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> ... [I]n my experience it is rarely necessary to refactor Erlang code in the same way the object-oriented code needs refactoring from time to time.

That... depends. If you work with only highly disciplined people who want to do the right thing always, then yeah, I agree. But if you work with people who have deadlines or need to get stuff done _now_, you could see functions that take unnecessary arguments, or excessively large records, and those sorts of things are hard to work with.

I think this person is an excellent engineer who loves to code and is really good at it, but hasn't worked with Erlang in a professional capacity. Which...

> I have spent a large chunk of my free time programming in Erlang

ding ding ding
>then doesn't this make you want to stay in the job longer so you don't "waste" your achievement of getting it

Why would it be relevant if I cannot leverage it in any way?

I think company's branding would be more relevant in that context

and yes, company's branding is one of the things that could make me stay a little longer
Depending on the topic and search query it at least has become harder to find information written by actual human beings, and not some garbage sites 100% created and designed for SEO. These sites typically contain lots of generated (or at least mindlessly typed) filler text. Sometimes they have some information inbetween this gibberish, sometimes they completely look like they came out of a markov chain generator.

Because of this it is often necessary to append something like "reddit", "forum", "wiki", or "news" to my search, lest I only encounter SEO trash.

I believe I can estimate with confidence that Bing and DuckDuckGo are nowadays better than Google during half of my searches. And that was certainly not the case 2 years ago.
Microsoft/Microcode
People who think denser housing lowers rents haven't been to a big city.

Someone always mentions "But Tokyo...". That person never lives in Tokyo.
A real macro lens on a DSLR is like that. You could stop the lens down for more to be in focus, but then because you’re getting close to a pinhole camera you need a TON of light.

Maybe the iPhone would do better in studio conditions, I don’t know.

But it’s a very tough problem.
I tried it on my iPhone with an mp3. It displayed what looked like a blue aerogel. I could zoom in and rotate but I couldn’t tell what kind of information it was trying to convey. It wasn’t playing the audio or changing with time in any way either.
I joined a Mastodon server yesterday ("mastodon.online") and I immediately started searching the 'fediverse' for people I already follow on Twitter, seeing if I could build myself a little feed to read. The first few people I searched all had multiple accounts, across multiple servers. So immediately this is a problem:

- Which one is the one I should follow? I guess I'll click on each one and see which one they're actually using to post.

- How do I stop someone from impersonating me by creating an account with my same username, on a different server?

- What happens when the unpaid/volunteer mods on a server get overwhelmed with the content moderation task? What happens when they just start censoring stuff they disagree with (exactly what the wingnuts claim Twitter/FB have been doing to conservatives)?

I don't get this whole "a protocol is the answer" thing either. Sounds like the same kind of nebulous thinking we hear when people start pontificating about blockchain.

Twitter was (is?) successful because the model makes sense. A for-profit company whose motivation to fairly and competently moderate content and verify users is driven by their need to be a safe space for the advertisers upon whose money they rely.
Well, I will say that while you might think that Twitter has somehow taken a grim turn for the worst. Most people, outside of the most niche instances, will not find a "safe" harbor.

I'm a long time user of the fediverse, I can't help but say that I love the freedom of having a bunch of independent nodes all communicating, all with our different standards and so forth. It's very freeing but it comes at a cost, most instances, however hard you try, will not censor half the things you would never see on Twitter. People like Twitter because of their draconian moderation efforts, I was banned from Twitter because I told someone that a death threat was not ok; apparently Twitter decided that I since i said "shut up" that i was somehow the aggressor.

I'm tired of this idea that "Twitter's future is bleak" mentality, all because some rich guy bought it that would rather the platform be less strict when it comes to political thought. If it is the town square of the internet, it makes sense that people should be able to say what they want and be laughed at if they are being an idiot. Twitter was never a good platform in any sense of the word, it is probably now the best it's ever been, and it will be better once the active user count is under a thousand. People ruin things, don't be surprised when they ruin some mastadon instance you spend time on.

As a side note, the people that run mastadon are a bit... off when it comes to ethics, so i would recommend pleroma which has had less, egregious, errors in the past.
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With $8 each, you and your friends can pool your money, rent a server run whatever you want. Fuck twitter.
I switched to DDG a few years back, but whenever I accidentally search via Google, every result feels like an ad. Not sure how anyone actually uses it anymore.

I've converted most of my coworkers away from Google and they've all mentioned how much different results are on DDG, Bing or even Alta, and how much better the results are. Bye Google!
Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit sex
> "You can ask us to confirm whether we have your phone number or email address," the firm states. "If we do, you can request that we delete it from our address book database. To prevent it from being uploaded to this database again through someone's address book, we need to keep a copy in our block list."

I wouldn't doubt if they remove your information from their "address book database" and add it to one or more others where they keep it forever. There's zero oversight, and zero accountability. It makes no sense at all to just assume that facebook will do anything they aren't forced to when not doing that thing could make them money. Facebook doesn't care about you, your privacy, or even the law. Facebook cares only about facebook.
Right, the idea is to train + pay them well enough that they stay. It helps the local economy because rather than your business putting more into investments around the world (or wherever the rich store / grow their money), that person puts the money in the local economy.

Folks understand this, but their pay depends on them not understanding it so. . . here we are perpetually.

Funny enough, paying folks well often will pay dividends for your business in the long run. So long term they would make more money.

Humans are unfortunately quite short sighted, which I'm fairly sure nothing can be done about. We're just fancy animals after all.
Then why doesn't everyone just live in Tokyo? You just got your answer.
"The nobility class".

What an absolute clownish take.
Then don't get something nonessential such as the blue checkmark. You can still use Twitter.
Ask HN: Smart Board and iPad App
Has anyone ever found a great ecosystem for a hybrid-work whiteboard? A few people in the office would have access to some sort of smart board on the wall. Remote employees could join on an iPad app to view & contribute. Searching so far only shows pretty haphazard solutions.
Perhaps he actually did - I think in part he's just playing it straight as an outsider, openly talking about the emperor being naked. That is, a lot of the serious business is just bullshit LARP people do, and if Musk can openly mock it and make money on the meme value of it all? That's a well-earned entertainer salary.
Because they'd rather get $500K, but getting $255K is better than getting $0K.
Hmm. There are many layers of problems in the healthcare system, EHRs with bad design only one.

I will say that small, private clinics who only accept private insurance don't necessarily need to use a federally certified EHR. They are legally allowed to build their own system. One example is OneMedical. When you ask the doctors/PAs/nurses at OneMedical about their EHR, they actually love it.

I think the first step would be validating my anecdotal experience here by polling doctors using non-certified EHRs to see if they like them more. If they do by an overwhelming amount, I'd first take that evidence to the Office of the National Coordinator (the government agency created by the aforementioned HITECH Act who makes the certification criteria). I'd tell them that if they vastly simplify the criteria and add more flexibility, they'd make doctors happier.

I guess the problem is that happy doctors, unfortunately, isn't necessarily aligned with the existing federal laws. Probably you'd need to pass a new statute at Congress, this time around with the benefit of talking to a lot of people with experience making EHRs.
Yeah the only way this could work is if the ads were replaced with a banner that says "thanks for paying", so you can actually see how many ads were removed. Which is a better experience than seeing an ad but worse than an ad blocker.
A landscape photo is the easiest thing for any camera to capture. Focus is at infinity and no depth of field means the lens can be literally a greasy pinhole and still get sharp shots. You're probably taking photos in direct sunlight so again the camera has to do very little work and is flooded with light.

Try taking a portrait photo in iffy lighting, like at a concert, wedding, sporting event, etc. Something that really needs a fast and sharp lens.
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Everything old is new again. Usenet keeps getting reinvented.
According to the article, it lasts shorter time in the atmosphere compared to CO2.

> Since methane only lasts in the atmosphere for about ten years, compared to the centuries that carbon dioxide sticks around, reducing methane emissions could contribute to slowing global warming sooner,
There's a few primary reasons

1) Historically, some bands have been concerned about their image and felt that professional-looking photos that painted them in a bad light, whatever that meant in reality, would be more damaging than amateur photos. I don't hear this as much today, but 15 years ago it was frequently given.

2) Concerts with a lot of standing room near the stage already get quite crowded. Someone showing up with a bulky dslr (or even prosumer grade mirrorless) body and a 200mm lens is going to take up quite a bit of room. Prior to the advent of half the damn crowd keeping their phones in the air recording the show for the entirety of it I would also say it obscures vision and annoys people, but now it's really not any worse than that

3) They don't want someone to try and hold them liable if something goes wrong and some expensive camera body or glass gets broken.

On the times I've been able to bring my full camera gear in without a press pass, I stick to as small of a lens as I can and avoid being near the front of the crowd. Thankfully, even quite a ways back from the front of the crowd, a 50mm prime lens will still take some fantastic photos on a real camera vs. what you get with a smartphone. I understand why the rules are in place, though, and I don't really have a problem with them in general.
It’s fascinating to glimpse these endless mental contortions about the immense significance of tweaks to a social media profile flag. I don’t think anyone cares except those same billionaires/VCs and journalists who both write this drivel (one of the links is on a16zcrypto.com which I guess is the ideological enemy base of “establishment journos”). Will anyone else be left on Twitter when their private war is done?
Have they published a global map we can look at?
Seems quite interesting, just tried to go through the onboarding for my LLC but I see I need more than 75K in linked accounts, which I do not have :)

Anyway, just applied!
This is very astute, but I can't help wonder why people worry so much about their status on the bird website. Actually doing/making things in real life is pretty much guaranteed to have a much higher return in multiple dimensions (incl. status) than pretending like what happens there matters.

It doesn't have to be either/or: make something cool, throw out a link to it, repeat.
Yes this drives me nuts! I was waved off when I tried to report it to the bank's security team.
Points of view that Elon likes, I imagine. Especially ones that can't get revenue elsewhere for peddling pro-virus points of view, for example.
If Elon can get enough publishers on board I'd gladly pay more than $8/mo. Maybe offer a tiered system. Or better yet, choose-your-own.

$8/mo: Choose 2

$12/mo: Choose 4

$15/mo: Choose 6

etc.

Then people vote with their dollars which sources are important to them.

Simplicity would be challenging. It wouldn't work if it devolves into something resembling tiered Cable TV packages.
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You can shoot in raw on iphones now to prevent this or fix it later.
That’s good to know. That was my “everyone is greedy these days” part of my guess.

Was it hard to get the press pass? Maybe it’s just to stop people avoiding that process.
Note that those exact same questions exist for email. Which email addresses are your friends actually using? What stops me from registering "oldandboring@yahoo.com" if you haven't already claimed it?
> You say "lots" of distro's haven't. Which ones?

Surprisingly enough, Arch Linux, a rolling release distro, still hasn't. It's a real mixed bag.
Mr. Musk has, without details or explanation, personally denied this
Container tabs on Firefox are great for this situation. Unfortunately however if you choose to go this route performance on Google's webapps is not as good as chromium-based browsers.
Bulk install or update macOS apps
Awesome, let me know if you would do a user interview?

Thanks for the feature request. I have import browser bookmarks in my backlog. I think I can prioritise it higher. If you share your email I can mail you when its ready.
Yes, I remember that campgrounds in the American Rockies let you choose your spot, while in the Canadian Rockies they assign you one. And I realized we were simply happier in Canada!
Please don't use HN for ideological battle. It's repetitive, tedious, and destroys the curious conversation this site exists for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One problem that Apple actually considers a hard won feature is color inaccuracy. They like to do default images look very instagram-ish, which may be what many folks like to see but they are pretty far from reality, more than most. Skin smoothing is another topic on its own.

Maybe I am very biased by almost a decade of full frame shooting basically everything, but I like photo representing what I actually see with my own eyes at that moment.

When talking about Pixels, when I saw some non-ideal light samples from latest one, it was pretty clear neither Apple nor ie Samsung (which I own and love, S22 ultra) are in same league in many aspects of photography. But Pixel 6 had some pretty annoying issues from user reports. On the other side it costed (and v7 still does) significantly less from day 1.
iPhone 13 photos will look just as good as a Nikon photo on your iPhone. As soon as you view the iPhone photos on a monitor or print them out, everything falls apart.

iPhone photos are excellent as long as viewers are only seeing them on iPhones.
To me it's more that I'm unwilling to take on any more subscriptions. They all seem small in isolation, but they accumulate into a meaningful sum.
So is Unix.

xterm -e /usr/games/nethack

xterm -e /bin/sh
At which time it turns into CO2 which stays around longer, and water which I believe is a more potent greenhouse gas than either
They make much more than $2/user from ads. Since it’s already not profitable I don’t see how it’s going to work
If a customer is paying you late because they think you won't/can't do anything about it, it seems the same disregard could apply to their payment of late fees.
What percentage of "current" blue ticks convert is not material since the TAM is about to become every Twitter user.

And the offering is not just about verification, but other Blue features. Personally I have no interest in a blue check, but I'd happily pay $8/month to remove ads (unfortunately only half the ads will be removed in this iteration).
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Looks like Marathon Oil is the company
"You get as much speech as you want to pay for" is probably the single least surprising take from the VC elite.
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> Honestly, I think this would absolutely justify the Contact For Quote.

Absolutely, which is exactly why it's so ridiculous that so many sales teams demand implied consent to receive their spam solely to get some kind of number for something far, far less.
Reposting your comment doesn't make it any more true.
Media organizations are distraught over losing control of the gated institutional narrative. The disintermediation process is continuing and many "news" media outlets have debased themselves to the point that they now write low-effort articles about what's trending on Twitter.

To their credit, the New York Times still does a little bit of real investigative journalism. But their standards are low and they tend to uncritically accept anything that matches their editorial bias.
It feels like recently there's a lot of about Mastodon on HN

is this some kind of ad?
Expensive for a person running 10,000 bots, irrelevant to a hostile nation doing the same.
> Every such scheme has generally failed because they refused to emulate the one key piece of California law that is necessary for a startup ecosystem to exist – banning noncompetes.

As I look out the window of my Seattle apartment, observing a literal forest of new construction, sky-rocketing rents and costs of living, I must interpret the tech boom here as 'the next Silicon Valley failing', because Washington state has had a very strong form of non-competes prior to 2020, and a somewhat strong form of non-competes today.

Or, maybe I can choose to believe my eyes, and note that the the presence or absence of non-competes isn't a very important factor for driving a tech boom. [1]

It is a popular topic to bikeshed over, though.

[1] As a sibling poster points out, non-competes are absent in Canada, and yet nobody can accuse any locale in Canada of being the next SV...
That's way too broad, because it depends what it is. Surprisingly, it seems to be easier to build a space station than to compete with Boeing and Airbus.
The question is should we have different standards for computers and human doing the exact same thing - not different things. Your examples all have different outcomes based on the tool.
Yeah but they hope that'll be more concentrated, and it'll be easier to harvest with fewer losses.

Or something.

(Really now, it's for Star Wars applications, isn't it?)
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"To review this camera we went to these most interesting, most beautiful places."

Okay...but how does it perform taking pictures of my toy dog in suburb-town USA?
G2.com has a lot of pricing for comparison. Not sure if it necessarily shares information not available on the vendor sites, though.
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> The instrument can look for methane in the same way. “It turns out that methane also has a spectral signature in the same wavelength range, and that’s what has allowed us to be sensitive to methane,” EMIT principal investigator Robert Green said at a press conference, according to Space.com’s Mike Wall.

Lol "it turns out". Did they troll Congress and sell them a mineral detector? Of course they knew methane had a spectral signature.

EDIT: No idea why people downvoting, I think it's hilarious and good we can detect it.
Ah, sorry, I was about to answer another comment.
Contact Us Pricing has different meanings based on company size:

Newish Companies: they haven't been able to figure out how to price their product yet.

Growth Companies: We're revenue optimizing every deal.

"Sales Driven" (as opposed to "product driven): We have to justify the existence of our sales team.

Hyper competitive companies: I'm not publishing a price because someone will scrape it and beat us by $1.

Large Companies: Our pricing is a four-dimensional matrix with multiple elevators, and we need a team of people to figure out which spreadsheet and which tab to look up x and y to price your deal.
Technically, yes. But in practice, it's rarely worth the time or effort to collect.
Looking forward to AR apps that map pollutant emissions from such data and project it as you travel about, making the invisible conscious. There will be more public pressure for reform if the public can see the see the point-source IRL.

If popularized that data could move real estate prices, with political fallout.
Not really, frequency has plateaued precisely because of the crazy power scaling with frequency.

The easily parallelisable nature of graphics means you can always make a faster GPU with more cores. The trouble is, newer nodes aren't reducing power usage per transistor very much, so all the newer GPUs just have a ton more silicon, and therefore much higher power requirements.