skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't really seem like Broadcom has an overall plan. We used a load balancer, briefly owned by Broadcom, but for some reason they didn't want it and sold it to PulseSecure. Had they kept it they could have build something where they would provide an easy load balancer integration for VMware, but I don't believe that how Broadcom thinks.

Better Broadcom network drivers for VMware?

There's a lot of potential synergies, like tailoring network card to VMware, adapting their APM to enable for VMs easily. Storage solution optimized for VMware. I just don't believe that they think in those lines, or maybe they do when they want to justify their purchases, but then never follow up.

Overall I think it's weird that VMware has such a hard time existing as an independent company. They are pretty dominant in their field which very little competition. Most companies I've dealt with run VMware for at least part of their business. I see this as being just as much a failure of VMware management to run a successful near-monopoly.
While it's hard to disagree, I'd like to remind everyone about that in many cases the alternative is to pay for services. The suckers who don't use AD blockers are effectively paying for our content.
No lens is going to reproduce a perfectly straight line without lens compensation either. Lenses are bending light to distill a moment in space time into a 2D representation which by definition will always be imperfect. What counts as “photography” really?

GP> In the end, this tech just takes control from you.

In the end, any tech is always going to take control away from you one way or another. That’s the whole point of using it, so you can achieve things you wouldn’t otherwise be able to.
Thank you. 4x4 is also a "preference" checkbox on the quote tool, which makes me think it is not standard, and it calls out RWD drive all on the models on the main page (but in a vague way where it's not even clear that 4x4 is available).
tldr, early mammals were eaten frequently -> short life with a violent end -> didn't need the longevity genes
KasmVNC: Web based VNC server/client
This is why blindly turning folks loose with AI is scary. They don't know what they don't know.
Thanks for chiming in! ElectricSQL is great - we see it come up a lot in discussions since on the surface it solves the same problems (syncing between Postgres and SQLite), despite the details being very different. I love seeing all the innovation in the offline-first space!
"people at work focusing on, you know, writing software that provides customers value, while having a policy that ppl at work not be spending their work time on causing distractions with ideological side-quests"

The mission of DEI is exactly the opposite, so it should come as no surprise they hate this stuff.

If they are willing to sacrifice education and research on their altar, you think they would blink an eye on killing off productivity software in their eyes created by blasphemous hereticts?
The examples and tutorials for these libraries were an ideal introduction to me in astronomy, astrodynamics and satellite orbits. As part of my Ph.D., I was able to build a multiple orbit simulation and validation tools for smaller satellite missions thanks to Skyfield.
biz > user

This one sounds like there is only the HN reality of dev : startups, VC, growth hacking, free until is not, client=product, burn every $ to reach monopoly,...

But, there is another one with small businesses, craftsmanship, get what you pay, client=client...
Off topic, but does anyone know why when I click on the above link in Firefox the back history is gone as if it was opened in a fresh tab? IG doing sketchy stuff to discourage navigating back to where I came from? Or perhaps the Firefox Facebook container protecting me?
> the US army sponsored Banderites in Ukraine

Ukraine is a sovereign democratic state. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, and a full scale invasion in 2022.

Is it surprising to you that Ukraine wants closer ties with Western Europe the same way Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, etc has done? All these countries were able to prosper. Russia is a shit non-democratic country that wants to go back to the soviet days where everyone under their rule lived in shit.

How you could say this was a "US army sponsored Banderites" with a straight face is just plain retarded. At least US didn't kill millions of Ukrainians, unlike Russia.
i have never got better battery life on linux with every power savibg tweak under the sun, on system76 laptops. its still awful
When a website is blocked by the firewall, it doesn’t load.

When a website blocks Chinese users, the website loads but you cannot create an account.

Yes, the firewall does not block everything, otherwise it would be the same as turning off the internet! There are websites that work.
For one, the Instagram post says "Full story in my highlights (THE MIRROR)" but I can't figure out how to actually view those highlights. (Without creating an account at least.)
Yeah, during the IoT hype there was a (supposed? I never tried it) solution to this from every cloud provider.

I think Amazon and Google both deprecated it since then, not sure how Azure's is going.
Has Harvard's Avi Loeb found proof of extraterrestrial life?
Bug has been fix (apparently), btw..
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.2.2
On the contrary, the term has been effective in raising awareness of terrible street design, and has exploded in interest (as far as these things go) in recent years.

Trending awareness: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

It has come up in a few places including successful articles in Vox (e.g. https://www.vox.com/23178764/florida-us19-deadliest-pedestri... - I heard about this from a podcast episode completely unrelated to this subject area). It has a Wikipedia page - this concept did not have a Wikipedia page before this concept was coined.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad
Hey, author, if you end up reading this thread: put the conclusion on a sticker. I'll put one on my laptop and give a bunch to friends.

For anyone that didn't make it to the end, the conclusion was:

user > ops > dev
biz > ops > dev
biz ≹ user
The point is that they aren't.
Do you remember that decades long Cold war?

That toe to toe superpower standoff that saw 2,000+ atomic weapons, many that dwarfed the Japanese explosions, detonated in airburst and underground "tests"?

That saw the construction and stockpiling of thousands more nuclear weapons?

During any given year of the Cold War, between 20 percent and 50 percent of the Western world's uranium came from African nations: Congo, Niger, South Africa, Gabon, Madagascar, and Namibia.

Officially, of course, at the time, the USofA wasn't there in Afica, nor was the USSR much. The French and others were about as proxies and there was an awful lot of coups, dictatorships, unstable governments etc that were all being heavily nudged by the Cold War super powers.

So what did America and Russia do in Africa? Pretty much screwed it up for decades to keep the uranium flowly regardless of how many attempts at self determined government they each had to topple, how many warlords they had to fund, etc.

https://theconversation.com/how-a-rich-uranium-mine-thrust-t...

barely scratches the surface, it's an abyss of barely told history that is only recently coming to light.
Naw, astrange is correct. At peak in 2010, 121 standalone cameras were shipped worldwide. By 2021, that number was down to ~8 million. By comparison, 83 million smartphones are shipped each quarter (~1.4 billion for the year). Those kinds of economies of scale means there's more R&D revenue to sustain a larger amount of HW & SW innovation. Even though smartphone shipments should come down over the next few years as they incremental jump each year is minimal & the market is getting saturated, there's always going to be more smartphone shipments.

Individual camera vendors just can't compete as much and I don't think there was possibly anything they could have done to compete because of the ergonomics of a smartphone camera. The poor UX and lack of computational photography techniques doesn't matter as much because the pro market segment is less about the camera itself and more about the lenses / post-processing. Even professional shoots that use smartphones (as Apple likes to do for their advertising) ultimately tend to capture RAW + desktop/laptop post-processing when they can because of the flexibility / ergonomics / feature set of that workflow. The camera vendors do still have the advantage of physical dimensions in that they have a bigger sensor and lenses for DSLR (traditional point & click I think is basically dead now), but I expect smartphones to chip away at that advantage through new ways of constructing lenses / sensors. Those techniques could be applied to DSLRs potentially for even higher quality, but at the end of the day the market segment will just keep shrinking as smartphones absorb more use-cases (interchangeable lenses will be the hardest to overcome).

Honestly, I'm surprised those device manufacturers haven't shifted their DSLR stack to just be a dumb CMOS sensor, lens, a basic processor for I/O, and a thunderbolt controller that you slot the phone into. Probably heat is one factor, the amount of batteries you'd need would go up, the BOM cost for that package could be largely the same, & maybe the external I/O isn't quite yet fast/open enough for something like that.
I would call it stupid, and point out that it's just an entrance fee. Like pointing out this is a special tax for specific companies to prop up news organizations.

But I'm willing to pay an entrance fee. It's like Costco but dumber. I wouldn't change stores over such a small number.
Why we're building an AI without Neural Networks
> Not at all. ChatGPT (I've never used it) seems to me to be about answering questions or generating some text.

You have never used chatGPT but you are convinced it hasn't taken the wind out of Marginalia's sails... I would suggest you try it so you can see their perspective as well? I get that your use case might be different, but I don't think we know if that is the main use case of most users.
I love this. Was happy to see Free Gold Watch in SF, and discovered some new places I’ll check out this weekend!
I am hearing of 5000 job losses or more.
I understand that the desktop products are being hived off to Amazon, since Broadcom wants to focus on enterprise offerings.
to that point, you may enjoy this

https://www.pearlleff.com/the-power-of-free-time
Plant-based menstrual pads could help alleviate period poverty
We get those bike "boxes" - the first spot right next to the lights, that is reserved for cyclists - and they help a lot.
Very interesting.

I want to give it a try, but I see that one of the dependencies is "ollama" which is a Mac App and I don't have a Mac.

I'm running Llama models locally using llama-cpp-python which provides an OpenAI compatibility layer.
This was great, thank you for posting!
> No photographer thinks images the they get on film are perfect reflections of reality. The lens itself introduces flaws/changes as does film and developing.

Don't fall into this trap. A lens and computational photography are not alike. One is a static filter, doing simple(ish) transformation of incoming light. The other is arbitrary computation operating in semantic space, halfway between photography and generative AI. Those are qualitatively different.

Or, put another way: you can undo effects of a lens, or the way photo was developed classically, because each pixel is still correlated with reality, just modulo a simple, reversible transformation. It's something we intuitively understand, which is why we often don't notice. In contrast, computational photography decorrelates pixels from reality. It's not a mathematical transformation you can reverse - it's high-level interpretation, and most of the source data is discarded.

Is this a big deal? I'd say it is. Not just because it rubs some the wrong way (it definitely makes something no longer be a "photo" to me). But consider that all camera manufacturers, phone or otherwise, are jumping on this bandwagon, so in a few years it's going to be hard to find a camera without built-in image-correcting "AI" - and then consider just how much science and computer vision applications are done with COTS parts. A lot of papers will have to be retracted before academia realizes they can no longer trust regular cameras in anything. Someone will get hurt when a robot - or a car - hits them because "it didn't see them standing there", thanks to camera hardware conveniently bullshitting them out of the picture.

(Pro tip for modern conflict: best not use newest iPhones for zeroing in artillery strikes.)

Ultimately you're right, though: this is an issue of control. Computational photography isn't bad per se. It being enabled by default, without an off-switch, and operating destructively by default (instead of storing originals plus composite), is a problem. It wasn't that big of a deal with previous stuff like automatic color corrections, because it was correlated with reality and undoable in a pinch, if needed. Computational photography isn't undoable. If you don't have the inputs, you can't recover them.
1. What does choice of MCU have to do with it?

2. Noise can definitely affect other components. Traces are antennas that both broadcast as well as receive signals.

As technology marches forward, the voltages and tolerances for communication become smaller and tighter. At the same time, you integrate more functionality on the board so maybe your sensitive MCU and flash and ram are all living close by to some radio equipment and PSU and whatever else. Power interruptions to certain components can create momentary flashes of noise that can act as EMP bomb going off. On other occasions a noisy, badly designed high frequency power component can emit noise that is picked up by some random traces due to their geometric configuration and length.

Your comment suggests you never worked on a large project with thousands of components and dozens of major chips?
> I was promoted to tech lead 2 months ago

Did you get a salary increase as well? And if so, would they decrease your salary if you go back to IC? If you keep your salary increase, that's a good deal.
If there was no salary increase -> that wasn't a promotion!
If they decrease your pay -> find another job
New solar installations to hit 413 GW this year
I realised recently that most media recommenders don't work for me because they are based on genre. If you like The Watchmen film, you're sure to like Marvel films because they're also action, and based on comics. We see you listened to Pearl Jam a lot, you're going to get a kick out of Nirvana.

That's just not how I work. I like _good_ stuff, I don't confine myself to genres, I'll go anywhere if it's half decent. I want a service that says hey, you listened to Benny Goodman's Sing Sing Sing, you should check out The Thirteenth Floor Elevators' first album.

The only recommendation that kinda works for me is based on an aggregation of what other people listened a lot to. Sure on small data sets that is probably going to be genre biased, but on large sets it can start working and break out of that.
I think it works: a stroad is not compelling, and the word does elicit a dissonance which matches the physical structure.
Okay but the point is that ChatGPT is blocked by the firewall.

EDIT: I read the comment below about Hong Kong, but I can't reply because I'm typing too fast by HN standards, so I'm writing it here and yolo: "I'm from Italy and I remember when ChatGPT was blocked here after the Garante della Privacy complaint, of course the site wasn't blocked by Italy but OpenAI complies with local obligations, so maybe it could be a reason about the block. API were also not blocked in Italy."

EDIT 2: if the website is not actually blocked (the websites that check if a website is reachable by mainland China lied to me) then I guess they are just complying to local regulations so that the entire website does not get blocked.
Yiooo!
Yeah, that's right. I just feel that latency is sometimes missing from the discussions re. developer efficiency vs paying more for compute.
Stability AI CEO urged to resign
In circumstances where it really matters having a prettied up image might be worse than having no image at all. If you rely on the image being correct to make some consequential decision, you could convict someone of a crime, or if you were trying to diagnose some issue with some machine you might cause damage. While if the camera gave an honest but uninterpretable picture you would be forced to try again.
Also to practice the response, you have people with roles that are extremely hard to practice because they involve mass-coordination that rarely happens in reality but you still want them to have some prior competence at. The goal is often to make their simulated experience ‘realistic’ even if the model is fraying at the edges. All models are wrong but some are useful and all that.
Am I misunderstanding something or does the author seem to be conflating garbage collection with the automatic memory management C++ enables via smart pointers? Those are two entirely different things.
More interested viewers are the ones that might pay money that's actually significant on a per-person basis. I think you have your hierarchy mixed up.

Making them leave and half give up, half come back via a paying search engine or social media site, is not going to be the most effective use of them.
Because the typical Instagram account is only followed by a handful of people. So anything unusual is unlikely to get any traction.
I forgot to mention the best part of it. The fix was a one character code change (to enable a feature that we have disabled before).
This is probably harder for people to believe if they've never seen a progress video of stacking long exposures.

I've seen the kinds of images people get out of stacking images for astrophotography. Individually, the images are mostly noise. Put enough together and you get stuff like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20230512210222/https://imgur.com... (https://old.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/3gx29m/st...)

The phone is operating under way less harsh conditions since there's usually quite a bit of light even in most night scenes.

The iPhone is actually too good at this. You can't do light trails: it over-weights the first image and removes anything too divergent when stacking, so you get a well-lit frozen scene of vehicles on the road. I can get around it shooting in burst mode and stack in something like Affinity Photo, but that's work.
Either I'm reading too much into it, or Anduril might be having troubles making and operating weapons at its own discretion. It might be regulatorily easier to install small explosives on an otherwise inert drone than simply buying and inserting a time fused Hydra rocket onto an Anduril-made tube.
>My manager didn't want to know about this sort of minor stuff, you don't go crying to them with every small thing they just get annoyed

in my eyes, cool. Its their job to be annoyed and solve the people issues. If they don't want to do their job, why should I do it for them? They are probably paid more than me precisely to solve the annoying problems.

That's just my view of things. I've tried to be loyal and put the best intentions of the company first and everytime they lay me off without a second thought. I'm not on nor am interested in management track so I'm not going to "rise up to the occasion" and do more communication and leadership than I'm expected to. I was never rewarded for trying to fix dysfunctional behavior so I don't see the benefit for me.

But hey, if it worked out for you that's good. We all have different experiences. You mentioning London implies you probably have the exact opposite problem with terminating employees than I do (in the US), so I can start to see your POV on the issue.
Agreed. This is a very odd rant against smart pointers that is essentially a rant against the strawman.

The most relevant line is this: "to most other languages you are simply passing the address of a buffer". That's true! And so for the love of all that's holy, don't transfer ownership. Simply pass a (non-owning, defined-lifetime) pointer to your data to the relevant dependency.

Have asynchronous issues? Need to extend lifetime sometimes? Well, yeah, unique_ptr is not going to help you there. It's not magic.
Pedro Pascal is 8 years older
I imagine it might be much the same if those men were mostly underwear models flexing their muscles?

Though of course, that would've mostly been super uncomfortable if the field was also dominated by women.
Afaik there are photo apps on the iphone that let you have all the control you want so you can use those when you want control and use the default when you just want a quick photo knowing the pros/cons.
Is this a Llama 2 fine tune?
> This is trying to solve the wrong problem.

That's kinda what I concluded, these guys seem to have a relatively good point but there's no practical way to action it; in the US about half the country has already been laid down according to this template. Trying to disrupt that is just disrupting the economy and will do an infinite more amount of damage to livelihoods in the short term than good in the long term.

I'm reluctant to characterise anything as a 'wrecker' movement but... I get a bit of that vibe from them. A bit like those environmentalists that use environmentalism to disguise their misanthropic tendencies.

I really don't know why I think that about this movement, though. It's weird. Just rubs me the wrong way.
If concerned about water it might be a good idea to start with meat. A pound of beef needing about 7000 liters.
Think how any number on the z axis of complex plain isn't equal to the a number of same magnitude, on x and y axis.

Now if you really think about, a number of a given magnitude on x axis also isn't exactly "equal" to a name of same magnitude on y axis or vice versa. Other wise, -5 and 5 should be equal, because they're the same magnitude from 0.
In the long run user > biz, otherwise users will be using a product of a different biz via the enshittification cycle.
> *Prices assume IRA Federal Tax Credits up to $7,500 for Rear-Wheel Drive and All-Wheel Drive and est. gas savings of $3,600 over 3 years.See Details

Now, that’s amusing. So they exhibit not the real price of the car? But a hypothetical “price after savings” assuming the tax credits will still exist at the time, and that the buyer is going to stop using their gas car and use the cybertruck the exact same miles?

What have we come to?
Marketing engineering has gone bonkers! Don’t the US have any regulations that state that car price should be well “what it costs any customer to buy in cash at the time of purchase”?
I like that it has the concept of supply lines: a wall works (it can expand) only if supplied by a cross. I attempt to cut the opponent supply lines by looking for and suppressing every cross in contact with its walls but I have to protect my crosses.
Because natural gas plants don't just turn on and off. They're engines that take time to ramp up and down. If you can't ramp up fast enough to meet demand when solar ramps down as the sun sets, you have power outages. Adding more solar makes this problem worse. They call it the duck curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
And it’s literally the same people that left Palantir to form Andruil

It’s wild reading this thread where everyone is literally gung-Ho over Andruil yet the sentiment in any post about Palantir is the exact opposite.

Same folks, everyone. They’re just doing hardware now.
Or just shade it lightly
Would be cool if there ever were a product like a large external sensor and lens hardware dongle for phones (essentially all parts of a system camera without the computer) that would use the phone as a software processing platform. They would “just” ship the raw data over to the phone for post processing.
It was, firstly delivered alongside Turbo Pascal 6.0 for MS-DOS.