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Many governments set the price at the gas pump and subsidize the difference.
You don't really need an operating system for any of that.
This sounds like a great weekend project idea: a website that captures removed reviews from Glassdoor and computes a real rating.
I moved to a Pixel 3 last year, another phone known for having a good camera. I find that the automated settings take much better pictures than I was able to do before. Am I taking professional level pics? Not even close. But I get excellent everyday photos that are leagues above my previous phone. It sounds like this latest iPhone does even better (although I'm sure the upcoming Pixel 4 will have a few tricks up its sleeve as well).
This is awesome, especially with the gains for Firefox, but this bit seemed odd to me:

> We quickly learned, however, that the LLVM linker plugin crashes with a segmentation fault when trying to perform another round of ThinLTO on a module that had already gone through the process.

It sounds like they worked around this, rather than fixing the segfault and putting some error handling in place? Might make it easier for the next bunch of people working in this part of clang.
I appreciate you going to the effort of finding a link, but I can't find a breakdown between coercive and non-coercive abuse (and the consequences thereof) in that link (which was central to my comment).

Could you point me at where in the article I could find such a breakdown?
The problem is how we define diversity. People from Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Monaco are considered different from each other. But people from Punjab, Kerala, and Assam are not. I’ll argue that people from the latter group of states from India are as diverse as people from the former group of countries from Europe. And because those Indian states have bigger populations than many countries, obviously those states will produce more talented people whom we’d want to keep in USA. For reference, one state in India, Uttar Pradesh, has a population of 200m.
Isn't every business allowed to depreciate their purchases?
Why is subsidizing corn a bad thing? Honest question.
It's exactly about rising the performance of current inexpensive APS-C cameras to the level of professional full-frame models.

As an amateur photographer I'd never take with me a mammoth gear that is some Canon 5D mk3 w/ 70-200 F/4, yet I'm somehow pretty sure that some good processing would allow a compact like Sony a6000 w/ 18-135 F/5.6 get close to its performance in 90% of cases.

The thing is, I sometimes can do that in Lr/Ps, but it's just much more work than I'd like to do for most of the photos.
I'm not really sure what you are talking about. An advertisement of what? Ultra wide lenses? The author is a photographer who writes about being excited to now have the ability to carry an ultra wide lense - something that has exited in the photography world for decades - as part of his phone. He then write a review about the performance of this lense. Nothing about this is even close to being an advertisement.
Is the following a maintenance headache, or non-human readable?

#!/bin/sh
FOO=" some long string here "
FOO="$( echo "$FOO" | sed -e ' s/^[[:space:]]//g; s/[[:space:]]$//g ' )"

This isn't "pure bash", but most of what I write in shell scripts isn't "pure bash". It's shell scripting: dirty, slow, easy, effective.

Like any 'language', it takes on the complexity you put into it. English is really complicated, but you can also use a subset of it with only 850, 1200, or 2400 words, and suddenly it's very simple and clear.
Why wouldn't Apple want to create the best camera in the world?

To create "the best camera in the world" you have to be really really good at optics, sensor design and signal processing. Apples core strength using very clever software tricks to make pictures that look really good on a computer screen despite bad bad optics and sensors (in an absolute sense).
FWIW there are multiple links to reviews with full-size images in these comments.
The simplest molecule (dimer, actually) that has self-replication and evolution has a complexity of about 170 nucleic acid bases [0]

It is entirely probable, in my opinion, that this is how life originated on Earth in a shallow pool or volcanic vent - essentially primordial PCR machines.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/99/20/12733.short
Very early, but that's beside the point. The point is one can make a slow-motion video out of a high-fps one.
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> 5. Torrents are more convenient.

Don't forget Usenet automation like CouchPotato, now that is convenient ...or so I've heard. You can set it all up to automatically fetch files, and organize them in such a way for Kodi to consume them, and then Kodi gets art for all your shows and movies. There's articles online about it. Downside is Usenet costs a certain amount, course when you start piling on $14.99 for 4k from half a dozen online streaming services, $14.99 once and for all doesn't sound so bad. I don't condone piracy, but I may or may not have done that in my younger years. It was glorious.
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For work projects, I don't want to care about hardware—or "machines" of any sort, for that matter. Give me a ready-to-go platform with networking, storage, node management, etc. already configured. I don't even want to have to run scripts.

At home, I'm happy to play around with such things—and just might (I just purchased an old Dell server to take care of some home tasks and provide a sandbox environment). But at work I want to be as far away from the bare metal (physical machines or VMs) as possible.
It was a programming language PhD. I didn’t say the experience didn’t make me go insane!
Can it make and receive telephone calls?
Spending money on a commodity isn't like buying a mainframe. And these are specific deductions and claims for fossil fuel products.
Can anyone explain to me how the article connected:

being white was “very” or “extremely important” to their identity
expressed strong feelings of white solidarity
believed whites suffered a meaningful amount of discrimination

with people likelier to harbour angry racial resentments?

There is no explanation found, we're just accept this as fact and throw out further conclusions from this basis.

On another note, I can see why The Economist wants you to become a paying subscriber.

How else will they have the resources to put together these important pieces that will surely make the world a better place and keep people informed about these essential issues in society. A prime example of what they stand against according to their motto: "... timid ignorance obstructing our progress."
Anyone trying to push me into leaving a review would be a massive red flag that'd instantly make me look for a new job and ensure I'd leave a 1-star review once I had one...
I'm not sure what you mean. I understand it to be a review by a professional photographer - but one with an obvious bias towards Apple, as they have been a client of his, he uses their phone's cameras in his work, and he has a book about how to take pictures with their phones. But that does not make it an advertisement, as far as I know, he is not paid by Apple, nor did Apple provide the phone or control what he said.
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Thanks for checking it out and the feedback, I really appreciate it!

We will take that into account and improve the experience on that front.

Thanks again!
They can't compete? How can they not compete? The link you're showing me shows average wages for the H1-B group near $80k for all occupations. That's well above the median income for Texas, and well well above the poverty line.

So if this large pool of workers in the US can't "compete" what are they doing? Refusing to work and therefore making $0 rather than making $98k? That doesn't make sense. You seem to be implying these workers are displaced into other industries. These industries must clearly pay into the six figures, otherwise these workers are still better off competing with their h1-b friends. What industry are all these displaced American software engineers pushed into, pray tell?

Your link doesn't prove shit about market wage levels, as often H1-B offers are skewed towards more entry level positions, so of course the H1-B wage of all workers in broad job category may be lower than all native workers of all experience levels.

I'm not going to argue the point of whether H1-B's are offered lower pay. As I said, that merely lowers the market price of labor where the H1-Bs are allowed. If the companies were really saving money they could use the mere fact that they have access to H1-B workers and offer that pay level to natives. It would be cheaper and easier.

Please explain to me, if there is such a large pool of qualified workers, why they don't work for the reduced H1-B wages that you claim are setting the market rate. What is their better negotiated alternative?
A drug failing doesn't mean a company can't do work improving it or building on top of it
Yes, to answer your question, the GC will be given to people from one country for a decade or more.

In the same time, people from Philippines, China etc will EVENTUALLY benefit from it, but before that "benefit", they will suffer more than 10 year wait because of the initial impact of this bill.
Same. My ~2017 Kindle stays on airplane mode for weeks/months at a time. It's the only device I read on, so I leave it in airplane mode to save battery. I've never had it re-enable wifi.
Being able to work async and ignore everyone is a huge reason not to be remote.

It drags out simple interactions over time, very unfocused. In a company where everyone ignores everyone else leads to pits of ticket queues that never get resolved. Each team that does this multiplies the effect.
I'm more worried about this eventually being tied into some copyright enforcement mechanism (Cinavia on steroids) than anything else.
But once life gets started, it's easier to see how useful complexity can grow through evolutionary pressure.

You've pr. seen this bactrapolation of exponential growth in complexity of life: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513781/moores-law-and-the...

Why don't we see the predicted simpler forms of life? They might not cope with the changed environment (e.g. oxygenation event), not be competitive with subsequent life, or we don't recognize them as "life" (e.g. viruses), or we just haven't detected them yet.

"RNA world" is one theory, of a previous form of life that used only RNA, and no DNA. It's suggestive thst some of the most basic and ancient cellular mechanisms (transcription) are based on RNA. [I'm not an wxpert]

There may have also been a "<predecessor> world" before that.

And the dating of the earth's formation suggests all this may have been on a different physical world too.
Yes and no. Naturally as the biggest IP holding nation/country it has the most interest in maintaining, strengthening, enforcing IP protection around the globe. However, small countries that want to encourage foreign investment/capital to flow into them, or want to protect their small but occasionally successful startups' IP around the globe (for example Skype, TransferWise, all started in Estonia) also has some incentive to adopt IP laws.

Of course mindlessly abiding rarely enriches a small country.
Why do you think Amazon/Google is not in the same space - with Cloudwatch, X-ray and other similar tools from Google - they are in the same space - even though the egress cost associated with Amazon/Google are low for constant data export from your server.. If I was looking from security perspective - its easier to integrate internally when you are running on any of the cloud providers
This post is relevant:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874718
This is a very cynical and broad statement that enforces the common myth that people on welfare are somehow lazy or don't want to work. Also a general disregard of people who are working and receive said benefits to make ends meet.
The UK in particular charges 5% VAT instead of the normal 20% for natural gas, heating oil, solid fuel and electricity for residential use. They claim that this isn't a subsidy but tax breaks for specific product categories sure sounds like a subsidy to me.
I already had some familiarity with Puppeteer but mostly it's just because Puppeteer's NodeJS and my project's NodeJS, they work together without extra setup steps, configuration etc.
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You're right, but it still looks like a big improvement. It means that Firefox devs can write every new functionality in Rust, no matter how small it is.
There are 1.5 billion Indians and as a society they push their children towards education strongly.
They don't make any less than other H1B hires.

I am not Indian, but I am not going to tolerate your vile, racist shit about being "overrun" and "indians bring down the standard of living wherever they move to".

I have found immigrants to the US, regardless of origin and regardless of culture of prior social status, take citizenship a hundred times more seriously than most native born Americans, because they don't take it for granted.

And that isn't the reason at all that 200k people applied to Amazon, either. H1Bs aren't the problem, they are a scapegoat.
I think people (including me) have the biggest problem with taking credit for success. There is usually a lot of luck involved, factors larger than yourself, and support from other people. Many talented and deserving people, whose abilities and potential may very well exceed our own, don't see success. So when you do find it, stay humble.
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> 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.

rst may be less popular than md but there's no shortage of local preview options, including plugins/extensions for popular editors.
This is what I do. Bought a Samsung, never connected it to the network, and just use HDMIs. I've never had an issue with it
Does anyone know what power supply they are using? I am having trouble finding a good, rack-able USB power supply for my cluster of raspberryPis.

If anyone at the conference can sneak a peak at the PSU brand / model number, that would be great!
I agree with this sentiment. Being on here for 6 years now, the overwhelming perspective is love to hate along with the mob rules. Go against the mob and you will be downvoted to oblivion. Ridiculing someone that cannot depend themselves is just a new low in moral character amongst HN users.
The original image of the person on the boat at dusk is 1000 x 667 pixels, so I'm pretty sure they cropped that. It's also being displayed at 1500 pixels wide, so it's being enlarged from the original. It's a Squarespace site, and I wouldn't mind betting that either Squarespace or the author did some compression on the photo before they uploaded it so the page wasn't slow to load too. I'm not sure there's much you can tell from the quality of that image.
Whenever I see valuations like this from corporate VCs, I always wonder if they're trying to protect against someone else buying the company.
Very few DSLR bodies have GPS capability built in. This is kind of stupid because integrating a modern GNSS receiver would have only a trivial impact on size, weight, cost, and battery life. The odd thing is that GPS is somewhat common on much cheaper compact cameras.

Some of DSLR manufacturers do offer fragile, awkward GPS accessories that you can plug in externally. And they generally provide some sort of geo-tagging feature in the software included with cameras.

GPS does have some limitations for photography because it takes a while to lock on and doesn't work indoors. Modern smartphones can achieve much better location accuracy due to using multiple means. So the ideal solution would probably be for the camera to obtain location data from the phone via Bluetooth.
It distorts the market by incentivising corn farming. Want to know why so many US farmers grow corn, lobby for bio ethanol fuel laws, and why an ungodly amount of US food is based on corn and corn byproducts (e.g. high fructose corn syrup)? Corn subsidies.
It's either because "I don't know what should I do with it", "It's not honest enough to me", or "Slow and scarce feedback loop"

Programming languages I think was easiest to learn
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Javascript: I was making a game in HTML5/Canvas with it.

TypeScript: It saves me from ruin working on a huge project. Being statically typed, friendly error message in the compiler, and versatile enough to do a lot of FP in it makes me feel that it is "honest" to me.

Rust: The approach to memory safety is cool. While learning it, I was thinking that it would save me a whole lot, like TS saved me from doing stupid think like I would using JS. Also it can compile to wasm and has a nice interoperability with C.

Hardest to learn
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Prolog: I didn't know what it was for.

Visual Basic: I didn't know where it is ran, when it is ran. I was uskng visual studio. It was painful that I didn't know how the app was architectured. It feels that it hide something from me.

Python: I was going to learn DL with it until I realize my OS is not linux and my machine is not strong enough for DL. Also, Python interpreter feels so slow to me. Slow feedback loop killed my enthusiasm. Though I don't like working with the language, I respect the language design of Python.

PHP: Used it for a lot of profitable projects, but I never felt comfortable with it. PHP, to me, is a template-engine, not a proper programming language.
Thanks for the kind words! I would honestly be curious to see a low light comparison with (older or newer) DSLRs. You might be right that the comparisons on this blog post exaggerate the performance because the XS is just terrible, but the process described in the post where a series of images are merged together in post processing and you can make long-exposure hand-held shots is just not something that's going to work in DSLRs easily. I can imagine that there are situations where this would make certain shots feasible that would have motion blur on a DSLR. Then again, I've imagined wrong before.
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If we have to pay it eventually, then it's not "a discount".
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I think almost anyone reading it will feel that it's drenched in corp-o-speak, and will simply ignore most of these paragraphs.
Finally :) I have a degree in electrical engineering and a degree in immunology (in the early 90s) and was 100% sure that control systems math should be applied to biological systems, like the immune system.

Most biologists tend to take very little math (calculus and stats) and dont even realize that control systems are a thing.

We definitely need more of that cross pollination.
Hey guys, I have the same thing, but I called the command ".." (no it doesn't conflict with the directory). ".." by itself is the same as ".. 3"

.. () {
local arg=${1:-1};
while [ $arg -gt 0 ]; do
builtin cd .. &> /dev/null;
arg=$(($arg - 1));
done;
}
"The fall of the clueless nerd" indeed. The headline in the wired story linked triggers the hell out of me. I suppose we have come full circle, Nerds suck, then they were cool and now they have been consigned back to uncool again.
For the life of me, based on the snippets i've seen regarding his interactions with women, the only advice I can give him and ppl like him if they could have a do-over is stay away from women period. Which causes other problems but I will gladly have those problems than have an icon of an industry/space that I love be exiled in such an ignominious fashion.
I've been trying to a few functional languages recently and it's always a few things:

1. Not knowing if the code I'm writing is functional enough. When I tried learning F# / OCaml some things were easy to learn to do away with, namely mutable variables and the use of conditionals. However I would look at code I wrote vs what other people had and it still looked very differ, like it still has too much procedural ideas in it. Unfortunately, that's not the king of thing I can just ask about on SO

2. Terse syntax that I'm too dumb to process. THis happened when I tried to learn Erlang, I was really enjoying it, and was going through the book Joe Armstrong himself wrote. I got to list comprehension and I kinda just fell apart. It made sense at first, but then the book jumped to some common algo implementations using it and just the use of extremely terse comprehension syntax on multiple lists has my trying too hard to focus and read what what going on. Took a break after that and never got back into it.

Additionally, not related necessarily to functional languages, is that I'm lazy and I just can't program without having a (real) goal or problem that needs solved. I wanted to learn C, in order to work on a large codebase which I found bug, but couldn't bring myself to spend the time learning that language first. Similarly, I had what I thought was a good idea for a web application and wanting to expand my skill set to Elixir / Phoenix, but in the end I was too lazy to go through actually learning a language and a web framework before I could ge to work.
The corn monoculture in the United States is so pervasive, we hardly notice it—especially for someone like me that's lived under the regime my entire life (I'm in my mid-30s). It's caused us to use corn in places where other materials may be more optimal—for the environment, our health, and even economically—if it weren't for subsidies.

I know someone who has a severe corn allergy (or reaction of some sort). He has to be careful even purchasing "fresh" non-corn vegetables at the supermarket, as they are often coated with a corn-based preservative.
It distorts the market so you get things like high fructose corn syrup drinks instead of sugar -- which, BTW, has high tariffs to protect domestic growers -- while consumers would probably prefer sugar drinks if they had a real choice.
I don't think it is anti-tech, so much as anti big money.
Tech isn't as sexy when you realize how it is funded. Tech use to be about people working in their garages and striking rich on hard work, perseverance.
If the business has to pay tax to the government it isn't really a subsidy, which I think it usually the case with oil and gas. The UK govt seems to have received £1.2 bn from the oil and gas businesses in 2018/19. (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...)
Because too much is grown, at meh quality, and so we end up with byproducts like HFCS (instead of cane sugar) or cheap animal feed because farmers aren't responding to market demand.
I got the implication of "do your duty without expectation of reward", and implications of cause/effect from rohan1024's off-the-cuff translation already.

But maybe I didn't get the implication of "job that rigid-caste-based society set out for you". Which of course probably seems less sensible/ethical to many of us modern people.

One of the things that has made the religious texts that have been treasured for thousands of years succesful is how they have such expanding/multitudinous possibilities of interpretation and directions of symbolism. And they usually have been understood differently by different people at different times (as a historical fact, even if the fundamentalists want to argue otherwise).

I find that a very interesting and thought-provoking passage, that has resonances with things in other religious/spiritual traditions (unsurprisingly especially some kinds of Buddhism), but I have no interest in the "your duty is exactly what 'society' tells you it is" part. I think we have a duty to ourselves/our neighbors/humanity/god/the divine, and expecting something in return will corrupt it (and possibly ruin the outcome), but it might not be quite what 'society' is telling you it is.
Yeah, exactly this. I mostly take photos of my kids using Portrait mode on the iPhone. People often comment on how good the photos look, and I’ve done nothing special beyond switch to Portrait mode.