skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're not a pro, there's no reason why you still can't switch. Size does matter in terms of whether you bring your gear with you or leave them at home.

Panasonic is still making cameras. All of the M43 cameras since around 2014 produce images that are good enough for most people.

The lens ecosystem is pretty complete.

The size advantage is still there, and if you get a recent model, there's no reason to think that there's anything that will stop any of the cameras from working long term outside of battery availability or camera failure. And in that regard, Olympus (more so than Panasonic) has been using the same batteries for most of their cameras since the beginning of the PEN line.
A very small part of the Symbian OS consisted of a useful feature that is now similarly implemented in iOS and Android.

That hardly deserves the extremely click-baity headline of "Symbian Won"

"Symbian Won on User Permissions" would be reasonable, and probably get less attention.
Your recent comments have been breaking the site guidelines past the point of vandalism. I'm taking that as an indication that you don't want to use HN as intended, so have banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
What Olympus brought was in-body image stabilisation. Panasonics never had it (maybe they do now? I haven't been paying attention lately) and it makes all the difference if your thing is photography with just any lens that will fit.
Singapore Is Failing at Digital Sovereignty
> I know I am in the minority, but I like the feature of Google letting me know when I've been somewhere in the past or if I have been to a site. I understand the trade offs in terms or my privacy (...)

There is no trade off because you can have both! It's just that Google doesn't offer this.
The point of Lego is not the zero glue, the point is that all components share a common interface.

>>What often happens with software development is that despite all the abstractions that get built while building one piece of software, it often turns out those abstractions can't be just pulled out and reused in another context because often those abstractions are too leaky.

My question is whether a non-leaky abstraction is even valuable.

Look at a real world example of non-trivial component reuse: a vehicle engine.

It has a single purpose: convert chemical energy to kinetic energy, and they're really expensive to develop.

But you can't just drop a v6 into a Tesla.
Problem is superscalar processors the correspondence between number of instructions and speed breaks down. Partly because the processor does it's own optimization on the fly and can do multiple things in parallel.

A programmer should be careful about second guessing the compiler. And a compiler should be careful about second guessing the processor.
Every year I try to read 100 books, and up to a dozen in tandem. I've succeeded the past few years, but this year I'm a bit doubtful as I've taken on "Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste", a 720 page behemoth.

My unsolicited advice for how to read 100 books a year, while still working full-time and fulfilling other important life-roles? Don't watch YouTube/TV/movies and minimize time spent reading articles. Have Alexa read kindle e-books to you when you're on the go. And if you aren't enjoying a book, drop it and find something you can tear through.

In case you're interested, here's my currently-reading list on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2589152-jason-comely?s...

Back to reading books!
Nobody really uses Bittorrent to undermine the police state. They don't care about your dealings with the media industry as much.

And hey, why didn't you say "but that never happened to encryption"? Because it's about to happen in the US? Because it happened in Australia already?

You think a government that is seriously considering such bills will "gradually stop caring" about assaulting constitutional protections by banning effective encryption? If you haven't noticed, we're moving in the opposite direction, and not very gradually I might add.
The UI performance feels snappy to me, and opening up threads or going to commonly used pages feels about as fast as Gmail. From watching the performance w/ network tab open things happen in around 300 - 500 ms, which is inline w/ Gmail as well.

_Opening_ app.hey.com is a different story, and is far faster than opening a tab to gmail. I often wait for Gmail while staring at a blank tab as it loads, even one a fast broadband connection. Using Gmail over spotty broadbad, say while traveling, often leads to dropping down into "simple HTML mode".

Hey loads up very, very quickly, which isn't surprising given how small the bundle of html/js/css you are pulling down is.
What is machine learning then?
The article basically debunks itself with the correction at the end, but tries to hang on by claiming "Look! It has seeds!"

However, I don't see one mention of "artistic license" as a plausible explanation of why it may have seeds, or why it may be depicted as being more ripe.
I used to prefer focals in the 40-60 normal range (ff equiv), but the 45/1.8 was the first lens I bought after making the switch to M43, and it's still my favorite lens to this day.
I know some Canon video people, and they definitely have a reason to do that at the "big" end (C100 and up): the Canon autofocus stuff is the real deal. But I don't shoot dynamic environments for video--I run video game events and mostly shoot static angles (players, commentary, the venue, etc.). In my realm--not film, but video--what I see on the high end are Sony A7's and Blackmagic Pocket Cinemas (the 4K is M43, the 6K is EF-mount), with a lot of LUMIXes and a few (very few) Canon mirrorlesses. Some people use Fujis they already own for photo stuff. Nikon does not exist.

The G9 and GH5 both have full-size HDMI (the GH4 does with the bottom adapter we all call "the Brick") and lemme tell you: it is a life-changer. Having to balance micro-HDMI (G7, GH4) and mini-HDMI (GH3) cables were bad enough and I look forward to adding more G9's to the kit so I can stop doing it entirely.

Video is a real rabbit hole, though, and not having to spend wild money on video cameras for completely acceptable quality has really helped me out. The way I typically run is that I go from the camera to a Blackmagic HDMI->SDI micro converter, but those top out at 1080p60--which is fine, currently, for stream-first stuff, but I'd like to move to "stream at 1080p, record for YouTube at 4K" as I turn my event production stuff into a real business--so I've added a Blackmagic Quad HDMI capture card that all of these cameras can just throw 4K60 at natively. Of course, SDI cables can run 100 feet and HDMI starts getting mad around 15, so there are baluns in my future, too...it's all weird.
Yeah, they’re partially that, but the immigration process runs off degrees more than interviews.
For medical specialties there are tests by licensing boards and mandatory retraining.
High density urban areas are well served by existing infrastructure. Suburbs and rural areas on the other hand will basically close the gap entirely, and hundred billion dollar money black hole will be gone forever. Unfortunately that will happen after this $100B is already wasted. For perspective, that's about $312 per each man, woman and child in the United States. We should be really pissed about this.
eGPUs were always iffy but Optimus does work on some laptops that already have an nVidia/Intel hybrid setup. At least on Windows.

You need a Thunderbolt/PCI-E enclosure and an nVidia card, then you can basically replace the internal dedicated card with your eGPU and it works in hybrid mode as normal.

It's only DIY stuff, but it's using nVidia's own Optimus drivers, so it's probably stable.

Sadly, System76's implementation doesn't work with Windows (likely due to them using Coreboot) but it does work with Linux. I actually find that impressive, must've taken a lot of work to make it... work.
My head nearly exploded trying to position the globe in the rotation I wanted :-) Neat though, thanks for sharing!
Same for Romania - good climate, access to the Carpathians and the Black Sea. However, I find my people to be pretty pessimistic altough I now believe we actually have it a bit better than we think.
x86 is already relatively open, there's more than four companies developing x86 chips, though for now they are mostly focused on very low power outside of Intel and AMD.

There is no indication that I'll ever be able to buy an ARM CPU and plug it into motherboard with the feature set I choose and plug into it peripherals that follow a standard and open interface with good performance. The only companies that make ARM CPUs that could at all be useful in such an open platform don't make CPUs fast enough. I don't think Apple or Amazon will ever sell me a socketable CPU with high speed PCI support and XMP memory support.
Ask HN: Anyone built a tiny house by yourself? How was it like?
Are jobs in the cities anymore? Jobs downtown in an expensive office building for information workers to basically do the same work they're doing at home right now seems like an artificial and outdated constraint.

Why are we propping up concentrated urban cores with their congestion, pollution, expense/inflation?
Shocker! I have owned two of their micro 4/3 digital cameras and loved them. Great rangefinder style in the $600 range with quality lenses in the box. I remember the first time I took the camera out with the telephoto lens and being shocked by the quality of the photos. Learned then that quality of camera + lens really makes a difference in nice looking photos.

Edit - replaced 'DSLR' with digital
You're not seeing such projects because you're not looking and going to choose Express again because that's what you've been using. Consider that there might be better tools for a particular job.
I don't really see how this is any different than books. Anyone can pick a book up and read it for free at the library, and intellectual property laws guide most entities to either lawfully borrow, rent or purchase a copy, and not bootleg it.
Moving from New Zealand to UCSF to work in a lab is relatively exemplary...
Ask HN: What robotics company would you start?
How Remote Work Is Putting Your Company at Risk
Since COVID-19 forced many teams to start working remotely earlier this year, companies have had to seriously reconsider their attitudes towards remote work. Just recently, 74% of CFOs said that they planned to shift some of their employees to remote work permanently.

While you’ve probably heard a lot about the benefits of this switch, like increased productivity, less geographical boundaries, time saving, and environmental impact, if done incorrectly remote work can be catastrophic from a cybersecurity perspective.

Even before remote work, IBM's CEO proclaimed cybercrime the “greatest threat to every company in the world,” projected to cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021. The average cost to a business in the US after a data breach in 2019 was $8.19 million according to the Ponemon Institute, with healthcare breaches being the most expensive. These costs are much more than the direct financial loss from the breach; you have to take into account all the associated losses such as lost customers, legal fees and cleanup costs as well. And since the pandemic, the risks have only increased, with the FBI reporting that online crimes have quadrupled, and the UN warning of a 600% increase in malicious emails. It’s no surprise that over 76% of CEOs claim they are consistently losing sleep over the fear of becoming the next headline-grabbing security breach.

Remote work poses some significant risks to companies, and people aren’t talking about them. Let’s go through five common areas of vulnerability for your business and how to address them.
That makes a lot of sense now that I think about it. The G7 and later have Panasonic's newest lens stabilization stuff with compatible lenses but you don't see IBIS until you go up to the S1 full-frame, which costs as much as everybody else's full-frame and the lens selection isn't great so you might as well go buy a Sony A7-of-some-flavor.

I run and gun with the G7 for photos, as it is my lightest camera by far, and I've been pretty pleased with its fast focus and in-hand shooting, but I could see how it could improve.
I don't understand your point. Native Linux isn't restricted to x86_64.

EDIT: Your new link doesn't tell a different story. From the comments:

> It is still possible to disable secure boot using csrutil. Apple has never officially supported booting Linux on a Mac.

> https://twitter.com/never_released/status/127585087215369011...
Surprisingly the author writes about the prototype of the app and the wireframes but does not mention the tech behind the actual video conferencing solution. Are they using an existing open source solution and packaging it into a website.
Hello,

OpenGL is deprecated but still supported on Apple Silicon, even for arm64 apps.
That "with us or against us" status quo stance is sophistry not logic. At very best it may be strategy.

One example that is should be especially obvious in the era of a pandemic that some tasks are effectively neutral because everybody needs it to not die. Food production, limiting the spread of disease and treating it, etc. Even those "against the status quo" don't usually support everyone dying of starvation. Putting aside that said binary is useless as a descriptor. Where Q = the status quo !Q includes all of "pay workers more","steal the businesses and give a share of the profits to the workers instead of a paycheck" ,"enslave the workers" , and "kill literally everyone" as against the status quo. I guarantee that those related !Q are not one big happy family.
Android OEMs are breaking apps while Google turns a blind eye
> Why don't we see how valuable aging and death are?

Because they're horrific tragedies that we should be fighting tooth and nail until they're extinguished and nobody ever has to deal with them again. They should be consigned to the history books.

> Aging is a process of coming to terms with death.

Aging is a biological problem that we continue to debug. And nothing should make us "come to terms" with being obliterated. If someone is attacking you, you don't "come to terms" with your impending injury or death, you fight back.

When a problem has thus far been a seemingly immutable property of life, it can be difficult to envision a world where that property has been overcome. It can be difficult to even see it as a problem. And it's understandable that people's first instinct is to somehow justify the status quo, that there must be a good reason that 150,000 people die every day. One step towards solving the problem is to reset that expectation, to get people to recognize the problem as a problem rather than a "fact". In the meantime, progress will continue to be made by people who see it as a problem, but far too slowly without more widespread support. Every day longer it takes is 150,000 people lost.
It feels like people don't realize how broke the US is right now. We're going to be in a recession, we're going to have massive unemployment bills, we already spent a ridiculous amount of money this year...

Tax revenue is going to be way down.

We can't afford these things; if the internet is too slow, you can either pay more for it or you can move somewhere where it is better.
“One thing he (her father) told me was ‘action comes before motivation’ - that’s always been an incredibly powerful thing in my life.“

Good advice!
What do you consider "bullshit", and what makes you the authority on making such claims?

I ask in good faith, not to mock you or anything - mostly because I've heard a wide range of similar claims.

(I do think that the educational style of many public schools is horrendous though, as it follows the old factory-line model, where you try to fit all kids into some mold, and "educate" them as fast as possible. When the reality is that there's no one-size-its-all educational model. It's highly individual, and must be tailored / optimized for each pupil, if possible.)
AMD Succeeds in its 25x20 Goal
8-space using the tab character is the Linux kernel standard, but the curly braces are closer to other coding standards.
Ok, I've put Show HN back and modified your title from "Sourceful – a crowd-sourced list of the best public Google docs".
What does HN think of police unions now?
You’re Probably Inhaling Microplastics
Sony's A7 lineup seems to even be starting to take a large bite out of the high end DSLR market. I wouldn't be surprised to see them overtake Nikon soon.
I'm a die-hard remainer, but I know that's untrue: https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-not-concealing-offshore-a...
One might get cancelled for liking or sharing the wrong Tweet or FB post. Even if the content of the liked or shared comment is non-controversial, if the wrong person said it, you can get cancelled.

I remember when my left leaning daughter made one of her very first tweets, it was a policy question related to immigration. (It was related to questioning why the US has birthright citizenship -- a topic being covered in one of her HS courses.)

In seconds the hate tweets and retweets started from progressives...I jumped out of bed (it was kind of late at night) and ran into her room to suggest/implore that she delete the tweet and her entire account and never share anything like that again.

Saved her life that night. Though, I am thankful that she did learn her lesson without much cost.
The more important question is: is there a community around it that will develop and support it? that's what makes or breaks a project, and isn't something you get by joining a foundation.
Anyone have experience with successfully doing UI tests (especially screenshot tests) in a very young software product? We try to keep our "plumbing" code and backend code well tested, but the UI is changing all of the time and I'm quite worried it'd be a nightmare to maintain UI tests at this stage.
This plan probably won't amount to more than a corporate hand out. Much rather have Bernie's plan.

TLDR:

• Provide $150 billion through the Green New Deal in infrastructure grants and technical assistance for municipalities and/or states to build publicly owned and democratically controlled, co-operative, or open access broadband networks.

• Require that all internet service providers offer a Basic Internet Plan that provides quality broadband speeds at an affordable price.

• Break up internet service provider and cable monopolies, bar service providers from providing content, and unwind anticompetitive mergers.

• Ensure broadband infrastructure is resilient to the effects of climate change.
It's neither beneficial nor rightful. First, it's not rightful because laundering money for corrupt states aids their oligarchy or corrupt regimes, which directly harms the people in said countries. I'm not sure what moral standards you have that somehow sees supporting corruption as good.

Secondly, it's not beneficial to the UK in the mid and long term because this money flows into assets like London real-estate without providing any actual jobs or innovation, thus not providing any value to ordinary British citizens while pricing them out of the city.

It's endemic corruption on both sides, and a direct result of the lack of British competitiveness in most other fields for decades now. The UK is well on its way from being the world's most inventive nation to an oversized Canary Islands.
People without a professional background in test. Problem is everyone else thinks we have a conflict of interest.
You can use a mainline kernel. (Without the GPU..)
This is not the site to post outage notices.
> ... while macOS requires you buy Apple hardware ... macOS as a gaming platform ...

So nothing is changing. ARM Mac isn’t going to change the Linux desktop/laptop story.
Oh, I'm sure that's going to work _great_
> I thought mirrorless cameras were already outselling DSLRs.

In volume, yes. In profit, it's still close, but mirrorless has been closing the gap for a long time.

And Sony used to be king of the hill with mirrorless, but Canon and Nikon have quickly caught up and the playing field is a bit more level (even as Sony holds the crown for most of the technical features).

The thing is, ecosystems matter a lot past the hobbyist stage and there are still a zillion more Canon and Nikon lenses floating around that people love and use.

That said, I now use both Sony (APS-C mirrorless) and Nikon (full frame DSLR), and like both for different things. But I wish I could have my Nikon lenses on my Sony (with no compromise), and wish Nikon made some of the great smaller-sensor size lenses that you can get for APS-C or micro 4/3rds.
I'll go a step further. All this yelling at people may shut them up, but it doesn't change their hearts. It may even harden them.

Someone's a racist? Getting them to stop lynching people is necessary, absolutely. Getting them to stop using the n-word is needed for a civilized society. But more deeply, they need their heart changed, not just their external behavior. They need to see "those people" as being of equal value to themselves.

Well, the only thing I know that can change hearts that way is the gospel of Jesus Christ. (Note well: I did not say "going to church". That's not the same thing.)
Was Jobs right about customer feedback?
Wrote a blog about Why we should collect customer feedback and some of the strategies used by by different companies to collect feedback.
Thank you for telling us about your experiences.
Bingo.. having used Canon service quite a few times they are just fantastic at that part.

The brand wars are mostly an amateur thing.. once you decide on a brand if you're really serious and especially if you're running a business you don't jump brands over little differences in sensor performance because it's too much financial churn and you lose your muscle memory switching to a camera with a different control layout.

But it really sucks if your gear goes down and it's hard to get it serviced.

Canon's service is fast, excellent, and much more affordable than replacement.
Interestingly the most populous cities in Canada--Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, are not there.
Better a good plan that doesn't pass than a bad plan that makes the (corporate takeover) problem worse.

Hint to Dems: GET CAUGHT TRYING.
Only with the “raw” module... which is what you use to ensure Python is installed on a machine managed by Ansible.
Skilled Action and the Double Life of Intention
Using analogy to teach people something new makes sense and it's done all the time with positive effect.

But using an analogy to infer something that hasn't been observed? Unless the analogy is very close to the subject, it doesn't make much sense to me.
No, I am saying that technology moves so fast and government is so incompetent, that it is better to let the market disrupters take care of it.

As another anecdote, the government sued IBM for being a monopoly in 1969. By the time the case wound its way through the courts, the government dropped the case because it didn’t matter. The market had moved on. (https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/09/business/why-baxter-dropp...)

By 1982, the PC was already taking over. Just like while the government was worried about the Microsoft “monopoly”, Jobs was busy raising Apple from the dead, Google was moving from a college campus to being a real company, Amazon was expanding from just selling books and companies were starting to decrease their dependence on Win32 APIs and on to the web. Not to mention that Java and Flash was making rich cross platform web apps viable.
"it's the stuff that life is too short for"
http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html
Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin
Are canon and nikon next?