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> iPhone photos look incredible on iPhone screens. They look terrible on my high resolution desktop screen

yea, whith our first child we still used a dedicated camera (compact, no dslr) and there is a very noticeable drop in imagequality after that because we got lazy and use our phones.

then again "the best camera is the one you have with you"
Mozilla has invested tons of resources in improving web security, sometimes even when it hurts them.

A good examples is the anti-tracking stuff that break some badly coded (sometimes intentionally!) pages. Users may have left FF for chrome thinking it was not compatible with their favourite sites.

Anyway, if you are a web developer please test your code with FF and anti-tracking enabled (Mozilla has some good documentation on this). If you are a user make sure to contact site owners and complain instead of just going to a less privacy preserving browser.

(Not saying mozilla is perfect, they also try to do some shady stuff sometimes. But right now at least their privacy/security teams are doing some really nice things)

Edit: going back to your original question, yes there have been incidents. And some outright abuse.
99% of the foundation of crypto seems to be grift. Just waiting for the bubble to pop when they run out of suckers. Lets see how much their ugly JPEGs are worth then.
Wikipedia database is managed by the wikimedia staff. You have the permission to edit it for now but can not guarantee it will be make available always. This is what the author meant.
I only have a German reference. There’s multiple brands of bio products that are Demeter certified, milk, meat, cheese, …

The Demeter Bio Label requires “Hornmist” and “Hornkiesel” as fertilizer as per their guidelines, see Section 7.3 (1) and (2) https://www.demeter.de/sites/default/files/richtlinien/richt...

Hornmist is dung-filled cow horns that get buried at full moon preferably, later dig out and spread: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornmist

Hornkiesel is similar, cow horns filled with ground up crystal: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornkiesel

It’s really vexing, because for animal welfare and general biodiversity requirements, they’re the toughest standards, but they have those magic cult-like rituals buried in there.
There's a great example of a facility built from the ground up with a robot-first approach in Ocado, the grocery packing/delivery company, it looks very different to warehouses that have humans in mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE

It let them do a few novel things I think, most obvious is the dense packing grid, no need for humans to get around the area so they really pack in the functional units. Next is the precision they can pull off without having to worry about wiggle-room or interruptions from people, the robots move very close to eachother which would be a big no-no if you had to worry about people.
I don't think it's about education. It's about bad faith and cynical politicians abusing the justice system to intimidate reporters. There is nothing to be done about it but vote those people out.
> But unfortunately, a lot of the problem is with the ecosystem, as hinted at in the article. There seems to be no limit to the amount of code bloat and compile time complexity that people are willing to accept to win some microbenchmarks. This includes some very popular crates with lots of dependents, like Tokio.

But isn't this the right trade off for something like Tokio which is at the base of applications which expect to be fast? Or else those applications wouldn't bother with async runtimes and what-have-you. There's also the fact that during the dev cycle, you'll compile tokio & friends once and be done with it. And for CI pipelines, there's caching.

I'm however not a professional developer, so I'm curious if I'm missing something.
stunning..and scary...
the root problem here (or at least one of the root problems) is that government workers are not hired or promoted on merit. That leads to people of lesser intelligence being bosses. As evidenced here. That is a bad thing, in my opinion. You want smart people in charge. That's a good thing!
Yes especially film cameras.
I have yet to see something like that remaining robust to unauthorized memory access.
It’s weird that this article waffles on about PCs and how the author thinks that’s a good analogy. It’s not very convincing because you could easily pick another technology pair and show it the other way (often worse is just worse).

But the thing that really seems weird is that all you need to do make it interesting is 1) define what you mean by web3 (it’s a slippery weasel word that changes meaning whenever the people using it needs it to) 2) define a few uses that are obviously better than the alternatives and justify them without hand waving (including explaining why what would appear to be fundamental show stopping flaws are not in fact that)

If you can’t do that (and no one seems to be able to) the maybe, just maybe, it is bullshit?
It's most likely true that hippies aren't the largest group of believers in magical potions from animal parts — I certainly don't have the numbers and I'm going by intuition, but there's likely also a difference between the number of people and the size of the market created by those people. Not all people have equal purchasing power.

I think all else being equal, it would be unfair of me to make this characterisation, but I'm not holding these two groups of people to the same standard. I think the two groups we are talking about are people in rural China and Vietnam, and hippies in the Western world who are likely educated to a much higher standard than the rural Chinese and Vietnamese. To be clear: this is not a comment on education standards in China or Vietnam universally — I'm well aware that both countries are among the forerunners in medical science. I do think Western hippies should know better though, which is why I'm more comfortable demonising them rather than people growing up with less opportunity to benefit from a modern education.

As an aside, I don't think Vietnam as neatly fits the Venn diagram I described in my original comment. I lived in Vietnam for a while, and animal welfare is less of a thing there than in most of the West.

I want to be clear also that while I said that "hippies cause climate change", I don't place exclusive blame on them for it. That would be silly. I think it's important to recognise however that the holier than thou attitudes of PETA, XR, Greta Thunberg and others do not actually help alleviate any of the problems facing society, despite their best intentions.

> They’re certainly wrong on a lot of things, but they’re also advocating for change that no other parties dare to yet.

You're right — people and organisations aren't quite so binary. I think that's in line with the spirit of my original comment, although I worded it more antagonistically.
Well I don't know about blue rounded rectangular rings, but I like the american attention to such details as making sure your trunk has a separator and an inside handle if people kidnap you at gunpoint and put you in your own trunk.

This takes time for us in France to build such cars with such sort of regulations that you won't buy anyway because they're just fugly euro and not manly japanese. Start lobbying your congressman for more Citroen imports though, who knows, it may last a while before the next "Liberty Fries" boycott because someone here refused to murder some children in some "shit country" :p
Homebrew has been good enough since the beginning, hence why it took over from Macports. But it hasn't changed any of it's major design decisions, so if you didn't like it then you wouldn't like it now.
What makes you think it needs it? If every person in the world shilled something they called Web3 that wouldn't change the conclusion of this blog post? What are you on about, exactly?
Used to maybe. Last I checked Linux still has font antialiasing with subpixel hinting while MacOS removed it completely and fonts look terrible on anything sub-retina.
Learning a programming language is easy. Learning software engineering takes months even just for the basics. The first time you learn to code, you’re doing both. Just hang in there: it gets easier with time.
Same story here, and little anecdote: In a pure mac shop we had a guy apply and he brought his Linux notebook and 5mins into the interview he started hating on hiw bad macos is. Before he had to show some of his work in his linux notebook we had a little coffebreak, after we came back somehow LUKS crashed he wasn’t able to boot the system or restore the disk. We gave him a USB Stick and 3hrs to solve it or admit that he was wrong about bashing macos.
Doesn't wikipedia keep a history of all the edits, and aren't these available to wikipedia users?
All over the place predictions:

- More people will turn into alternative forms of investment (coins through large exchanges) as inflation continue to rise.

- Regulations around NFTs will start to appear as tokens are generated for copyrighted material. It will take famous personality taking things to court.

- COVID: A vaccine shot every ~6 months will be introduced.

- An early A/R prototype will be revealed by a big phone player.

- React will remain the leading framework for web application development, but a push towards better server-side-rendering will make performance easier to achieve for average developers.

- Web3 will go nowhere, and the vibe around it will remain driven by an MLM like mentality
That's on the roadmap! Will give more concrete examples.
So what you are saying is that the internet should be built on a model where people can upload children pornography or propaganda from state actors and nobody can do anything to stop it? Thanks I pass. I'm also curious about how to provide distributed storage that competes with google in terms of size, reliability and performance.

The fun thing about cryptography is that allows building internet services that can beat the blockchain. There is nothing preventing you from creating a service where people upload encrypted stuff that is only associated to a key id. In fact there are already services that kind of do this.
Yes and no - even latest iphone 13 pro / nexus 6 cameras will produce shots that are blurry in shadows due to aggressive noise reduction or let some fugly color noise pass through the alghoritms. You just need to open any night photo on bigger computer screen instead of just phone.

You have much much better starting point with a full frame.

Of course if you compare a clueless FF user with clueless phone user, phone can win but thats an unfair comparison. You don't invest often 5k into photo equipment and then be oblivious of what options it gives you. And even if you don't actively try to improve yourself, just using the camera will get you there (somewhere) eventually. Its not a rocket science, just keep doing it. That's not a "master" level, more like experienced beginner.

And even in the case of ignorant users, all cameras these days have auto setting which is actually pretty good and you can take final jpegs from it, ignoring the power of raw edit completely. Counter-intuitively, holding a bigger camera system steady for a good shot is easier commpared to lightweight, awkwardly-shaped phone.

That all being said, I will invest into some top-end phone next year mainly due to its camera power these days and convenience of always having it with you, and sharing kids photos with family instantly. No more always lugging around 2.5 kg of Nikon D750 with 24-120 lens and good bag. I will not make technically better pictures with it, but in my case other aspects outweight this.
Adversarial vulnerabilities of human decision-making (2020)
See also the CSIRO press release on the article which gives a simplified explanation:

"AI’s influence on human decision-making: new CSIRO research"

Scientists ran three experiments where participants played games against a computer. As the machine gained insights from the behaviour underlying participant responses, it identified and targeted vulnerabilities in people's decision-making to steer them towards particular actions or goals....

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/news-releases/2021/ais-influenc...
Ask HN: Topic Separation?
I know HN doesn't support categories or tagging (and would imagine there has been long and drawn out discussions about why not?) - but one thing that strikes me is that often the most interesting discussions on here are about things that aren't code-y in nature.

Has anyone given any thought about how to use the API to separate out discussion types (like this) at all? Or...is it just me that'd be interested in this?
Tufte can be quite dogmatic and not all of his principles should be taken as gospel at all times (then again, nothing should, probably). But one thing that stood out to me is that some of his examples remind you not to get too smart — just put the labels directly with what they label, annotate directly on the graph, etc., the kind of stuff you can easily forgot to do when the default is to just use chart templates in whatever software your data lives.
No, I don’t work for Rakuten, but the in-person apology from an appropriately senior person is hugely important for large Japanese organizations.

In my current company I have the opportunity to work with several large Japanese banks. Various members of our C-Suite and senior management travel occasionally for this purpose.

A sufficiently sincere apology with the appropriate level of ceremony can be the difference between maintaining and losing a substantial contract.
Let's not equate "lack of understanding of a specific piece of technology" with "lesser intelligence", that is not a healthy way to think.
In 2022, my plans are to:

1. Continue writing the 9 remaining books of my Dev Concepts collection: [1]

2. Write essays and articles about Personal Knowledge Management and grow my community: [2]

3. Continue publishing my weekly newsletter: [3]

4. Launch my YouTube channel and start publishing content regularly (about Dev & IT, Knowledge Management & personal organization)

5. Build and launch a few products in the PKM space

6. Get better at design

7. Read a ton non-fiction books

8. Make new friends

9. Play even more board games (Arkham Horror LCG, Gloomhaven, Clank legacy, Pandemic legacy, etc)

10. Start exercising again regularly

[1] https://dev-concepts.dev

[2] https://dsebastien.net

[3] https://newsletter.dsebastien.net
- most predictions will turn out to be false :P
I think this post has a clearly missing solution that is (essentially) a first stage in a build system.

Yes, C++ can be slow to build. But it's slow to build because of the includes and the code generation (and we still have to do code generation).

How much time does the author think it takes to pipe code through the preprocessor (for defines, not includes since in this case there are no includes), and tokenize?

I just checked the dependency files of a fairly large project (GNU Radio), and each cc file transitively depends on 414 files on average. In total in order to compile its 1339 cc files the compiler needs to open and read over half a million files.

So just in terms of data to read on this first pass it's faster by a factor over 400x. Add to that that you don't have to do anything in this pass except look for module dependencies, I bet it's several thousand times faster than a compile.

So in other words, if it takes you an hour to build your big project, are you saying you don't have one single second left over to calculate the dependency tree as a first pass?

And you only have to do it once (and then re-do files as source timestamps change).
Has anyone analyzed these to see how accurate HN is?
- Bitcoin will go down to $12,000

- One EU country will default (not Italy), the EU will bail it out

- China will enter a recession

- 2022 will be the year of the hottest and coldest temperatures on record

- and also highest CO2 produced on record, caused by huge fires in the Russian Taiga.
There's the original IT screw-up - but I think the body of the sory is around the ineptitude of the elected governor.

Not specifically that he doesn't understand how the web works - more that he didn't care to find out before opening his mouth.

Or worse is aware, but is disengenuously pushing for a prosecution of somebody he disagrees with.
Someone has never used Rust
I meant it more in the sense of "there are 5 different logging libraries for the language I use, will I use the one that charges money or one of the 4 that don't?".
I just find it a little concerning that there are people out there, who are blindly following this Web3 "trend" by spending their money on digital "art".

For the average person, there is no real use for Web3 because there is no actual definition for it.

My impression is that Web3 is being praised as decentralized, yet it is people with a lot of money who are the one's regulating the pace right now.

And that is a tad bit concerning to say the least, because if I invest millions into something (whether as an individual or a VC) - I'd like to feel a sense of "ownership", otherwise that money could have been spent helping real causes.

I'd go as far as saying that for most people, including those entrenched in spending their hard earned money, the word Web3 is immediately associated with NFTs, not the actual blockchain technology. And that says a lot.
Going with my gut feel which is "the biggest thing will start with something incredibly inane and stupid" so with that in mind:

- a huge worldwide economic downturn where the first tiny little domino is the price of those ape NFTs crashing

... but more realistically:

- The World Cup in Qatar will go ahead in November+December with fans, despite growing concern over a new emerging variant

- Queen Elizabeth to pass away

- Boris Johnson to somehow hang on as UK Prime Minister
DDG's not giving me a Wikipedia result for Odysee, but I'm not surprised either, because DDG rarely gives me Wikipedia results for queries in general. Eg I just searched for "dog" and Wikipedia is not in the first page's ten results (two dictionaries, four lists of breeds, two youtube videos, a shelter, and "dog.com"), while it's number one in Google's results.
But if there was already an established budget and way to decide how much the trash collection ought to be compensated there's no good reason why you shouldn't be. There probably needs to be a set contract between the community and "whoever wants to pick trash" up front though.
Opensea is managed by opensea staff, Bitcoin and Etheream are in a very concrete way managed by the devs. You absolutely cannot guarantee anything about access in the future for sites based on web3 - if anything it is worse as there are two gatekeepers, the site owner and the cryptocurrency (so for example gas fees might go up making a tiny transaction very expensive, or a currency might fail).

Nobody wants a truly distributed org because it is impossible for anything to get done, just as nobody actually wants to use a distributed currency because the costs outweigh the benefits, and the web we have is distributed enough, though of course it has flaws and is in some ways too centralised now, but I don't see how web3 as currently sold helps to solve that.

The biggest problems currently are around identity (SSO), and microtransactions, but neither of those are solved well by existing cryptocurrency solutions or things like NFTs.
The only concrete point in your rant seems to be this:

> So saying that they „ignored the PC” implies that they ignored themselves, which doesn’t make sense.

This makes perfect sense to anyone who has seen a large lumbering schizophrenic beast like IBM. It's commonplace for one division to despise, ignore and undermine another.
Here's my edit-compile-run cycle in dev configuration: https://streamable.com/az397y

I use Qt, boost, lots of templates.

- clang as a compiler

- mold as a linker

- PCH (easy with cmake)

- plugin architecture for the software ; plugins are dynamic libraries when developing (everything is linked statically for releases which take of course much longer to build with lto, etc.)

- building on Linux (it's seriously slower on Windows, when using the exact same compiler on the exact same SSD)
The Hoffman Report:

The Hoffman Report is the informal name for the 2015 investigation into the American Psychological Association’s (APA) practices regarding its relaxing of ethical standards for psychologists involved in torture interrogations. The full name for the report is, Independent Review Relating to APA Ethics Guidelines, National Security Interrogations, and Torture. It was authored by attorneys David Hoffman, Danielle Carter, Cara Viglucci Lopez, Heather Benzmiller, Ava Guo, Yasir Latifi and Daniel Craig of the law firm, Sidley Austin, LLP.

https://psychcentral.com/pro/the-hoffman-report-the-american...
I spent time typing in a setup with very dim ambient light (think of a photo room with dim red light). I still cannot touch-type, but after some time I discovered I can type in QWERTY on any keyboard layout.
t14s here (ubuntu), there was a bios update that solved the suspend battery drain issue, same with the dock as there was updates for that too that can be installed with fwupdmgr. Disabled Bios power management to allow the OS to control it and really it's pretty flawless.

I love my thinkpad t14s, it's fast and quiet and all hardware works (even lte, although does admitedly require an alpha driver, it works fine)
> It's most likely true that hippies aren't the largest group of believers in magical potions from animal parts — I certainly don't have the numbers and I'm going by intuition, but there's likely also a difference between the number of people and the size of the market created by those people. Not all people have equal purchasing power.

Despite the difference in purchasing power, there’s no indication that rhino horns get sold in substantial quantities in the western sphere. There’s certainly people that will purchase it, but the primary market is in Asia and Africa itself.

Additionally, as with most endangered species, hunting them is only part of what endangers the population. Destruction of habitat for crops or meat, often sold to Europe and the US is a major contribution.

The hippies are truly not at fault here.

> I think it's important to recognise however that the holier than thou attitudes of PETA, XR, Greta Thunberg and others do not actually help alleviate any of the problems facing society, despite their best intentions.

Why would you lump Greta Thunberg in there? By age alone, she’s not to blame for climate change. And what she does explicitly advocate for is in her own words: “Listen to the scientists” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2019/sep/18/li...

Blaming the hippies for climate change is absurd. When all relevant decisions were made, they were not in power. Nuclear power would not have saved us. There’s more blame to be put on the decision makers at shell than the hippies. Blaming them is a convenient scapegoat for the hard choices we need to make in the future.
They're using the popular meaning of "science": A claim from an impressive or impressive-sounding person or institution.
So the choice would be between glaucoma surgery according to the standard of care - or glaucoma surgery according to the standard of care.

Now we are getting somewhere! What if all this "choice" did nothing to improve patient outcomes or public health but entirely served to get more money out of your pocket?
Just heavily invest into badly drawn monkey NFTs and you'll soon become a devout web3 enthusiast.
Has I said in another comment, it is not about education or intelligence. Read the article. The politicians trying to intimidate the St Louis Post Dispatch have a history of intimidation against journalists. Demagoguery is unfortunately a chronic condition of democracy.