skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I wrote an article about this a few years back and also developed a custom RGB light for my own scanning:

https://medium.com/@alexi.maschas/color-negative-film-color-...

There's also some proper academic research into this subject going on currently: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352553983_A_multisp...

One thing that's important to note about this process is that the idea is not to _image_ the film, but rather to measure the density of each film layer and reconstruct the color image from that information. This is a critical realization, because one of the most important things to know about color negative film is that the "color" information in the negative actually only exists relative to the RA-4 printing system. Negatives themselves don't have an inherent color space.

Cool to see someone else working on this though. I actually considered those drivers for my build, but I ended up building a very high frequency, high resolution PWM (30khz/10bit) dimming solution with TI LM3409 drivers. It's very hard to get uniform light as well so I ended up getting some custom single chip RGB LEDs.

https://i.imgur.com/BVM9p6Q.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/5oozHnN.jpeg

I've been working on this for a few years, and what I will say is that there's actually another level of complexity beyond just implementing the light. There's a lot of testing to ensure that you're getting proper linearization of each channel, and there's still a color crosstalk problem arising from the misalignment between the color sensitivity of most modern digital cameras and the bands that are used to scan color negatives. It requires some additional tweaking to get all of the color information in the correct channel. You can also very easily end up saturating a channel without realizing it as well. Oversaturated reds are a common occurrence in RGB scanning.

I'd also note that the wavelengths you should shoot for are more along the lines of 440nm 535nm 660nm, which correspond to the Status M densitometry standard. This standard was designed specifically for color negative film.
> Guangzhou Medical University and Jinan University in China

OK, there’s definitely more to the story. I wouldn’t know this, unless I had lived in China for a short bit working for Alibaba.

Pretty much nowhere in China is the tapwater safe to drink. The government knows it’s an issue, but there’s too much corruption in China to actually fix the problem. Pretty much everybody boils their tap water, and if you sit down at a restaurant, it’s very common to be served piping hot water with a meal.

Now I’m not saying the results of the study or invalid, but it’s essential to know who’s paying for it and and what their motivation is. to me this just seems like some very strange coincidences.
Probably so they can say that it's a drop-in upgrade over the Pico 1. It's not a drop-in upgrade if you have to redesign your project's case to use it.
Usually on SpaceX's X or Musk's X, for example:

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1762237289231757406

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798692089766805813

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1792629142141177890

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1783929534955589885

Or SpaceX's summaries for after the test:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

There also tend to be good articles from dedicated space reporters like Eric Berger, Stephen Clark or Michael Shaetz:

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/we-know-starship-can-f...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/spacex-starship-fourth-test-...

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/spacex-video-teases-po...

The "mainstream" reporting on these tends to be pretty awful and a glaring display of Gell-Mann Amnesia, but the more popular space journalists tend to be pretty good. I provided specific examples because there are also "journalists" known for intentionally distorting the facts to prop up their biases.

The goals for the next flight test seem to be to try to catch the booster (if they can get the necessary regulatory clearances) and to try to perform a controlled reentry of Starship again, this time with an upgraded heat shield to hopefully take less damage than the previous attempts. It'll end up being mainly a control systems and shield material test since future prototypes which are already being built have changes to the fin locations which also mitigate some of the heat shield issues seen in the previous test.

There's also talk of towing it to Australia after splashdown to study (also depends on if they can get the necessary regulatory clearances).

I wouldn't be surprised if the goals change though, I feel like they might decide to do another simulated catch over water for the booster (since while it was technically successful in IFT-4, one engine did blow up), and similarly I doubt they'll have the clearances to tow the ship to Australia as fast as they'd like.
Vivaldi has that . Helpful for comparison, charts etc
Given how many data breaches I've been in, I'm pretty sure I have more unclaimed years of free credit monitoring than there are grains of sand on a beach.
Those games that shadowban also use anti-cheat software to identify the people they need to shadowban.
There are also rotoscoping and analysis projectors designed to hold on a frame.
You are clearly the exception to the rule... you have to admit your needs are far from the normal. I fully concede that a Chromebook is perfect for you. But in describing your situation you've basically put yourself into a box of one. Change one thing and suddenly there are better options for you.

For everyone else, the other options are all better. Chromebooks are still not a good product.
the issue is that the the specific population density is the density of workers, tourists, and people commuting through the area not the density of people who live there.
Reposting this as a top-level comment because I'd really like to be enlightened.

I truly have not been this confused by the comments on any HN post before and I've been reading this place almost daily for years. Is it completely the default to drink from a straw in the US?

Let's say you're at a business lunch. People drink from straws? I just can't picture it. Or is it because people only order water or alcoholic drinks at such lunches?

Do "fancy" places never serve any carbonated drinks whatsoever? Including something like "artisanal kombucha" or whatever they can ask a premium for? If they do, then are those always served with straws?

I'm seeing reasons like hygiene, lipstick and so on. But I know that even in the US, plenty of people drink wine, and they definitely don't do so with a straw. And places serving wine must have a decent overlap with women wearing lipstick, statistically.
Add to that excellent list: the principle-agent problem, specifically the disjoint roles of the consumption decision, which is made by the patient and doctor(s), and the consumption payor, typically the insurance carrier or public health plan.

Classically, economists often pair the somewhat jarring set of healthcare and military procurement as sharing many of the same characteristics: high-ticket, high-consequence, difficult-to-assess purchasing behaviour in which the entity who is tasked with making the go/no-go decision is not the same as the party paying the bill. In the military case this would be a procurement officer (usually a commissioned officer within the military establishment) and the taxpayers generally.

Most of the other characteristics of your description of healthcare markets also apply to the military spending case.

(NoMoreNicksLeft made this same point in an earlier downthread comment: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41192300>.)
No. But Nikon made so many good Ai-S lenses that you can find lots of them on eBay and other secondary markets.

Note that for old lenses, price and lens quality don't correlate well. There are lots of fantastic old lenses that are cheap because they were produced in large numbers, and there are also a lot of optically shitty lenses that are expensive because they were rare or produced in smaller numbers and have collector value.
> stories get added

You must be new to this. Even when stories get added, they never get prioritized, and just sit in the backlog forever.

> sharpen your argument with new data

Why should I care. If they want me to present ten times the necessary evidence, it is not me who is at fault. I have to cover my liability, which is to document the issue in writing, with proof that I documented it. Beyond that, there is no reason for me to care if the project or company perishes. It would in fact be better for the company to perish if they don't pay attention to what is said.

These are structural problems that for some reason you can't seem to get your head around. They require a structural solution. The current structure is one of deception, of deceiving others up and down the chain, as well as oneself. Also, "wearing down the resistance" is what toddlers do to their caretakers. If I was getting paid a million dollars, I'd put up more of a prolonged argument, but I am not.
Dying is one of the most holy things there is. Every major religion is deeply concerned with the question of mortality and imo would collapse without it. Christianity means basically nothing without the death of Christ, Buddhism nothing without the cycle of reincarnation, etc.

Whether that's good or bad is a different question, but the point is getting rid of death is not a trivial thing. It would cause such huge changes in the human experience that I think we'd cease to be human and would become some other, different thing.
Usually I've seen it as, you have some system with replicated jobs, and you update the code or config for a few of the jobs and wait before doing the rest. It is sort of a public staging. You can also canary native binaries pushed to clients, which is a different mechanism but the same idea, you're 99...% sure the change is safe but still better not to globally release it.

I guess your case isn't the same idea since you're not testing with real usage, it's your own staging tests. But I don't see anything wrong with that.
Pretty awesome your pie menu!

I believe that "satellites" have pointer-events set to none by default. I would think in some solution, maybe adding a CSS utility to change that in case is needed

I've just merged your PR thank you!!
Meanwhile Solaris Sparc is doing it since 2015, we have ongoing ARM MTE, Apple's PAC, and Microsoft with CherIoT and Pluton.

Yet another example of Intel's failure to deliver.
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There's already a GUI (launch firefox with the --profileManager command line flag), but it's very barebone.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41192341 - Aug 2024 (71 comments)
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You could just install anything you like on any other device.. it doesn't have to be a Chromebook.
"anonymous coins" that ALSO maintain location information seems like a contradiction...
Or, we should ax that co. from supplying space missions.
I have many times visited friends in England, and I find their traditional home cooking to be quite nice. Maybe it's a teensy bit underspiced at times, but I am not averse to actually be able to taste the natural aromas of the bulk ingredients. I admit that it may not be on the level of some of the traditional Italian home cooking I have tasted, but that would be a very tall order indeed.
I think the market rewards cheap keyboards because most people don't use desktop computers, most people do almost all of their computing on mobile phones. Some people use laptops for work, which they swap out about every 2 years, so the longevity of the keyboard doesn't matter to them.

I've seen coworkers using 65% or less mechanical keyboards and I have no idea how they get anything done. They always seemed like a cosmetic item to me, though they seem more portable if you're connecting it to a laptop. I use a full mechanical keyboard with keypad and regularly use home, del, pg up/up keys and appreciate having the arrow keys in their own little area. I use a few of the F-keys too. To each their own, but I personally find these tiny keyboards to be far less useful than a full sized keyboard
You never know, he could be visited by an alien that gives him the power of immortality, we don’t know what’s out there
It's dwindling. If the movie you saw was It Happened One Night, the fact that the bus breaks down is indicative of the state of Greyhound today. FlixBus recently bought Greyhound. We'll see if they have have a positive effect.
Overwhelmed by your smartphone? Try switching to a basic phone
BeOS was streets ahead on OS and hardware. I have a feeling that timing alone is responsible for them not being a household name.
Floating duck syndrome: biased social learning leads to effort-reward imbalances
I check it out. But isn't this an old story?

"After Enkidu dies of a disease sent as punishment from the gods, Gilgamesh becomes afraid of his death and visits the sage Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Great Flood, hoping to find immortality. Gilgamesh repeatedly fails the trials set before him and returns home to Uruk, realizing that immortality is beyond his reach."
OIG report mentioned: https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ig-24-015.pd... [pdf]
Because they already have PAC, use their own Safe C dialect for iBoot, and have the long term roadmap to drag the hordes in their ecosystem into Swift.

I also expect them to eventually adopt ARM MTE was well.
That's ridiculous. I wouldn't consider running this in alpha regardless of what it looks like, so you can get I'll be checking back in when it hits its first stable release to actually give it a try.
Some forks are using a nice patch based system: see how the Zen browser is built for instance (https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/). I think that's a better model than merging upstream updates into your own branch.
wouldn't you suppose that local water systems might set up a boiling water system - water comes in, gets boiled, can now go out - or is that too naive.

supposed benefit of centralized boiling of water - heat captured can be used as power source, probably cheaper to boil in one central location than everybody all over town boils water when they need to drink etc.
It's really not a matter of taste though. This dismissive attitude of good design is part of the problem.
This seems like a great way to test the waters before a potential full-on transition to RISC-V. It allows to validate both technically and market reception, for a much lower cost than taping out a additional chip.
Straw Comparison

Stainless Steel Straw
- Mass: 15g
- Energy: 900 KJ per straw (60GJ per ton of stainless)
- Composition:
18% Chromium (Cr)
8% Nickel (Ni)
74% Iron (Fe)
- Note: High chromium content, which can be hazardous

Plastic Straw
- Mass: 0.5g
- Energy: 10 kJ (25MJ/kg for HDPE)

90 reuses needed to break even.
Now include the energy for washing and the chance of losing the stainless one.
Plastic looks like a winner here.
They still don't have as much power as the guards. Therefore they don't have as much power to abuse
Only software has the culture of sharing. Not other engineering. And certainly not design. Consequently, the open-source mentality pervades software: lots of good stuff is available. Lacking this culture, people with design sensibilities work on design in proprietary spaces and comment in public but do not make open-source software.

Some people think this is because it's hard to contribute as designers, but I think it's just that designers are brought up in a proprietary school of thought. It's just like some cultures have recipe-sharing and others have the notion of 'secret recipe'.

To my people there is no 'secret recipe': if you ask, you shall receive. But others hold this notion dear. This cultural divide pervades occupations and makes some incapable of sharing.
The issue of doing in-house is the issue of finding competent devs, meaning not only "someone who code" but someone who understand how to PROPER design things, witch is essentially a lost art.

EDIFACT is dramatically simple, far more than modern XML-based peppol alike dialects, here the issue is "just" knowing that very likely any "institution" might have injected a gazillion of personal stuff, mostly undocumented or badly documented to be take into account for a long interim, but developing a personal ERP trying the modern path is far from being digestible.

IMVHO it's feasible trying to fish common-lisp/clojure world. That's a niche enough there is not much retention issue, and there are still skilled devs because it's a kind of niche where some arrive, try, fail and go, some skillful remain and do want to be there.
I guess it's a difference in perspective?

The reason I make my code the best it can be isn't to please my employer or get some sort of recognition. It doesn't matter to me if the code is never viewed by human eyes again.

I do the best work I can because of a sense of pride of workmanship and personal accomplishment. Whether or not the company I work for recognizes that doesn't enter into it.

In this sense, anyway. There's a different angle that overlaps this: if I really think the company doesn't give a shit about the quality of their products/services, then I'm quitting that company because I want my employer to be at least as interested in quality as I am.
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yeah, this with a tiling window manager is my go to.
Verifier bugs matter because resolving them is a prerequisite for secure unprivileged use of eBPF.
Would you believe a random Internet comment/site for that answer?

I wouldn't, so I also wouldn't believe an LLM trained on those questionable sources.
These original $3B numbers are highly misleading, to the extent that I deem them to be bordering on a straight up lie.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693177
i mean the end result for customers is the same no matter whose fault it is, which just makes it not a dependable mode of transport for riders.
For those of us using the 2D NATTEN kernel from their library along with torch.compile, is this faster? Especially given all their tricks (e.g., the non-deterministic KV-parallelism)
"Welcome to Costco, I love you"

Pretty soon there's just going to be one company that owns everything, I weep for the future.
OPM is funny money...especially when its subsidized by tax payers and will be prevented from failing by bail outs from the tax payers...left or right!
North American trains have a huge amount of level crossings, which, predictably, cause tons of accidents when oblivious drivers get hit by trains. Although most of the world considers high speed trains to be incompatible with level crossings, the recently built Brightline in Florida has several level crossings and has already hit many cars. [0][1]

Caltrain routinely has delays due to accidents involving grade crossings. Despite spending decades and hundreds of millions of dollars, they still haven't managed to fully grade separate the line. [2]

Fun fact, Canada's Turbotrain was one of the earliest examples of high speed rail in the world in the 1960s and was even faster than the Shinkansen at the time. However, it hit a truck only one hour into its debut run. This is often cited as the main reason why there's no high speed rail in Canada despite the density and proximity of Toronto and Montreal being ideal for such a line. [3]

[0] https://www.wptv.com/news/region-s-palm-beach-county/delray-...

[1] https://wsvn.com/news/local/broward/brightline-train-hits-ca...

[2] https://www.caltrain.com/projects/ccs

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAC_TurboTrain
As a business decision, having on-staff developers mainly comes down to value.

Can those employees generate their salary in value? How long can they do so?

It makes little sense to in-source dev if you have 6 months of work that revolves around bugfixes. Less still if what you're building isn't saleable, which in your case it sounds like it isn't.

The other side of this coin is, you suck at dev management. Your whole company does. All companies start at that point. Any project you pickup at this point is going to feature creep to the moon and cost 2-3x as much as it should because it's not going to be well defined, and it's not really going to accomplish what you'd like to accomplish.

The best advice I can bring you is, take on a SMALL project first, very small, like a single-purpose app, pick one thing at your company that really sucks to have humans do and isn't complex, build an app to do that. Probably use outsourced contract dev/devs to do it, have them bid on it. Make sure your product requirements are bullet pointed out and crystal clear. Your mother should be able to understand them. Do not set an open ended timeline, because you're going to get high bids as it's a clear sign you're a newbie and are going to be expensive to work with. Project check-ins/meetings should be defined and scheduled, create stages and meetings for those stages, and review them upon completion, again, all defined in the project pitch.

Basically, you want a developer to be able to take what you've written, and complete the project with no surprises.

Do that a few times, make the project a little bigger each time. You will learn alot, and once you have a few things under your belt, you can start to consider hiring your own dev team.
I think this is very interesting about Billboard Top 100 artists, however there are TONS of artists and bands that have never cracked the Billboard Top 100 yet have been making music and doing live shows for years/decades successfully. I would guess/assume that these artists vastly outweigh the # of artists who have had a Top 100 song or album.

While I'm sure most artists would love to have a Top 100 album or song and the associated wealth it brings, I feel many would also love continuing to create music and tour on it while making a decent living for years. Leaving out these artists in the discussion I feel skews the point of the article.
> I enjoy building panopticons

> hopefully you can find a job that does both?

Hopefully we quit building panopticons?
Nice developer-friendly internals get more contributors and some of them might make interesting UX contributions.
You could drag the short title bar with a modifier key to move it from the leftmost position, and non-overlapping title bars would snap together to form tabs.