skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever used a 35mm film camera? I’ve taken loads of photos on 35mm film because I enjoy the process, but the technical quality in terms of resolution and dynamic range is clearly inferior to that of a modern cell phone camera - even if you are using very high qualify scans or wet printing. And the difference in color accuracy is even more stark.

The amount of light that’s let in depends entirely on the aperture diameter, not the size of the sensor. Sometimes you can use a larger diameter on a 35mm camera if you don’t need a lot of depth of field; but equally, modern digital sensors are usable at ISOs where film is not. The acid test here is night photography. If you want to take night portraits, you're going to have a far better time of it using a modern cell phone than a 35mm SLR with, say, an f1.8 lens. Even with a wide aperture lens and 400 ISO film, you'd be lucky to get a shutter speed faster than 1/15th of a second.

You can of course get more resolution with a larger format (I enjoy 4x5 myself). However, using medium or large format film cameras is a massive step down in terms of practicality and rules out entire genres of photography that phones excel at. I enjoy lugging my 4x5 film camera around and I very occasionally I get a nice photo out of it. Even when I do, the version I take on my phone is inferior in terms of resolution (not actually that important) but better in every other respect. You can drive yourself insane trying to get a 4x5 negative that doesn't have any uneven development or scratches.

The bottom line is that a modern cell phone is a vastly superior general purpose photographic tool to anything that was available in the 1990s. We all (in rich parts of the world) have access to cameras that professional photographers would have killed for a few decades ago. Thus, it annoys me when people compare these incredible devices unfavourably with "real cameras". It's pure gatekeeping.
I'd agree that the post above yours paints a bit of a false dichotomy.

There are some fine semi-weighted keybeds out there, like on the Nord Electro.

We ought remember that replicating the characteristics of an acoustic piano with a digital instrument is difficult, and was basically impossible 30 years ago. Modern sampling keyboards have hundreds of MB of memory for samples (and can play back and mix them with no audible latency).
> I don’t see why that would matter

I don't understand what you meant by this part. Matter to what?
When I first registered on Twitter I didn't understand how anyone finds it useful and left my account idle for ± 3 years.

It only became useful when I copied a highly curated follower list from a coworker. Since then I have onboarded several people to Twitter this way. They start by copying my follows to get it to a useful state.

Its quite clear there is lots of improvement space here.
The clawback also needs to be contingent on the employee somehow requesting the training and initiating the end of the job.

If you spend $20K on an MBA that I initiated and I quit, totally fair to have an arrangement where I have to pay some of that back.

If you fire me? No obligation.

If you send me to some series of certifications because you want me to have them? Also no obligation.
> Gmail: Fast email with 2 GB storage.

My 2c: Storage and speed are nowhere near as important as spam blocking... Which Gmail is superior at, and the primary reason for it's choice
not if you are spamming your number when you call
I'm commenting based on the direct remark made to me recently by one of the admins of this site, after I had also made some ideological/political comments, take it up with them (with the site admins, that is).
TIL that incineration in a crematorium leaves chunks of bone (bone fragments) that are then ground into the ashes we're familiar with in a device called a cremulator.

Thank you.
For a bit of context/back-story, Richard, who opened this issue, later also wrote a blog post about the whole ordeal:

https://blog.sigma-star.at/post/2022/07/protonmail-adventure...

In short: The idea was to move from a custom mail server to a paid, hosted solution. ProtonMail was chosen, with the bridge being used to get mails into a local mail client. Issues with the bridge eventually cropped up.
Which is why I wrote:

> quality of life at work increase

I would work in a nursing home, but not at a price that 95% of people can afford. Probably 99% of people. But that is due to personal circumstances. Based on wage statistics, nursing home workers’ wages have lots of room for improvement.

https://www.indeed.com/q-CNA-Home-Health-Aide-l-Colorado-job...

It is basically competing with the lowest paying jobs. Hence back to my original comment about Medicare “coverage” not being a meaningful indicator of benefits one will receive.
Sure, here is my short list:

- It's the right business model, I am paying! Which means _I_ am the customer, both in terms of support and feature requests. I mean good luck getting answers in goog 'Groups'. Also it means I support Kagi's operational costs so no ads.

- It actually respects bolean operators which is something Google had perfected and has been silently ignoring for the past 6 years or so. The 'Lenses' and 'Filters' are also a good addition in Kagi to narrow results further

- For my technical queries it does not overvalue 'freshness' which has become a google search obsession. I am not looking for the latest news about Taylor Swift I am looking for a deep crawl on anything related to my very specific technical query. I don't care if it's 15 years old or 2 weeks old.

- Pretty much anything UX related is configurable, so any annoyance is easily removed. It pains me to say it but in 2022 I now have to explicitly opt-in, in order for apps to show me a full URL. (But then again perhaps I am just showing my age).
Saying 'Yes' on the 'Have you ever used drugs?' recruitment question would put you in the 'Too dumb' camp.
Why do these bullshit comments always seem to end up on top?
Not to mention that big money sports relies on spectatorship so you'll see adjustments to the rules to encourage exciting and offensive play. The English Premier League has adjusted rules over the years and ONE FC also attempts to encourage offensive action for fights.
It's surprising how successful it is given relatively low immunity among the population and how infectious the new variants are. And yet its both unsustainable and will have to be maintained forever. There is currently no plausible path out of the measures.

If you had to choose between a 1% risk of being crippled by COVID, or a 100% risk of living under the strictest lockdown measures your country had for the rest of your life, what would you choose? And the actual risk of long-term consequences is lower.
How reasonable is github's account recovery process? I imagine it won't be long until a high impact maintainer loses their phone and doesn't have any recovery codes saved.
Is it doing anything clever for the search? Based on path context etc?
Tangent:

> It had its quirks—You’re muted, Cathy, and so forth—

There would be a simple solution: add a good ole' vu-meter.

This would also help with incorrect gain, which is why they had been present on recording equipment for almost a century.
I used to love my TomTom ! Especially the ux ! Was so easy and responsive
But even taking those %s at face value: it's 40% of a much larger amount of money (a whole CD versus some streams).
Oh it gets worse: Google has the gall position themselves on the authority on malware on the web [0], which they of course do with the same dedication to quality and support that they are known for in their other offerings. So they distribute malware themselves while defaming others with accusations of distributing malware.

[0] https://safebrowsing.google.com/
They don't -- they may leave if they show a negative covid test, and one would assume there are testing capabilities on site shortly after the announcement.

Last report is that everyone left by 10:30pm [0]

Don't get me wrong however, I would not appreciate being stuck in such circumstances for multiple hours.

[0]
https://www.scmp.com/video/coronavirus/3197996/thousands-stu... (video timestamp: 0:50)
they say it takes roughly 10k photos to get to the OK level in composition and this 'seeing' (and that obviously means 10k serious photo attempts not just 30 selfies per coffee mug in starbucks). Its not that much once you carry camera and ie go to nature over weekends and travel for holidays, or walk around a lot for street photography. I think it can be sped up a bit with editing photos in say Lightroom - ie once you keep cropping the photos in same way to get the best out of them, you grok what is required and do it already in camera, or electing the best composition out of few shots etc.
For the youngens here on HN: TomTom was once one of the leading manufacturers of GPS navigation systems for cars - purchased as an accessory that was stuck to the wind screen. This was in a time before every car had a screen built in, and before everyone had a smart phone with Google Maps in their pocket.

I guess that product is a prime example for becoming irrelevant by society progressing. I actually still use an old TomTom in my old car that doesn't have a screen (well, it does, but didn't come with a GPS built in - adding it after the fact would have been around 1000£), since I don't have a smart phone. But it has been years since I updated the maps, probably wouldn't even be supported any more?!
I wouldn't go for the cheapest price, I'd go to some established place in your jurisdiction with a wider product range and size, that targets small businesses. You have a chance to get some useful hotline, and things can be 'integrated' and are more likely to work, i.e. host your website - book the domain example.com - book a managed nextcloud and have it be at cloud.example.com etc.

Their email service is likely to have some credibility from the global anti-spam force. They probably have the budget for best practices and reasonable security. As you mention .de domains: The online legal text generators for Impressum/Datenschutzerklärung are likely to have the correct text fragments to use for larger vendors. Overall they just have to uphold some level of reputation I hope.

Example: ionos.de
It reminded me of this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/12eggw/comment/...

It remains one of the best posts on that platform imho, and unlike this article, is actually correct in its assertions and descriptions (to the point that human knowledge can be certain).
Why and how to improve indoor air quality in offices?
Indoor air pollution is costing businesses money so improve office air quality
Apple does this. It is even more frustrating! If you ever had two Apple accounts, and close one, you can _never_ add the e-mail from the deleted account as an alias to the remaining account.

You can imagine the headaches this causes.
From the article: "rides are continuing to operate"
The bridge is just another client in the sense that any ProtonMail client would need to decrypt emails so you can view them. To be honest, their web client is probably less secure and trustworthy than other mail toolchains you could run locally. So if the bridge was reliable and trustworthy (which it may not be, hence this submission), using it is probably the most secure option.
Should I be bored at a startup?
I'm a technical co-founder, haven't built anything since February, no users use what I built, no sales have been made, we keep pushing in the same direction that brings no results.

In my spare time I've started some side projects that got MRR from day one. (you can see how that's going in my post history)

Is my CEO in the way? His focus is raising (and investors want MRR), it's never sales or product. I'm really bored, we have another dev that also has nothing to do because there is nothing to be done. We just go around in circles tackling the same unsolvable problem that potentially can't even be solved with tech.

Potential customers say they're interested until it comes time to buy.

But my CEO wants to delay the process of asking for payment AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

Instead of testing willingness to pay by:

"Oh hey you're interested, sign here: "

We instead suggest a 3-6 MONTH UNPAID PILOT WITH UNCLEAR BENEFITS FOR THE CLIENT. They even ask: "What do we get out of this?".

This isn't traction, it's confusion. But we sell it to investors as traction.

Am I taking crazy pills here? I got into this to make money, not fuck around.

Seems like everything I'm told/asked to do is zero-benefit work with zero leverage. Such as preparing a tech internship program for summer. What the actual fuck, where are the sales?

Sorry for the rant.
> Then, users are subject to the despotism of a single person

Isn't this basically why people are fleeing twitter?

>Since servers tend to be run amateurishly, they are often abandoned after a while — which is effectively the same as banning everybody;

As an example, the admin of mastodon.technology recently closed the server due to personal reasons. He gave everyone a month to migrate. The process was pretty smooth for me.

> It doesn't make sense to have a ton of servers if updates from every server will have to be painfully pushed (and saved!) to a ton of other servers.

Not all data is sent, this is why not every post ends up in the federated timeline.
I know people who have been scammed by middleman ads. Search to buy flowers in a specific area and there’s a good chance the top ad will be a middleman that will take your order and flip it to a local business. You’ll think you’re buying a fancy (expensive) flower arrangement, but the middleman will order something small (and cheap) on your behalf.

You overpay while the recipient of the flowers gets something mediocre at best.

The exact thing happened to my mother while trying to send flowers for a relative’s funeral. She paid something close to $200, the local shop got a small order, and some grifter got a bunch of easy money for gaming the system.

But hey! As long as Google gets their cut for the ad / referral the collateral damage of grifting seniors is just smart business, right?
440PPM?

Yikes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12608421 seems like yesterday
Only if you want to give your users a terrible experience where the screen reader reads a bunch of separate items with no logical connection between them.

A single aria-label describing a component and its actions is always going to be better.
It takes a special kind of person to cover half their face with a dirty mask and make it harder for themselves to breathe just so they don’t catch a cold.
That is not Spotify's fault. It is a deal made by artists that splits revenue between them and producer, record label etc.

70% of Spotify's revenue is to be split that way compared to ~40% of revenue of CD sales.
Sorry for spreading it if it is FUD indeed (cannot edit anymore). I'll concede that I am not skilled or motivated enough to verify all that is asserted there; I think my other points about E2EE still stand, don't they?

There is a lot of FUD about XMPP in comments on HN, and I feel bad for (potentially) doing the same thing about matrix, this was not my goal.
I've been a paying Protonmail customer for years and recently started worrying about having put my eggs into the Protonmail basket.

/rant

Recent outage issues surfaced some major flaws with the mobile clients, on top of shaking my faith in the infrastructure (though no one can easily stand up to nation state actors so I do not blame PM).

And yesterday I was shown ads inside the web portal, along with a big call-to-action button that wasn't there before to go buy a new tier. Have I mentioned that I have been a customer already for years?

Never used the bridge, but honestly I am not surprised that it may be broken and not receiving the attention it deserves.

It feels like Proton (with its vpn, email and the whole 'suite' they are promoting under the brand) is simply another growth company, focused on adding more and more features rather than on good old fashioned stable products.
Is it basically a CRM for things that aren't customers?
You cant take your kids or partner into that room. That is a big one. You cant invite friends over. And the way you clean and use the space is controlled by your boss instead of having privacy.
> Which begs the question, why would you use Proton Mail if you’re gonna negate its unique value proposition?

Because most users don't care about the end to end encryption. They just want to host their email somewhere [1]. And perhaps have it available offline.

All this encryption on everything is mostly turning into security theatre. All mostly because identity theft is so easy in the US. Perhaps that's the problem that needs to be fixed.

[1] lately somewhere that is not Google.
Another factor to understand is that China has a foundational myth which influences behaviour. Essentially the idea is not to rock the boat because history shows so much pain and bloodshed in the founding of the country.

A demonstration risks not only destabilision of this myth, it risks bloodshed and massacres because stability was won after so much pain.

To be Chinese in a certain way is to work against chaos. As much as to be British is to maintain the dignity of individual persons.

It's kind of hard to find a western equivalent which uses the hard lessons of history. Maybe something like the rule of law?
> why not just pay the higher wages to start with and skip the risky and slow training?

It’s not like walking around with sacks of money and hiring people interested in that money is low-risk. I’ve found training to be lower risk/uncertainty than hiring in terms of fewer outright failures and negative surprises.
Or maybe they genuinely believe that the content they make today shouldn't be copyrighted for the next 100 years? Lifetime of the author +70 years is a very long time.
Just because it's taste doesn't mean there is not objectively bad white balance. It's just green XD.

I do agree the other pics are great though (and own an iphone (because the company paid for any phone and I wanted the best camera...)). I'm not 100% happy with the "iphone look", too much fine contrast for my taste, but it's of course great cameras.
Also there's the obvious culture / coordination angle: if enough companies train their employees, then the people they hire to replace ones that left were already trained by their competitor. It boosts average competence level for everyone. And, to the extent it builds goodwill with the (ex)employees, you may discover they're sending quality candidates your way.

Unfortunately, this is a coordination problem, and those are what humanity sucks at.

> This mentality has never made sense to me. Why would a business invest so much money into training someone, then fail to spend the money needed to retain the (more valuable) trained employee??

It didn't and doesn't to me either. It's very similar to the disturbingly common case of a company cheaping out on office chairs, computer hardware, etc. when the total cost of creating a comfortable working environment for an employee is less than the company pays them for a month of work!

Or, related, and perhaps even more common in tech: skimping on infra (be it physical or virtual), despite again wasting more money in lost productivity than they save. Like e.g. at one place, I used to regularly complain about the amount of build bots we had for the team, and the resources allocated to them. The response was always that it's as much as we can get from the company cloud, to which I'd reply, why not buy more compute? Never got a straight answer to that. Sure, more and beefier machines cost some money, but when the CI is running at capacity at all times, and you have several well-paid devs sitting there and getting distracted while waiting for their jobs to finish... Penny-wise, pound-foolish was the saying?

In fact, I'd happily spend a fraction of my salary to buy a beefy PC to use as a compilation server. And another one to lend to the team's CI infra. But I can't do that, because procedures and company IP protection and whatnot. In the end, I was left with the feeling that the company just wants to make it hard for me to do the very job they're paying me for.

You'd think that management and finance education would let the company do the obvious math, but apparently, it doesn't. But then, the whole problem seems eerily similar to what's apparently a Business Wisdom today (and to me is total insanity): always being focused on acquiring new customers, and not paying attention to retaining existing ones. Maybe the reasons are similar, whatever they are?
Your view of China is 10 years behind reality. Corruption was a huge problem, it is still somewhat of a problem, but corruption has reduced significantly and continues to reduce. As for "nobody else trusting them": based on what evidence? Foreign investment into China is at an all-time high. Recent research has shown that while sentiments about China has become much more negative in the west (and its allies such as South Korea and Japan), sentiment in the rest of the world — accounting for 80% of humanity — has become much more positive.

> In China, quick public successes always take precedence over doing it right.

I'd like to see some evidence for this huge, unnuanced claim. Of course they have an incentive to look good. So do companies all over the world. But to claim that that's all they do is to ignore the elephant in the room, namely 40 years of growth in prosperity that's unprecedented in human history.
But people are computers —that’s the point.
Isn't an ocular patdown sufficient for threat assessment Mac?
List of providers that don’t have issues is shrinking rapidly
My father in law had a TomTom and maps were always years behind reality (and he paid for several updates as they promised the changes would be in there, but no), so updating or not does not matter.
Looks like you never took a lanscape photo where you had to use a (Gradiant) ND, Polarisation Filter, Multiple Exposures, Long Exposures for smooth Water or anything where you had to hink about how to take the perfect shot. So yes for a quick snapshot a phone is good enough. For a photograph a bigger camera is much more benefical than "just" for sharper images.
> Is there a 5-6 inch pad available?

Android tablets? Several.
The problem with the "just a short lockdown" approach is that there is no endgame. As soon as you stop the lockdowns you're back to square one very quickly unless you take extremely drastical measures like China does. This would involve extreme travel restrictions to/from any place that doesn't take a similar approach.
Welcome to the party, TomTom! A little more healthy competition never hurts. :)

Seriously though, the prestige of OSM and the companies building on it is only growing—a success story of epic proportions to the open source and open data communities!
If I say that I'm not sure how students who live in a climate of fear and need to practice active shooter drills after every school shooting can lead to a creative and innovative culture, do you think that holds?
The easiest option is to use your operating system's default browser, and turn on assistance. So on mac use Safari and turn on Voiceover, and on Windows use edge and turn on Narrator.

To really test yourself, once you have learnt the basics of using voiceover and narrator, turn off your monitor and navigate your website :)

In my limited experience, many people use one of those two options (the situation in Linux is unfortunately much less functional).
Well one difference with where I live is that we don’t jail doctors for trying to alert people of a new virus. We also get free elections that allows us to boot officials if they apply unpopular policies.
Makes one wonder what exactly they know about the virus which scares them so much.