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That's a fair point. I love reading computer hardware rumours, most of which are probably total garbage (and probably obviously so to anyone in the field). And in this case, whether the general public thinks the universe in MOND or LCDM really doesn't matter at all.

My real issue is when this reporting is on things where the general public's opinion does matter. Things that the general public might vote on. Economics, medicine, etc. Having seen this type of reporting in a field that I do know something about (and a field where there is no real incentive to mislead, again MOND vs LCDM, who cares), I'm a lot more distrustful of science reporting in fields I don't know much about (and where there are incentives to mislead).

If they had published the article exactly as is, giving you all the excitement, but just added a single line somewhere saying "this is new work that is up against a large body of previous work that points in the opposite direction. Let's see what happens, but its a cool idea" I'd be totally fine with it.
Yes, except the evidence for dark matter is really an absense of evidence. So "new and exciting" in that context isn't some grand transgression. There's no experimentally supported theory of dark matter to transgress!
It's the regulations / limitations you are proposing that make it possible/likely that a monopoly will form. See Milton Friedman on this. There's basically no example of a monopoly forming outside of government regulation.
Hi all, just had this idea and I wanted to share it with you. I think it could be useful.
And it's very unfortunate that Bellingcat had to use this phone/sms data, because this justifies its collection.
It's been over 30 years. But yes, come to think of it, I think it was grape.

And in reply to tetris11: Yes, there's grape juice everywhere, but not like this. This wasn't Welch's. If this stuff had been alcoholic, I would have been in trouble...
Thanks! I haven't seen elpy before - I'll take a look at it. It seems like exactly the thing I described.
Not sure this would apply here - I don't think that advisors get ISOs (but I could be wrong).
not really the same. tipping is a custom, but it's not legally required unless the restaurant clearly states that it will be added to the bill.

sales tax is not really a hidden fee. americans usually know the general sales tax for their state. it gets a bit more complicated with specific excise taxes (eg, alcohol), but these rates are publicly available. if you're really concerned, you can always just ask your server or their manager what the after-tax cost of an item on the menu is.

even if you know exactly what medical procedure will be performed, it is still pretty hard to get an exact quote for the cost. it certainly can't be calculated from freely available numbers.
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-bullet-cluster...
> Is it possibly to lazy fetch the repository so you can keep H as low as possible? Like only look at H that are in conflict or something?

Something like that is announced at the end of the post ;-) It will hopefully be possible within a few days. The design is mostly done (at least for the basic feature), but my solution changes the implementation quite a bit, so I would expect temporary breakages (we're still in alpha, after all!).
It's pretty clear that their recommendation system and broader UX is designed, at least in part, to obfuscate how much content they have and how good it is. Back when it was DVDs and they had basically everything it was more about finding the next best thing for you. Now it's finding the next best thing they have and, preferably, something they own the rights to.
I just wish it had a feature to nest folders :(
I've been using Mailfance (https://mailfence.com/) for around two years now and been very happy with them - the interface isn't the most beautiful thing ever, but it is simple to use and it works, and the pricing is reasonable (from free to 25,00€ a month depending on storage space needed).

I use my own domain and I do still have a separate Gmail account that I mostly use for newsletters, promotions, coupons, and other "semi-wanted spam" to keep things clean in my inbox.

Mailfence is in Belgium, so they're outside of the main Five Eyes but are still in a cooperating area and part of the Fourteen Eyes, which may matter depending on your precise personal privacy/risk levels, but for general personal privacy it's plenty for my use case.
Do content-based ads really perform that much more poorly than personalized ads?

I mean, I guess they must given the shear amount more effort and infrastructure they require and companies fight to have them, but it boggles my mind that they're that much more effective. Maybe I'm just not thr roght demographic and my (not good) experiences on the consumer side of personalized ads don't encompass a large enough portion of the market?
I don't have any opinions about what the perfect system here is, but I think it's safe to safe say that medicine does not work well as a free market. You don't get to access a free market within the confines of hospital walls when there is an emergency. Moreover, your decisions as a rational actor are impaired because you are being asked to put a price on your own life or quality of life. There is almost no way to make this business not predatory under those circumstances.
So what if you can't put an end to violence or racism? In both cases, we can work to minimize them. We can and should.
Free neutrons decay on the order of 10 minutes
As a restless employee in a big tech conglomerate, interested in possibly going to a startup, this blog perfectly outlines why it would be totally insane for me to even consider it, and why frankly I have not.

The big tech monsters have all the talent and unless the nature of the game changes it will be that way for the foreseeable future and tons of great ideas will die on the vine.
Insights on why a 15 year old Lisp environment is still the high water mark, or close to it?
Humana Healthcare CEO Bruce Broussard base salary in 2016 was $1.24 million. No surprise there.
>Finally, they replaced the ratings with “% matching”. I guess so they can recommend their subpar productions even if they get low ratings.

That's always what ratings were. People didn't understand that (as you can see), so they changed it to make it more transparent.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-netflix-replaced-its-5-s...

>Netflix’s star ratings were personalized, and had been from the start. That means when you saw a movie on Netflix rated 4 stars, that didn’t mean the average of all ratings was 4 stars. Instead, it meant that Netflix thought you’d rate the movie 4 stars, based on your habits (and other people's ratings). But many people didn’t get that.
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This is not unexpected. In Obama’s memoir he mentioned that Chinese security services would send people to comb the rooms of every member of the American delegation right after they left their room in the morning. If state security services can do that to the US President and his advisors, I see no reason the Russians security can’t do that to someone like Navalny.
That's awesome!

I am only speaking out because I get the sense from this community (and having worked in the tech industry for long enough) that such externalities are not really considered when designing apps like this one. The other comments give a hint to the proportion of time that these concerns and issues are discussed.

I see all the time only the consideration of "could" without any regard for "should".
> Tangentially, I recently bought a superb Sigma lens and was happy to see that it was actually still made in Japan as well; I thought all the third-party lens makers had moved abroad, but surprisingly a number of them are still there.

Sigma is probably the best of the third-party lens manufacturers. I have a first-generation Sigma 50mm f/1.4 with Nikon mount (purchased around ~2011) — the build quality is great, and the bokeh is fabulous.

I can't say the same for Tamron.
Thanks! I’ll probably migrate here soon then!
Yup, by fringe I meant "On the edge of what reasonable people are working on". But maybe it's not a great term if people misunderstand.
Wirth’s Law
The best thing I've read on positioning is April Dunford's "Obviously Awesome"; highly recommend. I read it after seeing her speak at a conference. I think this might be the same talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jRoYh8xL_U
Couldn't they use one of the freon substitutes like R-407c?
There's an interesting relationship between Leica, Sinar, and Panasonic for sure - Panasonic is seems to be behind the firmware in even the older Leica M series cameras, which are definitely made by Leica. The SL2 is essentially a Panasonic SR1 with a nicer body. The Leica S series medium format cameras use similiar looking firmware, and the the internals of the newest S3 power the Sinar S30|45 digital back. The Lux Cameras where just a different sticker though. The Q2, while also probably built by Panasonic, has no actual equal in terms of lenses. The lens they put on that body is stellar.

Having used an M camera briefly, they aren't worth the price new, but used they are really great values that are built like nothing else. When you tire of them, you can sell them back for what you paid, sometimes more!
As others have said, AMT doesn't respect ISOs, which makes ISOs pretty useless.
The articles makes a good a case of how Rust can look as clean as other high-level programming languages when writing high-level business logic.
Here a scientist was so sick of the journalist bias towards sensationalism that he trolled the international media into reporting that chocolate helps you lose weight. Sample size n = 4.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/28/410313446/wh...
Part of the problem is that the coding happens after the doctors do their thing, are incredible complex, and have to be checked/fixed by a specialist before they can be sent onwards.
>EDIT: this article is literally based on the podcast.

The article was from Feb 6, 2019. The podcast was from Feb 15, 2019.
I'm not quite sure what's the purpose of either NoteCalc or Soulver, but I am currently getting acquainted with TeX - and from that perspective NoteCalc seems comically under-powered compared to what's achievable through plugging into the Lua(Meta)TeX engine with Lua, or with the Lua C API.

I'm not criticizing NoteCalc, rather I think somebody should create a lightweight note taking tool like that, I don't think it would be very difficult by leveraging the already existing TeX/ConTeXt/LMTX/LuaMetaTeX machinery, and it would blow the Soulver-like stuff out of the water. The main design problem could be deciding exactly where between ConTeXt and Soulver should the new tool/language lie power-wise, i.e., how much should it expose.

I'm not proposing using TeX directly, rather I'm proposing basing a new, simpler language on the Lua(Meta)TeX TeX engine, and probably also on ConTeXt/LMTX.
This legislation is the opposite of freedom of speech and is actually a perfect example of FOSIMO. It is shifting the control of speech from the public sphere into governmental control. Now they will have a court of law and legislative bodies deciding what is acceptable speech for social media.
You'd think by now we'd have something like a vicron command similar to visudo that would safely allow you to edit and then verify the contents of the crontab.
Exactly. It is a new form of informal control. Post-Occupy corporate culture had to adapt. Naturally the first adaptation is superficial signalling.
I pointed to two books that helped me understand a pervasive phenomenon in America. I agree I can't generalize two books to all of everything. But then, I didn't do that. There's an ocean of scholarship on this.

That you keep building straw men out of what I say makes me think this is not a great use of my time.
Template library to meet common OPA-with-Terraform requirements
Why would Apple investigate? This costs thousands of dollars and Apple isn’t a forensics service provider.
Time machines are dangerous.
I was talking less about the institution and more about the intersections of convictions and methods. Now take that and examine how that intersection influences whether we view Butcher as a hero or anti-hero.
Difficult to overstate the importance of aptitude in light of comments like this. Aptitude is a package manager frontend with an ncurses TUI. The biggest benefit is the clarity it gives to managing dependenies.

Other than that, I completely share your sentiment about how monsterous dselect is with dep-hell situations :).
Show HN: StreetComplete, an OpenStreetMap Editor for Humans
StreetComplete is an OpenStreetMap[0] editor directed at people who want to contribute and want to do this using their smartphone, without learning how to edit things[1]. It is available as an Android application.

It is intended to be used as one walks, with quests appearing as markers on the map. Selecting a marker allows one to answer a simple question. The answer will be added to the OpenStreetMap database, with app handling selecting objects for editing, transforming answer into OSM tags and making edits.

OpenStreetMap account is needed to apply edits, but it is possible to start without it, make some edits and login/register later.

Note: I am not the main author, but I am one of the active contributors. Github page is at https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete and https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/releases shows what was recently released.

[0]OpenStreetMap is a Wikipedia of maps, available on the open licence. This dataset is already used for many interesting or useful projects. And new mappers are always welcomed!

[1] JOSM, Vespucci I use them heavily but describing them as newbie friendly would be a blatant lie. iD is more newbie friendly but still is quite complex to use and unusable on mobile. Most of difference is caused that all of them are general purpose editors, for example it is quite hard to make iD even easier to use.

I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577029 in 2019, since that time several new quests were added, download become significantly faster and app got much smarter, while hopefully not becoming more confusing.
Should not the better coder mentor the less experienced one?

I've only seen one case of some one who IMHO was not just suited as a developer and this is with support and a proper PIP process.
That's good and I hope it stays that way. I also hope that OSM data remains faithful to real conditions, and that other factors such as poor street/sidewalk quality, etc. which can have significant correlation with underserved communities aren't included in the app in the future.
The manufacturing costs are irrelevant for new drugs. If the drug companies couldn’t sell them at a profit, they would never develop them in the first place.

There is an issue with some old out of patent drugs that costs a lot despite being very cheap to manufacture, but that typically has to do with FDA certification deciding who can be allowed to produce what, which is also expensive to obtain.
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Where does the data come from for defining sketch areas?
I recently switched from the mid-range Nikon 24-120 f/4 to the high-end 24-70 f/2.8. Yes the high-end lens is also a stop brighter, but you're missing the point that almost everything about the optics is dramatically improved. The 24-70 is noticeably sharper, even in the corners, has superior bokeh, has much better and more-easily correctable color fringing, super accurate AF (due to the wider aperture), nearly no vignetting, much better blowout characteristics, and much better distortion at wide angles.

More importantly, those things combine to make a certain je nais sai quoi that makes photos taken with it seem to have much higher quality. I took a quick test shot of my dog when I got it and my sister remarked that she could practically feel the dog with her eyes, just looking at the photo. Nobody has ever said that about pictures of the dog that I took with the old lens, even if I spent considerable time trying to get lighting right and the dog to hold still.

My old lens ruined a bunch of shots I took in a forest that required running at the extreme edge of its settings. This new lens doesn't look like it will do that.
I used to work with a guy just like this. He slogged through crap code happily. He did his job and went home. Sadly, the first company I worked with him at fired him. "He wasn't competent, blah blah blah." He did a fine job, people just didn't like that his mentality was different than theirs. I tried to explain to them that the one person who would actually work on their horrendous software was the one they let go. Was he a superstar? No probably not, but he was good and liked his job and went home to his family at the end of the day. A lot of people don't realize a great employee comes in many forms.
People really need to stop using the l-word. It grossly overstates what's happening. They called it that here in the USA too, and it was just as ridiculous. We had these so-called Stay At Home orders, which had tons of exceptions and were both ignored by the population and unenforced by the government. They might as well have been called Stay At Home Suggestions.

An actual sustained lock-down would likely stop the virus's spread, allowing us to finally get back to normal. But nobody wants to claim ownership of the economic fallout, so instead they do these half-assed lock-downs which don't really accomplish much besides making the government look like they're doing something.
As a former resident, you're not mentioning the elephant in the room -- October - May. I grew up in the Midwest, so I get it, it doesn't seem that bad. But after moving away, it's hard to imagine going back, or convincing others to overlook it.
>And the endurance to put in productive 80-100hr work weeks for decades.

That's called drugs.

I am not being flippant, I think there's a whole other segment not fully touched on by this article that needs to be addressed in this subthread. More hours is not always better, and folks who can sustain this typically are using some sort of substance to do so. Whether that substance is as mild as caffeine in the 10 shots of espresso they have a day or they're railing lines of coke in between high-stress meetings, they aren't doing this off their own natural energy, and it takes a serious toll on their physical and mental health which they may not even be aware of.

I speak this from experience. I'm one of those people who was known as a "super-hacker" doing "80-100hr work weeks", and what most people didn't realize was I was downing between 20-30 shots of espresso a day. I actually ended up hospitalized at one point due to severe dehydration caused by constant mass intake of caffeine and not enough fluids. It almost caused me to have renal failure, and basically was the wake up call that represented a turning point in how I thought about work-life balance. It certainly helped advance my career and gave me a mythical reputation, but it was in no way healthy, and it ultimately didn't serve the interests of my team at that company, only the interests of the executive leadership who profited off my extra hours of work for which I was not compensated fairly.
We just need to mandate reference based pricing. This automatically goes away and also removes other huge parts of the wasted health care spend. Additionally, it doesn't require new taxes at all.
There ought to be a recognized set of ethics & principles that are involved with making good software, like with any Profession. Following the hype or silver bullet solution for it's own sake should not be one of those principles.
"(and seeming inevitability of) weaponized drones" - it is not inevitable, it happened already.
Not my area of expertise but if I had a literally priceless old supercomputer, I wouldn't necessarily want to risk running it outside of its intended operating conditions (especially after 40 years)
Yup! And what will you do about it anyways? Like "Oh, you need xyz, it will cost $1000" Ok. Now that I know that, what am I supposed to do? Shop around? What if I'm in the emergency room, what then? Are they supposed to give me a price menu for every single drug or treatment they need to perform against me?

"Hey, we'll do CPR, but that'll will be $100, please sign here so we can save your life".

The ala cart method seems like it might work until you start thinking about the logistics. If someone goes to a doctor complaining about chest pain, do we really want them to leave because an EKG and blood test are going to cost $200. No matter how much the doctor explains to them "You might be dying" plenty of people will walk out of the hospital once the bill is presented. In some of those situations, that's going to be deadly.
That is a completely bizarre claim. What is Google? A highly regulated search monopoly? I think not.
I belive Sigma realized that they need to up their game and a lot because the Chinese cheapo manufacturers (and partially Samyang) are eating the really low end niche. Of course Samyang has upped their game with the AF-equipped Sony FE -lenses as well, but they are still low end compared to nowadays quite good Sigma mirrorless offerings.
Numi would be my favourite of all these kind of calculators on macOS, if it wasn't for the lack of unit calculations[0], e.g density = 2 kg / 3 l, mass = 10 dm^3 * density

[0]: Not sure of the actual term in English
The best suggestion I have is https://astrobites.org/

These are paper summaries, written by people in the field, where you are probably the target audience. I don't read it myself, but give it a go!
For what it's worth, I like Bryan Carnathan's reviews a little more for Canon specific stuff: https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-RF-800mm-F...
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Yes but even then only some users will use those. Hence, Threema will continue to generate income from the app stores.
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As a Nikon shooter with pro-level gear, replacing the Nikon logo with the Apple one would be the fastest way to get me to ditch their ecosystem.
4.3BSD VAX was distributed on open-reel magnetic tape.

The second file of the first tape contained a miniroot filesystem which, at the very least, certainly would have included working copies of of the two utilities mknod(8) and restore(8) required to restore from his dump(8) tapes.

As with DOS, Windows, Linux, etc., 4.3 BSD could only mount filesystems stored on random-access block devices (so not sequential-access magtape).

Therefore, one of the first steps in "booting from distribution media" was to copy this miniroot filesystem to the swap partition of a formatted and labeled disk, at which point it could be mounted as the root filesystem (with swapping to this partition disabled, obviously).

In the (likely) case that the existing disk layout contained a swap partition of sufficient size on a device supported by the boot loaders and kernel supplied by the distribution, this would have indeed been a reasonable road to recovery, and, assuming the existing disk labels remained valid, the required swap space was available, and the dump(8) tapes were good, shouldn't have required anything beyond:

1. Copying the miniroot from tape to a preexisting swap partition using the standalone copy program included with the distribution media (typically on a console tape or diskette as appropriate for the VAX model in question).

2. Booting vmunix from the miniroot in the swap partition, taking care to RTFM and include the special syntax required to prevent swapping to the partition containing the miniroot.

3. Recreating required special files with mknod(8) (possibly using the /dev/MAKEDEV script from the miniroot).

4. Using restore(8) to restore from dump(8) tapes as usual.
Show HN: A localized (no network access) clipboard manager for your Mac
Gene pathway linked to schizophrenia identified through stem cell engineering