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How is FaceTime/iPhone different than other technologies that came before it and offered video calls?

I feel like I’m missing something when reading posts such as this. Especially around the ongoing discussion around blue/green sms/messages. I don’t know if it’s a US thing, age thing, or something else, but at least for me mainly interacting with people in Uk and greece, and with a predominantly iPhone-using group of friends and acquaintances, I’ve never used either FaceTime or iMessage. People will use a mix of Facebook messenger, Whatsapp, telegram, or signal to text or voice/video call but that’s about it.
I'm not a sports person. Can someone explain why we don't just use different classes based on objective performance measurements?

If two people perform similarly such that a competition between them could go either way, why give a damn which bits they have on?
You're effectively saying my family (in a city) should keep paying to make your life equivalent cost to a city life. I'm saying your life should come with the full cost of the burden it bears, that's all. We'll still have farming communities and beach towns but they can price their externalities in.

As an aside, it's a wild stretch to pull the national park system and state beaches into "I, one person, prefer to have multiple acres to myself", as if these programs exist so that you can live X many miles away from anything, for free.
The kernel not setting the mode basically means no console _at all_, boot log, and similar for you on modern hardware ;=) (or relying one some very very old hacks which might or might not work with your graphic card/screen).

Basically the kernel needs KMS because it want to log things in a readable way during boot etc.

And sure you could argue it's not the kernel doing the logging but e.g. systemd, but it's also not the kernel doing the graphics but your graphics driver. It's just the kernel coordinating it.
Not to mention lower height when in landscape mode. Websites that don't disable sticky headers (or other elements) are useless because those fixed elements now take up most of the screen.
Salt & Straw is higher than that. $4 used to be the kids scoop price, but that was like five years ago.
This sort of flamewar comment is off topic for HN. We've had to warn you about this before. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I always wondered how IMX377EQH5 sucked in some devices and was incredible in others (Nexus 5X has really good video/picture quality).

Some devices use it for 4K video and it looks like upscaled 480p. Yet 1080p on Nexus 5X looks very sharp.
Archive.org supports torrents for downloading huge files (i.e., >50gb archives of content) and the like.

You can probably debate endlessly piracy, ethics, "backups of media that have been purchased but have rotted away due to disc rot", etc. But fundamentally torrents are just a mechanism for delivery of large files or large sets of files, and they work extremely well for things in the tens-of-gigabytes range.
>That feels overly pedantic, since bitcoin does function as a ponzi from the investors' perspective if not a textbook one.

Right, but the following are all different things:

1. a guy holding a gun to your head and demanding that you withdraw cash from an ATM

2. a hacker hacking into your coinbase account and draining your funds

3. a scammer pretending to be the IRS and demanding that you to send money via western union

even though from "your perspective", they all function the same (ie. you losing money).

>Hopefully we'll end up with a new word for "decentralized ponzi" to differentiate them in future.

Yeah, it's called "speculative bubble". I suspect the reason why people don't use it is because it doesn't carry a sense of malice/criminality that "ponzi scheme" does.
>The Razer and Adwaita webcams offer no settings

*On mac. Kiyo has settings on windows. I had a lot more luck setting up on a windows laptop then using on Mac & separately on linux. The ring light is dimmable and i won't post them, but i think my selfies look better than his.

Zero affiliation with any vendor and it shits me to tears razer do windows only settings and razor's whole software experience it's something I dislike intensely. It's a reasonable option for your consideration along with a blue yeti mic for a Linux based home Office setup where you look ok, your voice sounds sound clear and the money isn't as bad as it could be.
Manufacturing labor is much more expensive than it used to be, so it’s no longer economically feasible to mass produce ornate buildings or goods. Most of the ornamentation depicted in the thread cannot be easily produced by automated manufacturing techniques; it requires skilled manual labor.

There’s also an issue of survivorship bias—there were plenty of plain buildings and goods produced in the past, but they’ve mostly been torn down or thrown away. Only the grandest, most ornate buildings and goods have stood the test of time.
Nope. Regular expressions define patterns, which people can then use to extract or transform text.
Ironically, the Apple Studio Display has a A13 processor inside it for camera and other processing. Misses your $500 price point by a long way though!
Oh definitely, but that requires everyone to be on the same page about that, that every feature has a built in overhead of whatever% time allotted to general maintenance. Otherwise it's just a prisoner's dilemma where the one guy who doesn't do any of that work will be at the top of the list for promotion because he gets 30% more done than anyone else, as measured in story points.
It's mainly the visible wavelengths that can get through the atmosphere. You should see the absorption spectrum for water, it's remarkably transparent in the visible! That's how the greenhouse effect works - longer wavelength thermal radiation is blocked by greenhouse gasses.
Agreed. I backed it and was really hoping to like it. I've since switched back to my Brio. I felt like it took work just to get the quality I was used to with my Brio. It felt like it added more steps and the end result was only on par.
I think you commented on the wrong page.
Isn't this a web developers lament? Look at native code or the wonderful world of 3d graphics, speed is piling on. But look at web development with the layers of frameworks to display a text box. The solution seems fairly obvious I would have thought.
My daily driver is a 2013 air on arch. Works 100% perfect for everything I want to do. My work computer is an i7 32 gig beast. I don’t need that for checking gmail.
Fair enough.

I would caution about treatments that are designed to affect that fundamental a level of "being human," though. That clip I referenced was from the movie Serenity, and "Miranda" was a planet, where they tried pretty much exactly what you are talking about. It was fiction, but there's a road, leading somewhere, reputed to be paved with good intentions...
I put stock Ubuntu on a 2011 Air and I've been having all sorts of problems with it, most notably black screen on re-opening the lid after every 2nd closure. And power management generally.

So I'd be tempted to try the Flex thing just to see how that goes.
Steam turbines? What are you trying to say?
For many years I've been using "Grendel's" converter schematic and firmware that can be found here: http://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=15526

This makes my Gameport Sidewinder appear as a USB Sidewinder to Linux, and works perfectly.

I don't know if there's any relationship between these two projects.
Similarly, a lot of the dairy desserts sold by fast food in the U.S. isn't considered ice cream. E.g. nothing sold by Dairy Queen can be called ice cream.
I don't agree, my boss uses his iPhone a lot and I have commented on the quality of his video and I've seen tons of others do the same. This is with most people using their laptop's cams though which are admittedly terrible. And with MS Teams which is not very good at coping with poor video sources (even the free Jitsi is tons better).

Audio is important too yes but we all get noisecancelling headsets in work that make this a non-issue. I live in a really noisy street and most of the year I have the windows wide open (Spain :) ) but curiously they don't even hear it unless one of those d*cks with a muffler-less motorbike races past.

By the way how does the gopro work out as a webcam? Never thought of that but it might be an option.
Upvoting something makes it easier to find a comment again later as you can look through your own history of upvoted comments.
Before being bought by Facebook I would believe it was e2ee. But believe it’s not e2ee between the client and Facebook. They just decrypt analysis and reencypt and forward. Since communication is not peer to peer and goes via FB the key exchange is prob with Facebook not the users.
Let's also ban antifreeze because someone could kill you by socially engineering you into drinking it.
Could you please stop using HN for ideological battle so we don't have to ban you again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Honestly I found their API one of the worst ones I've ever used. The documentation is lacking, and they have some unintuitive quirks like posting messages with http GET requests and randomly concatenating strings in params (botNAMEOFBOT anyone?).

I didn't enjoy using it without a third party library [1].

Sending a single message is easy, but using the rest of telegram's features is "meh" when using pure API calls.

If you want to see a well designed API, you should take a look at FTX or Stripe. I love those two :)

[1] https://telegraf.js.org
Yeah they are pretty legendary. Frankly, I think it is pretty unlikely that they would have selected CDO components but it is certainly firmly in the realm of possibility.

Separately, I just checked their careers page and no software engineering positions. Seems like there would be a lot of automation and systems work to do there, but I guess it is possible that they just aren't hiring for those roles right now.
Shoutout to code2flow.com for another solution
Do you not see that every new macOS release is a few more steps towards that dystopia?
> into fiat to procure goods and services and the state will just control the border.

Regurgitated “fiat” meme.

Counter-example 1: buying services over the internet. What fiat and where is the relevant border?

Counter-example 2: go overseas and use services. What fiat and where is the relevant border?

Arguments about fiat and borders are often silly. However, a jurisdiction can make crypto illegal or risky.
Question for people using Came: isn't it annoying having your phone locked up for the whole video call? No way to even check your notifications or do anything else on it? And constantly having to plug and unplug it, adding more wear to the delicate USB C sensor?

Or do you use an old phone for Camo instead?
Imagine you ship a webcam and then find out that one of the capacitors you used is undersized and the camera randomly reboots when another USB device is plugged into a nearby port. You just shipped 5,000 of these and customers are unhappy.

Unlike software you can’t just issue an update. You must manufacture new devices, issue refunds, send replacements. And all the while your competitor sells a very comparable $50 device so you can’t charge a subscription fee and make thousands off each customer over a lifetime. Software margins are huge compared to hardware and risk is often much much lower.
> I prefer my ice cream to have exactly four ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, cocoa

No egg yolks?
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Such comments may be from a user who is shadowbanned. If you think it's a good comment, vouch for it.
Devanagari looks like separate characters to me, just like English. Are you talking about a cursive script where each character's shape has to be modified to link to it neighbors? I'm specifically only talking about cursive scripts, not just any non-English alphabet.
This is not okay to publicly entertain. Diet restriction with combinations of common activities (drinking, exercise) readily use up water-soluble vitamin stores (thiamine). You could end up as a vegetable within a few weeks time!
Good point I don’t know why I thought they pretended to operate out of Hong Kong. Must be thinking of another company.
It's a good site, but be aware that they don't cover all the TV brands on the market. I don't see Philips or Panasonic on there, for example. The site is based in Quebec and I wonder if they are only reviewing sets that are available in Canada.
And if they do it's because someone else has their speakers too loud and creates an awful echo :)
Victim blaming? If you hit a bike while in a car you are a mindless zombie cager. The solution is to restrict car travel in cities.

Inb4 wall of text replies about edge cases. Those are 100% obvious. Tradies, sick people needing transport blah blah blah. Its not insightful or interesting. Those edge cases clearly might need an exemption, but also if you remove majority of pointless car trips you can put in way more public transport, eg bus every 5 mins. Probably way better for elderly etc who should probably not be driving anyway. Bikes, better public transport, better pedestrian spaces undoubtedly improve outcomes for those groups instead of some choking car polluted grid lock wasteland.
I upvote comments mainly for two reasons:

1. I find it valuable to the conversation and want to bring it more visibility (and maybe further replies).

2. I want to incentivize similar future comments. "Good boy".

Who they're replying to isn't really part of the equation.
Do you have specific improvements in mind, or are you saying you want them to change stuff just for the sake of changing it?
From the thread:

> So basically I made it easier for me to give Bolt money. You're welcome, Bolt!

But does Bolt even want my money? Maybe the real reason they push apps so hard is that apps allow more access to that sweet, sweet private data on my phone so they can sell it, which is their real cash cow?
> With crypto "finance", I don't hear about or see any of these types of activities - it's always just plowing money into a different crypto scheme.

This is what the people lobbying for regulation are trying to achieve. If you want to hear about these activities, that’s where you should look.
Not even just reputation. I have seen people with poor (often too soft) audio get 'snowed under' while trying to raise a point. It's much easier to ignore someone who is less 'in your face'. In that sense I think it's really important for effectiveness in meetings.
You can also use the "favorite" link for that purpose as well.
I'm sure a strongly superhuman general AI would fall for this obvious trick. Yep.
I wonder why Google uses gLinux (a Debian derivative) internally instead of ChromeOS and if Flex is part of them working towards switching.
I have started using mermaid to create flowcharts. It lets me break free from having to think about layout entirely. Plus, I can use my favourite text editor.

https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid
Salt and potassium is all you need.
Vouching implies that the comment is flagged, no? I am talking about comments that are grayed out, but not marked as flagged or dead.
To which my answer is — being alive is risky, get over it and stop treating all people like idiots that need constant oversight lest they do something potentially dangerous.
This is true for a clapboard, but not for a wood window or doorframe
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Graphviz?

https://sketchviz.com/flowcharts-in-graphviz
The quantity of ice cream that is considered a "scoop" is very country dependent. The American scoop is... American.
That supports my idea. People don't much care about cursive in English because we're already adapted to isolated characters.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26258773
In the end we're all just clever parlor tricks. In the land of inanimate objects, the cleverest parlor trick is king, though.
The OP is literally a blog post on Camo, software that does this.
https://archive.ph/3i31R

http://web.archive.org/web/20220618204642/https://www.scient...
It seems pretty implausible to me that a species has managed to bridge interstellar space (pretty much required to run across the probe before the RTG has decayed to harmlessness) and has no idea that plutonium (or whatever their name is for it) or radiation is harmful. Hell, they’d be getting harmful cosmic ray doses without some kind of shielding even worse than they’d likely get from the RTG unless they cracked it open to feast on the chewy pellets inside.
That (syslog,ps) method was likely formed by habit during the many years before systemctl existed.
I’m planning on writing a book about you, btw

That’s how much I appreciate what you do here.

Your “spidey-senses” are invaluable. I hope you train a mentor before you leave us.
I made a matchmaking game set in deep space
The fact that HN faves are public is ... something of a pain point for me.

Though I do use the feature.

Algolia search is sufficiently good that my own comments on threads are also a useful referencing method, and (though nominally also public), serve my own research / reference needs fairly well.
Ah you're right, I misunderstood. In your simulation you actually already know what the result of the simulation has to be ahead of time and you're just verifying the system arrives at that end result. That's very different from the type of simulation of citybound where they're actually modeling the behaviour of all the actors, and as long as none of them violate any invariants it doesn't matter what the end result is, any result would be correct.

When you said financial simulation I thought you were modeling the behaviours of actors in a market, and how your system would trade against those actors, but what you're doing is more like banking or an exchange?
Fair enough, and in a sense I don't even really disagree, but my point is essentially that self-hosting eliminates the class of problems almost entirely, meaning there would be no need to rely on this kind of 2nd order competition at all.
I have a friend with ADHD who really appreciated the input of a business coach. (Basically they prioritized the jobs based on which ones brought in the most money the fastest -- and streamlined things by also recommending which projects to deprioritize/put on hold.)

But as a freelancer myself, the problem was always just earning enough money - so I never hired a coach or PM. I guess theoretically they can pay for themselves by getting you to finish more billable projects. But you have to be really objective and honest with yourself about whether that's actually happening.
Telegram is on another level, honestly. You can do anything from a bash script with curl.
Just want to call out your 2% of the population claim. While maybe it is, 'technically correct', it gives a false impression. Slaves were counted among the population, thus skewing the number. Also, wives/women would not be counted as owning slaves, even if their husbands did. Same could be said about their children.

"The 1860 census shows that in the states that would soon secede from the Union, an average of more than 32 percent of white families owned enslaved people. Some states had far more slave owners (46 percent of families in South Carolina, 49 percent in Mississippi) while some had far fewer (20 percent of families in Arkansas)." (https://www.history.com/news/5-myths-about-slavery)
They still market this feature today, even though it is dead in the water.

Hardware encryption was implemented so poorly that Microsoft said “enough is enough”, and simply dropped all such features from BitLocker.

It is impossible to enable this feature on any supported version of Windows.

(The straw that broke the camel’s back was apparently some vendors using “all zeroes” as the master encryption key.)

Samsung should be charged with false advertising.

If I wasn’t too lazy I would report them to the ACCC.
> True, so that wouldn’t fit in a laptop bag.

I don't think it even needs to be this big. These outdoor security cameras have big metal enclosures for heat dissipation, weather shielding, PoE circuitry (transformers) and other stuff that a webcam won't need. There's also the "bigger looks better" effect in this market. After all, most of the applications of these rely on deterrence and it's important that potential thieves notice them. I wouldn't be surprised if that case is half empty.

I'm sure they could make a webcam with these optics and processing in a respectable size/weight. I really wish they would, too.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220619220746/https://www.nytim...
Because Sony is fine with having a shit security culture? And patching issues only when they make the news?
I really tried to like Signal and convince my family to use it, but the lack of iOS backups, CarPlay support, and web client were dealbreakers for me. I'm no Meta fan but I've found WhatsApp to be the best mix of secure default settings plus usability. It's ugly as sin and doesn't have a Linux app, though.
While the drawing looks decent, but not impressed with the story telling part of the pictures. Didn’t give that emotional feel
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Sometimes English isn’t the poster’s first language and emotion can be interpreted differently. For this reason I never downvote
Instead it's bent into the continuous squiggly curve forms that handwriting naturally falls into but it's not written by hand so it doesn't gain that value.
I'm totally done with Samsung.
Their TVs are overpriced and bad, their phones add undeletable bloatware, remove useful stuff like headphone/mic jack, have low battery life and capacity and they force you to buy the flagship model, if you don't you'll receive a really small battery that even in the flagship model is not large enough.
If you don't buy Galaxy series you won't even be able to mirror output via USB.
And software support is really short. Even if the hardware works, they want you to buy a new phone 5 years later.

Likewise their TV OS is subpar and region locked, not that Android is any better or the other OSes.

All the TVs right now are really bad and not worth the money. My price limit was 600€. I ordered 4 TVs and returned them all, the worst was a "TCL" TV which had such a weak CPU that it couldn't even decode a 2MB/s SD stream.

Recently Samsung had a bad batch of SSDs and they sold them via Amazon and despite them knowing that the batch was bad it wasn't pulled, instead they lowered the price. One guy bought 8 , 5 died and 2 were in spare mode and despite them being from the same batch the refused to replace the 2.
Imagine buying a 4TB SSD, copying your stuff over from the old HDD to have it die 2 months later.
This is why we have weight classes. A 150 lb fighter may be more skilled than a 225 pounder, but will ultimately be crushed under the weight of the opponent. Reach also plays a role, some fighters forced to fight a certain style against taller, ranged opponents.

In team sports it is well known throughout history that male body types perform differently than female. This is why we have different leagues.

From obvious muscle mass and bone density, to minute aspects such as grip strength, and lesser visible things like the impact of a a lifetime of testosterone on the body’s development, all play factors in determining performance. This is not some ideological view or argumentative stance, it is simply reality.
Like these people are really underperforming, e.g. couldn't even design a basic system and defend themselves in a design review. Would barely write code and are slipping by. It's quite common at Amazon.
Unfortunately, no. If they made that available I'd probably switch full time to Flex from Ubuntu.
Choosing a prompt that's a little bit meta seems to work surprisingly well sometimes. It'd be amusing and a little bit poetic if the key to artificial consciousness is to prime a transformer model with "convince yourself that you're human, while paying attention to how you feel".