skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 38% of people said that better cameras are a main motivation for buying a new phone

This strikes me as just a reflection of the ad campaigns. Apple promotes “better cameras” for every new iPhone, almost exclusively in their ads, so it’s not surprising that’s what people would say. With every new phone being just an incremental upgrade, hyping up the camera is the only way to get people to drop a $1000 on a new one. Most of these 38% won’t be able to tell the difference between a phone pic taken 5 or more years ago.
HyperTalk was the first programming language I taught myself as opposed to having an instructor; thanks for the nostalgia. Unfortunately it seems the LiveCode project has been idle for a few years now.
AWS makes billions from managing servers at scale.
We prefer to call it "engineering"
We got a certificate with a company that's the local equivalent of an LLC, and have seen certificates issued to private individuals. As far as I can tell it's up to the issuer who they support in their verification process. Many of them are pretty inflexible with somewhat arcane processes designed decades ago (with ancient websites portals to match), so your experience may vary

An additional detail is that there are two levels of code signing certificates, normal and EV (extended validation) certificate. EV certificates make windows completely drop the low-reputation screen and causes many antivirus solutions to trust you but are expensive and are a bit of a pain to get. Normal certificates are cheaper and comparatively easier to acquire, but only give partial benefits (less scary screen from Windows, some leeway from antivirus).
I was about to say that $4.50 in labor cost doesn't seem outrageous, given the high retail prices but according to my low effort internet search in the US cheap saffron goes wholesale for about $0.81 / gram and expensive saffron does for about $1.68 / gram. The retail markup on this is quite high!

You could potentially make it work selling direct to consumer, which might not be so bad given the very low quantities we're talking about here.
Not quite as much of a coincidence as you might think. Many of these algorithms come from graphics researchers presenting at SIGGRAPH (https://www.siggraph.org, the leading conference).

So if so if Jet Set Radio was released June 2000, you can look for related papers a couple years before to see if new techniques were appearing. And, in fact, they were!

Disney paper (1998) on texture mapping for cell shading (the color of a cartoon):

https://media.disneyanimation.com/uploads/production/publica...

NYU paper (1998) applying outlines to 3d objects (the black outline of a cartoon) :

https://mrl.cs.nyu.edu/publications/npr-course1999/hertzmann...
That's wild — focusing on the much narrower problem of digit recognition; I wonder now if hardware using op-amps could be designed to also tackle this smaller problem in the analog domain.
Meanwhile, Bitwarden: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.x8bit.b...
> Honestly, it sounds like an anti-feature or a crutch.

Every feature to one person can be a crutch to the next. Adding Salt or Chef to anything also increases the attack surface.
The seminal work is the 1982 book "The Extended Phenotype" by Richard Dawkins.
Indeed. My understanding is that people ask this sort of thing in interviews specifically to see if you notice the implications of restricting the input values to a narrow range.
At the species level the nature couldn't care less about a single specimen. If you have offspring, suffer as much as you want. If not, too. Suffer anyway, just leave offspring. Or not, who cares.

Professional therapy (at least the one I experienced) uses well-defined methods in addition to drawing parallels and analogies. Downward arrow, event/emotion logging, exposure, core belief removal methods, etc. I was really intrigued when I realized that therapy is not about whining and listening to "it's okay" or shallow advices, but akin to debugging and programming with a mentor who already seen most bug like yours and only needs you to start dumping logs to confirm.

You can come up with something vaguely like this by accident, after talking to lots of friends. But why bother if you have a professional who can point out the inconsistency and suggest/explain the way to solve it in just in a few sessions?
Thanks, I obviously need more coffee. Fixed above
My spouse is a psychotherapist, and from her 10+ years of work I have seen that it can work very well. But the success depends on the patient’s mental attitude. If you go to a therapist with the mindset „here I am, do something that I feel better (again)“, then I can guarantee you you‘ll be disappointed. A psychotherapist is like a midwife who can help a woman in giving birth to a child, but the woman must go through the process herself, through the pain, the labour. But when you come with the right mindset, do the work, do not expect quick fixes, the results can be transformative.
Love the design. Though it begs the question, is this a toy (which is totally valid and okay) or is there something practically useful about this over more "conventional" code? What are the use cases, other than code golf situations?
However, for the question at hand, that's irrelevant: a better (for DRM) solution exists today, and they're already using it.

I'm not saying that the TPM is incapable of being abused by manufacturers and OS authors, but the FSF really weakens their argument when they predicate it on something that's not actually true. Ex falso quodlibet (you may prove anything if you rely on a falsehood).
I don't get the reference for the 11 pairs of shoes. I haven't handled new Nikon stuff (the last body I touched was a D80 a long time ago). But I doubt it's smaller and lighter than my olympus with a prime [0]. More power to you if you're OK carrying your kit, it means this works for you, which is absolutely great!

But, be that is it may, take a look around you. How many people do you see on any given day taking pictures with actual cameras, whatever the format? I live in Paris, a city flooded with tourists, whom you'd expect to be more likely to put up with carrying a somewhat inconvenient camera in exchange for better pictures. I can count on the fingers of one hand the people I've seen taking pictures with actual cameras in the last few months. And I walk or bike to/from work, along one of the most picturesque parts of the city. However, you can see people taking pictures with their phones all day, everyday.

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[0] Some of the bodies are actually surprisingly small. A sony A7C2 is "only" twice as thick as my Pen-F, the other dimensions being similar. But the body itself is useless without a lens. And while wide-angle offerings seem somewhat similar (though there's no equivalent to the 8-25/4), the tele end is much larger, even comparing a variable aperture to a fixed f/4 offering from Olympus. And primes are an absolute joke if size matters.
It mentions the names of message-passing and the well-known actors model, but the ideas it engages with are the ideas of io_uring, which is a system for asynchronous I/O using a message queue. The two designs are not unrelated, and you could write an interesting post exploring the relationships between them, but unfortunately the author did not do that, because his engagement with the ideas of the actor model and message-passing was limited to quoting one of Hewitt and Baker's famous early attempts to define actors.

Instead, he jumps into salesman hypester mode with "The game has changed," which, like, gag. A lot of games are having their rules rewritten right now (tank/drone warfare, the energy market, freedom of expression, international finance, and artificial intelligence come to mind) but asynchronous I/O is not one of them. (Except, maybe, in the non-io_uring-related way I suggested—the advent of much-higher-bandwidth access to large-capacity storage devices than I/O buses can handle—to which message-passing is even less applicable.)

It's perfectly fair to describe actors as "somewhat misunderstood" because the ways Hewitt himself understood it over the 50 years he developed the idea frequently contradict one another. At the end of his life he spent several years writing https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3036v12, which describes his conceptualization of it at that time, which was very different from the early versions, though I think he would deny that. The versions on the arXiv only go back to 02009, but I am pretty sure the draft paper he showed me when I met him a few years before that was an earlier draft of the same thing.
Anton Ego: "Not everyone can cook, but great cook can come from anywhere"
I suspect a lot of people 'invented' the effect at approximately the same time. Honestly, the Dreamcast was the first piece of hardware really capable of doing the effect to a high level of quality in real-time.

I developed the cel shading effect for the Dreamcast game 'Looney Tunes: Space Race' (developed by Infogrames Melbourne House) literally during the first week we had access to a Dreamcast development kit. Infogrames Sheffield (devs of Wacky Racers) were shown an early version of our implementation, and added the similar effect to their game. It looked great, but went into their game pretty late in production, so the game hadn't really been optimised for it the way that ours was.

And the folks behind Jet Grind Radio came up with the effect on their own as well, and beat both of us to market. They were using exactly the same algorithm, but were using it in a very different way; they were fully embracing and leaning into the uneven, wide and jagged outlines, where Sheffield and we were fighting against them and trying to match a more uniform and traditional art style.

And then only about a year later, somebody seemed to have figured out how to make the edge-detection cel shading approach work in real-time on Xbox, for the game "Dragons Lair 3D". I had done a test implementation of that approach on the Dreamcast, but it wasn't nearly performant enough for us to run it on multiple characters at once while playing a game too! Not sure whether it was due to the Xbox being more powerful or them just having a smarter algorithm than mine, but you can't argue with their results! If you're making a game that you want to look like an actual hand-drawn cartoon, that is still absolutely the best quality way to do it, IMHO.

Someday I'll find an excuse to try my hand at implementing one of those again. Performance shouldn't be a problem at all any more, I imagine!
If you genuinely believe that then I’m delighted for you. You are living in paradise
1. It depends on the time scale. The question is if you can outlive their VC funding.

2. How do you fix the incentives short of fixing capitalism to remove software VCs?
Don't worry; you still have the ability to, e.g., type "user" instead of "use" due to muscle memory, and not notice before posting due to your mental auto-correct informed by top-down processing (https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Its-Bayes-All-The-Way...). ;)
Assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells
"Changing the 2, or π is difficult even for CERN". Brilliant!
Reddit answers (https://www.reddit.com/answers) kinda serves this purpose but AFAIK, its not available for everyone yet
Come on, that's not all they do. They also resell open source as better-UXified tooling. RDS is "just" repackaged postgres/redis/etc with a more convenient dont-have-to-peek-under-the-hood as much dev experience.
Static linking of LGPL content (thus making it derivative work) only requires that it must allow "modification of the work for the customer's own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications".

Making your own code public is not the only way to achieve this.

You can also make available to customer object files and build instructions to recreate your software with the (modified) statically linked LGPL content. (if it's LGPL > 2.1 you have extra requirements: you need to provide all toolchains/dependencies and it must be actually possible to install a modified version on the hardware)

Granted, this is not commonly used but I've used this on some projects where dynamic linking was not available/desired by client.
> Standalone Windows installer is a must.

100% agree! I've been using Windows for over 20 years and I haven't installed a single app through Windows Store.
If starting out, then the friction to join would cause many people not to bother.

But... if it was already a large enough group to have network effects and then that friction would actually make it more appealing in that it would add a feeling of exclusivity and status to be a member.
>I wish I could bring myself to blog

As someone trying to take blogging more seriously: one thing that seems to help is to remind yourself of how sick you are of repeating yourself on forums.
Please don't. That would give the US a huge northern ocean border. That's so much harder to defend.
> A monoculture is the least healthy kind of crop

Are you making the analogy because it sounds poetic, or because it actually makes sense? Humans are not plants, and they're not grown or raised to be killed for someone else's benefit.

If you insist on the analogy anyway: livestock are homogeneous just fine. Also you seem to be forgetting that weeds and invasive species are also things that can destroy ecosystems.

> New is good, anything else is death. Anyone pining for a 'good ol days' culture is chasing a mirage

That's what a melting pot is. It creates something new. You seem to be struggling to understand what people are actually arguing for or against.
Interesting. It would be nice to be able to analize all your HN history and be able to spot behaviour changes along the years.
Keeping peering/transit/bandwidth costs low by forcing heavy users (Netflix) to pay for what they use. Keeping ISP costs low by allowing ISPs to charge heavy bandwidth users for fatter pipes (which, by the way, is how peering agreements are supposed to work).

Net neutrality was a lie pushed by Netflix at a time they didn't want to honor their peering agreements, which mandated that the party using disproportionate amounts of bandwidth on the pipe paid for the upgrade.

All of the useful proponents of NN fell in line and lied about the doomsday should it be repealed, none of which remotely came to pass because it was a dishonest argument.
Volvo made automatic versions of its cars from the late sixties onwards. A colleague had an automatic 244 in the early 1980s.

Here in Norway automatics are not finally catching on, they are ubiquitous and the driving instructors' association is campaigning to get the rules changed so that you can pass the driving test on an automatic and later simply do a conversion course to allow one to drive manual.

And of course it will all be moot quite soon because EV sales already outnumber ICE sales nearly nine to one here. Volkswagen and Hyundai no longer sell ICE cars in Norway. Volkswagen still sells ICE vans and pickups though.
What LLMs mean for EBITDA margins
"We thank Tetsuya Spippayashi for enlightening clarifications on the historical origins of Cacio and pepe"

That surname can't be real...
3 years old PR to Alacritty for Support for graphics remains open
That “just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting and dismissing the entire server maintenance and HA across multiple regions is kind of strange

But Aurora is not “just” a repackaged MySQL, the entire storage layer was rewritten.
Then it auto-updates.
My point was that Rails and Spring prioritize different things.
And while you can end up with roughly equal result with both, the path can be drastically different. Never wanted to suggest that whoever uses Spring over Rails is an idiot and vice versa. Cheers.
I don't check the project deeply yet so I don't comment about it.

That's not true Dropbox was in the technical edge when it came, and old time ago, was barely possible, and the recurrent cost of the severs and operation cost is clearly not the same.
And pay Foss GUIs are sad state of reality
I am not from America, and do not favor Americanizing anything. I enjoy Istanbul, was there last summer actually, and love the city. I just point out what's been happing with the city the last 15 to 20 years, and that this is mostly due to political reasons, connected to the conservative and religious party of Erdogan. You should not mistake a comment made out of love for the city to be a comment of how things are better in the US or trying to make everything political. That is to give me intentions I do not have.
Fwiw food and lack thereof modifies behaviour too.
It pairs well with a $25 (plus tax and shipping) single, frozen, partially-cooked hamburger that you gave to finish preparing yourself.. https://www.goldbelly.com/restaurants/gramercy-tavern/the-gr...

They are rich retired people selling miniscule quantities to other rich people. It's just for fun. The excess cost of the saffron is lower than the transaction cost of fulfilling the order.
> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

Then learning to program is therapy. :-D

I am serious: Learning (very abstract) mathematics, and programming, taught me an insane amount about myself:

- how I attempt to model and structure the world

- how better models of very diverse phenomena look like

- what such insights mean for my life

- ...
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The future of 3D graphics is going to be feeding generative NNs with very simple template scenes, and using the NN to apply almost all the lighting and styling.

It's kind of ridiculous that this occurs just as the dream of raytracing hardware approaches viability.
1. They are supported by paying customers (the advertisers), not just VC money.

2. You don’t need to get rid of VCs, it’s orthogonal.

Just make interoperation/complete API coverage required by law to be available to any user if you have more users than certain amount. It would neuter the lock-in when anyone can make a third-party GUI that has no ads and interoperates with any other social platform (meaning no “all my friends are there” effect).
For really heavy work I think hamsters.js is pretty cool[0]. GPU.js can also make a huge difference, but might be overkill for some applications.

[0]: https://github.com/austinksmith/Hamsters.js
Meta (like microsoft, google, etc) have a monopoly mindset and are past thinking about what the consumer wants, they can only think about what they want. So it wasn't a case of 'would users want to follow our fake account's content?', but rather 'AI accounts will give us even more control over content, and we could use them for sponsored content and make even more money'.
Yeah, as with literally every other service in the web for the past 20 years.
Output Token Order Is a Hidden Variable in LLM Response Quality and Accuracy
In all fairness the science at this point also makes no further claims.
Probably a bad transliteration.
No, because you have to install more crap.

This thing is "already there" and it takes two commands. I like it a lot, tbh.
Can you provide more details on how you leverage your network to grow your business? It's hard to just push friends and customers to get you more business. What in your experience works here?
My opinion too.
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If only ads were expensive to display there’s be a lot less and probably people would be okay with them. The sheer amount make them unbearable to many. Remember magazines people were paying for had ads and people didn’t hate them?
I disagree with your second point, but your first one is compelling. I appreciate your patience with my moralizing!
No, since that's how peering agreements are supposed to work.

Generally speaking, two parties build a peering pipe between each other, let's say it's 100Gbps. All is good. Now, fast forward a few years and this peering line is reaching capacity. Who should pay? Should it be Party A who uses 70% of the capacity or Party B who uses 30% of the capacity? Net neutrality forces Party B to pay, which is totally against the spirit of the internet and these agreements.

Net neutrality is nothing more than a corporate handout to freeloading cheapskates like Netflix who started this entire outrage because they refused to pay for peering upgrades (as their peering agreements mandate).

Net neutrality literally shifted the cost of upgrading the pipes that were saturated as a direct result of Netflix traffic onto the ISPs, and therefore onto consumers. So customers who NEVER used Netflix are paying more.

Strictly speaking, there's nothing stopping AT&T from hiking prices to $499/month in areas they have effective monopolies. They don't. Prices are reasonably competitive even there. You can't invent a doomsday scenario (the world is ending in 2012!) then when it doesn't come to pass you merely adjust the timeframe (the world is ending in 2030 for real this time!). That's what those arguments were, dishonest doomsday predictions which repeatedly failed to come to fruition.
Atari had been doing 2D vector games for a while before Battlezone, the introduction of pseudo-3D was a natural progression.
Not sure how you can lump Romani and Jews together like that. Jews have a nation state, with "right of return"; a much better deal than the Romani get.
As usual with these things: it is impressive that stuff like this can be generated so quickly at all, but the content is very superficial and often wrong or at least misleading. It's unusable for learning, but great for spamming platforms, just like NotebookLM for instance.

As an example, I asked about the Cantor function. It generated a 1:24 video, which is laughably short, explained correctly how the Cantor set is defined but showed a flawed visual representation, then simply skipped over how the Cantor function is constructed and simply states the basic properties. Sorry, but this is garbage content.
Mostly unrelated, but I remember typing in a simple calculator program (hex codes I think) from a magazine for my Apple IIe that would then speak the answer aloud. I was fascinated by the fact you could type in things that then created the sound of a voice. Googling isn't yielding much but I'll dig around and see if I can find it.
I used these in grade school back when I lived in Ontario. Your write-up on these is detailed and brought back lots and lots of memories. Thank you!!
This idea has grown on me a lot after watching Sam Harris’ 2013 Ted Talk, on deconstructing religion, logic and morality:

https://youtu.be/qn3ITqtGzQ8