skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's that impressive to buy a 1100$ phone (which for the most part does nothing more than a 100$ one...) and then justify the price/novelty with the "new" camera, when you can get a much better camera (which will not be obsolescent for a quite long time) for 400$.

And actually I'm also not really impressed by image-improvement algorithms anymore, the likes of them have been pretty standard for some time now across vendors (it's not 2010 any more), yet picture quality isn't anywhere above snapshot-level.
> Then your stalkers and thieves might be arrested for loitering and breaking and entering there, instead of at your own home.

So I have 0 experience as a stalker - but won't they put that data into Google maps, see it's a police station, and probably assume that isn't your home?

You'd have to be really brave and stupid to loiter and break and enter a station thinking it was somebody's home.
It looks like, in England and Wales at least, there are a few sections that are yet to be repealed:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9

Sections I, IX, XXIX as well as some front- and end-matter seem to remain in force.

Of course while the Magna Carta is most famously associated with England, it forms part of the law of many former colonies, for example here:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/vic/conso...

shows section XXIX remains law in Victoria, Australia - I imagine the case is similar in various other places.
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Farming is very fossil fuel intensive.
People have always questioned the usefulness of smaller sensor cameras (Ie M43) with the improvement in cellphone cameras, but it looks like I'll still carry my Olympus EM5.2 when I travel.

The iPhone 11 gets great social media photos, but I wouldn't want to get any of those printed (at least not larger than 4x6). Of course the best camera is the one you have with you so I am still happy to see the improvements over my Xr and my wife's 8+.
Having read several bio's of Disney, I'd say he wasn't.

The worst factual criticism that can be pointed at Disney was he was overly sentimental for a past that never was. He painted American history in such a way to present a "smooth façade of sentimentality and stubborn optimism".

He was very much a man of his time, he wasn't known to use racial epithets - but was racially insensitive like most men of his era - he had several jews in his inner circle, and none of his employees (even the ones who didn't like him) would say he was anti-Semitic - but he allied himself with anti-communist groups that had a strong anti-Semitic bend to them.

I would argue on whole, he left the world a better place than he found it however, the technical improvements he and his company introduced to the world of animation left a huge and lasting impact felt the world over.
>physics are preventing the outstretched hand from ever being completed

I believe the arm is designed to be supported by the horse's head, while appearing to be free.

>sculptor was completely unqualified to sculpt a mountain

Fair enough.

I wouldn't say it will never be completed, but perhaps the main thing separating this from, say, Mount Rushmore is the subject matter. That one choice means all the difference in the money and resources devoted to finishing the project. If you want to honor presidents, there is an order of magnitude more money and resources that may become available.
As a software engineer, I laugh bitterly every time a lawyer tells me that they are being rigorous in their interpretation of a law. Even when all the lawyers agree on interpretation, their notion of "rigor" bears no resemblance to the way a computer applies the term. A test engineer would have zero problem fuzz-testing a law into nonexistence.
Matt has been a special founder. He has integrity and a his compass is aligned with a strong vision for product and the open internet.

The battle for an open internet is multigenerational
Here a quote from the article
“The problem we’re tying to solve is likely multigenerational. It can take the rest of our lives and we need to pass it on to the generation that comes after to continue to work on it. Hopefully for the rest of humanity because I can’t imagine a time when humanity cannot benefit from an open, free, connected web,” Mullenweg told me
Bitcoin Cash is "Bitcoin" now, The Bitcoin Core GitHub Repo was hijacked by Adam Back's company Blockstream and now pushes their alt-coin Liquid-Bitcoin by purposely reducing the number of viable use cases of Bitcoin Core.
It's better to produce too much food and keep it cheap than to risk a shortage and have people starve.
I've done a little bit of Native iOS, the main thing I found annoying was having to build UI's using a drag/drop editor.

On web you have HTML, on Android you can ignore the UI builder and write XML, on WPF/Xamarin Forms you have XAML, but on iOS you have to either use the drag/drop editor or build your UI in Swift/Objective C. Both feel messy.

You can edit the XML generated manually of course, but it's clearly not supported, and isn't as intuitive as other UI frameworks (as far as I can tell).

Maybe I just need to spend more time with iOS, I only spent a couple of months working on that app, and didn't do a lot of UI work but that was my initial takeaway.
I'm a senior software engineer and my experience is much different for contrast. I get a response from almost every place I apply.
Normally the rules are pretty good but there are some cracks.

Google Jaffa Cakes and VAT...

TLDR cake is a basic food whilst chocolate biscuits (cookies to Americans) are luxuries.
As with any mass manufacturing technology, we climbed S-shaped learning curves. There is a substantial literature; search for "learning {curve|rate} {wind power|solar pv|renewable energy}"[1]. A simple explanation to the concept [2]. For solar, it's mostly silicon manufacturing techniques, a sort of distant cousin of the techniques used to manufacture your laptop's CPU. For wind it's that but also design (you want VERY tall towers geared for maximum efficiency at somewhat below median winds IIRC) and especially construction. The techniques for getting giant blades to site are not trivial; the techniques for building off-shore turbines are embodies in some of the world's more sophisticated engineering companies.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=learning+curve+analysis...
[2] https://www.energytoday.net/economics-policy/credit-renewabl...
Which european court decision do you mean? Is it EU wide?

I know it's illegal to upload which includes sharing a torrent. But it has been legal to download movies and games. For instance from Internet Archive, which has lots of music and games.
Which is to say, it’s a subsidy that we pay with people’s health and people’s lives.
To me it feels like you are arguing that the guiding principle for whether an action is "antisocial" is whether you are free riding or imposing externalities: getting a benefit at other people's expense.

Which is a fine moral principle, and does easily distinguish between all your "antisocial" examples and my "housing choice" example (assuming correct prices).

But it doesn't seem to require the "what if everyone did it?" principle. So I'm wondering if that principle brings any additional value, or indeed if it is a real moral principle at all. Hence my question.
If you found this interesting, you may find John Taylor Gatto’s “The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher” fascinating. He is mentioned in the linked book, of course.

http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17619435

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182727
I recently got back home from a trip to Alaska. While I hauled a couple of SLR cameras, bag of lenses, and tripod, around with me, I also took a bunch of pictures with my iPhone XS. The iPhone pictures were pretty impressive, but for exactly the reason you suggest... being at some impressive-looking places at a good time.

The iPhone is certainly a decent point-and-shoot camera.
I concur. We're heavily considering taking our children out of the school system and this is our primary blocker. We're doing research on it and it does seem like there are a number of social groups specifically geared toward solving this problem in our area. It seems like it is growing much more common, though a disproportionate number of the groups are still non-secular, which makes them a bad match for us.
DHH isn't too thrilled about this.

> “We want every website, whether it’s e-commerce or anything to be powered by WordPress” is a nasty, monopolistic goal. Listening to Matt muse about 85% marketshare dreams is a real downer. But $300m is a down payment on monopoly dreams.

full thread: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1174695189090308096
It's an optional part of C11, which means that even a fully compliant compiler does not have to implement them.
And the difference between that salary and the company's revenues (the value the workers created) is the profits. Which the shares represent a right to.

Can we at least agree that - whether voluntary or not - the share literally represent the excess value taken from workers?

Cause that's what I was saying in response to the question. Those shares represent the value taken from workers.

As to it being voluntary, it's not. There's a massive power differential in the negotiations. That's what unions were meant to help solve, but unions can't really solve that power differential (they were never strong enough) and they've got their own problems of corruption and power.

The idea behind a worker cooperative based system isn't that workers take stock as payment instead of cash. They still get a cash salary. They also get ownership of company and a right to decide what happens to the profits.

There are several approaches to how you design that system. In one you do away with the concept of stock (ownership shares) altogether - it's a one person one vote system. In another you keep the concept of ownership shares and workers earn shares in proportion to their time at the company. Maybe you keep an aspect of negotiation and the shares they earn are tied to their negotiated salary.

But you no longer allow outside investors to purchase ownership of the company. Or founders to maintain a controlling share long past the point where their contributions have been matched or outweighed by the rest of the company's employees.

In this system we recognize that companies, like countries, are communities that should be run democratically by the people involved in them for the people involved in them.
Its amazing to me that the smartphone wars are now just about cameras.... and more broadly content generation.

It also amazes me that everyone's is wooed over these iPhone specs. I've had my OnePlus 7T Pro for a few months now. Most of the top-line specs match or beat the new iPhone. Nightscape on the OnePlus is also amazing - takes great low light photos.

Seems like iPhone has been chasing some of the more advanced Android-phones for a few generations now.
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>So you are essentially shocked with your own assumption.

What assumption? The assumption that you haven't done more research into psychedelics? LOL. Yep. Cool story bro.

>As for the military usage and related history - I'm not interested enough to invest more time

Yeah... so you just don't do research. Idk why you didn't just admin that in the first place.

Tbh I love your comment, I really do. The amount of ignorance you spew is a good show. Grabs popcorn
The Swiss central bank actively tries to maintain parity

Use whatever word you want to quickly convey that thought to a broad population

“Peg” also does that.
> Empirically, about 90% of the compounds that start at that first level fail to make it to the last level

That would be an incredible rate of success, depending on what 'first level' means. If you mean "reached human clinical trials", maybe, but dunno.

> It also seems that academia is not any better than pharmaceuticals at either developing the first step or pushing something to the end.

"it also seems" lacks rigour, but let that pass for now.

If academia develops 85% of the drugs that are released (I'll try to find a source for that, it's from memory) then the vast majority of failure costs (85% of them) are soaked up by the taxpayer. The few that are bought up by the drugs companies, are then sold privately. Very profitable.

"According to BBC News, in 2013 pharmaceutical companies enjoyed higher average profit margins than carmakers, oil and gas companies and media companies. Only banks had a profit margin comparable to Big Pharma, but Pfizer’s 42% profit margin blew every other company out of the water, prompting even a member of its own industry to say, “I wouldn’t be able to justify [those types of margins].”

In 2013, five pharmaceutical companies exceeded 20% profit margins: Pfizer, Hoffman-LaRoche, AbbVie, GSK and Eli Lilly."

from https://www.andruswagstaff.com/blog/big-pharma-has-higher-pr...
Personally, I hate those "fixed price forever" Internet offers. The price of Internet continues to trend down, I think of these plans as "We guarantee we will be overcharging you in 2-3 years" plans. :-)
I went to check this actually and found out that what I told was inaccurate.

I got a million impression in a week, not per day. The app was featured for about a week and got ~100k impressions per day.
Ok, it's not an ad. It's an advertorial. Happy now?

And he's just beating the strawman with his review.

- Did we need a "review" to learn that the new iPhone can shoot better pictures than previous iPhones?

- Where are all the full-resolution pictures–especially from the night shots? Everything looks nice and sharp if you scale it to 750x560. Even for the single lens camera of my 3 years-old android.

- Would it break Apple's heart to include a comparison of their "pro camera" with a real professional camera? Even a low-end one.

And let's not stick with the payment thing. We have no way to verify whether or not he received or will receive compensation from Apple. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
This censorious mentality seems most deeply rooted in the Bay Area, and Archive.org, being based in San Francisco, is in the heart of it. People in other parts of the US and other parts of the world don't think like this.

Some geographic and viewpoint diversity would help IA not fall into the trap of thinking radical views like the one you quoted are actually ideas most people support.
Someone needs to disrupt education from the current Industrial Age model to a more current Information Age model. I lean towards a self-paced video model like Khan Academy, with some personal instruction to answer questions, along with some group activities to socialize the children. Unfortunately, our government and union run education institutions resist any changes.
Man, I wish I could have quickly thought of a different example. I tried to avoid starting a housing debate with "assume for the sake of argument," but it doesn't feel like it worked!
Torrents aren't that convenient anymore. The vast majority of available data is on private trackers, and the procedures for joining said trackers are extremely byzantine, sometimes outright demeaning, and require vast quantities of time and effort. I'd argue that it's much more convenient to just pay Bezos, unless - as suggested - you're a teenager and don't have any money, or the rightsholders made it impossible for you to make the purchase (this has happened to me when trying to purchase music, of all things).
I googled the quote, and based on the context here [0], it seems like the demographic being referred to is non-male.

What's wrong with reviewing hiring processes to determine if they're excluding a demographic that contains individuals who would have done well in the role?

[0] https://cate.blog/2019/05/15/addressing-hiring-gaps-through-...

EDIT: The tl;dr for the article is that they're doing research on "how the people you didn’t hire would have done".
That is an incredibly well thought out legislation. If you ever try to conquer the comparably rotten and sad chunk of land that calls itself EU, just know you have supporters.
You got it! `test` is a shell builtin. `[` is basically syntactic sugar, and is a synonym for `test` with the additional requirement that the last argument must be a closing bracket `]`. `[[` is a shell keyword with more features.
These calculations are made up from more or less arbitrary numbers and assumptions. Let me make a similar spurious calculation, but from the other side of the fence:

Renewable subsidies in the US cost 14 billion/year, which could be spent on cancer research instead.

The average cancer drug costs 1,4 billion dollars to develop, so renewable subsidies are equivalent to 10 cancer drugs.

Let's say that there's 30,000 cases of cancer annually that each of these drugs can treat successfully. Let's take the "mortality value" of $6,1 million per US citizen straight out of the IMF report: That's 10 x 30,000 x 6.1million = 1.83 trillion dollars.

In other words, by using the same kind of spurious reasoning, fossil fuel subsidies in the US alone would account for almost two trillion dollars.
“Not practical to exploit” raises the hairs on the back of my neck. All you need is one person to make a tool and suddenly its practical for everyone.

If you had told me about Spectre as a theoretical possibility I would have thought its probably not practical. And yet there are libraries that do the dirty work for you making it easy to exploit.
Airbnb to go public next year
This article is mostly nonsense.

I've found there are various gradations of WordPress developer and the "pro" guys are a very competent and very pragmatic bunch.

- Most "pro" guys limit the number of plugins they use.

- They use ansible or similar for provisioning and deployment.

- They use sane theme frameworks like sage, timber or stem.

- They know how to do caching without using clunky caching plugins

- They try to adhere to 12-factor where possible

- They do their own devops

I mainly consider myself an iOS/Cocoa developer but I do my fair share of web development including WordPress. I even sell a pretty technical WordPress plugin (https://mediacloud.press). I don't recommend or choose WordPress because it's a great platform, but because it can be a solid pragmatic choice considering all things like time and budget and client experience.

But for the average joe, it sure provides plenty of ways to shoot yourself in the face. That said, what other options exist for them if Wix isn't enough?
>"hey fossil fuels, let's 1v1" sincerely, solar

Let's do it. Let's see how well solar does at night, or on a cloudy day, or during winters, or evenings, or early in the mornings.

The problem with solar (and wind) is not really the price. The problem is that it is intermittent power source that cannot, by itself, power a modern economy and there is no battery technology to bridge the intermittency gap. That's why it needs to be paired with natural gas (or bio-fuels, or another carbon-based energy source) to make it remotely viable. This is why natural gas companies are one of the biggest lobby groups for wind and solar.

Worse, wind and solar are atrocious for nuclear, because nuclear cannot wind-up and wind-down the way a natural gas generator can.
This is the difference between a person who has an established career already and a junior getting their first job. I take my time with job searches and pick companies I like, but getting my very first job was difficult and it wasn't a great job.
I feel fortunate in that most of the zany ideas I attached myself to in my late teens/early 20's were re: physics and mathematics. Because they could be pretty easily shown as nonsense with just a tiny bit more education and thought, like concretely, useless nonsense, for very straight forward easy to demonstrate reasons, I was able to later discard them without too much difficulty, and accept that I didn't actually have any Big Ideas about math and physics, ideas that were going to change the world.

If my Big Ideas about how the world works had been about something more difficult to prove or disprove, like sociology or psychology, I kind of think I would still believe them, because it's one thing to elaborate your maths to a logical contradiction on a couple of sheets of paper, and another to run a well-controlled experiment with thousands of subjects.
With an AMC subscription I can watch three movies per week (any movie, any theater, any seat) for $20 a month. Pretty decent deal as long as I don’t blow money on popcorns and drinks (that’s how they get you). I still definitely prefer watching movies on the big screen.
Apple doesn't give out devices (unlike a variety of other companies that do). They lend it for review or development purposes and then you return it. That's how they work. Of course that is still a gift of sorts given that it gives some people a headstart, but for some random photographer that doesn't seem to be selling anything or have ads...eh, it's kind of a not super big value.

Further he never thanked Apple. He thanked a maker of a camera app for iOS. At most it seems to be an ad for a camera app, and they likely provided the device to him.
We've declined to play and are using static html plus a headless CRM.

It's a little clunkier but I can ignore the endless CVEs wordpress generates.
Caching and "staging" problems are solved with proper "managed" hosting. Genesis is a great framework but often times I fund under-qualified web people use it only because they read a "best practices" article, and have no idea how to properly use, or more importantly maintain it. For us (who inherit these sites) it's just another dependency.
Is socialization the main thing? I think you could setup a community for other parents who homeschool.

Also, school is a terrible place to socialize.
Again, as I said before: even assuming they didn't take shortcuts (the paper you mention is essentially "we took shortcut X instead of Y" -and of course, no quantum error correction is evident): congratulations, your miracle technology is now capable of factoring the number 15. All they have to do now is add all the things that make quantum computing useful and eventually they will honestly be able to factor the number 21. Should happen ... I dunno, care to make a prediction when?

Pointing this out is apparently necessary; I don't know why it triggers people so to point out that virtually the entire field up to the present day has consisted of grandstanding quasi-frauds. And that you apparently have to understand things and read extremely carefully to notice, because whatever honest workers there may be don't see it as in their interest to point such things out as it may upset their rice bowls.

You have someone else in another thread insisting that annealing can factor giant prime numbers which is equally bullshit. Do you expect me to patiently, precisely and (somehow) dispassionately point out every line of bullshit in every quantum computing paper published? The mere fact that the field is pervasive with bullshit, publishes papers and announcements that are known to be bullshit, and promises all kinds of pixie dust bullshit on a regular basis ought to give you some slight skepticism, some Bayesian prior that the grand pronunciamentos of this clown car should be treated with a bit of skepticism.
I hate my one plus 7 pros camera. It's terrible after a Pixel 2. I'm planning on getting my wife a Pixel 4 so one of us has a good camera.
Thanks for flagging, just updated the CSS and hopefully it resolved the issue!