skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The SW backing it is much more powerful than what you get in standalone cameras

that is very due to camera makers not giving a sh*t though. Maybe now they do, but it's overdue. And I'm not even talking about the phone apps for connection, or image processing, but more on a user interface and usability PoV, and also interesting modes for the user.

Fuji and Ricoh are the only ones that I see are trying to make things easier or more fun or interesting for non-professionals. Fuji has the whole user customization that people use for recipes and film simulation (on top of the film simulations they already have), and Ricoh is the only one (I know of) that has snap focus, distance priority, and custom user modes that are easy to switch to, and to use. But even Fuji and Ricoh could still improve a lot, since there's always a detail or another that I'm like... why did they made it like that? or... why didn't they add this thing?
It is far worse than the trucks. It’s high, and has a negative rake. It’s like they tried to make the least safe shape possible for pedestrians. Guess they could fit a claymore on the front.
Tomatoes were brought from the new world. Quick googling says Strawberries are also from Europe. That would give the Farang prefix.
Advent of Code 2023 has begun
There are way too many "journalists" frothing at the mouth over Elon, because he doesn't fit their ideal of a "billionaire". Their writing displays almost a juvenile bitterness that I remember seeing in a teenagers rage rant. It's kinda sad.
I've been a "Just Work" person for a long time, but over the last couple years I've shifted to DIYing more instead of buying turn-key products. I replaced my off-the-shelf NAS with a custom TrueNAS box, and swapped my router+firewall+switch+WiFi all-in-one with a low-energy device running pfSense and a dedicated WiFi AP.

I have been pleasantly surprised to find that, after the initial research & setup, things still "just work!" In some cases, more reliably (and way more quietly!) than before.
The choice of test images here feels super inappropriate. Surely there's a more diverse and standardized dataset for benchmarking this task than what was chosen here.

I quote similar criticism from Dianne P. O'Leary:

> Suggestive pictures used in lectures on image processing ... convey the message that the lecturer caters to the males only. For example, it is amazing that the "Lena" pin-up image is still used as an example in courses and published as a test image in journals today.
FreeDOS exists.. https://freedos.org/
you can still install any other photo app on your phone and use that instead
> Is there nowhere in society considered sacred enough to not litter it with advertising filth?

Yes, there is still a last bastion of focus, productivity and anti-distraction. It's the terminal, which is why I find myself using TUI apps more and more as time goes on.

There are specifically a few principles we need to preserve to prevent the marketers from ever getting a foothold in the terminal. They are: general computing, text-based UI, and composability.

What that means is we need control over which programs we can run, we need to work with programs that view/input/output primarily text, and with programs that are modular (so that if a marketer injects their filth we can run it through grep and strip the filth out).

In other words, our modern needs are not much different from the old UNIX philosophy.

That is the technical remedy. From a sociocultural standpoint, though, the best way to avoid advertising is simply to be esoteric. Be interested in weird stuff which is too small to attract the interest of marketers and their filth.
True, on the other hand author seems just negative about everything - he expects just single digit satellite launches a year needed, or expects that a permament space station won’t ever happen
U-Matic existed then, as did open-reel videotape (half-inch, if I recall). VHS and Betamax weren't the start of home video.
Israel Knew Hamas's Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago
I would actually argue that "can't be won from the server side" is completely untrue. However ad companies don't trust websites to serve ads and report and so there are obvious to block setups because of that distinction, which is what makes ublock work. If there was trust between ad networks and sites it'd be a lot harder to block. I find it pretty ironic. and I continue to be surprised how completely terrible ad networks are from a tech standpoint. All of this makes sites spam the average user with more and more ads while tech savvy users continue to not see ads. Its fun.
More so when you give them rich stuff to work with.
Very nicely explained, as I kept reading it covered all my experiential "yes, but" thoughts.

I will add that-knowing- all this is helpful, but implementing it when you are early in your career is hard.

For example, it's good that Business is the big priority, but when you gave no experience of what is good, or bad, in business, it can be hard to understand the ramifications of decisions made now.

Equally, business priorities should win, but your goals and the business goals may not be aligned. An individual may need to resume-pad (learn that new framework) while the business may want homogeneity (everything built on one framework.)

Finally, of course, this refers to commercial software. Open Source software is the exact opposite flow, dev > maintainer > user > business. Which ultimately explains why it's so hard to get funding for OSS.
Right on red is also allowed in many metro areas, which is pretty dangerous for pedestrians. I get it for rural roads with no crosswalks or pedestrian traffic...but in cities right on red should be illegal. It actually was illegal until the 70s oil embargo.
> In the end, this tech just takes control from you.

Having control isn't always the best option. While photographers may appreciate having a camera over which they can have a high degree of control, they're not snobs about it. Photographers will tell you that having a handy point and shoot with good automation or correction of some kind is extremely useful when you're out and about and need to take a photo quickly. For everyday photos, it's what you'll want usually. If not, there are plenty of cameras on the market to choose from.
EDIT: okay, I just tried Ideogram. It's not terrible and seems to do an okay job on text generation but I'd still say its a distant second compared to DALL-E 3. However, having the ability to maintain image continuity to make refinements of your initial image based on corrections like: "Make the building larger", or "He should have a more prominent forehead" is a game changer (e.g. InstructPix2Pix) and DALL-E 3's the only one that's got it.

Ideogram comparisons at bottom:

https://imgur.com/a/2GTRjfK
James-Lange Theory
You. I like you. I only have the M1 Air half of that, and I don't think my farm would fit in a trailer, but I appreciate the priorities.
AWS Bedrock, Knowledge Bases and Agents (LLM Platform) [video]
> For decades people have had the ability to get great photos using cell phones

Not in these light conditions. Simple as that. What iPhones are doing nowadays gives you the ability to take some photos you couldn’t have in the past. Try shooting a few photos with an iPhone and the app Halide. It can give you a single RAW of a single exposure. Try it in some mildly inconvenient light conditions, like in a forest. Where any big boy camera wouldn’t bat an eye, what the tiny phone sensor sees is a noisy pixel soup that, if it came from my big boy camera, I’d consider unsalvageable.
Nick Tubis – How to Generate Leads Without Cold Calling [video]
Some are fast.

In a place I used to live there was an very low traffic intersection on a road between my office and my home where the light was misprogrammed or had a bad trigger and would consistently take many minutes before switching to one direction (the direction between my home and office). But hitting the crosswalk to cross the perpendicular road would make it turn green (and the always-green direction red) in seconds. I believe the button instantly set the light to yellow, so the only delay was the yellow time.

So if my partner was with me she'd always hop out and hit the button. :P

Of course, perhaps discouraging that behavior is a reason they aren't usually fast like that. :)
Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone
For people who want some towing, some cargo, and good mileage. I've seen a couple landscapers using them. If you're towing a single mower and some trimmers/blowers, it's a good deal, and you can still take it into town and not look like an idiot.
EU Capability Development Priorities [pdf]
"State-of-the art cyber defence technology will be crucial for reducing risks within capability-driven research through prototyping or experimentation. These capabilities will enable Information warfare and Multi-Domain operations, allowing cognitive superiority supported by different AI algorithms."

To put the jargon aside (the report is full of it), I hope they do realize the risks involved in engaging in the so-called information warfare and attempting to reach "cognitive superiority" (whatever that is).
Tiger Global's Biggest Venture Fund Has 18% Loss After Markdowns
From my read of "Theory of Harmony" and "Structural Functions of Harmony", it seems to me Schoenberg definitely wasn't aiming to be a great innovator, he was desperate to be part of the great tradition and saw serialism as an inevitable consequence of the way in which tonality was being stretched further and further in particular by Wagner and Schoenberg's great hero, Mahler. Schoenberg came up with the idea of serialism because he felt there needed to be some sort of formal constraint to give structure to the music in the absence of harmony because he felt the sense of a tonic was being stretched to breaking point anyway and would inevitably fail. People came up with other ways to provide this structure once the whole serialist -> integral serialist process had worked its way through.

Saying there's nothing you can't do in serialism you can't do in free atonality seems unfair. Firstly free atonality came about after integral serialism. Secondly, there's nothing you can do in any type of musical composition that you can't do in free atonality, so you may as well say all the things you can do with functional harmony are a worthless constraint.

As for popularity - I personally don't think that's an important characteristic at all, but if you do, there are lots of serialist works that are very popular (eg Wozzeck[1]).

[1] And I deliberately chose that one rather than say Berg's violin concerto which is also very popular because that's one of the ones that you're accusing of mining serialism for tonal elements
IIRC isnt this about warehouse workers?
It's probably worth noting why cars are finally scrapped. It's usually not because of problems with the engine, but other issues that EVs also have. Rust (in Northern Europe this is a big thing), crash damage, generate state of disrepair. Of course EVs will remove some issues meaning the lifetime of cars may extend a little, but it's not going to increase it significantly.
I’m sure you don’t see it often but I see “speed up to pass pedestrian” at least weekly where I live. And I am angry at the fact that pedestrian deaths were up 77% from 2020 to 2021 - a year in which 7000+ drivers unintentionally smashed their cars into people walking and ended their lives. I think there’s room for negativity on this point.

(That said, I’m certainly not angry at you…just the system.)

But I don’t want to waste all of societies time waiting at pointless walk stoppages…that would be absurd and it wasn’t my point.

I believe that walk buttons are a symptom of a problem - specifically that there are lots of places which try to mix pedestrians and cars and end up being worse for both.

In my mind, we need more roads specifically dedicated to _only_ cars which offer no possibility of encountering a pedestrian at all. Interstates have no crossing buttons.

And at the same time, we need more spaces which are designed to let cars pass slowly through them, where people tend to walk, bike, scooter, and crawl. These spaces need no crossing buttons either.

We can do so much better as a culture.
Makes sense for the big buttons, but some of them have tiny ones with a little rain hat, inexplicably. Why don't they all have big buttons, which are much easier to push?
They have the right idea with the theory, but there's some nuance in proper execution. If I learned anything from photography, it's that the best adjustments are barely on the edge of perception.

If you averaged the before and after examples (allowing that the "average" of colours is a complicated subject in itself), they would probably be pretty good.
Some buttons have a little LED in the middle, which is lit after it's been pressed. That way you know if you need to press it or not.
Yes. There were a few days where they were using odd hueristics that managed to detect uBlock, but after following instructions to clear my cache and update my lists, I re-enabled other lists one-by-one, realizing I needed fewer than I had to begin with, and Youtube's worked ad-free since.

Some people are coming up with one-liner Javascript functions to fool scripts on the page as well, but I have to question the durability of that approach. It should work until their JS code changes, in theory.
> When Columbia's tiles started popping off in a stiff breeze, it occurred to engineers that ice chunks from the tank would crash into the tiles during the sonic chaos of launch: Goodbye, Columbia. So insulation was added to the tank.

I didn't realize this was the reason for the thermal insulation. It's ironic how in the end the insulation popped off and crashed into the tiles during launch, causing the very disaster it was intended to prevent.
If by 'maintain its own property' you mean exclude all others from living there by holding a stranglehold on construction, then yes, I believe zoning should be the power of the state, full stop.
Well, its 2.1 instead of 1.5, but:

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sd-turbo

I assume that this was ready for release because Stable Video Diffusion (which is also an SD2.1-based model) is essentially this plus a motion model.)

I wouldn't be surprised if their hosted-only SD1.6 beta is, or has, a turbo version, and if that gets released publicly, that's where we'll see an SD1.x turbo.
Gaza’s population is very young, so these numbers reflect the demographics. If anything, it shows that Israel is indiscriminate in its killing in Gaza. Bombs tend to be that way.

But of course, we don’t know what and who to trust. Maybe we should ask why Israel is suppressing any reporting from the strip if they are interested in that the world gets to know the truth about what is happening there.
Actually, MotorTrends pulled this exact stunt (Tesla pulling fast car vs fast car) all the way back in 2016 with the Model X vs Alfa Romeo 4C.

Original full video seems to have been deleted but here's a Vimeo re-upload: https://vimeo.com/253258542
MotorTrend's Instragram promoting a short clip of it: https://www.instagram.com/p/BDHcw67Ixw1/
Bill Ackman, an investor in the X acquisition, is pleased with Elon’s interview and wrote a lengthy explanation.

https://x.com/billackman/status/1730442461644730553
I’m not sure what system you are in, but in the US and Aus people pay tax on very low incomes. Look up the tax free threshold in Australia, it’s almost impossible to live on that income.

If you can’t afford the LVT, you can either rent the land or sell the land. Both are better for the economy than people sitting on idle land doing nothing of value. In this case I would focus on those barely making it who have no property, and whos taxes effectively make landholder’s assets more valuable through gov infrastructure spending.

Tariffs and luxury taxes have the same problems: they distort markets and in the case of tariffs, make goods more expensive which makes life harder for poorer people. Luxury taxes aren’t significant enough to be very useful, but could be useful in addition to LVT.
Silver Lake was also partner of Michael Dell in taking Dell Computer Corp private (while keeping VMware public) and they did all sort of financial machinations to screw VMWare shareholders
I don't think it's only that. The processing in a phone is expensive. If you'd build a high end camera with a Snapdragon 8 gen 3 it would raise the price a lot. In a phone that's not an issue because you need the chip there anyway for other tasks. So there's just much more compute power available, not to mention a connection to the cloud with even more potential compute.
> I have no objection with what we have today either but it does feel slippery slope-y, especially in the AI era. Before we know it our cameras won’t just be picking the best frame for each person, it’ll be picking the best eye, tweaking their symmetry, making the skin tone as aesthetically pleasing as possible, etc etc etc.

What we have today already includes phone cameras that will add teeth to the image of your smiling newborn, or replace your image of what looks like the moon with stock photography of the moon.

> I’m reminded of that scene in WALL-E where it shows the captain portraits as people get fatter and fatter. It’s clearly inaccurate: over time the photos should show ever more attractive, chiseled captains.

Interestingly, the opposite thing happened with official depictions of Roman emperors.
Ask HN: Is Nextdns Abandonware?
I've been raving about nextdns here on HN for a few years now and have always loved the concept ...

But now, I finally have my first support issue and there is nowhere to go. I've upgraded to "business" pricing and pay monthly, etc., but there is not even a support email address.

Folks on reddit are pessimistic about getting any human support and hint at the entire business being on autopilot.

Does anyone have any insight here ?

Not only would I like to stop pointing folks to this service if, indeed, it is impossible to receive support but I would also like to hear if there are equivalent services out there I should consider ...
I swear I thought I read "Pedro Pascal Turns 40" and thought why would anyone here care about that lol
These are rolling out in the US.
nah, it's the economy. You're not going to want to take risks starting up stuff and you'll get more frustrated job seekers (like me) when money is looking tight.

Hard to tell if the bubble has bursted right now, gotta wait until the economy recovers. But something tells me the FAANG companies aren't gonna go bust all of a sudden over this.
This is my understanding as well. These days we default to zstd, though.
8k is very little if you want to add almost any additional data in context, or have a more complicated prompt.

Otherwise your knowledge retrieval needs to be almost spot on for llm to provide a proper reply.

Ditto with any multi shot prompts.
Only took a couple paragraphs in to make me realize this is one of the dumbest posts I've read on HN all year. At least I enjoyed reading people vent about the dismal state of pedestrian rights in the comments!
And even that had problems: https://www.radioflyer.com/cyberquad-recall-faq
Are you talking about claude or Gpt4 as well? Anybspecific examples where ChatGPT4 fails for long contexts?
> he's reacting a lot like the rest of us

Narcissistic injury looks like normal emotional hurt because it is, but it comes from a very different place.
I am always amazed how people even catch (come across) issues like this...the chances are 1 in a million?
This, this was a trip. Denouncing histrionic culture before launching into paragraphs about "crazy women" via lolcow.farm. I think this is the first time I've got "lol that's enough of this site for today" on HN.
Purchasing assets under the expectation that values will increase _is_ speculation. The solution in LVT is staring you in the face, I don’t understand why you reflexively ignore it and reach for worse policies.

Read “Progress and Poverty.” It explains in detail why the cycles you describe would be dampened by a LVT.
Laid off twice in 12 months. I hate life.

That said, My domain (games) does do leetcode style BS but fortunately haven't had to come across system design questions. Think that veers too far from games architecture to really matter unless you're looking for a backend role.
Happy SysAdmin Day from DigitalOcean
To understand Media's hate of Elon uou first need to understand their love of Twitter.

Twitter has always been loved, and promoted (tweet us @) by media because its both an excellent source of news, allows easy engagement with news, and allows news to spread.

Twitter is quite literally the saviour of media, providing a crucial link between print and digital eras.

Now Elon is killing Twitter. Hell hath no fury like that of a journalist scorned.

As users stop using Twitter (perhaps even stop using X), where does it leave those to whom X is the literal source of their own value chain?

Like a jilted lover, Elon is the (really easy) scapegoat. (Who seems intent on driving them away...)
I think more importantly is that you can add more battery capacity, making EVs much more competitive with gas vehicles.
Ninite.com lists the following Java installs:

64-bit Java Runtime (JRE) 8u392-b08
32-bit Java Runtime (JRE) 8u392-b08
64-bit Java Runtime (JRE) 11.0.21
64-bit Java Runtime (JRE) 17.0.9
64-bit Java Runtime (JRE) 21.0.1

How is the average person to know which one is best for them and why?
Throughout all these years, I got convinced that human recommendations (those from a close circle of friends I trust) are the best source of music discovery.

[Shameless plug] That's why I created https://digs.fm, which is kinda like Goodreads but for music.

Original Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551862
I have serious medical problems, as does everyone in my family. (I've assembled a synthetic family of people with similar medical issues.)

We do not want government-subsidized health insurance. We want the ability to buy our medical care in the free market.

We want one law: If anything is available from any of the top 20 medical companies on this planet, then everyone has the right to import, purchase, own, possess, use, and redistribute it.

Let us purchase Novopen 6 insulin pens, which are common in Europe, but are not sold in the USA. They report insulin dosages to a phone using Bluetooth. My wife has aphasia and physical disabilities after strokes. She can not write down when she takes her insulin, or how much she takes. If her phone could record that, it would be a huge help, but the US drug cops stop us from getting these devices. We can spend $200 on a Novopen Echo, but that does not report to her phone; it only records the last dose of up to 30 units of insulin. It does not tell us if she took 30, 60, 90, 120, or more units of insulin. (She commonly takes 120 units with a meal.)
$4.66 for a gallon of gas but it's up to $0.50/kWh peak rate in San Francisco.
uBlock Origin is a terrible name, specially when you consider that there is a different extension simply called "uBlock", that at this point has little to do with uBO.
Are pickup trucks common in Europe?