skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find practice deceptive as marketting value, but this is interesting read from technical side.

>Feel free to re-read this: What Does and Doesn't Matter about Apple Shooting their October Event on iPhone 15 Pro Max — but in short, the fact that Apple can drop an iPhone into an otherwise-unaltered professional film production and match the look of their previous videos without anyone even noticing is meaningful.

https://prolost.com/blog/scarybts
Smart phones were good until new age social networks, imo. Instagram, Tinder, new Facebook, new Vkontakte, etc. is where it went downhill.
A Sony A7iv has threads for attaching lenses. An iPhone does not.

It's like if I feed you a six-course gourmet meal and tell you "I made it on a camping stove", when in fact the camping stove was just used to keep one of the sauces warm while everything else was made in a professional kitchen. That's what is happening here; there are some shots that the iPhone is physically incapable of making, so they used something that is capable of it and filmed that on the iPhone.

"Shot on iPhone" is implicitly promising that you can make what you're seeing if you have an iPhone. NOT that you could make it if you have an iPhone plus some additional equipment that is capable of making those shots, that nobody would even imagine using. For the most part, none of us even knew such a thing existed, although it's not hard to imagine theoretically.

"Shot on Sony A7iv", on the other hand, is pretty obvious to anyone at all familiar with photography that it is only telling you what camera body was used. In fact, people with any level of familiarity would respond with "ok, what's your point?" because the model of camera body is a relatively small detail if you're trying to describe what you used to make an image. What lens, exposure, postprocessing, etc? It's like admiring someone's work in a gallery and asking "what did you use to make this landscape scene?" and getting back "paint."
IMHO is a downstream maintainer is going to change a package in a way that doesn't have the intent of the upstream project, it should be published under a different name and that maintainer deal with all bug reports caused by their modified version.
Yup, you need to cite every single poster ever.
"Insults are the last refuge of insecure men with crumbling arguments."

By showing your inability to have a civil discussion you've proven you don't have a leg to stand on.
Thanks man! Any tips on how I could improve this?
There's a userspace frequency scaler (https://tildegit.org/solene/obsdfreqd) that increases my battery life to well beyond what I actually need. I easily get 6-8 hours on my Thinkpad X1 Nano (previous generation). This is not even close to the M series Macbook battery lifes, but works well enough for me.

I do not run heavyweight stuff though, but that's with WiFi, cwm/dwm, Emacs, compilers (go, cc) and Chrome. I've had a bit of trouble with Firefox performance, so having to use Chrome has been my biggest hurdle.
I am working on some messy cdk code as I read this and find myself breaking out in cold sweat :-)
Good point. Unfortunately the CA legislature is the entity that passed the income-based utility pricing.
GITS is highly relevant today, but I can understand why the Hollywood remake gutted the original story, because GITS is a highly subversive work that directly attacks the authoritarian state's bureaucratic power structure. It's also the story of the transformation of a loyal servant of one of the state agencies, Major Kusangi, into an independent rogue agent who abandons that power structure in alliance with some form of synthetic intelligence, Project 2501.

What sets it apart from similar rogue spy stories is the heavy emphasis on philosophical concepts - the Ship of Theseus in the context of a cyborg human whose every part has been replaced over time, the nature of self and other in the context of the merger of the Major's identity with that of P2501, the point at which obedience to the authoritarian state is abandoned and the rationale for that choice - all notions that make established power structures uneasy, and which accounts for the atrocious garbled plot line of the Hollywood remake.
“Is there such a thing as Bad Publicity” would make for a good freakanomics podcast episode.

My 2c: when that addage was first coined, public outrage was much harder to mobilize.

Social media and globalization work hand in hand to make it easier for people to have an outsized impact.

Two recent instances I can think of: Budweiser and US campus protests regarding the war in Gaza.
I highly recommend the book "The Man Who Solved the Market" by Gregory Zuckerman which explains how Simons build his infamous company.

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...
It's bordering on misinformation to me, they are spinning something completely benign into something that's supposed to provoke fear. Which is ironic in something apparently about the responsible use of a technology.
> why to use it

Of course. But that's not what he asked.
Your point is valid but if it's a good reason to stick with the ban then maybe we should be employing it to enforce other rules that would have a far greater impact. Not enough people are attentive and thoughtful and yet we allow them to operate massive machines in public spaces which kill tens of thousands per year. I don't think allowing pets on planes and in restaurants could ever have such a magnitude of impact as we have allowed by letting nearly anyone drive a car.
Sadly I've never been able to snag an interview with RenTech (and I've applied like a dozen times), but they're the ones that actually made me start taking finance a lot more seriously. Maybe if I ever finish my PhD they'll hire me.

I had previously thought of HFT and Quant as a bunch of "finance bros", and kind of dismissed it as "not real CS" [1]. Reading about RenTech and Jim Simons made realize that there's actually a lot of really cool and interesting math and CS that goes into this stuff.

Jim Simons being a respected mathematician who just decided to change trajectories has always fascinated me, and it's sad that he's gone.

[1] I don't believe this anymore and I feel dumb for thinking it in the first place.
I have a Subaru Outback and the back up camera is basically useless during the winter. I'll clean it before I leave in the morning and it will be covered in filth the next time I put the car in reverse. Even rain seems to cause it grief. Maybe they've improved the design since 2019 though.

When the backup camera isn't covered in grime it really helps with parking though.
While mister Simons might not be the best example, I sometimes feel that you can easily beat the market if you are well connected and have access to information that can move the markets before anyone else. For example how much know-how do you need to beat the market if you're a US senator? You know before anyone else what's going to happen regarding policy and can plan accordingly.
There were rumours about this even regarding Simons' Medallion fund. About how all the talk about math and algorithms was just a red herring to divert from the fact that it was mostly insider knowledge that did the heavy lifting. Alas these rumours were never confirmed as far as I know.
For folks interested this issue on GitHub seems to have the latest comments.

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725
Different lenses are needed for different jobs. That's why most production shops just rent the lenses they need for the shoot.
> but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took

Ah ah. At one gig we had trained the users to always send a screenshot of the entire screen. People reviewing the tickets would dump them if the screenshot was cropped and the user warned: "No full screenshot, no ticket".

Why? The most important info was the time at which the error happened (which, for users who were on Windows, was in the bottom right of the screen).

With the time we could look in the logs and the error/bug was usually obvious.
This one? https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers/comments/ao25bk/blade_ru...

It was a simple google search away...
Heh, especially for the bigger companies they barely see the person buying the food as the customer, instead it's the investors in the stock as the customer. They've not respected the 'buyer' for a long time, and is one of the reasons why we have customer protection laws on the books.
Please see the guidelines for Show HN comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Also, please see the site guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. They include:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
At least for me, even with adblock turned off it still doesn't appear. Thank you for reposting!
If it is indeed CC-BY-SA then, openAI needs to publish their weights under the same license.
It needs to be noted that these drone videos are highly filtered - they are used as fundraising tools by Ukraine Armed Force units and then what "trends" are the spectacular videos (and often are out of context).

So while you may see videos of drones taking out tanks, they are often tanks that have already been killed and drones come in on an immobile target, etc.

You would also think that Ukraine is using more drones than Russia - based on the videos. But Russian Armed Forces don't need to fundraise for their equipment on Telegram, and what videos of Russian drone attacks that are published don't make it to trending in American social media (because "disinformation").

What's happening on the battlefield and what you see in those drone videos are very different due to selection bias.

Drones have less of a psychological effect than, say, glide bombs or artillery. This is due to the size of the munitions.

The broad thesis that war is driving innovation in drones isn't incorrect. But the supporting material in the article is (I've listed some of them above, and you seem to agree with them, point by point?). The article is overstating the case for drones, even calling them the successors of artillery. That's all my comment is addressing - let's right size and calibrate this: drones are being innovated on, however they are less effective at higher expense than they used to be, they very well may continue to trend in that direction, and they aren't a replacement for conventional weapons.

I guess another way to put it is the title of the article isn't wrong. But if you read the article, the content clearly is.
The land where St.Petersburg is doesn't seem to exist, and the white sea looks like a lake. That's pretty interesting.
Will be interesting to see how this affects math research. He has pumped unthinkable amounts of money into the field. The only first-class flights I've taken in my life were to get to Simons-funded conferences at super fancy hotels. (I found these conferences a bit ridiculous, but the luxury treatment did ensure that they could get together a lot of the biggest names in the field in one place.)

Besides the conferences, there is the SCGP at Stony Brook, the Simons Center in Manhattan, whatever MSRI is called now, AMS-Simons travel grants, tons of money for the arXiv, the Magma license deal... and that's just the stuff that I've benefited from personally. I know there's more, Simons Collaboration grants and probably other things I've never heard of. He was very good to us all.

We've always joked that Phds in geometry-adjacent fields have to have one of the highest average incomes of any degree, probably at least $1 million a year. Simons making $3 billion, the rest of us making 90k apiece.
The original pop-up implementation (which pop-up blockers aim to prevent) breaks the application content/OS boundary, this does not.

You don’t want that boundary to be broken, because that makes for less usable and less safe systems.
You can run X apps in x11trace which translates commands and responses to ASCII. I assume Wireshark also has a parser.
> We use it for our nfs servers. Very secure, but the file cache is still nerfed.

Why not FreeBSD or Linux for that use case? Chances are you'd get better "file cache" (and hence better latency/throughput)
It's no secret that those products are free* with a big asterisk, if you hit some unspecified combination of total bandwidth usage, attracting DDoSes, serving the wrong types of files or moving too much data in regions where bandwidth is expensive then you get an email from sales asking you to pay up or leave. Even if you're on a paid plan, beyond a certain (also unspecified) amount of usage they will ask you to pay more, until you end up on an Enterprise plan where you pay-per-GB just like every other CDN.

They are currently quite generous with how much you can use for free or cheap, but the limits being so vague means they are subject to change without any transparency, potentially pulling the rug on you at any time. That's what I mean by suspiciously cheap.
> What database backend(s) do you use?:

> 1. PostgreSQL

> 2. SQLite

> 3. MySQL

I'm curious whether the database is for production or what you use when starting a new project locally. It would be interesting to know SQLite and MySQL for production use.
They're not reading it wrong, they are packing an agenda into it. People chronically bring up the American south of 60+ years ago as examples of how contemporary full span America is racist. Just look at all the replies.

The outward shameless and crippling racism of 1940's American south is still in full force in many countries, but they never get attention for it because the minorities there are too minority to even show up on the radar.

Japan is probably going to collapse because giving a foreigner a position of power (commercial or government) is basically unthinkable. Meanwhile America "the most racist country on Earth" just had a black president for 8 years and has a congress composed of 25% minorities.
Awesome, I will check back regularly.

This looks like one of those tools that is genuinely really useful. I would love be able to tell my users to just fireup a browser extension and record a bug, rather than having to step them through how to capture all that data manually.

Well Done!

Bookmarking this page for the futuere:
https://jam.dev/docs/downloads-and-browsers/browser-support
> Stack Overflow has been banning users wholesale who have attempted to delete or deface their own posts on the site

Its not just people who are upset getting banned for being upset, its people who are attempting to burn it all down on their way out the door in protest.

I get where the protests are coming from, but the cardinal rule of online communities is "once you post it, its out there". Other people have reacted to it, replied to it, quoted it. You break not just your own content but entire discussions if you mass-delete your contributions. They stopped being exclusively yours to take back once you contributed them to a broader conversation.
Video calls indeed almost always use UDP. TCP retransmission isn't really useful since by the time a retransmitted packet arrives it's too old to display. Worse, a single lost packet will block a TCP stream. Sometimes TCP is the only way to get through a firewall, but the experience is bad if there's any packet loss at all.

VC systems do constantly send back packet loss statistics and adjust the video quality to avoid saturating a link. Any buffering in routers along the way will add delay, so you want to keep the bitrate low enough to keep buffers empty.
Absolutely. I still say the ad was fine and people overreacted. We'll never know, but if this ad had come out when the iPad launched, I suspect the reactions would have been completely different.
No it's not. Not even close.

CGI modeling of a shattering string instrument that looks realistic would be an insane amount of work, and insanely expensive.

This was definitely mostly practical. The squished emoji ball at the end might have been CGI, but not most of this.
Should have reversed the add..
Never say never. Steven Soderbergh shot Unsane with phones and I wouldn't be surprised if other commercial movies have been shot on phones.
Debian maintainer, Julian Klode, has a "pointed" opinion:

> I'm afraid that's not going to happen. It was a mistake to ship with all plugins built by default. This will be painful for a year as users annoyingly do not read the NEWS files they should be reading but there's little that can be done about that.

> It is our responsibility to our users to provide them the most secure option possible as the default. All of these features are superfluous and do not really belong in a local password database manager, these developments are all utterly misguided.

> Users who need this crap can install the crappy version but obviously this increases the risk of drive-by contributor attacks.
A right to one's own expression/speech is a basic human right.
Why does something being an ad prevent it from being art?
Many US states also have their own (free) CORS networks, primarily from transportation departments. NOAA helps keep track of them all. Not many of these are realtime unfortunately.

https://geodesy.noaa.gov/CORS/

US overview:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=19038...
What I don't like about replay.io is that it requires you to use their custom browser.
I had randomly searched for "Periwinkle" because I have one. Didn't find it.
Just a friendly reminder to modern Progressives that (on average) you will not be in the future described by parent because you were tricked into an anti-natalist posture and will fail to reproduce adequately. It's a problem which kills itself in time so long as the problem doesn't ideologically metastasize into competiting populations.
The fact there is a huge backlash on something like this shows how much free time people have
I can understand when you’re ordering in-person and it’s printed clearly on the menu. But I’ve seen it in very small print on a sign near the register, which you can’t read until you’ve waited in line and reached the front of the line. And it’s certainly not OK when you phone in an order based on website pricing. The worst I’ve seen is at a bookstore where there’s no sign — just a line item at the bottom of the receipt.
It's not clear to me what the deal is supposed to be about. Isn't it expected that Stackoverflow questions and answers can be used by anybody including to train models?

If Stackoverflow is trying to make exclusive deals with Openai, that is against the collaborative spirit of the platform, and I will stop contributing. After all, Openai is charging people for service. If Openai are the only ones given access, Stackoverflow becomes a gatekeeper, peddling my contributions. It'll beget a fork.
"There are 3 ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter or cheat" - Margin Call
This person made a lot of money, so it’s easy to say that he’s part of the machine. But, the man had principles. And he stood by them. Grateful for him showing us the way.
Universal A.I. -Marcus Hutter Google DeepMind [video]
And 10 years from now when it fails it will be a $1200 repair.
Yes, there are lots of people who do this. Type A personality from my personal experience lets the tail wag the dog at times and food has a schedule printed on it so it’s just an easy thing to do just follow the directions and schedule and fuck all context.

Life seems easier if you have the ability to put blinders on and never question why?
The funny thing is that reversing the ad doesn't change the fact that all those things were destroyed. If people like the reversed version it means they actually never cared about the destruction in the first place
Ignorance, or just anti-Apple lies? This is pure misinformation and hurts web development.
If that's their point, then they should say that, instead of saying something else. "Shot on an iPhone" is a lie in context.
Mallory-in-the-Middle
Ask HN: Which SaaS is not reactive/offline-first and should be?
Speaking in general, one reason not to use macOS for servers is that the macOS kernel does not provide all of the necessary APIs for containerization.

A container is a combination of a restricted filesystem (e.g. chroot), separate namespaces (e.g. pids, network, ipc), and resource limits (e.g. cgroups for max RAM and CPU usage). It is a big undertaking to modify a kernel to provide these capabilities.

A few operating systems have these APIs (or something similar). The ones that I know about off the top of my head are: Solaris Zones, FreeBSD Jails, Linux containers, and Windows Server containers in Process Isolation mode.

The macOS kernel simply doesn't provide these APIs and I doubt that Apple is really interested in putting in the substantial effort to develop them.
Already here submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043029
cwm is very nice and usable. I used it for a long time before I switched to Mac (for the hardware, not software).
Was the entire ad CGI? I cannot tell anymore. I find it unlikely they built a gigantic hydraulic crusher just for the ad.
$ spf
spf: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by spf)
spf: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by spf)

I'm on Linux Mint 19
nah, it's probably an okay-ish benchmark for humans, but it's just that, a filter to weed out those who can't learn hundreds of pages of legal trivia.

the model is great at this, because the training set is full of this stuff. the questions are static and simple. (the actual text of the questions change, of course, but the format and the answers are from a fixed set. and the LLM doesn't need to generate text basically, just one token. A B C or D ... that said I'm curious how it's administered to the LLMs and how much that influences their performance.)
"basically" is doing only what I suggested: a geometric series.

Here's exactly what work it's doing:

Pretend there's 10s of trillions of planets. That's 10-13 zeros depending on whose estimate you trust most.

1/10 factor cancels one zero.

at most 13 factors accumulated means you have 1 habitable planet out of all those planets.

We have just hypothesized a 1/10 factor in this thread - that leaves 12 more - and I've lised 6 more off the top of my head.

It's just a fermi question - ballpark estimates like that are a way of thinking of the relative scale. A 1/10 chance seems like it leaves a lot of planets left (as you say - 100s of billions), but there are already many 1/10 factors floating around.
Authoritarian states train their citizens from childhood on to believe the pronouncements of their authority figures without question, while enlightened states encourage the development of independent critical thinking skills which aid greatly in the detection of deception - which is of course a skill that propagandists and advertisers don't want to see spreading. Their end goal is a population of easily manipulated infantilized people who will do as they're told.

Now, if you have had any exposure to critical thinking, perhaps in the form of membership in some kind of debate club where you often had to construct logical arguments in favor of positions that you personally disagreed with, you'd be better prepared to construct queries for LLMs. For example, always asking for detailed arguments in favor of and against some strategy - and then looking for things like logical inconsistency in the resulting arguments, etc.
No.

It doesn't "border".

It's firmly located well inside the land of misinformation. Comfortably installed there in a 4 bed/5 bath home in want of a wife to riff on Jane Austen.

With all the legitimate complaints you could make about AI, why make poop up?
Last month an amazing biographical podcast came out describing his personal journey to starting rentech, and the factors that make the business so competitive.

Certainly worth a listen https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/renaissance-technologies