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My first digital camera was a Sony compact that would only take Sony Memory Sticks - one of those 12 slots you mentioned. I got tired of paying twice as much for half the memory of standard cards, so I made sure my next camera took SD.

Kodak was always a big player in the camera business, but they did it to increase the film business - they wanted people taking and printing as many pictures as possible, because that's where the real money was. It's hard today to imagine the scale of that business. And that's the problem, if Kodak had sold every single sensor that went into every single digital camera, it wouldn't have been enough to save them.

It's interesting to contrast the reaction of Kodak to that of the other big film company Fujifilm when the market for film cratered. https://petapixel.com/2018/10/19/why-kodak-died-and-fujifilm...
> Mr. Biden’s victory amounted to a repudiation of President Trump by millions of voters exhausted with his divisive conduct and chaotic administration.

Sadly, this doesn't hold water. If you adjust for anger over the Coronavirus, the number of votes Trump got is a huge endorsement of Trumpism. After all he's done, he got the second most votes of any presidential candidate in history.

Edit: any downvoters want to state their reasons?
> HAMR requires new heads and immediate transition to glass platters with all-new new coating

Shoot, this won't go well. Last time glass platters were used was in IBM Deathstars.
MIT actually makes it harder for people to profit from their software than GPL, because the developer of GPL-licensed code has the exclusive right (by law, as author) to produce proprietary forks of that code; if the code's MIT'd, somebody else could fork, clone the proprietary features and add a few more (preferably going against the original program's general philosophy in doing so, to reduce the chances of those features being introduced into the original), aggressively market, and basically steal the whole project and its user base… then the developer's unemployed, the whole thing's proprietary and some unethical organisation is profiting off the work of another.

The “rolling release” model, where the latest version's proprietary but six months ago's version is libre, simply cannot be done with something like MIT unless you're willing to risk somebody else taking it all for themselves.
Fear of losing natural sharpness has had me avoiding antidepressants, which I should probably be on. Just too much fear about losing edge for math/programming.
Sweden has harsh drug laws too. So does China. The point is that there are other reasons people favor drug laws, since many homogenous countries have them too.
Or alternatively, the team that chose Trump has disenfranchised so many of the other team (and relied on the ancient electoral college) that their undersized votes have outsized effects.
Actually about 30% of America voted for Trump so I wouldn’t rush to give him another 20%+.
The sort of spammers he’s talking about user email providers that don’t care. Or will look the other way for a fee.

Source: I used to know a mid-sized spammer in Chicago. He saw nothing wrong with his business and was happy to answer questions.
Blame the game, not the player. TakeTwo is not responsible for a bad UK policy - the UK government is.
Also he is a sitting president with a decent economy. It takes a lot for an incumbent to not win re-election at that point. Somewhat sane coronavirus response and Trump would have an easy victory.
Cosmic filament? What's that?
In many jurisdictions, professional engineer has a well established definition. Here is one for Ontario: https://www.peo.on.ca/about-peo/what-peo/learn-more-about-pe...

For those who don’t care about the engineering profession, you can call yourself “software doctor” or whatever. I really couldn’t care less.
Is that better? I don’t have proof for this other than the Ring camera stuff but Amazon seems much less trustworthy than Google.
This was all NeXT applications actually, that panel on the left is functionally a menu bar but designed to look and behave differently than the Macintosh menu bar for legal reasons; and sadly the menu pop-out functionality was lost when it was folded into the Mac OS X menu bar.
Politics is usually against the HN guidelines.

Also there's a new thread from the NY Times that has more votes and isn't flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016070
Canada had very harsh drug laws too (at least for hard drugs). And so did much of Europe.

Did all those countries also create those laws to harass certain populations?
I think drug use is immoral, especially in a society with a welfare system. (That’s the basis for anti-drug attitudes in places like Sweden.)

I’m against harsh drug laws because I think they’re create a lot of problems in criminal justice and are abused against Black communities.
While doctors do distinguish between different types of diabetes, my anecdotal experience is that they do not in practise distinguish between the two types. They do not tell type II patients that they will not have the condition if they don't eat carbs.

So which is worse or more harmful? Me, some clown on the internet, bringing this to people's attention? Or 1000s of doctors failing to provide full information to their patients, thereby dooming them to a degenerative life experience, taking ever greater drugs?
Is this a joke? Trump revoked Obama's rule on reporting drone strike death.
This. I try to remind folks that the whole GPL thing got started when RMS wanted to fix his printer and Xerox said "no" despite having (IIRC) used some of his work to write the printer software he wanted to edit.
It's easier to blame a foreign adversary than admit this was an american one.
The US is a very large country and a lot of legal powers are left to individual states. It's like saying that Poland represents the same views as Germany in Europe because they're both in the EU.
That is very true. Engineers at bigger/richer companies typically have better hardware to program with, desktop and mobile apps built by them usually drag on slower hardware. This forces users to upgrade. Seems like a racket :)
This thread has more points, but the CNN thread is older and has more comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967
> Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

Not a true statement I'm afraid. Look at the number of votes he got. Trumpism isn't going away any time soon.
GMail's filters will learn: both the spam filter for your inbox as well as a shared filter

Considering how many dozens of times I’ve marked messages from Soma as spam in Gmail, yet they still keep coming, I have zero faith in Gmail’s learning ability. Either that or Soma can pay Google to bypass the spam filter. Other email providers will.
> Last time glass platters were used was in IBM Deathstars.

Thanks to one of those I learned my lessons about having proper backups. Lost 3 years of work when my drive died one morning.

Of course, I only learned about the nickname after it broke.

Lets hope the new ones will fare better...
It's interesting that you believe that they believe that. I was not aware that an organization like BLM proper or a "social movement" like BLM in general could have a unified set of beliefs. It's a physical impossibility.

What's the difference between a gang and a "ghetto gang"?
Joe Biden is the President elect as per AP
First thing I am going to do is submit my resume for open tech leadership and policy positions in the new administration.

If you are in a position with experience and financial comfort to serve your country with regards to science and technology, the Biden administration will almost certainly be a great place to land. Look for policy and leadership positions in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

I'll be submitting my resume and cover letter just as soon as the transition team site opens.
While this is kinda true, this is kind of negated by the ability to sage.
To expound on that distinction, I think it is easy for people to imagine a scary armed criminal, perhaps breaking into their house, and imagine being able to stop them by brandishing or shooting a gun at them.

It is comparatively harder for people to build a mental model of how encryption stops an unseen hacker accessing their data, and obviously most people value their life more than their data.

The difference in threat models applicable to end-to-end encryption versus hop-by-hop encryption is even more subtle, allowing disingenuous politicians to claim to support encryption while simultaneously weakening it.
> could also be argued that legalizing drugs is an attack in minorities who are disproportionately poor and thus prone to consumption

Legalising the production and sale - yes, that would be possible. But legalising use and possession is very far from that. It opens the doors for better social approach to the problems and helps keep families together.
> Economist

The economist has some of the worst journalism I have ever seen. Lots of snark and no information.
>The real burdens that GPL places on the second dev are pretty bad problems. Releasing the build process and the surrounding code which is not related to the first guy's product is a huge problem. You don't have to be evil to see that.

The idea is that first guy is irrelevant, your user is the person that has the right to demand the code so he can change the software. If you want to sell me some software without giving me the sources then don't use GPL. If the GPL code is some trivial small thing that is not related with your product then find a BSD version or pay for a proprietary version of that library (and have fun not having the freedom to check it's code and fix/improve it)
I'll believe it when they are out of the White House at the end of January.
Yep. Absolutely disgusting what the Republican party has become. They would gladly auction off our democracy for more flags on their F-150s. At least they can't go any lower, right?
Close in the Electoral College, where it matters; quite distant in the popular vote. The gap is estimated to be about 4 million more votes for Biden at this time, it is also the most votes for a president in US history.

e: I will concede that it is not "quite distant", though it may not end up close in the EC when it's all said and done either.
> Order, schemata and standardization and smoothing expectations through very formal, top-down rules on how to conduct oneself become more and more common as a market increases in size and/or complexity.

I agree on the legibility aspect. How are these being imposed? From what I understand, the joint-stock company was created before S corps, C corps, and LLCs were codified into law. Amazon's marketplace is not regulated according to any special rules except for what rules apply to everyone and the rules that Amazon sets forth for use of their own marketplace. I'm not seeing your point.
This is really good! Thank you for writing something that's so easy to understand.
Well, and taxes, too, as has been the case with distilling alcohol since before marijuana became an issue. The government gets pissed if they don't get their cut. Way more fires would be caused by illicit stills blowing up if it was actually about safety.
Oh, right, and these 'mixer-operators' (I was talking about the bitcoin built-in feature, rather than them) I suppose are required to find the other parties to mix your transaction with ?
Yes - I think I knew what n=1 is/was.

There were 2 reasons I asked the question.

Firstly, I don't like 'inside baseball' talk. In fact we are not at a science convention - it is a public forum.

Secondly, I want to know what the poster means by it. The last sentence where they say:

"those where not tested because again N=1"

- that doesn't make sense.
It depends on your software. The V File Viewer does [0].

But the whole issue with alternative formats is getting widespread software support.

0: http://www.fileviewer.com
We have a `user` GraphQL type. It has 200+ fields and resolvers into other data. Fortunately, clients don't need to pull everything.

Well, within one of our frontend apps, someone wrote a "GetUser" query fragment, wrapped it in a react hook to make it easy to use, and now anytime anyone anywhere wants to get a user, even with one field, they're getting 100+ fields they don't want. Anytime someone needs a new field on a user, they don't create a new query; they just add the field to that "GetUser" query.

Now, I've told several GraphQL advocates that setup (in our local community and online), and unfailingly they balk at it. Well, you're doing GraphQL wrong, everyone makes mistakes, you should be more selective, etc etc etc. I think that's fair; being more specific sounds like a good pattern.

Except, we are not certain the performance wouldn't suffer should we move everything to more selective queries. The issue is caching. If you have ten queries each requesting one field, the cache can't saturate until after ten network requests. But, one mega query, and now the remaining nine queries can just pull from the cache. Sure, the mega query takes longer than one mini-query, but its not longer than ten mini-queries.

I only outline this to say: GraphQL is not a magic bullet. Every single thing you can do which would ruin a REST API is also possible in GraphQL. REST API responses naturally evolve into god objects. GraphQL APIs solve the god object issue server-side by saying "god objects are fine", then push the responsibility of not abusing it onto the client (and it should be obvious, the client is the worst place to solve almost every problem, but that's another topic).

GraphQL is easier and better for some things, far harder for other things. At the end of the day, its no worse than REST. I don't recommend it, but that's only just because its new; unless a new technology offers some very easy to express, tactile benefits for your business, just wait for it to mature. When you get down to it, GraphQL's benefits are definitely not tactile, but they're still there, and I think over time it will evolve into something very interesting.
Why Sony, and other chipmakers they went as far as developing a true ToF sensor, rather than switching to the continuous wave sensing?

And I also heard that Apple went as far as trying to develop a ToF ladar by itself. What's the magic with/what's particular reason to use ToF sensing, instead of CW?
I worked with game engines and physics engines and rely on a search engine. :-)
I would urge the maker to put up a page saying "limited run being made - own one of 50 for 1,000 dollars". If he gets a full order book he will make them over lockdown.

It's waaay better than a info-book so I would urge him to cash in. There must be 50 well off fans willing to drop a grand on something like this ...
Trump has been a cancer of the America. He has deinstitutionalized pretty much any institution, sowed deep hatred in the country and did absolutely nothing good in last 4 years. He is and was unfit for any public office, let alone presidency. HN loves to be neutral and thoughtful, but Trump needs to be condemned in the strongest way possible. It is orthogonal to say "Oh the people voted him in", in the same way we don't say "Hilter rose because of the people, so blame the people". Unchecked broadcasting of hatred, misinformation, lies and breaking down the republic bit by bit with deception needs to be reviewed.
So what substance of Rodriguez's argument do you actually disagree with, then?
As said elsewhere in the thread, there are nuances even in pharmacology. Your situation sounds terrible, and I am very sorry you had to live through that. However, some anti-psychotics lack anti-psychotic properties in very low doses and are safe. But yes, as a general rule neither anti-psychotics nor z-drugs/bzo-drugs should be used for long-lasting sleep disorders.
... and then subtract the value of the data for training and building better user profiles for more effective ads.
TXL: Travelers Bid Fond Farewell to Berlin's Tegel Airport
Only in a very few jurisdictions, and then only under certain circumstances. Typically advertising or offering ("professional") engineering services to the public.
Yep, and even if you have a known next of kin, that ownership can be disputed!
How many did basically at the behest of the US? The US very much lead the crusade on drugs criminalisation after WWII.
Ah ok. I wasn't sure how that part worked.
Focus on runtime performance (however you want to measure it), saving $ will be an automatic side effect. For example, how did Google incentivize to do cluster compute on commodity hardware.
Absurd. There is an identically titled article from election night 2016, for Trump. HN has consistently carried water for Trump by allowing a small number of HNers to flag Trump critical articles, for four years.

Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201
Cool! Interesting to see some verilog.

Also, interesting you mention Atari ST in the readme, I wrote a VT52 emulator in m68k assembly for my ST because the built-in emulator couldn't keep up with maximum baudrate (my ST did not have a blitter chip). Salvaged it from a floppy disk a couple of years ago and put it on gh: https://github.com/remvee/st-tty
The purpose of existing drug laws in America is to give police the means to harass minorities though. See:

https://archive.attn.com/stories/1503/war-on-drugs-real-reas...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/real-reasons-marijuana-is-ban...

http://www.history.com/news/why-the-u-s-made-marijuana-illeg...

https://www.salon.com/2015/07/02/the_real_reason_marijuana_i... (though this one pretty much reiterates the attn article).
We just had an election with widespread mail in voting with extended deadlines and historic turnout. And if anything Trump’s support among non-white voters went up. What does that suggest re: the scale of voter suppression?
Places like IBM, and Microsoft would benefit immensely if government certification was required.
Totally agree, this is a corner stone of any democracy. It’s hard to think one can exist without good protections for citizens.
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No it isn't.

The purpose is to provide a source of labor for for-profit prisons, to legally extort money from an activity or activities that largely harm no one, and to provide something for the police to actively do.

If police were to enforce what most people consider the "important" laws, their death rate would go through the roof, because they'd be actively chasing after large criminal gangs.

They want the low-hanging fruit of an 18 year old who's dealing a little pot, they don't want to have to go after the crime syndicate that will kill them and their family.
If people agree it was tumultuous why was the race still so close?

I really think adding little adjectives like that undermines the respectedness of the NYT
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As if 50% of the US population is going through some kind of collective psychosis. Just looking at how a significant portion of his fans act and look on those rallies. Dressing up with jumpsuits having flags and his face allover or wearing stupidly huge hats with a motto printed on it. As if they are on some comic con where Trump is some sort of super hero. Carrying assault rifles like they can't wait to save the world from imagined threats, dressing up like Romans with shields and helmets. Totally delusional. This level of celebrated infantilism I've never seen anywhere else so far. There are nuts everywhere but that many?
he's not even done yet. he has two months now to smash things up. he is absolutely the kind of asshole that would sabotage the whole country to make Biden look bad.
The GOP actively sought, across the country, to handicap or prevent mail and absentee voting to suppress votes that typically fall to Democrats. The president tweeted about unproven voter fraud and to stop counting votes. If that isn’t attempts at brazen voter suppression, I don’t know what is.

Democracy was stress tested, and it still worked.
> Maybe now that politicians see that people are very against drug laws we'll see some of them renege on their hard anti-drug stances.

Lots to unpack here.

As a general rule, politicians will say or do whatever furthers their agenda (i.e., reelection). Hard stance on X are generally a reflection of appeal in the market. Moral of the story: Few politicians have the wherewithal to lead, most reflect (in a focus group driven sort of way).

I'm not so sure it's that most ppl are against drug laws. It's that the laws aren't working. They're not delivering on what was promised. It's yet another case - consciously or not - where the public is realizing that you can't cure a problem by attacking a symptom.

If there's a hope it's that more politicians step up, lean in, and lead. "Wait a minute, that's not a solving a problem, that's only a symptom." When we hear that often then we'll know the paradigm has changed. As it is, one change (e.g., drug laws) is not a trend.
Flexport is hiring software engineers to build the platform for global trade
Could the "grid" of the Net, cloud and mobile devices evolve to the point where the existing PC and server markets retreats in relative scale into "heavy industrial" applications like cloud infrastructure, and shift out Intel's cash flow from under them?

Absolutely. Many analysts are predicting that the future is mostly public cloud (heavily ARM) accessed from mobile devices (100% ARM) so they're imploring Intel to get back into mobile before it's too late.
I also disagree with the author about certifications and the attempt to bridge similarities with other established engineering professions.

I think what it important in this discussion is the fact that "software engineer" right now is an aspirational term and that we don't use formal methods to verify software behavior, and instead rely on changing best practices.

Egineering implies a more rigorous process than most software really gets.
Sorry, too late, I don't trust Google any more to not have my data and eat it too…
Hoping for a day when I can pay for consumer version on gmail without ads. Already pay for YouTube and extended storage for photos.
4 million is not a lot in country of 330 million. The popular vote was close to 50/50.
I sincerely do not believe for a second that the story was false. In fact, I would wager that there is even more to the spying.
A lighter term is "generalist".
Hitler did rise because of the people, and the Nazi party won 37% of the vote allowing them to lead the governing coalition in 1932.

Fascism is very popular among people who don't expect to be its victims.

Edit: -2 for historical facts?
Headline is false. Biden is projected by the media to defeat Trump.

Biden is not President-elect. The President is elected in mid December by the electoral college.

Tens of millions of people are about to get a crash course in civics.
There's no shortage of chromebooks in the $250-300 range which then also include a display, narrowing the price difference drastically.

Of course there's also used options, which is also a good option for ipads and such that would still be a much better option than this for a non-techy user.

The Rpi 400 looks fun, but it's a tech toy for hobbiest electronics usage or general hackery. Not a generally good computing appliance for the masses.
No it didn't... the War on Drugs started with Harry J. Anslinger. He was going after drugs as early as 1917. He was a raging racist, but Nixon did not the start the "War on Drugs".
In British Columbia the term is protected by the association of professional engineers. I'm not an 'engineer' but I have seen enough terrible code to think that this is both a step too far and too short. Protecting the the title doesn't matter as much as protecting the work. A certification should be required to work on software related to finance, health or safety.
As a former republican who is afraid of the direction of political dialog in this country. This is the best outcome I could have hoped for. In my option the dismal showing for dems in the congress and many state legislatures and governors and trumps loss is a repudiation for the toxic rhetoric from both groups.