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EVFs have gotten much better since the early days of mirrorless. I prefer them immensely now, especially when it comes to manual focus or low light shooting. I would honestly reach for my mirrorless for my professional concert shooting over my SLRs.

Canon and Nikon are also shifting en masse to mirrorless. So the tides have clearly changes across the board.
This is unsurprising. Mirrorless bodies are less complicated overall, ergo cheaper to produce, leading to better profit margins. Camera makers are after all in the business of making money.
This is a difficult thing for companies and people to accept, but it's very true.
Housing starts are up:
https:/
/www.census.gov/construction/nrc/pdf/newresconst.pdf
Starting about a year ago the token distributions have favored users.
The lawyer's defense is "by playing devil's advocate, I make the protection of the law more robust for everyone". A closer equivalent would be a system where every organization had white-hat hackers.
It's not 2020 anymore ;) X220 launched early 2011.

Not all X220 models had USB3 though, only the i7 variant did.
Nuclear power is so unsafe, ugh! I mean if it weren't for...

- Designing and building reactor that is demonstrably and knowingly unsafe by its own creators and other scientists

- Building it in the cash starved near collapse Soviet Union in a satellite state

- Having technicians carry out tests that are known to be unsafe for the sake of it

- Lying and attempt to cover up the issue because your entire power structure is all about saving face

What am I saying? Of course Chernobyl would've still happened!

I'm not particularly invested in if nuclear power is good or bad but holding up Chernobyl as a snarky "watch as the nerds ignore THIS!" is a herring so unimaginably red that it beggars belief
It’s the most expensive wildlife refuge in the world.
Both the resolution and the optical magnification have gotten better. Initial mobile phones had an equivalent to a 28mm lens in the 35mm format, today you get 50-70mm equivalents too. In any case, a modern smartphone even with a rather wide angle lens does still get more details than an average eye. So what people indeed are seeing are strange lights which move around, which well, are just some lights they can't explain. And the smartphone will show that rather clearly.

And that is just smartphones, that is not talking about all the high-power digital cameras now being quite ubiquitous, one would expect at least some interesting shots popping up on the internet.
Right, the sun would obliterate anything that got close. The risks of the containers falling back to earth from a failed launch are significant.

Launching into deep space reminds me of the drill instructor in the game Mass Effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q1IaWLsyrQ
Also the title in the article uses "SPARK", while on HN it's "Spark". Those are different spellings, with different characters. It's not safe to assume case can be changed without altering meaning in general.
Are they hiring? :)
Way before this letter, many developers including myself asked Macromedia / Adobe to rather pushing Flash as web browser plugin on mobile, focus on apps with embedded runtime. They realized it too late with AIR framework, but it was too little too late.

It was a flaw with the vision Adobe had with Flash, and they missed an opportunity being leader in mobile development.

Now Apple is kind of doing same for web, they've quietly removed that letter, as it now conflicts with what they preached in past.
It's safer than most of the alternatives yes, and it works better than the safer alternatives

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Building Better Data Infrastructure for the African Economy
After realizing how often I use youtube i got premium and I'm not looking back.

I grew up with "free internet services" but I can't complain on one side about ads and consuming stuff and in the other side not just paying for those services directly and it's a monthly thing. Easy to cancel much better than all those 1 year contracts for stuff like paytv.
The median implausible-sounding idea is bad, for sure.

But if you never bet on any implausible-sounding ideas, you exclude the chance of being an early participant in any big paradigm shift.

A good exercise is to back-test your rule against big ideas through their history. Would you have invested time in solving Schrodinger’s weird equation in 1925? 1927? 1940? Would you have invested time in public key cryptography in 1975? 1976? 1980? 1990?

People who got in early, got to make the big discoveries in those fields.
Yeah should be cool, I backed it for the alpha.
So in a nutshell, install gentoo
I mean, there's a big difference between not being comfortable with a class of investment vehicles and something not being investing. Any asset whose value has the potential to appreciate can be considered an investment. For example, buying/selling businesses, physical gold, art and even rare pokemon cards are all forms of investment, albeit not mainstream ones. Stocks themselves can be just as speculative as crypto (GME comes to mind).

Besides, the OP is presumably interested in actively learning about the fundamentals of diversification, not merely asking for low-maintenance safe-ish portfolio options (in which case, buying an ETF would suffice). I'm just laying out different options across the entire spectrum. Personally, no one told me about virtually any of these options when I was starting out (presumably because they were similarly making assumptions about my risk tolerance level), but I wish they had. For example, reading about industry sectors is fine and dandy, but there's a subclass of stocks called dividend stocks that aren't a sector per se, but can be an investment strategy of its own. Index funds come up a lot in this type of discussions, but REITs do not, despite being pretty decent options as well. For crypto specifically, what almost no one mentions is that bitcoin is actually one of the more conservative crypto options compared to upstart altcoins. Etc. There's a lot of reading one can do across the board.

I'm very specific that crypto is not for everyone, but neither are things like shorting stocks, even though one might be more inclined to call shorting "real investing", whatever that means.
'Foundational' or not, it was certainly load-bearing as its attempted (and incomplete) removal almost brought the whole thing down.
I believe the intent of having the slightly wrong words give a large difference in location was to make it obvious that a slightly wrong location string is wrong. If you know you're somewhere in Virginia, and it says England, they dispatcher can ask for it again.
You are incorrect. The supply of bitcoin is limited. Whether you express that limited supply as units of bitcoin or units of satoshi does not change that the supply will never exceed that amount.

Doing a unit conversion doesn't change anything. The limited supply argument is not implying that you won't be able to own fractional bitcoins, it's arguing that the amount of bitcoin you do own with always be a fixed proportion of the total possible supply (in reality it's proportion will grow as people lose access to their keys) so it won't get devalued by the total possible supply increasing. Remember, value is relative to the supply. Looking at your bitcoin in terms of satoshis doesn't change it's value.
Did it, really? Was France resource starved when Napoleon decided to take over Russia too? Or rather, was he power hungry, ambitious and did not cared? Why do you assume that 1948 decision was super hard due to missing resources?

Napoleon contemporaries did characterized him as power hungry tyrant. This is not just projecting current values. People in the past had opinions too.

There's a trend of assuming that people in the past were simple, without agency and that society was uniform. Contemporary people do make own decisions, some of them harmful and egoistic. We don't blame current political decisions (including stuff like what Isis did) purely on circumstances. The past people deserve the same treatment.
What's old is new...

I remember around 2006 Skype had a feature that allowed you to "host" talks. The community made some interesting channels, and I used to participate in some of them. Eventually the feature was dropped, and I haven't found a place that could substitute that. But yeah, that's a feature, not a product.
This is true, however some devices including floppies, tape, and optical media have been made impossible, more difficult, and/or inconvenient to use with modern kernels.

And then there's throwing away 386 compatibility in 2012 and now they want to nuke a bunch more.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=2021-Lin...
Imports are faster! Maybe not as much as you're hoping but we did optimize them a bit.
Let us not forget the climate that Trump created for himself. Much of that constant negative coverage was more about his antics and absurdities, and at some point, it became impossible for him to do/say much of anything without completely deserved backlash.

With that said, I can’t claim there is no media bias re: Biden, but we should not pretend that the circumstances are even close to similar.
Chernobyl is a good "line in the sand" to develop the safety precautions around (for example, assume Chernobyl happens, what things prevent long-lasting harm).
This website is being served to you using cryptography right now (tls).

I took web tech to mean the technology used to serve the web - the differences with cryptocurrencies are manifold, the principal one being that billions of people use the web every day to perform important functions, compared to cryptocurrencies where most users are simply speculating on prices.
It insulates outside noise pretty well of course so you probably mean how does it work with indoor noise and frankly we (Central Europe) have lots of such houses and I don't see the problem very much (I am in room made from (different) brick walls right now). Buildings made with concrete are much more problematic in that regard.
Tapestries are only in museums and rugs are becoming less popular with floor heating.
I have a more charitable interpretation. My impression is that the author is dealing with an ethical dilemma that most of us have not had to contend with, and that this essay is an attempt to resolve it.

The problem is that its selectively truthful, of course, which renders the whole exercise moot. Even though the author landed on a position in which he is not at fault, it's not going to buy him any peace of mind.
> Paywalls. You pay with your money.

> Ads. You pay with your attention.

Pretty disingenuous. Ads: You pay with your attention, and, ultimately, either your money or the money of someone who trusts you. This is only not the case to the extent that advertising doesn't actually work, in which case the ethical problems have not stopped for this person.
This reminds me of the allegory of the cave, and one observation I've had, or maybe stolen?, of it.

Who is anyone to invade another's life, uninvited, and tell them how they're living wrong?

Would their subjective life experience really be better if they were chasing the next iPhone, pickup truck, opium den, bonus, or sexcapade?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
Why are they leaving? Is it just the money? Are you sure?

Is there some other sweetener missing?

A recruiter friend of mine says she could probably steal half of most corporation's engineers just by learning the non-financial pain points and addressing them. Businesses often have weird ideas about how nasty / ruthless they can be. Usually though its little things not even on the nasty / ruthless scale.

Direction/Management style is often a big factor. Not to mention the work itself.

The other quirk was about the transition from junior to middle to senior. These are often mismanaged and that can sour others opinions.

The other obvious one is people leaving to get a pay rise is this is often the only way to get one.
I think it's just because we've been conditioned to expect free content online.

Free services like YouTube have provided me with an immense amount of value, but I would still be hesitant to pay for them unless I absolutely had to.
Yes! That is definitely a big step in the right direction. It's usually enough to remove at least some of the JS burden on forms. I'm not sure how widespread its use is in practice, though.
The Importance of Planning It Is the Big Deal
Yes, the problem is that it's "not micro enough". The value of this service is low enough that it's not worth it for me to self-host, and the financial overhead of cloud providers is enough that it would cost far more for me to spin up a dedicated instance than pay someone for the fractional cost of usage of their instance.

More generally, I want the ability to make microtransactions (substitute "extremely low-friction donations" if you will) for everything that could be "free" but also costs money (bandwidth, compute, storage), because no matter how much free time I have, there will always be services that I could benefit from, but are low-enough-value that it's not worth it for me to self-host or get a cloud host myself.
Ubuntu Guide for Mac Converts
Dungeon Master sounds pretty cool in my books!
I signed up for the novelty of it but it’s not what I hoped it would be, or perhaps I just haven’t found the right rooms. I really hoped this was more of a salon in the old Victorian way. Gather to listen to someone lecture. I would pay for that to hear good speakers lecture in private without fear or worry of disruption etc.
We run the numpy testsuite as part of our testsuite so to our knowledge it works well.
It would be a pretty good idea if it didn't require such an insane amount of delta-v to deorbit a payload into the sun.
This would be an appropriate place to disclose your glaring conflict of interest.
> it’s hard to walk back wage raises.

That's what inflation is for. The problem is that the minimum wage should increase with inflation. Inflation is best used to lower the pay of the higher paid, not the borderline (for which there's no savings because of resultant increases in crime and the need to supplement low pay with transfer payments - which is just subsidy of private industry.)
I'd like for donation to be the predominant way to support digital work in the future. But paying with a card online is pretty hasslesome and micropayments will cause so many issues anyway that it kind of feels like a pipe dream. Stuff like Signal and Internet Archive are excellent tools that may not make all the money in the world do achieve their goals well whilst, at least for the time being, being financially stable.
Because money isn't the only thing that matters. Sure, money is great, but it's not the sole determinant of happiness in my experience.

Other things that matter:

* being part of a team, pulling towards a goal.

* stability. Contracting is awesome, but often feast or famine.

* work life balance. Yes, as a contractor you control your working hours, but it can be hard to stop working at 5pm too.

* benefits (if in the USA, health care is huge and the plans with an employer are almost always better)

* ability to explore different areas. When you are a contractor, you are expected to be top notch at what you do. Often that means you don't get to explore new things (except on your own time, which you should do). It's nice to get paid to learn as an employee.

I think that contracting is great, but so is employment.

Just like when you are a startup you should compete on your own terms (your USP), if you are looking to keep senior developers, find out what you can offer (some of the above) which contracting cannot. (How? Ask senior devs in your market!)

Source: I've been a contractor and a full time employee, about a 50% split during my career.
Lots and lots of equity. For the most part, money talks. But it doesn't have to be guaranteed cash. You can offer a risky gamble instead. FAANG pays $1000, but instead you can offer a coin flip for $2200, or a snake-eyes dice-roll for $50k or something like that instead.

People will tell you all kinds of other things that simply do not matter as much for people who are not already wealthy. Good team, nice people, important mission, free lunch massages, etc. But give a person the choice between all those things and an extra $100k income, and I'm pretty sure you can guess what they'll choose. At least most people.
> Paywalls. You pay with your money.
> Ads. You pay with your attention

If you work on ads that only take my attention then you work on good ads, and I completely support that. If, however, you feel that your ads must try to pinpoint my identity by harvesting personal information in the name of "targeting" or "fraud prevention", then that's no longer me paying with my attention, it's me paying with my privacy and integrity.
$2B is table stakes for anything in heavy industry. I haven't heard of a new oil refinery for anything less than $10B in a while.

I'm not saying Chernobyl wasn't a disaster. I'm just saying, as far as heavy industry goes $2B isn't much. I know that's hard to fathom but it's true.
You've got the usual "review site" problem in that it's easier to be a dishonest than not.

Getting business to pay or meet other responsibilities they could miss is a bitch. Used to be there would be a legal recourse but laws don't seem to work on businesses anymore.
According to the sec disclosures the 3 highest paying tech companies are Google, Splunk, and Facebook. They all happen to be among the 10 best paying public companies in America. 2 of the 3 are almost completely funded by ad money.
Ask HN: People with AD(H)D, how do you deal with it?
I often find myself scattered, no structure or focus on what I should be focussing on. I forget to eat and drink on time & easily get distracted. Too many ideas to build, too little focus on what I should be focussing on at that moment.

How do you deal with your AD(H)D? What tools etc. work for you?
They went crazy with their notifications. They had levels of contact and at the lowest level my phone was alerting me about content that i didn't find relevant more than any app, including the phone and text messaging. They ended up annoying me off the platform
I usually use Cider + Emacs for Clojure. Cider let’s you interactively check values and makes error messages more understandable, at least to me.

I think that many Clojure programmers skip the JVM and use ClojureScript with node. Personally, given my history with Java I find that Lisp + JVM ecosystem is why I use Clojure sometimes instead of Common Lisp.
Search engines use ranking functions to promote higher quality content, while allowing determined users to still find the obscure, unpopular, trashy and dangerous.

They just needed a decent search/recommendations engine.
I used Ubuntu for about 2 years but recently switched to Manjaro/KDE. Much happier now.
I wonder if something like the radio/royalty model wouldn't work as a replacement for ads. You pay ISP, they are the "radio station" playing what you want to hear, they pay micropayments to all the sites you visited proportionally.

I can immediately see significant issues (user data, managing payments, admin, biggest sites get bigger etc.) but if there's a market demand for a new model, it wouldn't even have to be regulated initially. It could be a feature offered by an innovative ISP. A sort of patron model for general browsing.

My 2 cents fwiw.
Make a company that does not suck to work for.

A lot of companies talk big about wanting to make their company "a great place to work". They talk about benefits, about inclusion, about a lot of ancillary things other than the work.

But when you start working on work, you find out there's a hornet's nest of beaurocracy, of office politics, departments run by finance rather than commitment to executing business needs effectively, lack of training, lack of industry standards, a sprawl of independent redundant silos, and a lot of people who seem to have no idea what the hell is going on. And of course they'll put you on-call 24/7 and force you to work overtime to meet unrealistic deadlines, without extra pay.

Most companies I've worked for, all of the engineers have known how shitty things are, and they've known how to fix
it all. They tell their line-managers, and the line managers tell the middle managers, and the middle managers don't tell the executives. Everything stays shitty because the engineers are the ones who have to deal with the shit and can't do anything about it.

A contractor only has to deal with that shit in small bursts and can produce good work that somebody else can deal with actually running. It's the best way to avoid the long-term nightmare of working in shitty permanent roles. And the pay is better. And you can take a vacation!
Easier to read version than what's on Twitter: https://mythreadreader.com/jonsyu/1389635626698297344
Like with most products, you bought for what it was at the moment of sale. Buying a buggy product and hoping that it will get fixed afterwards is just a fools errand in general.
> Are we going to blame lawyers who defend rapists?

Only if such lawyers are unethical in how they go about doing this.

Lawyers who defend accused rapists are a necessity for a well-functioning justice system. The alternative is a process where the accused isn't permitted a legal defence, if they're taken to trial for serious crimes like rape.

Software engineers who spend their days forcing increasingly invasive advertising technology upon us all are not necessary. For the most part, we'd all be better off if they all downed tools.
Don't waste your breath dude, HN has become a safe haven for people that like to bury their head in the sand and shit talk crypto. Yeah, anybody that's actually knowledgeable in it know that what they're saying are the same old sad tropes that the news has been training people to repeat verbatim, but they've boxed themselves in and they'll die on this hill.
I can't imagine many countries having an Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants.

It's too bad their job is a long-standing one.
CCJ has the largest market cap and is the top holding in URA etf. I was thinking along the same lines as commenter above and bought some CCJ 2023 LEAP options a few weeks back.
I think the poor quality of the U.S. housing stock reflects the long-term shabbiness of our mandatory nomadic character. We move for the jobs, we set up shacks by the gold mines, but we never develop roots and, for the most part, we never get to build real wealth.
I think this may be an American thing. People as successful as PG, Musk, Bezos, Gates etc become demigods, for a majority of people. Cults are created around them. They can never be wrong and so on.

As a result, the opposition arises too: the people who dislike these demigods for the same reasons their followers like them.

I say this is probably an American thing because I don’t see this happening in Europe. I worked for years for one of the most successful startups in Europe and I have no idea what the names of the founders are. Probably no one does by now.
Unfortunately, Doubleclick/Google doesn't get the benefit of the doubt when declaring their intention to respect privacy. They burned that bridge. Many, many times.
The post is about crazy-new idea. This app is a RDP solution that is not a crazy or a new idea. It all depends on economic viability and marketing to the right people.
HN autocorrects capitals, so one always needs to re-edit the title after submission, and I forgot to do it.