skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a few reasons, but they're all becoming irrelevant. I'm going to focus on Sony as the exemplar mirrorless player because I'm most familiar with them.

Mostly, it's because mirrorless lenses were garbage compared to Canon/Nikon until recently. This is the biggest reason. Sony in in particular has been very aggressive in addressing this issue by releasing native lenses which compete with Canon/Nikon in terms of price and performance at the high end. This wasn't an innovation problem, this was just a matter of Sony catching up to the leading players. When they did this, 3rd party players like Tamron and Sigma responded by producing more mirrorless lenses as the market size grew.

Next was brand value and inertia. Despite those, Sony has gone from a prosumer toy to a serious consideration in the pro space over just a few years. I don't think this shift could have happened much sooner.

Finally, and this only applies to Canon, it's the firmware. Through a series of happy accidents, Cannon cameras ended up with a completely open sourced firmware package called Magic Lantern which unlocks functionality not found in any other cameras - functionality that enables some types of photography that simply weren't accessible without 6 figure budgets before. This hasn't happened in the mirrorless space, so there's a segment of Canon users who are ready to make the jump to Sony but are held back by its comparatively limited stock firmware.

Also, there is one limiting factor on mirrorless cameras that takes away their main advantage at the high end. Professional grade lenses are big and heavy, and mirrorless cameras do nothing to remedy that. It's just a physical limitation of optical systems, the performance of the lens is ultimately dictated by the diameter of the elements. So if you're a pro photographer with his 85mm/f1.4 or 70-200/f2.8 lens, the size of that lens isn't going to change, and it completely dominates the size of the camera body. This takes away one of the main advantages of mirrorless technology in the pro space.
Thanks for sharing that link. There are some really beautiful pieces in there! Natural, but with a strange edge. Regular enough to be pleasing, but unpredictable enough to be interesting.

This one in particular https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skyknit-the-collect... reminds me of Wolfram's timeplot CA renderings.
At it's deepest point it's about 8.5km down, for every 10 m of depth you add one atmosphere of pressure ...

It would probably make more sense to go overland in the opposite direction, through Russia, Alaska and Canada.
Is hackernews censoring peoples comments ?

How long is this been going on ..
From your link:

“The company’s revenue fell 18.5 percent to $233 million.”

That’s dying. An almost 20% revenue drop, after nearly a decade of declining revenues and the death of your major product line.
Check github there’s plenty.
Very strongly recommended. The interviewed subjects are largely experts in AI, and many are concerned.

The film is likely a bit long to trigger much by way of discussion here, though that's not always bad.

Word is that free play / download is this weekend only. Grab a copy via yt-download if you can't watch immediately.
On Windows XP we still had xyzzy[1]. I had so much fun that time in school, claiming that I had psychic powers of seeing through the minesweeper table... ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy_(computing)#Other_comput...

edit: The article links the original WinXP binary, and the cheat still works, even with wine ( https://www.winehq.org/ ) ;)
I'm sure VA and VW are out of date today, but when I used them, did not break all the time. The libraries worked together. I'm sorry to say that has not been my experience with Pharo.
The Man Sketching the Surprising Details of Every New York City Subway Station
It seems very subjective. There are letters where you start with the curve and end with the straight line, like lower case d. So for the mirrored B there's nothing wrong with starting with Ɛ and adding the straight line afterwards.

So still, the final choice seems pretty arbitrary to me.
Write and think; think then edit
(Draft)

Writing a draft is easy. All you have to do is write while you think. Let’s say you have a certain interesting idea in mind. You want to communicate it through an article, a comment, or an email.

Don’t worry about your opening sentence. Don’t think about how you’re going to expand on your thoughts. Just write. If you were in the same room with your audience in real life, and you were asked to talk to them, what would you do? It’d not be pleasant, I’m sure, but you’d talk anyway.

And here’s how it works with writing: The draft is the most important thing. You pause because writing to you is a dignified podium you have to be ready for. It’s not. You don’t pause for a long time in real life while an individual or a group of people are waiting for a response. Same with writing.

(Final)

Writing gets easier when you start with a draft.

The point of the draft is to write while thinking. For many, writing follows visualizing coherent sentences in their minds, and in most cases, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work because it’s hard.

Like talking, drafting and thinking should happen simultaneously. The idea is to put everything out there, good or bad, and the rest will follow.

Writing is more effective than talking because you get to think before going public. You can’t pause for a long time in real life while in conversation. Writing, however, gives you that advantage. So don’t be afraid. Write and think; think then edit.

Writing isn’t a dignified podium you have to be ready for; editing is. And that’s a relief.
Replace “iPad” with “8-bit microcomputer” and what is suggested would have ruined my childhood.
Tangentially related, Jakow Trachtenberg invented a new and much faster system for mental arithmetic [1] while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. It's a far cry from Common Core math, not easy to learn but once you know it, wow, you can multiply arbitrary 3-digit numbers in your head nearly instantly. 4-digits and higher gets a little trickier but the mental difficulty increases slowly.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system
> I collected sand and used a furnace to turn it into silicon wafers. I smelted my own wires and circuits.

I've actually done this already... in Minecraft.
For anyone not aware, YC grad Wright Electric is in this space:

https://weflywright.com/
Who really want to use any fb's products after this data privacy violation scandal ?
The Germans really put up with a lot. When armored convoys went through towns, there was usually a jeep with a junior officer following them, and he would write checks to property owners that suffered damage (perhaps an Abrams would cut a corner too closely and knock over a fence or the corner of a building).

The damage wasn't all one way - one REFORGER exercise a crew in an M-113 personnel carrier were killed because they failed to lower their antenna before crossing a rail line with it's electric wire overhead.
Actually, sorting out what your point is might be a good starting, erm, point. What's your threat model, what do you hope to protect / avoid / guarantee?
It is possible, but SLRs have a bigger flange distance to the sensor, because a mirror has to fit between the lens and the sensor. To be able to use SLR lenses with mirrorless cameras, the mirrorless camera needs to have the same flange distance as the SLR, which would make the camera body bigger. This kills one of the main mirrorless features.
> people with influence are not exempt.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/aadhaar-card-mandatory...
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This topic is taken care of by the Justice System at the moment, so this actually counters your point.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/20/nicolas-sarkoz...

Mediapart is the Independant media that broke the story back in 2012, and has been attacked by Sarkozy.

https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/300412/sarkozy-at...
> I don't understand what this claim is supposed to mean, as there is no standard definition of what "Safe C" consists in. You can prove that some C programs meet some definitions of safety, and there are memory safe subsets of C. What exactly are you saying isn't possible?

What isn't possible is encapsulating many of the safe APIs that Rust supports using C's type system. You can restrict all of the C code in a program to a subset that is safe, but it isn't a subset that anyone actually uses; by contrast, it is absolutely feasible to write programs that use safe Rust outside a handful of unsafe functions in the standard library. The primary reason is that Rust's type system is capable of encapsulating many more safe guarantees than C's is.

As someone who works on the RustBelt team, you are misunderstanding the paper. What the paper is arguing is that we need to be able to prove modularity for arbitrary unsafe code, not just treat the standard library as type system primitives, because we want Rust's set of "primitives" to be easily extensible.

> The claim that this is fundamentally a kind of verification that you can't do for C or C++ isn't made in the paper. It's not clear to me exactly where this claim is coming from or what precisely it consists in.

It is fundamentally different. C++ does not have lifetimes or compile time verification of ownership; its references cannot be safely encapsulated behind an API, and it does not have "modes" like share and own. These are all critical for Rust's safety proofs. This is not for lack of trying; many people have attempted to define safe subsets of C or C++, or add these features to C, such as Cyclone. In all cases, new concepts and types needed to be added to the language and most existing code was no longer usable.
Only about half of people fly in any one year (in the US). You already need to be better off than the median.
They do? How so?
I'd love to know the story behind "I" and "Z" swapping places.
There's room for different approaches. Part of the reasons why Microsoft's biggest customers are so is because they value that backwards compatibility. And it's also the reason why they're probably not big Apple customers. (Except of course for ubiquitous management iPhone.)
But he can't add funds to it without logging in to it, which requires him to reset the password. Once the password is reset, the scam can't benefit the scammer.

In order for the scam to work, either he has to be able to change the credit card details without knowing or changing the password, or the scammer has to be able to access the account without access to the password or e-mail address. Both of these are serious security issues, but not what the article was about.
imo Canon created and then heavy push into a digital prosumer market. The Canon 300D Kit was priced perfectly to capture mid-market, many in that mid-market went on to become the pro market. My college cohort was the first through the newly created “Digital Imaging and Technology” program(at art school in canada), by the time we graduated (2006), most people had switched to Canon because the CA / Lens Sharpness / AF became demonstratively better. From there it was a natural path to follow 30D > 5D > 5DmkII. Additionally, the Canon prime lineup at the time was fantastic.
I'm not sure how true this now, but a few years ago the idea was that in general Canon had the edge (and it does have the marketshare) but Nikon was better at low-light, non sports, and had somewhat better quality for the price, whereas Canon was better as sports, video, and had a larger range of lenses. This is why I chose a Nikon D7000 about 7 years ago. If I knew what I knew about my preferences now, back then, I would have gone with something lighter and smaller, like a Pentax or Olympus.

If I were to choose today, I'd go with a Sony mirrorless instead since that seems to be where the market is going and Canon/Nikon are slow to catch up to mirrorless cameras. The nicer Sony A series mirrorless cameras are perfect for my use cases (I don't do sports, and generally like low light or underexposing my photos, I'd like to have full frame, and I really prefer something light), whereas fitting these criteria is difficult/not possible with Canon or Nikon, primarily the competing lightness and full frame aspects.
The wire protocol is practically almost not documented.
We’re building a road so… BYE BYE ANTHILL!
Hmmph, well another data point is that I love the ICYMI feature and use it every day. My feed is too big to ever read every tweet and get to the bottom, so it works for me.
I suggest you reach out to EFN https://www.enterprisefutures.org/
It is non profit, 501C3 designed to link entrepreneurs and advisors. It is FREE and I know there are hundreds of contacts in the midwest.
We are used to things the way they are today and the way they are taught in school. Before the "standartization" of the alphabet, it did not matter whether letters were rotated or reflected; for example, originally the letter A was written upside down (with the bull's horns pointing upwards). Even the ordering of letters in the alphabet was not seen as essential; it was introduced first as a handicap for easy learning, and then, in some languages such as Greek letters started being used as numbers.
The M8 was an anomaly more than anything else, and probably used an APS-H sensor because Leica couldn't get a 24x36 sensor from anyone. It was a flawed camera in many ways, and they went back to 35mm as soon as they could get a sensor that size on the M9 (from Kodak iirc).
This is super cool, but I wish there were more explanations about what happened!

It's interesting how the Q gets turned upside down and rounded out.
> FF on Linux

You should add that you probably have NoScript or something like that. It works fine on my FF on Linux because I allow (first-party) JS.
I enjoy the... irony? of visiting the site with a set of ad block and privacy related extensions and seeing a set of 'Sorry' messages that I can't see the trailer because of my privacy settings.

https://imgur.com/a/4IEsx
It has everything to do with unsafe. Because outside unsafe you are forced to use the borrow checker, among other things, preventing you from thrashing memory with 100% guarantee. The number of ways you can thrash memory in c++ can't even by listed, especially not when it comes to object lifetime, so there is no equivalent subset of c++ providing those 100% guarantees. If you do such a mistake just once, the whole execution of the rest of your program might be randomized. Multiply all those possible mistakes with the size of your code base and you see the problem. In Rust, you have all these problems inside unsafe but the amount of code inside unsafe is much much smaller so it is feasible to only let your most senior guys write them and to review them extra thoroughly.
> Changing a password should always invalidate all existing sessions

Doesn't with Google. They display a prompt and let you select which sessions to expire.
Hopefully the RockPro64 will be released soon.

Major features

2x A72 + 4x a53. (4000 in geekbench)

mini PCIe connector/PCIe x4 (supports SATA expansion card)

USB 3.0

Prices

Rockpro64 2GB board, $59-65

Rockpro64 4GB board, $79

Rockpro64-AI 4GB board, $99

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5614
There's been a lot of effort put into 'government digital transformation' over the past few years.
Same upload & download. This is on Verizon Business FIOS.
I came to comment exactly the same as your last 2 paragraphs. The article notes:

"One of its most popular hikes is a fifteen-mile trek to see a branching of Two Ocean Creek called "Parting of the Waters.""

You would guess that there is people interested in guiding others on these hikes. Or maybe regular hikers just don't want to see it gone! Or even maybe it hasn't yet eroded, any of these would be perfectly valid explanations.
side note: a few companies are also bringing back zeppelin, so far for freight/cargon (10s of tons) but also but slow public transport. Hindenburg drama aside, I find them superbly peaceful.

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxotOEZCh8g
When I lived in Minnesota about 10 yrs ago this was the case there too and as far as I am aware it still is

Little State Promo: Minnesota has one of the best collegiate systems in the US from community to top tier university in case anyone didn’t know :)
iCub dynamic balancing and walking
And all everyone else is saying, constraint to all possible weird values and reject the junk. If you want free form text field, use that. Problem solved. Meanwhile numeric column is numeric only.
Korean has an alphabet in the sense that we mean. 40 characters, each corresponding to a particular phoneme. You can learn to sound out written Korean in as little as a day of study.
I used to dismiss Leica M as photo gear for Magnum photographers and rich snobs, but then they began manufacturing excellent lenses for the µFT system at more acceptable prices. If an M Summicron is 3.3k, the equivalent µFT lens costs $500 - less than the Zeiss Tuit Sony E lenses, which got not so great reviews.
Allow me to recommended getting yourself properly informed about the Catalonian issue. The issue is certainly not about a referendum being organized, but rather recurrently ignoring both the law and judicial resolutions for years incl. the refusal to allow parents to choose the language in which their kids are taught in school, or fining stores for writing its name in Spanish. Add in the open white supremacist theme and you've got Catalonian nationalism.

But hey, up until a few years ago, countries like France and U.K. were hosts of the bask terrorists and could have sworn for their lives those gentlemen were also freedom fighters. I'm old enough to remember how IRA had a positive image in some parts of the US too.
Again in practice how do we switch from A) to B), the truth is that you can’t and you won’t since any dictatorship will naturally always elect to preserve it’s power.

The stateless version of your so called communism is essentially pure libertarianism the problem is that both are just as impossible and unlike the latter the former cannot coexist with the free market of ideas which is the natural state of a nationless/stateless society.
So for me, the college friendships that have persevered the most in to my late 30s were those made in community college. This is from 2 years spent in community college, 2 years at a 4-year, and then 2 1/2 years in an unfinished doctorate.
A recent survey from Yale shows “A majority of Americans (63%) say they are “very” or “somewhat” worried about the issue”.

So we’ve got “permission”. Let’s get to work. I’m excited about putting my efforts into solutions. Here’s a few: http://airminers.org

Yale survey: http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-ch...
To push back on the premise a little:

The intention behind the GDPR is good, but it still hasn't gone into effect yet, and it remains to be seen what the long-term effects of it are. It's really premature to draw any conclusions about its effectiveness, and history provides us with countless examples of far-reaching regulation that either failed to have the desired outcome, or in fact ended up exacerbating the very problems that it aimed to solve.

With a law as massive as the GDPR, it's going to take several years to really get a sense of what steady state will look like, and there are all kinds of ways it can backfire. I hope it won't, but there definitely is a strong, unfounded bias in discourse towards assuming that the GDPR will succeed in the goals that have been projected onto it.
> or dreary subdivisions

There are a million little details that can go in to making a house more livable, pleasant, or delightful to live in. An architect that loves these details and enjoys knowing how much her work affects the lives of the families that live there would relish working on a subdivision...
We used to weigh the nose up too, but without thinking about center of gravity and oscillation. We were 6yo it wasn't very clear what was going on for us even though I find it interesting that:

- we could iterate hundreds of time with joy
- it seems like a stupid kid thing but it's quite subtle and technical, if approached so

Kids have this pseudo researcher mindset that only lacks a few symbolic notions to really leap across toying to understanding.
Now that electromagnetic catapults are becoming a thing, perhaps they can be adapted for airliner takeoff. One supposed benefit is the ability to adjust the acceleration profile to reduce airframe fatigue, and probably improve crew comfort at the same time. If it's smooth enough for passengers, it'd save carrying quite a bit of fuel and batteries.

I would have thought landing to be far less energy intensive (except perhaps in case of aborts, but I would imagine they're reasonably uncommon).
For real-time webapps when you need minimum latency updates, Meteor is a dream. IoT, GPS tracking, messaging apps and stockmarket trading apps are all well suited to being implemented in Meteor.

DDP is a simple protocol that runs on top of WebSockets, which runs over TCP. Back in 2013, someone achieved 12 million concurrent WebSocket connections on a commodity server. There is no reason why Meteor should not be able to handle a comparable number:

https://mrotaru.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/scaling-to-12-milli...

Meteor fully supports the NPM ecosystem. Meteor does not have to always use DDP. You can implement RESTful APIs and serve static pages using the many router packages available.