skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the iPhone doesn't have the best camera by any means. But having received some RAW photos from one, I feel like they at least don't look super shitty before you push them. Now, they do not compare to RAWs from my actual cameras (whether the R5 or 5Diii). But they at least might be worth looking at.

The iPhone does shoot RAW, by the way: 12-bit DNG, but apparently perhaps only on the Pro models. Also, the 48MP camera of the iPhone 14 Pro (this is the model whose RAWs I viewed, but I don't own one) can produce 48MP DNGs. In good light they can look decent enough for what they are.

The Pixel 6 Pro just takes smeary photos. Their NR and compression makes them look blocky like screencaps from a video.

I also have used the Sony Xperia 1ii (used to own this phone for a while). This was supposedly a phone with a focus on the camera. In my experience, it looked pretty bad.

The fake bokeh will get better, I'm sure, but it can never beat the real deal. Real shallow DOF already exists; sure, faking it will get closer, and that's probably enough for the average Joe, but it's not like we can't just keep using the real thing, which doesn't have the potential flaws.

The thing about larger sensors, of course, is that they require lenses that project a larger image circle — and phone lenses can't really be like ILC lenses because, well, the form factors conflict. You can't stuff a 135/1.8 in your pocket; the laws of optics are what makes those lenses as big as they are.
Empirically, while the ability for LLMs to zero shot learn is impressive, it’s significantly worse than fine tuning. An obvious example is LLaMA itself, from which it’s quite hard to get useful instructional behavior out, and requires a significant amount of prompt engineering, and is still brittle at that.

Fine tuning it in just 52k examples (alpaca) makes a night and day difference in usability for instruction following.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...

Just read the Fed directly. Its not too difficult. The Press Release (started at 2:30pm) will also be relatively straight forward IMO.
If you are in the USA the national weather service is great, its not flashy but good and you can read the text forecast discussion.

Otherwise

Windy.com and Meteoblue are good.
My argument is simple.

Why do we need fancy bikes with AI when we can't even get sustainability right.

It's like we are tying to solve problems we created over and over while ignoring the most obvious problems and their solutions.
The reason is because they want to remove randomness from the game, so player skill is the deciding factor in winning a fight. It's actually the exact opposite design from Morrowind, where it was inspired by the randomness of tabletop RPGs.

So if the shots aren't randomly distributed in a cone, and aren't perfectly accurate, and aren't a fixed spray pattern...what exactly is left?
This commentary is a prime example of the dangers of overgeneralization and a lack of critical thinking. The author argues that spreadsheets are a programming language, but fails to provide a clear definition of what constitutes a programming language. Instead, they rely on vague distinctions between spreadsheets and "traditional programming languages," which they define as having reusable code, a dynamic/automatic structure, and the ability to create sophisticated UI/UX designs.

The author also fails to acknowledge the limitations of spreadsheets as a programming tool. While they briefly mention that spreadsheets are less reusable than traditional code and have limited UI/UX capabilities, they downplay these issues and overemphasize the benefits of using spreadsheets. For example, they argue that spreadsheets are "easier" to use than traditional programming languages, but fail to acknowledge the complexity of learning the unique command line and R1 notation required to use spreadsheets effectively.

Furthermore, the author's argument that spreadsheets should be considered a programming language because they are used by a large number of people is flawed. Just because a tool is widely used does not mean it qualifies as a programming language. By this logic, we could argue that Microsoft Word is a programming language because millions of people use it to write code snippets.

Overall, this commentary lacks critical analysis and relies on unsupported assertions. While spreadsheets may have some programming-like features, they are not a programming language in the traditional sense. The author's argument that spreadsheets should be considered a programming language to increase the number of "programmers" is misguided and ignores the complexity of true programming languages.
> If you don't need GPIO, then you don't need a RPi.

You might not need a Pi. You can by a hundred ESP8266 boards for the price of a modern Pi. ESP8266 and ESP32 are also more forgiving with their GPIOs.
You can give certain subreddits a try, but the quality of discussion can be highly variable.
hmmm, mainly:

* ansible for CM (first 4 points)

btw. i don't do any deploys from source-repos, either build packages and use your favorite distributions package-mgmt or use containers.

* some shell/awk/perl/python-scripts for backups & security-related stuff :)
I think this may be interpreted as welcome by the markets: a significant reduction in the size of the rate increase, signaling the Fed is closer to a "monitoring mode." Between recent reports of (not good but better) price changes and the disruption at the banks, if we can coast down on pricing without raising rates much more, that's probably the kind of landing you want.

Sad to think if only the PS5 had never been launched, none of this would have ever happened.
Majority of displays are 8bit and it will probably stay as standard for while.

Btw, over 10 years old Canon 5DMIII can shoot RAW video with MagicLantern. Manufacturers should open/update code to their old cameras that are capable do this. Its really disappointing when marketing ruin whole product. No wonder that camera market dying.
The press release is pretty telling about how bad it is. From the second paragraph:

> The U.S. banking system is sound and resilient.

That is something like saying "the house is not falling down" - you don't need to say it if the house isn't at risk of falling down. I think the statement is true right now, but they are hoping to stem the bleeding on bank balances.

From later:

> Russia's war against Ukraine is causing tremendous human and economic hardship and is contributing to elevated global uncertainty.

While true, it's hard to think that they aren't planning to set up a scapegoat here.
> it appears to mirror safe haven commodities quite closely

100%. Crypto, broadly, behaved like a safe asset in the last weeks.
I wouldn't expect the current supreme court to rule in any way that doesn't benefit corporate america.
> Not Finance person, but Fed not raising interest rate would evoke suspicion about how bad is it?

OTOH, to the extent the banking turmoil and recession risk is a problem, the hike directly makes it worse. That may not be a better choice than something that merely signals that you think it is worse.
By fine-tuning a leaked model trained with a lot more money than that. If somebody leaks the GPT 3.5 model, can I say that I replicated it for $0?
I still want to know if MS lets, say, Windows or MS Office developers use it. If not, they must consider it too risky from a copyright standpoint, which means so do I.
> [4] Copilot for PRs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/

One minor nit for the Githubbers inevitably lurking in the comments:

The confirmation message for [4] says that they'll contact you at [first email address listed on your account], not [primary email address listed on your account]. I hope that's just a display bug since I don't have access to the email I first created my account with (but want to keep it added for commit attribution). It's not listed as the primary email though, which is where I'd expect this kind of communication to route through!
As the author points out, text like that is inferior to embedding information in the graphic. The reason is that with text, I have to just "hope" that they've handled all the cases that I care about, and at the fidelity that is relevant to me. With a graphic, this information is always available, and combining multiple elements tells me more information than a single text snippet can. For example: "Oh, it's only going to be drizzly for like an hour, I'll be in a meeting around then anyways." That's a decision that 'rainy conditions expected around 3pm' does not help me with.
No, the consistency of the timing is terrible on Linux.

Seriously, stick a scope or logic analyser on e.g. an I2C line and look at the timing consistency. Even on specialised kernels for realtime use, you can have variable timing delays between each transaction on the bus. And this is all in-kernel stuff that's inconsistent--it looks like it's getting pre-empted during a single I2C_RDWR transaction between receipt of one response and sending of the next message. The actual transmission timing under control of the hardware peripheral is really tight, but the inter-transmission delays are all over the place. Compare it with an MCU where the timing is consistent and accurate, and it's night and day.
Ask HN: Why is ChatGPT down/unstable so much?
Genuinely curious, is it a budget thing? Or lack of engineering experience on their team?
It should only cost you a few credits
Starcraft 2 and 1 are very different games not slight variations of the same shooter
This is a really tired trope. Clearly they didn’t need as many people. Clearly they need more than most people think they do.
Thanks for reading it!

"the developer dream to replace standardized markup & data & protocols with big massive impenetrable mountains of running code"

Should be the opposite, right? You can still have markup with this scheme and it'd be easier than now, because you could use whatever markup scheme is most appropriate for the task - Markdown, ReST, TeX, something custom or whatever format that's most appropriate to the task. Today you have to do everything as HTML even if there are big impedance mismatches and the resulting files are unintelligible forests of divs, or generated on the fly from a megabyte of minified JS.

Once you pick a non-HTML markup scheme you have the question of how to render it to pixels, and that's where the design document goes with the composition.

The next step after is to recognize that the input data doesn't have to be textual markup. It can be any data format. Now tools can get the data behind the page in a standardised way without being distracted by the challenges of screen scraping away the navigation chrome and other junk.
In the lead up to all these Fed meetings, I always see plenty of articles talking about why the Fed should hold rates steady (or drop). I still remember reading a weather article that included a random quote from the weather company CEO about interest rates.

I’ve come to associate it with an attempt to will the Fed into doing what they want.

Not that I know anything, but I’m wondering if the Fed is just going to keep doing it until everyone is resigned to continued increases. The Fed won’t stop until rich people stop asking them to stop. (Yes I know I’m probably dead wrong)
Thanks for the help ^_^
Researchers Spot Silicon-Level Hardware Trojans in ICs, Release Their Algorithm
Ask HN: Is it possible to prove anything about consciousness?
Everyone knows raising interest rates deflates the economy by depressing wages via job losses--that's the mechanism. Combine that with record corporate profits, and you've got a classic capital vs labor conflict. Incredible to watch Stewart wade through the swamp of Summers' terrible misdirects and bad arguments to make him admit this simple fact. I can't imagine what it's like to work with Summers, or idk, interact with him even a little.
"How it works:

We collaborated with four opera singers to teach a machine learning model how to sing. Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo‑soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney recorded 16 hours of singing to train an algorithm called a Convolutional Neural Network. In the experiment you don’t hear their voices, but the machine learning model’s understanding of what opera singing sounds like, based on what it learnt from them."
Pi Zero 2 costs $15. Pico series starts from $4. There are plenty of cheap options if you don't need the extra power.
I don't personally feel that way but 100% get where those are coming from that do.
Really it's a style thing. Arena shooters like Unreal have plenty of perfectly accurate weapons, but they have totally different mechanics to support that.

Something like CS where the TTK is basically instant certainly can't have that, but at the same time I don't think it'd be "patterns" if it was done today. Changing something that fundamental at this point though would probably lose you the scene, as it's just "part of the game" at this point, and if you don't like it there's plenty of other options.
After deploying more than ten revisions into Cloud Run, Google has encountered a bug where it stops adjusting the traffic to the latest revision, even though it is healthy. Let's use gcloud and cloud-build to fix it :)
Those things take time. I am convinced that the next big Lisp dialect will be a Kernel.
What is the connection with the PS5?
If you have a gigabit internet connection, then most of the value of 10G comes from data sharing within the intranet, which just never caught on outside of hobbyists. And a 1G switch can still handle a lot of that, You don’t even need 10G for LAN parties, and whether backups can go faster depends on the storage speed and whether you actually care. Background backups hide a lot of sins.

I’m hoping a swing back to on-prem servers will justify higher throughput, but that still may not be the case. You need something big to get people to upgrade aging infrastructure. What would be enough to get people to pay for new cable runs? 20Gb? 40?
> I find it interesting that an asset with such a "bad" reputation in the media is attracting investors during these unstable times.

Are people actually rationally using Bitcoin as a safe-haven, or are the Bitcoin maximalists irrationally fantasizing that this time they'll get some crisis that will fulfill their wildest dreams, so are piling more money into it?
> and 9 years performing tasks doing the same thing over and over.

I mean that's what experience is.

If I want an expert in x, I want someone who has being doing x for ten years. I don't want someone who has dabbled in ten different things in ten years, thus having very superficial exposure to ten things and expertise in nothing.

If I need a heart surgeon, I want the doctor who has been doing only heart surgeries for a couple decades. That's an expert. I certainly don't want some doctor who has been switching from heart surgery to podiatry to dentistry and on and on without specializing in anything.
At one time, people programmed without google or search engines. They literally used thick ass books, and had to read through them and then type out what they saw in the book. Today, that sounds absurd.

Then came stack overflow and google. We search, pray we get a good result or someone else took the time to ask the question, then read (and sometimes copy+paste).

Then AI assistants. I'm not exactly sure what's next, but I do think coding without some type of AI assistant will be extremely antiquated very soon. I already use it all the time. I never want to go back.

The next generation will look at finding answers via SO, google, and random forums just as we look at people use used books -- as an absurdly inefficient way to do a job
S&box is so confusing to me coming from a guy who through early GMod releases released something as soon as possible and released updates frequently.

It's the complete opposite strategy. Do nothing for several years, and then hope people buy it when it comes out.
> Sad to think if only the PS5 had never been launched, none of this would have ever happened.

Could you explain this joke (?) to me ?
Remote pair programming has been possible for a long time now.
Coinbase Argues an Arbitration Case in U.S. Supreme Court
> The only risks AFAIK are from the delivery mechanism and the immune response

Which is a risk. The mRNA vaccines AFAICT are somewhere around a factor 100x safer than covid-19 for the general population. I hope research gets published that get that number more accurate.

Also, it seems risks like myocarditis stem from the lack of common best practices around the delivery mechanism like dosing and hopefully could be reduced.
Historically there was a view that spreadsheets don’t count as programming because they are not Turing-complete (ignoring VBA). With the addition of Excel’s LAMBDA function, this is no longer true.
I'm banking on the middle-ground: commercial real-estate being re-built/re-zoned into medium and high density housing

It would appease pretty much everyone: struggling downtowns with existing infrastructure can start to revitalize, former commercial landlords start seeing revenue again, and NIMBYs dont have to worry about new neighbors
> Governments will have to ponder about what to do with a world of people who became inferior to machines at almost everything. Universal Basic Income?

Why would the machines want to pay us once we can no longer provide them value? Maybe they'll keep a few of us as pets and for sport, but the rest will be sent to the human equivalent of Bovine University.
I unschool my 5 kids. This is how much it costs
Why not put your wife/husband/partner to a full time job? and get stability through them.
My phone connection is screwed up in my 2012 Honda Civic so all the caller hears is a high pitched screeching sound. I have not found a way to turn off calls on the Honda system or on my iPhone and it's so frustrating! Especially when calling out because you can't switch to using the phone's speakers/mic until the call has been answered. This means there is always a 10-20 second bit of time where I have to shout my apologies until I can get it changed. Or I have to turn bluetooth off entirely and it takes a minute to get it connected again after my phone call.
Patterns of repetition in the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5
Wow. It must have taken a very special person to design that mechanism. I was trained as an electrical engineer, so I don't know -- are there straightforward procedures/algorithms for designing such a thing or (as I suspect) does one just need to be a mechanical genius?
I assume OP is looking for smart discussion threads not the original content. I am looking for the same. Cannot find it in Reddit, always looking first in HN.
I live in the UK. In Cornwall. By the sea. So there's nothing whatsoever predictable about the weather round here :-)
I'm more curious about the sentiment of the reactions, as opposed to the Fed's language.
The RPi starts at $35. The prices you’re seeing on Amazon are scalpers takings advantage of the chip shortage. When Adafruit, for example, has them in stock, they’re at MSRP.
> Real wages have been relatively stagnant for 40+ years

This is FUD. The only way to argue that this is the case is to lean heavily on a specious focus on "wages" while excluding other forms of compensation.[0] When looking at the whole picture, it's clear that real median personal income has been rising for past 50 years.[1]

[0]https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-the-pay-productivity-ga...
[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
We will pretty soon get to a point where companies start to volume license Copilot for their entire engineering team, so really the same thing.
Thanks for your response.

I have considered other engineering fields. My school also specialises in engineering, many of my friends are studying it, and many areas of it interest me. Nuclear, electrical, and aerospace all interest me. I'd like to learn more about them, and I'm planning to talk to some of the engineering teachers about it.

This isn't the first comment saying that programming can be useful as part of another field. What would the route be into that kind of work? Would it be a normal engineering route and adding "Proficient at xyz" to your CV?
Detecting and Preventing Breaking Changes in OpenAPI Specifications
Today we released a major enhancement to oasdiff, a new implementation of breaking changes for OpenAPI spec by Anton Tolokan which has many advantages :)
The Developer Program plan is $99/year and enables distribution via the App Store.

The Developer Enterprise Program plan is $299/year and enables corporate/internal distribution to employees.

Most people only need the first, but the second is also an option. And if you need both, it's technically $398/year for the great honor.
They will have to raise again. The slight change in tone "The Committee anticipates that some additional policy firming may be appropriate" was to prevent larger panic. Inflation is not done. This soft landing is really dragging out but they are stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to avoid stagflation or massive recession. You don't unwind a decade of free money in a year without consequences.
And a very natural consequence is lowered living standards over time compared to Americans.
It takes three seconds to cold start Word for me on an old (2015), underpowered (core i5, 8GB RAM, low end SSD) HP laptop.
No one is talking about how they quietly acquired Nuance. If it weren't for Google, Microsoft would have a complete monopoly on AI.
Same conclusion with naval technology.

Analogue controls are easier to understand and interface with under pressure.

A separate question for observation, are we better off with analogue all the way down for life support systems? These too were early cost complications in the F-35/22 program .

Trust physics over digital logic whenever mission critical!
If you cut checks for the bottom x% of wealth, thay bottom percentage is still better off. For example, if everyone in the bottom 25% of wealth got cut a check that doubled their wealth, inflation would not double but those peoples buying power would. The problem with the checks during the pandemic is that so many people qualified that inflation outweighed a significant amount of peoples increased buying power
Route48 is closed – Unfortunately, due to some – we cannot have nice things
> The title talkes about storing contact

Yes. Good that we are on the same page here somewhat.

> while you hint at 15GBs as being too little

I wonder if you checked the image I provided in the link. There you can read that Whatsapp would store all messages and media, with the option to also include videos. Take notice that it is the only option to have a backup provided by Whatsapp. I don't have the direct option, as you previously had mentioned, to create a local backup. The backup that Whatsapp creates can only be used in combination with google drive.

> It would seem that the original title does not match what is being talked about.

You introduced the topic of local backups; that is not possible with Whatsapp.

Storing you chat logs is a completely different discussion altogether.

I don't know how you would do that without 3rd party software for Whatsapp.

> And frankly I do not have a horse in this race, as I trust neither Telegram nor Whatsapp and treat all my chat logs as disposable.

Good for you to have an opinion on a problem that we don't share.

> Contacts however I save via my own infrastructure, as previously mentioned.

I actually also save (very important) contacts somewhere else, but that doesn't mean that Whatsapp inconveniences me A LOT, whilst its competition never causes me similar problems ever.

:::

EDIT: After much thought I guess I understand what is confusing about my message. Let me put it this way:

Whatsapp:

hypothetical option 1) Limitless storage unencrypted or encrypted on whatsapp: I take it

real option 2) Limited storage unencrypted or not on whatsapp: No

real option 3) lose all my candies

Telegram:

real option 1) Limitless storage unencrypted on telegram: I take it