skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We bought ours on eBay (third hand, and they did for 3 kids and still were good enough to sell on), they were more work than disposable but certainly cheaper. But, we had a washing machine -- again, second hand (fixed and plumbed in by me).
2019 holiday shopping season is just coming up - that's when a lot of camera sales and discounts happen. For Interchangeable Lens Cameras (ILC), new models get announced round about this time and I assume many people would wait for updated models.

While I wouldn't be worried about ILC sales yet, compacts are an entirely different story. Phone cameras now have wide angle and telephoto lenses, PDAF sensors, depth sensing, better AI, and have powerful CPUs easily capable of high-fps 4K. Sensor sizes are approaching parity to high-end 1"-sensor compacts like RX100 and LX100 with Samsung Isocell GW1 (1/1.7" sensor) and Isocell Bright HMX (1/1.33" sensor). There will be fewer reasons to buy these in a couple of years.

Low/mid-tier compacts have long been surpassed by phones. In fact, mid-tier compacts from 2010-2012 fare better than those of today. Back then, these compacts (Canon G12, Nikon P7x00, Olympus Stylus-1, Pansonic LX5 etc) used to have 1/1.7" sensors (with a sensible 10-12MP resolution) and now we have tiny 1/2.3" sensors with 20MP due to the megapixel wars. This market is really dead now.

Super-zoom, small-sensor cameras like Sony RX10 and Nikon P1000 will not be challenged by Smartphones soon. But they are also kinda niche.
The Hedge Fund That Wasn’t
I never wrote anything about being oppressed lol. I never even mentioned work, just community. A lot of open source projects utilize the same rules. If you so much as make a single dongle joke, you may be excluded.

I always say whatever I believe, even if I am at work. If the company would fire me over a joke then fine I wouldn't want to work there anyway. So far I haven't met any issues on that front. Also I don't work in the US so you can't really fire someone where I live because of a joke and it's outright illegal to do it over beliefs.

I do not get the mad men reference, since I haven't seen the show. But so what if I am? No one values or respects everyone's opinions, that is just such a load of horseshit imo. Obviously people here don't value or respect my opinion for example.

> are inappropriate and have no place in modern society

This is very funny, a biological hard fact has no place in modern society? I don't even understand how this is even a controversial thing to believe yet you believe it has no place in a modern society.

I do not wish to live in your definition of a modern society.
I'm not sure that's a compatible position to be having, especially in the context of wanting a privacy-focused browser alternative to Chrome.

It's inherently a social development in the form of software.
"Just because someone donate to a political campaign that wants to stop same-sex marriage doesn't automatically make that person homophobic."

Really? What's the point in arguing stupid semantics.

People are defined by their actions.

He has a right to believe what he wants.

He also has to accept the consequences of those beliefs.

At the end of the day it's just a job. As CEO or an executive you're a figurehead. Your actions are publicly associated with the company you head.

You can decry the evils of "wokeness" or "social justice" but it's also the right of the employees of the company to complain or even campaign against the CEO.

Why is one political campaign acceptable and another not?

Because it really seems like you just don't agree with the politics of one.

Your disingenuousness is what I'm calling pathetic. Like calling up China?

An authoritarian country where the state owns all business whilst discussing the actions of a private company in America.

There are plenty of conservative companies in the USA which would be fine with his political contributions.

The idea of having no social consequences or accountability for your actions isn't a Chinese thing and it isn't an American thing. But it seems to be an effective playbook adopted by conservatives worldwide.

But anyway, it's not like I'm going to change your mind :)
In my state (US), you can't legally tell a contractor when to work, or who to work with, unless you've specifically drawn up terms around those things and the contractor has agreed to them (and typically been paid extra for them). By doing these things by default without compensation, you've effectively made someone an employee, and must comply with the associated laws (ie healthcare). Much of the gig economy debate is about this 'contractor by default' gray area.

It's usually bad practice for contractors to take customers on directly, but it's very different from theft. In the case the match making firm is providing no value, I think most contractors would eventually decide to take a customer on directly. Most real contractors also negotiate every single deal, and have a significant voice in the terms of the deal.

Basically, if you want to treat someone like an employee, you need to fulfill the legal obligations for employees.

You can't hire a contractor to skirt regulation, treat them like an employee, then complain when they make the right move for a contractor.
You have to opt in to see ads as part of the Brave Rewards program and you also get credited for every ad notification you receive. It couldn't be more clear
Is One of the World’s Biggest Lawsuits Built on a Sham?
money money money though - all that time and effort (and fees) doesn't help you to lowball the next contract, cross your fingers and hope not to get caught out!
The CppCast Episode: AWS Lambda
Henry Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" is about not being able to send money to an organization without funding projects he doesn't want to fund, therefore not sending money at all.

Many consider it an important work, including myself.

It's short, with several free versions linked to from the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau).
He's standing in a way that requires activating his missing muscle. ;- )

Apparently Michelangelo knew it was missing, because it's due to a flaw in the marble.

I think individually the proportions aren't crazy, but taken together I think they contradict eachother.
I used to shoot wedding video as a side-gig, and I had a range of cameras from the T2i to the 6D. I also owned a few P&S just for fun. Since the 7 Plus I have sold all my P&S cameras. The only advantage they have now is the longer reach, but I rarely actually need a zoom lens for a random shot. If I am doing anything serious I bring a DSLR.

The main problem is I always have my phone on me, and carrying around something like an RX100 is a pain because of how thick the body is. It is not really pocketable, meaning it goes into a larger bag. Then if I have a larger bag, I might as well bring a better camera.
Just looked up the Vestal Vergins. That was grim reading. People really can be incredibly awful to one-another when they put their minds to it.
If I donate to cancer research and find out that the money went on a "diversity in research" campaign, I'd be of the opinion that my money had been misused. Not because diversity in sciences isn't important, but because that wasn't what I wanted to spend my donation on.

I think diversity is just being used as a proxy for "social do-gooding, rather than tech do-gooding" and the commenter feels the former is not the thing s/he cares to support. Which is fine! I choose not to support all sorts of nominally good things. Lets not witch-hunt people for caring about different things.
That did spiral quickly into a rant about women in the tech field.

But maybe all that ranting explains the lack of women in the field.
The proposal is indisputably harebrained, but the question is why the authors decided to publish it? One of the authors is a former US Air Force colonel.

And in particular why they choose to propagate falsehoods like "Hypersonic cruise missiles are powered all the way to their targets using an advanced propulsion system called a SCRAMJET. These are very, very, fast. You may have six minutes from the time it’s launched until the time it strikes." Lest it be any confusion, scramjets are fast, but are nowhere as fast as ICBM's (Mach 5-10 vs Mach 20-23).
agree.
like you imply, too many people rely heavily on their providers for business critical things like backups and redundancy. while generally big providers to a good job at this (and aws certainly does a good job at this), it does not mean there is a guarantee of any kind failures won't ever occur. thus the need to heavily invest in failure resistant technologies upon this borrowed infrastructure is arguably more important than picking 'the best' provider for the job.

I would like to note that the response time suggested by the tweet is a bit bad, 4 days to realise something and send out response / alerts to customers is a bit slow even for amazon. But then again, everything goes slower for bigger things, and amazon is quite big i'd say. not sure what the SLA response time to such an incident is, so it might be within agreed times...
There are other driving forces, though. A typical person may not need to shoot photos at more than 2 megapixels, given a half-decent sensor underneath. But they like their 4k TV programs, and to shoot those, there need to be high-end cameras available. Then some people might want to go into business of shooting stuff that ends up viewed on 4k displays, and suddenly you have a market for semi-pro equipment. Regular people for which good enough is good enough are the ones not in a market for a camera - they use the one in their phone.

Similarly with RAM. 8 GB sounds fine until you change jobs and have to use Slack. I'd argue that web developers are the drivers for more powerful hardware now. And with 5G, more and more people like to watch Netflix in decent quality on the go, so now you have to push more data through the network.

Also, out of all things to pick on about the economy, this is one of the least problematic. Personally, I think companies can and should shoot for triple digit megapixels on phones, terabyte of RAM and streaming 8k videos to contact lenses. These technologies are enablers - the more power and performance you make available, the more previously impossible use cases will show up.
> Violence can never be a solution, only peaceful non-violent struggle can bring about real change.

That’s facially not true. The American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Bangladeshi War of Independence, Irish independence, etc. History is full of examples where the right to self determination had to be vindicated with guns.

Categorically delegitimizing violence against an oppressive state is a bad precedent. Obviously it should not be accepted as routine. But it is an important safety valve. The Irish won their independence, after hundreds of years of oppression at the hands of the British, by starting a shooting war that the British could not put down while maintaining appearances among the community of nations. If violence had been categorically delegitimized in the early 20th century, the British could have used more heavy handed measures to put down the Irish Revolution while the community of nations looked the other way.

Now, whether Hong Kong wants to or has the capability to do that against China is an entirely separate matter.
Plus, they might then have to think about what is actually bothering them, and that could be very upsetting.
>there is still no practical way to do anonymous micropayments

Accumulate and pay in bulk.
logistic regression based nuclear missiles eh
The OP needs to place (2017) in the title.

> I still love coding, but I hate this industry

This essentially can be summarised by only doing software development as a hobby rather than as a profession. But again, this industry isn't for everyone.

While its always unfortunate that people who once enter this industry have now quit due to the 'long hours', 'deadlines' or 'burnout', perhaps they should have looked twice at the job requirements or questioned the number of hours before applying in the first place, rather than finding out the hard way.

This industry is unforgiving for those who cannot handle it or have no passion in the trade and only do it for the money. If you think a job as a SWE or a SDET is 'bad', wait until you go for a software engineering interview at a FAANG or FTSE 100 company.

If this sounds too 'hard' I have heard many vacancies for easier roles in the circus though who are willing to hire what they call 'clowns' and 'idiots'...
They're clearly playing 4D chess and submitted a patch with a warning in anticipation of the next guy breaking it while trying to fix it.
Most of my male colleagues and myself included also hate the industry because the pay sucks, the hours are long, you are expected to do impossible things in impossible amounts of time, and we are so removed from the end users that it’s hard to get an idea of the impact we are having on their day to day grind.

It may have something to do with the local scene as well, as I’m pretty confident that not all workplaces are like that, it wasn’t at all like that where I was before.

That being said I find anonymously contributing code to open source projects rewarding enough to offset the daily grind.
> I always say whatever I believe, even if I am at work.

John Finnemore says it better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAMHBlt_CQA
Huawei accuses U.S. government of hacking it and threatening its employees
Doesn't that suggest the worst possible act of mass slaughter in that system would be to get a "massive" array of fake missle drones or dud missles from the direction of a nuclear power to spark dual MAD strikes from a third party?

It would shift it to a hackable spoofable system. Said bad actor could state a "technically I didn't kill millions/billions you did" and be right in a way.
> we don't care about your stack history, just your ability to produce clean, high quality code and solve complex problems

OMG you just made my day with that bit of sanity - thank you!
I can honestly say I do not know a legitimate news site. For every topic that I have more than surface knowledge on the articles are always, almost with no exception, biased and limited to a single perspective which aligns with cultural expectations.

The exceptions are local news about local events that has no political angle, and occasionally investigative journalism.

The most common method that legitimate news sources use to bias news is by omission, and second by using a misleading context. Neither is strictly a lie, but the result is as much fake news as something fabricated.
I'd argue the other way: hobby code is a product of genuine enjoyment and is probably better than the paid alternatives created to earn money.
The range from 24mm to 70mm can easily be covered by phone cameras these days with their telephoto lenses - and the sensor sizes are catching up. RX100 vi and vii go up to 200mm which phones don't have yet.
the conclusion is weak but true. people do tend to forget the cloud is also a bunch of computers, and they might fail. however, it's not an argument to avoid cloud entirely, and in that sense its weak as an argument against cloud.
I thought that YouTubers buying cameras would bump these numbers up a bit. Most cameras have the option to shoot video now.
Show HN: Learn to code for free and get paid for it
This writer works through some upper limits of vehicle electrification, based on cobalt reserves:

https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2015/12/cobalt-requirements-for-...
Busting the College- Industrial Complex
Onyx Boox MAX 3 e-reader will have Android 9 and 5G
Reading this, I have the feeling she quit her career in programming because of the long hours.

But why not look for a job with normal hours?
How does USPS know what’s inside my mail??
The cynical side of me thinks the worst side of the cloud represents another front in the Civil War over General Purpose Computing.

https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
Defense /industry/ experts are experts at pushing fear to sell expensive "solutions" of marginal to negative value.
6 Pieces of wisdom from investing legend Warren Buffett
Don't worry about it. It's easier to just stay in gear than try to compete with everyone else trying to get a car length ahead. If you have to go through such an ordeal every day then reducing stress should be your main priority.
Face Detection as Done in 2001: Viola Jones Algorithm
So FireWire...
If I were POTUS I would have weekly dinners with three to four people I admire. From different fields, but some connecting subject. Presumably the guest would find that stimulating, as well. Everything off-the-record, in an informal atmosphere (some chairs by a fire maybe). Afterwards, the guest list is published (for transparency – but not the subjects that we talked about).

I mean, you can have anybody! Nobody declines such an invitation.

Do presidents actually do this? I feel it would be the greatest perk.
If it is, it doesn't work on my phone or computer.
I think the comparison with the server market isn't completely accurate. When companies decided to go with Intel+Linux over Sun's mainframes, they actually did go through a decision process. They weighted the pros and the cons of each solution.

With cameras it's arguably much worse. Most people these days (especially those with enough disposable income to consider buying a dedicated camera) already own a smartphone. Camera makers see smartphones as competition but probably not so much the other way around. Apple and Samsung try to get better and better cameras because they compete with each other, they don't really care about Fuji or Canon. Camera makers are in the tough situation of having to sell a camera to people who already have one "for free". And they have to convince a crowd that now mostly consume images in low-res on a small screen. Good luck.

With smartphone cameras becoming so good and the software letting anybody take good-looking (if heavily post-processed) pictures, I don't see how they could ever recover. Sun might have been able to win the fight on the server side by competing on price and features, I don't see how camera makers can ever hope to regain the lost market share. It's a completely one-sided competition.

My girlfriend is a professional photographer. She owns a bunch of high-end cameras. They vastly outperform our smartphones' cameras, especially in low-light scenarios or while photographing fast-moving or far-away objects for instance (with the right optics of course). But if you just want to make low-res, mundane pictures for Instagram the difference is really not significant. My cheap-o Nokia 6.1 does the job just fine and it's much easier to operate than most pro cameras.
>Violence can never be a solution, only peaceful non-violent struggle can bring about real change.

I think that's the exception rather than the rule. More societies have gained independence through being a perpetual thorn in the side of whoever is subjugating them than any other way. If you make subjugating you an expensive road to nowhere they will eventually screw off. With the unanimity of opposition to mainland rule HK stands a pretty good chance. Imagine the troubles but without local opposition stabbing the IRA in the back at every turn. That's the kind of fight the PRC is in for if the situation spirals into a full blown shooting conflict.
I'll chime in as someone who has used Django and its ORM for about 5 years and I have to say it's a pleasure to use.
I experienced tear gas first hand, as part of US Air Force training.

It's terrible. Your eyes water, fluids pour out of your nose and down your throat, you choke. Truly an effective invention.
There are good workplaces out there and you have to really seek them out!
I use a Cherry MX Blue keyboard at home and I have the same model I bought 12 years ago for work too. I wanted to try out something quiet, affordable, with lesser travel and something that doesn't annoy people around me. The post makes me want to try out the AmazonBasics one and the Logitech K120.

Not too much to lose.
It does have objects:

STS has at runtime four kinds of unrelated
object types:

1. a dynamic map type has named (string-indexed) properties that can hold values of any type;
2. a function (closure) type;
3. a class type describes instances of a class, which are
treated nominally, via an efficient runtime subtype
check on each field/method access, as described below;
4. an array (collection) type.
She better be on a plane to US. Probably the only place PRC kidnap squads can’t touch her.
> - The syntax is very weird after writing too much C#. Sometimes I have the feeling, that declarations are reversed just for the sake of it.

It's really C and languages directly derived from it which are the odd ones out. "postfix type" ordering dates back to at least Pascal, and is very common especially but not solely amongst languages with type inference.

Just look at what more direct C derivatives have to do to back-fill type inference: invent some weird-ass pseudo-type to take the type's place. I also think it maps better to how I read / write / think. "f is an integer", the definition of f is more relevant than its type.

> - I can parse 2GB of simple JSON files in less than 20s. I'm awed.

100MB/s doesn't seem that impressive? rapidjson or serde can do several times that, simdjson reaches 2GB/s.
Why Are These Medical Instruments So Tough to Sterilize?
Unrelated but this is why Facebook sucks, you can't meaningfully vote with your wallet if your friends are on Facebook because then you have to stay on Facebook because that's where everything is

(Yes, cue the comments saying "just delete it" or "I deleted mine" but for a lot of people it's not practical and FB knows this and continues to act like complete fucking cunts)
I actually read it in a very dark way. Same as "You will never be hungry when you have some dwarf bread" (i.e you would be willing to eat anything else).

Given the history and what starving people are willing to eat, the saying takes a pretty black humour quality
Look into Northern Ireland.
Google’s GDPR Workaround
If you're going to make such outrageous claims, the least you can do is provide some evidence.
Quiet HN: A version of HackerNews without the comments. It's good because it "forces" you to read the news first and then read the comments, avoiding bias.

Reddit: Not exactly a news feed and you need to search for a bit to find a good subreddit with the information you need. In my case, it's good because I usually find new stuff every day.

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It's mentioned explicitly on the graph so I don't think it's really misleading. That being said I suppose that Christmas means that you can't just double the number to extrapolate over the full year so I don't really know what to make of this datapoint.
Does anybody know what triggered the original fix in the first place? Just grep-ing?

If the kernel folks did what this company did . I.e have the compiler detect vulnerable code . The issue would have been avoided as well right ?
> By all means, you are definitely oppressed at work for making a sexual joke.

I think 'ecmascript was referencing a particularly well-known case of a person making a sexual joke to another in a causal private conversation outside of work, in which some busybody overheard the joke and made so big a ruckus that the joker got fired from his job.

> but that doesn't mean others can't exercise their freedoms to remove you from the equation.

I know you didn't mean it like that, but the way you phrased it kind of reinforces ecmascript's point about social justice being pushed by a group of extremely intolerant people, who are willing to break all the rules of civilized discourse in order to have things their way.