skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a terrible burden to place on one man. Were there no official lines? Or were they somehow thinking that bypassing official lines and going directly to residents would preserve the element of surprise against whatever Hamas units they thought were operating from these locations?
I remember a whole thread about dpreview no longer posting new articles and yet this one seems to be very recent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35520495

Sony is rapidly becoming a major factor in the professional world as well. A family member works for a pro camera shop and he's absolutely lyrical about the Sony line. My biggest gripe is that it is hard to interface to the camera for things like shutter control, what looks like a USB cable really isn't (there are a ton of other wires running there that you can just barely see that control these kind of functions). But otherwise it's a very nice piece of gear.
Compared to what modern 35mm cameras can deliver, these cameras had very bad resolution. Yes, you could build such a camera today with a 35mm sensor, but the results wouldn't really justify the effort.
If you want good compact cameras, get one of the smaller mFT cameras like the E-M10 or OM-5 and mount a pancake lens on it.
Again, $300k+ was a joke I made to her. So, obviously, my estimates were far lower and the price she achieved exceeded your estimated premium. Unless you think my joke was that a $297k property was worth $3k more, in which case I'd ask you to devote more thought to your conclusions.
Of course they don't, it is simply not possible, outside of some awful models maybe. For instance in the current gen, iPhone 15 Pro with 3300 mAh gets 86 score at GSMArena, and S23 Ultra with 5000 mAh gets 126. A dramatic difference. S23 non-plus, which is a better opponent to 15 Pro as they are the same size, has 3900 mAh and scores 101 at that site. So all is quite proportional to the battery size. Or we can throw in for comparison newest Sony 5 5, with the same 6.1" form factor and 5000 mAh battery (shame on all other vendors, not fitting such batteries in flagship phones), it has a score of 130!

So, anyway, iPhone has a just a little bit better optimizations in some specific usage modes and that difference is mostly long gone. Today if we see 3300 battery in a phone it will definitely have a shitty autonomy.
Almost in the Raku Programming Language, bit with a single |

states.includes('VALID' | 'IN_PROGRESS')

is effectively the same as:

states.includes('VALID') || states.includes('IN_PROGRESS')

See https://docs.raku.org/type/Junction
Looking at this history of this problem, it first appeared with the adoption of focal plane shutters, which appeared widely with Leica 35mm cameras, and is a technology used by most SLRs. I know of earlier examples, the Speed Graphic large format camera uses a focal plane shutter, not sure when this was first used.

In the medium format world, lots of camera systems used leaf shutters, and these do not suffer from rolling shutter problems. The exposure is controlled by an aperture within the lens itself which opens the pupil to expose the film/sensor. The problem with leaf shutters is the minimum exposure tends to be limited to 1/500th of a second, although I believe there are some 1/1000th of a second leaf shutters in some lenses. Even some medium format SLRs have leaf shutters, for example, the Hasselblad 500 series cameras, and the Mamiya RZ67. Leaf shutters allow flash sync at all shutter speeds, which is why it was a popular technology for studio work.

In 35mm land there are some leaf shutter cameras, they tend to be fixed focal length designs. The olympus 35RD has one for example.

Anyhow, interesting tech, it's not relevant for the sort of photography I do, but i'm pretty sure the videographers will appreciate it!
Mass manufacturing is really hard, it's not really a surprise that many things that we can do on lab scale can't be made to work (in an economical fashion) at mass production scale.
That's nice, well done!
> Then why can’t the three letter agencies in the US unlock an iPhone?

Who says they can’t?
That's why I'm posting! I've argued quite a lot on such subject matters and not yet reached the needed understanding.

The way I see it, most big questions fall prey to the is-ought problem. Even if God came from the heavens and delivered my purpose to me, to me that'd mean nothing. That merely is an "is".
Materially, we've never had it better.

Spiritually, we are in a deep crisis.
We worry less about other people’s money from this side of the ocean. You lack the consistency to make a statement of support/opposition about all privacy, because like other Europeans, you feel the need to make exceptions for cases that benefit you.
For others like me who don't use this service: apparently there were a lot of people "shaking hands with the milkman", hoping their work would be celebrated by rando matches. I wonder why it is difficult to moderate this, one of the first few matches should have been a moderator but maybe they just didn't make enough money to justify such costs.
The most jaded thing about all of this was your commentary.
Honestly, I'm not trying to be "sneaky". I didn't mean to imply that Bitcoin has suffered from disastrous smart contract bugs like Ethereum has, or that the core Bitcoin or core Ethereum systems had ever been hacked since that time.

The hacks I was talking about were just all the numerous attacks on exchanges and users that have involved BTC or ETH getting stolen.

It's sort of tedious discussing this kind of thing on HN because there will always be some guy who jumps in and says 'Well, ACTUALLY, what about SBF and FTX!!" even though I'm not talking about that. So, I just wanted to admit there had been many other financial losses, to try to avoid all those clever people replying and telling me about MtGox or Tether or something like that, as if I didn't already know about it. Kind of like that other guy who replied to my comment with something mostly irrelevant that he wanted to spout.

I didn't have time to write that all out in such pedantically specific detail - almost nobody is reading this. So, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding that I created. I was not being sneaky. You know: Sometimes, people just don't have time to explain everything in detail.

You seem like someone who is able to see this side of the argument, so thank you again for your comments.
> In reality the vast majority are actually good, or trend towards acting in a positive manner at the very least.

I'd say it's about 50/50.

A significant portion of people don't seem to be good, and need some religious book to tell them how to live their lives so they can approximate being good to the best of their ability.
Yes, I did read it (in fact I always first read the HN posts and then comment).

I fully agree with the author, the introduction of moderation/censorship is not in the right direction and we shouldn't introduce mandatory measures to monitor and restrict activities based on what might happen and how something can be misused.

On the other hand we have to acknowledge that some things/situations are not so easy to judge and human nature plays a very important role in this. I'm sad about this realization of how our society is behaving and on how our lives are affected, but there is no easy way out.
TOR runs without some shitcoin.
Back when Linux was a janky corner case run by loosely-coordinated hackers with sometimes-impractical ideological constraints, when brilliant people were expending heaps of effort to enable support for it, that was fantastic.

Now that the janky corner case is a proprietary system run by cyber-landlords whose constraints are just... hostility, I feel less positive about the work being done to support it.

On the one hand it's really great that these people care so deeply about making these tools usable for everyone. And I applaud them for doing it, absolutely not suggesting they should change course, just pondering.

But... now instead of thinking "wow I'm so glad this work is happening" I do rather think "wow imagine what those wonderful people could achieve if they didn't have to work on this".
Why do you still consider any of this necessary at this point?
That is not what a strawman is.
Maybe https://Cloudhiker.net will bring back this experience.
I hope we can all agree that science works reasonably well in gathering knowledge. Because we can use it to do things.

You are saying metaphysics is about the "why" of this.

I agree.

I disagree that there has been a way or method of producing metaphysics that seems to work well. The evidence is that we have so many incompatible systems that all claim to be true.
No. These numbers are measured perpendicular.

Vanta Black has low total hemispherical reflectance below 1% from all angles, others don't.
Arent most people who chose to be in the public eye messed up?

Comedians do a job that allows for more exposure of it.

The broader brushes plausably cover the data for me.
Yeah for sure, I think the linting rule is great.
> I don't care which, or anything else is used, as long as it's platform independent, secure, seamless, and enables all the features of modern messaging platforms.

You are describing WhatsApp (or telegram or signal) or am I missing something?
Speak for yourself. I like being able to lock my car from far away when I've forgotten to. I like being able to remotely start the engine so it's nice and warm inside for meet in the winter.

Making these sorts of features illegal is unacceptable and short sighted.

What I'd like is to force carmakers to open up the APIs and protocols used to enable these features, and allow me to use my own backend that I run in my own hardware, away from their prying eyes.
Companies are not people either but have claimed all the same rights as us legally (and more). I'm unsure if AI should be able to do this hence the badly received question! I think everyone has their disgust triggered by the idea of AIs getting rights like humans but it's interesting to think about IMO.
Hmm, no. You rewrite it as

key1 = foo/bar
key2 = baz/bat
a[key1] = b[key2]
if (a[key1] == c)

I'm sure a coder who understands the context can come up with better names than key1 and key2.

edit: or better yet

key2 = baz/bat
normal_var = b[key2]
if (normal_var == c)
...
key1 = foo/bar
a[key1] = normal_var
Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC
A lot of the mockery PHP got was not because it attracted amateur developers, it was because the language itself was amateurishly implemented and because of the resulting mess when that leaked into how it behaved. Things like function names in the standard library optimized for a strlen based hash, a hand rolled parser that made it impossible to even guess in which contexts what features would work, proactive conversion of strings into numbers "0hello" == "0world", ... . There where entire communities dedicated not to mock the people working with PHP but the language itself.
Good opportunity to go out and remember how it is to meet random people live in parks, theatre, sporting centres, libraries, coworking spaces, and of course - bars.
This article is severely dated. On 27th October the Supreme Court decided that the cases would only be partially closed to the public and that the accused would have full access to the charges and supporting material. The Prosecution Service asserted that this would expose highly sensitive material to unacceptable risk of unauthorized disclosure and dropped the cases.
Perfectly possible, but if there were no staff, that means that the denizens of Gothenburg were conscientious enough to police themselves. They checked out their books even though they probably could have just walked out the front door with them.
pity the british, whose king is already so old that they don't undrestand the smartphone...

no wonder the entire government institution,

from that famous historical island,

is so woefully unprepared to deal with a world where the smartphone is on.
First off, I'm not opposed to such a world in general. However, you, like the other replier, failed to read how my $300k number was intended as a joke about my optimism. Thus, it makes more sense to conclude my estimates (made with both a degree in Finance and access to BrightMLS comparables to rigorously draw my conclusions) was obviously far lower than $300k and your numbers don't really make much sense. Remember, also, that I'm really only defending her ability to achieve those kinds of results and justify the 5% number. In general, you don't get a team of well-trained professionals diligently finding every possible angle to ensure you get a higher value and an army of prospective buyers. In fact, it's rather rare and it's really the only case where 5% is justified. Had I sold it privately, I'd expect far less than the price I'd joke about wanting.
relax, it's just color VS colour all over again
On point! Been saying this for years. I bought my house and had sellers agent represent me. The seller went with our offer because agent made more commission. We were not the highest offer.
Yes, currencies are generally controlled by the state. This is nothing new
I love L-Systems! Really simple concept and implementation, but a huge variety of results and extensions.

In parallel of my studies, I created some years ago on the side an interactive app for generating and coloring L-Systems : https://epholys.itch.io/lsys . It's a bit rough, but I created a lot of interesting trees (all here : https://imgur.com/a/0Rx7uln) and included them as a zip file alongside the app.
Choosing Between Specialized APIs
Nvidia Shows Intel Gaudi2 Is 4x Better Performance per Dollar Than Its H100
I would argue his article was valid despite his intentions, philosophy does not concern itself with the scientifically correct opinion but explores ideas and their consequences and connections. So he poses a nonsense scientific thesis and explores it, this is the majority case of all past philosophy because scientific theses don't age well, but philosophical theses turn out to be less dependent on science, and a few abstractions removed from it.
How one patient found errors in the algorithm making transplant decisions
> ... and having better customer service are your core competencies
> ... focus on your differentiating factors

That's literally the reason OP wants to self-host:

> I'd like to run as little customer data as possible through or to the major vendors' and marketing ecosystems.

Not being treated like a set of caged eyeballs by a vendor is a differentiating factor and is much better customer service.
Bitcoin is controlled by Blockstream Core which has an agenda that goes against my freedoms.

You're just replacing who controls the currency in the end.
Coating insides of optical instruments, especially infrared cameras.
They never have and never will.. and that is what makes this kind of legislation extremely dangerous.

After all the talk from the Tories around Brexit and "public mandates" - this is controversial regulation being passed by an non-elected Prime Minister of what can only be described as a dead duck government.

They should be calling a General Election not passing legislation like this.
there are lots of ridiculously expensive materials that are economic to make microelectronics

you're probably reading this on a device that uses motherfucking hafnia for its dram dielectric

i mean admittedly hafnium is still a thousand times as abundant as rhenium
> who is also recording video using their DSLR, likely the majority of users

I doubt that the majority of users are using their DSLR to film video.
I have cheap wired etymotic earphones with fairly good sound isolation. They come with a case and I always carry two pairs of earplugs in the case.

A $0.50 pair of earplugs guarantees a quiet restful experience free of loud engine noise and screaming babies.

I’m surprised they are not offered on flights.
Of course there's always the possibility that ChatGPT is not being accurate here, but the explanation makes sense and explains some of the peculiar limitations of the new "all tools" mode.

Later on in this conversation (after I tried to get it to use Python to write an image to the file system and then describe it) it said:

> The file browsing tool (myfiles_browser) is not designed to access the file system directly. It is meant to browse and interact with text documents that have been uploaded by you, not with images or files saved from other tools.
Well, like..it is? Are you saying it was an actual breach of trust? Spies spy on everyone, they even spy on their own citizens. Next you might tell me EU spy agencies don't spy on their own people or other EU countries.
SQLite – Indexes on Expressions
I don't disagree fully, but I don't believe that Omegle is comparable to the bench scenario entirely either. The numbers are pretty wild.

> There is evidence that Omegle has improved its moderation practices. In 2019, Omegle made 3,470 reports to NCEMC, which increased to 20,265 in 2020 and 46,924 in 2021 (NCMEC, 2020, 2021, 2022). In 2022, Omegle filed 608,601 reports of child sexual exploitation to NCMEC (NCMEC, 2023), a 1197% increase on the previous year. This figure is higher than the reports made by very popular social media applications including TikTok (288,125) and Snapchat (551,086) (NCMEC, 2023). When queried by a journalist about this increase, an Omegle spokesperson reiterated the website's ethos of personal responsibility but indicated that their moderation efforts had been augmented.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26338076231194451

I don't support the business model of scaling up social networks while skimping on moderation to make it profitable. The user LTVs are so low that moderation costs are probably prohibitive for a service like this. While I deeply respect Omegle and their increase in moderation, maybe some business models are just unsustainable and not worth the externalities.

IMO the real life analog is more akin to organising a festival with hundreds of thousands of visitors while only having a guy at the gate making sure you've signed a release agreement. This doesn't fly in meatspace, and it seems more likely it won't fly in the digital sphere either in the future.
Wait, your example doesn't even make sense to me on second thought (and was the ultimate point in the article)

aIsB is guaranteed to not be null or undefined so the ?? is a no-op. You just did a comparison so it's either true or false.

For general clarify for precedence I still agree but in this case it's a silly thing to do. It would be more clear without the syntax shorthand:

const ret = a === b
if(ret == null || ret == undefined)
{
ret = c
}
return ret
Isn't it largely what it is though? Apart from the UI – it used to be XUL [1], like on desktop, but for some reason got replaced with native UI.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Architecture
what are MOND and lambda-CDM?

I’m no specialist of the question, but from what I got, ok the standard model doesn’t match what we can observe in astronomic features, unless we suppose some untrackable heavy weight is there though not measurable with our contemporary tools.

So the basic paths are, we admit there is indeed some entity like this, or we need a new model that can also encompass these observations without new object type.
Yes. My point is just that I would judge that in 90% of the cases, "drop down" DSLs are the best solution for the problem at hand. So when talking about DSLs they should be mentioned, or at least the term DSL should be defined accordingly, which did not happen in the paper.
In today's world, the travel industry is changing rapidly. and travelers seeking extra-ordinary experiences and effortless online booking solutions, travel industries must keep up with the latest technology trends. Two essential tools that are transforming the travel industry are Travel Portal Development and Itinerary Builder Software.
At least in Finland it wouldn't make much difference if the library is open or not. Even when there's staff, it's up to you to scan the books you take out and the staff doesn't control this at all.

Many similar situations, e.g. self-scanning items in-store and bagging them, where stealing carries essentially zero risk of getting caught, but stealing doesn't happen much.
I'm finding this difficult to follow. As far as I can tell:

1) Denmark partners with NSA for wiretap (presumably while Findsen/Frederiksen are head(s) of the respective agency)

2) Whistleblower thinks agency is overstepping its legal bounds in wiretap collection, files complaint and begins internal investigation

3) Agency dismisses results of internal investigation, tells whistleblower to drop it. Whistleblower subsequently goes to independent/external oversight body for investigation.

4) External oversight body publishes conclusion that agency illegally surveilled the entire country.

5) Findsen/Frederiksen arrested for allegedly disclosing details of the wiretap deal to various people (journalists/family/friends).

I don't get it. What's the connection between the whistleblower and the "leaks"? Does the government need a sacrificial lamb for the illegal surveillance but they can't prosecute Findsen for that, so they're coming up with some alternate charges to placate the public?

As an aside, I have no sympathy for a spy boss whinging that he was under surveillance when (assuming what the whistleblower is saying is true), he was fine with putting everybody in the whole country through practically the same thing.
If you live in an apartment you may have lots of neighbors buying more and more powerful wifi transmitters, such that you don't even get your 100MB/s.
Samsung launches generative AI model made for its devices
The AI system has a number of features: the first, Samsung Gauss Language, is a generative language model which can help compose emails and translate content, as well as "enhance the consumer experience by enabling smarter device control when integrated into products." The second feature allows in-house software developers to write code quickly, while the third, Samsung Gauss Image, can generate or edit images.

"Samsung Gauss is currently used on employee productivity but will be expanded to a variety of Samsung product applications to provide new user experience in the near future," Samsung said in a press release on Wednesday. Samsung could be amongst the first handset makers in the world to introduce generative AI to its devices. Daniel Araujo, Samsung's vice president of the mobile business, said on the company's earnings call last month that generative AI technology will likely reach customers next year.
Everyone commenting against it are just following the bandwagon that "controlled b the state = bad". No one has a compelling argument against the implementation proposal.

I don't think this is as a red flag as the other EU proposal which are very threatening to privacy and security, like Chat Control and the mandatory EU-wide government CA root certificate.

EDIT: a quick search shows up that this can actually be the eIDAS. if it's the latter, it's a big problem.
Looking at it the other way, Black 4.0 reflects 0.05% of the light, and Vantablack 0.035%. So Black 4.0 reflects about 40% more light. The difference is not that small.

On the other hand, Vantablack is highly toxic (similar to asbestos), while Black 4.0 should be quite a lot safer.
Shouldn't this be a federal regulation by the EPA?
It looks very interesting when you use it in constrast to other colors. Under the right conditions it creates an effect of "absence" that the human brain (at least mine) doesn't have a reference for.
If your country doesn't value private personal data(unless it is medical) it should be entirely expected to anyone with money to get it. And countries tend to have deep pockets. So them getting data works entirely by design.