skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Valuable is not really up for debate. A nonhuman animal would not say that the life of a human is more valuable than their own any more than a disempowered person would say that the life of a powerful person is more valuable than their own.

There are plenty of people I would say are more important/valuable than me. And I can imagine species that would be more important/valuable than humans; they just don't seem to exist here and now. But the boundaries within humanity are a lot narrower and I wouldn't be confident enough to label any humans as less important/valuable than me the way I would talk about a random non-endangered rodent.

> Do you think there might be a bias at work when we decide that the traits unique to humans are those that are more "important"?

Well I think "hibernate" and "eggs" are dumb metrics. But we can replicate most feats with some prep time, even if you use a big list of unique abilities that humans need technology for.

Even taking bias into account, I think the bias would have to be ridiculously large to overcome the strength of the answer.
Like many technologies, the first couple of mirrorless cameras were a step back from DSLRs, but the fundamentals of mirrorless design have allowed them to rocket past the capabilities of any DSLR.

Take a look at the Nikon Z9, which is a professional mirrorless and shutterless camera.

It can take essentially infinite shots without wearing out. DSLRs need maintenance every few hundred thousand shots, which sounds like a lot, but some pros take 10-20K per day. Timelapse videos especially are murder on DSLRs and can take big chunks out of the shutter mechanism lifetime.

The lack of moving parts means it can be totally silent and take full-res shots at 30 fps without mirror blackout. Lower-res shots can be taken at an astonishing 120 fps, which allows photographers to capture fleeting moments that would be missed otherwise.

Focus is as-good, if not better than any other DSLR in the world. E.g.: eye-tracking auto-focus is generally not possible on DSLRs because they can't use the full-resolution sensor while the mirror is down, and eyes are too small to recognise with the phase-detect array.

They've thrown in 4K and 8K HDR video capture as well, because why not, and this works with the viewfinder. That's not possible on DSLRs because the mirror blocks the viewfinder in video mode.
I'd argue that because twitter is the simplest social network it will last the longest. Just a place to post a short amount of characters.

That's why he wanted to buy it.
That's the "geographically dependent" part.
Ex falso, quodlibet sequitur.
A great all around introduction to programming.

It poses an interesting question which I think it doesn't
really answer well: "What Is the Relationship Between Code and Data?"

I can easily understand what a "program" is. It is a set of instructions we give to the computer for it to do something we want it to do.

But what is "data"?
I think there's valid criticisms of Twitter; the medium encourages a writing style that I find pretty cringe-worthy a lot of the time. It does encourage hot takes and isn't a very good place for nuanced discussion of charged topics. It is, like all social media platforms, a contributor to polarization in all sorts of topics, some that matter more than others.

The value in Twitter depends heavily on how you curate your feed, though. If you fill it with thoughtful people that are experts in the fields you're interested, it can be quite enlightening. If you fill it with people who mostly post memes, you'll get memes. If you fill it with pundits, you'll get bite-sized takes. You get to choose that.
Response to “The End of Art: An Argument Against Image AIs” 10/24/22
It starts out kind of slow, but I think I make some good points / additions to the discussion in it (if you have 42 minutes to watch something which discusses various current topics and issues with AI art in general)
If one assumes even a .1% improvement in "Machine Intelligence" per unit time then it is literally only a matter of time until you reach Human level and then pass it.

That's like saying "even if there's only a 0.1% improvement in materials strength per unit time eventually we'll have structures strong enough to bounce off an incoming rogue planet." There is an upper bound to computational performance per unit mass and unit energy. We're nowhere near it but it is there, lurking.
“Free Speech” != “1st Amendment”. The later is a US constitutional amendment which aims to protect the former, but other US laws also protect free speech (state constitutional provisions, statute law)-the Bill of Rights is legally just a minimum, so other laws are allowed to go even further. Non-legal factors (culture/etc) also have a role to play in protecting free speech. And of course, other countries have free speech as well (to varying degrees), but the US constitution has nothing to do with that.
It seems likely that he’d use his wealth to build something worse for society if he moves on.
I never said it was free or open. You can try AltStore which is both.
The summary of that video was that it’s a very good product on its own, it’s just facing tough competition from the other iPad models.
AI-generated comments will soon ruin HN and everything else. https://xkcd.com/810/ I don't think this will be something to glorify when it arrives.
Yeah I know, but the "computational power will keep increasing forever" religion has a strong following on HN who react badly when you point out the true scale of the problem.
Profitable to Posterity: Who should write history?
Elon Musk has bought Twitter: A timeline of the ups and downs
This is far funnier than it reads, bravo
The other part of the rumour is the 16” iPad Pro predicted for late 2023. Perhaps this “macOS lite” will be exclusive to that model?
Thanks for asking OP!

My photography back before I deleted Instagram was focused mostly on landscapes and architecture -- when I got my start folks would talk about "the camera you have", and this was just as 4+ megapixel point and shoots were getting into the sub 300 range -- folks complain about "smartphones" but the future that mirrorless lenses has brought us is one that was only delayed by folks like me who refuse to carry a bulky DSLR all day let alone multiple lenses in a cute little bag. [snorts audibly]

I don't think things people have thought through very basic things about computational photography.

For example, Pennsylvania fought hard to not be part of Real ID[0]... but people move around.

I know they scanned my face when I moved to the District of Columbia.

In fact, I specifically commented at one point to a friend it was as if there was a set of folks who wanted for privacy for the wrong reasons, and that they were making a game of connecting me with job interviews folks could treat like free consulting sessions so they could continue engaging in... really rude behavior.

Then again, sometimes people say one thing and mean another -- I know that now, just like I did when I got my first DSLR from Newegg the last time I lived in the city I'm currently living in.

That's a thing you can do -- say one thing and mean another, but that's more for like... a, but the problem becomes you might have some chicken fingers loving autist pump the brakes and quiet part out loud.

The quiet part being "we're not in high school, or at least I'm not, so if you act as exhausting as folks acted in the 2000s, I can just start strangling you then tell the judge it was self defense, just like as I disussed at multiple conferences, I can do the same "claim self defense to the judge" for defense for cyber -- so keep fucking around, and you might keep finding out in ways other than a legally permitted passive aggressive rant on the orange site.

Then again, I hate people, that's why lately I mostly take photos of slugs.

(I've seen a LOT more, larger, in a short timespan, than ever in my life.. they used to be either a different species, much smaller, or they're living longer, because the ones when I was a kid were less than an inch long and really only came out after an intense rain... I saw one the size of my pinkie the other day for the third time in a month, and it's getting cold.)

Also, sorry that this got posted while I was drafting -- unlike the King of North Korea or whatever, I'm not literally a god -- sometimes I make mistakes.

- "Greg"
If you look at the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Project_(investigation... it seems like most of the countries that used pegasus are still on the allowed list, many of them much more extensively users than mexico was.

I really dont think nso group client is the pattern.
One of the first things he should do is get rid of the code that keeps you from scrolling through a user's content without signing up.
That's not a "hint", meat is a desirable food, a very good source of protein, can be a good income for poor farmers and can be raised in places that aren't suitable for cropping.

But even if you set aside meat, modern lifestyles necessitate the killing of other life.

Take your protein-rich plant food, for example. Do you know how modern cereal and vegetable farming is carried out? The idea is basically to create a holocaust of chemical poisons that exterminates all animal, plant, and fungal life except the crop, over millions of acres, and that is after the land has been cleared and the native plants and animals killed and wiped away. Housing, water, energy, mining, all that costs lives as well.

You can't absolve yourself just by not eating meat.
It's using a [Matterport camera](https://www.amazon.com.au/Matterport-Professional-Experience...) - they capture from 3 vertical directions (+45.deg, level, and -45.deg), and then rotates in a circle.

Though the technical limitations are frustrating, the end result tends to be much higher quality than other, more manual software pipelines. Not to mention _significantly_ easier to process.
If anyone has a the print issue of this I’d like to buy it. One was on EBay a little while ago for about $60 I think
Here is a comparison page for the iPhone 11, which is three years old, vs the latest iPhone 14:

https://www.apple.com/sg/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-11...

If you replace your phone every three years, you would be getting that upgrade now. If you replace your phone every five years, you would have to wait another two years for those features.

A few things that stand out are: a better display, a much better camera, much better battery life, much better performance, faster Internet, a tougher and more water-resistant build, and dual eSIM support. These are all concrete improvements that make my day-to-day life better. Why wouldn’t I upgrade if I can afford it?

The camera in particular stands out. Thirty years from now, you aren’t going to remember how fast your phone was or how much it cost. But you’ll still have the photos and videos it took. Your upgrade frequency today affects the quality of the photos and videos you look at for the rest of your life.

In addition to this, Apple devices hold their value very well on the second-hand market, so selling your old phone while it’s still useful offsets the cost of the new device by a significant fraction. If you keep your phone until it wears out, it’s less cost effective overall.

For an awful lot of people, upgrading every two to three years is a good deal, which is why Apple are making so much money.
The hydrogen is cracked off and the CO2 is vented. Plus every kg of extracted methane is accompanied a few hundred grams of fugitive methane which is equivalent to another 1-2 kg of CO2.

Luckily electrolysis will soon be cheaper in parts of the world (or everywhere if we priced in externalities).
I use index cards. On my desk, I have a stack of blank ones and a "discard" pile of used ones next to it. If I start a new activity, I grab a blank one, date it, and write a title (something like "Meeting with Alice about API standards" or "debugging XXXXXX" where XXXXX is some ticket number or whatever). I use this for notes and "working memory". At the end of the day I transfer anything I need to continue working on to my datebook, our JIRA analogue, or possibly just leave the card "active" at my desk. When I'm done with a card, I put it on the discard pile.

Every so often I empty the discard pile into shoebox for storage. I produce about 3/4 of a shoebox per year so storage isn't really a problem (yet). Since they're all dated and more or less chronological, it's easy to go back and reconstruct what I was doing on a given day, and I can also thumb through them for ammunition come review time.

I currently use 3x5 cards but am thinking about upsizing to 4x6 (postcard size).
Its "free" PR while trying to attract investors. Doubt they will build even half of the said bullshit promises.

There is no end of stupid ideas you can generate while you are rich and unaccountable.

Besides they aren't targeting us, but similarly stupidly rich people. Although I heard no one trusts them after the whole bugging bezos phone incident.
I honestly wonder what they are actually spending that money on. $9 billion? I guess that is 4,000 programmers, marketers, designers making $250K/month would use it all up.

I've only seen bits and pieces of the graphics, though, from what I've seen, they look pretty horrible for that kind of money.
GPT for Robotics: Perception-Action Causal Transformer
Generative self-supervised model for robotics data.
Highlights:
- Transformer model for autoregressive prediction of states and actions over time to implicitly encode dynamics and behaviors for a particular robot
- The representation learned can be fine-tuned to distinct tasks (navigation, mapping, localization) with minimal data
- The base transformer model serves as a generative robotics model, similarly to GPT-3, and can be prompted to result in different robot behaviors

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11133;
Video: https://youtu.be/mNQvQu_atuw;
Code and data: https://github.com/microsoft/PACT
Real-time: TAI64 TAI or go home.

Earth time: UT (UT1).

UTC is a vague approximation of UT1 using TAI and a leap seconds data source similar to tzdata.

On most modern CPUs, there is an accurate monotonic counter. The problem though is it doesn't know anything about when it was started or when it went to sleep in any time system.

Oh and bugs. Some systems interpret edge cases in one way, and others in others. Academic purity, interoperability: pick 1.

And then calendars are discontinuous through the years: October 15, 1582 and twice in 1752. They also vary by country which calendar system was in use when. The Julian and Gregorian calendars were in dual use until 1923.

Daylight savings time rules change. Timezones change. And then you get tzdata.

https://www.stjarnhimlen.se/comp/time.html

https://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html
My Android phone has two gimmicks.

- It's waterproof, dustproof, and shock-proof out of the box. I can image an iPhone can pull this off in a third-party protective case.

- It can sideload software; I have some important apps managed by f-droid. Sorry, iPhone can't do this by design. It's not "strictly better", every such decision is a balancing act. But it's what I prefer.

Things like microSD card, 3.5mm jack, etc are nice but not the essential differentiating factors.
> But what is "data"?

A set of instruction activators we give the computer

Oh and that easily understood set of instructions are also data
Noise vs signal ration. Despite all those nasty infliction of ads, Google still provide very important services. Ditto for Amazon. Amazon does show ads but it is aligned with their business model. I mean I am browsing for products and I get ads for products.

The same isn't true for Facebook. I've stopped using this 7 years ago and I didn't even miss it for one day. One day my wife was scrolling through FB feed and all I can see is ads after ads after promoted pages. She scrolled for like 5 minutes, encountered may be 2 posts from her acquaintance circle and then she closed the app. The boredom while browsing FB feed was visible in her eyes.

FB simply doesn't offer any value these days. Almost everyone I know has gradually stopped using FB. This is an app with very low signal to noise ratio.
Any information (including code) that can be stored by the abstract machine under consideration.
Now that it's inevitable, I would be interested to see how Elon reacts to negative tweets about him and Tesla.
I agree for web stuff, and it took me longer to realize this than it should have. Mained about 8 other languages first. Looking back, I was wasting so much time on pedantic stuff.

Python is the more pseudocode-like language, though. It has a place for scripts, data science / ML, and coding interviews.
While most camera companies have come to focus on full-frame (i.e., 35mm) sensors in the last few years, Fuji has stuck to APS-C (one size down from full frame) and digital medium format (one size up).

Fuji’s medium-format line is called GFX; I don’t know too much about it except that it’s well regarded and inexpensive by medium-format standards. I would look into it if you are interested in landscape photography or high-resolution studio work and you are willing to spend serious money to make that happen.

Fuji’s APS-C line is focused on producing something which is pleasant to physically handle and use. It’s historically been smaller and handier than full-frame competitors and focused on physical controls for a lot of core settings. The different models within the APS-C range are distinguished as much by their form factors and controls as by their technical capabilities. Some of these advantages have been eroded over the years as they have competed with bigger cameras, particularly in video. But they have just released the X-H2 and X-H2S, targeted at action and event photographers, which should free the classic X-T and X-Pro series to return to their roots.

Concrete APS-C models to check out: X-T4 if you want an SLR-style mirrorless with more physical controls; X-Pro3 if you love old rangefinders; X-H2 and X-H2S if you want a PASM dial or heavy video. Fuji is expected to announce the X-T5 on November 2, and the rumors have it looking good, so I’d keep an eye out for reviews.
Separation of Concerns and Architectural Thought
>It's a fakery to make the police feel…

A lot of comments have criticized this take.

It was a bad take, but there is a much more interesting direction in which to take this.

First, in a sense it IS fakery, and it IS making the police feel. Just not quite how the author said.

It's making them feel tantalized, like they have almost what they want, almost the good tech that they are dreaming of, and they are toying with it as they imagine what else they could do here in this UI if only the tech was better. The cameras of a decade from now (a decade in the future), the AI of a decade from now, the software of a decade from now, the networking bandwidth of a decade from now, etc… Hand on the control zooming imagining what else is almost in their grasp, soon, soon.

Anyone who has worked in tech has seen how things go from rough skeletons, to competent prototypes, to smooth products, to wicked assemblages of devastatingly effective tools and capabilities, over time.

We should not dismiss the fuzzy zooming mess as uninteresting or mere self-justifying fantasizing on the part of government employees; it portends much more than we can see right now of what they want from such a system.
Discoverability is important, but imo there should be a dedicated section for it instead of mixing it with the tweets of the people you actually follow. But on the other hand, people might not really be willing to "switch tabs" and so if you move the feature somewhere else then people will never really see it.

It's kind of a trade off. I think what's a bit annoying is that often times these discovery features are used to advertise rather than to provide actual good recommendations.
Some of the larger ones are Armin Ronacher’s own projects…
I had a large NodeJS web backend that my teammate and I switched to TS . It just felt like JS but with extra steps. The type system is rather manual (compared to say Rust), and it didn't catch any mistakes I wouldn't have noticed on my own or caught in integration testing. It also complicated the toolchain all the way through. But we rolled with it.

The next project was forked from the same codebase and had an even more complex feature set. I took everything back to JS and never regretted it.

I've done other backends in Python, Erlang, Java, Golang, and C++. Done mobile apps in ObjC and Swift; not directly comparable, but JS (via React Native) was also nicer like night and day.
These people are not "adults".

They are children throwing temper tantrums.

As are you.
> I know for me I noticed a sharp decline in engagement

I noticed this a little while ago. If I tweet now noone ever replies, unless the tweet is a response to a popular tweet. I have over 3000 'followers' and suddenly noone is interested in what I have to say? Maybe I got dull
VR doesn't need to capture the average facebook user/masses. As long as META can retain devs/early adopters, with great hardware, the ecosystem/community has already been built. High ROI is only inevitable, whales in MMORPG's spend the money because theres a genuine connection with the players/community, that should've become apparent to everyone with NFTs/crypto.

If Zucc's bets on acquiring whatsapp and instagram were plays on time spent/attention, should track that he understands the killer app of VR is going to be time spent/attention. VR isnt just a new medium to tell stories, if it taps into something more primal than anything a screen can convey, then the "next platform" race has already started and META is ahead by leagues
Dock’s contract management integrated dynamics 365 CRM allows sales teams to streamline the process of negotiating contracts. Sales teams can easily access all relevant contract information, including pricing, terms and conditions, signatures, and more. This helps salespeople quickly identify what needs to be done before closing the deal.
I was talking about startup/personal usage from my own experience. Managing a fleet is a totally different usecase.
Data are instructions for the computer interpreted in the context of a program. Or no program in the case of instructions which can be interpreted directly by the computer.

That is, data are programs, programs are data. Just need to establish the environment in which to execute/process them.
It gets worse once we remember that electricity can be transported, but the damage stays mostly in place.
Pumped storage can also be used with existing hydro stations, just have a reservoir at the bottom to save water that can be pumped back up to the top of the dam. See https://www.nwcouncil.org/sites/default/files/MarkJones_1.pd... for the one at grand coulee.
The only hedge against that is the ecosystem for phone & ipad development is still the macbooks

And there are any number of ways around that. "Developer mode" iPads that run Xcode and a Unix shell and that start at $5000, or a web development environment that does builds on Apple's servers, or just release the internal Windows/Linux Xcode versions that they almost certainly have.

Fortunately Macs are currently too profitable for them to kill, but that can change quickly.
What's wrong with him killing Meta? Better to spend human effort on advancing virtual reality than fine tuning social media platforms.
What’s up with all the anti-meta posts/youtube videos/etc. lately? Where were they 3 months ago?