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Photographers definitely still need viewfinders, but only recently did the pixel densities of digital ones reach the point where they are an acceptable replacement for looking directly through the lens. This also means mirrorless cameras can add features to the viewfinder like focus peaking (highlighting the areas that are focused).
Relevant PG post: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
>Excuse me for this very uninformed question, but (D)SLR, as far as I can tell, is about using a prism to split light, to allow having a viewfinder.

They have a mirror that reflects light to the view finder. The mirror flips out of the way to let the light hit the sensor.

What you describe are called mirror less and is the revolution the article is about. They've been around for a while now but the combination of sensor, battery, and screen improvements have finally reached the point where the disadvantages are mostly gone.
I maintain a work intranet site. Its an out of the box Django site and I have very little time to design or develop pages. While I've not _yet_ implemented a chatbot, I really want to only for the purpose of translating whatever naive search terms into domain specific tags and terms. Even better if I could say, ME: Hey Bot! What's that thing I have to do at the end of every month that has to do with payroll? BOT: Payroll Accruals? click. haha.
Sad Cyberspace
I would like a directory of places in the cyberspace you may feel comfortable when sad.
Also free of spyware and such.
if we are trusting courts to have backdoors, does it not completely negate the purpose of blockchains, i.e. trustlessness

if you trust the court, why not just have them store everything on some mysql database and execute all the ""smart"" contracts as regular java code? blockchains are necessarily orders of magnitude worse in terms of performance. why do you want to use an extremely slow linked list based DB?
If home ownership was on a distributed blockchain, local regulators would rapidly discover a need for something like a notary to verify that the transaction has been done correctly on the correct blockchain by the people who actually own it, so as to ensure the consumer isn't sitting on the other side of the table with someone not bamboozling them about their ownership of the house, or bamboozling them about their transfer of ownership, or so and so forth. The notary would also validate that the transfer has successfully been completed on the blockchain respected by the local governing authorities, and has been filled out completely correctly.

You might think this is silly, but fake selling of homes is actually thing that happens! I don't just mean that regulators would do it for gatekeeping purposes, I mean there would be a real need for this. In the bizarre circumstance that this move to the blockchain actually happened for home ownership, the HN gestalt would rapidly be screaming for legislation and regulation around blockchain changes.

Which means, once again, that blockchain is solving a problem that doesn't exist here. The problem with home ownership and the problem notaries are solving was never that the authority was too centralized into the relevant governing bodies.

That's the reason why after 11 years blockchain has exactly one use case, and even that one is dubiously solved IMHO. It brilliantly solves problems we don't actually have.
That is something to introspect on. :D
I think the camera industry has yet to realize the amount of processing power that's available in modern chips.

Once they do, the very concept of lenses as we know them is likely going to evolve drastically: at the end of the day, the signal captured by the physical CCD needs not in any way to look like the finished product (the final photo).

They've realized that for color already (CCD captures a signal that's heavily processed for color before final delivery, eg debayering + color correction).

Wait till they realize they can pull off the same trick with geometry, the entire discussion in this thread will become moot in a heartbeat.
>Or does DSLR stand here for any camera with exchangeable lenses? Does the article mean professional cameras with exchangeable lenses are dead?

No. By removing the mirror-prism system as mirrorless cameras with interchangeable lenses have, you can bring the lens a lot closer to the sensor which opens up design choices that couldn't happen during the SLR or DSLR era. That's exactly what the article is describing.

The article just does a fairly subtle job of explaining it:

>These new lenses and lens mounts differ in one special way from previous generations. They aren’t limited by the design of the camera. The distance between the sensor and lens can be whatever the manufacturer wants it to be for the best results. With that limitation out of the way, lenses can embrace the advantages of rangefinder lenses, without their disadvantages.

That being said its going to be a while before I declare DSLRs dead, because the great majority of people will be extraordinarily well served by a modern SLR, and I buy all my camera equipment used anyways.
He also ignores all the material demands of the groups involved in identity politics, as if they don't intersect (A LOT!) This is inane.
It looks awesome but it is nigh unusable on my phone because of how sluggish it is. I feel like my phone's trying compute a trillion digits of pi for each interaction. Also, I think when you start adding interaction you very quickly start getting into UI/UX issues that you will have never considered. On desktop, I opened the projects deck, I clicked on a card, then I clicked the cross to go back and it took me all the way back instead of to the cards. Some people might think that's expected but I imagine there's some like me who were surprised. It might be because the cards come out slightly before the cross so I'm already looking at them and clicking on them before I even know the cross is there. Either way it can be tough to fix UI/UX issues just because of how subtle and how many of them there are.
Does anyone remember internet relay chat, IRC, with its channels? It is still here today as well.
Loving gas stoves seems like such an American mentality. Currently living in Denmark and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have induction. All new kitchens will come with induction stoves. Gas is a thing of the nineties…

I had a gas stove in the US but honestly I don’t see a big difference between gas and induction.
No more flicking the wrist to see what time it is.
Well, it kinda did though, didn't it? Being charitable for a second, I suspect it's more that history is "on pause" than ended, but I do get a feeling of almost timeless stasis.

In comparison to the scale of ideological, political, economic, and social changes for the 19th and 20th centuries, essentially nothing has happened since 1992. No major nation has had a revolution. There have been no major wars between nation-states. No ideologies of note have arisen or been cast down. Nothing historical has happened -- so the end of history.

From what I've read, a lot of people felt similarly in the late era of the Pax Britannia. (Which is a big part of why I think it's just "on pause".)
Makes me wonder what the equivalent to the free micro instance would be.
I wonder at what point the person shooting that footage starts to question their decision of not getting to higher ground than single story roof
Chef Jon Kung posted a video talking about cooking on induction that features a rounded induction cooktop for woks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooNzRrHA9VY
Lots of mirrorless cameras have electronic viewfinders - you have a conventional-looking viewfinder, but you look at a tiny screen, rather than a prism and a mirror. Because you are seeing an image captured by the sensor, it is precisely "what you see in that view finder is what you get in the photo" - including things like adjusting exposure compensation, which you would not see in an SLR viewfinder.

This also allows various helpful features to operate in the viewfinder, rather than just on the back LCD. I use magnification a lot, and there is also focus peaking and highlight and shadow indication. It can be really useful to have those a couple of button taps away while i'm composing a shot.
How about “what I am doing isn’t what I believe the world needs right now”
There is something to be said about all video game genres being wrongly named.

I mean when you look at some romance written in first person, that takes place in Victorian era, you don't call it a First Person Victorian novel. You call it a romance novel.

Art is usually named after feelings it evokes and less on the actual techniques used.

Maybe puzzle/idle games are only games that actually have descriptive names. You play a puzzle game because you want to solve a difficult problem. You play a shooter because you want some carefree violence.

In lieu of that, Roguelikes definition misses the mark completely.

You can have a Roguelikes experience without any of the stuff defined in Rougelike Berlin definition. Noita is real-time; Elona/Caves of Qud allows save and load; Elona has little procedural generation outside wilderness and random events;
Engineering is something like “deliberately configuring a physical or technological process to achieve some intended effect”. That applies whether you’re building a bridge or writing fizzbuzz
We now need a Starlink dish in Neko Atsume
This discussion is quiet far from what I've initially said from my perspective, nonetheless...

> it's definitely not some law of economics or anything like that.

This is a no true scotsman fallacy. It's true that this is not a preordained truth, but you'll realistically always have someone at a loss for as long as resources are limited. And if you can't see one than you're just ignoring the one's at a loss as irrelevant.

I.e. descendents with natural resources or even non-human entities in the context of meat production etc
Are you aware that he admitted that he was wrong? I believe he wrote a book on it.
The reason why lawyers and middlemen are required is not because authority is too centralized into the relevant governing bodies. They're there for lots and lots of other reasons that blockchain can't help with.
> It's hard to gain too much insight from Wikipedia, but it looks like it fills a niche that was empty.

Yes, pretty much. There are Greens in Czechia but they are more left-progressive (compared to center-liberal pirates) and they are unacceptable for many because of their anti-nuclear position.
Of course, but I'm more thinking about near to mid term, where a heck of a lot of domestic heating and cooking infrastructure has been built upon the assumption of gas, so is an incumbent sunk cost.

All new builds and renovations should be encouraged to deploy full-electric.

- ed: Sorry, I should've specified - I meant 'in the UK' for the large amount of existing gas infrastructure.
> My parent have it and it never worked for me

Can you clarify, are you certain you're talking about induction? Inductive cooktops are a relatively recent trend, if you grew up with an electric range there's a good chance it was a resistive cooktop, not an inductive cooktop. Resistive cooktops are pretty notoriously unsatisfying.
It is obviously a bogus statistic. You would need to compare those that went to college vs vs those in the exact same situation but didn't.

"On average, smarter people make more over their lifetime than less smart people bro, that is a fact!"
Sure. But another key feature of how the turbine works is -- that it spins. That means that you need bearings and seals that can not only withstand but actually work effectively under those conditions.
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It is not clear to me why it is much more significant (or how much more). There is confirmation bias here. There would be no "report" if Moderna had not been associated with the sequence. So how many other, perhaps longer, matches were there to other patented sequences with no connection to Moderna? If there were hundreds (which there probably were), it is much less clear what the significance of one of them being in a Moderna patent is, particularly if Moderna was trying to make an HIV vaccine, and the sequence is in HIV (which it is).
I was given a Sony camera to take photos at an event recently.

After two days, I noticed that the viewfinder would be dark when I turned the camera off. This was different than my usual Canon, so I wondered why.

Turns out it was a mirrorless camera, where the viewfinder is a screen. And I didn't notice that I was looking at a screen the whole time.

Edit: this was a Sony Alpha 7c. I really enjoyed using it. It's comfortably small and has the silver retro design of something from the 1930s.
For a little more investment you can get hacked version with a TCXO and it is able to receive almost 0 to IIRC 28MHz. It is a 2.8MHz spectrum analyzer although energy readings are not a feature.

However cities are terribly noisy environments so loop antennas should work better for most people. Most amateur radio guides assume you are at least a homeowner but that is not realistic among people interested in a 20 eurodollar receiver.
What I see in this graph is a more or less linear growth instead of an exponential one. That's good news.

But a more tangible insight into why you're wrong and why vaccines do work is to look at statistics for hospitalization in intensive care: these days, the vast majority of ICU cases of COVID are unvaccinated patients. Given that most people are vaccinated, it should be the other way around if there was no difference between vaccinated or unvaccinated. This is a much stronger argument than speculating what a growth graph should or should not look like with or without vaccines.
Having the ability to make a vaccine is not the same as having the ability to engineer a virus.
> But when you dig a bit deeper, you'll find that there is true technical and financial innovation.

Ah yes. The good old "just google it". There's literally not a single "dig deeper" resource on the internet that explains the need for blockchains/cryptocurrencies etc.

But sure, there are a lot of "innovations" with recursive circular "innovations" (like currency speculation, HFT and flash loans, all of "innovatively made available" by regurgutating the same fatasy tokens and pretending they are worth something)
> My band of thugs however would offer people the ability to buy protection from your band of thugs.

Thereby reinventing the police

> I may even be inclined to write down some rules and introduce a process to resolve conflicts without unnecessary damage to people and property.

and the courts.

But maybe that was your point?
You might want to take a minute to read the article itself. The author measures NO2 levels in their house with the equipment (stove, furnace, etc) that they have and the meals that they cook (or don't, e.g. when getting takeout). They make no comparison to other stoves.
It is equally confounding to me that you either: read the piece and still have these complaints, or you didn't and still feel authorized to respond in this way.
Line code is not going anywhere, it just changes to 242/256
I think the issue is, how well the plastics age. Some over time get brittle and less "flexible", and thus prone to fatigue.

I had a Minolta SLR as a teen (read: late 70s to early 80s). I gave it away 25+ yrs later. I'm not sure about internals, but there was no fears about plastic fatigue. I believe it might still be in use.
You can get induction with knobs.
Ask HN: Amazon.com account on hold with no apparent way to reopen. any advice?
My amazon.com account has been put "on hold" over 8 days ago, and I haven't been able to get it reopened.

I called customer service 10+ times, contacted them using chat through my wife's account, etc. Every time they reassured me that they will escalate the issue to their "account specialist" team and they should get back to me within 1-2 days. I waited, nothing happened, called again and repeat. Ive gone through this cycle 6 times already, with no apparent progress.

The account was originally put on hold, because their systems thought a gift card balance transaction I made was suspicious. I called them to reassure it wasn't and they recorded that info in some form (multiple times).

I've had this account for 10+ years, it's a safe account with 2-step verification, etc. I have a lot of time invested in this account, but more importantly a lot of money too: audible purchases, prime video purchases, gift card balance, amazon credit card reward points, etc. that I would definitely not want to lose.

Has anyone faced similar issues? Any advice on how to get this resolved?

Any leads/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
How does Google compete with news providers?
> "see" most virus mutations because most mutations don't survive

And even if they survive the selection pressure is immense.
In my experience change was only possible when I was able to practice rigorous honesty with myself and another person. It's easy for me to hide in self-denial and commit to myself that I can be better, but without really being truthful about the parts of me I want to change and why, it never worked.

I wouldn't advocate for specific strategies or methods to other people, but I've found combinations of mindfulness, therapy, and support groups to be the most useful for me. It's all about building healthy habits and honesty about the parts I want to change.
> Does the math here make zero sense?

It does, if you read what I wrote. 1 mac + 10 win + 1 linux + 10 win = 1 mac + 1 linux + 20 windows = 4.5% mac + 4.5% linux + 91% windows.

> this would almost seem to be in favour of windows users since they're relative userbase increases enough to outset surges

If you read it as numbers, yes. But the point is that certain things cannot be expressed in numbers. Because the mac/linux userbase is composed disproportionately more of power-users, who have disproportionately more clout among their network of acquaintances when it comes to IT and games, their overall influence is much higher than the numbers convey. They start the chains.

Your statement on not feeling this or that, btw, is directly negated by the very history of HumbleBundle.

> Why would developers want to support a userbase

We are not talking about developers here, but distributors.

> Every algorithmic recommendation engine is trying to represent virality and clout

That doesn't mean they succeed, and regardless, we are not talking about social media here.

You seem to have gone off on a series of rants without actually reading what I wrote.
So why are the babies crying that they can't afford their loans?
Addressable market for vaccines is larger than treatments: all population vs. those get sick

Also vaccines as those we have today are recurrent revenue: one shot every 6 / 12 months?
I'm very optimistic about RISCV adoption, I'd wager this is the year the major distributions start preparing to host stable releases for it, or at least Fedora. There's a Guix developer making pretty decent progress on the port. https://tooot.im/@efraim/tagged/guix
Progress and the Sanctity of Will
A screen on the back of a camera is lit up by the environment, so it needs to be extremely bright to work properly in direct sunlight while also having zero backlight bleed in near darkness. Viewfinders solve this issue.

The problem with live preview from a digital sensor is that the sensor needs to be able to stream the entire image constantly. Early sensors were not designed for this, and would often overheat quite quickly. It also needs to update often enough to not be jittery, and in low light conditions early digital sensors just weren't sensitive enough.
You also need an extremely high-resolution viewfinder screen to provide enough detail for things like focus. Those didn't exist yet either.

One thing to keep in mind is that it was definitely possible: consumer cameras did it quite early on! But the quality was quite poor: good enough for holiday snapshots, but not nearly good enough for professional photographers. Sticking to the DSLR approach was a no-brainer for them.

Also, a (D)SLR doesn't split light: a mirror flips down in front of the sensor to reflect the light into the viewfinder. When you take an image the mirror flips up, allowing light to fall onto the sensor.
Obamacare's impacts varied. In NY, Obamacare at least temporarily lowered healthcare premiums despite being a new regulation. Most of those rules were already in place within NY state law, but the introduction of the employer and individual mandates added many healthy people to the risk pool, fixing a pre-existing adverse selection problem and therefore lowering premiums. The Obamacare risk corridor provisions also helped.

I only say "at least temporarily" lowering premiums to reflect subsequent events, like the removal of the individual mandate and the risk corridor, and the general increase in healthcare costs over time.
You'd be surprised. Every time I've observed a switch to header bidding, revenue goes up like 50% or so. And I've heard the same from many other people. I don't think I've ever heard someone say it didn't improve revenue. And yes, that increase is after the new middleman takes his typical 20% cut!
Clarification on Canon discontinuing EF lenses:

https://petapixel.com/2021/04/22/canon-clarifies-discontinui...

Not that several camera makers make EF mount cameras and third party lens makers make EF mount lenses, like Yongnuo, Samyang, Schneider, Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, Cosina and Carl Zeiss.

Be very careful investing in lenses that have a short flange focal distance. In other words, where the distance from the mount to the sensor is short. We went big on Sony E mount primes for shooting video. When we moved to Blackmagic Design Ursa and pocket cine cameras with Canon mounts we couldn’t adapt the lenses and had to get rid of them. The general point here is that as you grow as a shooter your needs will change and you’ll be far happier if you can adapt your old lenses somehow.

You can, for example, put an EF mount lens on a Sony E mount camera, but not the other way around.

What my media dept has done is to standardize on Canon EF mount lenses. We now have a great collection of L series and cine lenses that will work on everything from our 5Ds to BMD Ursa 12K to our pocket cine cameras.

Don’t get vendor locked in and make sure you retain a few options.
One of the great joys of my freshman-year humanities sequence was reading the Zhuangzi, and I still have the book we used on my shelf. I'm not an expert of the Chinese of that era, but I've heard the original is extremely vibrant and playful, so choosing the right translation is critical if you're reading the text for the first time.

Here's one of the more famous passages from the Zhuangzi as told in the translation we used (The Essential Chuang Tzu, by Sam Hamill and J. P. Seaton):

> Long ago, Chuang Chou dreamed he was a butterfly fluttering among trees, doing as he pleased, completely unaware of a Chuang Chou. A sudden awakening, and there, looking a little out of sorts, was Chuang Chou. Now, I don't know whether it is Chou who dreamed he was a butterfly, or whether a butterfly dreams he's Chuang Chou. But between Chuang Chou and the butterfly, we ought to be able to find some sort of distinction. This is what's known as Things Changing.
Modern mirror less cameras have an OLED screen inside the viewfinder, which in my humble opinion is a lot better than a normal viewfinder.
Apple will pull it for not going through the StoreKit entitlement process.
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That's with a 1.7mm layer of fungus. This looks to be proof of concept research.

Whether thicker layers can be used to provide comprehensive protection is for future research to establish. (and it's unlikely to be a linear relationship)
Noooo ... you can't just make money outside of the inflation-driven fiat system! Crypto is BAD because you'll be an ADDICT! How do people still believe this bullshit or pay any mind the "Guardian"? It's clear and obvious propaganda.