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>I wouldn't be surprised if the iphone cameras have had a billion dollars of development invested in them

Which is neither here, nor there. There are tons of dirt cheap (often cheaper) compact cameras on the market with better quality that most webcams, and have been for years. Including equally small as webcam options.

There are also tons of dirt cheap Android phones with far better camera quality in an even more constrained space (for the camera module) than a webcam.

There are also embedded laptop cameras with better quality than most $100 and plus webcams.

As a sibling comment said: "I use OBS Studio's output as virtual camera - and among the inputs I use cheap old Android tablets with DroidCam OBS over IP on Wi-Fi... They cost less than a USB webcam and deliver much better image quality."

There's absolutely no reason webcam makers couldn't build a better product using components found in 5+ year old phones...

Even if it was expensive, the problem is there's not even an expensive $300 or $500 webcam with quality compared to a years old Android or iPhone smartphone of equal price, or a compact camera.

Heck, webcams sold as $1000 and $2000 "enterprise" webcams, in bulky enclosures to sit on a desk or large TV, have some more conveniences (to fit the enterpise moniker), but same (crap) image quality.
Australians lose access to Google search, and the newspapers don't make a dime. Sounds like an awfully dumb law to me.
French news sites prevail in negotiations with Google over "neighboring rights”
Yes. Only the sync stops working when offline.
You just have to keep the lights on and not die of cancer for six months. The radiation isn't that bad.

Edit: The specific number is under 2 millisievert per day. And "One sievert carries with it a 5.5% chance of eventually developing fatal cancer based on the linear no-threshold model."
Different article from a month ago “Why can’t you buy a good web cam?” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25504771

Lots of points. Big one being that the market is bifurcated into:

1. People who just want the minimum as cheap as possible.

2. People willing to pay enough to buy a mirrorless photo camera and plug it in as a web cam when they need it.
AWS PrivateLink is just one option. AWS also offers free VPC peering too, but PrivateLink works better.
Maybe training with actual bottom-line utility function would have shown some use case, that is, instead of MCC you would have predicted whether sending a person to change the drive now before it fails would cost less than letting it fail and cleaning up afterwards.

But if the drives are part of redundant array, it would be almost always cheapest to let them fail.. and if large part of failures are asymptomatic, you need the array anyway for critical stuff, so I suppose it's a useless exercise.
> MS has always been solid with developer tools, documentation, and dev relations

The single most heavily used Microsoft dev environment is the Microsoft VBA Editor. It has not had any update in nine years and is virtually unchanged in 22 years since the release of Office 2000, incredibly outdated in terms of usability. It also cannot be replaced by using a text editor like other IDEs can. It is anything but solid.
Stories like this make The Organization Man by W. H. Whyte[0] seem prescient. And never forget Pournelle's iron law:

>Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":

>First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

>Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

>The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

[0] https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13785.html

[1] https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Although this blog is written by someone with a financial incentive, it seems well thought out.

The comparison is reasonable in that it compares “the best” webcam (a Logitec c930, according to https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-webcams/) with an iPhone using their software.

I don't care if this is an “advertorial” or not, I'm going to test this software because my webcam sucks as well.
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Propaganda masquerading as science, cryptocurrencies suck, of course, but not as hard as the petro-dollar.
If this continues the motivation for open sourcing your work will be lost.
>OpenBSD paying for their OpenSSL forks

Do you know that OpenBSD initially MADE OpenSSL?

But also

LibreSSL (the fork of OpenSSL)

OpenBGPD

OpenOSPFD

OpenNTPD

OpenSMTPD

OpenSSH
Under Agency Shop, hourly workers have to pay full union dues whether they join the union or not (workers who preceded Agency Shop can opt out).
I don't think it happens to everybody with astigmatism. I cannot read any text with black background. After a very short amount of time I'm unable to read anything, and once I take my eyes off the screen it feels as though I've been staring into the sun.

There used to be a great Firefox plugin that allowed me to change the colours of web pages that use black background, but it doesn't work anymore, and I haven't found a good replacement.
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I can believe that too :-)
I used Google's classic App Engine a lot. The free tier goes a very long way.
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There was an MIT Tech Review article on mineral weathering that had quite a bit about this project.
I always wondered what happens if Google gives places like Australia the big middle finger, completely withdraws all their infrastructure, lays off all the Australian workforce, completely and entirely closes shop... But still serves Google Australia from say, Singapore.

What recourse does the Australian government have?
I don't think it would be hard to offer PrivateLink to tenants via Kubernetes. You'd just make a K8s LoadBalancer, set the annotations to back it with an NLB, then expose that with PrivateLink.
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Browser vendors don't take clearing browser data seriously, see how Firefox has implemented the browsingData extension API [1]. These bugs compromise the security and privacy of Firefox users, but fixing them has not been a priority over the years.

Built-in clearing options in Firefox will also leave classes of cached data behind. The only reliable way to wipe everything has been to delete specific files from the Firefox profile folder before the browser launches.

[1] https://armin.dev/blog/2019/03/firefox-extensions-browsing-d...
It's become somewhat more independent with family setup, where only the person setting it up needs an iPhone.
Same. I think those of us who learned to touch type on post-T9 devices find the smaller phones’ keyboards more familiar. Contrast that with twentysomethings I know, and the disparity disappears.
Those days are thankfully done since Flash Player refuses to play web content after Jan 1 2021.
As long as Substack hosts a blog-like format for its newsletters, it's also a blogging platform.
If the Australian government wants to try and force Google to make payments that exceed the revenue they get in Australia and is effectively preventing simply de-listing news sites (this is in the code).

This seems like a reasonable approach to me.

I don't agree generally with a lot of Googles business practices but I feel like this is just a desperate attempt to increase profits by the Murdoch media in Australia.

Disclaimer: Am Australian
Good enough for what?

Most of the sample pics look absolutely fine to me for every day use, i.e., online meetings.
I get the sense that you haven’t read the article.

This article controls for lighting, showing the results of different types of cameras in different lighting conditions, and showing that even with good lighting, all of the webcams are still poor, and most are terrible. And they’re all distinctly worse than any Apple phones from the last few years (and even the front-facing camera from an Apple phone from five years ago is better than half of them).
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I don't understand blog articles like this with few lines of text and 7 backlinks to other articles from the same blog.
Feels like promotion more than a conversation starter.
Great and very comprehensive writeup of what happened at

https://insights.deribit.com/market-research/was-there-a-bit...
> Regarding the satellites, i hope the Starlink satellites will also be not visible to the naked eye

This is not guaranteed at all. I read articles in the past mentioning that you will see "trains" of dozens of white dots one behind another in the sky.

Do we currently see satellites in a dark summer night?
Yes. So for Starlink it will be the same, except with 10 of them one behind another.

I'd be happy to read more sources confirming or infirming this.
Hey - It's me, your friendly supermarket supply chain guy! (I now consult on this stuff)

Picking in store has a huge number of cost base efficiencies compared to using a 'dark store'. These are as follows:

* Reduced property costs and property overhead.

* Having 5 vans in 300 locations is better than having 300 vans in 5 locations from a transport perspective (you get much closer to the customer, or have to tranship through hubs).

* Depending on locale, store workers may have more relaxed terms and conditions and unionisation than industrial warehouse workers, which 'warehouse' workers may get dependent on setup.

* Every darkstore you have needs to be fully stocked. This isn't so much of an issue with long-life products, but is an issue with fresh products that need to be sold before their expiry. A darkstore has a 'minimum viable size' with these fresh products dependent on the range you want to offer. Bigger darkstore with more customers means a bigger range - but you are also further away from the customer so either you have a bigger stem distance or need to do trunking to hubs and tranship from there.

So it's not about getting wise, trust me we think about these things and will model what is the most optimum way to deliver, at least in the UK :) An incredibly rough rule-of-thumb of logistics in the UK is that 1/3 of your money is spent on transport, 1/3 is spent on warehouse labour and 1/3 is spent on fixed costs (building, rent, utilities, equipment) - so your saving on labour has to be significant to pull back the fixed cost benefit of running out of an existing retail estate.

This is in the UK - most supermarkets have their own in-store pickers and will deliver with vans in the back. We have one company (Occado) that has a few large DC's and will tranship to outbases with vans. Some supermarkets have these dedicated 'darkstore' facilities in super-dense areas (e.g. Tesco, Asda), but they don't work in most areas of the country and in most cases are actually more expensive to run than in-store picking operations (they are done for capacity reasons rather than cost reasons).

The advantages of the centralised approach tend actually to be about service. If I can centralise to a big enough warehouse, I can offer a better range and offer things like visibility of expiry dates.
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I think the issue is not specific to software or engineering. The best managers are those who are good at management and business and the thing their team is doing, in the sense that they have a team and a company because it'd be too slow for them to the work all by themselves. But they could, if they weren't under time pressure and lived forever.

"MBA" is being used here as a shorthand for a professional management class who don't have any other skills, I don't think it means explicitly the qualification. And because they don't have any specific non-management skills, they think they can manage anything, which makes them mediocre managers at anything they do (at best).

In other words MBA has become a label for such people because the programmes appear to promote that worldview. But of course you can get people who have an MBA and who could also do their teams work, there's no rule that says you can't. And the discussion would probably not apply to those people.
some unions have argued that union jobs should be exempted from minimum wage laws

Union shops are exempt from numerous worker-protection laws. For example, California rest and meal break constraints don't apply to organized laborers; the contract can specify whatever rules the labor reps and management agree on.
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About Brave:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25839277
There was an electric Morgan . . . sort of:

https://uk.motor1.com/news/405763/morgan-discontinues-electr...
Alternative title: "struggling to find new and young talent, Intel turns to retired engineers in a desperate attempt to stay competitive on the market"
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Geo-blocking is probably their only recourse, but given the reliance on google cloud/google maps/android in Australia that would probably end up in the political party getting ousted in the next election.
I wonder if Google is running a large scale A/B experiment.

Agree to pay in France while testing removal of news results in Australia.
> Suppose Elastic had used GPL instead. Then Amazon's hands are tied to a greater extent, but we still lose out. If AWS is the one maintaining ElasticSearch, then ES will steadily become more and more nichely-suited to being a part of the Amazon cloud and less suited to a self-hosted use case. Users can patch it for their own use-cases, but they'll never be able to make it as good as it would have been if there were full-time maintainers supporting them. The commons still become less rich.

On the contrary, the commons gets the version of ElasticSearch that is most useful to end users. If Elastic can offer better service to end-users, their deployment will be more popular and people will prefer their patches; if AWS can offer better service to end-users, their deployment will be more popular.
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> revenue of $3.4 billion, and 13400 employees. By IT sector standards, that's decent but far from spectacular.

That revenue is the budget of the police force in my country. Why would being bigger then that necessarily be a good thing.
Apple still ships bad webcams on their laptops.

There seems to be a big class divide between phone cameras and webcams.
You can’t unshare them from the organization. Say you create an entry for Bank of America. You then later share that entry with the “Family” organization. That entry now forever lives with that organization unless you delete it and then make a new entry again in your personal vault.

A more user friendly approach would be for the entry’s ownership to always remain with the original creator and simply share that entry with the organization. You could then later revoke sharing the entry with others or the organization. This is how almost every other file sharing works.

I’m sure there are underlying issues, especially since the goal is for it to be cryptographically secure, it’s just not a very user friendly system and as I said it’s ultimately my own fault what happened to me.
> But other than that, what’s the appeal?

Because the doors go like this:

--\__/--
> To people who complain about deplatforming Parler, how would you feel about de-platforming a forum to recruit members for ISIS, or the Taliban?

That completely depends.

1. If the stated goal of the platform is onboarding for terrorist organizations, then that's a completely different situation.

2. If the platform is open, but known to be used as a main recruiting platform for such an organization, then I also don't think it should be shut down.
Ctrl-F Flux Capacitor. Missed opportunity.
I'm not sure - efficiency standards push in a very specific direction.
True but Missiles have explosives in it...drones "normally" don't...in the modern day, in the old days everything was a bit more mixed together.
I was unaware of these options, thank you.
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>"That confidence is derived from central banks’ ability to reduce supply when demand is falling."

So the core feature that drives interest in cryptocurrencies, a lack of central management, is a problem for this economist.

>The “fundamental flaw” inherent in cryptocurrencies is that supply can’t be reduced when demand is slumping in most cases, Paul Donovan, chief economist at UBS GWM, said in a video this week. That means they can’t be considered currencies, he said.

Yet the example of the central bank managed currencies is an exercise in constant inflation of the money supply. If Donovan's observation were accurate, how can he explain humanity's long history with monetary metals. Gold and silver are still regarded by some as the only legitimate forms of money.

Overbearing regulations are driving the use of cryptocurrency. Artificially low interest rates are driving speculation. Rampant money supply inflation is driving people to seek other ways to save.

It is almost as if this author is completely disconnected from reality. Legal tender laws, Gresham's law and the cumbersome nature of many cryptocurrencies have more bearing on the currency people choose to transact with everyday.
That's not what the poster meant. It wasn't counting rockets, but the fact that the cost was spread out over multiple years.

Yes, if it were possible to go from zero to moon in one year then that would be all of Google revenue. But spread over 10 years that's just 10% per year.
What matters for portable code is what ISO C states.
Even Apple was recently mocked for putting a 720p webcam in their latest 2020 MBP/MBA (while their phones sport clusters of cameras each in silly-megapixel territory)
Street crime & bank robbery became a terrible business model because as a society we agree that this kind of crime needs to be stopped/deterred and implemented mitigations (such as making it harder to resell stolen goods, requiring extra documentation for large cash-based transactions, etc).

There's no reason the same couldn't apply to advertising. We could implement (and actually enforce - so unlike the GDPR for example) privacy regulations that would make ad tracking more transparent and give consumers a choice, or repealing Section 230 protections for platforms that take on an publisher role by prioritizing certain content to generate "engagement". These would make advertising less lucrative and let other business models take over.
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The company Elastic was created 2 years after the release of ElasticSearch.
There’s so much space for icons and borders, you had to abbreviate the titles even (viewed on mobile device). I prefer HN’s style.
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They've talked about it in some cases. See https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/30/16222850/youtube-google-b...
No, it really isn't just about lighting. Not only do even cheap smartphone cameras perform better than the best webcams in typical indoor lighting conditions, but for example the "good" webcam everyone uses - the Logitech C920 - has a dodgy autoexposure algorithm that overexposes shots if people do use enough lighting, and the manual controls are apparently really buggy. Professional streamers mostly just seem to have gotten used to working around this. (Then there's the colour accuracy and autofocus issues, which everyone just puts up with.)
Except the webcam in my Macbook has a powerful CPU, GPU, AI chip, and an OS from the same company and its webcam still sucks.
I can't believe you had the gall to post that after they said "I wasn't aware of that - that is fantastic."

Talk about bias...
I also noticed fairly early on, that phone cameras were improving by leaps and bounds, while laptop webcams and USB webcams seemed to be at a standstill, image-quality wise.

I don't know why that is, but even Apple would seemingly rather shave 50 cents off the BOM by speccing a 720p Facetime camera in their $3000 Macbook Pros, and trying to make up the difference with software, like with the new M1 Macs that have better image quality using the same 720p webcam.

For my desktop I've taken to using an action camera, since software that supports using Android phones as webcams seemed to not be so good when I looked. It plugs in via USB, is cheap, has auto-focus and supports a wider angle of view than most webcams. Good for group calls. One can always zoom in with software.
I agree. Also, that site is clearly influenced by the "community" because it's based on what repos are trending! :-)
Who said it was a laughing matter? It's just a news report of an event that happened.
Surely you could put all that software on the expensive PC?
Ask HN: How much to charge for first freelance consultancy?
I'm a PhD student studying cyber-security (aviation security in particular) and was recently approached by an avionics company who wants to hire me for advice based on my academic research. The most money I've ever earned before this is something like $25/hr in an internship. They're asking me to quote them my monthly rates and I'm worried about either under-quoting and looking unprofessional or over-charging and looking greedy. The company is European if that matters at all.

How much do you all feel would be appropriate / non-presumptive to ask for as a student with high subject-expertise and low consultancy experience? Would something like $50/hr be crazy high or crazy low?
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When I wasn't able to purchase a webcam (for a reasonable amount) at the beginning of the lockdown, I started using my Pixel 3 with DroidCam[1].
My video quality is consistently the best in all the meetings I'm in, so I can really recommend using your phone.

I stream the video over adb myself, to make sure I don't drain the battery too much and to keep everything wired.

[1]: https://www.dev47apps.com/
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> This model has worked for companies long before cloud providers were a thing.

That's not really accurate, is it?

Few if any open source companies has survived on a monopoly on hosting the product. MySQL doesn't do it at all, netiher does Red Hat, and many others. Those who do bundle it with support services for added value. They have to compete in the open market after all. They don't claim to have a monopoly.

Wordpress makes most of their money from hosting, but they don't go after AWS or any of the thousands of smaller companies all over the world that host it. Their exploding market share has been more than enough to sustain their own hosting business. And it does seem like Elastic is in a similar situation, with their hosting business still rapidly expanding.

Forget Amazon for a second. I know many people in the web hosting business and pretty much everything they host is open source software. If this is a precedent, if the opinion that hosting is morally wrong gets widespread, then that would affect a whole industry.