skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the depth camera on my iphone 11, the phone is able to dynamically add or adjust bokeh after the fact when a photo is taken in portrait mode, and get a reasonable approximation of it as well without the need to transfer to a PC for manipulation.

It's very easy to quickly see right there on site how the photo will turn out and take a few more if you're unhappy, as opposed to a DSLR where I would lug around an ipad as well just to throw the SD card in it to view at a reasonable size, and still not be sure if I can fix the photo in post.

For life, a phone is now the right camera. For professional endeavors, it might still be worth the compromise to buy the gear.
I get the feeling it has a lot to do with how much your teacher loves the language. I was introduced to Common Lisp at university, didn't get it at all. At least Prolog could do cool tricks. Took me several years of Graham yabbering about it to make the effort, and to my surprise it was all that and more. I realize now that my teacher didn't have enough experience to really understand what was great about Lisp. I have since learned Smalltalk as well, and admire many aspects of it; but with the wrong teacher it would have failed just as epically.
HN is not a social network. If you want people to contact you, post your info.
Manifest Destiny – search Android app permissions and trackers
No it isn't. A "No True Scotsman" involves retreating to a weaker version of the statement upon being challenged. This is just a weak statement.
> Being smart and being thought how to be a programmer seems to be the main prerequisite of being a good programmer.

I assume that's a typo for "taught" but maybe it's one of those Freudian slips. I'd say being at least medium-clever and being thought of as a programmer is the prerequisite for getting paid loads of money as a "good" programmer.
I'm not insinuating anything, or making any value judgements on what is "okay". I'm correcting the record. "Looting" is stealing. They did not loot.

This is HN. You don't need to project motivations on people when pedantry is sufficient.

(Your Armani analogy doesn't work however - a better analogy would be destroying property owned by, say, Halliburton.)
I'm not a Zuckerberg fanboy, but this article seems to me to just be character assassination.
"You're conflating two very different things"

I'm not confusing anything. Declaring that no other races are allowed in a specific area, is racist. It shouldn't matter if the group doing it is in the majority or minority. We are supposed to be all equal. But it sounds like once again that it has nothing to do with wanting equality, but wanting superiority and having special rules and treatment for a specific group of people. This will only further divide us.

How is it that I'm the one fighting for equality here and you're the one that seems to be against it?

"I'd rather challenge the context: why does it matter what other countries do? The US holds itself to its own standard. If the population consider that standard insufficient then it's time to act."

Reporters are even fired from there jobs every year on MLK day for accidentally saying a word that sounds racist.

That woman walking her dog the other day that was racist? She got her dog taken away and was fired from her job.

The cops that were involved in the current situation? They were fired from their jobs and are now being brought up on charges and investigated.

The US had an African American president. The highest position of power in the country and the world. Sure, some people didn't agree, but he got enough votes to put him into office.

The US really does set the standard.
Not only does your own link prove you are wrong, it’s not relevant to the discussion.
Ken Thompson was the author of "Reflections on Trusting Trust" not Dennis Ritchie.
A few bad apples, right? And it’s technologists and privacy advocates that are shielding their behavior.

I don’t think this argument really holds but I think it’s funny how quick we are to downplay our own “bad apples” and say that encryption is more important.
Hackers and hucksters reinvigorate 'Anonymous' brand amid protests
My iPhone takes great portrait mode photos of my kids to send to their grandparents and the occasional sunset, but that’s it. My mirrorless and my film cameras in particular create photos of such quality and character (especially film) that, for me, a dedicated camera is a no brainer. But they both have a place, and that’s okay!
TL&DR: re-invents the idea of off-shoring, sans discussion of attempts to do it in the past.
The process itself seems to be very similar if not exactly the same.

The problem is not that, but the way to get there, and how the information is structured and presented, especially if you start from having no idea, or if you want to build your debian/ files from a blank slate and being able to read in a centralized resource about definitions of every line you add (which I think should be possible to do, for any system in general).
Shotwell is the secret sauce. I’m glad Elon’s contribution is limited to blowing up Starships.
Great idea! :)

Which browser do you use?
That's the same for any economy of scale operation, ICE powered cars included.
Phone cameras have become so good that the market for DSLRs and high-end consumer cameras has cratered. Canon's market cap is now back down to what it was in '98-99.

Canon Inc's market cap history (in millions of $USD):

1994: $14,700

1995: $15,300

1996: $18,600

1997: $26,200

1998: $21,300

1999: $35,500

2000: $43,600

2001: $36,100

2002: $34,800

2003: $46,500

2004: $47,200

2005: $52,900

2006: $75,600

2007: $79,800

2008: $65,600

2009: $51,500

2010: $62,000

2011: $63,700

2012: $57,800

2013: $46,300

2014: $37,800

2015: $41,000

2016: $32,700

2017: $41,900

2018: $43,400

2019: $31,800

2020: $29,800
A Digital Locksmith Has Decoded Biology’s Molecular Keys
That's true, but then I'd have to manually list posts, do forward and back buttons, and when I'm writing the articles do all kinds of boiler plate. Plus, markdown is much nicer than Html to write in.

On top of that, Jekyll doesn't add any weight for the client.
Would love to have these bridges bundled with P2P matrix so I can run them all from my own computer.
This is an odd analysis, because as it highlights, salaries are strongly correlated with wealth of the country.

So the question really becomes, not why are salaries different, but "why is programming difficult to offshore".

If programming was easy to import and export then either salaries would even out or, more likely, would be relocated to cheaper countries like many kinds of manufacturing.

But software is difficult to outsource even from one department to another let alone between companies or countries.

If you can solve outsourcing, then you've solved the problem of knowing what you want from software.

But if you've done that, you've just become the software engineer.
When I was 16, I was a handyman/servant for a tech billionaire. He drove a used minivan and once got in a fight with Walmart over a $1.50 package of glitter that was slightly leaky. The amount of money was not even close to worth his time, yet he did stuff like that all the time. This is not uncommon behavior.
Do you want to keep working on it?

Is there something else you want to do?

If you're still motivated and want to do it, keep at it. I don't think timelines for success (depending on how you measure that) are fixed.

If you're not motivated / want to move on, you probably should.
Oh, yes, though there it's so fast that it usually doesn't bother me. If I've focused beforehand on a static scene I just turn AF off from the switch on the lens.
Oh we realize they are extremely expensive, unfortunately there isn't much we can do to increase telco competition with the current regulatory boards such as CRTC.
The same is true now. People can be unforgiving if you challenge or change their world views, because while interesting, you have deprived them of psychological safety and the infallibility of their senses and beliefs. Worse, you may have infected them and exposed them to your weirdo social exile. What has changed is normal world views encompass more variation as a result of things like communications tech, seeing earth from the moon and space, adapting to urbanization and globalization, but there are still edges, and some very hard boundaries.

I used to be a weirdo, now I'm more of an intellectual traveller. Definitely from somewhere, just not here.
As far as I understand, you would need to send everybody who might have been in contact with someone who's positive into quarantine, right away. You can also test them, but you need to quarantine them immediately, as the virus is transmitted before symptoms show.

If you just send everybody who was in contact with a positively tested person into testing (they give samples, send them in, get tested, get the results back), but they keep going about their normal lives, they will statistically infect more people before the tests come back.

So the false positive rate is quite important, as it potentially means sending thousands of people into home-quarantine.
I think it depends what you mean by weirdo.

It's much easier to have odd interests nowadays and wierd hobbies because you can counter it by dressing well, good personal grooming and being in shape.

People are very accomodating of peculiar people nowadays as long as your are aesthetically pleasing to look at.

I don't know if that's forward progress or it's just shifted sideways.
I meant that what is considered weird has shifted. What was weird before is easily accepted today. Some stuff that was accepted earlier has become a no-go.
Zuckerberg also believes Facebook has privacy as a foundation.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-foc...
Weirdness, in the context of the original article, is something that leads to ostracism. Something considered cool does not lead to ostracism. It can be _different_ and cool, but it cannot, by definition, be weird in the sense the blog post describes. If beards or interracial marriage had simply been considered different but cool, the characters described wouldn't have had to invent coping strategies.
The amount of crazy things people did in win3.x was pretty amazing. MS kind of did it to themselves. Want to know what an HWIN looks like? Right there in the header. No functions to access those items. Now you can not change that struct without breaking hundreds of programs. I remember the other devs grumbling that the win9x headers did not have the system structs in there. What was just an update into an a pointer deref became 'which method do I need to change this feature now...' game. That MS pulled that compat job off and did not absolutely obliterate everything I have to admire.
Compared to the cost of bodies and glass, I'd say it's not so bad.
Wow, that 5th one is scarily similar to the Reginald Denny incident. I hope the rioters didn't actually kill him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Reginald_Denny
I saw "Old New Thing" and immediately wondered if this was Chen. Seen his blogs on HN before, didn't know there was a book!!
What is the leather jacket of today's teenagers? I thought about it for a moment, but nothing comes to my mind.
> the Smalltalk value proposition was: Pay a lot of money to be locked in to slow software that exposes your IP, looks weird on screen and cannot interact well with anything else; it is much easier to maintain and develop though!

Sounds like another framework we’ve got today, except now at least it’s free.
Just a random example: I personally consider obsession with anime weird, but kind of cool at the same time. Are you sure that you cannot name anything you would consider both weird and cool?
You will always be able to communicate with someone else in an encrypted manner, if you both want to do so, and no legislation that forces popular platforms to go unencrypted can change that. So, no illegal activity will be harmed.
I've also got the impression that even just slightly older hardware might be easier to get working than the very latest generation. This may be even more true for distros that don't ship new kernels in a rolling release style. (Fedora continuously updates to new minor/patch versions of the kernel as they're released; I'm not sure what Ubuntu does nowadays but I think they used to only patch the kernel version that was shipped at the time of the release.)

I think the idea of $random_component_vendor maintaining an up-to-date Linux driver themselves may be unrealistic, and laptop vendors probably won't be doing that for all of their components either. At least on Linux that tends to involve being a competent kernel developer, too, at least if you want to be the maintainer of the driver in kernel upstream.

If the OEMs that are interested in Linux support collaborated with distros and/or kernel/driver developers before the new hardware hits the shelves, even if they didn't plan on writing and supporting the drivers themselves, that might work. Otherwise there's always catching up to do, as you said.

For years now, I've also had nothing that didn't work on my now fairly old X240. Everything's pretty dandy. At some point the clickpad didn't work after resuming from suspend, though, and that was a major issue that really shouldn't happen on a laptop series that's supposed to have great Linux support.

Other than that (and the fingerprint reader initially not working even though it was supposed to be supported, but that wasn't a big deal), there's really been nothing that didn't work.
Twitter’s Head of Site Integrity Targeted by Inauthentic Coordinated Behavior
There's also a category called pocket cameras these days.
It's because this place is full of cuckolds.
Then find yourself shocked when the far end's torrent client ignores the private setting?
Cue looks very cool! We hadn't heard of it when implementing custom checks, but looks like it would have been a contender
They can't close their border to Danish nationals, but they can quarantine people for 14 days upon return. If they were completely serious about stopping this they would have done that. Nobody is going to go on a short tourism trip knowing they will be quarantined upon return home.
Don't most people use Google Maps to find nearby restaurants? Does Google Maps ever give the wrong phone number to order from?

I know using the phone is kinda 1900s but sometimes I like to ask about a certain dish I'm trying and stuff. Sometimes the person talking to me is a bit gruff but I tell myself it's OK because at least I'm not giving any money to the delivery companies.

I hope it goes without saying that I always pick up. Any excuse to get out of the house, especially on a work day!
Seems like it would be awesome if HTML allowed you to set a default element

<meta default-element="div">

and then use

<.card>

as a shorthand for

<div class="card">

You could be "classless" to the extent of being semantic and succinct but without having to misappropriate elements.
As the article points out, a cell phone camera will take good to great pictures in a lot of conditions: landscapes, snapshots of people, not too dark conditions, and most anywhere you don't need a specialized lens.

If you get outside that range of conditions, things fall off fast. The dandelion picture at the top of the article is probably getting close to the limits of what you can ask a cell phone camera to do, but the author is a pro, and knows where the limits are and makes good use of the equipment.

For an example of how bad things get when you get past the limits, here are two photos of the same moth (or muppet, we're not sure):

Taken with an iPhone X, which was released 2.5 years ago:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CA1UNSahipd/ (swipe to the second picture; that's me mugging in the first one)

Taken with a Sony a7ii with a Pentax SMC Macro Takumar f/4 50mm. By digital standards the body is ancient (released almost 6 years ago), but it's full frame and the price fit my budget. The lens is, well, very old:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CA2iXoej3Vx/

The light is not challenging; this is purely illustrative of what the glass and/or sensor can or can't do.

In fairness to the argument that the best camera is the one you have with you, my partner pulled out her phone and got the picture. I had to run back into the house for the camera. If the moth had flown away, she'd have had a picture, and I wouldn't have.

We bought the camera principally to shoot finished furniture on a tripod under continuous light. It's mostly long exposures at low sensitivity (for reduced sensor noise) in that use. We use the aperture to control depth of field in that use. This is another case where a phone just doesn't give as much control as we want. We aren't brilliant photographers (yet), but with some time spent, we've been getting good enough photos that I'm not looking to hire this part of my business out yet.
Why are the first four bytes of the Java class file format CAFEBABE
Sure, we can ignore that the Zoom CEO mentioned anything at all about law enforcement and focus solely on the financial aspect. If we do that, then why have a free segment at all? Go ahead and make it completely for pay.
They claim their batteries are very good so they might end up licensing them to battery manufacturers.
Yes. It's important that the press be able to fully, accurately, and safely report on big events in a country. If they can't, that's a press freedom problem, regardless of whose fault it is that they're not safe.
It's too late. America IS a police state.

Haven't you seen the videos of police arresting, sitting, beating and otherwise mistreating the media?

It's a done deal. Our only hope is to vote trump or and hope he goes.
Do you have a source. My sources show that Norway and Denmark still have active cases and have not eradicated the virus.
Its not stripping them of service though is it? Its providing them with the zoom service, but its specifically removing encryption to expose the conversations of non paying people to the police. This is not about them saving money its about them intentionally choosing to hand up non paying customer chats to law enforcement.

Also from a customer satisfaction / PR perspective I am hard pressed to think of a worse time for a company to announce this.
One reference: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/31/privacy-campai...
Mastodon?
https://rmpr.github.io/Migrating-from-Twitter-to-Mastodon/
Ive had my pinebook pro for a week or so. It does everything I want it to do in terms of function(youtube HD, word processing, chess) I have 2 pain points at the moment.

Touchpad is kind of trash. You'll move your finger across and it'll take time to respond. I have seen there are touchpad upgrades but only for 2019 units which mine isnt.

The other is that suspend doesnt work. If I suspend; it appears to go asleep but it'll burn >5% battery an hour.

I booted up kali live and tested it, similar problems.
“ Doctors in the US and UK are very expensive, that's not because nobody has noticed there are equally skilled doctors in other countries that charge 1/5th the price (or even algorithms that can do most of it for pennies). It's because practicing medicine in those countries requires to go through a regulatory gauntlet that would make Kafka feel like an unimaginative fraud.”

Ouch. Yeah some US/UK doctors are overpaid but the liability is not addressed. Also not sure what algorithms they are referring to. I don’t know any even in radiology/pathology that can rival a physician.

From my friends who work with outsourced programmers, this is also an issue in the coding world right? Who’s held responsible if something is not working or delivered?
> You can write tests at anytime

Actually, every single Java enterprise application I've worked on for the past 20 years has been test-resistant: the developers declare everything "public static" so none of the application can be run without running all of the rest of it (since each class imports another that transitively imports everything else, all with static initializers that read configuration files and connect to live database instances). Every refactor/rewrite I've ever suggested has been specifically to allow tests to be written.
Ah, those trouble making Stoic Philosophers (I capitalize this because my wife and I are ardent followers - a sane and practical philosophy for a crazy world).
The cops are definitely not learning from this not to abuse black people. They are instead learning how to cut off lines of movement and communication, how to kettle and gas people, and they are learning that in a crisis, nobody will stop them from doing it.
Maybe because the first calculator I had was RPN I learned postfix notation, but I have a really hard time with Lisps and their prefix notation. Lord knows I've tried.
Agree. When I first got my first DSLR and prime, all I did was shoot wide open on aperture priority.

When I look back at my photos, I cringe.

These days I generally prefer more depth of field as opposed to less. Unless I have to, I prefer to shoot stopped down a little, at around f2.8 or f4. I also use flash (preferably off camera) when I can.

Probably an unpopular preference, but I also prefer to use smaller sensors, like 1" and 4/3. I can shoot wide open but get more DOF, and my cameras+lens combinations are much more portable.
"Scotsman" is absolute. One either is, or is not, a Scotsman, and either always was and forever will be, or never was and never will be. (I know this isn't true with regard to modern Scottish citizenship, but in the context of the saying "Scotsmanness" is an immutable characteristic).

Weirdness isn't like this. What was once weird now isn't, though we can't be sure it will stay that way. Conversely, what was once normal is now weird, though this might change too. This process will continue.

GP is saying that if something is widely accepted then it can't really be described as weird in the present moment. This fits the examples given in the thread, of how it _used to be_ weird to have certain characteristics, and now it isn't.

This might mean that we haven't actually become more tolerant of weirdness per se, we've just changed the definition of what counts as weird, and are just as judgemental towards 2020-era weirdness as the previous generations were toward 1990-weirdness or 1960-weirdness.
I bought a Fuji x100s back in 2013. I rarely use it any more as cell phone cameras have gotten so good. However, when one of the x100s photos comes on the slideshow on our living room TV, I'm blown away at how good it looks.

Having had children during that time, I'm undecided whether it's better that my oldest has a handful of superb baby photos or that my youngest has a ton of decent baby photos.
That's not the way you consider manufacturing and accounting. You consider gross margins. You don't disregard the initial capital, you consider depreciation.
Good point. I just checked our company's web analytics and IE makes up about 2% of web traffic. So it's not dead yet, but I guess you can make a case for not supporting it.
US Park Police denies using tear gas on peaceful protesters
Exactly - it's not about the money, it's about being taken advantage of.
They have to sell enough to cover the advance before they get royalties. Most authors never get there. "Piracy" is not the reason.
Turns out, the hard part of software is figuring out what to build.

The rest is cheap in comparison, whether done in SF or Bangalore.
^ this :D
Hackers steal secrets from US nuclear missile contractor
I found it quite difficult to outsource Engineering work to Engineers in another country.

It might be a cultural thing, but issues I've ran into- Slow/low prioritization, no movement unless you follow up often, lack of experience.

Don't get me wrong, I can be lazy too. But when things are outsourced it's really hard to keep positive relations and get stuff done on time with high quality.
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