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This isn't as generally true as you seem to think it is. There are absolutely a few situations where a mirrorless / DSLR camera is going to run circles around a smartphone camera, but fewer than you might think.

A mirrorless camera may have a wider dynamic range by default, but modern iPhones have incredible Smart HDR capabilities that actually work really well. With a mirrorless, they can do an auto HDR effect using several photos, but it's a much simpler effect, and you can't get RAW photos when using that. The new iPhone 12 will capture RAW photos even when applying Deep Fusion and other advanced techniques, from what they mentioned on stage today.

I'm fairly sure no common mirrorless camera is going to be able to do HDR video at the level that the iPhone 12 will do it.

If Apple or Google would make a mirrorless camera that combined their intelligent camera software with a larger sensor, that would be epic. Right now, there are always trade-offs, no matter which camera you pick.

I've thought about getting a mirrorless camera to have that massive sensor for night photography, and to have the variety of lenses, but it's a lot of money for something substantial to have to carry around, and the difference just isn't what it used to be.

Even if you're printing these photos, an iPhone 12 is going to be able to take a lot of really crisp, excellent photos. With the help of LiDAR, I think the 12 Pro will be able to create a really compelling portrait mode effect that's less glitchy than the current techniques that don't have an accurate depth map instantly available.

Computational photography is a real thing, and it's impressive how much they have made up for the lack of physical space that would be required for a giant sensor.

If you scroll back on this twitter feed, you can see some nice examples of pictures shot on iPhone by various people: https://twitter.com/halidecamera

They're not "nice for a smartphone" pictures. They're just good pictures.
The included power adapter is really bad (1A, USB-A). Currently nearly all my devices charging via USB-C, except my company provided iPhone. I just bought a USB-C to lightning cable so I can charge it via my Macbook or Pixel charger
I feel we need to talk about the charger. It is not included in the box. The reasoning is that we have our chargers from previous iPhones. But those white boxes all take USB-A. The included cable is USB-C. Never mind, I will just use the USB-C charger from other devices. But wait... the cable that comes in the box is USB-C male and those adapters from other devices don't take USB-C (either fixed cable, or USB-A, or non-standard female port).
Contrary to that, I've read that in the south of Britain, so say 51°N, just 15 minutes exposure in the middle of the day in the spring and summer months, on the face and hands alone, gives you sufficient vitamin D for the whole year.
Homekit might limit you as far as hardware goes, but if you’re handy you can run a Home Assistant instance and connect Siri to just about anything: Z-wave sensors, Logitech Harmony Hub, non-HomeKit light bulbs, etc.
Across the pond, Yanks who 'member a bit from HS history class can probably recite ol' Honest Abe's most famous opening line, "Four score and seven years ago...".
would probably be a lot easier to go full water proof with no usb connector
"money is a shared illusion" applies to your criticism
> it would not be somehow wrong to extend the concept of intelligence to a certain class of machines, if it turns out to be useful and informative to do so.

No objections, but it's a pretty big "if". You could restate my point as "there is no evidence it is in fact useful".

> I take it, then, that you don't agree with the sort-of Platonist view that algorithms have an existence independently of any implementation? I'm on the fence, myself, but lean towards the Platonist side.

I don't, my position is essentially formalist. While I believe most research mathematicians would side with me here, your position is absolutely valid; famously, Kurt Godel was a Platonist, as are many others. My only observation here is that even from a Platonist point of view you are not really rejecting formalism, at least in the sense that while you don't agree it's the only view, I find it impossible to argue that one can't view mathematical objects as formal constructs.

> "What's happening in my brain is something we don't have full scientific knowledge of, but we know it's not computable." - but while the former is true, the status of the latter is not yet decided, so they are not identical propositions.

No, I don't really hold that view. I probably worded that badly. My position is that the latter is unknown, and I would be content to accept that my brain is not fundamentally different than an algorithm if you showed me an algorithm that can effectively emulate my brain within an acceptable margin of error. Ironically, if it were possible to do that, it would be proof there is no "intelligence", only "computability", making the first entirely redundant.

> One could say the same about specific ontologies -

Again, this is really thin ice. I don't really know what to think about this because it's getting too abstract for my monkey brain, but it's certainly not obvious that a better model implies an ontological line between itself and reality. To put it bluntly, is a better model really "more true", i.e. qualitatively different from a worse one?

I'll take the seventh.
Great talk.

He and others made these principles manifest in Dlang's std.experimental.allocator [0] which offers composability and is really quite nice, allowing for you to use Dlang's GC, malloc, custom malloc, various strategies for metering out the allocated blocks, and any combination thereof.

The documentation can be hard to navigate and it is easy to miss the submodules listed in the tree on the left hand side, so I would especially draw attention to `building blocks` [1] and `mallocator`, `gc_allocator`, etc.

[0] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_experimental_allocator.html
[1] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_experimental_allocator_building...
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It should work on an iPhone 11 as long as you've upgraded to iOS 14. It's supported the iPhone 8 and newer: https://screenrant.com/apple-ios-14-back-tap-iphone-list/
> The only question in my mind is if I can figure out how to package up offerings that make sense for both me and them and find a way to connect with the people who need it.

Right on — now go talk to the market.

What might an ideal client actually look like? Can you identify 10-20 municipalities (And their decision makers) within an hour of your home base?

This is basic Sales Discovery (product/market fit)conversation stuff. Do they see Planning & Economic Dev as top priority? Where are they struggling? Can you help them? Do they have budget?

My hunch, you‘ll have immediatepush back on the budget piece. So can you help them connect with funding?

Is there a private foundation that is open to sponsoring these sorts of initiatives? What about the state/federal grants?
The fact that a one sentence, unsubstantiated claim to /r/bitcoin from a week-old Reddit account is number 14 on the front page of HN shows how fucking sad the state of affairs is around here.
Everyone is unique and until we know more about genetics there will not be rules that will "nail it down for everyone" anytime soon until. A good example is coffee. You can find articles that say coffee is good and just as many articles saying coffee is bad. The answer is:

- If you have gene that will metabolize caffeine fast then you reap health benefits of antioxidants in the coffee and it's good for you

- If you don't have gene that metabolizes caffeine fast then caffeine will linger in your system and cause all sorts of problems and therefore coffee is bad for you

At this age there is no other option except for testing and seeing what works on you and maybe see what your parents did.
I need self hosted analytics and product intelligence, and am interested in the "new wave" of self hosted apps in this category. But there are already enough Open Source options, and its important enough to my firm, that we'd probably only use an OS option now.

For the userTrack pricing plan, consider an Open Core strategy, or unlocking larger volume capacity for a fee, like Countly do (even self hosted, you can only store a fixed limit of events under their licenses)?

Disclaimer: in general I'm against artificial limitations on Open Source apps, but given the existing business situation of userTrack, these feel like the most viable options.
Agreed for the most part. Anything where SEO is critical (most things these days), we use Laravel for (trying to move away from Wordpress), with some custom classes to help standardize important SEO stuff.

I haven't had that experience with Hugo, but I pushed the files up to S3/Github Pages/Netlify and had them served from there. I'm a big fan of the concept.

I've had a great time with Gridsome, the VueJS version of Gatsby. I don't understand why, with React, you need to install a 3rd-party dependency just to update your meta tags. Like, it should either be part of your main layout when you set up your site (my Laravel approach), or there should be a built-in configuration for it, like Gridsome has (https://gridsome.org/docs/head/). Every site needs this stuff, so it should be a first-class feature.
The devices can make calls. There have been vulnerabilities that allow people to gain access and send commands: https://voicebot.ai/2020/08/13/amazon-patched-an-alexa-hacki...
Feels like this is going to be an empty thread...
> Because there is not demand for credit, never mind the number of reserves in the system.

Generally correct, but it should be noted that if a bank has a lot of reserves, and the over-night lending market is cheap, that means the bank has access to 'cheap money' on the 'wholesale' end of things.

So if a retail bank can get 'cash' cheaply, it can lower its interest rates to its 'retail' customers (mortgages, business loans, etc).

If a bank wants (say) at least a 2% spread between its wholesale source of money/reserves and what it gives out to the real economy, then the Fed raising liquidity such that the over-night rates go from (e.g.) 2% to 0.5%, that means banks can drop their public facing rates as well.

Someone who was not considering borrowing money at 4% may change their mind at 2.5%.
It's something you'll feel when holding the device in your hands.
The fact we're arguing what exact wording to use is kind of the point, isn't it?
I think you need to discuss the role of excess reserves and lending on them to make this a complete picture, actually.
>Flat earth started from YouTube recommendations...

Yes but my point is that, if the flat earth videos were clearly marked a joke or fiction, there wouldn't be a heap of people who really believe it and show up for a conference.

My objective is not to solve a political problem, I'd like to be able to believe what I read on the internet, and for the people around me to have the same basic understanding of what is happening in the world. If that also solves political problems it would be nice too.
I have -- attempting to play Minecraft on a touchpad, or just multitasking real quick. While not a huge problem, macOS does it better and the simple measure is just that - a simple measure.
We must protect the Federal Reserve from rhetorical attacks by HN commenters.

The best way to do this is to muddy the waters as much as possible as to what is going on. Literal FUD.
> as though it is completely wacky to consider that something that permeates your environment could possibly have harmful effects on your body

In this case, it kind of is! Human tissue is full of water, and water is a terrible transmission medium for RF energy, with penetration depth decreasing as a function of frequency. This is why submarine radio is receive-only and operates at a rate of characters per minute [1], why fully in-ear Bluetooth earbuds tend to drop out more than other designs, and why I'm not actually worried about low-power GHz-range RF signals like 5G. I'll get skin cancer from sunburns long before I'll get any kind of cancer from thermal radiation that can't even penetrate my stratum corneum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency
I've decided to put this here rather than the WhatWG proposal as focusing on the Chrome statement overly much starts to see a derail.

When a Chrome representative says " The XML parts of our pipeline are in maintenance mode and we would love to eventually deprecate and remove them" I am not particularly surprised, if I were them I think I would like to get rid of these technologies too, based just on my feeling for how much they are used any more (assuming Chrome has stats and these stats bear our my feeling of low usage).

This of course also makes me sad in that I have quite a bit of experience with these technologies and their remove establishes their irrelevance in the present day ( or argues strongly for their increasing irrelevance, too strong a word choice might invite complaint). Believe me I would love if XPath was improved because maybe I might see ads for developers with advanced XPath again and I could increase my rates.

However I don't think it has ever been stated before that this is what Chrome would like. As such I think it falls under the rubric "Things everybody knows but nobody says", which generally nobody says these things because nobody wants to go through the onerous work of dealing with the implications. But as it has been said I start to wonder what those implications are/would be.

SVG has already been mentioned in the linked thread, I don't know if that is actually a problem because I don't know if SVG has been implemented using libxml in Chrome, I could totally see a point not to implement SVG with that - but then again I could see that if you have libxml and you need to implement the SVG DOM, maybe you use libxml to do it - so does getting rid of libxml impact SVG in Chrome?

Obviously applications working with RSS and other associated feed formats in the browser would probably stop to work. Of course people could write applications for these formats on the server, but it certainly seems a setback for RSS.

The same thing applies for RDF, and linked data applications running client side. Not many I know but hey, a nail in the coffin as it were.

MathML - which has never been implemented by Chrome has client side implementations, for example https://pshihn.github.io/math-ml/ I wonder if these would continue working, I would guess probably not.

What about XHTML, is anything there part of the Chrome XML stack - for example DTDs?

I can think of a few other things, but this seems like a reasonable start to think of what the implications would be.
One thing I dream of and will never get is a Thinkpad without a trackpad. Just remove it, give me bigger keyboard, keep the track point and its buttons. I disable the trackpad anyway but it's still annoying just being there and crippling the keyboard functionality.
Yes, sorry I didn't have the bottle on hand to mention the dose. I'm going for 5000IU (the dose that the Shannon person in the article was taking for supplementation).

All the bottles at my pharmacy were 1000IU so I just bought one of them and take 5 of them.

I was surprised to read in the article (and elsewhere) that 5000IU doses was mentioned as a common OTC dose as I couldn't find it. But I live in Canada so maybe it's different.
Yes. Raft is in the basic category called Multi-Paxos, but with specific choices intended to make the algorithm more comprehensible and less error prone to implement. Looks like there's substance to that view as well, looking at both the literature and practice.

A more recent development is Heidi Howard's work, which provides a framework for thinking about the whole category of Paxos algorithms that many of us find a lot more approachable.
What if you don't need a home, but could realistically finance one? Is there incentivisation in real estate over stable(-ish) equities if you're not looking for a long term home for yourself/family
That applies to the bottom of the class too.

C's get degrees, etc, etc.

It's dangerous, because it can come off as 'anti-science' but this is why I'm skeptical of many experts.

Just think about how many shitty engineers you know.

I know dozens of devs who I wouldn't let push to prod (not just because pushing to prod is bad), and they make 6-figures. There must be correspondingly bad doctors
What on earth are you talking about?

The features that these new ones supplant on not "behind the curve" just because their replacements take a lot of effort to make!

I don't know what it is that has rotted the ability of some devs to understand the concept of things that actually work without constant refresh, this isn't NPM that's why they can afford to take a couple of years on features and still have a state of the art engine without it .

Literally DOTS is coming down right as we're seeing a reworking of how games approach data and latency.

If Unity had never said a word about DOTS and released it next year, they'd be fully "on the curve". In fact in that specific example, they're ahead of the curve, DOTS is really a rethinking of architecture that no middleware type game engine has tackled yet.

And look at HDRP, it's landing right as Unreal also releases their first major graphical shake up in half a decade next year with Unreal 5.

Do you even know what "the curve" is for middleware game engines? It honestly sounds like you don't

> All I'm asking from Unity and its evangelists is honesty: you either have ready to use features or you don't. Putting all the good stuff that you're advertising behind a "preview" label and claiming it's the customer's responsibility when it doesn't work well is not ok.

That's how things work when you don't care about your relationship with developers. I feel like some devs just don't know what good software practices look like when I read stuff like this.

I mean abject insanity to find someone complaining a company is putting things out, make it very clear that they're in progress, not even letting you use them without changing settings! and then gasp replying to developer feedback?!

Incorporating that feedback into their roadmap even though landing multi-year projects is already hard enough with just internal input?!

After all it's not like Unity is dangling carrots here, even these preview packages are getting treated with the same rigor that normal ones do in relationship to bugfixing, and they are always cognizant of the fact that even preview packages have users if you actually look at their conversations in the forums

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What you seem to be missing is Unity would still be a top engine if they never mentioned another preview package again. But it'd be a worse product.

Taking external input? Constantly cleaning up your work to put it over the fence? Having it end-user ready years before completion? That's a lot of work.

Unity features would be less work for them if they didn't do that.

But the features would have come out after spending a bunch of time in that state are better for everyone involved.

This all started with people whining about breaking changes, you think breaking changes would be better or worse if they weren't happening incrementally with real users in preview?
This is literally the Dropbox business model—at least per the Harvard Business School case!
> Beware of that author's potential biases: doctors are heavily invested in getting you to pay them more

The US is not the rest of the world.
There is an app for that of course :-) - Calcium Pro and Vitamin-d Pro [1] [2] (also for Android users)

And please read this article explaining relations between calcium, vitamine D and parathyroid if you have time [3]

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calcium-pro/id587386613

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vitamin-d-pro/id796680824

[3] https://www.parathyroid.com/low-vitamin-d.htm
To an extent, you are correct: many countries participate in the cyber-spy/cyber-espionage game. Where, perhaps, you are incorrect is that this is normal. The GRU has lead exceptionally aggressive cyber-attacks on just about everyone, particularly Estonia and Ukraine.

If you're interested in this topic, I'd like to suggest the wondeful (and terrifying) book, Sandworm (https://www.amazon.com/Sandworm-Cyberwar-Kremlins-Dangerous-...) by Andy Greenberg.
Although a an apocalypse were access to compressed air sounds more like a lull than a collapse
Interesting (coincidental?) appearance of 1729 here in a numerical algorithm.
Seems like those who need it will just pick up some of these: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B079LYHNSR/
Then there's my beloved 2013 Google Glass Explorer Edition, which still works perfectly but which Google stopped supporting February 25, 2020.

https://mashable.com/article/google-glass-explorer-edition-f...
One thing nobody really says is that backblaze actually requires everything you've backed up to be accessible to the computer at least once a month, so you can't actually delete something you've backed up unless you're willing to lose it in a month, or pay extra for the 1 year retention tier.
Essentially you need to own the physical drive space to store anything on backblaze, so there's not much reason to abuse it.
According to the authors this undefined philosophy has caused economical and social damage

The authors propose "focusing on the human" as an alternative but the two aren't mutually exclusive at all

Yes, it's rather vague.

What seems to be annoying the original author is simple. Most of the areas where machine learning is currently deployed are somewhat obnoxious. Ad targeting. Face recognition. Behavior recognition. Those are areas where some error is expected, so mediocre ML performance is acceptable. ML isn't yet good enough to drive, for example. That has a lower tolerance for errors.

All this is "focusing on the human". In the sense of "Big Brother is Watching You". Be careful of what you ask for.
Good point, this is a limitation for some. We have a projector setup that we plug iPhones/iPads/MacBooks into, so we can AirPlay the audio from those to the speakers at the front of the room. Currently we AirPlay to an Airport Express (c. 2009?) that sends sound out to speakers. This works around the challenge of having video going out at the back of the room (to the projector) and needing audio to come out at the front of the room.

This system doesn't work when we're playing Nintendo Switch, in which case the audio just comes out of the projector. For our purposes, that's fine; but I could see how someone playing Xbox would want that to be hooked into their audio system. I wonder if there would be some way to pipe audio through an old Mac mini to accomplish this. At that point it's probably worth just paying the Sonos tax.
It uses the accelerometer that has already been built in to iPhones going way way back (actually ALL iPhones have at least a 3-axis accelerometer), so that's why there is so much support for older devices.
I think it could withy something like HDMI ARC.
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I am aware that some type theorists insist on this distinction and it does have some some merits, but (afaik) type theorists didn't invent the word "type" and "runtime tags" are commonly and widely known as "dynamic types", even if they do work quite differently from static ones, so I always feel that insisting on this distinction is somewhat pedantic.

But yes, arguing about semantics never got anyone anywhere, what I wanted to highlight was that it's not just coincidence that interpreted languages are by and large dynamically typed.
The Fed has already been buying ETFs, which is about a hair’s breadth away from buying stocks. I don’t doubt that they’ll buy stocks to prop up investors if the current stimulus proves ineffective.
Apologizing for the source and the edit of the title, but I think this is much better.