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I'm a prosumer hobbyist with a Nikon D850 and a handful of expensive lenses that I enjoy, but I'm not sure I would buy them again. I love the experience of shooting with them and loath the experience of getting my images off the device and onto a computer or phone. It creates a film-like experience where by the time I get around to processing images I've often forgotten what I've shot.

What I really want is an iPhone software experience paired with the physical ergonomics of a specialized device like a DSLR/mirrorless camera. Whoever can deliver that will get a lot of money from me. I want real connectivity built into the device made an integral part of the experience, not what you have today which is usually some half-baked thing where you have to attempt numerous times to pair over bluetooth with the unpolished companion iPhone app.
> My new cellphone literally has a Hasselblad camera on it

Sorry to bust your bubble, but no, your phone doesn't have a Hasselblad camera on it.

It has a lens that Hasselblad worked on, together with the vendor.

Which in itself tells more about brand dilution, and the market loss of cameras to phones, than the quality of your phone's camera.
They will become increasingly addicted to that fame, and some will drift into chemicals and porn and tragedy.

It is not my place to judge this, but some will look back and reflect.
Just get eliminate user seeable statistics (likes, shares, etc.) as well as artificial trending.

Once people are freed from that yoke, they'll find better things to do.
The problem is that if your encoding algorithm leaks, it’s game over.
Entry level DSLRs are roughly the same price as a low-end smartphone. For many, simply switching from a low-end smartphone to a high end phone will produce better results.

In particular the software assistance for capturing dynamic range and shooting in odd lighting conditions on an iPhone is pretty spectacular. Replicating the point and shoot experience requires a pretty substantial amount of skill on a traditional DSLR.
Everything is trivial?
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26370252 as well as a follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27344426 (still on the front page), where this article is also linked in the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27344899.

We shouldn't have two WordStar threads on the front page at the same time (especially since it's rather a perennial topic - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27346290) so I've merged the comments from this one into that one.
How then are web apps supposed to become part of a more durable workflow (i.e. opening/saving/moving/backing up files) if we do not permit them the same privileges as native apps? I don't think web apps should have total control over your filesystem, but why not at least allow them to operate within a folder?
too much zealous ppl & favoritism & crawling antitrust :Ð
We added the year to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27345969 (thanks!) but also merged that thread into this one, since two WordStar threads on the front page at the same is one WordStar thread too many.
As an ex-smoker I think the same and that's what actually made it harder to quit for me.

Smoking forces you to find open air spaces, is relaxing and induces slow breathing. In some ways it's a form of meditation. Other times it forces social spaces with other smokers in which you have to ask for a ligher and you have a conversation starter.

A nice practice with a terrible health outcome.
I sometimes wonder about the reach of this value system into unexpected or non-obvious ecosystems.

For example, the tech industry has its share of perennial celebrity conference circuit speakers for <insert tech du jour> who grace stages with hundreds to thousands in attendance, Twitter personalities who have loyal followings for their respective thought leadership, and a reinforcing cycle of one feeding the other. Where are the lines between one form of cultivation of celebrity and another? Can anyone really fault these people, given they're reaping rewards from the persona they've created? If it's easier to raise money or get a job as a recognizable personality than it is by way of other acumen or expertise, then it seems like it might well be a shrewd and wise pursuit. If not necessarily a particularly fulfilling one by other measures.
You seem to be proclaiming universal truths and morals.
Beat the Dunning Krueger Effect to Propel Yourself as a Developer
> We have shipped open-source[2] web and mobile apps that have preserved 180,000+ files.

Is that the total number of files on your platform? Not to be rude, but is this supposed to be impressive or reassuring? My photo collection is approaching half that number, and I'm just one person, so now I'm feeling completely underwhelmed by the claim.
Love your enemy is truly revolutionary, versus enslaving them.
"Extinct" means no longer existing, but the news (https://3g.163.com/dy/article/GAVLG6910514TQ42.html) says "The Chinese Sturgeon Research Institute in Yichang, Hubei Province, is the only institution that continuously conducts the breeding and release of Chinese sturgeon.
Founded nearly 40 years ago, the Chinese Sturgeon Research Institute has made a series of advances in the artificial breeding of Chinese sturgeon.
The 2009 breakthrough in fully artificial breeding"
That's not what supply and demand is. Supply and demand would insinuate that there are less cameras available in the market, or more people are buying them.
https://discord.gg/pdJcTmH oleNDER AND EPO AND THEM STREAM ON TWITCH but they dont talk to me but here is their discord incase they never invited you
Which of his other books would you strongly recommend?
Preach it. Shooting on an interchangeable lens camera is still effectively like shooting a film camera.

They do have software to pair to your phone. I am most familiar with Fuji’s solution for that, which is, to put it charitably, execrable. It is painfully slow and glitchy. (I’ve heard better things about Nikon’s latest, but I haven’t used it.)

Thing is: I think that would require a partnership with Apple or Google, or perhaps Samsung. I think you’d need a lower-level API for very quick pairing and a smart handoff to a low-power mode that doesn’t suck your camera battery dry over the course of about 4 hours.
I used to hear it described as the rich white people sport.
Show HN: Killer automation for security testing of web assets
>what matters is can you be charged with a crime if you remove a piece of surveillance equipment from your own property if so it sets a very bad precedent

Did you read the article? She wasn't charged. There is no indication she was charged or will be charged. There is just a claim by a third party that the police "demanded" the return of the device, and some armchair lawyering (citing out-of-state case law) that's intended to imply police overreach where none exists.
Yes, the web gives us one feature - sharing - but at the cost that every other function is much much worse.
That is a justification for doing such studies, but it says nothing about whether they provide good enough evidence for dietary/behavioral changes in the general population. Why base our daily behavior on such thin evidence? Human trials should be the minimum requirement in the vast majority of cases.
I mean I literally just said I’m worried about military turning humans into machines, so I don’t know why you’d think I see the chain of command as “humanized.”

However, I do believe the US military has a very strong “culture of accountability” - much more so than US police, US politicians, US civil servants, US scholars, or anything else in the US.

I suppose autonomous weapons might not share that culture, but whoever is deploying them does.

It’s worth pointing out that for a long time, drone strikes were the provenance of the CIA which lacks a formal chain of command.

As long as the decision to deploy an autonomous weapon, and what’s its parameters are, is set by an accountable agent, I don’t see a ton of difference between the uncertainty in an autonomous weapon, and the uncertainty present in the chaos of war.

See: US bombing of Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

Honestly, an autonomous weapon might be much more like to avoid non-military targets (like the Chinese consulate). If so, great!

Edit. I reread your comment. Regarding atrocities, automous weapons can care about atrocities far more than non-autonomous weapons. A nuclear bomb or stick of dynamite doesn’t care who it’s blowing up. An intelligent targeting system does.

A properly trained AI, with a secure audit log, could serve as a strong deterrent against violating the laws of war.
Beside Germany, which other countries have massively benefitted from the Euro?
Its possible. General purpose game engines still can be many times slower than custom one. The main reason general purpose engines are used is because they allow faster development and have standardized workflow which is very important for game studios that have large amount of people working together.

Here for example is impressive GI implementation from single Path of Exile dev https://youtu.be/OPFvcsQAKjc
How is this news?

They were cryptocurrencies, of course they were scams.
My experience quitting smoking was that once I actually quit, I was just done. I don't normally get cravings anymore, though a few times a year, usually after eating a huge meal that leaves me stuffed or while drinking a lot, I'll think "damn, a cigarette would feel so good right now" and then the thought just fades away in a few seconds. TBH even when that happens, what I want isn't the nicotine buzz, it's the feeling of the smoke hitting my throat.

In fact, being around smoke doesn't make me want to smoke again. It's just the opposite, even. The smell of tobacco actively repulses me now, and if anyone lights up near me I start to feel sick. It's become a truly vile smell for me.

The hard part for me was just getting the motivation to quit. Nothing could really get me to want to quit, and I tried switching to vaping multiple times only to go back to kreteks, because I didn't really care if it'd kill me since I didn't really want to live anyway. It wasn't until I decided I wanted to transition that I got serious about quitting, because nicotine + estrogen is a really dangerous combination, so I realized I needed to quit if I ever wanted to be happy with my body. I switched to vaping pretty much instantly, vaped for a grand total of two months, and then decided to take a break for a few days before I got bloodwork done... and a few days _after_ I got my blood drawn I realized I hadn't touched my mod at all since and didn't even miss it, so I gave it back to the friend I borrowed it from, and I've been nicotine-free since (aside from one time, a year later, when I had a single kretek at a club just to prove that I wasn't addicted anymore and could have just one and then stop).

For what it's worth, I was a pack-a-day smoker for several years before I quit, and I've been nicotine-free for seven and a half years now (six and a half if you count the single kretek I had at the club after I quit).
The Rituals of Iterations and Tests
> I’ve been switching away from the web and back to native in a big way and it’s making my life much easier.

if you are on mobile it doesn't matter. mobile native is in at least half the cases just as post-file cloud-ified as the web. this change is coming for native apps too. no one escapes.

blaming the web for this is shallow & sad to me. everyone is clamoring for adoption, for ease of use, for just works, and putting all the data in the cloud (and de-prioritizing user access) has been a hugely hugely successful trend (alas).

I have no idea what web you are on but perhaps you should be using better sites that aren't waded through like treacle. person Nally this article loaded in under 3s on my 4 year old phone with no ad blockers (shame on me). load times vary a lot & it's easy to complain about but there are plenty of bad apps, not efficiently coded, that could better make use of features too. few apps are lively enough, have access to anywhere like the vast troves of data most sites interiorly contain, so it's also an absurd comparison.
I'm not a big facebook user, but I suppose this is good for the privacy-minded that do use facebook. However, it seems hypocritical of Google to grant greater control to users over the data that 3rd party apps can obtain but practically none over what users can control in the Android & Chrome ecosystem.
> The idea is: this advanced civilization has such command over physical technology, that they can effortlessly engineer unnecessary strength without losing any of their designed performance.

Are you sure the idea isn't just "we never thought about it"?

Old cars are sturdy and robust while new cars are extremely fragile and will total themselves at the drop of a hat. That's not because the 50s possessed ancient technology lost to the modern day. We put a lot of effort into designing our cars to destroy themselves under stress. We do that so that more of the energy of a crash, should it happen, will go into deforming the car (since that's easy now!) and less of it will go into deforming the passengers.
Only on HN would advocating for the importance of family be rabidly downvoted.

Family is a universal component of human civilization. Our current president has repeatedly stated the utmost importance of his family, as has every president.

What makes family bonds so strong is that they won’t turn your back on you when you are in a bind. They are much stronger than friends. Stable households are the most important predictor for childhood success.

You won’t find many who are bitterly opposed to the concept of family except those that are lonely during the holidays.
They lost the empire anyway.
And how long has it been since Hasselblad has been particularly relevant? They were sliced into pieces, and now they are owned by DJI.

https://www.slrlounge.com/dji-now-majority-shareholder-of-ha...
May I ask how do you know it's the same person across accounts? Do you guys track our IP addresses or something?
What beliefs do you have that aren't from experiences? Even analytic beliefs are things you believe because you experienced arriving at them. e.g. I believe 2+2 is 4 because of my experiences with math and calculation, in the same way I believe putting my hand on a hot plate might hurt because of my experience with hot things etc.
Ah, I see. You could also add Kosovo, if you chose.

Still, my point stands: Is NATO going to invade Russia, using that favorable geography? No. Absolutely not. Zero chance. No NATO country has the stomach for a war of mass casualties, and nobody is stupid enough to think that an invasion of Russia would be anything else.

(The good news is that, after Afghanistan, I don't think that Russia has the stomach for a war of mass casualties, either, and Putin knows it. So he plays games with "little green men" and the Wagner Group, but I don't think he can go much further than that. China concerns me more - I fear that at the moment, maybe they do have the stomach for it, and the temptation to try because they doubt that anyone else has the will to fight enough to give China that kind of casualties.)
Obsidian is a great notetaking app that operates as an interface over your own standard accessible markdown files. More of that please.
> Everything that is outdated in computer desktop usability is captured by that dialog box.

No, that's just bad UX design not a problem with the desktop metaphor

> I have 37 windows open, with some 75+ tabs

> I have a Desktop scattered with (currently) 132 icons

> I have a Downloads folder with (currently) several hundred files, most of which I could safely delete, but who has the time to decide?

> Meanwhile, there’s all sorts of stuff that I can’t find

> Newer mobile OSs (e.g. iOS) get this right — having 500 tabs open in mobile Safari, which I always do

This person has the equivalent of an incredibly messy desk piled high with paperwork, but then complains about the desktop. It's not the desktop, it's the lack of any organization

> Maybe Windows is awesome now, I don’t know, my last real exposure was with XP when I worked at Microsoft.

There are awesome tools on Windows, like voidtools Everything to find files by name in a fraction of a second by using the NTFS journal, grepWin for searching inside documents and Link Shell Extension by Hermann Schinagl for managing symbolic links.

It's not that hard to get organized. The author should try it.
It was a tongue in cheek comment on my part, but now that you mention it, I don't see how it wouldn't be a logical thing to do in this situation.

First off, the issue would probably get routed to the local police who take these kinds of calls, not the state police who planted it.

This would probably create some paperwork that would frame the event as a crime before it comes to light that the state police were behind the planting. Bring in a good lawyer and you might have a better shot in court over this nonsense.

Regardless, if you're not trained, probably best not to destroy a suspected bomb on your own unless you have no choice.
I don't think people care. They don't really care about traceability/anonymity. By now basically everybody is happy to buy (almost) anything with their card.

Also, you almost never need to do an offline transaction. (I'm not 100% sure, but IIRC that is a feature of at least some of those digital cash solutions based on blind signatures.) And if you can do prompt online transactions and you don't care much about privacy (because you trust the banks) then you don't need digital cash.

BTC and all the other blockchain bases solutions are speculative assets. They hold the promise of creating value out of nothing. So it's a strong motivation for at least some of the developers and most of the adopters. Digital cash, on the other hand, would be issued by banks, so no one could earn a profit from holding them (well, compared to holding the actual currency on their account). Though, in theory digital cash could be issued by its developers (just as blockchain based ones), but since it would sound new and obscure, people wouldn't trust it. (BTC and the blockchain took quite a few years too.)
Will all due respect, your comment shows ignorance on multiple levels. It's trivial to look at how the Buddhists (including monks) are attacking and killing Muslims to disprove the claim of "loving your enemy". Secondly, unconditional love breaks down very quickly. What's needed is a very balanced approach that deals both, which Islam provides (which is also another false claim on your part when you imply that Islam enslaves unconditionally and for any enemy - literally middle school material, and I don't mean this in a disparaging way, just pointing out the many falsities spread against Islam which our middle schoolers can trivially disprove).
I'm on Linux, but still things aren't all rosy.
This article has made me realize that perhaps trends in computing are not headed in any particular direction. Perhaps they are headed in every direction.

The author's description of his computing life couldn't sound more alien to me. I put thought into my file organization, and prefer files to "fragments." I don't have anything but a couple of my most oft-used shortcuts on my desktop. I only keep files in my downloads folder if I suspect I'll be needing archives or installers again. I don't use webapps. Any of them. I don't allow javascript to run in my browser unless a site I trust needs it for something that makes sense.

The desktop suits me just fine and the browser is becoming less and less relevant to me as it trends toward things I find uninteresting and not useful.
Why are we needing fusion reactors to see 100M+ degrees if the center of a basic bitch star is only 15m?

(Serious question here)
It was in the news five years ago when the Dallas police (in the US) used C4 to blow up a suspect in a parking garage. It seemed to startle people then, mainly because they repurposed a normally bomb-defusing robot to do it.

In fairness, while it was in a garage, it was not on a car.

"We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was," Dallas Police Chief David Brown told a news conference Friday. "Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger. The suspect is deceased as a result of detonating the bomb."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/08/485262777...
My claim is not that software engineering is related to computer science, it is that software engineering IS PART of computer science. And being part of it, means that computer science is not merely an applied subfield of mathematics. A truth that mathematicians and computer scientists accepted decades ago when computer science split off from mathematics into its own department.

AS for your example of LAPACK, "The existence of evening, my dear Boswell, does not mean that day is the same as night." Numerical linear algebra is on a boundary between mathematics and computer science. There is a large boundary between math and computer science. But then again the same can be said of, say, math and physics. But by the time you're worried about how to use caching effectively, and make that work in a distributed computation, you're pretty far on the computer science side.

Also your idea of grouping them because of research methods is problematic at best. For example machine learning research has a highly experimental flavor that does not fit in mathematics at all. Quantum computing contains a lot that is closer to a field of applied physics than of mathematics. And so on.
That sounds nice.

I've found that if I only work 8 hours they will say that I'm not getting things done fast enough. It makes sense if they are comparing you to people who work more. I know one department where the tech leads all work 10 hours consistently.

I was once in a discussion about how to get to a senior dev position (after filling the role of senior dev for a year and tech lead for another year). I was told I had to work an extra hour per day. That's a 13% increase for a 7% raise and a role with higher expectations...
The software, and integration with my other devices, feels twenty years in the past (I have a Sony) and the quality of still photography is better, but with phone cameras steadily closing the gap.

The quality of video is massively better, however. Just no comparison.

My ideal would be for Apple to buy Blackmagic. Probably wouldn't, but... can you imagine if they did?
I was used to WP´s function keys; I don´t have much trouble switching between editors and word processors.

The thing that WordPerfect had that I still miss was ¨Reveal Codes¨, which would show you the exact placement and ordering of normally invisible codes (bold on/off, mark for index, hard page break, etc.)

Being able to see exactly what has screwed up your document´s formatting was a godsend. In MS Word it´s often easier to just recreate a document than to try and fix the screwed up formatting of an existing document.
Since there seem to be past smokers in this thread, can any of you chime in for me what smoking did or does for you? I don't mean this as a insult, but I've never understood the addiction, at this point I feel like it's impossible for me to experience, and I don't desire to. I've smoked maybe a dozen or so times in my life, each time a dumb decision often for comedic effect where I asked myself afterwards, "am I addicted now?" and every time I felt nothing, from a cigarette, cigar, vape whatever. There must be a high. Is it relaxing or stimulating? My brother who got himself addicted said it "cleared his head" or something. My whole family smokes, none of them can quit. It feels like hypnosis to me, and I refuse to believe in hypnotism. Before you call me ignorant, I know and acknowledge that the addiction is a real thing, it's obvious. I'm simply curious where it comes from because it feels like I can't experience it.