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I don't expect film to die entirely; it has simply lost its economy of scale. I'm seeing lots of photographers who have cut their teeth on digital dabbling with it. There is, as you clearly expound, a romance to the darkroom. It won't go away... modern art supply stores are ample evidence of the preservation of older techniques.

Lens-wise, there will always be a market for lenses that inspire. The emergence of short-flange-distance mirrorless cameras has driven huge interest in older glass. If you haven't tried it yet, try adapting your favorite lenses to a modern image sensor. Electromagnetic waves care not how old the optics are.

I'm sad, too, to see the EOS-1 series end. The design of the EOS-1 RS inspired me, as a teenager, to build my first optical system, something for which I'll be forever grateful.

I wouldn't trade my modern camera for the finest 35-mm film camera, though. The rate at which I can learn with a digital camera is so much greater. Yesterday evening, I probably shot a hundred frames (each while watching for the camera/tripod vibration to settle at 10x-magnified live view), sorted them, processed the best, and printed one, all in a few hours. The only costs were 0.1% of the camera's shutter life, hard-disk space, electricity, and two pieces of paper.
This is a great solution for hacker news types (I run pihole at my home - love it!) but it's not a feasible solution for most people.

We need a hard brake on adtech and a restructuring of business models, not a band-aid that only 5% of the population bothers to apply.
If I were a scoundrel, I'd start a company that uses AI to generate reviews, and a company that uses AI to identify fake reviews, and hope no one noticed. But I'm not.
As a consumer, completely agree.

As a buyer in a B2B context, completely disagree.
Additionally, it should improve with HTTP/2 because servers can push the fonts immediately and because of connection multiplexing?
Eh. Film is still around, and I still shoot film occasionally, but I can't imagine buying a new film camera, not when there are so many perfectly good used ones out there - including my own collection (I favor an Olympus OM-1 myself). So Canon isn't making cameras anymore? No great loss. They made millions, and millions are still lying around.
The documentation seems insufficient. I can’t figure out how to switch between panes, e.g., to modify the todo list. Once it’s selected, I expect to be able to use it, but without knowing how, it is unusable.
I recall reading a really interesting article on how Sony is doing something similar to what Canon did to overtake Nikon back in the day. Perhaps I even found the article through HN.
> Nope, MS just uses some Dark Pattern (at least on home) to make it seem that way. The link to make a local account is not obvious.

I don't know how to prove it, maybe i should have taken a photo (but who cares right), but the link was not dark, it was _not there_. I was able to make a local account and switch to it after installation, but I was not able to completely the installation without a Microsoft account.

You don't have to believe me of course, but the screen did not appear exactly the same as in help tutorials I googled.
> I would never ever work on anything for the military or that is designed to hurt human beings. That being so, I wouldn't describe those engineers that do as sociopaths.

It seems that, essentially, you're describing conscientious objection.

edit/ Removed some words that weren't adding value.
Can you just skip that project?

Otherwise yes.
Yeah. Uncool companies like MS, Intel and Oracle have shown repeatedly that they can survive and thrive in times of complete paradigm changes. This is something Google and Facebook still have to demonstrate.
Of course if the reviews you saw were only from people whose prior reviews you agreed with or who posted reviews which matched up with the reviews you yourself posted, then the system just wouldn't be game-able. But that's involve getting users actively involved in writing reviews as well as actively agreeing with the views of others. But when it comes down to it, until you have a review system that will tell me that the Super Bowl is garbage and not worth watching because it knows my tastes and doesn't give a shit about what other people that are nothing like me think, your review system is a piece of garbage. Of course it's gamed. It's trash, and it's not going to somehow be magically not-trash even if people don't actively seek to game it.
As a non-native English speaker, I need it all the time to follow conversations on Internet. I've also made a a personal acronyms database to read GCC's internals documentation and another to translate errno codes to their constant name and vice-versa: https://github.com/lgeorget/acronymdb?files=1
The cynic would argue that those same states also tend to pay into the federal government disproportionately. "Why should we be subsidising states like Alabama (who can't even be bothered to educate their populations) without receiving any benefit?"
Until the day where you discover you need to keep track of the difference between a nil interface and a non-nil interface acquired on a nil pointer...
Exactly. What does Apple have to gain from not blocking advertising? It makes no money from adverting. Blocking advertising not only hurts it's major competitor but would also force apps to monetize via actually getting people to pay for apps. They would get a cut from the revenue. Apple makes no money from free advertising supported apps.
There are companies out there that will take care of collecting duties/taxes from your foreign customers, like https://www.i-parcel.com/
There is no major european internet company worth speaking about, so I think they probably don't care if it irreparable damages their own local companies in the process of damaging the foreign ones since they are virtually non existent anyhow.

Ironically the foreign big ones have enough resources to comply to the law, small local ones don't and will die/never be created in the first place.

> the regulating authorities can pick whoever they want to prosecute

It doesn't really work that way, at least not in germany, anyone can just sue (or threaten to sue) their competition over this (they already started) there is no such thing as this mythical benevolent authority who could stop this wanton destruction you are talking about.
I actually don't think they'd be shocked, it's not like there's a ton of activity in the segment. They're crucial tools needed by small numbers of people.
x-rays don't ruin film
>"With skiing in the east an industry in rough shape since it doesn't snow anymore, and agriculture in a slow death spiral,..."

Can you elaborate on the slow death spiral of agriculture part? Are you talking about the effects of globalization factory farms or something else specific to Vermont/Northesat?
This is a tool for use by doctors, it's not going to be billed for separately.
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JS debuggers are generally very good. The level of interactiveness of JS also puts them ahead of most non-lisp languages.

Debugging async code isn't like debugging other code. Once you cross that async barrier, all stack traces disappear (I understand Google's doing some work on making that better).

In this particular case, debugging is harder because the UI is also holding all the data, so in order to reset to known good data, you have to reset the page itself. One of the biggest benefits to moving to React (or similar) is that you start keeping all that data in a central place.
Here is a copy of the Russel paper free for all:

https://users.drew.edu/jlenz/notion-of-cause/br-notion-of-ca...

Thanks for calling attention to this - it is interesting (and funny).
What's the benefit over having a doc comment style that can be transformed into documentation?
The only natural evolution of such a 'artificial reviews' arms race is actually an interesting one. It's a bot that is able to predict the review that would most accurately reflect your own tastes. It would be one that would only promote things to you that you would actually love.
Optical viewfinders are still better. And I say that as someone who has a Canon DSLR but shoots more with a Fujifilm X-E3 because it's a lot smaller and lighter. The day will certainly come when electronic viewfinders become dominant but there are still advantages to mirrors today.
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer
Internet engineers tear into United Nations' plan to move us all to IPv6
Talk to an accountant about excel, and you might hear something about "pry it from my cold dead hands"...

And people have religious wars that put tabs/spaces to shame on Xbox VS Playstation
Change is not necessary a good thing. Bad change is worse then no change at all. However, when it comes to programming frameworks, rapid, unstable, change is generally not very desirable. Take a look at the most popular open-source OS/kernel in the world: Linux.

It's a Unix-clone using a monolithic kernel made in a time when Lisp machines existed and microkernels were all the rage. It used ANSI C which, to be fair, was new at the time, but stuck with it, in the face of C99 and C++.

And, as a windowing system, it still uses X11, a system designed in the mid '80s. There has been a very slow migration towards Wayland (which is now already 10 years old).

As it's scripting language it uses bash (1989), which inherits a lot of it's characteristics from the Bourne shell (1977).

Yes, in the case of Linux may be a little bit biased as OS development back than was still more mature than front-end is now, but still, the principle still holds: "slow and steady wins the race".
Since he obviously existed before audio recording technology, how do we know this is the accent of Shakespeare's time? Did someone from that era write down some phonetic pronunciations of their words, or was some technique used to arrive at this conclusion?
Getting a book keeper and an accountant to want to deal with that is impossible.

That’s why Stripe just gave you the converted amount.

Also all of this: https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support
It's all the same person. In addition to having a 'friend' who 'interviewed' at Cruise, they've been an 'engineer' at Cruise, a 'founder' of Cruise, and also the 'cofounder' who left.

We've banned all the trolling accounts we know about and their main account as well.
Exactly. Add interaction with highly complex custom hardware and you're looking at more like 2 years rather than 2 weeks to get to the point where anyone can claim expert level knowledge.
I'd never heard of blockada, just installed it and it seems to work great! Thanks!
The Murray-Gellman effect.
I think video reviews will become more and more important. Sure, people can lie on camera, but I think it’s harder to fake convincingly. And AIs/spammers can’t present on camera with the same ease that they throw up blog posts.
I sort of feel like the contributors are a cluster of symptomatic problems all rooted in inequality, from lack of universal healthcare, to more people in prison than any nation (where prisoners then get substandard health care), to underfunding of wages to an increasing underclass. It seems we have this storm of rising problems in the US.
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Maybe the market for medium format film is better, but my experience with large format is that people practically give the gear away.
You imply that strong reference letters, strong publications and talks at top conferences are obtained unfairly. Why do you think so?

If you look at the batch of assistant professors that start every year at good schools, did they pick the wrong people?
To be honest, most "anti-tax" people are fine with the theory, but don't trust that it will be well managed and, more importantly, preserved for lean times. Too often surpluses are immediately funneled to special projects that we could have been better off without.

The "pro-tax" people in my area are also generally against this sort of thing, because they want nothing more than to take more money and spend it on special constituencies.

For example, my state passed a sales tax that was sold to us as a way to better preserve our parks, wild lands and cultural heritage. About 19% has gone to the DNR, which means less actually went to the stated cause. The rest is being funneled to art projects that are poorly received and utilized.

Mind you, this is in a state that's very pro-taxation, and otherwise very liberal.
You are right! Misread the comment.
I'm no fan of the TSA, but you're comparing apples to handguns-in-handbags here; their inability to find planted explosives in my luggage isn't the same as a failure to correctly identify that I have the right documentation to get on the plane.
I'm confused. Doesn't the article say that Apple similarly prohibits ad blockers from their app store? And besides, installing a "third party" apk on an Android phone is trivial, and there are third party "stores" like F-Droid which offer a myriad of open source apps. I seem to recall that Apple makes the installation of third party apps relatively more difficult. I have not used an iPhone in quite some time, so I feel that I must be missing something.
I also think mirrorless is the future; I am now selling my Nikon/Sigma DSLRs and going fully mirrorless (Sony), as focus issues seem to be finally resolved and photos are now beyond good enough level, already in great/pro level.
One can collect "a lot" of personal data without any of it being sensitive.

I don't think this is the case at all. Essentially all personal data is sensitive.

The amount of personal data and the administrative burden are sometimes correlated, but often aren't. Collecting name and email from a few people in eighteen different ways creates a much, much larger administrative load than collecting name, email, and ten other items of information in a single way.

That's true, but also seems entirely reasonable. If you are collecting data in eighteen different ways, that means there are eighteen times as many ways you can fail to adequately audit or secure it.

One can use all that personal data well and not violate the rights of data subjects without being remotely GDPR-compliant.

Probably technically true, but in practice? Regulators are more concerned about compliance than anything else. Are there likely scenarios in which data is collected and processed in a responsible manner, but technical GDPR compliance is a huge burden?

Most of the administrative burden does little to nothing for how well data subjects' data is used.

Why would this be the case? Most of the administrative requirements appear to be entirely justified methods to ensure that you have understood and evaluated the methods of compliance.
I have lived in VT my entire adult life, and worked in tech/design. Ever couple of years I sit down and end up doing a comparison to see what it would be like to live in say the Bay area or Seattle. It usually comes out the same. I work remotely and know a bunch of other people who do it as well. It's totally doable (though bandwidth penetration to rural area's still sucks and is highly variable.). If you like Vermont, and can handle long winters it's great place to live, work and play.
Still, that's their competition. Places like that are where they're losing residents to.
If your goal is simply to use the plays as a whip the students self-flagellate with until they can tolerate joyless reading, there are probably other texts better suited for the purpose. If your goal is to teach Shakespeare, the students will likely not develop an appreciation or an understanding of the significance of the plays by simply reading them.
I recall Google App Engine jacking up their prices: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/9/7/what-google-app-eng...
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Most of the cloud providers moved away from metered database pricing, and into provisioned tiers. SimpleDB is an example of that early spirit. FaunaDB (my employer) aims to fit serverless deployments like a glove. You can get started here: https://blog.fauna.com/serverless-cloud-database or go deep here https://serverless.com/blog/faunadb-serverless-authenticatio...
First of all, well done NH. As a Vermont resident I am happy when any Northern New England state does well.

The table you link to shows Vermont coming in #12 in SAT scores, and I'll accept that for it is. Other sites (e.g. US News and World Report) typically ranks us in the top ten for our educational system. It is not unheard of for us to be ranked #1:

https://www.alec.org/press-release/state-education-ranking-s...

My point is, I do not understand how you can be so fixated on NH finishing six places ahead of VT and not actually asking the bigger question of "How do two small rural states even begin to compete?" Let alone trying to decipher why New England consistently does so well overall with Massachusetts and Connecticut ranked #1 and #2.

Vermont is a high tax state, fine. I more than get my money's worth. As someone that goes to Town Meeting Day and looks through the budget every year I know that I head home secure that my dollars are being well spent. Meeting my kid's teachers at school I know they are getting a very solid education and heading off to university next year.
This test was performed with a single client based in LA, and concluded the fastest font - Open Sans - downloaded in 476ms. The test fails to measure how much of this is setup time vs transfer time, or account for behaviour of TCP during the transfer. You will find, and I will measure this for you if you really want, that setup time absolutely dominates this cost.

If setup time is amortized across all assets on a site, as it is when self-hosted, the true cost of the 220KiB font download will be vastly lower -- closer to 100ms assuming a sufficiently warm TCP connection over even an 8Mbit link, and significantly less again with faster links.

As for browser-side caching, this is once again wishful thinking and there is no room for it in any kind of engineering discipline
You can _obviously_ come into compliance without an on-staff privacy lawyer.
How is academia unfair in that respect? "letters of recommendation, publication in prestigious journals, talks at prestigious conferences" are a reflection of your academic abilities in your field, no?

Sure, there is some noise; papers get rejected where they should not have been. And other papers that should have been rejected, do get in, etc. However, by the time you're applying for a professorship, you're abilities should clearly shine through that noise.
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Some of those are so bad as to be straight up dangerous (e.g. r/fitness).
"The TSA is not an intelligence agency..."
Optical viewfinders are great, but the tiny ones in consumer DSLRs are no fun compared to full-frame ones. Moving from a full-frame optical viewfinder in my film camera to the much smaller viewfinder in an APS-C DSLR was painful.
> Sure, people can lie on camera, but I think it’s harder to fake convincingly

Well, at least until this is perfected (and it will be):

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/4/17/17247334/ai-fake-new...
I should have been more clear: I was mostly talking about the vast majority of newspaper, magazine, online, and event photography that transitioned to digital years ago, largely for cost and workflow reasons.

The people doing art professionally certainly count as pros, but (wild hand-waving), most of them probably aren't subject to the kind of turnaround requirements that drove the rest of the 35mm world to digital.

I suppose I'm also excluding the medium and large-format studio folks who, besides art, shoot primarily for ... advertising? I'm totally ignorant of that side of the business.
I’m currently looking for a 3 bedroom apartment or a house to rent in Santa Barbara, and see nothing below $3K/mo. In fact anything decent is $3.5k or more. I work remotely, now looking for a cheaper place to live.

What’s life like in Vermont?
The biggest problem with hiring, IMO, is finding an effective filter.

My employer now works with contracting firms where about 80% of the candidates they send us are excellent and we hire. The interview is almost a formality. When we reject a candidate, it's usually because the candidate is a bad fit for the job. (Edit) The rejects are always very talented and would succeed in different assignments.

When we hire for employees through a recruiter, the process is much harder. Most of the candidates recruiters bring us are, to put it mildly, horrible and incompetent. (Edit) The recruiter doesn't really filter for competency.

The medical profession has an industry-wide certification process. I wish we had the same, because it would be easier to filter out the morons.
They've managed it through the greatest major real estate bubble in modern history (by a large margin).

Their housing market value as a share of GDP, is about 2.6x that of the US rate.

https://i.imgur.com/h0BOtzE.png

The other thing has been the rise of China and selling them a vast supply of commodities.

In 2002, Australia's GDP per capita was $20,000, while the US was $38,000. A dramatic gap. China's GDP explosion began in 2003 (their economy went from $1.4t in 2002 to $4.6t in 2008, and on upward from there). Australia's GDP soared right along with China's economy.
I share some of your feelings. But I see both sides, I want to play a bit of devil's advocate here. I tried to hang on to my darkroom equipment for over a decade, and despite the joy of darkroom work, I just never used it. Too expensive, too time-consuming, everything film related being phased out and hard to get. Not to mention digital being so much easier, better, more reliable, etc.

> For the amateurs of the world and those of us doing it for the sheer joy of it, film is unsurpassed.

I feel like that too, but I'd like to understand more clearly exactly what was lost. Are we just being nostalgic? Is obsessing over the tactile part of the experience missing what's important about creating imagery or music? Are we ignoring the fact that the new generation has their own tactile experience that is different but not worse than ours was? We associate these tactile experiences with our joy of discovery and creation, but perhaps they're incidental and not very important to actually being creative.

> Plus there's something about the smell of a darkroom. The hot lamps of the enlargers create a smell that mixes with the smell of the fixer and the stop bath that's unmistakable.

I never got over the feeling that I was giving myself cancer or something else breathing and touching the chemicals. The vinegary smell of fixer isn't something I miss personally.

> something has been lost.

FWIW, doing my own image processing by writing my own code has taken the place of doing my own darkroom work, and white it's obviously less tactile, it still gives me a similar feeling of touching the images.
This reads more like an annoyed rant based on hearsay than actual journalism.

I am not a lawyer, so it may be that there are legal reasons why the TSA (specifically) cannot maintain a list of people, but ...

The majority of large organization dealing with customers keep customer service records, including notes on negative interactions. Keeping a list of people that have assaulted your employees, if the intent is to avoid creating a similar situation in the future, is completely rational and better for all parties.

If there was evidence of the TSA denying transit rights based on that list, that would be newsworthy, but it sounds like there is no evidence of that.
So how long until police start using this as a new justification for kettling and mass arrests?
Equally worth surfacing:

Habalov reported the bug to Google and Mozilla engineers,
who fixed the issue in Chrome 63 and Firefox 60.

"The bug was addressed by vectorizing the blend mode
computations," Habalov said. Safari's implementation
of CSS3 mix-blend-mode was not affected as the blend
mode operations were already vectorized.