skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started with a second-hand Canon 20D back in like 2004 or something, only upgraded when I got a deal on an old 7D and only recently bought a new R6II and the autofocus is NIGHT AND DAY

I started buying the EF mount superfast primes because they're affordable now, but the 7D (more likely it was me) couldn't get the focus just right with such a shallow DOF

The R6 just doesn't miss. Low light/high ISO image quality is also MILES better.

Cameras are not in a death spiral. Artistically speaking, phones can't do what even a low end slr/mirrorless can do, its just that phones are good enough for the low-effort content 95% of people are interested in producing. Standalone cameras are inconvenient, bulky and require some level of artistic intention.

>Does any know how much volume there would be if cameras could be used in manufacturing processes for machine vision, on robots / drones, in self-driving cars, on building for security, as webcams for video conferencing, for remote education, and everywhere else imaging is exploding?

I don't know about the manufacturing or drone stuff, but for video conferencing and remote education, the point of the video really isn't image quality or "art" but just good enough picture to not get in the way of the real purpose of the interaction, so a whole camera kit is just added complexity/annoyance for no benefit.

IMO
Besides full source boostrapping which could adopt progressive verification of hardware features and assumption of untrusted hardware, integration of Formal Verification into the lowest levels of boostrapping is a must. Bootstap security with the compiler.

This won't protect against more complex attacks like RoP or unverified state. For that we need to implement simple artifacts that are verifiable and mapped. Return to more simple return states (pass/error). Do error handling external to the compiled binaries. Automate state mapping and combine with targeted fuzzing. Systemd is a perfect example of this kind of thing, what not to do: internal logs and error states being handled by a web of interdependent systems.
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Plenty of real world situations have clear objectives with obvious rewards.
> - Yes, it also works with LuaJIT, either via pkg-config or by installing LuaJIT headers using the `luajit_src` crate.

Are there any documentation on this?

luarocks works with luajit after I run that specific command, I expect something like that as it is very easy, so I wonder if running "lx path bin" would work.
I don’t know. I have never referred anyone, but then in my 10+ years of experience in the software industry I have never found extremely talented or extremely untalented software engineers. Most of them, including myself, were between a 4 and a 6 or so (in a scale of 1 to 10). So, I always thought about offering referrals to strangers just by looking at their linkedin profiles/cvs/blogs. Chances are, they are also between 4 and a 6.

This whole “we hire the best of the best” and interviews with 5+ rounds should be eradicated asap.
I'm not looking for eye contact, and if that person had been just the same but with their eyes closed I would have thought much better of them. I would have still rejected them anyway, because the whole performance wasn't great, but it obviously wouldn't be any ChatGPT thing.

But this was a case of someone staring at a specific place off-camera while "thinking" while their eyes very visibly went rapidly left and right for 20-30 seconds, and repeating the same thing for literally every question, even the ones that were intentional freebies based on their resume that they should have been able to instantly answer.
The fact we have labels for communication problems caused by failure to understand non-verbal cues doesn’t tell us that non-verbal cues are necessary for understanding
With Lua, it becomes near impossible for a program like lux to edit the manifest.

For example, how would I `lx add <dependency@version>` if the `dependencies` table might be generated by a Lua function?

Lux defaults to TOML, but if you really want Lua, it also supports an `extra.rockspec` in the project root, which shares the same format as the luarocks RockSpec format.
To offer a concrete example, their choice to delete everything after 7 days is an unambiguously worse aspect. Premeditated spoliation of evidence.
> most Lua configurations would still read declaratively unless they needed extra the complexity

This is precisely the problem. If you allow runtime configuribility then people will do it. I don't want my engineers to even have the option to meta-program the configuration file.
I forget, was it Alpha or one of the others (Leela, Kata, FineArt,...) which had a weakness against... I wanna say the Micro Chinese (?), where it would consistently play the same suboptimal sequence that let players beat it easily if they took that path.
My desire for tastemakers and gatekeepers and the majority of people consuming the lowest common denominator of content when left to their own devices aren't at odds. In fact, it's part of the equation.
Agree that other people could well have vanished by the time we randomly wander into their signals. The same is true for our radio.

But I'm trying to focus on something else, the existence of other intelligent life is the key thing I hope to see. And we could destroy ourselves this afternoon of course.

I don't care as much about do they exist still - that's icing on the cake. It's the idea that we aren't alone, that's the key to me. I'm certain there have been other intelligent civilizations in the universe because of the size, etc. We need evidence to know for sure.
That letter was written decades ago lol. I am a bit upset that you didn’t say that and made some of us look it up.

Gates has many faults, but his current life consists of mostly positive stuff (such as fighting climate change, global hunger, diseases, lack of clean water) that I and others support.

I will absolutely never support his past actions, but currently? I can name a whole bunch of billionaires that are doing worse. Like nearly all of them.
To me, the state -> UI paradigm isn't simple in the sense "oh, that was one click, simple".
It's simple in the sense "anyone can do it if you just understand/follow these 10-15 simple rules". Once you know these simple rules, you can jump straight into 95% of react projects and be productive fairly quickly.
Emoji also caught on, I'm told.
This such a genius idea to get the kids to learn about the people in their community.
> Given the tremendous shortage of mental health providers, " I don't think humans need to be concerned that they're going to be put out of business," she says.

I'd also be willing to bet that a not insignificant number of people would simply be unwilling to use AI for this purpose. I know I wouldn't. For those people, there will always be a demand for human therapists.
Most are in the range of 100X allowable in drinking water in in a liter of the powder. Seems minor.
This is similar to this, right?

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr...
In a sane organization, if someone is producing, there is no reason to care whether they used LLMs constantly, not at all, somewhere in the middle, or only when it's a full moon on a Tuesday.
I also demonstrate square waves synthesized with the Fourier approach, along with a duty cycle parameter: https://www.nayuki.io/page/band-limited-square-waves
I have been all three at various points in my career.
With current trends, I'm starting to wonder if telling people to answer all the questions with their eyes closed is a viable interviewing strategy.
See, not so intuitive, and you would have known this by reading the documentation.

> To me "first one wins" might be intuitive TO YOU, but to me "last one wins" is.

What I mean is that "first one wins" might be intuitive to you, but to me "last one wins" is, and apparently I was wrong, but I would have known at least, because I do read documentation.

It does make sense, indeed, that "first one wins", though.
I suppose that they mean break even on captured electrical energy.

The major challenges with Fusion power is containing and harvesting the released energy.

Rocket engines just care about reaction forces, so you are fine shooting your fusion products out the back end into space.
Pretty much just being in the US.
Britain was never rich in natural resources (coal was an exception, but its importance faded). Its strength always lay in:

* Naval and trade dominance (a legacy of Venetian methods, transferred through the Netherlands).
* Financial systems (London as the hub of insurance, lending, and later offshore banking).
* Intelligence networks and manipulation (from the East India Company to MI6).
* Colonial exploitation (enclosures, the Opium Wars, the Bengal famine of 1943, suppression of the Sepoy Rebellion, the exploitation of Ireland, etc.).

This wasn’t "honest" wealth but the result of systemic plunder and control over global flows. And the British elite has never prioritized the well-being of its people:

* Enclosures (16th–18th centuries) – Peasants driven off the land for landlord profits.
* The Irish Famine (1845–1849) – Grain was exported to England while millions starved.
* "Divide and rule" policies – From India to Northern Ireland, preventing unity among the oppressed.
* Austerity – Post-2008 budget cuts

Some may say this is in "distant path" but I think this is the root cause while the author focuses just on modern symptoms. The current crisis is the inevitable result of a model where wealth was built not on labor and innovation, but on exploitation and manipulation.
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Exposing invalid transitions to a user is a bug. Idempotency here doesn't solve anything, just hides said bug, which is arguably worse.
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I'm having a great experience using Cursor, but i don't feel like trying to overhype it, it just makes me tired to see all this hype. Its a great tool, makes me more productive, nothing beyond that.
In general, many staffing agencies already take a percentage to fill roles without the applicants knowledge, and as such often suppress fair market value for defined roles.

Always apply directly to the company you are interested in attending. Once you are in a staffing agencies database the hiring firms are often contractually obligated not to directly hire you.

If an agency asks for money, free labor, or other stupid scams... than you probably don't want to work there anyway. =3

This company was legitimate at one time, but YMMV with these types of services:

https://www.aerotek.com/
The insurance company wants the farmers to stop using antibiotics on animals, not to get the farmers to switch insurance companies.
> Why not? We have that for a bunch of professions already
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> Engineers should already be data-aware by default

Most businesses in this world are not run by software engineers. Engaging with people for whatever reasons via digital channels is not a profession. I don’t really understand your point: as I said already several times, the law can and should be improved. Do you disagree with that? Do you insist that every plumber or relocation business should be an expert in GDPR?
One fun one is that in a lot of year on year change reporting for China specifically, Jan-Feb is considered a single month and then all the other 10 months are seperate. Reason is:

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The dates of Chinese New Year move around across the year and they have such a big effect on the stats that it's easier just to lump the two months together.

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Yes, we have a `lux-lua` library (which we will need to bundle with `lux-cli`) that exposes a `lux.loader` module. It uses the lockfile to resolve dependencies.
Depends on the company. If you're going for FAANG-ish, it's pretty competitive.

Plenty of tech companies that aren't The Big Ones that will pay those salaries though, even in non-HCOL areas (in the US).
Its like the tools I would use in school its really easy to use and good
The usual recruiter fee for regular mid-level employees is less than 25% but it's highly variable and negotiable. The fee can vary a lot depending on how hot the market is and your volume of business.
That is a great question. In the original trilogy, without prequel context, he often makes overtures to Luke about them ruling the galaxy together. Otherwise I don’t think we see a lot about what Vader wants until later when he’s dying. I think then he says something about Luke having given him hope or something, I don’t remember perfectly.

So from the original trilogy alone I think it’s not 100% clear what Vader wants, but there are strong indicators.
Reminds me of divorced dads card game
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I was living in Australia in 2000 and texting was more common than calling because it was cheaper to text than call. But in the US it was the opposite. You had unlimited calling, but plans around that time had a different pricing scheme for texting (can't remember the exact details) so could be one reason why it took the US a bit longer to finally pick up texting. I remember it was about a year or 2 later that I felt texting started to become more common in the US.
Hurricanes in the south have extended deadlines past the normal extended deadline.
If managers are trying to push LLMs in order to squeeze more productivity out of developers and potentially replace them, why aren't developers just returning the favour?

Surely, the work output of most managers, which contains many more natural language artifacts than the typical coders' outputs, should be a better fit for an LLM than code.
In my early 20s I loved the traffic calming curves, it was a really fun challenge to go just as fast as you possibly could through them
So youre saying micro stones in the food supply were causing a public health crisis?
What I respect most about the European countries' leving tarrifs in response is when they're choosing to issue tarrifs on products that are heavily sourced from red states, and lesserly so from blue states.
I was always under the impression Monotone - which was released two years before Mercurial - was the inspiration for git, and that this was pretty well known.
Wow Shopify has fallen so far down now it's just a trashy dumb company. No longer a tech company doing elite things. I wish companies didn't become mid so soon. Tobi really needs to step down and resign. It's a horrible look and tremendously bad for morale. And he seems to be feeling the pressure. When you have to expect people will spread it in bad faith, you really have some skeletons in your closet.
I'm guessing you know this, but for those new to the terms: what this post describes as the "VC route" and the "bootstrap route" are usually referred to as "growth businesses" and "lifestyle businesses" (i.e. pays for the lifestyle of the founders).

As a big believer in the need for syndicated worker's coops, I think this basic distinction is a pretty great radicalization tool against the current system ;)
How robust are APFS clone and sparse files?
Blargg's Blip Buffer library is a widely-used implementation (especially in chip music synthesis), explained in detail here: https://www.slack.net/~ant/bl-synth/
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Because tariffs can be applied on specific goods rather than the current blanket tariffs.

i.e. You could place a tariff on steel to ensure local manufactures use American steel while placing a tariff that includes cocoa does not necessarily mean American chocolate producers can buy more from American cocoa producers so it only injures the local chocolate producers (and downstream consumers) without protecting or improving another local industry.

You could still argue that the steel tariff is not a net positive but at least the positives and negatives of tariffs are arguable.

To your second question three (inexhaustive) possible reasons are that the industry has large political sway, or it's part of a plan to stop the quick collapse of an industry while the economy develops other industries, or it's a defense against the artificial short term lowering of external prices (i.e. foreign government subsidies either to grow an industry in their country or to destroy the industry in other countries).
A simple search of arxiv using the search terms
time series anomaly detection http
[rovides 64 results like https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18385
That provudes source
I am sure papers with code wouls also provide similar resu;ts
In the words of G.I. Joe "Knowing is half the battle"
I suspect that we are trending towards a baseline where interviews are gamed too heavily to be useful.

If your pool of interviewers becomes calibrated to external candidates who either use competitive programmers in their stead or well tuned AI - it wont be practical to hire.
Why did git 'won' over mercurial?

Because Github was better than Bitbucket? Or maybe because of the influence of kernel devs?
Yes, in big projects you don't see the result. it becomes a boring routine. But when your hobby robot makes first steps it's a completely different feeling.
But that uses a cast.

Moreover, an old style cast. GNU c++ has an opt-in warning for those, -Wold-style-cast. You then need const_cast to get around that.

Then we can grep the program for that new style cast (unless it token-pasted the const_cast together in the preprocessor haha).

In C we can make such a program which contains no devices that defeat the type system, and which otherwise requires no diagnostic.
Neurodivergent people have always had to learn social skills, plenty of people come off as weird/insane/awkward over zoom
If they do it properly and walk through it with you afterwards, it can be a good opportunity for you to assess cultural fit as well based on the conversation that you have; are they hypercritical of unimportant details? Do they acknowledge good design and decisions? Do they offer their own insights, and if so, what do you think of those insights?

Also, you might find yourself in the unfortunate position of looking to find a job without already having one; many people find that a compelling reason to "jump through hoops for nothing but middling compensation"
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The sensor in the 90D isn't capable of the high ISO performance of some newer sensors. For low-light conditions the things that matter more than anything is: 1. pixel pitch 2. sensor ISO performance 3. native denoising

For sure a new high end phone will do better than a mid-range camera that's older, but on the high-end it's the other way around. My Z8 has significantly better low-light performance than my iPhone 16 Pro, however the upside from the iPhone is that I don't need to do additional denoising in post-processing (I usually use DXO) where it's required on anything taken above around ISO 12800 on a digital body.

The Z8 is usable to print (e.g. noise is almost completely removable if you aren't cropping) up to ISO 25600 (which is the maximum ISO of a 90D), and is usable for moment capture (e.g. not trying to win any awards) nearly to its maximum ISO (102400). Many newer camera sensors, including the Z8's sensor, are "dual gain", meaning I can shoot basically noiseless at ISO 500 w/ almost 13 stops EV of dynamic range preserved, which is simply not possible on any phone camera or on most older bodies.

If you're shooting in low-light often enough, there are specific sensors and cameras which are far better than others, even if the other cameras would be better than in other situations. Generally speaking though, larger sensors are better than smaller sensors in low-light at the same pixel pitch.

In the Canon world, an R6 II is comparable to the Z8 in low-light performance, although I think the Z8 just barely edges it out. So don't take anything I'm saying here as being brand-specific. Modern full-frame mirrorless cameras are almost all better at low-light performance than any preceding full sized (DSLR style) camera, mirrorless or not, because the sensors have gotten better but maybe even more importantly the native denoising has gotten better.
> if you needed to exceed 50%, you could have just combined two different square waves

I don't think this is possible. A balanced square wave has no even harmonics in the frequency domain. Anytime the duty cycle is not 0%, 50%, or 100%, you will have non-zero even harmonics.

A linear combination (scaled sum or difference) of two balanced square waves will necessarily still have all even harmonics at zero, and thus cannot emulate a square wave with a duty cycle different from 50%.
> I expect the plumber to instead pay someone

This is fundamentally wrong expectation. To preserve the spirit of EU charter one does not need the law where every business engaging with customers online has to pay a compliance tax to another medieval guild of experts.
Indeed, environment drift is definitely a problem with the aforementioned approach. There is some middle ground that enables code and variable reuse, but isn't some byzantine state machine that requires reciting magical incantations to work. Getting that middle balance is kind of tough. I think judicious use of tfvars and modules and workspace tagging can get you a long way without opening the pandoras box that is workspace orchestration.
The fundamental precept here is that foreign investment of goods is more preferable to domestic investment of goods [1], so running a negative trade balance is dispreferable.

Trump is a textbook Mercantilist (positive trade balance inherently good [2]). Rather than magazine articles, see the Palgrave (the definitive encyclopedic reference for Econ) entry [1] and the Wikipedia page [2] for the arguments and history.

I always find reading the highest quality material leads to the highest quality thinking—there’s certainly a reason why modern LLM training mixtures might weight wikipedia tokens 5x and webtext 0.5x. :>

[1]: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1057/978-1-3...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism
> zero evidence that the protests have had negative impact on support for Palestinians

Of course there is [1][2]. (You see similar effects from e.g. bridge blocking in the broader protest literature.)

And again, what do you think happened in 2024 that caused support for Palestine per your source to drop?

> media is staunchly Zionist

The population has been broadly pro-Israel until very recently. The media market is, in the end, a market.

[1] https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/49311-opinion-on-...

[2] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/05/03/p...
> "Code should be narrow", "we enforce a strict 80 column maximum line length" I don't think I've seen that take lately. I remember seeing a few posts fly by about the number 80 specifically

To be fair, this is more doable in C than most other languages. No namespacing, no generics, etc. means you're not using as many columns.

I'm still not convinced, though. It's a crunch. Would rather just set a 120 to 160 column limit and make identifiers as descriptive as they should be. And I'd use prefix namespacing all over the place anyways -- fuzzy autocomplete can make it convenient.