skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lossy vs lossless distinction loses its meaning in the absence of provenance. You can compress a bitmap into a .jpg q=1, and then save it as a .png. The .png is technically lossless, but that clearly doesn't tell much about the image quality. Conversely, many cameras shoot JPEG as the source format. The .jpg is, in effect, the master copy from which the loss is measured (obviously there are losses from the sensor data, but still).
whisper.cpp also has args for this
In the spirit of doing this all on an iPhone. Here is an iOS shortcut that is a workaround for the group text problem.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/49fb6b48ba104885a846ea4f6f2...
Thanks. I did not know dbx was deprecated and replaced.

Wouldn't targeting smaller teams lead to a lot of pricing pressure? Or do you think there's enough volume to justify that?
There’s no ambiguity here. You own the 20 lb tanks. Now, after they expire most propane companies won’t refill them, but otherwise it’s yours to keep. You could argue that this isn’t actually “owning” it, but for all intents and purposes it is. You’re responsible for making sure it’s not expired when using it, although the companies that do all the exchanges are responsible for making sure tanks they sell are not expired.
Hollow Domination these days. A parasite eating the host.

A large chunk of the profits from American Corporate Wonderland are not due to their offerings on Security, Quality, Service or Product, but through playing market capture/cross border financial engineering games.

Learning takes time.

And most people take time learning how to build things they need themselves. After which they realize they don't need to pay Microsoft rent. This is what any half decent hacker learns with time too. And now we see it happening in China, India etc.

As we see them getting less dependent and offering the same services back to the West at much cheaper prices, what happens at Microsoft is obvious, because this story has played out many times in American Corporate Wonderland -

https://www.geekwire.com/2024/microsoft-lays-off-employees-i...

> Last year, companies laid off more than 260,000 employees
Keyboard? That old timey thing our grandpa used to poke?
What technology does Airpods & AirTags use to allow them to be located when lost?

They have no cellular reception hardware. How to they transmit their location to Apple?
I came looking for this and should add that his broken piano concert is the number one global best selling piano album.

How a total disaster became the world’s best-selling piano album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIXMkZAcgRo
Exactly, I think I could have stated it better. Using k8s is strictly more complex from the perspective of the operator, and the mountain I'm referring to isn't actually from k8s itself but from all the 3rd party stuff you have to layer on to actually make it useful-- things like cluster-autoscaler, vpa, kube-prometheus, aws-load-balancer-controller, misc. operators, that fall on my side of the wall when it comes to fixing it when it's broken.

I can understand that it doesn't come off that way but I actually like k8s and the surrounding ecosystem. But deploying k8s makes your infrastructure as complicated as k8s itself, which can be a massive win because it works in both directions.
RAW is the correct format for uncompressed images, and you can shoot RAW on iphone:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/119916

> I feel like PNG was a really bad format back when hard drives were 100GB

You talk about "hard drive" space even though phones don't have hard drives (more to the point, even if you transfer photos to your desktop they will start on your phone and take up space). The iPhone 15 base model comes with 128GB storage.
Uncompressed images take up huge amounts of space and that still affects network transfer times, phone storage, cloud storage, etc.

Anyway you can shoot RAW on your phone right now, which is what you are looking for. Still, it is a niche application because of the storage required.
This article came along just as I'm finally digging into *Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt." This article reminded me of more than one passage from Dunn ... I'll quote a couple here.

[Dunn 'quoting' a sculpture:]"Don't just gape in awe and wonder, shake your head, and walk away. Bring me back to life! Know me -- who I was and what I was. The only way to do this is to understand what I am and build another! Why am I smiling? Don't think for a minute that I am content sitting here on my pedastal, misunderstood by the droves that have passed by for centuries. There is more here than meets the eye."

Dunn now: "Words cannot describe my feelings of wonder and awe as I absorbed from the temples not only a philosophical and spiritual aspect but also with my engineer's brain. These temples impressed upon me indelibly that they were incredibly important from an engineering and scientific perspective. "

It seems to me that nearly all of us are forced to walk through most of life in this way ... not because we're deliberatly ignorant ... because we can only truly see, and resonate with, that which is within the scope of our varied expertises (be they one or five). To all else we must remain largely blind, part of the misunderstanding droves ... unless someone with regard for the nuances comes along to let us inside long enough to catch -that glimpse-.
You're right and I think it would make sense to have a feature that allows you to do a 3d recording.

If I could watch my daughter's first step in full 3d, I would be happy to pay the $3k and more.

I know you can do it right now with insta360 or whatever but I think there is a bit of a learning curve and it just isn't it that seamless.

Being able to record directly from the headset and play it back exactly how you saw it would make things much simpler and WYSIWYG and may be the reason for mass adoption
Actually, it’s not true engineering unless it’s applied to the problem of siege warfare.
I guess broadcasting beacons via Bluetooth to nearby iPhones, same principle like AirTags work
It is a different list. E.g., the CP in my 11 Pro has just one panel under File Explorer Options, but multiple in the "God Mode" folder (which I recognize from the Explorer Settings). Some items in de GM folder open the same panel, though. Probably a hack for the search feature (a depressing thought).

It's practical to have them in a straight-forward list. Plus now I can have a short-cut directly to the power scheme, event though it still won't let me put it in the task bar. Windows is weird, which makes me believe this list is never going to go away. It would be too much trouble.
LUKS has several key slots. As someone said, it’s quite simple, the data encryption key is encrypted with multiple keys and stored in different slots.

You can encrypt the data encryption key with, say, any 2 keys out of 3. You concatenate any two keys into a single key, and encrypt the master key with that. That gives you Shamir scheme, that used in crypto currencies.
@wmv has the correct answer.

The original argument is utopian (can never happen in a free society) and basically proposes going back to an era of very few scientists, like I dunno, when most people were illiterate peasants and the sea of retardness was dotted here and there with an Euclid or a Fibonacci. Which sounds good in theory if all you had were Einsteins and Newtons and Kelvins but in practice at least some of the available places would be eliminated by nepotism, and most of the approved scientists while genuine in their effort, would still produce mediocre results. Science results, like LLM training, depends on scale.

So I would argue rather, let anyone who wants to do science, do it. The cashier lady and plumber guy are unlikely to wanna do research but out of those who do, eventually something's gonna come out. Only it's not clear straight from the start out of whom.
This part of the story is even more surprising to me, as I'd never considered the possibility that mobile phone numbers could have area codes. The Portland metropolitan area has a population of just under three million according to Wikipedia[1]; my country has a population of just under seventy million and has only a single block of phone numbers allocated for cellular use.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_metropolitan_area,_Or...
It's ok, Linux desktop will prevail. Absolutely confident in that assessment.
I‘m wondering how this compares to convex (https://www.convex.dev/)
Yes. Sorry. I didn’t think you were!

Harbor Freight is interesting to me, many of their items I won’t buy due to the quality, but certain other things tend to be excellent. However, I have noticed a trend where HF has started to have a few genuine quality offerings - but the price differential from a name brand shrinks drastically.

Example: their Hercules dual bevel miter saw- $349.99

A mostly comparable dewalt is $399.99.

(The dewalt is better in my opinion even because of how the detent overide and adjustment works, not to mention more positive stops )

An example of a gem however is their $50 electric planer. I own an older version of it. I don’t think it’s particularly great as your only / primary electric hand planer(except in a pinch), but the ability to use it roughly / places / ways that would damage a better planer.
(Example, planing an old door while still mounted, or leveling a floor with luan ply, and planing areas that have adhesive, small nails, debris…)
You microservices picture is not readable, since it is dark text over transparent, over dark background.
The one knobs and dials will probably be retained, but only in the Enterprise version and Windows Server. That's how they segment the userbase these days. Home and Pro are for dummies.
See it as an insurance. It's not likely something will break, if you are the unlucky one though, those spare parts aren't cheap. A dealer can distribute that risk over many more cars.
It's about time that in the next investor call, people ask what the board is doing to curtail his behaviour.
> In my view, on a different day he would have hacked in a workaround, explained quickly that it is because of the illogical locale system, cited a few sources and moved on with his life.

If you were this guy, sure. I advise you to carefully re-read the ~2,200 word essay contained in that commit message bearing foremost in mind that there exist people who intentionally write messages that make their frustration plain and obvious.

> No biggie, the point was: in the last paragraph, he's firing a machine gun.

No, that's a wrap-up, and it fits the tone of the rest of the essay.

> It feels great to talk bad when you're in a shit mood. I don't know about you though, but the next day I usually wish I'd just kept my cool.

1) I doubt that you're the sort of person to write an angry, in-depth ~2,200 word essay and then regret it the next day. To be clear, I expect that you would not put that much effort into writing something that clearly and frankly expresses your frustration.

2) Did you forget about this statement in the opening paragraph of the essay?

> To justify this emotional outbreak potentially insulting to unknown persons, I will write a lot of text. Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text.

The tone is deliberate and intentional. Please adjust your worldview to include the existence of people who get angry about stupid bullshit and then write and publish in-depth, angry essays about exactly how stupid that bullshit is.
> It's all list.

Now I'm imagining a kind of spreadsheet-based hell where the UI is one enormous vertically scrollable grid of cells that are sometimes labels and sometimes inputs and sometimes buttons...

I feel like I caught a glimpse of it once or twice in the VB5 / Java Swing days.
Let's not sugar coat it.

The problem is 100% technical. Detecting unexpected charges, scaling and restriction in real time is hard.

It's easier to just charge people money than come up with good ways to avoid charging them, and deal with edge cases as a manual process.

Sure. I get it. What company has an internal team that's like "ooo... lets find ways to cap the amount of money people pay us".

No one.

That's why.

> there are reasons other than malice and avarice

Right.

It's just avarice. There's no other reason.
I only use it for games and maybe with valve's work that won't be needed sooner either.
If I could watch my daughter's first step in full 3d, I would be happy to pay the $3k and more.

Don't you want to experience the authentic event rather than peering through a camera so that you can relive it later in 3D?

I'm always flabbergasted that people watch concerts through a camera, rather than just enjoying the experience. The facsimile is often poor compared to the experience itself. Also, reliving the same experience over and over can devalue it. Our memory is very good at making rose-tinted representations of past experiences.

I do understand the grandparent's travel example much better, especially for people who can't easily travel due to disabilities, etc.
>The Settings app was initially introduced in Windows 8 in 2012 as a touchscreen-friendly alternative for some of the Control Panel applets.

How many people actually use Windows with a touch screen?
You can already record in 3D both from the headset, from iPhone 15 Pro and higher and with Canon’s new upcoming lense:

https://www.usa.canon.com/newsroom/2024/20240610-lens

It’s uncanny to record something with the Vision Pro and then play it back while you’re sitting in the same location…feels like a glitch in the matrix.
What You Look Like to a Mosquito
This news should be irrelevant to anyone not undergoing this specific type of chemotherapy.
I want you to know that¹ I enjoyed reading this comment, more than just an upvote could convey.

¹ ;)
And host them on Github /s
It's an argument ... it may also be an inside joke and more than a bit of a leg pull <shrug>.

Soviet and post Soviet literature tends to be layered and full of oblique messages, many of these suffer in translation.
Well, you do that then. Not everyone has to conform to your world view or preferences. Some people are perfectly fine with using a VR device.
And I came to that comment page to say: "I really want to memorize all that hilarious design problems" - like eg. physical steering wheel not working and then suddenly turns itself into a exactly wrong direction... You know for https://xkcd.com/742/ purposes.

But then I read few comments on navy systemic sleep depravation...

And how air force solved this 60-70 years ago.

And how some peoples says UX problem is not a problem becouse sleep is a problem (and there are contemposomething evidences of other problems) and obviously two or more of them can't compound simultaneously ! /s

Just want to add: if there is so basic problem with working conditions then there obviously are much more human (and not only) problems in that navy force. Seems quite identical to what Russia is demonstrating in last years and in case of conflict results will be identical - a lot of lost american lives for stupid reasons. Just pointing obviousness.
You can do that. There are only two buttons on the device and one of them is “record this experience as a memory in the iCloud photos app exactly as how I experienced it”.

Since the cameras are small the ISO is at cell phone level, not great indoors.

So I just spent $5800 on the Canon R5 C + Stereo VR Lens kit, to record my baby boy’s moments in 8K for future VisonPro (2,3,4…) devices.
>The thing is the smartphone took off as soon as it hit the market because its use cases were just that compelling.

That depends on how exactly you define "smartphone". I might still have an old Nokia brick with a little screen and a web browser lying around somewhere.
It’s not upcoming. I just bought it last night.
They always have been able to. It's called a blog, personal or company.

But everyone knows why "serious research" isn't mostly published on blogs:

Corporations like Elsevier have successfully executed takeovers of research centers (universities) and made journal submission a mandatory rite of passage for academics joining the state-mandated academia funnel. Don't publish? No postdoc for you. No professorship for you. No grant approval or news coverage.

Do publish in an academic journal? All the work you did, all the IP you invented, is assigned to the university and/or the grant funder. You're basically a non-shareholder: a contractor.

Researchers who do publish on their own tend to be viewed as cranks, since they generally don't use "journalese" and aren't required to cite from the same pool of "officially published" articles. Consequently, they also can't really get cited outside of the blogosphere - a blog post isn't "legitimate literature."

Researchers who don't publish in official journals and are labeled cranks generally can't afford to do research long term.

So how do you divorce yourself from academia?

Start a research company or project

Get funding via grants, product sales, donations

Use your research to directly build products and get a return on R&D invested

Decide to not publish your research in the open because doing so would take away the information asymmetry keeping you ahead of the competition

Oops, you are no longer publishing.
Tangential gripe: My company uses a third-party web-based ticketing system, and some moron decided to hijack the Alt-F key combination.

So not only does it interrupt and block me from opening the browser's File menu, but now I have a bunch of inaccurate "Favorite" tickets.
Is that a little like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face? Good to have principles that propel forwards and not become entrenched by them, wouldn't you agree? That said, you will save, or at least not waste, an awful lot of time - there was already too much and now a lot more tripe out there since so-called a.i..
But how does his family deal with him being essentially uncontactable for huge swaths of time for multiple days?

Did I ever say everyone has to conform to my worldview? He said his preference. I asked a question about his use case. I stated my preference. That's it
Mimalloc has support for huge pages. It also has an option to reserve 1GB pages on program start, and I've had very good performance results using that setting and replacing factorio's allocator. On windows and linux.
It's a filter thing.

Free platforms let anyone post anything without any filter. Clearly that results in a lot of rubbish being included.

As the signal to noise ratio increases the value of the platform decreases. I can publish anything I like on my blog, but my blog has no reputation compared to a million other blogs.

Of course filtering is expensive, biased, sometimes wrong, limits access to information and so on. The current academic system is pretty "broken".

But just making all articles free to post, free to read, isn't the solution. We have that already and it's terrible. (Facebook, YouTube et al.)

Ultimately we still need filtering - and thats the hard problem that needs solving.
What is worst even Windows Server is not being designed for power user/ administrator.

Yeah I can do lots of stuff with powershell but lots of time I just want to run app wiz.cpl because new one doesn’t show all stuff that is installed. Let alone network settings new screens being useless.
It is perfectly reasonable and accepted html to use custom element names. Any element with a `-` is styled like a span by default.

<article-content>
<author-byline><author-byline>
<content-text></content-text>
</article-content>

This has the benefit that you can describe your markup however you'd like if it doesn't fit into the standard elements, and if you find yourself in "div soup", often times this is mitigated through class names, but using custom elements, the closing tags are much more readable than

</div>
</div>
</div>
There is no way to turn a phone truly "off", but you can isolate it from both listening in on conversations -- which modern phones do regardless of how they are configured -- and preventing it from connecting to a network.

You're never going to escape government surveillance, but you can take steps to prevent advertisers from hoovering up every last bit of personal data that they can.
It is in/on/within/part of the video, if you watch it.
Wouldn’t an init container in the pod definition help here? Nice article btw!
At the December 2022 RISC-V Summit it was announced that there were now at least 10 billion RISC-V cores in the world -- pretty rapid for an ISA whose formal spec was published only 3 1/2 years earlier.

It's probably 20-30 billion by now.

And actually no one really knows the total because no one is required to report that they are using RISC-V, let alone sales or production numbers.

It comes down to adding up those companies that have said. WD/Sandisk are shipping several billion a year, and started early (even before the formal spec). Samsung said in 2019 that the Galaxy S20 had two RISC-V cores in every phone. They are now publicly known to be porting their Tizen OS and the DotNet language execution environment to RISC-V, for use in TVs and "other unspecified products". They ship quite a lot of stuff. LG are also known to be switching to RISC-V. Qualcomm have a handful of headline Arm applications processors in chips such as the Snapdragon series, and possibly a dozen or more unannounced RISC-V CPUs in the same chips.

But "displacement" does not mean installed base of CPUs or even current sales of CPUs in existing products. It is not even about new products that use existing chips.

"Displacement" means the proportion of new chip design wins, which over the long term feed through to the above measures.

Both Andes and SiFive have probably individually (and certainly combined) for several years now had more new design wins for CPUs in new chips than Arm.

There are an increasing number of formerly skeptical manufacturers putting both an Arm core and a RISC-V core in the same chip, the most well-known example recently being Raspberry Pi, a company that is simply full of ex-Arm and Arm-centric Broadcom employees.
iOS app guy here.

One of the main reasons most apps do poorly here is our designers and PMs NEVER think about anything other than the standard size iPhone at normal font size in light mode. This is true at every company i worked at.

In Apple 1p apps the reason is also that the codebase is 15 years old now and very hard to make adaptive.
Apple has enough money and people to do both things
Ha, I can one-up you again! For $249, I can get over fifty pairs of the Xiaomi J18 bluetooth earphones. Quite apart from the mind-boggling economies of scale with modern electronics, I can genuinely recommend these. They haven't particularly good audio quality compared to over-ear headphones, but they are still remarkably good for in-ear headphones.
This will add another UI style, so of course it will increase the installation size. People need more scattered UI languages, not less!

/s

I wish Windows 7 was usable today, I'd switch back in a heartbeat. The peak of integrated and easy UI/UX on Windows was 7, and it went downwards after that.
Also illegal in Belgium, and presumably many other European countries, without prior notification. Spying on people is not cool.
> How is Microsoft still doing fundamental rewrites of core features?

Perhaps Stack Ranking and/or promotions being based on Visibly Changing Something.
Grant application and advancement in scientific careers. As a junior researcher, you either publish in impactful peer reviewed journals or you don’t get your PhD. As a senior researcher, you either publish in impactful peer reviewed journals or your PhD student doesn’t get the PhD degree (this hurts both of you). Moreover, you won’t get grants so you can’t even hire a PhD student in the first place.

While scientists’ prestige might be a part of the equation, it’s mostly the academic leaderships and fonds that have brought us here.
ES-Toolkit: 2-3 times faster, 97% smaller than lodash
> The problem is 100% technical. Detecting unexpected charges, scaling and restriction in real time is hard.

> It's just avarice. There's no other reason.
Ah, you were in the Marines I see