skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My general thought (as a layman) is that there are currently thousands of really smart people looking for that new approach. The researchers in the field is saturated, with many who in other times would have been physicists or chemists or mathematicians now focusing on ML.

As long as there is a will from industry to pay, they will continue looking. And there are so many incredibly valuable low hanging fruit that are more engineering challenges currently, that I don't think overall funding for research in the field will dry up anytime soon.
> A homogeneous blob wouldn’t do anything. You’re discounting complexity because it’s not staring you in the face.

Sorry, my phrasing was poor. As a product line, iPads are homogenous. If we both order one, they will be nearly indistinguishable. Their component materials have been homogenized before manufacturing to remove as much of the character of the original sand or rock as possible.

> Capacitors, batteries, metals, etc each have their own long history of development without which you didn’t get an iPad.

These were not developed with consumer electronics in mind. Electricity itself was only discovered 300 years ago. Electronics absolutely built upon the shoulders of giants, but I don't believe they can claim all human progress as their own. The iPad air doesn't have 5000 years of history because that's when we started refining metals.

> Meanwhile you can’t conceive of everything involved in making just the machines required for a single component.

My work makes optics for the chip industry, so I like to think I have better idea than most, but I haven't been to anywhere like Shenzhen yet, so I may be out of touch...
That “unintended” honesty may be too close to home, and been a catalyst to the outrage.

I mentioned in another thread, if they showed AI “crushing” the artist (ie replacing) that would have been the powder keg.
If the United States were invaded on the east coast, and the invaders were stopped at the Mississippi, and the US then carried on with its capital in Sacramento for the next 1000 years, do you think the executive would no longer be called the President of the United States just because the US lost some of the states? (Credit to Dan Carlin for that little thought experiment.)

The Byzantines called themselves Roman. They thought of themselves as Roman. To them, the constitution of their political order dated to 753 BC with the founding of Rome, even after they lost Rome. It wasn't just a label. For example, Latin remained is use in law in the empire, many hundreds of years after they lost the west. Emperor Heraclius around 610 AD would undertake a project to start translating all the old Latin laws into Greek (even though he may have spoke Latin himself natively). If nothing else, the Roman self-identity is important for understanding how they saw themselves in their own historiography.
> If a musician plucks the iPad violin strings to make an A note, it will sound the same across all iPads, across all artists, every time without fail.

Will it really, though? Touchscreens are pretty high resolution these days in both time and space.

I think this is ultimately a quantitative (and a huge one, at that, don't get me wrong) difference in the ergonomics of input methods, rather than a qualitative difference in "humanness".

Again, don't get me wrong, I am not arguing here that an iPad will produce "better" musical outcomes than an "analog violin", but I'd like to challenge the idea that the analog or digital (or maybe mass-produced vs. artisanally crafted) nature of an inanimate object is what makes or breaks the "human element" of a work of art.

Humans add the human element, by using their tools creatively.
The arcade one particularly distressing given that arcades and their unique arcade hardware are rapidly vanishing across the world without replacement.
Many people before me have already pointed out many of the pain points of this project, but I'd like to ask you a few more things.

I'd like to start by congratulating though, this is no small feat!

As I understand it, this project requires an online connection to a hosted service. Said service is complex/heavy enough that it requires a k8s cluster or similar to run on, with databases, object storage, queues ecc..
Many already pointed out the unnecessary complexity, but the first thing i think of is:
> I'm never going to use this for my projects.

As in: My laptop is full of dozens, maybe hundreds of started/ongoing/stalled/failed/abandoned projects, Only a fraction of those ever leave my machine.

I can start a project with a local git repo as easily as one folder and one command, and have peace of mind knowing that i can still record any change i make and archive the important stuff if it ever takes off.

What about checking out other people's work? To contribute now i either need my own compute, or have access to someone else's compute.

This all screams expensive , and we haven't even mentioned AI.

As a few already said, uploading every keystroke seems madness to me. I may be not as good a developer as others, but I constantly do things that I would not want uploaded anywhere, sometimes use dirty hacks like hardcoding secrets for testing.
Let's not kid ourselves, we've all been in a position where the code was not well structured and we had to put in a magic string to make things work. Now the peace of mind that comes from the `watch` command made you upload everything, and maybe someone else's repo has already been auto-rebased onto it.

I get that you can not use the auto `watch` command, but it seems to me the whole project is centered around it.

Git is portable, I can share a folder/tarball and be done with it, this seems like google docs for coding, could I change provider if I wanted to? Backups now seem a fairly complicated ordeal.

As a side note, I've worked for one large national telco, I couldn't believe the amount of times servers broke or the VPN/Firewall/Wifi/network fairies had a bad day.
Having the entire VCS be online only leaves me with an unshakeable scary feeling.

The only environment in which I see this being a possibly reasonable choice is an enterprise one. Unless someone makes a bet and starts offering a hosted version this looks to me simply not it for one developer, too expensive/complicated for a small group, yet too new for a large organization.
And without the drive that comes from single developers that know how to use and trust it, the adoptions comes down to a bet made by some manager.

If i had to make one question, what is the future that you forsee for Grace? How would you spread its adoption without individual developers using it?
We see the world differently, but I don’t fault your incentives and desired outcome. I see this as an empowerment and agency issue in a suboptimal economic system (working humans hard or to death without a lot of options, depending on jurisdiction, treating humans as a resource to extract from, broadly speaking).

(I am bootstrapping a non profit to buy unwanted fertility, funded through carbon markets; bias disclosed)
So they used a converter with an optical element? Just like the good old SLR-era adapters that let you put Canon lenses on a Nikon body? Or a speed booster adapter for F-mount lenses on an E-mount mirrorless body? That's hardly innovative.
Stories of discrimination would come up quite a bit about my father (black).

One time, he and my mother (white) were apartment hunting and this one landlord was excited to show them, when speaking over the phone. Once they showed up to check it out, that asshole slammed the door in their faces.

Discrimination persists through all aspects of life, employment, housing, etc. It's pathetic, really.
I don't think this is often called "pop-up", mostly I see either popover or tooltip.
Why isn’t the AI suggesting putting into an appropriately named const? Magic numbers are poor practice.
If you had ever put the time and effort (and blood!) into learning how to play the guitar, you too would have a visceral reaction to seeing a guitar getting destroyed for nothing. It's not the objects themselves that are the problem, it is our connection to those objects, and our innate feelings about those objects, that Apple has smashed in that video. That's a marketing 101 mistake and how this ad ever got greenlit is beyond me.
>No one gives a shit how "thin" or "powerful" your gadget is. They care what it means to them and their values. Apple, of all organisations, should be mindful of that.

My identity? Why, I'm an iPhone™ product(RED)© AIDS (or as I've recently taken to calling it, HIV+AIDS) REALief-Responder® and I can assure you Zero (0) of the child laborers have STDs.
Nothing like a commercial that say's we're going to make you a slave to our device and take away every human passion and pursuit of excellence. Brilliant strategy, wait nope... you're not supposed to let them know where the dark patterns lead.
In Portugal there are 2 already, one free and one paid. The free one was implemented almost 20 years ago.

It amazes me that a country like Switzlerland only now implemented such a service, and quite expensive, nonetheless.
Peak pollution (that we're aware of).

Given the modus operandi of "manufacture first, find out about carcinogenic / animal-extinction-properties second", it's almost certainly a given that we've not yet passed peak pollution because we keep creating new forms of pollution that are harder and harder to clean up.
Can you write a single line of dialogue that you think would make the game better?
You tell me. Not in the trillion links of a LLM, that's for sure.
Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Saturday's the Day
> being called evil for using well-established language

That's not what happens most of the time. The term is being criticized, not the person who used the term.

Also just using the term because it's common and actually opposing any fix are to widely different stances.

> far-fetched reason to ban new terms every year

Slavery and gender equality matters are far fetched? Or do you have examples of actually far fetched reasons?

Of course if you are telling people those things are far fetched, not everyone will see you with a good eye.

Nobody is out there trying to censor the language and ban words for not reason / for the lulz.
I quite like these two examples:

1. Pop up menu like those on Windows/Ubuntu : https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/popover-api/nested-popove...

2. Android style toast notifications: https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/popover-api/toast-popover...
This implies that birds don’t get eye cancer even though their lenses are different. I wonder what their protection is
This is really well said.
That's not really toddler proofing, though, is it? You've reset it, but next time the kid gets to the keyboard they can do the same thing. I was expecting to read about a setting to switch systemd-boot to read-only mode or to require a password to do anything except the default boot.
Have you confirmed there are no practical effects in this — definitely it seemed like a lot had to be animated from the timing of events, to cutesy thinks like the smile ball squeeze.

Like if this was hand drawn animation, would anyone care? I think people think real instruments (even ones that were junk, ie old pianos are worthless) were destroyed.
People are obsessing over the lens but really hard part about video production is the workflow. Timecode, track syncing, color grading, AI, storage. Apple is solving it piece by piece I can see iOS based workflow becoming norm in not distant future.
If Spain is a developed country with a median wage around $1600/mo and an HDI of 0.905, then Czechia with a median wage of $1400/mo and an HDI of 0.895 is one.
The situation isn't the same because anyone buying a DSLR with swappable lenses should understand that they're buying the body and not the lenses. It's fair game to use the best possible lens in that situation because then the camera body capabilities are the limiting factor in the test.

When you buy an iPhone for photography and video, you're buying the sensor, lenses, shutter, focusing system, and onboard image processing in a single package. Changing that package by using an aerial image from a different lens is a material change in the system because whole chunks of the iPhone image system are no longer doing the work.
Last year they had 3-6 month delays on passing on booking fees to their partners due to 'technical difficulties'. While big chains were made whole as priority, many smaller operators risked bankruptcy or were put out of business.

As I said I like using them for most of my travel, I just choose to book directly when using a smaller provider vs Hilton etc to lower the small operators overheads, much like I go and pickup my takeaway order to avoid using UberEats.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/nov/10/booking-com-t...
Bun v1.1.8
Actually, yes we do have the right to make fun of people who are acting overly dramatic.

Its ironic, because you too are telling people how to act and feel, by telling them that they can't do that.
But you also grab a lens off your shelf. Do you grab a 0.1$ lens that goes into a cell phone, or do you grab a lens that rivals the cost of the camera body?

I see apple's point being that an iPhone can compete with standalone camera bodies of today if you put a good lens on them. Something that was not true 10 years ago for phones, and only slightly older than that for any camera.
They do crash real cars in movies though. The Wolf of Wall Street saw an actual Lamborghini Countach with a VIN get crashed quite a lot, John Carpenter's Christine went through like twenty Plymouths and The Dukes of Hazzard TV series destroyed hundreds of cars ("an estimated 309 Chargers were used").
Completely agree that wage theft is terrible, and tipping is silly. But it seems hard to deny that people love servants when they love their DoorDash, lawn services, and maids so much.
I wish there were a way to trigger the bug reporter right on their landing page, so I can try it out from a user's point of view.

Edit: never mind - I see this is a browser extension, so kind of a non-starter.
If I shot the event on Panavision lenses with my four-year old Galaxy A30, would the quality match that of the iPhone?

If yes, than you are correct to point out the difference.
If no, than the way it was phrased was not that wrong, after all. Using the iPhone did make a difference.
Note that this natural product

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytisine

works a lot like the prescription medication

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varenicline

but is a lot cheaper.
i think it's lottie - https://lottiefiles.com/
Question for any video professionals out there:

Obviously, Apple dogfooding with their own cameras is good PR, but does anyone else actually shoot like this for professional work? Specifically the combination of extensive professional rigging, lights, lenses etc and iPhones/iPads.

It just seems like once you're at this level, surely there's better digital cameras to use?

But they do seem to put a lot of technical effort into supporting things like ProRes video and high data streaming rates, so I guess someone must be doing it?
Ehhhhhhh. The same thing applies to every camera. You could say “shot on Sony A7iv,” and you’d still need very expensive lenses, lighting, and other gear. Sure, it’s more impressive to say “shot with the kit lens,” but a lot of the point here is that the device’s camera system is fully capable of advanced shoots. That means you can do a lot with it with AND without expensive gear.
Sure, maybe that was the intent. But most of the objects I see in the linked video are cheap and mass-produced (a water bottle, some sticky notes, some plastic toys), which makes it feel totally different
And how random sparse polynomials behave would also be an interesting question!
[I work at Jam] We do have an internal build for Firefox.. it's coming :)
Well... I wish you to have all your sites with these scores:
https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-reactbricks-com...

96 96 100 100 on Mobile
Pretty much, slapping a good lens in front of almost any decentish sensor will make good images
Not true, PDF standard has concept of text flow, that's why when you highlight horizontally from a column all the way to next column then all text in the first column is highlighted.
> put a frikkin massive telescope, or many massive telescopes into orbit

See: Hubble, JWST, and more to come

edit: JWST is in a different point from LEO but still counts
My reading is that the Debian maintainer disables features at compile time that are pretty basic to the Keepass package. And upstream disagrees about the features getting disabled in the Debian package.

"Secure by default" has its merits, but when it means the package cannot be used anymore by a good chunk of users and has to be recompiled, this violates my expectation of getting "mostly vanilla" packages from Debian.

Looks like upstream is considering to just remove the flags so this particular maintainer can't disable them anymore. Weird dynamic.
I could imagine some other ways of making this spot that I think would've changed the mood but still be cute. At a certain level of evil though, you have to poke at yourself.

Imagine some big team of apple engineers running around music halls and art galleries with notepads (or iPads with an apple pencil), taking notes on everything they see.

Cut back to factory, everyone is working on some comically Apple version of an artistic instrument. I'd absolutely get a laugh out of a big metal and glass piano or a solid aluminium canvas. These are obviously... framed as not ideal. Followed up by one of them frustratedly scrolling around on their iPhone in the break room, realizing lots of posts say "made on procreate on my iPad" or "garageband on iPad". Running back to the factory setting, hurriedly throwing everything in the crusher. Smush. New thin iPad.
How many people saw LG UK's ad? Very few Japanese people probably. Social media as it exists today was new. Reporting on social media trends was rare. And artists were not important to LG.

Nintendo's ad was not similar. The animated characters were clearly not real and shown unharmed. The bus was not a creative tool or a symbol. Destruction was implied through editing. The target audience was children.

I know artists. I know their concerns about AI. I think you over estimate how many musicians would have celebrated an advertisement luridly destroying instruments in 2004.
If you're looking to run some numerical experiments with this, there is built-in support in R for this sort of thing:

plot(polyroot(runif(101,-1,1)))

will give you a visualization of the roots of a polynomial of degree 100.
It should have been going into the iPad, and then inside the iPad an expansive wonderland filled with all these great things. Opening, increasing, expanding.

They did the exact opposite lol. They smooshed into a smaller thing; decreasing, narrowing, reducing.

I think that may be their target demographic though. People who love apple want minimal, simple, less. So maybe it was genius after all. And they get free publicity because it’s controversial. Apple buyers will still buy the product. They want smooshed technology, or they’d be on Linux or Winblows.
The ad was strangely on brand for the process-centric parts of Apple that Steve Jobs oft lamented.

If the biggest feature is the form-factor, than your team now has two problems.
Not immediately. We'll see it coming, but quarterly corporate plans and 4-5 year election cycles will mean we won't do anything until it's too late.
I have a lot of Apple products, but my recent work projects on Android have brought me around a bit on the Pixel line; if I had to switch to Pixel I wouldn’t be mad (though I don’t intend on doing that any time soon). With that being said, I don’t know of any Android tablets that match the iPad in terms of quality or performance, and I’ve been watching the market closely for years (I would love a tablet I can do real programming work on). What Android tablet are you looking at?
Indeed. I hate the last row in SUVs for this reason
Love all the terminal tooling that's come out in recent years. I'm this close to chrome and rofi being the only gui I'm using on my work machine. This looks great!
Ask HN: Best way to build an SEO friendly, high content site in 2024?
I have a few upcoming projects that will be fairly content heavy and need good SEO. Most of my experience is in mobile and embedded systems dev, though I've briefly touched Rails and Node.js.

The last site I had, was just an index.html file, some css, and a bit of attached JS. I threw it on a ridiculously expensive webhost (MediaTemple) and that was that.

What's the best and cheapest way to build a fairly content heavy site these days, without as much "magic" as possible? I can write Javascript but I've read previous threads like this and people are often throwing out names like Next.js, React, or whatever the new shiny thing is, and it seems like massive overkill. I generally like to be able to reason about systems I write with not too much "magic" and 102321232 dependencies.

Any suggestions?
The thing I love the most about Sentry/Bugsnag/Honeycomb/etc is that it is essentially automated observability. That is, I don't need to do a huge amount of integration to have, basically, a prioritized list of bugs along with severity and overall application health.

I like the idea of the browser extension being able to offer these kinds of tools where you wouldn't need to install a heavy Javascript snippet -- but I do think that taking the manual steps out of debugging wherever you can is the most efficient. With Bugsnag et al, I don't need to wait for a user to contact me. I shouldn't have to wait for someone to submit a Jam report in order to see how healthy my app is.
Look like this uses linear shaped charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_charge#Linear_shaped_ch...
Notebook Tutorial: Flow Matching for Generative Modeling
Different words have different definitions.

Annoying and burdensome is not the same as fraud.

You can want to be free of both without conflating them.
>The concept of "a random polynomial with real coefficients" is known not to exist;

The concept of "a random polynomial with real coefficients" means what we want it to mean in each particular context; mathematicians don't care too much about semantics, but interesting questions. And this is a very interesting question.
Oh dang, I didn't know plastic keyboards can produce booming, auditorium-filling sound covering a broad spectrum of frequencies, somehow perfectly replicating the audio produced by striking padded hammers against carefully-tuned/tensioned strings, modulated by subtly-actuated dampening or sustaining pedals. Cool! Good to know. Why spend $20k on the real thing when I could just get a $150 keyboard?! No clue why orchestras even bother with all that expensive wood and brass stuff, now that you point out this astonishing fact.
> Apple's valuation is up over 1000% since Tim Cook became CEO

GE's valuation was up ~4500% during Jack Welch's tenure as CEO.
This new presentation style of theirs is so alienating. It's like watching a bunch of AI generated demigods on a holodeck aboard a UFO hovering in earth orbit, gracefully bestowing upon the masses a bounty of new advanced technology to consume. So far gone from the days of a guy just standing on a stage showing off a new product to an enthusiastic crowd of human beings. Not just them but everyone's been doing this since COVID, and it's kind of a perfect illustration of what's happened to us as a society. No audience, no comments. You will take what we give you and that will be that.
Look, your first paragraph was perfectly sensible and, in my view, true. It's one of America's greatest strengths.

Your second paragraph was a car crash of racism denial and you should probably take it back, rather than insisting it's everyone else's fault for reading it wrong

> "You wanna see racism? Go [somewhere else]"