skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's pretty much like every other investor out there that tries to beat the market picking stocks. Spends the entirety of a bull run deluding himself that he knows what he is doing and then totally confused and confounded during a bear market.

In other words, everyone is a professional stock picker in a bull market.
I very much want to be in discussions with people who disagree with me. That said I equally want those discussions to be had in good faith, without lies or conscious distortions. I’d like to be free of bots, or maybe better, to have bots labelled as such. The “marketplace of ideas” requires transparency and “perfect information” at least as much as does the economic marketplace after which it was named. If Tesla were to knowingly post false numbers it would be heavily penalized and eventually forced out of the market. Why should standards be lower in the marketplace of ideas?
Or the same weight of "tin" cans.
I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive. My appeal to transcendent meaning is an attempt to explain why certain people feel compelled to act out their anger in these ways. There are many people who are angry and frustrated about climate change and don’t glue themselves to works of art — I’m one of them!

My sense is that a second component is at play, and that it either adds an impulse to act, or increases frustration to the point of an outburst. It’s interesting to note that the behaviors are (a) highly ritualized and (b) carefully premeditated. They are certainly not consistent with an angry outburst. This is what I am trying to explain. I suspect the same is true of Eric Hoffer.
AppleCare doesn't make it last longer. It's just an expensive insurance policy with often high deductibles. If you manage a fleet of Macs it's much cheaper to just keep extras on-hand since most AppleCare claims require two shipments to get it fixed and you need something to use during that time.
Yes I’ve seen the memes but tons of people take him seriously. I’m sure many of the people who call into his show to ask for advice do. I personally know a handful of people who do as well.
Thanks, Dan. You find some cool stuff.
I was referring to the air unit footage being public by default. Sorry for the confusion.

I applaud your efforts to dig into body cam footage for police accountability. But there is probably selection bias in that you're looking around already noteworthy incidents where there might be suspicious behavior. On the whole a staggeringly massive amount of camera footage is being generated to the point that storage is becoming a budget concern for some departments: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/some-us-police-depar...
But here's the thing- most developers are salaried. I'd love extra work than can be done on my time for a bounty even if it's way lass than my salaried rate. It'd be the perfect way to moonlight.
I wouldn't lump Apple in with Google. In my experience they are extremely direct, and very quick to put a human on the other end of any message. Google, on the other hand, is a black box until the end - if you don't have backchannel contacts or a "friend" at Google, good luck getting any support.
>> He can go around now saying that he forced Elon to buy the company by not backing down

> Are you or anyone impressed by this?

I mean he produced shareholder value by getting the richest man in the world to by the company for a huge premium...

There are certainly plenty of CEOs who have done worse who are having no trouble finding work today.
> What wattage, enough to charge my phone

Maybe or maybe not. There are plenty of really low watt capable USB C cords that come with headphones for instance.

> What speed, don't really care but it's at least the same as Lightning

That’s not true either. There are plenty of “power only” USB C cables.
Same. There is a difference in the photos I take with both but the outcome is clear, I take way more interesting photos with my phone because it is always at hand.
Yeah, it's not for you. Tivimate is for IPTV. If I were just using antenna I'd have no problem using Jellyfin for it since there are not that many channels I would have active anyway, and I live between two major TV markets so I get plenty of OTA.
Yes, here is a lightweight one: https://mdsilo.com/
Thanks, that’s a great idea once we get the on-prem version ready!
> patent troll

Lovely how some can't help but reveal their true nature by diminishing others through insults.

> a provisional patent (very cheap) and take a year actually doing something with it

Provisional patents provide exactly zero protection. They can be useful for establishing a filing date, however, without a real patent, they are not worth a thing. Even worse, the application and filing will be out there for up to an entire year. After that you file for a real patent, which generally takes somewhere between one and three years to obtain. During the application period you have no protection whatsoever.

And so, by starting with a provisional, you might be out there without any protection for two to four years while having a fairly detailed description of your invention in public view. Instead, if you apply for an expedited real patent and can obtain it in a year, you have real protection.

There are technologies that require this kind of protection. When you are going up against billion dollar multinationals with nothing they will steamroll right past you.

> how do you expect to have the resources to (I assume) sue potential infringers?

Once you have a patent, few are going to risk infringement. If they did, a few hundred dollars for an attorney to draft a letter putting them on notice is usually taken very seriously. If someone knowingly infringes a patent they are automatically liable for triple whatever damages might be awarded in court.

Yes, of course, litigation is never cheap. However, the other side has no idea what resources you have access to (Is your sister or father an attorney?). In most cases the patent owner does not need to have millions of dollars to defend a patent.

Oddly enough, that's what patent trolls rely upon. They love patents that allow them to go after a bunch of small to medium businesses who, upon seeking legal advice, are happy to settle for a few thousand dollars. Heck, large businesses will settle or license in order to avoid the liability of informed infringement.

When I used to work for large tech companies the engineers were told not to read patents unless cleared through legal. Informed infringement is very expensive.

>If you don’t even have the financial resources to hire an attorney to draft and file a patent

I have to file several, perhaps as many as a dozen. That would not be a trivial sum if attorneys are involved.

As a self-funded startup I need that money for engineering. I am glad you can be exquisitely judgmental from your current perch. Perhaps you will one day be given the opportunity to to understand by wearing the shoes of someone having to make difficult decisions.

It is also interesting that everyone reaches for "attracting investment" or VC's. As if that's the only possible way to launch a business. No, thanks, I don't need that headache.
Plasma Channel Shows Off a Remarkably Stylish Fusor
A few advantages: silent shooting for events like weddings, smaller and lighter bodies and lenses, new lenses with faster / silent AF, fewer moving parts (less to break and smaller batteries).
It's easier to reach out to one of your VPs and say "hey, I need a few folks"

Whether they come from Tesla or are hired, Musk doesn't care. He just wants some DD
That USPTO link is really good. Lots of resources. I have been so focused on patent searches that I never looked for filing resources. Also, I remember such resources not being available a couple of decades ago. Thanks.
I hire a lot of folks from auto industry. Many of the bigger players do most of their stuff in house. Most of it is... cobbled together quite poorly.
Because they hope to drink the other jug of milk tomorrow, and sometimes it works, sometimes, sometimes some of the milk gets sour.

The problem is that spending an hour to drive to a grocery store and an hour driving back also costs something, in fuel and labor / time, so it totally makes sense to buy milk with some excess just in case more would be needed.

As said upstream, eliminate most zoning restrictions, make living more densely more accessible. (I line in NYC and the fact that I can walk most anywhere I need is great.)
> 30% is steep and feels excessive.

Almost everybody pays 15%, not 30%.

If you make less than a million dollars a year through the App Store, you pay 15%. This covers almost everybody.

If you are earning over a million dollars a year, but you are selling subscriptions, then you pay 15% for all the subscriptions that have been in place for longer than a year.

The only people who are paying 30% are the people making a lot of money through the App Store from something other than long-term subscriptions.
I’d start with offering the ex employee $1000 to resolve the issue before getting a lawyer involved. Not sure what legal standing you’d have.
I'm (somewhat sure) the DSLR allowed for a separate light path to a separate AF sensor, so now it has to be integrated into the same sensor which has some cost in terms of sensor area and resources devoted to AF vs. regular imaging? Not an expert so please someone correct me.
You could have just said artist.
I always found the Android vs Apple thing to be hilarious. You like Apple, cool - go for. I used to use them. Not any more. But that is my choice just as much as yours is.

There are deeper questions of privacy and eco-system lock in on all sides. But to most people is just isn't that big of an issue.

Honestly my big gripe still is - I miss Windows phone!
Luxembourgh has a huge steel industry, relative to the size of its GDP. As I understand, they switched to electric arc furnaces. Yes, it seems possible, but difficult. Also, I don't know if there are limitations on these furnaces. Example: Can you only recycle scrap metal or produce certain types of (lower grade) steel? Unsure.
This page is missing 1 more obvious use-case: no-js loading spinner.
If the last 6-12 months is any indication, lot of the journalists and Musk critics will be banned from the platform too. I am sure he has a list ready.
"HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer" is also available for free. It should be already paid by device manufacturer.
https://archive.ph/076XD
> Especially since nobody seems to have a similar problem when a major media conglomerate changes ownership.

They had a problem when Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post.
Yeah, I mean...
Maybe Spotify is right, but the fact that Daniel Ek puts it like Apple is the big bad company against a small and poor one...
I can't stand the fact that they're playing the victim while they are also being greedy and not sharing enough of the revenues with artists.
Photographer here, shooting film since the 70s. Yes, computational photography has made some great advances. In the 90s, I was of the opinion that digital photography would be limited by technology much longer than it turned out. I estimated the size and complexity of the sensors and the megapixels required to equal a 35mm frame, much less medium format, would be cost-prohibitive for another 20+ years. It turned out that the people who knew how to process pixels had more influence than the hardware makers. It doesn't take 50-60MP, but 12MP will do when computational photography is in play.

But technical perfection is not the only determining factor in great photographs. The computational photography people are essentially the gearheads of years past. Yes, there are places where pin-sharp focus and a near-complete lack of distortion, coma, and chromatic aberrations are necessary. But a tack-sharp photograph that is "correctly" exposed is not automatically a great photograph.

Among the most famous and recognizable photographs in the portfolio of Ansel Adams is "Moonrise Over Hernandez, NM". And yet, the negative is at least a stop underexposed and a bitch to print. At least, so I'm told by an acquaintance who worked as one of his assistants for a while. Adams at one point used a chemical intensifier on the foreground of the negative to up the contrast[1].

> Phones' default behavior should be to capture the photo as true to real life as possible

Unfortunately, there is no process capable of capturing the world the way the eyes see it. In his 1985 paper, "A Whole Technology of Dyeing: A Note on Ideology and the Apparatus of the Chromatic Moving Image"[2] Brian Winston made clear that every photograph is a compromise from "reality", and the nature of those compromises is determined by ideology and culture.

1 http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/grant/ansel-adams-...

2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/20025012
The engineering world has long since moved on from CMU/OSFMK. Rewrite the internals outward using formally-verified, capabilities-secure (seL4 with MAC tagging added) and zero-copy message passing RPC in thread-safe Rust. Take IOKit and make it entirely user-space. And make almost everything run in user-space. The need for worrying about placing and cleaning individual allocations goes by the wayside when there's fewer "cooks" throwing spinning fragile plates around and trusting that their aim is perfect.

Apple could rewrite it with the same syscall ABI but make it immensely more secure, compartmentalized, and efficient. They won't because of the performance pressures and rewards their employees are under. This is how big companies fail repeatedly and are bested by startups.
His initials are still used as the ticker symbol for the company he founded:

https://www.nyse.com/quote/JWN
The word "police" seems to mean something different in America than in many other places, so I'm not surprised at american police abolitionism.

I have lived in places without police, or functionally without police, in the USA and elsewhere, and it seems totally uncorrelated with how safe I felt or, according to statistics, actually was. Far more strongly correlated (one way or the other) was local average material conditions and wealth disparity. Some of the places were quite populous, btw, at least in terms of density. And if we allow that the word "police" means something very different in the USA and other countries, I've lived in cities with populations greater than 2 million without police (the cops in taipei often aren't armed and their most common duty is to take statements in petty personal disputes, and we have some of the lowest crime rates in the world here).

If the USA wants to respond to bad material conditions and high wealth disparity by spending money on cops that from over here seem to do nothing or make things worse (I just saw a video where a cop in the USA arrested an old lady for giving food to people), I guess that's their prerogative, but from where I sit the people saying "why are we spending money on this" make more sense. I guess you believe it will get worse when they aren't there to issue speeding tickets, harass the homeless, and laugh at you when you report a stolen bicycle?
E. O. Wilson proposed that half of the Earth's surface should be designated a human-free natural reserve to preserve biodiversity.

https://www.half-earthproject.org/
Its a meaningless stat in the context of housing that a property can be counted as vacant because the owner needs two weeks to clean it out and update it for a new owner. Why not count a home as vacant when you leave for work? It's technically true in the same way but also has close to zero meaning in terms of housing people.

Preston - who is the one elevating this stat - has blocked a lot of housing in SF over character and other concerns. I don't think its reading too much into it that he pushes this stat so he can continue to block new housing projects while pretending to be progressive

https://nimby.report/preston
you don't need slack for that, any messenger that allows editing messages for at least a day will work.
you can even just use a folder and files for each day if you just need it for yourself.

but i like to pick up on the messenger idea. instead of doing something structured like above i would just keep sending messages to a private group or channel as i go through my day. an instant timestamped log that can be accessed from any platform supported by my chosen messenger.
Industrial-scale electrolysers will soon be well over 90% efficient.
Nope, going to create a twitter account shortly.
HN isn't the place YC people hang out. They have a private network called Bookface that they use instead.
Economics is politics by another means.
Brazil? Australia? Where?
Facebook/Instagram had already stagnated. They had so many users their products were just competing with each other. But investors want growth, so they were doomed already. I think Zuckerburg picked the right time, moving when the company was at peak valuation and pouring capital into R&D. I don't like the new Horizon junk, but I'm not convinced that Meta doesn't have enough cash to distort reality enough to make some kind of VR thing, a "thing". It's a gamble, but it's got better odds than doing nothing and fading away.
Mostly FitXR, which VR shadow boxing set to music (with squats mixed in), but I also play some beatsaber to warmup and cool down. The former is designed for fitness, the latter is more of a game like DDR that can get sweaty. There is supernatural and a couple of others, but I mostly stick with FitXR because I’ve found some music and sets to like over the years.
Yes. Parent is leaning on the conventional wisdom of 10 years ago regarding mirrorless.

The AF on my a7 III is nothing short of miraculous compared to any mirrored camera I've ever used, even in light where I'm shooting at 128k ISO, 1/125, 2.0f. Quick and accurate locks every time.

I shot 1000+ photos over 3 hours at an event last week, and honestly I couldn't even tell you how much battery I used. Because I wasn't paying attention, because it's a non-issue. Even if it was, batteries are cheap, small, and easy to swap.
The face of Windows Phone is leaving Microsoft
Its also that most of the best sites for hydropower have already been heavily developed. Countries like Egypt, Canada, and Norway have massive amounts of hydro because it was obviously a good deal since the late 19th century. In western Canada, there is a big debate about the Site C dam site which is not just destructive but based on unstable rock.
The reasons are pretty clear: 1) Clearly better lenses for the first time in a generation. 2) Smaller, lighter camera's (to go with better and smaller/lighter glass), and 3) Your old glass works with an adapter, and 4) Focus is better than the DSLR World, even looking at a D6 or similar as the baseline.
It entails improving the efficiency of food production.

Switching to LED lighting put more light in my house while lowering electricity consumption. Similarly switching to more efficient daily sources of protein (plants, shrimp, etc) can give more people more food, while yielding some of the land back to wildlife.

To say nothing of inefficiencies due to weird local policies, like growing almonds and alfalfa in arid parts of California, etc.
Dynamic island is Apple's branding of their feature of having a camera cutout and some animations and lights to try to turn it into a UI element. It might uncharitably be called a gimmick. It's on their latest top-end phones.
A theory, or an urban myth? I believe much debunkable by many simpler observations even without tech...
I think this essay includes a specific prediction, that human level ai is far away, that might be disproved this decade. If human level ai is close, focusing on some other kind of ai is more likely to be a waste of time.
Security fears raised about home devices and apps
save yourself a bunch of hassle learning another set of obscure commands and use the iTerm tmux integration. https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html
Relatedly: what might an irrational actor do FOR the cause?
This person gets it. No argument here.
A ship operating at its maximum deadweight won't perform well on a beam reach. Time to lighten the load.
That sums it up. no real learnings.
I've been having the same issue with an app. Random rejections with a single line copy-pasted from the (genuine) feature list in the app description. In this case the lines just start with a regular dash ("-").

This together with the sometimes 10+ day review times makes it impossible to maintain an app on the Play Store now.
Buying competitors when they are eating your lunch hardly requires shrewd strategy. Those were not big brain decisions and not contrarian at all.

As for maintaining control, I would chalk that up more to the fact that for years he had a company growing hand over fist. He didn't really have to give up much or risk much to maintain control, so again, not really a contrarian move.

Where he does seem to differ from many founders is that he appears to not be encumbered by any moral or ethical qualms to speak of. So this robotic ruthlessness has allowed him to wield the power of facebook's data pipeline like a kudgel. Using it to know which competitors to buy or crush and literally selling said data to the highest bidder with very few limits. Be they foreign adversaries to the US or just outright corrupt organizations with malignant intent.
I'm not sure how useful the overlay data is for live analysis but I'm glad it's overlaid on the video as a record of state. For instance the latitude and longitude are of no use to anyone who knows what this is a video of, but it stops video being misrepresented as of another location.

Style wise, I think it might actually be beneficial to emulate sci-fi films to an extent. It depends on the film of course, but the designers of those user interfaces are actual designers with a cohesive idea of what they want to represent. The alternative can often be a programmer who has to conjure the opinions of a committee into a user interface without the input of a design specialist.
Fedora Linux 37 Update
I wouldn't be the target market for this, however more power to them. I understand that to an extent we should never roll our own, so to speak, however, I think that we should not put all of our eggs in one basket. In that regard, I think that once the beginning kinks are ironed out it will be a better thing and we should ultimately embrace these types of endeavors.

Let me say again, though I admire it, I'd never use this. I like to sleep soundly, as irrational as that may be.
I suppose you have to cut costs somewhere....
And feature development has ground to a halt for years now.
That's a good way to lose money in a countersuit. The former employee had no obligation to do anything right now.
obviously someone in the group hates your wife and is reporting all her posts for nudity lmao
Giant, megawatt-scale wave energy generator to be tested in Scotland
This is amazing! It reminds me of exploring with Encarta as a child. Only one minor annoyance is it uses imperial units. Also it would be nice to know the temperature at the subterranean chamber
I feel like I am witnessing some kind of breakdown when I read this.

I will make one single prediction: Buying Twitter won't make him happy.
Beating Super Mario Bros 3 in 19 frames
Different owner, same cage.