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> EVF is much more convenient for near vision glasses wearers too.

How so? I use diopter adapters in my DSLR eyepieces, since the built-in adjustment doesn't suffice and I hate to shoot through glasses that prevent me seeing all of the viewfinder.

I wouldn't have thought an EVF could natively improve on this, but now you've got me intrigued.
Pet peeve: GDPR is not the cookie law, and is fact a very sensible collection of restrictions on how companies can collect and process personal data. The annoying banners you see are against the spirit of the GDPR, and quite possibly against the letter of it, too.
This is also true from the labor perspective.
This is wonderful news! Thank you so much for doing this, and doing it right - this is much better than my idea of making a bad MVP web browser to provide second implementations to push through proposals when other vendors drag their feet.

As an author of a functional compiler that targets wasm, this is a dream come true - yall do really cool work.
I never understood why the spacex sattelites dont have shitty webcams on their "dark side"

Imagine the resolution of that array as it spins around earth...
It might be noisy, but it definitely delivers a reasonably bright image where an optical viewfinder would be completely dark already. Especially in the high gain modes, you have like a night vision device - try pointing the E-M1 at the stars with the higher of the live view amplification modes. It is great how many stars you can see this way.
> I suppose what you're saying is that the exploitation was short-lived during their early days?

Not at all what I’m saying.

I’m saying 2008-2020 was a bi-modal situation. Just like the COVID shutdown was: recall how for many workers, it meant working from home and a buildup of funds because there was nowhere to spend it. For another group it meant struggling, gig work, moving back in with parents, and draining your savings - because their entire industry was just GONE. Depending on what numbers you look at, and at what resolution, you see the first group, the second group, or both.

So wages went up during the 2010-2020 period, but for who? Minimum wage didn’t keep up with inflation in most places during that period. More lower paying jobs, less overall power. What are you going to do, quit this $10/hour job and go work at another $10/hour job? Why bother
Not judging on the mails itself, but actually rejecting is the right way. Spam folders tend to get ignored, if one doesn't know he misses an email, he won't look there. When a mail gets rejected, the sender is noticed, so he can take measures to ensure the recipient gets the info.
Obligatory: https://m.xkcd.com/978/
I don't think I'm going to invest in a new system.

The combo of my 5D4, and latest iphone pro seem to have me covered.

I'm tempted to rent a latest canon mirrorless body, but I can't see how Canon can keep up with IQ innovation through processing the way Google and Apple have.
This has been the opposite of my experience, but I can see that you wish misfortune on others.
For many businesses revenue is a function of aggressive deal making. Full stop. In an undifferentiated market of discretionary (impulse) purchases if you don't hustle the customer you make less. The author of this article is confusing companies that are bad at hustling with hustling being bad.

One time offers, limited time offers, mailing list signups, up-sells, and cross sells are time tested ways to increase sales dating as far back as radio era telephone and catalog sales.

Steve Madden is a perfect example of this. They sell undifferentiated popular shoe styles less expensive than high fashion but more expensive than knockoffs. They have to hustle you to get you on their mailing list (for 10% off your order) in the hopes that you'll make another impulse purchase later when you get a text or email from them. If they weren't as aggressive you might never make another impulse purchase with them again as there are tons of brands selling nearly identical products.

Some companies are just horrible at hustling so they actually get in the way of you completing your purchase. In a competitive market this is a self correcting problem.
This is kinda weird explanation since there is so much technology and especially PROGRESS around renewable tech. Still you see it ridiculed or sometimes even hated around the same threads. So I guess there must be a different explanation.
The vast majority of Uber drivers don’t want to be employees. They prefer working part time.

Anything else?
First, my neighborhood pizza place offers free delivery. And it’s really good pizza.

Second, the price if delivery is worked into their overall prices since drivers has costs. The stupidity of Dominos charging a delivery fee is that it’s just extra on top of their prices so extra mental labor to work out true price instead of advertised price.

Third, dominos used to charge $0 for delivery even though margins were the same back then.
Surge pricing also reduces your number of customers in that moment.
Exactly. This is probably a $300 actual cost item they have to charge 5x for to pay for all the supporting infrastructure and software engineers
Oracle acquiring Sun.

I know there is a lot of Oracle hate but: MySQL, GraalVM (Java), Sun hardware (both Exa* and SPARC), VirtualBox and many more technologies are better today than prior.

The challenge Sun would have had, regardless of Oracle or not, is that they were solidly in the On-Prem business ... and the market has moved to Cloud.
Oh man, it’s so much more. You can put any code behind Engine.EditorHint condition and it only runs inside the editor. You can make shortcut keys to do things or execute code in _Process.

For example, i’ve made a script where editing one tilemap updated another, the first being a palette for wave function collapse, generating the other.

When i implemented vector fields, i first had it track the mouse instead of the player and did it all in the editor (not hitting play)
I suspect the heated seats were/are just a simple thing they could add onto the infrastructure, which must support a lot more services than just the seats.
Honest question, do you think there is zero value to stablecoins? There's obviously huge demand for dollar assets in middle income countries without easy access to dollarized banking. In countries like Turkey or Argentina or Nigeria, stablecoins have achieved widespread adoption because they're far safer form of savings than inflationary local currency. It's hard for me to imagine how that's zero-sum.
Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the brain dead
> I really dislike JavaScript for a number of reasons.

Might I suggest being less sensitive/that your reasons are overblown?
I agree, it'd be much better if they hadn't donated at all.
Fatalism is a nice omnidirectional exoneration, but I don't think complicity is that simple ("it is their fault and I am blameless even as I reward what they do, it is government's fault and I am blameless even if they're representing me poorly").
NASA releases next wave of images from James Webb Space Telescope
Is my 2000 CRV going to be safe?!? Bah, 2012-Current. *Misleading headline.
Toyota had a similar problem.

https://www.edn.com/toyotas-killer-firmware-bad-design-and-i...
Distributed Systems lecture series by Martin Klepmann - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAMfLPZZhE&list=PLeKd45zvjc...
I don't know this guy; maybe he is a raging monster, no idea.

But in any case, he has virtually no influence in shaping “rus” (you know they switched to “russian” for over five centuries now, right?) culture and imperialism.
"Sufficiently clever AI" would, in this case, be the person writing a reverse-engineered work alike app.

In some of the cases mentioned (e.g. Spotify, Chegg, etc) you can't really do this, because the actual value in the app is just the copyrighted material being purchased. Reverse-engineering is protected under US law for a variety of reasons, mostly that you can't copyright basic functionality (that's for patent law) and that copyright shouldn't extend to interfaces[0].

AI trying to reverse-engineer all of music or art or writing already exists. They're called MuseNet, DALL-E, and GPT-3 respectively. While you can sort of trick them into regurgitating training data in a way that would make their use to create novel works legally perilous, it's still kind of difficult to get them to generate exact copies in a way that would be useful for "pirating" all of Spotify.

[0] SCOTUS tried very very hard in the Google v. Oracle decision not to actually say this. However, the actual ruling has a similar effect.
Add Netlix to the pile. Each of these services leveraged a brief window of technological advantage before the trundling entrenched industries and governments caught up. Now that they have, they must compete on a dramatically different front. The initial technical challenges are now dwarfed by the challenge of fighting multinational Suarons.

This strange arc of the last decade has shown me that a sizable chunk of information technology has matured to the point of being a commodity. For those that have worked in the field reaching back further than a decade, this begets an ennui, as our labors redirect less towards the question of what is possible and increasingly more towards the petty struggles of bureaucracy and maximization of profit and labor exploitation.

We had (have?) a moment that was more fleeting than we realized.
That's a lot of emotion for 10 taxi rides. I'm not sure if I've ever met someone who has taken fewer cab rides. I've taken hundreds, and somehow missed this hellscape that Uber boosters keep informing me of.
Please do not only offer qr codes. Some people might not have (working) cameras.
Well just include it in the price for everyone, duhh. It's just executives trying to squeeze every penny out of their customers. Next thing they'll try is making things subscriptions that ought to be always included. I understand the logic, once you sell one subscription it's easier to upsell more but it's heinous and I hope they'll be ridiculed for this years to come.
Confiscating ownership of 50% of a company seems like a pretty big line to cross. I don't think it's purely about political imaging. That would have all kinds of ripple effects, both in terms of the direct results of doing it and of the indirect results of setting the precedent.
Lol talk to anyone who was there and they would tell you that Oracle absolutely destroyed Sun.
> That's a completely subjective term that just describes that one part of the transaction does not like the deal that they entered voluntarily.

Voluntary has some shades of gray, especially when there is a power imbalance. Or, they might enter voluntarily, and things go quite ugly, and they feel they need to continue for their lively good.

A "voluntary" contract can still be bullying and coercive.

> Laws can be, and often are, immoral.

This is true but most instances of a company breaking the law are not this. Especially when breaking regulation is key to that company's existence. You can argue that regulation is unjust but it's typically been enacted by the people's duly elected representatives in good faith, and purposefully building a business around breaking it amounts to disrespect.
I mean, I shoot only M43, so I'd do it because I wouldn't have anything else on hand, but the smaller sensor does present quality challenges a full-frame doesn't and modern full-frames can get pretty small while still being able to pack a pretty long lens (though as you say, the long M43 lenses are pretty tiny!). If money's no object, I would think most folks would pick a Nikon Z9 or the like over an M43 option. You can totally get fine pictures out of the M43 in a wildlife/outdoors setting for sure.

(The smaller M43 lenses are a big part of why I use it, though, as I am a video-first shooter and Panasonic's video-friendly, silent-motor lenses are pretty ridiculous.)
given nobody can even agree and decide between GB and UK I'll just skip this and get back to work...
Functional programming is finally going mainstream
I recently learned about EFISTUB thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31231968&p=2#31234648

> Load Linux directly as an EFI executable via the EFISTUB approach.

> the "Using UEFI directly" section [...] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFISTUB
I also was reading your post with the mindset "how to regulate social networks". I strongly believe that all big organizations need regulation. It is not easy to regulate social networks, but heck maybe it wasn't easy to regulate telephony or energy.
Giving a shit as a service
The link to the article wasn't intended to be the be-all reason... just a general "something to think about here".

There is an inherent security risk... it is trivial, as the OPs article suggests, to print out a QR code, cover an existing public one, and send people to a phishing site. Unless people are being very careful about what sites they are on, they could easily be scammed.
Having previously worked at SFDC, I would not wager that it's much more dynamic than Tableau.
That’s a GAAP loss. Did you read the article you posted?
From a new HN link this morning: https://twitter.com/fuxianyi/status/1545668143816839170

Per the post above, China's population has been dropping since 4 years ago but the statistics have been doctored pretty aggressively to hide this fact. The linked tweet alleges a 120million person discrepancy between government reporting and the reality.
Strong disagreement. The acquisition happened in 2006. The last few great Pixar movies were in the pipeline already (Ratatouille - 2007, WALL-E - 2008, Up - 2009).
Imagine living in cold climate. Heated seats is very nice to have in certain places where temp below -20C is not uncommon.

(Paid monthly subscription is a different issue though.)
I find this great, let them build under priced cars, goto a shop and get the "all features go" chip welded in and pirated firmware. Shareholders financially supporting customers driving better then they could afford, the same fate that you can expect for tesla. Which reminds me what is the tesla dark quota? How many cars totally disappear from the always connected feature and never reconnect?
Actually, I'm taking another look at TypeScript today. I liked it well enough when I last investigated it in 2016, but the code I wrote then was just a veneer over jQuery. I'm sure things have improved dramatically, which I am about to find out. Frankly, a Turing complete type system [1] seems like over-kill to me and a complication I don't need.

Still, Dart had everything I wanted in a front end language in 2013. I think JS devs were short sighted to reject it out of hand. It's a shame it never caught on by itself and not as a just a Flutter language. I read that Google is using it in Fuchsia so there is still a chance Dart will be big in the future!

[1] TypeScript and Turing Completeness: https://itnext.io/typescript-and-turing-completeness-ba8ded8...
Funny how when China is being demonized it's "Communist China", but when China is doing something well its "Capitalist China".
Those countries you'd list have VERY strong labor union protections or even mandatory enrollment. [1]

A libertarian does not support a nation with strong regulations protecting unions. They wouldn't stop a union, but they'd also be in favor of allowing a business to fire employees everytime they unionize.

The better worker conditions are coming from strong unions, not lack of minimum wage. Unions are so weak in the US that killing the minimum wage would turn us into a sweatshop nation.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080515/5-dev...
That would be considered a remake though and would essentially be a competing product with the same api (since it’s highly unlikely the remake would be written the same as the original). Whether copying the api is infringing on anything seems to be uncertain as the outcome of the Google v Oracle case seemed to only set a light precedent
It's funny how many cool things could be created with just a few hours of manual labelling labor.
Apparently this site goes back to at least 2012, so the pics would have to be older than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4095237
If you want to 3D Print your QR code, this site generates an STL: https://printer.tools/qrcode2stl/

If you add the key tag, you can hang it on the wall. Works well with a light-color background, and a dark foreground.
There are more than two possible scenarios other than "work to death" and "work to injury, constantly".
Also people used to just die of skin cancer and they called it "boils" or "witchcraft" or something.

Let's not pretend it never existed just because people historically didn't know what it was or how to document it.
IMHO most charity work is kind of scam anyways. Sure you've got some proportion really out there doing good and helping desperate people, but most of them seem like ego trips and tax scams for rich people. In most cases, at least in democratic nations, I think it would be in our interest to take all that money and give it local and national governments to fully fund education, social services, environment causes, animal control, healthcare, etc. By letting charities handle large chunks of those, we essentially allow rich people to dictate public policy.
Agreed. The workers they think they're defending would be the ones most negatively impacted by an unwinding of Uber. The passengers would be the second most aggrieved.

The only people that would benefit are lawyers, lobbyists, and the taxi industry.

Pretty sure there are _independent_ polls of ride share drivers in the 60% to 70% that like the system as it is. You can drive whenever you want for as long as you want. No boss. Just you and your car and some cool people getting from point A to point B.

But somehow this is equated to full time jobs and the lack of benefits. If someone wants benefits, they can always get a regular FT job. The market has plenty of them at the moment. I have never once met an Uber driver that hated Uber.
Some say that giving money to marketing companies, and the people they employ, is a bit of charity, for what other function could those people possibly serve in society?
I get a sense that many on this site never want the gravy train to stop and will overlook/downplay anything to keep it going. The slightest scrutiny leading to regulation of one tech giant could be the first domino in a series of regulation against all. I don't think that most are outright shills for Uber but I think that many are unwitting shills for big tech.
Well, the law certainly represents physical force.
You speak in the past tense about events I'm unfamiliar with. What recent historical events are you referring to? Or is this some kind of rhetorical but obtuse way to speak about a hypothetical situation? I am confused but curious what you are talking about. Thanks.

> Once they grasped the situation, they shoved incredible amounts of resources into "scenario-tree-root" hardening
Carina Nebula (James Webb's first pictures)
These kind of initiatives aren't about the first customer. The person buying new will likely get a free subscription as part of some dealership deal, or will buy the feature outright at purchase time and wont notice. This is about rent seeking from the freeloaders.

That dumbass executive looked at the healthy used car market, got pissed that some people owned BMW's without paying their dues, and asked how to fix that.

This service allows a customer to purchase a feature outright, now do you think that feature belongs to the car, or does it belong to the customer? Will it transfer during a sale?
Technically that was a merger, which made Steve Jobs the largest Disney shareholder (more than any member of the Disney family).

But yeah you have a good point. They retained their culture and in fact spread it further by having the Pixar folks take over Disney Animation.
I just went down a small, but very interesting rabbit hole: I was not aware of non mechanical gyros!

Apparently, light travelling along a fiber optic cable will travel a slightly different distance when the device has angular momentum. That is COOL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagnac_effect
Yes, but this is the future they want to move to where you pay $60k for your car, but you need to also pay them $1k per month (for nothing) to drive it - obviously not including your insurance or gas.

To grow profits in excess of inflation in a saturated market, you must charge your costumers continuously more for the same product.
I think it’s easy to exaggerate how often updates are regressions, because the ones that don’t turn out so well are going to sit in our memory more strongly than all the other ones that worked fine.

It’s like if you go to Starbucks every day, and in 20 visits your coffee was prepared correctly. Then on the 21st visit, something was messed up.

Which experience would be most memorable? The one where they messed up, not the 20 other experiences where everything was fine.

Most updates to most software
are made in good faith. Companies (at least, the ones not in a complete monopoly) don’t try to scam their customers, they want to keep you happy so you keep buying. They’re not trying to mess up your workflow.

And this is why resistance to change is such an unattractive trait to me: if you’re learning every day like you’re supposed to, having to re-learn something shouldn’t be such a big deal, and it’s not like most software updates are going to just completely change how everything works (especially when they’re frequent and incremental). I think boxed software is actually worse in this regard. I always hated having to shell out a bunch of money all at once for the next version and then go through a more jarring migration process, because each update contained years of changes all at once.

Arguably, Microsoft’s ribbon interface in Office would never had happened if Office 365 existed at the time. They needed a big visual change they could show off in screenshots to stimulate discrete sales.

Apple managed to do something as extreme as changing the underlying file system of my computer with a routine update, no clean install or data migration required. If I wasn’t a tech enthusiast, I would have had no idea it even happened! Can you imagine how mind-blowing it would have been if we could have had that experience in 1998? For most people in the 90s, upgrading your OS meant buying an entirely new computer because it was just that difficult.

I’d personally rather not sit around being bitter and cynical about things being different now, maximizing the bad and minimizing the good.
What about your mobile data subscription? ISP subscription?
Not allowed to exist is an unfortunate formulation. Marvin above said it better.
Here's something I found: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/57249761

It basically seems to come down to the fact that with DSLR you can disable Live View, therefore keeping the sensor cool until you take your exposure.

I expect then that a camera like the X100V or X-Pro3 - both of which are mirrorless cameras that also have an OVF - would have the same advantage as a DSLR.
Yeah, it's way better to separate value discussions from "optimizing for values" discussions. They're both important, but if you do them at the same time you don't really get anywhere.

On optimizing for the value of work output with tech, I think most people use terrible heuristics that mostly lead to them underinvesting. It's all just benchmarking against other companies and trying to be economical.

The number of companies that won't invest in a second monitor or an ultrawide for office employees is mindblowing. The efficiency gains are well studied, something like 20-40% (you may love your single small monitor, I'm talking about averages). It's an upgrade that's 1% of the salary for a $50k employee, lasts years, has no ongoing costs and is transferrable between work stations. It's a no-brainer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxmox_Backup_Server