skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much everyone agrees that the "best" syntax for declarations is Go-style "x: int;" and not C-style "int x;", but to be fair you don't see declarations like that very often. Once you understand the (admittedly bad) syntax for "pointer to function returning type" as opposed to "function returning pointer to type", most declarations you're likely to find aren't hard to read.

I mantain some C code as part of my job and I don't recall declarations ever being a problem to mentally parse.
> The only people who have an incentive are people banned from the incumbent.

Other groups might be people who feel harassed by people who aren't banned from the incumbent. For example, I think Mastodon saw early large influxes of LGBT users who were getting tired of Twitter's lack of moderation.

(Though of course, Mastodon has seen other influxes as well that might have helped it get over a specific niche - IIRC many Japanese who had different ideas about what is tolerable than Western platforms, and of course techies enthusiastic about federation.)
I finally ended buying a cheap (15€) hdmi-usb capture for my dslr and the quality is abysmal.

Sure canon released an usb support for it, but all the usb cameras I've tried end up using a lot of cpu. With the capture card 0 problems.
So then it's not "any" 5 out of 15, it's "any group of these three", which is a significant disadvantage compared to SSS.
It really is not excusable, since

a) As far as I'm aware no other languages at that time suffered from this ridiculous defect.

b) It doesn't really seem like the thing where you'd need 20/20 hindsight to figure out it's a bad idea.

The same applies to a lot of the lasting braindamage C has inflicted on the computing industry. It's just that people have been numbed to it thanks to constant exposure as every single popular language in the last twenty years has aped at least some of C's defects.

Other major problems either introduced or spread by C include:

- the execrable octal number syntax

- fallthrough-as-default case statements

- non-first class arrays

- strings that don't know their length

- the unsafe/ub-by-default mindset

- braindamaged linking

- abusing = for assignment, combined with making assignment an expression. For most of C's history you'd not even get a compiler warning for if (a = b) ...

- generally there is a very unhealthy mix of of being highly imperative and statement based and at the same time having a lot of ad hoc ways to "expressionify" things (comma operator, ternary, pre-and-post increment/decrement), which, combined with undefined order of evaluation, encourages all sorts of errors.

- error-prone optional braces syntax (dangling if etc.)

- remainder (rather than modulo) operator

- very nasty implicit number promotion rules

- messed up operator precedence

- "if (!pred(x) || a <= b && y)" for "if not pred(x) or a =< b and y"

- the c pre-processor

- a broken comment syntax (how do you comment out a region with comments inside?)

- spuriously non-grepable function definitions/declarations
What's the outlook

Tumbleweed-y and under-the-carpet-y.
How to create a CLI program in Go and host it on NPM
Brand's book so rightly emphasizes getting the ordering of layers right, IIRC. If you are familiar with condo law, stacking mobile homes (per the article) could be seen as absolutely minimizing "limited common element" and coupled utilities. -- So in a sense the book and the article match up there as well.
>Remember the holocaust

I'd posit the words weren't the things affecting people, but whatever actions they took
I used Logitech C922. The image quality was really bad. Now using Sony A6000 + Elgato HD60 S plus. It's an expensive setup but works great.
This is a standard strawman. OP was _not_ suggesting that obese/trans people don't deserve to live.
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Hold my hand as I learn about C64 internals and 6502 assembly language while attempting to disassemble Jeff Minter's "best week of work I've ever done": the 1982 Commodore 64 classic, Gridrunner.
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I think you underestimate some of the existing car makers.

Making cars isn't just a question of R&D, it's a question of being able to manufacture at scale and quality.

This is something that Telsa have really struggled with - as a result the reliability of Tesla cars isn't as good as it should be. Telsa need to really crack this - but it's not as easy as it seems - that's why certain car brands succeed in petrol era, and others didn't - the ability to make them well is what, in the end, separated companies.

Electric cars are fundamentally a lot simpler than try to drive the car forward with a series of controlled explosions - but the key usability challenges are:

- charging times
- range

Progress is being made on both, but if somebody can really crack them, that's the game changer.

Electric vehicles aren't new, as a child my milk was delivered from an electric vehicle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
I got the CamLink 4k, for use with a 4K camera (Sony AX33). Unfortunately, the HDMI out is only 1080P. So yeah while it works it doesn't feel like much of an upgrade over my aging Logitech C910.
Some of the European Constitutional Courts are restricted to check the laws only when challenged by the president of the country, a High Court or a large number of members of the Parliament (same people who voted it), ordinary people cannot do that and the check is not automatic. It solves maybe 5% of the problems with the laws that and non-constitutional because nobody can effectively challenge the rest.
That seems a bit drastic but I agree with the sentiment and would also include laptops. Maybe I'm wrong since I didn't check all hardware but Apple still seem to be the only ones that have rigid quality controls, make sure parallel parts are parallel, mechanical parts stand a reasonable amount of movements. (At least as long they are not testing a new "innovation" like butterfly keyboards... ;)) That said, I buy stuff used if I cannot buy the high quality version. It falls apart anyway, this way there's no reason to be upset and it's better for the environment.
>> How many classical composers can you name? I doubt many people, even erudite
people, could push well beyond the basic frontier of Bach, Beethoven, and
Mozart.

Let me see- without asking the internet, off the top of my head:

Tchaikovsy
Wagner
Verdi
Vivaldi
Brahms
Schubert
Musorgsky
Skalkotas
Soshtakovich (spelling?)
Satie (sp?)
Rostropovich (sp.?)
The guy who wrote Hungarian Dances?
The guy who wrote Per Gynt?
The guy who wrote the opera Amleto?

Well I guess you're right. That's how many names I can conjure off the top of my
head after scratching it for five minutes. I would recognise another dozen names
or two though, with a bit more scratching.

Edit: OK, after looking up stuff, Brahms wrote Hungarian Dances but I was
thinking of Béla Bartók; Grieg wrote the _Peer_ Gynt suite (not Per Gynt); and
Franco Faccio wrote Amleto. Correct spellings: Shostakovich; Satie is correct;
and Rostropovich was a musician, but not a composer X)

Oh, crap- I forgot Dvorák. How could I fogret Dvorák?

I think the above is more evidence of my memory needing more coffee, than my
knowledge of classical composers.

... but I think you'd be surprised how many classical composers people who don't
consider themselves particularly erudite will know. I don't think you're right.
I have many friends who play classical music instruments and who listen to
classical and love it and know the composers' names almost as well as I know the
names of obscure black metal bands :)
It'll get worse.

Being on reddit anchored them to a wider community and gave them rules to abide by. This meant the true nastiness wasn't on display only hinted at. People drawn in by the memes from wider reddit weren't immediately repelled by the kind of nastiness that's on display in thedonald.win.

Now they're on their own platform they have no anchor and no real rules, they'll "muh free speech" themselves to destruction.
Those are great tips.
I'll add a free one: just put your desk in front of a window and use that natural light
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I'd choose an Eizo over LG, definitely.
>your argument at best is in bad faith

I disagree (although this was a question more than an argument)

>Constant dehumanization of people does not eventually lead to physical violence?

What it might lead to is irrelevant, the act of speech does not impede anything and a lot of things have the potential to lead to violence, yet legalizing it is arbitrary at best
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newrelic...
What's the difference between writing OO code that depends on internal state and writing a pure function that expects an argument that is a data structure of a specific type (and thus has internal data that could be different)? Is the pure function no longer pure if the argument is a data structure thats complex and the values within the data structure dictate the outcome of the the function? Or is it a pure function because if you pass the same data structure with the same internal values the function will return the same value?
This article sort of glosses over the actual cost of designing the hardware. You should be able to get 500 units made working through a factory. Though minimum qty for parts can be as high as 5000, usually factories can find most components in smaller qty for 2-5x the price, especially since they already have relationships with suppliers. At $25-$35 bill of materials for something retailing at $250-$300 you're only looking at maybe $15k capital costs for the electronics and maybe another $15k for the molds (less if you can use one of the cheaper processes). $30k is pretty cheap from a capital expense if you're just talking about testing a market. The bigger cost is going to be all the engineering that goes into a product like this. It would be easy to spend $100k in billable hours to bring something as complicated as a webcam to market. You've got component selection and schematic work, board layout, industrial design work, firmware. If you're lucky you can slap together the equivalent of an arduino with an attached camera for initial prototypes but that'll only get you so far, and can still take weeks of development just to have a proof of concept. Hardware development is not for the faint of heart.

, and if you don't already have expertise in the webcam world, there's a good chance your product isn't going to actually be very good.
There is actually a good webcam now. It's AverMedia PW513. It has a Sony Exmor 4K sensor, and generally favorable reviews.
Time to get excited about the growing Windows on ARM Ecosystem
No. I think I covered that with "the markets are so large that it's usually hard for a supplier to form a monopoly or a few to form oligopoly."
Isn't the whole solution to the problem:

1) Choose a good master password for you password manager

2) Remember it

3) !!! Don't write it down anywhere !!!
That's awesome thank you!
If it is pointless, the amendment should be formally removed (voted, ratified), not breached, otherwise any existing law and right can be breached with the excuse "this is completely pointless today".
Wouldn't have thought the baby's mother would allow CPR to be performed.

Kudos to these guys
Great list Martin! Thanks for sharing. I agree with all of it :-)
+1 for improving audio quality. As a non-native English speaker, although I listen to daily podcasts without subs just fine, understanding an English speaking--possibly non-native, too!--person having a poor audio quality connection is a different story.
"The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position."

Naive, your hard work will be stolen by the 3 letter people.
Apologies for the snark. This would probably be a fun discussion in person. In my experience, most apparent disagreements like this just come down to confusion over which factors are being held constant out of field of view, sensor size, focal length, total amount of light gathered, etc. etc.

If the phone was using a slice of a DSLR sensor, then yes, the absolute aperture would be what was relevant, as you obviously cannot improve the resolution of an image merely by cropping it (if you imagine a ultra ultra wide DSLR lens which becomes a normal phone lens after the crop).

But two points:

First, you're then comparing resolution at a focal length that's irrelevant to DSLRs, so in practical terms it's not a like for like comparison.

Second, phones are using sensors with higher pixel density. The question is just whether the phone can use a wide enough fixed aperture to avoid being limited by diffraction at the desired resolution. A fixed aperture of e.g. f1.6 is practical at phone focal lengths but not (as a fixed aperture) at full frame focal lengths. If you calculate the theoretical linear resolution limit imposed by phone camera f-numbers, it's approaching 1000 lp/mm for the better models (e.g. an iPhone with an f1.6 aperture and a ~10mm sensor). I'm sure the real limits are lens aberrations and noise at the moment.
The John Deere example is so bad it almost seems manufactured to push out small farmers. It seems like the opposite of a system that claims to be about markets leading to efficiency.
You’re part of the tyranny who won relative to billions of others.

So-called civilized society is using its wealth to expropriate resources from other nations rather than destroy its own land.

And poisoning it’s community.

But it would be tyranny to stop it, according to the average opinion.

Infinitely big little numbers and the cognitive ability to spin in semantic circles often seem like similar concepts to me.

But there are consumer clouds to build in and gadgets to dispose of! Don’t tread on me treading on the species at scale!

Free speech is great but management of reality for the success of the species should not be left in the rear view mirror. Change in personal agency must be part of the solution, but my free speech!
Of course I don't keep a second box at the office. Likewise I know very few people that keep a piano in a flight case when they're not transporting it.

I actually do have bikes that I only take on circular rides because of their value and I baby the hell out of them but that's a false dichotomy.

They are not saying you have to treat these bikes as fragile musical instruments. They're just saying that if you do it will incur less wear and tear.

A carbon fibre bike frame is probably more fragile than a steel one. That limits the number of use cases for carbon but doesn't mean it's not a practical material for different usecases.

As a further example, I have a TT race bike. I keep mine hanging up in the garage an only take it out to races or for circular training rides.

I have a friend that commutes on his TT bike as a form of training. Mine will last longer than his.
The Welcome page is actually editable and publishable! I'll definitely make that clear.

The main difference for other platforms is the UI and UX. We want to make creating and publishing a website as easy as writing a blog post. Incumbent platforms could be quite daunting for the non technical or non design people - i.e. I don't have to know what is a DIV or BODY to create a website. Makes sense?
You're making me miss GrokLaw, where the best coverage of the Prenda debacle went down in discussion sections.
I Nearly Lost All of My Data (2019)
So close, but annoyingly my older ICLE-6000 didn't make the cut. Thanks for the information.
4 years you mean, generating profit the entire time. You have a very high bar for commercial success.
I use a similar setup with a Panasonic GH5 I already had, but I bought one of those €15 Chinese HDMI capture USB UVC cards [1]. These work surprisingly well, and I've had zero issues using them for ~4 hours back-to-back Zoom meetings on my MBP. They've also received some good reviews on YouTube [2].

For audio, I use my Airpods. Great setup for meetings. Latency is good enough IMO.

--

[1]: https://www.amazon.nl/gp/product/B088ZTK56F

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daS5RHVAl2U
exactly, audio is the most important. Nobody needs to see your unshaven sleepy quarantine face in 4K. But if they can't hear you, or there is a lot of noise, the meeting is ruined
Yes, week 49 is December, not September.

The decrease you cite is likely the Thanksgiving peak subsiding.
Dell sells good monitors.
Like it's hard to strip audio from video
> Blackmagic DeckLink

And if you wanna save some cash, any $20-25 hdmi to usb capture card will work just fine. It won't give you uncompressed video, but you won't need it for this use case.
Can you share some info on that? The little that I read about it, US Libertarian party is not what most Libertarians would recognize as libertarian.
An alternate reality where Apple makes the Cybertruck.
A hot cup of Mocha (transcript)
> The simplest thing is to sit in a room so the window is in front of you and the Sun isn’t shining into a lens from behind your shoulder.

Unfortunately, this is a rather bad idea from workplace security point of view. You really don't wanna be looking at a screen that's in front of a window (i.e. parallel to the window), unless you like excessive eye strain.
In the goofy department ... At one time I imagined having exterior loading doors on condos so you could palletize everything to "pack" and move quickly (albeit using a crane). In a sense the OP shows scaling this up, but it now occurs to me those "loading doors" could be interior, leading to a freight elevator, with hallways large enough for pallets.
> Then they give the product a hilariously user-hostile product name, like “PQS GRT46782-WT” as an extra f-you to the user.

That is also a strategy to prevent product comparisons and unbiased reviews. They quickly cycle through product names and sell a certain product no. only in a limited geographical area.

Doesn't matter if a consumer org/magazine/someone on reddit/your friend/etc. does a review. The product will be out of market by the time you read it, or will not be sold in your country. The similar looking product you find on the shelf might be the same, or it might have something completely different inside.
> Though minimum qty for parts can be as high as 5000

It can be as high as 100 000. No stock anywhere.

> $30k is pretty cheap from a capital expense if you're just talking about testing a market.

Yep. That's what I thought before contacting SoC vendors.

> It would be easy to spend $100k in billable hours to bring something as complicated as a webcam to market.

I'm not in the USA, engineering hours are much cheaper in my country.
Video of the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj2-cgxy98o

Definitely smiled when the elephant gets up on its own feet again :)
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Indeed, if the team is not able to write modular code, it is not putting a network in the middle that it will sort it out, the outcome is just spaghetti network calls.
Thanks for the reply and the suggestion. Just adding to the idea, basically everything we do leaves society scarred in a way or another. Societal, cultural, economical, we’re not in a ‘solved’ phase of anything. The ARVR you mentioned could help us accelerate our progress in the matter, at the expanse of our wellbeing. I feel it’s a choice we constantly make as a species, and more often than not we choose sacrifice for velocity.
Some people like the brutalist aesthetic.
A2 gets updates every few months.

I am hoping to be able to work on a more “native” UX for it for MacOS rather than the xorg/X11 based one.

There’s ARM support already too but I don’t think M1 works in any sense yet, so I guess I’ll have to use Bonjour2 for now.

Fun stuff!
As said in the sibling comment, it mostly fades away and you see the structure with indentation - very much how you would in Python.
You still have to test all the 80 lines if they're broken down into multiple functions, so it's something that you have to evaluate on a case-by-case basis.

It might even make it harder to test: if you break a function wrong, then you might end up with a group of functions that only work together anyway.

For example: when you break a big function into 3 smaller ones. If the first acquires a resource (transaction, file) and the third releases it, then it might be simpler to test the whole group rather than each one separately.
That would be hailed as a huge waste of time and money. What US has instead is an Office of Legal Counsel full of lawyers at the Justice Department. Their role is to polish turds until shine blinds you. OLC are the ones responsible for Bush Administration legalization of torture.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/opinion/trump-justice-dep...
Light is the reason good webcams are not built-in.

With still pictures you can expose for longer and/or use multiple low quality sensors to build up enough information for software to construct a higher quality image.

With video you cannot expose for longer, and software building a picture would need to be near real-time.

So problem #1 is light... you need to get a lot more light into the sensor, but the laptop is thin and optics are large (and as glass and light, they cannot be made much smaller).

I have a good set up, but the thing I tell people who want to replicate it: Buy lights before you buy a camera... your built-in cam may be sufficient if you are well lit. Or even cheaper, if you have a desk facing a wall... there's no light source, so turn it around or face a window.

Failing improved lighting fixing it... you need a good sensor and a lens that lets in a lot of light, especially if you are going to be in a poorly lit space.

Sony produced the absolutely perfect form factor for this... https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/interchangeable-lens-came...

It's basically a sensor in a minimal body that you can mount a standard lens on and then place on a tripod (which opens up any mount / arm thing).

Why then is it not popular?

It came too early, and wasn't quite ready for always streaming video... both the software in this older revision and the hardware have issues (cooling the sensor for constant video is the problem here as it wasn't anticipated to be used to stream for 10+ hours per day and struggles beyond 30 minutes as I understand). Additionally it only has a micro-USB connection, no HDMI or USB-C... and it really needs a single USB-C that can both power and handle the video. Things it doesn't need: battery or flash - but I guess keeping them means it plausibly could be a stills camera if needed.

If that format included the equivalent of the Elgato CamLink HDMI to USB-C device and priced around $300 then I think it would be a wild success. The BOM suggests this is possible.

Sony already have a lot of the pro-streaming market along with Panasonic, but if Sony made a specialist product for home streaming then I would buy it instantly... as it would liberate my a7rii from the job.