skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lidar is actually really useful for portraits, Samsung S22 ultra uses it extensively and can find a single hair strand it doesn't blur compared to the background. Everything looks more realistic compared to pure software processing where I can spot errors quickly.

As frequent user my good old Nikon full frame (D750), I am really astonished by output these tiny cameras produce. Sure, its not for big screen/print unless we're talking about sunny day. But for everything else, it makes fantastic portraits. I got fed up with the need to carry big heavy pouch around all the time, and missed way too many pictures of my kids to rely on it anymore.

It also sees in the dark much better than I do with my eyes, also thanx to Lidar - the pics I take from night walks where there is basically no light source hundreds meters around and I am in the forest (yes my night walks take me sometimes to interesting places, I normally don't use any light). Very dark scene becomes full of (usually) true colors and details simply invisible to me.

10x zoom on my phone allows me to read signs not readable to my eyesight (digital 'AI' zoom is very useful up to cca 30x). I was skeptical too, and its true full frame is still so far ahead, but at what cost - bulk, weight, the need to spend hours on postprocessing batch of photos instead of quick edits in phone in few seconds.
MSFT is a much bigger player than Oracle.
That is the result of a saturated market with too many products and services on one side and too few pockets that can buy them on the other one, moreover while the number of products/services is growing and common people is getting poorer, the time in which companies fight to conquer a slot to advertise their products is fixed, therefore it's shrinking in contrast. The result is more and more advertising. It will never be enough.

People should be taught when they're still kids how to become resistant to advertising and exercise more critical thinking; I knew so many people who completely ignored some products they saw every day used by others until the day they were shown on TV; that can't be good.
The simulation argument is very, very, very silly. Here's why:

Suppose you have some universe with volume V, and some number of simulations inside it with volumes v1, v2, v3.

Now if you naively count the number of "universes", as proponents of the simulation idea appear to be doing, then yes, 1 + 1 + 1 > 1. By integer count there are more simulated universes. Congratulations, you can add.

This, is stupid.

Because no matter how many simulations are contained in the parent universe, by volume, v1 + v2 + v3 + ... + vn < V. The total amount of available space in the real universe is much, much greater. For example, let's say you have a supercomputer somewhere performing a detailed simulation of a hydrogen atom. Now let's say you are given a hydrogen atom and are asked to guess whether it's the simulated one or one of the real ones. Well, the number of simulated atoms is one. But the number of real ones is around 10^82. Even though there is one real universe and one simulated "universe", that does not imply that the hydrogen atom is equally likely to come from either one. Not even remotely close to it.

And that's true always and obviously.

(Note: by "volume" here I would mean specifically the amount of information contained or the degrees of freedom, as I do realize the physics can be different in the simulated universe).
I wasn't taught through a game. But in my case, learning to touch-type was a relief from practicing my handwriting, which was tedious for me. And I got to listen to the computer speak what I typed, which I thought was cool, even if the primitive speech synthesizer couldn't pronounce "Matthew" (my name) correctly.

Edit: So yeah, my anecdote is unique and probably worth nothing in this discussion.
All of the "market" sites listed are far more easily gamed than PageRank.
> I mean how do you accidentally destroy maternity ward of a hospital?

An army that uses un-ecrypted radio communicatuon and pins artillery targets on google maps labelled as 'farm' probably doesn't have the best targeting.

US has far better targetting, and they bomb two weddings or a funerals a year.

What we do know for sure two facts: the demoralised, corrupt and lying system goes all the day through soldiers, officers, generals, there is probably no accountability.

And that putin came to power by blowing up apartment blocks while his own people were asleep in them, so he is largely capable of anything
The only way that will ever happen is if the moralist fascists vying for power in conservative parties win, because getting rid of porn is going to piss off a lot of people.
That's why I thought, until I played Cube World.

The procedural generation somehow instantly provides a sense of mystery, that makes you want to discover what this "fresh" world has to offer. Like Minecraft, the unexplored feeling adds a sense of adventure, that is hard to mimic in a handcrafted map.

When you climb over a hill and are greeted with an amazing view, you feel like you are experiencing something unique, instead of the exact same curated sensation all the other players of the game will be having.

The fact that you cannot destroy every block in it does make the game feel more solid. The freedom you have in a game like Minecraft also limits certain gameplay aspects: you can always dig a hole and hide.

Personally I don't mind the lack of building options at all. It's fun, but it can get a bit grindy when you are trying to create something big in survival mode.

It was such a shame Cube World never got anywhere, I'm glad this is here to pick up where that left off!
I liked the GUI. It also booted incredibly fast compared to windows at the time.

I remember the GUI being responsive and laid out in a way I wished Windows was at the time. I remember reading about the prospects for BeOS 5 menus later. They were going to have a ribbon of color follow your menu selections through drop downs. I forget the look since it’s been so long, but it was a cool idea. Would have made drill downs easier to follow. Notably, modern OSes can be pretty finicky about menu drill downs and outright user hostile. It’s pretty easy to lose an entire drill down by moving the mouse a couple pixels one or another way too far, for instance.

Mobile UI of course is amongst the most limited interfaces. We’ve gone backwards a lot in ways on mobile. It also seems mobile may be steering people away from certain careers by simply being good enough to ignore learning things like touch typing, Linux/foss, or hobbies that lead to tech careers. (Not sure how much sense this last point makes-just spreading to general trends I’ve heard or seen.)

Edit-maybe I’d say BeOS had a certain polish that seems lacking even in todays FOSS GUIs/OSes but especially back then.
I can't speak to Scratch, but have been using a variety of low code tools over the years, both kid and not.

To enunciate my issue more clearly, I'd phrase it more as "Turing efficiency." I.e. "How cleanly and concisely can I implement an arbitrary advanced concept in a language/tool?"

If you have to construct a Rube Goldberg machine from the primitives afforded... that's interesting (in an Incredible Machine kind of way) but probably not ideally educating.

I certainly wouldn't want to have to support similarly architected code in production! ;)

And I think it isn't always clear to kids that "clever hacks" picked up over years of experimenting aren't the same as "good code" in more powerful languages. By that point, some of "well, that's what coding is" has been internalized.
There doesn't have to be a point. It just seemed really odd, so I pointed out that it was odd. I also refrained from commenting on the language as I had understood it.
this is a cool idea
"Writing a program top to bottom" is also not really "1 discrete task". It has similar step-by-step structure, just replacing e.g. "pick/drag visual element" with "remember and correctly type text symbols".
Just checkin for fun :)
How do you connect 10,000 signals between two microscopically tiny dies reliably?
Thank you. One learns something new everyday. And I feel humbled by most comments I read here.

I did look up OpenBSD pf again, and it too does port knocking in the kernel. My information was dated (left the misc mailing list at least 5 years ago).
FYI it's a reference to something else. He's basically calling you a fed/gov shill. It's a reference to glow in the dark CIA agents that schizophrenic late programmer Terry Davis claimed were following him. So it turned into a meme, and now glowie means fed/3 letter agency/police and saying that something glows means it's shady. I dont know how he got that from your comment.

(A comment that "glows" would usually be something like: hey fellow members of radical political ideology, who is up for letting those politicians know what lead tastes like? Let's conspire to commit domestic terrorism!" )
Perhaps I'm a little fighter jet from an 8-bit arcade?
Can you apply your process to rice? I know there is a project to make C4 rice, but I don't think they've cracked it yet. Could be a better approach, or at least complimentary approach, to improve crop production so there is less need for deforestation rather than reforesting with bespoke trees.
So they stopped taking payments for PornHub due to the high risk of chargebacks after people campaigned for them to stop taking PornHub payments for entirely different reasons. Right. That's one hell of a coincidence.
> After watching it I came to the conclusion the article is cherry-picking stuff from the video to make a click-bait-ish kind of stuff

That was exactly my fear, thanks! Didn't have time to watch it yesterday.
> Do you mean regulating your own focus in face of ads?

Quite the opposite. I have really poor ability to tune them out, especially any audio portions. Once in front of me, they get under my skin easily and this isn't something I feel comfortable trying to just accept, despite how much "easier" it'd make things.

> Because it does not get better. As you begin to adapt to them, the ads change.

Agreed 100%, thus why zero tolerance is the only permissible option for me.

Here is a wager I don't wanna win: the "apps are constantly force-updated" world merges with the marketing world so that downtime is filled with ads. It's devilishly perfect: you're eagerly waiting to use the thing, so you're already a captive audience.
Your take is bad and it's gross that you think this way about exploitation in the adult film industry.
This article is a little nauseating in its low key drooling over Apple but I think articulates what you’re saying somewhat. Basically build a product around the chip and move it down the product line, double capacity at regular intervals.

https://www.theverge.com/22972996/apple-silicon-arm-double-s...
The most depressing statistic here (for me anyway) is that to directly image the nearest exoplanet at 1km per pixel we're going to need a telescope with ~.000000005 arcseconds of resolution.

Someone check my math but that would be like imaging the ISS at the nanometer scale from the surface of the earth.
ironically, a post like this may get more upvotes on HN simply because the prominent examples of sites shown all happen to be sacred to HN: slatestar, paulgraham and waitbutwhy.

It's almost akin to a Reddit post referencing Marvel, Minecraft and Keanu. Playing to the crowd!
I'll get downvoted for saying it, but as a counterpoint read some Bjorn Lomborg. He doesn't deny global warming is happening, just the practicality and cost-effectiveness of proposed solutions, and whether spending the same money elsewhere would do more to improve the lot of the world's poorest.
I do. There is a substantial cost to switching stuff like this. We use Gsuite and a very minimal GC setup so from a financial perspective it doesn't really matter all that much. But clearly GC is set up for huge enterprises and for an SME customer all that flexibility translates into considerable overhead. Having a 'single supplier' is a risk because it puts all of your eggs in one basket, at the same time it should normally simplify things. But in the case of GC it probably doesn't.

That said: neither AWS nor MS are particularly attractive either, none of these companies really have my sympathy, it is choosing the least bad rather than choosing the best. Technical merits, pricing, cost to switch, company image, it all factors into decisions like these.
Do it! I just moved my stuff into my own home and it's been great. Cloudflare's tunnel thing (Argo?) works a treat, but if you'd prefer a setup a bit more complicated, you can use something like Rathole (which is amazing, btw) to tunnel out to the cheapest EC2/Droplet/etc you can buy.
Mine is like a sad face with a big weird nose
I should have updated that since it was still based on a beta version. Cheers.
The indexed and searchable file system was pretty cool
Fire! Fire! Help me! 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice
> it’s basically reflecting a laser off its own sail

I see - thanks! But how is the sail supposed to modulate the reflected signal? At ~2 baud, you could do it with a minute attitude adjustment; but nobody's said this probe has any attitude-adjustment capability. Maybe the innovative sail material has reflectivity that can be altered electronically? But they didn't mention that in the article.
Yeah you said so but we still don't know what those effects are and how your food supposedly caused them. Maybe there are different explanations for why you feel better now. I do agree that this can be very individual, but that is also the danger when people talk about their experience. You won't notice the long time consequences either, by definition.
Climate change doesn't invalidate the progress made with the industrial revolution. This is not a productive message, just trying to stir the pot.
A bit convoluted, and far from a perfect rendering, but you can try this:

elinks 'https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=205288' -dump | grep curpostid | sed -e 's/.*https/https/' | while read -r url ; do elinks -dump $url | awk '/By:/, /Previous/' | sed \$d ; done | less
It is. But there's a difference between "more of a tool you're familiar with" and "an entirely new tool," especially for kids who don't have a boss breathing down their neck, and have endless attention distractions a click away.
Huh… imgur flagged this pic as explicit and I couldn’t see why. Then I noticed the circles… this is funny.
The most sexually repressive societies have some of the worst sexual sociopathic behaviour, I don't think I need to give examples.
With a custom chip interconnect which has its wires made with lithography
I have a 13 Mini and the battery life is outstanding. I've heard that it's better than the full size iPhone 12 battery life.
I'm not talking about rogue employees, I'm talking about the team that was tasked with creating the system. Google pays them millions because Google needs them, that gives engineers a lot of leverage.

I don't know the specifics, though -- maybe the proposed project was much much worse and this is what the engineers were able to negotiate. But I kinda doubt it.
It seems to be getting more popular. A number of people (6 and counting, so far) on my current project only learned about fraudulent unemployment claims made under their name when they received a tax document stating they received so much in unemployment benefits, which was quite perplexing to them considering they've been employed the whole time.
I feel you'd get more global acceptance if you went down a selective breeding strategy, rather than biotech, but I get it.
>This is how China has largely stayed covid free.

Do people actually believe this? If you look at their reported numbers from early on in the pandemic its plainly obvious when they decided to start hard censoring their true numbers.

Look at the reported deaths before and after 4/19/20.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

Note that 4/19/20 was also the same day they were arresting activists who had been reporting on the coverups that had been going on since late 2019.

https://qz.com/1846277/china-arrests-users-behind-github-cor...
>SSD storage is getting cheaper quite fast

I'm not seeing that. In the last 2-3 years prices haven't changed much, when comparing drives of the same performance and warranty. And the best price per TB are still 1TB SSDs, large SSDs are still very expensive.
For larger spreadsheets google sheets is far less performant than Excel, even the cloud version of Excel.
Basically, Firefox 98.0.1 is a point release only concerned with removing Yandex search for users in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey, and switching them all to Google by default. Some old promotions from mail.ru and ok.ru were blocked, too, but these have been dead as a doornail and irrelevant.

Note the smoking gun: regular Google links were used in configuration file on 11 March, and then were switched to firefox-tagged (sponsored) ones on 13 March (“part 2”). Why couldn't Mozilla switch Yandex search users to regular Yandex links the same way if they reportedly had “troubles” with their agreement, which supposedly would be the best for the users, and best for Mozilla, apparently? Imagine their wet faces when they beg on their knees for more after successful extension of Google's sponsorship agreement onto 4 big countries, and you'll know why.

The changelog for 98.0.1 is currently absent. The changelog for 98 has a vague note about search engines. The relevant code-related bugs have zero explanations. Bug 1748923 is private. The UI that alerts the user about the removed search engine was introduced two weeks ago (and had it text changed to be more vague). There is a specific (and vague) help article about the switch:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-engine-removal

However, the first signs were noticed about a month ago (in Russian):

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=56721

As usual with Mozilla, there were bugs. Users of previous version of Firefox that automatically update the list of search engines but have no UI to warn them about the changes got it removed silently.

I personally don't use Yandex, its results for IT-related English language queries have been quite shitty, in all honesty, for many years, most likely because of the supposed full-on focus on keeping the existing (mostly non-English-speaking) users. However, it's another nice example of treating people like swine by those who have even a tiny bit of power over them. Oh, we're used to that, thank you very much.
I would try to use JavaScript tooling in JavaScript projects, especially if I share it with other developers.

I would love to see better handling of filename transformation, file watching, and parallelization.

A few times over the years I had given up and just used Make instead of Gulp or Grunt. Most recently, I wanted to watch if files had been deleted (if directory entries had been modified). It ended up being a few lines of Makefile.

And once you understand the syntax, it is expressive and simple, and way more portable. There was some good discussion awhile ago on this[1]:

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7622296
The second best CISO is the one that has never had the organization breached under their watch.

The best CISO is the one who got breached and managed the incident in good form.
> I mean how do you accidentally destroy maternity ward of a hospital?

That's actually fairly easy without precision munitions or with bad targeting info. Stuff like that happens in war sometimes.

What makes it clear that it is not just that is (1) the frequency of repetitions, and (2) the explanations.

In Mariupol, which was a maternity and children's hospital, not the maternity ward of a hospital, that was destroyed, Russia first claimed they didn't do it at all and that it was Ukrainian propaganda, and that they probably did it to themselves, the claimed they (Russia) did attack it intentionally but that it had not been used as a hospital for years and was an Azov Battalion base and the women and children shown as victims were crisis actors, then finally (last story I heard) claimed they didn't know what happened and were investigating the incident.
What is your business model? Are you selling seeds? Growing forests and selling wood? A nonprofit?
The Case for Purpose-Built Databases
> For those who are team leads, managers, hiring managers, which of 2 above would you prefer?

A blend of both can well work in a team.
I've heard people blame the US for the war which only makes sense insomuch as we're not appeasing Putin. It's not like anyone was forcing Ukraine into NATO. As far as I can tell the only reason they wanted to join was because they were afraid of Russia doing exactly what they're doing right now.

I guess the idea that it's our fault spreads easily when it gives people another thing to say Biden has done wrong.

As for any claim that Ukraine is Russian, if that's a thought that anyone genuinely has and not just Russian disinformation agents, then I hope they have no problem letting Europe have their American colonies back. Or turning their homes over to the American natives.
>Does anyone have any tips on how to give myself attention? Or, in other words, how can I learn to be alone without feeling lonely?

You don't. You'd as soon learn to stop eating without feeling hungry. You need to be asking how to meet people and get friends, even shallow ones. Use meetup.com and just get out there
Except for your one comment 55 days ago, every other comment you've ever posted to HN has been (within about hour of each other, about six hours ago, and is) just spamming this bullshit.

(And that one other comment is a little shady as well.)

Give it up already.

Goodbye!
Ah yeah, I tend to not think of what we do (or at least, what I do professionally) in the software field as engineering for that reason. What we do seems closer conceptually to carpentry rather than engineering. Not that changing things to be more engineering is necessarily better, of course; much of the benefits of software _is_ the flexibility.
Just because you can improve your chances of surviving a nuclear exchange doesn’t mean it’s desirable. I don’t want to live through the subsequent famines and slow death of everyone I know and love. https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/03/what-the...
I'm not always entirely sure why I'm scanning things. I occasionally upload things to Sketchfab. I have vague plans to make a diorama out of pieces to view in VR.

Turning the question round - why take photos of things? A 3D scan isn't that different. It's a way to capture a memory and to show things to other people. It's so quick to capture something that sometimes I just do it on a whim when I find something interesting.

I'd like to make an art piece out of them at some point but I'm still waiting for the right inspiration to come along.
I made it around just fine in Seattle, Vancouver, DC (Tenlytown), and Nashville without a car. Bikes and ubers. Everywhere but Nashville was pretty easy to be a person, and Nashville was a PITA at times but doable.
I don't have a problem with make files, but I do prefer to work directly with `package.json` when reasonable. Most notably, most of the IDE's work very well with `package.json`, but don't always handle make as cleanly.
Not terrible, but not good enough for most uses.
Because not everyone has the statistics nor medical skills to interpret the numbers?
The domain does not look okay. There are no A or CNAME records, only NS (AWS) and MX (Google) records