skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be interested to know that Unreal Engine’s Nanite technology uses (mostly) software rasterisation.
I guess this will only lengthen as we go forward, as the initial jumps between successive phones were large, and they are much more incremental nowadays. An iphone XS is good for 5 more years easily.
3D photo/video features did come to the pro phones
flower/bird/food/tree/everything ID is in the new OS, it identified a plant genus in one of my photos yesterday. Pretty cool!
https://cei.org/opeds_articles/greatest-hits-of-the-science-...
The memes will be great on how apple's designers opened last year's CAD files, changed the radius of the corners and called it a day, and can kick back till next year while being paid boatloads.
a 360 camera , or at least the ability to take 360 photos easily would make a bigger difference
Unity Introduces Runtime Fee
Are you suggesting we all upgrade at the same time? I like the yearly tick, and my upgrade year is probably out of sync with yours.
what models would you use for translation? I am working on a language learning tutor (trytutor.app, very early) and GPT-3.5 turbo has been working fine, for the most part.

For foreign language corrections ("correct this German sentence and give a reason for the correction"), GPT-3.5 doesn't quite have the horsepower so I use GPT-4
The article is pointing out that heat pumps today can still be more efficient down to -20 C (-4F).
Also Django and Rails are annoying as hell to deploy compared to just uploading a zip of your static site to a static site host.
> removal of the headphone jack was incredibly disappointing and frustrating for MANY consumers

So was removing the CD drive. Or shunning Java on the original iPhone.
I don't think this is true these days and especially not true of this phone release.

IIRC, Apple will have made somewhere close to 20k phones before getting anywhere close to mass production and as the ID didn't change that much, the risk is pretty low on there being a long term material issue.

If the ID changes next year (just going off manufacturing rumors), I might wait a little, but this year seems like no risk.
Weird, I don’t know anyone that keeps their phone for less than five years.
If you live anywhere near an Apple Store, there's not a great incentive to wait. Everyone seems to have their pet story of that one time Apple didn't replace a thing they thought should be replaced, but generally the in-store employees will swap out a defective device without hassle.
Yay, I can throw away all my headphones again.
As others noted, it does happen and is called a human challenge trial. In fact, here's one for malaria that's currently accepting signups.

https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/CVD/trials/MAM01/
The batteries are replaceable. If you are talking about having a second battery that you can lug around for when you need it, there are battery cases for this.
They have a dongle that is pretty nice. But why would I want to run my really nice headphones with iPhone as the source?
I am not primarily a game developer. But I wanted to see how some of it works.

The engine that has been instrumental to it is DragonRuby Game Toolkit [0]. It was easy to set up and use. And I developed a simple game [1] following a really accessible book [2].

It uses Ruby which is an easy language to pick up- especially as someone who is experienced in Python.

I really loved the experience and talked with the author to turn the book into a livecoding tutorial series.

[0]: https://dragonruby.org/toolkit/game

[1]: https://github.com/ritog/dragon-game

[1a]: https://ritog.itch.io/silly-dragon-target-game

[2]: https://dragonridersunite.itch.io/dragonruby-book
I find Obsidian to not really provide a usable experience. Adding images and having them often change while either mousing over them or inadvertently clicking can switch them to binary looking objects.

I find using Apple notes for personal use and confluence at work to be faster.

I don’t think in markup and have tools like this get in my way rather than being quick to capture images & thoughts unobtrusively.
I've been in finance too long, my first thought was this is about margin calls on short positions.
Because it is so hard to charge them like every 5 days or more at home where you have a litany of cables laying around..
But it’s at least easier to get a new email address or have several (or an infinite number of them) compared to having accounts tied to a phone number. I’d actually prefer a system that uses email addresses as opposed to phone numbers.
Really interesting post, I've been thinking a lot about similar uses LLMs to create immersive learning experiences.

I had some initial successes getting ChatGPT (3.5 and then 4) to roleplay interesting and dynamic characters. Within the first few months of release results degraded significantly - characters avoid confrontation, apologize at the drop of a hat, and are averse to any action or statement that doesn't 'help' the user. Makes it difficult to, say, have a passionate argument with Napoleon which pits his youthful revolutionary ideals against his rise to absolute power, when the 'great man' folds the moment he doesn't receive positive feedback.

I'm very interested in seeing these experiments in unrestricted models of similar power, when they become available.
There are already many hundreds of finetunes on huggingface, and many excellent UIs to run them in, like KoboldCPP and Text-gen-ui: https://huggingface.co/models?sort=modified&search=13B

There is even a crowdsourced version of the UI like artbot: https://lite.koboldai.net/#

And there are some excellent extant finetuning frameworks, like Aoxotol, that run on consumer GPUs: https://github.com/OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl

IIRC Text-gen-ui had a QLORA finetuning UI too.

What I am saying is that its already like Stable Diffusion, but the community is just somewhat under the radar, and finetuning will never be quite as turnkey as dreambooth/sd 1.5 LORA due to the nature of the training data.
> Heat pumps aren't that powerful.

What's the limiting parameter here? Obviously heat pumps can be scaled up to arbitrary sizes - I've used unimaginably large ones in the chemical industry. Do you mean power vs cost compared to other options? Power vs volume? Power vs. weight?

Stockholm has a couple 40 megawatt heat pumps as part of a set of just seven heat pumps which provide building heat to an entire district of the city, pumping heat through 3000 kilometers of pipes.

The only limiting factor I'm aware of for most commercially-available home heat pumps is that they tend not to work well below a certain temperature. This minimum temperature can be lowered by increasing the size of the outdoor radiator and adjusting the pump and coolant pressures to match.
I do not follow your reasoning. There are extremely small C chargers and if the replacement is gradual, you could also just carry C male-micro USB male cable(s) and micro USB female to C male adapters. Such adapters adhere to the specification, it's C female to legacy USB which is not.
"Virtually all that we know today, however, would remain untouched and when I say I am glad that I live in a century when the Universe is essentially understood, I think I am justified."

I think most people at most times would have agreed with that.

But the difference would be in the meaning of "the Universe"; the "basic rules of gravity" would hardly be the important part to most peoples at most times.

Oh, and...

"I received a letter from a reader the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read....however low on the social scale..."

Nice.

"*I received a letter from a reader the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read.
> It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also.

This is why USB-C is a user-hostile spec.
Just bought a Moto g42 for ~113€. Gonna buy another one as a spare since one of my hobbies is destroying mobile phones. My favourite phone so far. OLED display, Headphone jack, 5000mA battery, LineageOS support (Android 13, Motorola still on 12), totally worth it IMHO.
Heavy metals have a bad reputation but they can also help cure cancer
Steam is 20 Years Old
If I was sick, or if there was a meaningful sickness in the air, I would wear a mask.

But I wouldn't say there is zero downside to wearing a mask, atleast the way 98% of people wore one during covid. (The same one all day, if not a week, touching it, putting it in pockets, around your neck, on your greasy forehead, so on).

I used to wear a mask because allergies when I mowed the lawn or even dirtbiking during certain seasons. It absolutely reduces your ability to take it oxygen easily. I get winded a lot easier wearing a mask. Is that meaningless to children wearing them all day at school? Idk.
But again, the risk stats and perspectives and acceptance may differ. You may need to work on yourself to develop empathy for your and his personal choices and stop thinking of him as "sad", more than work on him and try to "help" him :-). The word "paranoid" seems out of place as well - the risk is actual and demonstrable.

For example, skiing is fun. Flying airplanes is fun. And general aviation is quite safe for those who take it seriously. So while there's risk, there's also a reward. And that risk / reward ratio may be what they choose to personally accept.

There's no reward for getting covid! There's no fun in it! And many people either don't want to get it at all (given the risk of either bad immediate symptoms or long term impact), or had bad experience and don't want to recur, or don't want to contribute to chain and infect others yet.

Heck... I'm persuading myself to start wearing mask again (the only reason I stopped is that I work from home, but have a 2yo in daycare and 4yo in kindergarten which massively outweighs any risk I bring into house).

(I do want to ask though - are they wearing like n95 or surgical mask... Or as you mentioned in original post a full painting-sryle respirator with two big round filters etc? That, I'll agree, is a significant comittment if they don't have significant personal risk factors)
You come with self-awareness built in. Costs nothing
Just installed 15.7.9 on the original iPhone SE (2016). Came out yesterday?
On the contrary, I vastly prefer the 6/SE/13/14 design, as it doesn't rotate along the long axis as easily in my hand.

I was very happy when they abandoned the 10/11 design with the rounded edges.

I have very soft hands, and "cut into your fingers" seems pretty hyperbolic. The current 14 Pro edge design (typing this on one) seems perfectly adequate to me.

(The sharp points at the edges of the finger slot in the middle of the MBPs always surprised me with their pointyness, however. The last Intel MBP was particularly sharp, however the points have been softened a lot in M1/M2 land.)
They didn't force apple to replace lighting to USB-C everywhere. Just Europe. If Apple decided to replace it everywhere is because it's obviously superior.
The number will be higher if you consider wired CarPlay
Yeah we would see these in Texas during snow storms. That blue green flash is typical for transformers. I took a video many years ago (with a consumer grade camera, which were terrible back then, especially in low light), you can see the flash just after the 1:50 mark

https://youtu.be/UXf2N1iQ0Wc?si=d6QwBqqY9j1xl_7R&t=109
They are listening to their sales numbers and the numbers say that customers are, in fact, not interested in Mini.
Use AssistiveTouch on Your Apple Watch
I try to use mine for 5 years each, I jumped from the 8 to the 14 earlier this year
Great approach. User agent default style sheets are the worst, especially since they are all different.

But, instead of handing the user a empty slate with nothing, it should contain a note saying “look, these are the recommended options”. If the initial config is interactive, it could even prompt to activate them: “want to use compression?” - “yes”, etc.
One of those things I've just been subconsciously dealing with for years without ever deciding to actually learn the rules.

"Damn it collapsed. Okay padding then"
I will say the 15 Pro is a little smaller than the 14 Pro, and while it isn't a small phone per se, it's a lot smaller than most Android flagships. That's something at least.
‘Cryptoqueen’ Sidekick Gets 20 Years for $4B Ponzi
They do make combo charge & listen adapters. I've got one from Anker, works fine.
NIST has been wrong previously.
It's not automated, but I'm able to make surprisingly progress while not knowing much about godot.

You'll need to do some prompt engineering and must have chatgpt4 to get good results.
i used this calculator[1]. Looks like 3.5 .
Just for fun...
Now, if we use the forces that air pilots can sustain for 2 seconds we're looking at about 0.35 seconds is around the limit. and 0.3 seconds would create about 11Gs enough to kill you (all according to quick googles of numbers.

If they can get a car to do 9Gs for 2 seconds we're looking at about 635Km/hr !!
Sticking the 23-year-old USB 2.0 port on a device that is made in 2023 and costs $1k is inexcusable. [non-pro]

There is absolutely no excuse when we're talking about a device at this price point and this age.

It doesn't matter that it wouldn't be fully exercised by most users. These are premium products at a premium price point. It's insulting that they would cheap out like that.
You cannot deny the press hype that is created by this event.

It's like coke: "Why advertise Coke? Everyone drinks it."
...and it's current spiritual successors The McLaren F1 and now the GMA T.50
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Murray_Automotive_T.50
https://archive.ph/Qxbqn

https://web.archive.org/web/20230912191949/https://www.justi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin
The single clock owner doesn't have to be especially lucky. Imagine if they had a clock that was two minutes fast and the dual clock owner had one that was merely a minute fast and the other was ten minutes slow. The average would be less accurate, despite owning the most accurate clock. Two clocks just don't work for statistical analysis (three clocks are unlikely to help either).

Also, the single clock owner is justified in believing that they have the correct time as there's nothing to suggest that they could be wrong. Two clocks introduces doubt where there was none before.

Rather than using "justified" true belief, humans tend to go for the easier option and would be more likely to go to the person with just one clock, until they find someone with enough clocks and clout to point out the likely correct time.
The linked website looks like something from a company that knows they don't even have to try at all and they're guaranteed to sell more phones than any other company in the world, and it shows.

And, yet, ~20% of the population will see this news release, and talk about how clean the lines are, and how perfectly worded every sentence is, as if it was handed to us from God himself on stone tablets.

Cultism is a very interesting thing.
I'm not speaking as an authortiative individual here, but likely it's defined probabilistically in that 50% of people given a dosage show signs of infection later. See more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_infective_dose
There are a bunch of these next-gen CI / container building systems. They all pretty much build on BuildKit like Docker, but unlock way more of the potential, namely DAG layers (think multi-stage docker on steroids), and better / more granular caching. These next-gen CI tools are fighting to be the UX on top of BuildKit.

Dagger is where it is at, and it's built by the creators of Docker, based on their lessons learned. If you're looking to try something out, try Dagger. You write in the same languages you do every day, no need for some weird syntax like Earthly or the flatness of a Dockerfile. Their CLI/TUI is pretty sweet too, but you don't even need it.
It seems you are assuming that flipping houses is somehow super easy and therefore seemingly high returns and possibly preferential tax treatment are morally objectionable. Moral questions are very person and I won’t speculate on that. However, flipping is far from easy on a consistent basis - it requires: a lot of capital (that one has presumably earned), sourcing deals, managing transactions, carrying market risk while capital is not liquid, project management (at minimum, but I’m sure there are folks who actually do the repairs/renovations themselves), marketing/selling the property for profit. During all this time our hypothetical house flipper is not getting paid, they have to wait for this once every two years payout. That’s not how businesses run, so this tax treatment doesn’t really encourage house flipping. This tax treatment does help people that have to move for job or other reasons, which I’d say is a good thing.
The Death of Unity
I recommend reading glasses, they reduce the eyestrain from using up close devices.
They also blow a lot of that power out of the exhaust pipe. I bet in terms of efficiency per km/h/s the electic go-kart wins.
> I'm old enough to remember that Apple presentations, while being clearly marketing exercises, used to be a lot more organic and flowing.

Remember Jobs ordering 4000 Latte to-go from Starbucks?
Yeah, it feels like it's perfect as a phone. I absolutely love it. I'm actually quite surprised that they take what I think as a perfect product and still add stuff to it. Very impressed by Apple in every way. Great product. Great engineering.

Somehow they always dodge the reverse Osborne effect, haha!
I don’t know if this is still the case, but for a long time, your game would get rejected from the App Store if it required an external controller to play. And yet being able to design games around that baseline is critical for triple-A.

I’m super curious to see what they’ve done with this current–gen, mainline Assassin‘s Creed game coming to iPhone: there is no way the core gameplay of that franchise could translate to touch controls, so either Apple dropped the requirement, some poor team had the doomed project of building an abysmal fallback touch control scheme, or they implemented some kind of semi-automated scheme for touch that makes traversal and combat less interactive.
> He likes to ski and is a general aviation pilot; these aren't low risk activities.

So… spending micromorts on worthwhile activities, rather than on queueing at the supermarket? Sounds pretty consistent to me.
That’s because too many hedge funds and other speculators have been borrowing on margin, and that leads to collapse. Regardless of what rules are set up to regulate this, rampant speculation and bubbles can always destabilize a market and lead to collapse!

You see, what happens is that capitalism rewards the greater risktakers and when the success stories have survivor bias you end up with — oh we’re talking about CSS? Sorry, nevermind.
Well - they could just tan the leather the old fashioned way and use the cow brains.

https://www.leather-dictionary.com/index.php/Brain_tanning
Yeah, the psychotic robo zombies controlling the corp takes its toll. Jobs also had this cult like woooism aura, but these "people"... are straight from They Live :DD.
Cost isn't the only incentive not to use an LLM service that resides in a foreign country. Around here, there are industries for which it's pretty much a no-brainer to avoid anything that sends data across the atlantic.
Well, that’s what you do with rhetorical questions.
I’m interested to see what depth of field can be replicated with lenses so close together. 3d (spatial) videos is the one feature I would have bought a new phone for, but given it is not available day one I’m a bit skeptical that an unproven lense set up will replicate well to an unproven vr set up.
Camera upgrade is only for the Pro Max. Looks like the 15 Pro has the same camera system as the 14 Pro
That's actually the CEO's catchphrase on earnings calls, so.
> which of the 10 versions of USB-C are being implemented

The only charging differences between cables are raising the current limit above the default 3 amps (which is only relevant at 60+ watts). Those differences won't confuse any devices.
Apple’s new “FineWoven” products seem to be fabric-like.
Ask HN: Who needs vendors, and vendors, who needs customers?
An experiment kind of like who is hiring, but for vendors (agencies, software, etc).

People who need vendors can indicate what they're looking for, and people who are vendors can indicate what they offer.

It'll probably be pretty centric to startup-oriented vendors, but it doesn't have to be.
This satellite thing... carriers around the world gonna love it when Apple decides its time to leave them out from the equation and will use Musk's satellites.
Apple adds USB 3 speeds to iPhone 15 Pro but you won’t get those out of the box
France Orders Apple iPhone 12 Sales Halted over Radiation
For what it's worth, I've been crawling Daft (Ireland's main rental and buying site) for several years. If you click on a property you'll see nearby listing history for both rentals and purchases, including asking rents.

https://gaffologist.com/
Who cares? Everyone has been vaccinated at this point unless you're so deluded from reality you missed the vaccination campaigns in every country on Earth.
So it would be a problem if someone had a 7 character password? Of varying entropy or only digits?
It was unearned, but the 30-pin's ecosystem of accessories was so huge it was a pain in the ass to switch away from it, even tough it also was very long in the tooth by then.

It's a lot less of an issue now a lot of stuff is wireless (even against one's desire), and USB-C's been there for a decade and has had time for accessories to surface with Android being mostly on there, even if the PC side remains mostly dreary.

Plus since Apple has been slowly switching ipads over for a few years now I'd assume even in their galaxy there's a bunch of type C accessories available.
In programming terms they're variables you add to the top of a note. Or if you ever used a static site generator, they're the same as YAML metadata. In fact, they are YAML metadata with a prettier interface.

You can't really do anything useful with them within Obsidian without some plugins (like Dataview) just yet, but dynamic databases are on the roadmap. So, eventually you'll be able to query, filter, sort notes without a third-party plugin, get the results as a table, and insert that table into some of your notes.

Think "every book note whose author = John Doe, sorted by release date", "every note that contains #tag1 and #tag2, but not #tag3", things like that. And the result will be auto-updated whenever you change some metadata.
This is like Spatial Audio. So many things have been built and rolled out in support of Vision Pro. Obviously it'll be the A17 there too.
Those recommendations are in the documentation.

Interactive configuration is easier said than done. We don't realistically have the time to build and maintain that on top of the core program and config. We're already stretched pretty thin.
They have too many choices already. Even if they do add an encoder at a later iteration, it will likely only be for video conferencing. Too small to care about really, given that those transistors can used for something else.
Right, this measure is more for consumers and does not take into account generation or delivery. It is especially useful when comparing heat pumps to electric resistance heat, which is often the backup heat source. If the COP falls below one, you switch to resistance heat. But this article is saying heat pumps built today can operate well over 1 at very low temps.
Google doesn't index anchors (the parts after #) so the comparison is between https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html and https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_endswith.asp. The former page has a lot of content unrelated to "endswith" and thus is ranked lower. I also think that the "content farms" pages are useful because they offer up lots of examples which the official docs don't.
Sure, you gonna use glasses for a phone.