skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greatest crimes? Dumping PFAS and mercury into our ecosystem? Sure. Acid rain? Yeah. Bright cities? I think there's a long list of 'crimes' I'd put before that, and I love the night sky.

Some of these things won't be gone for generations or more, whereas you can turn lights off pretty easily. Ideally we'll swap out the older designs of streetlights and such as better designs become prevalent and there's economic incentives to do so.
> Apple is showing that an iPhone Pro can be used by _professionals_ to replace their existing camera

It still looks strictly worse than an equivalently priced $1000 camera+lens when directed, lit, operated, and edited by professionals.
First, if you remove detail about a person from a CV, that person still has those characteristics.

It's not clear what effect "removing borders from maps" has - if you are suggesting having no borders as in your original comment, or having them, but just removing them from maps.

In the latter case it would be massively inconvenient to not know where borders are, if there are visa issues. Plus, there isn't really an equivalence to "illegally discriminating based on seeing the border". The appearance of a single, otherwise anon individual, versus international agreement on where the borders are seem to be v. different things.

As such, interpreting as the former; "maps are concerned with the concept of an area" - they are as concerned with navigation as anything else, so include roads, and borders plus border stops. "I have not encountered maps that explicitly mention the concept of a citizen" no, but they usually name the country - I mention citizen from the perspective on how it impacts travel; presumably removing borders means there are no territories, and thus no countries; but a country is as much a collection of people (citizens) so both diminish, unless you maintain a territory-less concept of citizenship.

Not clear to me "Nothing of value is lost" - tell me how this would impact, say, Israel? or anywhere bordering Russia. Or are you only taking from the about specific cherry-picked locales?
0m 39sec

This is definitely a nitpick…

Presuming they also shoot this behind the scenes video with an iPhone as well, the video quality is out-of-focus for the individual on the right at 0m39s.

Look how the right side of their face is fuzzy, not well defined.

https://ibb.co/xLKZkQ8

As an aside, I do appreciate Apple bringing Pro-Level functionality to the masses.
Good stuff. A few things you should fix.

Having a Sign In With Google button with nothing else will discourage people from signing up. Most/lay people are wary about sharing Google credentials and thus you need to provide context/value proposition before they do.

Clicking any part of the input (and probably any part of the screen) should focus the input (the part where you write your todo). Currently you need to click on the middle of it for the text should focus.

Pressing enter should add the todo
There's so much here I'll never be able to look at it all.

They are selling props from The Black Hole, Batteries Not Included, Gladiator, too many to mention.

If anyone wants to, um, lend me like $100 million, that'd be great.
Does he also have perfect recollection for the defense’s questions before he gets struck by amnesia?
Another competitor to LORA (and the LORAWAN stack) is NB-IoT - a 4G variant.

They all occupy roughly the same space - high penetration, low bandwidth, low power telemetry for IoT systems.

The differences (from a development or product perspective) are in licenced (NB-IoT) vs unlicenced (LORA) spectrum, and in the infrastructure. With NB-IoT the infrastructure is owned by a telco, and you buy a SIM card. There are LORA operators, but you can also add your own base station if you need to.

If your product is primarily aimed at areas with NB-IoT coverage, it is the easiest way to go. But if you need to deploy IoT in areas without NB-IoT coverage, LORA is preferable (albeit at the cots of potentially having to manage your own base stations).

Sadly, there is no chipset that I am aware of that does both LORA and NB-IoT
Fuss Free French: Learn French in one year without the fluff
This is a fake, or some form of LARP. The photos are trivially easy to determine that they were photoshopped; see https://eldritch.cafe/@hlieberman/111326828661150739 for detailed debunking.
Or safety in general.

I don't want to walk in dark even if there is literally no other person.
Wouldn't this be a bright red flag that is trivial to check for?
(Soderbergh.)
“The production was advised by Apple’s Jon Carr, a Pro Workflow video specialist whose credits include Top Gun: Maverick and Terminator: Dark Fate, and Jeff Wozniak, who has worked on productions including Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Avatar, and Iron Man 2.”

I can’t even imagine how annoying it must be for that guy to be working with Apple on stuff with the last name Wozniak and to have everyone whispering around him “is he related to Steve??”. It’s an uncommon enough name that it’s not an unreasonable supposition.

I bet people are really nice to him just in case!
What would have been a better test of choice would be between Penn and Teller and a science show (I'm not sure what was on TV back then, maybe Carl Sagan and an episode of Cosmos?)
Interesting. It would have been nice if it could be used on "80286 (and newer)" :)
This version had literally everything I need haha, wish it had stayed like this
Expanding slightly on this, the cheapest Red Camera costs $6k (and I think might not include a lens?), so that's a pretty big savings.
New post up on the loose thinking around brain uploading and downloading; this is the first of a two parter.

Part two will explain why there is no tech, and never will be a tech, to merge human brains and AI. The speculation is based on a simple and obvious misconception.

Don’t believe our tech overlords…!

No, Elon, NO! (part one)

brain downloading and brain uploading are never going to happen

#BrainTechnology #AIIntegration #TechMisconceptions #NeuroscienceDebate #BrainMergeDebunked #TechRealityCheck #ElonMuskViews #TechSpeculations #FutureTechLimits #HumanAIIntegration
Interesting. Up until recently I was on a intel Mac and Firefox was always in the list of "Apps Using Significant Energy". I don't know if it coincided with some Firefox improvement, but after switching to an M2 it has never show up since.

Fortunately it never affected any need to switch to another browser since I'm plugged in 95% of the time.
It seems that it tests both free will and sense of humor.
It reads to me like they don't know the specific effects on zinc requirements or deficits for a subject with this variant.

Just vague statements that it "affects zinc transport" and "causes a new zinc balance within the cell".

Maybe this variant increases survival rates with an otherwise zinc deficient diet, by essentially allocating more zinc to basic survival needs and less zinc to fluff like mental wellbeing?
No, buying the software gives me the right to use it. Whatever happens after is meaningless by law.

Even if I have to sign the EULA in the store before purchasing the software, no "surprising" or "unconscionable" parts can take legal effect.
Fate loves irony!
>I don't really get why that offends you.

well probably because I have learned more esoteric knowledge than almost anyone I know despite having come from poorer circumstances than anyone I know, and I learned it while being poor.
No mention of a pandemic? We might not always be as lucky as with Covid-19.
> ex. being able to run math expressions in the address bar

This works here for me just fine, at least for simple ones
Compare how GPT-2, 3, 3.5 and 4 answer the same questions
Essentially what the sibling says. Does your expectation of privacy change when: you're taking the subway? When you're in an empty car? When you're at a concert packed with people? When you're tucked away trying to escape the crowd? When you're in a public restroom? What about if you're walking alone in the middle of the night and no one is around? What about in your house with your blinds open? Or in your front yard? What about in your front yard if you live 5 miles away from your neighbor?

If your expectation of privacy changes in any way with any of these options, then yes, you have an expectation of privacy in public. It is a spectrum, not a binary decision. But if you think it is a binary decision you're welcome to try to record people going to the bathroom in public restrooms and see what happens. I will not be covering your lawyer fees.
So you admit of being a prisoner in an ecosystem built to ruthlessly exploit you...?
> That's just rude and uncalled for

I think you're not the "shaman" he's referring to.

By "big brain type system shaman" I understood someone who doesn't necessarily write code, but instead, e.g. sells courses around the topic, getting people hyped about it, etc.

He uses the word "shaman" previously when talking about Agile, and there are many who fit that picture of working on selling courses, and not on developing software.
Genuine question, since I'm not part of the Apple ecosystem and my smartphones tend to be from the low end of the range.

Even my humble one takes great pictures and video, but the touch-screen UI is really limiting. Whereas professional movie camera work has smooth pan/zoom work that, at least until now, was done with appropriate controls. Do professionals using a slab phone have external pan/tilt/zoom/focus rigs that they can plug in as an accessory, or do they have to do all that via the touchscreen UI?
I think if interpretation and enforcement works the way we hope it will then that becomes a difficult business model.

That is: where you can’t track people without explicit consent, consent is as easy to not give as to give, and you can’t choose not to deliver the service or deliver a worse service to those who do not consent.
I've looked at their hardware. I would've bought if it weren't for the soldered down flash chips. I've seen plenty bad SSDs.
> Behind all the finance sheets and code bases, the fall of FTX was in a way incredibly childish: a nerd posse running away with a bunch of other people’s money in the stupidest and simplest way possible.

And yet our bimodal justice system spends huge amount of resources giving this 31yo fraudster every possible chance to escape the consequences, simply because he is a member of the elite.
A good way to prevent crime is to make it not profitable. Why invest in security when you can just pay the ransom?
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I'm guessing this is largely just an ass-covering strategy to avoid giving the opposing side an upper hand. I

It is, but it looks really, really bad to the jury.

The government needs to convince the jury of a particular version of events, in order to convict you. If you plead the fifth, and just poke holes at that version of events, you might convince the jury that the government failed to meet the standard of conviction.

If you talk and talk, and spin your own version of events (thus giving the prosecution an opportunity to poke holes in it, and show you a liar), but as soon as you're asked about something damaging to you, you clam up, it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of your innocence.

In his case, his guilt is a foregone conclusion, we have him dead to rights. His best bet is just fishing for sympathy to turn a life-time sentence into a 25-year one. His parents' best bet is to have the money that they stole from FTX not get clawed back from them.
Low SBF1-score
Testing hugely via expensive integration tests or E2E is needed no matter which software you have. And you could easily fall into doing that for microservice architectures. However, a common way is rather having contract tests. Google Fowler's article for it
> Pseudonymous user so concerned about privacy that they use the browser with by far the greatest density of exploitable flaws.

"I love Lynx" is different from "I use Lynx for security-sensitive browsing," and "greatest density of publicly documented exploitable flaws" is, even if true (I don't know), not the same as "greatest density of exploitable flaws."
Could just mean that RAID5/6 isn't broken...
The problem with a generic codec DSP is how fast do you make it? Newer codecs often require twice as much computation as older ones, so do you make the DSP twice as fast as you need today and hope that's enough to run future codecs? Meanwhile you're wasting transistors on a DSP that won't be fully used until years later.

To some extent the PS3 did this; the Cell SPEs were fast enough to implement Blu-ray and streaming video playback in software and they made several updates over the life of the PS3.
That Anandtech article was full of caveats about how the benchmarks are not typical and about how comparisons are not easy at this point.

Again, it seems promising, but we’ll find out a lot more once a product is actually released that can be fully benchmarked and reviewed.
Any DRM-free music not from centlalized server.
I've noticed this as well, but didn't want to make any claims either way. But seems this story it the frontpage and disappeared quickly. I'm guessing the comment/votes ratio wasn't good enough, or some people flagged the submission for some reason which makes things disappear from the frontpage quickly.
The cost of the power itself is not the driving cost of electricity, it's the distribution and grid maintenance costs. PG&E can sell power delivered easily and in bulk to Alameda in the heart of the bay area quite cheaply. Delivering the same kWh to all of the smaller communities in the rural north third of the PG&E coverage area is where much of the costs are.
If you outlaw fake whois then only outlaws will fake whois.
As someone in my early twenties, I don’t live with my family and don’t own a house. The assumption made by a lot of work from home proponents is that all workers have a great home office space, which just isn’t the reality. I do have a desk in my bedroom, and I can take my laptop to a library, so I can work remotely. But I when job hunting I definitely prefer companies that have created quality in-office space.

You made a comment elsewhere that working remotely gives you access to a bigger talent pool. While this is a big advantage, people who prefer in-person work do exist.
Blue light gels are cheap, no need for millions of dollars.
It frustrates me to no end that the split form factor has not gotten more poplar. It naturally seems a better fit for the human body. Instead, I am stuck paying a premium to kinesis for their garbage software.
What I'm saying is in an ideal world web content should be able to detect whether some codecs are not hardware-accelerated, and so such workarounds should not be necessary. Of course, lots of naive web content might just check if it's supported and use it anyway... but surely the big sites like YouTube get this right?

Software decode has its uses - if you just want a small GIF-style looping clip, hardware support doesn't matter much, and it's nice to have one codec that can be relied upon to work everywhere.
Does Zephyr support ESP32's? I didn't see it listed on their page. I did see an Arduino variant though.
Probably because he's on trial..
I was thinking about this yesterday and your tip about TSTZRANGE is a good one. My main concern with audit table is that now every write becomes a transaction (if you are concerned with consistency between you master table and your audit table) and you have to decide on what content goes in your master table and what goes in your audit table. When I tried to sketch this out for my use case it turns out to be non-trivial.

I was thinking about this specifically for a jobs table where the jobs go through states (e.g. pending, in-progress, completed, failed). Having an audit of each of those states alongside relevant details might be useful. However, once I start hammering out the details I find myself reaching for pl/pgsql and worrying about putting too much business logic into my db. It starts to feel like I'm building a state machine on top of SQL.

I actually think this dual use-case is something we can really improve upon. In some fever-dream what I think I want is some combination of Kafka (append-only event stream) and Postgres (durable/reliable snapshot of current state).
> I now drive a Bolt EUV with one pedal driving, meaning that if I lift up on the accelerator pedal, it starts regenerative braking.

So it behaves like an ICE cars ? Or am I missing something
SBF seems like the kind of big mouthed overconfidently stupid smart person to walk right into that. He certainly has a lot of content out there on the public record for them to cross check his recollections against!
> Can they instruct the jury in some manner harmful to you as a result of your obvious malign intent? Etc..

The judge doesn't need to do anything, the jury should have no problem putting two and two together on their own.

Someone who makes up an elaborate story, but can't recall any of the details when cross-examined looks guilty as sin.
I do not think "meme" and "professional" go together, probably an age thing

At this point, memes are tiring and boring, it's all just a bunch of rehash now
Nope.
Returned my Subaru after the lease because of that "stepped program": CVT emulated slushbox shifting instead of keeping optimal RPM.
Stupid.

Toyota hybrid works like a proper CVT and is not infuriating.

One-pedal driving EVs make perfect sense too.
When you're a relatively intelligent human that isn't impaired in some way?

lying
> What the previous gent said was he wanted property prices artificially lowered.

They never said that.

> I'm simply saying those who were stuck buying at inflated prices might be opposed to that.

No, you were calling someone "myopic or selfish" because they suggested ways more people might be able to afford housing.

> My home is paid off and I got it for half of it's market value. I have no skin in the game either way as I'd never sell.

You're being myopic or selfish, neither is fair to your neighbors (who can't afford housing due to market dynamics and bad policies).
Oh you are right I definitely over projected here and did not recognize the nuance in your argument. I do find in my experience, that most people do not restrict their definition as much as you have.
I don't agree with this characterization. The GP said "that will work exactly the same way indefinitely." which is correct, but doesn't capture the many subtleties of where and how you need to interact with a 17mm nut or bolt.

The owner of a 17mm combo wrench starts out with what appears to be the perfect tool for the job, but then comes to understand that the scope of interacting with a 17mm nut or bolt is wider than originally understood. They end up with a toolbox that is much more complex when it comes to "interacting with 17mm nuts and bolts" than they originally expected.

And so it goes with software too, not always, but extremely often.
> I feel very disappointed that the laptops lack decent i/o. They spend all this time talking about how advanced the GPU is, but it's a $1,600 laptop that can only power one external display or a 2,000 laptop that can only power two displays?

yep. powering 2+ screens on a mac is not a straightforward process. for the prices Apple is charging on their "pro" machines, it should be simple to plug in 2 or even more screens to get work done.
I'd love to see what they did to work around the framerate issues. iPhones record in variable framerate (they just encode one frame, once that's fully encoded read the next frame and repeat). This leads to fps varying by up to ±10%, which causes a lot of issues with most editing software.
I've long been very curious how one would generate a reasonably good source of randomness in a practical way without using a computer. Perhaps one could think of a song and then try to deduce randomness from the first letter of each word. I haven't found a way yet, any ideas?

I occasionally want to use a reasonably good source of randomness when e.g. picking a board-game player or picking a random item on a menu.
You don’t need consent for that under any data regulation I know of. So long as you don’t keep it any longer than you need to, don’t sell the info or use it to target people with ads etc then you are fine. What you are referring to here isn’t a problem.
It was for quite a while. Then Intel pulled ahead by going out of order and solving many hard engineering challenges that PowerPC processors did not solve as well.
I think that's what arewefastyet is?

https://arewefastyet.com/

Edit- also see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet
Dream Theater announce the return of drummer Mike Portnoy
That's how it usually ends up. I worked at a company where devs had their own private offices, it was heaven. Now I work at home where I have a private office instead of a shared office space with no privacy, loud noises, and and nothing of mine is there because no one owns an office.
Stripping myself of my morals and ethics, sure. Maybe I don’t need to give a shit whether someone else’s kid has any future. I’d rather care.
There's an entire article here on horrific human rights abuses, and internationally recognized crimes against humanity.

But you're going to dwell on whether the first initial island purchase itself was "legal" being a strong claim?

Reevaluate your ethics. It's utterly irrelevant. Slavery was LEGAL.
I'm mostly working on a desktop computer so I don't care that much about energy consumption, however I do notice that a lot of websites have some timer going off at very high frequency, as part of some framework or whatnot.

Personally I don't see why Firefox can't just stop JavaScript execution on tabs that aren't visible after say 5 seconds, unless the user has enabled background execution.
> Falkland Islands entered the chat
Israel Goes Unnamed on China Online Maps
That's not hypothetical at all. You might want to look into issues people have encountered with the apple SSDs and how much swapping is involved on the lower specced units.

Regardless, I choose my non-Apple hardware how you choose your Apple hardware. I buy something which won't have to be upgraded or replaced for a long time.

Being able to repair hardware matters. It's fine if it doesn't matter to you and to others.
I think this needs to be combined with ways to make companies more resistant to ransomware attacks, and more able to restore their computers if an attack does happen.

If companies could get back on line within 24 hours, they wouldn't pay the ransomware.
I'm just happy they are talking about it all! It's good to learn about things outside your main domain, especially with something like world history/geopolitics. Can you give examples of the gibberish? Genuinely fascinated to know what you are referring to.

This kind of stuff in particular can be pretty disheartening to learn about in general, and I find misinformation/pathos around it can often come from resistance to confronting the sadder, more terrible aspects of it. Which is totally understandable honestly! But I haven't heard of "gibberish" before.. you mean like being nonsensical? Like its hard to understand?

Edit: ok all the downvotes makes me think I am missing something here.. Is this kind of thing in the culture war now?? Like British empire history?? I know I'm not the smartest guy (by far), but I can't even guess what, like, the controversy could be here. Truly trying to have the discussion, and I give anyone permission to be mean and tell me how I am being dumb here, I'd just be happy to know precisely how I am being dumb here.
What about C?

In my engineering program everyone started with C and I'm actually glad in retrospect.

Gives you a good understanding of the whole stack.