complaints about the screen in spite of the camera having a viewfinder.

I'm no photography fiend, but I do have an entry level DSLR and I find the screen completely useless. Maybe useful at night but as soon as there is a bit of light it's good for nothing.

How can you actually use that screen? Buy a hood for it so it's in the shade when you're outdoors at noon?
Bats socialize more than me. Good to know.
> There are 800 billion lines of COBOL code out there supporting today’s mission critical business applications. That means one terrific opportunity for you.

yes, rewrite them on a modern language!
And the people shall be called brats.
If you’re writing code for those why not just use the smaller data types if you don’t need bigger ones? That way it will work efficiently on both and the behaviour will be consistent
One of the reasons that Cobol is still so popular is because of banking products like Tata Consultancy's BANCS. If you're starting up a new Bank and need an off the shelf, secure and robust banking system, then TCS BANCS is a viable option. It comes with TCS support and dedicated developers, to implement new features or customize existing ones at a premium.

Cobol is powerful when it comes to batch jobs, and you can bundle transactions ( ie. TX1900 means execute this transactions, which consists of 10 other transactions that will create a new client, and open a savings account, etc). Your front end can be whatever you want and all your business logic is embedded into Cobol transactions.

The con however, is that these consultancy companies do not share these transactions with their clients or external developers. You'll either have to figure it out on your own ( good luck ), or use the consultancy company. These products are really cash cows for their vendors.
"point and hope"

Is the pun intended or autocorrect from "Point and shot" ? I find it very poetic
I much prefer to toil away in secret. I'd rather be a king-maker than a king. The lack of scrutiny affords me greater latitude and latitude is very valuable. Begrudgingly I had to open a social media account a few years ago to do some in-public stuff, but I'd rather not have.
I'm a Pentax user, I really appreciate their dedication to backward-compatibility - they've stuck with the K-mount since 1975 and nearly all* lenses ever made work pretty well** on every subsequent camera.

The strong impression I get is that that photographers and engineers are the ones making important decisions, leading to outcomes like sensor-shift stabilisation (why put that in every single lens?!) and a proliferation of physical controls (try using a touch screen with gloves, or freezing fingers).

[* The Ricoh pin, ** KA lens aperture contacts on digital bodies]
I switched away from ZFS on root after using it for about a year. There were no actual problems, but I could never get over the fact that it's so complicated underneath I have to relearn everything every time I do any sort of advanced maintenance.

For example, I had to move between SSDs which is an absolutely trivial operation with any other filesystem if you know your Linux well. It took me maybe three hours of work on ZFS because it brings its own environment and does everything its own way, so I had to remember and re-discover a lot of stuff. The system booted on maybe 15th try.

If you are fine with this, or you're not going to use it on root, or you are a FreeBSD user, it's an excellent choice for pretty much any task.
I used COBOL for maybe 5 years (roughly from 1988 to 1993).

The language is not complex at all, but as you correctly point out it is verbose. And handling variables is quite tedious.

It can work more or less fine if you couple it with a RDBMS, but if you are instead using IBM files and job scheduling/control you add another layer of stuff to learn. Again, more tedious than esoteric.

I would not enjoy going back to it, probably (in any case I am not really writing code anymore in my current position) but if it was the only alternative to starving I would have no big qualms picking it up again.
Histidine helps remyelinate the nervous system. If holes appear in the myelin sheath electrical signals wont get past the holes.

Lack of B6 can cause peripheral neuropathy which has symptoms like you describe. Can be linked to diabetes, some metals and B6 deficiency.
I read this speculation about dolphins.
I'm oversimplifying here, but they use their nostrils independently to produce 2-channel sound and some measurements consistent with 3D transformations have been observed.
Image Generation with the OpenAI API (DALL-E) and Python
The best argument is simply that you cannot ban e2e encryption because there’s thousands of people who are able to implement it all over the world. Banning E2E just means that everybody who cares about privacy (including the “bad guys” and privacy conscious users) will switch to a banned implementation, and everybody else will have their privacy put at risk for no reason at all.
No, mine is much older: https://www.youtube.com/@thecupertinoads/
Sven Co-op got portals working on their branch of the GoldSrc engine but I think they abandoned development because of FBO issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbniay4bfJU
>It's the biggest thing to happen to Emacs in 30 years. That is presumably why all the beardies ignore it.

Clearly bearing the costs of a wrong decision - learn vim keybindings 30 years ago, and use it in every popular editor and ide, including emacs, ever since. Only half-joking.
> The scary part of this being possible is that I would think AI could do what he is doing even better than him

Not a given.
I can't help but imagine the version of this review that compares the shots the reviewer took to other shots they took at the same scene on an similar size of sensor on a color Pentax camera, and then clicked "convert to monochrome" in their favorite image editor.

(Before anyone thinks that maybe the experience of carrying the monochrome camera is different -- the reviewer points out that the Live View back screen does not articulate, and the optical viewfinder shows color in the way to would expect an optical viewfinder to.)
Running has done great things for my mental health. The physical part almost seems secondary.
The title is almost certainly fair use, but I feel that if the newspaper wants to shoot itself in the head by not sharing the text snippet, search engines and Facebook should oblige them.
> Small fasteners are cheap enough that it's not worth sorting them.

It depends if you count time in hours (you're mostly right) or days (you're wrong).

I have a bin of small screws and bolts which I've removed from devices. An hour spent searching for the right fit can save 1-3 days shipping time. If I'm in the middle of something, the advantage of being able to continue with whatever I'm repairing / building / doing ultimately saves hours of time in the end too. Breaking up a task each time I need a part loses focus and velocity.

What I'd really like is some machine vision system. If I remove fasteners from a laptop, I often don't know what they are. I'd like to be able to have the identified without having to look for service manuals. Ideally, it'd be attached to some way to sort too.
1947* for partition of India.
It's perhaps the dish that caters most to westerners. If you ask my wife it would be papaya salad, though fermented fish can be strong for some.
> The reason for testing is getting ahead of issues before the user finds them.

The customer always uses software in some unexpected way, but we don't defer all "testing" to just watching the customer interact.

Testing is to give developers the fastest, most meaningful, most actionable feedback about their code changes so that they can make better decisions.

Customer issues are not the only things we're worried about. And software seems to be usable and make plenty of money even when users see something screwy once in a while.
You could also use a Bayesian version of kmeans. It applies a Dirichlet process as a prior to an infinite (truncated) set of clusters such that the most probable number k is automatically found.
I found one implementation here: https://github.com/vsmolyakov/DP_means

Alternatively, there is a Bayesian GMM in sklearn. When you restrict it to diagonal Covariance matrices, you should be fine in high dimensions
Then why even have a jury, if in such a case, the judge can appoint himself as a finder of fact, and by himself determine if someone is guilty or innocent?
Why do we want the LLMs to understand slang ? Will it use slang to cure diseases ?
I see a big potential for unbanked people wanting to make a simple website to perhaps sell their products
I think cults cannot be dissolved without force. They always seem to find a loophole on the legal text.
The glock mechanism of safeties is (statistically) rather safe though being simple enough:

https://crimefictionbook.com/2016/02/04/do-glocks-have-safet...

But (as I learned only recently) there are guns around with actually no "proper" safety and one model at least is particularly prone to fire accidentally:

https://www.thetrace.org/2023/04/sig-sauer-p320-upgrade-safe...
Again Chomsky and other tankies were arguing we should appease Russia :)

How many times can you be wrong before you realize your assumptions are wrong?
When I read the title "Social life" of some dumb animal, I was thinking the same :(
The $53,000 Connection: The High Cost of High-Speed Internet for Everyone
The C64 is way better than an Apple 2 so maybe a blessing in disguise.
1. The PDF format is wildly overcapable compared to the majority of actual use (view text, tables and images).

2. The number of user devices with unpatched PDF readers is likely large.

3. The system of paywalled scientific knowledge drives millions of students and researchers to get their science PDFs from scihub and libgen pirate sites hosted in former Soviet countries, sometimes over http (not https).

These three facts combine to a huge vulnerabilty space.

On the flipside a sane and open PDF replacement format that also offered reduced file size could gain many users quickly by convincing scihub and libgen to convert and offer their files in the new format to cut costs and shorten download time, with reduced vuln as a positive externality.
Just reading this Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/cryptocurr...

> Yet this crisis also creates an opportunity. * Effective altruism, the movement, is not the same thing as effective altruism, the practice of financially maximalist and rigorously data-driven philanthropy. * Divorcing the latter from the former would benefit everyone on the planet.

I've been wondering why you guys care about some guy who ran a crypto exchange and what that has to do the with the core philosophy of effective altruism but it seems like you've all linked the movement with the philosophy to my chagrin.
> [Building parse trees] is really great, good engineering, best practices, recommended by experts, etc. But... it takes too much code, so we can't do it.

It takes too much code in Python. (Not a phrase one gets to say often, but it’s generally true for tree processing code.) In, say, SML this sort of thing is wonderfully concise.
You should take CineStill's BwXX for a spin too, really nice film. I'm a big fan of 400D/800T too but shoot way more B&W than I do colour (primarily Kodak Tri-X 400).

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This website makes my Firefox use 100% CPU :(
> … when you delete the Bayer filter you not only get more resolution (factor of 2 in both directions) …

Does the larger resolution mean out to a larger dimensions of an image file, or is it the term resolution being used in the context of “resolving” detail in an image?
> Aeoteoroa

If you must use the new name, at least make the effort to spell it correclty
> The biggest issue for founder-type programmers is not code volume, its code quality.

> Most founding code of products I have seen is the most fucked up, horrible, over- or under-engineered, hacky, buggy, usually platform-specific and NIH covered pile of hot shit.

I dunno your background, but I think you have it almost completely, 100% incorrect in your first paragraph, while being completely, 100% correct in your second.

The summary is this: if you're launching a product, you want to do it as soon as possible, damn the quality of the code as long as the quality of the product is sufficient.

The reason for this is because, 9 times out of 10, you're going to be throwing all that code away anyway! It's rare that the first product you ship is successful.

And if it does get successful? Well, then you have the money to redo it, refinish it, polish it, address tech debt, whatever.

There's only two outcomes: the product succeeds or it fails.

If, in the rare case, you launch a successful product and the code is clean, perfect, etc, you haven't gained anything over the person who launched a half-assed, broken-but-still-sufficient successful product. The competitor can still get his product to your standards because they succeeded.

If you fail, then you have spent unnecessary time determining what doesn't work, while the competitor has spent less time and can attempt another product after his failure, while you're still perfecting your first failure.
This is a fun game! Thanks for sharing. Did you make it?
Ive never found the learning of COBOL to be the issue - its the integration of it into organisations can go back 50+ years, and is wrapped in process

Its more like the game minefield - you tread carefull
They made a mirrorless K-mount camera, the K-01, 10-11 years ago. Got some moderately well-known designer to make a moderately trendy looking thing. It bombed.

They also attempted a new mirrorless series ("Q") but I think it only got a little bit of traction even in Japan. Some bad decisions and wrong compromises there, though I did meet a woman who loved her pink one.
Sure, but it was meant to refute a pretty weak point that basically boiled down to “I don’t like it so it’s bad”. Enough people do like it and find it fast, and while I can match anecdotes, pointing out the success of the company seemed more compelling.
> # Generate and store embeddings for every README.md in your home directory, recursively

Do I have to run it against my own corpus? Are there "standard" embeddings that many people use that I could use with llm?
I set up a nice little webpage, that did not use any tracking at all. There was one cookie for a home-brew login functionality, and even that was only linked to an extremely limited amount of data (namely, the login name, and the password, didn't even mandate email...).

By all means, this one cookie - whose use was completely voluntary - was a 'technical cookie' which I do not need consent for under the EU's cookie laws.

It took about 30 minutes after the go-live before the first madmen came around and started shouting at me that I needed a cookie banner.

The problem with that law is not only that it caused everyone to set up a cookie banner to operate as they used to, it also is that it created a class of people who are self-declared data protection vigilantes.

I do consider publishing on Gopher (or Gemini) in the future, if only to prevent zealots - who often have no technical knowledge - from accessing my services. The people I address are capable - and willing - to use other protocols.
Tesla's Giga Berlin Train Shuttle Opens
I wouldn't develop for their platform but I do like the products. I have far more concerns about Microsoft (products developed for the enterprise and government) and Google (services developed for the advertiser) than Apple.

My only concern is whether their push into services ends up corrupting the core products. If so I'll deal with that when it happens.
Does that include places like Switzerland, where every male is issued with a gun as part of their national service/canton militia?

I think the cultural problem is everyone wants to be like Stallone or Arnie, which would suggest the US population has an inferiority complex towards the old world.
'miss' a payment, and the credit will be used to cover it.
This is fantastic! Thank you for making it and sharing your work. I also just learned about the risograph process.
Hey, if you want to hang out, upside down, above fetid layers of your own feces then by all means get in touch.

I can't say I'll join you, but I do promise to register everbody on my new social platform Soundr (echo locate your ideal partners today!).
Ask HN: Why do open source projects use discord?
I personally find discord bloated, slow and hard to use. But besides my personal impressions, I am genuinely intrigued by the fact that, having platforms like matrix, which very well aligns with the open source ethos, many people rely upon closed source services like discord to provide support and build communities for their projects. What are the features the it offers?
So, you're saying that understanding cryptocurrencies well enough to be able to teach a course about it (at MIT, no less) will bias one against it?

Sounds reasonable to me.
> why put that in every single lens

There are valid engineering reasons for this.

Sensor shift is hard, especially for full-frame cameras. The sensor has to be moved very fast, which means it has to be light, which means it can't have a heat sink attached, which means it can easily overheat.

For telephoto lenses, the shift required in the sensor would be huge, up to a cm or so, whereas a tiny shift in a small lens can slew the image by more than that.
These are interesting. I've seen both before but never understood - if I have a config that cannot be easily written out in yml, why would I force my team to learn either one of these DSLs instead of using our main dev language (say python) to generate the yml instead? What's the value proposition of jsonnet or cue?
LLMine – Idea to Open Source in 5 hours
> ...because talking about JS like this it's going to feel like I've insulted a cult...

There is now a generation of developers equating front-end with web.

> ...but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one feeling this way about it...

There are dozens of us!
Perhaps worse devices is a reasonable tradeoff to allow home grown products to succeed.
This space is thr ultimate in premature optimization and obsession or implementation details (including the classic "it's written in programming language X so it has to be better") with relatively little real world experiential knowledge in the mix
That does seem to me like a fairly obvious case of evil to me.

I guess the reason is that they probably could have sued for malicious prosecution and asked the court to expunge it without signing a waiver, but it was easier to just sign.
Quick google:
Number of discord users: 150M
Number of matrix users: 60M

Go where you can reach the most people. Not saying I like it. It's just the way it is.
I'd say generally the German vote counting system is efficient enough but perhaps sometimes understaffed (I guess more people could be drafted if that really helps). At the same time, because it is quite manual and involves a fair bit of people with disseminated knowledge of local results, it would be quite tough to (wholesale) manipulate without people noticing.

Maybe some level of inefficiency is actually not a bad thing.
fair use or not it is up to legislation to decide.
Regular basil will work, it is peppery, especially if fresh and in larger quantities, it obviously isn't the same but it will get you close enough and it still tastes spectacular.
How to improve your home office debugging experience
I still have my K-5...that I don't use because photos get some small marks from I believe fungus in my lens...and everytime I look at the price of new lenses I just sigh at the price and close the browser tab.
Seems like an odd choice of incentive. I have young kids and the idea of having to look after another being is quite difficult to even think about!
> My position is that Google and meta have monopolised the audience.

Meta have said that people don't come to them for news - [0]. Do you have numbers to counter?

What prevents Canada's government to create a news portal, then promote it everywhere, including on Google and Meta, telling people to go to that website for news? People who are looking for news will surely be visiting that site now, since they spend less time on FB. Call it news.ca. Of course big businesses will benefit. The smaller ones will inevitably suffer.

> Obviously - that’s exactly why they’re doing it.

Seems to be the government's intention too. They've been very well aware of it.

[0] - https://about.fb.com/news/2023/06/changes-to-news-availabili...
if you have kinesis advantage, just stick magic trackpad in the middle (it fits nicely). I wouldn't mind mushroom like on ibm thinkpads or optical trackpad like on blackberry in the middle of keyboard, but oh well
I'm not suggesting zfs itself change. I'd like a porcelain for people with very simple needs where zfs is almost overkill, for people who just want better data integrity and quicker backups on their main machine, for example.

I think zpool is unnecessary as an additional command. For example, `zfs scrub`, `zfs destroy [pool | dataset]`, `zfs add`, `zfs remove` would all have clear meanings. There may be a couple commands that would need explicit disambiguation with a flag like `zfs create`.
It's the worst when you have people sitting on the back that go against the natural lean of the bike.