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Agreed. I took a photography class in college, and I've turned the guidelines on for previews. I still don't have the command of light and expertise with framing demonstrated here, and I'm not carrying a tripod with me anywhere.
I'm with jmnicolas on this. I've been using bash on and off for years now (approaching decades). I still get it very wrong almost always. It's the only language where this is a persistent problem for me.

Just yesterday I was struck by the difference between if [[ ]]; and if [ ];

I didn't even bother grokking the difference in the end. I simply found something that worked and moved on with my day.
Individual freedom. The freedom of entrepreneurs in China to build factories and make deals with the West. The freedom for Chinese workers to apply for and take jobs in those factories. They're all individuals. You can't take those freedoms away without hurting individuals either. We don't pass laws that apply on a company by company basis. A law that allows one entrepreneur to start a new business can allow a thousand others to do the same. That's how capitalism works. It's what it is.

China and the USA didn't pass a Jack Ma law that allowed Jack Ma to trade with America. He took advantage of individual freedoms available to anyone. I'm sure he had particular opportunities too, but he was free to take advantage of them, as others were free to take advantage of opportunities they had.

China is working it's way up the economic ladder. Low end assembly isn't moving out of China because other countries are getting cheaper. It's moving out because there are more higher paid jobs in China now, so it's harder (more expensive) to persuade Chinese workers to do low end jobs. Average factory worker wages in Chine are now 5x those in India, because their value-add has rocketed. Chinese workers have better opportunities now.
So you still have state, but you can't get at it because it's been moved from the heap to the call stack?

I'm not sure that makes programs:

1. Easily evolve-able.

2. Easy to understand.

Well managed accessible state can be greatly simplifying.

In my view the goal should be simple understandable code, not a meta-goal like removing all accessible state.
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> Their ideal business model is to own expensive drugs which sick people have to take for their entire lives. If they produce truly curative treatments, that's actually a net loss for them.

Not really. Drug development is so difficult that you're not going to presented with a scenario where you have one drug candidate that cures the disease and another drug candidate that merely abates it. The bias that happens a lot is towards common diseases and away from rarer diseases or diseases that occur largely in poorer countries, although that's still no guarantee of success (hello, Alzheimer's).
Assuming it's all in one file I would move related pieces of functionality into separate files and and then source them when necessary. Should make things more manageable for people only wanting to make small changes.
> Which is why people do not trust the weather men and neither should they trust economists.

People who's livelihood depend on the weather (farmers) do trust weathermen. They just know the limitations.

1: any forecast more than three days out cannot be counted on. (If you're close to mountains or other similarly confounding factor, that 3 day number is a lot smaller)

2: An 80% forecast of rain doesn't mean that it will rain in one specific place, but that it will rain in a good portion of the forecast area.

The same thing applies to economists. Some of their predictions are very accurate, but much are wishes and guesses. But due to human nature we primarily remember the times their guesses were wrong.
> Drugs fail all the time, most of the time rather quietly, and all the work and money that went into them just sort of vanishes.

This seems problematic to me. Wouldn't it be generally preferable to publish everything about their work so others can learn from it? Obviously big pharma would be against that, but in the general pursuit of advancing medicine it would help, so federal regulation?
Revolutionary stuff
Arguably yes. We had people thinking about the issue of carbon emissions in the early 1900s. Arrhenius talked about the greenhouse effect in 1890 or so.

By 1960 we had clear evidence CO2 in the atmosphere was rising, and we had fairly clear evidence it influences the climate.

In 1965, the presidential science advisory committee warned of the problem in an official report.

By 1970, the American Petroleum Institute had a study from Stanford that they commissioned, confirming the problem. From then on, the oil industry actively engaged in propaganda to discredit that science.

So, even if he didn't get it right when he started, he knew by mid-career. And he happily continued selling out.
This speaks to a concept in data science I like to call "measurability bias" - the entire field of data science is biased toward making decisions on things that are, well, measurable. If you try to apply data science to a problem whose objective function doesn't have robust representative measurements tied to it, you are bound to fail. Being able to read subtle facial cues, measure the energy in a room, basically all of the subtle empathic interactions required to gauge customer satisfaction... we're not there yet.
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> Having worked at a successful macro hedge fund for more than 10 years

Do you mind sharing which one? (Ok, stupid question) Or whether it's a "quant" or global macro fund?

> There is no point in trying to predict macro economy further than 3 months

I disagree. Sometimes you can identify systematic factors. I remember Bob Litterman once telling me at a conference that a lot of their "quant" success was actually due to factoring in certain central bank policies that the central banks were willing to accept a certain, let's call it, slippage for in order to achieve certain goals. That apparently worked for years. Another example that comes to mind is the Euro convergence trade. Didn't that also go on for years? Unless you mean specifically GDP. Then yeah, I agree. In fact, I remember a class in financial econometrics where the teacher drew fancy equations on the blackboard only to conclude: "But you know, in practice a simple AR-model will perform just as well. It's just so you've seen it" :D

> It's important to read and understand macro economists, not as much because they know what is going on, but rather because they are influencers, who participate in risking / de-risking movements

Obligatory quote here:

"""You might suppose that the feud could be settled by testing ri- val claims. Alas, macroeconomics rarely works this way. Macro- economists cannot run experiments as laboratory scientists can. Statistical analysis of the world is muddied by the vast number of variables, many of which are correlated with the thing whose ef- fect the economist is trying to isolate. _Macroeconomic arguments tend not to produce winners and losers: only those with more in- fluence and those with less._ Post-Keynesian ideas were never pro- ven false, unlike the Ptolemaic model of the solar system. Rather, they declined in status as mainstream Keynesianism rose."""

[1] The Economist. Free exchange: Magic or logic? page 69, Mar 16 2019.

Which of course leads directly into your

> The most important things to understand in macro economics is that it is very much a people's problem. If you could get in the head of every central bank people, you'd get a strong edge over the market.

I've been saying this for YEARS, mostly to deaf ears. Thank you for confirming my personal biases/opinions ;) Finally someone else says it. It's why I (used to) like reading biographies, however shitty, of key people in power. Just to get a sense of their thinking or psychological makeup.

Very good comment, I'll keep it.
It's crazy what people think is acceptable. At least half of all the people that apply to our junior positions cannot answer simple question such as "how would you find the first "42" in an array of integers, and give me the index". If they don't have an idea of how to count with a for loop and write an if statement, they're not qualified for programming. Some even ask if they can take the "assignment" home and get back to me.
It made perfect sense to me. They're advocating "voting with your wallet". They don't want to financially support big companies that politically lobby against their interests.

Paying for a Disney movie is (in at least some small way) a vote for the policies of the PR and corporate lobbying that Disney performs. If you support shorter copyright terms, it's understandable to not give money to someone who you reasonably expect to use that to extend copyright terms.
I would love someone to design and manufacture an enclosure for an iPhone that allowed for better ergonomics and controls.

I think the Camera app is one of the pinnacles of Apple's software engineering, but sometimes shooting on my DSLR really makes me value how beneficial things like knobs and buttons.

Obviously this might require using a 3rd party app as well, but I would gladly pay several hundred dollars for such a device.
Very nice. I am surprised you did not get more traction and github stars. Good luck
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> This is a strange sentiment to find on a board that is at least a partially targeted at aspiring company founders.

It's not inconsistent. Most founders are trying to create companies that provide economic value; one can believe that the creation of economic value is a good thing, while also believing that more of the economic surplus created should directly go to the common good.
There are multiple copies of the Magna Carta, I've seen one in Lincoln Castle.

But yeah it does seem weird, as some of it is still law. I don't know the technicalities, but if you have a law, but no written record of the law or of it being agreed, is it still law?
> This sounds hard. What about 327 million consumers?

Predicting what a lot of people will do is a lot easier than predicting what one person will do (which was the point of what you were quoting.)
At this point, i am seriously considering using urllib3 instead of this project.
The moment I have to use arrays in bash, I open up a python interpreter. Syntax makes far more sense than in bash.
His “passport problem” was not having a Polish passport when Polish law requires Polish nationals to use one to enter and exit Poland (at least through non-EU borders, I guess). Not something the US consulate can help with, probably.
Of course it can, but by default it does not look good, and it is not trivial to change things, hence you see documents which look straight out of 90s.
> Globalisation is fundamentally about individual freedom.

You mean individual freedom for the rich?

> This dynamic has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty

And billions of people into modern slavery. And so much more complex misery that it is impossible to comprehend.

> It has increased pollution and accelerated the rate of consumption of resources.

Indeed! We are totally destroying life on this planet and it seems most people don't realize it's the economy. Economists have a 'raise people out of poverty' fallacy for this. All these false truths we learn at school are so persistent, amazing.
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Otherwise, there isn't much obstacles in empty space.
And preferably part of Clang and GCC collection...
I always thought it would be safer to forge the GPS data so it points to a police station, instead of just removing it. Then your stalkers and thieves might be arrested for loitering and breaking and entering there, instead of at your own home.
You can already build for iOS, just not apple tv or watch without bitcode. For building for iphone this is not needed.
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The fisherman seen in that photo is also in these very similar photos...

http://davidbuddphotography.com/galleries/01-places/china/gu...
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I am starting to think I should block all traffic out of my home network and force everything to go through a proxy server where I can manage all outbound traffic.

The number of devices I have plugged into my home network is astonishing and the chatter / discovery they do to each other is interesting to watch.

Zero trust model for everything ... I guess ?
No idea if it's true but I've heard a lot of mints have alcohols in them which could skew breathalyzer tests if you have one in your mouth a few minutes before.
And to put that in context, the closest theater to me generally has month or two old movies and charges $2-6. And I don't want popcorn anyway.
He took them from the employees of Microsoft who's work helped make those shares valuable.

Edit: Apparently this statement needs further clarification. What do those shares represent? A share of the profits. And what are the profits? Literally the difference between the company's revenues and expenses. It's literally the difference between the value created by workers and the salary the company paid them in return for that value.

So _of course_ Bill Gates took that wealth from the company's workers. That's what profit is!

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Now to expand on the broader idea, in a Democratic Socialist economy where the stock corporation is replaced by the worker cooperative, he would not have had the right to claim 500 million shares. Those shares would have been distributed to the employees of Microsoft based on some metric of contribution to the company. Or would never have existed in the first place, and each worker would have had a vote in how the company was run and the profits distributed.

In either method, Bill Gates would have gotten some still significant portion of the value the company created, but no where near the amount he walked away with in our current economy. The rest of that value would have been distributed to the company's workers in one way or another - profit distributions, shares, dividends, what have you.

In the minds of many - myself included - that is a much more equitable system. Bill Gates took the money from the people who helped create it in the first place. And he took a share that far out paced his contribution to the creation of that value.

He was able to do that because our economic system is set up around authoritarian companies, where the founders and CEOs have near dictatorial power (or oligarchical power with the board). And dictatorships are rarely equitable.
And that you can do this while keeping an even keel in the ethics department.
>wondering if it will make my pictures any better

It will make your pictures better in angle of view possibilities, better low light, and more correct exposure. That is, in the technical aspects that they've improved on.

It wont make your framing better, or the subject matter more interesting.
Thanks for pointing that out. I read through the article and just assumed wework had announced new layoffs after the IPO was aborted.
It seems to me the dark fiber approach will wind up just having one ISP for a given region of the network because to have multiple ISPs running along the same piece of fiber you need shared equipment at each end which is basically the "municipal network layer" model I described. How do you get regional competition with a dark fiber model?

Also I think the government upgrade issue so often boils down to just lacking the money to do it because defunding upgrade budgets is an easy target for budget games to make room for the latest tax give away or social program. Make it self funding and put protections against raiding it's budget into the charter.
You're right that equipment does not make the photographer. But, if having better equipment gets you out taking more pictures, it will improve your photography. It just takes practice.

We all have amazing cameras in our pockets, and it's possible to take thousands of shots (ie, practice) for effectively no additional cost. When I was a kid, film and developing was expensive to the point that taking a picture was a somewhat special thing.
For years, we've been avoiding this whole problem. We have a dumb TV hooked up to a computer. The computer doesn't even have a fancy couch-friendly interface installed. It's just a computer. And therefore, it literally plays all media we want, and if we prefer, it blocks ads and plays music too. The computer doesn't spy on us because we control it, and websites only spy on us to the degree that we're unable to prevent. (pihole, ublock, etc)
My disclaimer is that I love bash. I write way too many things in bash. But eventually I go back and refactor the scripts into Python (or lately, Go) because I am so sick of people refusing to touch my bash scripts.

String munging in Python is so much objectively easier to read than bash. I would say that it's because it is similar to a lot of the more popular languages than the sort of cryptic parameter substitution bash provides. And if that makes it easier to maintain some automation, then its worth the effort just to use Python IMO.
This is a poor analogy imo. It's not a physical medium. There's a finite number of parking spots. Once they're used up they're gone. Media is not a finite resource. If I have 50 friends over to watch the Avengers movie, there's nothing wrong with that. There's not less movie to go around, but there's probably fewer people who would spend money to rent it. I can't bring 50 people in my car to use a parking spot. There's physical limitations. Comparing digital things to physical things is always going to be a poor translation.
Just wondering how much this is really just software performing the "upgrade"? The Pixel 3 camera app made every camera better in the end.
Can anyone recommend something similar for Make?
Strangely no one's pointed this out yet but you appear to have posted this comment in the wrong thread.

This seems to be the post you're replying to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21013150
"Fisherman/men in a canoe like boat at dusk/night in asia" is such a cliche it should be forbidden...

Knowing the journalist/fixer trade a little, this is some well known place/person, and photographers who go to China are taken by their local helpers (who know the drill) there to shoot "interesting" pictures.

This fisherman guy probably makes (or could make) more money posing for tourists than fishing...
I wonder why traditional camera manufacturers have been so reluctant to leverage the advances in computational photography that the mobile phone world has embraced. I mean I get why they want to have neutral default settings for people who want to do their own editing, but why are their 'scene' settings so crap when compared to mobile phones. Is it simply because they're worried that a sufficiently powerful processor is going to draw too much power?
> [Look at] the role of the bond rating agencies in 2008, which is completely unreformed. Why would that be? Well, there must be a lack of consensus.

I think we have a an obvious reason for the lack of consensus here, which is cognitive/regulatory capture. You'll always find someone willing to muddy the waters for a little cash and some sort of career advancement. Economics is the ideological science _par excellence_.
Sorry, I'm only vaguely familiar with C#, but maybe you're right, if they get sugar in the form of LINQ syntax. But regarding async/await, (?.), etc., a language doesn't have special support for vector spaces just because it has many vector spaces in it - and every language has many vector spaces in it.
There is some interest involved in that payment, and not all of it can be paid back because the cost was not monetary.
There is. For yearly performance reviews.
Ahem. Microsoft screwed quite a few companies/people in their day. Share value is almost direct consequence of that screwing. I'm not strictly against it, but I'd just like that awareness of it to still be on the table when considering things.
Because their market caps are huge?
> The photography in these kinds of reviews is amazing

That's because making a nice photo is less about the tool used and more about framing, contrast, subject, &c.

I can't find it right now but there was a website showing amazing pictures taken with early digital cameras which were horrendous compared to today's entry smartphones.
Let's be real, RBG is small and scrappy -- she's never going to be a tackle for any team.

Running back or receiver? Yeah maybe.
> the app makes ~20 downloads per day

That's enough to be ramen-profitable, I suppose.
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Are you calling for a debate about the nature of cause and effect, or do you have a specific observation? Do you have some evidence that completely unmanaged economies have performed similarly in those measures?
I don't know, actually. Should the state other that what the task (or sub-task) can observe matter for it to function? Where would be the boundary, as there are lots of things happening simultaneously in a computer, and the global state is huge.
You should check out the book Factfulness by Hans Rosling. Rosling, a now deceased Swedish doctor, makes the case that the world has improved immensely over the past two centuries. He backs it up with copious statistics from the UN and other international NPOs. Rosling also gave one of the best TED talks ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
Tbf, a lot of python projects have .rst README files, and getting a local preview can be more of a pain than looking at the GH preview in the browser.

That doesn’t apply in this case, though, where the README is markdown
Sometimes HR is too specific, and even though you are missing one core requirement you match the other criteria very well. Anyways, it’s low overhead to submit an application, and low overhead to reject them. I’m still very picky about what jobs I apply to.

The best jobs still require an inside recommendation. It is very rare that you’ll be able to score those just by applying online (if the JD even goes up at all online).
The money is distributed among several professional associations of "media producers", of which the SGAE is the most famous one, and also the one whose board of directors were charged with embezzlement.
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Smart TVs will start including bluetooth sniffing so they'll know how many people are watching and who.
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> I’m surprised anyone here thinks something like Snaplight would take more than an hour to build

I think it would take me longer just to make the icon, having never done anything like that before.

Think about all the skills you had previously built up that allowed you to make it in an hour. If someone lacks even one of them, they would never be able to do it so quickly.
Right. I found those docs but they didn’t look like datalog queries at all. Of course that doesn’t mean they don’t compile down to datalog :)
Skim https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/bash/ Then open the code and just go through it. Check everything you find unfamiliar with that cheat sheet. If it doesn't cover something in your code, write it down to research separately later.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good. I'll take a rough estimate over no data at all. If the Python guy took 10 days and the Java guy took 20, then the conclusion is that Python is more productive than Java. Is it more productive exactly by 100%? No, maybe 60%, or maybe 120%. But whether the benefit is 60% or 120%, I know which tool I'll choose next time.
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