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> At the moment lens prices are pretty bonkers but I think that Canon f/11 lens is a great indicator; it's basically less than 1/10th of the cost of a traditional 800mm lens and does more than enough for most people.

But that tradeoff seems hardly new to me. Consumer 70-300 for ~300 $ vs. Pro 70-200 for 2000+ $. The "only" difference is build quality and the pro lens being 2-3 stops brighter. Price difference: ~10x.
Making this public and being outraged is important to make capitalism work.
If i moved away from the us because i misstrust them or whatever reason why would i care about their rescue?

I never thought about my born Country is going to help with anything as i moved away and pay taxes somewhere else. I rather be rescued to “home“
That reminds me of this run-in with an NTFS filesystem that ntfsresize had completely borked:

https://marcan.st/2015/10/rescuing-a-broken-ntfs-filesystem/

I managed to figure out what the problem was and undo the corruption without data loss, but it was quite a deep dive...
Check out Doe vs. Girlsdoporncom.

The decision finds that the company used manipulation and intimidation to force young women into signing contracts they weren't supposed to understand which were contrary to spoken agreements.

This company was big (maybe still is) and isn't an outlier in the space.
Who controls property is not a political point?

Isn’t that exactly what the legal system is for?
I never really understand the exploitation argument. If I offer you $1 an hour and you agree, is it exploitation then? Maybe if you demand $6 I just go somewhere else. And maybe if I offer $1 you go somewhere else.

The point is that the job market is also a market with supply and demand. If we can agree on a price, why is it exploitation?
That would be true weather you had shares or options... dilution may be worth it, if valuation grows. It’s only bad if there is a down round. But then it’s a black eye for founders and earlier vc also.
My european passport opens a lot more doors, yet i dont pay taxes to the EU as i dont live there.
This does not match my experience.
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APIs vs. Microservices
We can also stop selling arms to the Saudis and running logistics for them. That would save a lot of Yemenis from starvation.
I think one absolutely avoidable death from an incident like this is one too many, but you tell me what you consider an acceptable amount of people to die so everyone else can enjoy more and more extreme porn and I'll let you know if it meets your requirements or not.
Now, we have assumed we are talking about great developers.

It is true that sometimes it is difficult to tell one from the other, if you are a manager and you squint your eyes a little bit. Sometimes mediocre developer masking himself as a great developer is able to create a distortion field when he never finishes anything and relies on help from others to achieve his perceived fantastic output.

No, we are not talking about that kind of person.

What I mean is a person that is truly great developer. The organizations will frequently try to make good use of this person.

One strategy is to get that developer to work on green-field projects only. He will design/write the code but once it is in prod it is going to be outsourced to another team and the star developer moves to another exciting project.

Another strategy is to offload as much non-critical work as possible. Junior developers to write to spec? Testers? "Devops" engineers (as much as I hate that term)? These are all possible way to keep the perceived star developer with only hardest problems.

Now, I don't say it is a good practice -- it is just something I have noticed over the years. Good developers have much more say in what they are going to be working on and in what capacity and this means taking interesting tasks and leaving mundane to more junior members.
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It happens regularly and it's called a re-up http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2018/11/founders-please-do...
Omegle: The dangerous new chat site where kids meet strangers
Any embassy is in pretty much any country? Assuming a semi rich western country
Hopefully the rest of the world follows suit.
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I have that too with an EU country i was born in. Yet i never paid taxes or anything to there
A good visualization of the mutations, including the South African one that isn't related, but also increasing:

https://nextstrain.org/groups/neherlab/ncov/S.N501?c=gt-S_50...
Another “function” of a trouser cuff is visual. It demarcates the end of the leg, creates a transitional element between the leg and the shoe. It is closely analogous to the capital on a classical column, eyeliner, the frame around a picture, the line at the bottom of this page, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
It appears to simulate the normal stock options. Seems to be motivated by tax reasons.

I think I've seen this called a "virtual option plan".
The SQLizer file conversion API is now available on the free plan
Reminds me of the times I ran `killall` on a SCO machine only to learn that they take the name very literally...
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> In the same breath he wants people who LOVE their jobs and super-productivity, but yet also understand its only a job. You can't have the super-productivity that comes with intrinsic motivation if the environment is boring and lacks anything that might produce intrinsic motivation

Both are not exclusive. Your job can be interesting and fulfilling and yet be only a job meanwhile your heart is at home with family and friends.

> People love that he's crazy enough to build spaceships and electric cars

He does not build any of that. His employees do. Volkswagen or Volvo also make electric cars without needing a grab attention CEO. For each Elon or Jobs there are a million similar guys that fail misserably. Survivor bias is a thing.
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The variation in startups will be much greater than in corporate America, so some startups will be well run, but some will be more badly run than any large company and by some truly vile people. It’s definitely a gamble. Unfortunately, people just out of school lack the experience to judge, so some get lucky and some get taken advantage of. My advice is to treat options like a lottery ticket, make sure you get paid well in cash, and then startups can be a heck of a lot of fun. They won’t pay a google compensation, but enough to be comfortable, and hey, maybe you get lucky!

Early non-founder employees do tend to get screwed relative to the business vultures who show up later, the CTO getting $10 million/year brought on after the company has gone public but did nothing to get it there is just wasteful corporate cronyism.
Indeed, a decent company would split all its profits amongst its workers, commensurate with the value they created. Rather than handing it over to shareholders and investors who, by and large, have done no work to earn it.

But as you say, that's not the world we live in.
The compensation has to cover the needs/expectstions. See Maslow's hierarchy as a simple model.

Pay me a million for something I don't care about in a bad environment and I won't do good work.

Pay me 50k (I make more, but 50k is a good value for a good living here in the region) and let me do something I like in a fun environment and I get things done.
An asterisk character (star). Hackernews Wickes up this character.
Big downgrade in quality too, in most cases. When I moved here and had to furnish a house / stock a kitchen, I was amazed at the diversity and quality of basic cheap home goods here.
The very reason i do not even consider working for a us company. I could not even open a normal private bank account when my money comes from the US (Switzerland)
When they export, money gets in. But they don't import much , if you look at china's trade balance, it's at + 421 billion dollars [1] (money going in) while USA is at -616 B [2].

So it's in fact hard to get money out of china.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263632/trade-balance-of-...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/220041/total-value-of-us...
Are there any non-twitter sources available? I can't access that website.

Also, I doubt twitter is the place where that information should live long-term anyway.
I use a little bit newer Nikon DSLR (~2013), which adds another thing (the first generation of DSLRs wasn't really good at this): Color. The color of iPhones is just bleirgh in comparison, which is a little bit weird considering the cargoculting on HN of Apple's "computational photography".
Look at the prevalence graph in the article, you can see that the new variant has been gradually taking over the turf from the other ones. This cannot be explained by just the founder effect unlike most other cases, since the prevalence was high to start with. It cannot be explained away by a single super-spreader event, since a single event will just cause a single step-change. This has been a continuous process.

It could be random chance or a selective advantage, but then it comes down to just a modeling exercise. How likely is it that this could happen by chance? And it appears quite unlikely: instead the best way to explain the data is a significantly increased transmission.
I haven't thought about it seriously, but I was thinking about simply using a shared key (PBKDF2, since that is implemented in the browser), with a symmetric cipher and HMAC.

To tell the truth, I haven't seen much demand for end-to-end: this is a web application, so an attacker who controls the server can simply serve Javascript with a backdoor.
Any two languages will have some words of the same meaning that look alike, but this will be coincidence. Your linked article is utter pseudoscience.

Modern Mandarin is an artifact of the last millennium, Middle Chinese looked completely different. Similarly, Maori is known to go back to a Polynesian proto-language that also looked different. So, in neither language was the word "hui" just a few centuries ago.

Also, the two words are not actually pronounced alike.
A factory strictly used for making Iphones, I see no reason for Apple to get any blame here, they obviously cant keep track of this huge outsource company that makes too many other electronics. (do I get a check from Apple here or is it an outsource company that pays the shills as well?)
Longfellow's Christmas Bells and a Better America
The talk of the virus potentially being on a path to vaccine escape is very worrying. Sounds like we might end up in a situation where we have seasonal COVID like we do with the flu :(
If you treat generosity as a form of investment, you are bound to be disappointed. I see it as a small contribution to a better world. If you want something back, ask for money and call it a job.
And I was considering donating to them for Christmas. I can do better it seems.
Incredible article from 2018 about Nikon's factory dedicated to lens glass.

https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2018/04/17/glass-for-g...
On Mac I can't tile windows without installing a third party app, on gnome I can. On windows three finger swiping between desktops when the task view is open is horrible, but gnome handles it perfectly.

I use gnome, mac, and windows daily. They all have pros and cons, but I can't see how anyone could claim Windows or Mac are well ahead of gnome.
Dyon – A Rusty dynamically typed scripting language
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Mathematics of 6/49 game. Why is it not 5/48 or 7/50?
The mathematics of lottery is based on 6/49 game. Each player selects 6 numbers without replacement from an urn of 49. If the 6 numbers match with the lottery number then it is a jackpot. The probability of it happening is 1 in C(49,6) or 1 in 13 million. I have two questions:
[1] Why does the urn consists of 49 numbers and not 48 or 50 numbers?
[2] Why one has to select 6 numbers and not 5 or 7?

Even if the numbers change to 5 selections from 48, the odds 1 in ~2 million. Is it too bad for a lottery?
Exactly the point: the goal of batching is to amortize the cost of synchronization over a large number of events. With enough events to amortize over, the cost of synchronization drops into the noise. Then, you are better off avoiding bug-prone lock-free operations in favor of explicit lock operations that actual humans can reason about.

And get better throughput.
I think it's more that if you're already the kind of person well-suited to float to the top at a startup, that's what you'll get out of it. But a startup will rarely develop you into that kind of person.

My own experience with after 8 years at various London startups is one of career stagnation because (for various personal reasons) I don't have a personality that lets me thrive in these environments.
> Edit: Goddamn it HN, why are you all responding to the pros/cons of 3D printing?

Your complaint about media coverage was a whole sentence. Sentence and a half being generous. The complaint itself looks like a related comment at the end rather than the main point. Most of your post was pros/cons which was not clearly linked to media coverage. It really does look like a post about injection molding vs 3d printing.
> Are you sure about the clasification? From what I heard the main issue is often cooling.

It is a tax issue - specifically a 2007 EU decision. (https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6779714320/cipaeustatement).

I have a Sony A7S2 which can do, after the jailbreak, over two hours without breaking a sweat (never went above that because I didn't need it). The exception is anything involving sunlight - there the A7S2 runs into cooling issues without a sunshade.
Is it just me or is it virtually impossible to make out the position of the iceberg under all the cloud cover?
Not related to the article. But can anyone shed light on why every other article I see starts with "an oral history of"? If it is written isn't it no longer oral history.
On the other hand, roughly $50-100/night gets you a clean, though tiny, place to stay at a business hotel in the Tokyo metro area. (For those of you unfamiliar with Japan, a business hotel is a type of hotel that offers rooms primarily for people on domestic business trips. The rooms are tiny [think the size of a college dorm room, sometimes even smaller], but at the hotels I've stayed at, the service is friendly and the staff does a great job with cleanliness.) By comparison, there are parts of the United States where you have to pay more than $100 per night for a dodgy motel in an unsafe area. I generally stay at business hotels whenever I take a trip to Japan, whether it is for business or for vacation.
> we both felt secure that the free software movement is progressive, and cares about being inclusive and equal opportunities oriented.

Unfortunately it has been proved very often that this is not true. This is not the first case of racism and sexisme in FOSS and probably won't.
Wow that lens is bonkers. What a reasonable price. I love it.

Aside, I enjoy that Ken also loves this lens, despite it being mostly plastic, which he usually shits all over. It actually seems like a feature here, for weight purposes.
It's exploitation because of the imbalance of power.

This is also why unions exist, to try to redress that imbalance via collective action.
I'm no fan of Facebook or Google, but this is a mega-monopoly deciding to crush a competitor. They're saying no to a company's revenue stream, and they've gotten in the habit of doing this to everyone.

Apple wields too much power.
> Apple is not fundamentally responsible for the labour relations of other companies

As soon as Apple steps into politics and takes any kind of political/environmental/socio-political stance - yes, yes it is responsible. Otherwise it is hypocrisy at best.
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Hi! i'm sebastian (tinystore owner&developer)... why someone need to browse stores ? the service is sole for stuff vendors...
if you can tell me why ? then i can develop that page ...
Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 clusters in their international context
> likely overheat and degrade the connection if you use it so violently.

No need to transmit all the time to cause disruption... You could for example repeatedly transmit packet headers followed by a long break, and collision avoidance algorithms would stop any other device transmitting.
Nice. I have been toying in this space myself and programmatic alternatives to the existing solutions I think are the way forward.

The future features are exactly what I'm looking for. Namely simulcast support to help bandwidth limited clients and server scalability/redundancy especially in a WAN scenario.
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sorry for that! i'm was upgrading the site.
Underwater Roundabout in the Faroe Islands
The same problem (from the commercial distros point of view) exists for RedHat now, and anyone following the plan of this article.

If the software you are trying to sell, is GPL, then anyone can do the same as CentOS at any time.

The article suggests users will arrange into two groups, non-paying users of the develelopment version and paying customers of the production-class version.

But the production version is still GPL and so anyone can get the production version for free any time they want.

Your only option for getting out of that is not to use any GPL software in your super valuable commercial product.

That is the GPL deal, which you don't have take. You can take it OR leave it.

What RedHat seems to have forgotten was 2 things, which I'm sure they knew very well at some point:

- Even non-paying users are more valuable to you as non-paying members of your ecosystem than members of any of your competitors. They are actually what keeps your ecosystem a defacto standard. It is incalculable how valuable it is to be a defacto standard for anything.

- Those non-paying users were never and are never going to be paying customers no matter what else you do. Their use is not "lost revenue" because you were never going to get any revenue from them anyway. If they couldn't use your product for free, they'd just use someone else's product for free. There is no "convert them into paying customers".

And there is also no "convert them into development version users" either because of see above re GPL.

All it is is annoying for everyone, even bystanders, that they keep trying.
> Along with that shiny new phone comes curse of thousands of poor people.

Okey, do you have an alternative? Google is even worse.
I wonder if POSIX/sh is really necessary if you're targeting Linux. I mean, if you're targeting multiple Unixes, sure, but a lot of my scripts are company/infrastructure specific and won't really target anything but Linux and bash is always available. Even if we used a BSD for something tomorrow, it'd be trivial to add bash to those. I may be missing something, however.

I guess the one place I can think of is some small-container scenarios, e.g. a bash-less Alpine, where you want the smallest possible image.
The point is: You can see which sales rep closed which deal and therefore can see what they brought in. (While a good sales rep assigned to a bad territory or losing a big deal last minute, after long negotiations, due to product quality suffers)

Imma technical role that relationship isn't there as much. Sometimes one can implement a feature a specific customer (group) wants, sometimes a specific bug fix, but most of the time the value an individual enginees brings in is not separable.
The tolerance paradox
I think you're in agreement with me, but the difference for the pro versions are usually substantial, such as weather proofing and more rugged materials (metal vs plastic) and usually more glass (less distortion at extremes, etc.). The market kinda makes sense: if you care about a few extra stops, and distortion at the extremes, then you are probably an enthusiast or professional who is willing to shell out. Otherwise, you'll have a great deal of fun with the cheap lenses.
Even With Lightning Speed & Agility, Germany’s Ar234 Blitz Jet Bomber Failed
As someone who works on Carp, it seems we're going for one level of abstraction higher than what this is aiming for. It's pretty easy to do C interop but the goal isn't to write "C in S-expressions".

Doesn't mean it doesn't perform well, currently writing a GBA game: https://github.com/TimDeve/radicorn
He is also an idealist, plenty of business scenarios don't work in free beer for all model.
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Not quite the same, but one time a guy I worked with decided to "clean up" things on a NCR Unix system and set the ownership of various system files to whatever he thought made the most sense. This broke all the stuff that relied on setuid to function correctly. He then went to lunch while the machine slowly ground to a halt. I had to boot from tape and figure out how to fix things from there.
I believe that the tax treatment of your hypothetical Million dollars is different than the treatment of an equivalent Million dollars earned through stock options.

I am not an accountant, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think most people seem to be underestimating just how bad this is. During the recent 4-week lockdown it was already clear that something odd was going on in Kent; whilst case counts were dropping in the rest of the country, they continued to rise significantly there. Something was clearly different.

Now high case counts are spreading from the South East into the rest of the country. We don't know whether we can even stop the growth. During the last lockdown schools remained open; I suspect that it may be necessary to close them in order to just stop the growth. A significant reduction in cases looks impossible.

This strain has probably already spread to tens of other countries. Every country which is just about holding things together, whatever their strategy, is going to struggle with a significantly more transmissible variant of the virus.
Honda’s Cog ad is something I enjoy watching for the sheer fun of it all.
>was to reduce their dependence on China

No, that's the PR spin on why they (moved part of) their production to India. They could have moved OUT of China (citing bad Chinise gov etc.) and IN TO Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, etc. were countries operate under properly functioning democracies. Buuuuuut they didn't.

They only moved IN TO India for the reduced costs (aka capitalism). And when India salaries outgrow e.g. country XYZ salaries, they will move there (in a decade or so).

The political tensions is BS imho. Capitalism is capitalism, and Apple offers master classes in capitalism.
That would be a pretty rich attitude of them to take if this case. It’s not like RHEL is developed from scratch.

At least 90% of the products value is tied to the Linux kernel itself. The majority of which comes from development effort outside Red Hat. (How many customers would stay if IBM hypothetically kept the userland and swapped to an AIX kernel?)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1340716901610172416.html
There is a preview version: https://www.docker.com/blog/download-and-try-the-tech-previe...
Wow very nice projet and comment :)
Good point about the translation og "klok". I was about to use "wise" but ended with "knowledgeable" since it felt like the most literal translation.

For anyone still following I think "wise" maps to the Norwegian "vis".

BTW: I think old proverbs are really interesting - both local ones as well as international ones. Sooner or later someone should try to create a complete encyclopedia of proverbs :-)
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