skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right now people have to point their phone cameras at at the thing they're photographing

I mean, that really isn't true. There have been wearable and carryable hidden cameras for ages and we also have 360 cameras that no longer need to be pointed at what they are capturing.

This isn't changing anything about what is available to purchase, and if anything, these are relatively more obvious.

The actual change would be, that if these become widely adopted, those types of cameras would be everywhere.
Idk why we haven't migrated to better power standards for PC/computers.

I loathe those molex connectors, especially the 24-pin mobo one; it's just ridiculously massive/overcomplicated.

Like, instead of the very rectangular 24-pin with a flat but wiiiiide cable, why don't we have a circular connector with a circular cable that is a lot more manageable for mini-itx builds.
No, that's not quite correct. A lot of subcultures and echo-chamber type social contexts certainly do have extreme policing of extremely particular taboo subject matters, but in more general contexts, especially in American society, there's a strong expectation that people ought to be able to speak their mind without excessive interference, and there's usually a high bar to what constitutes subject matters taboo enough to restrict or exclude people for engaging with, along with social norms that often regard excessive policing of other people's expression as itself taboo.
I've got this on vinyl! Definitely one of my best record-store finds.

On the subject of weird Star Wars musical adaptations like those on the second half of the album -- I've recently discovered the track "Dark Vader" by Instant Funk from 1979. I love this track as it really feels like it captures a moment in time, right before The Empire Strikes Back was released and Star Wars really became a franchise.

- The misunderstanding of the name, which was exactly what I called "Darth Vader" as a kid, seemingly was more prevalent back at the time

- The feeling of absolute hype that he was going to return on screen (I assume this track came out after initial marketing for Empire began)

- The popular conception of Vader as a Black man -- something that must have seemed obvious at the time with the voice of James Earl Jones, that was really thrown away with his reveal as Luke's Father in Empire
Show HN: FSSG – A Distraction-Free Writing Space with Focus Tracking
FSSG is a distraction-free web application I built to help students and professionals maintain focus during study/work sessions while taking notes. It combines focus tracking with note-taking in a clean, minimalist interface.

Source: https://github.com/herniqeu/FSSG.git

Key features:

Distraction-free environment for deep work sessions
Integrated note-taking system that persists locally
Smooth animations and 3D visualizations for a modern experience

You can either:

Use the live version directly in your browser: https://future-seems-so-good.com/
Clone and run locally: git clone https://github.com/herniqeu/FSSG.git

The project is open-source and welcomes contributions. Built this because I needed a simple, focused environment for my own study sessions without the bloat of existing solutions.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback from the HN community!
Seems fun!

You choose any time to start (mutually agreed upon)

You can choose any row you want. The chance (skill?) comes into play in that people can get up from those seats and new people can come in. That's why you have to choose an end station. It probably wouldn't be very fun for just one stop.
Yep. I mentioned that. And that’s a totally valid reason.

But you knew it was a failure at that point, that’s why you were buying it. You wouldn’t have been expecting it to be a good product for the next couple of years. Otherwise you wouldn’t have been interested.
At least be clear about the self-promotion.
The worst selling iPhone can still be a larger business than 50%+ of all android phones.
I'd be more worried about overlap; if there are five women, and one is elderly, I'd rather count it as five queens than four and an ace.
Quiet Places
I'm not reading all that, can you please post this in a meme format and then we can judge it based on whether or not you get swatted by the police. JK. Your comment is just mental gymnastics to justify how existing German laws are somehow not a threat to free speech even though the end results and actions of the state and abuses prove that they are.

Let me quote German law on the matter:

"Freedom of speech is granted by Art. 5 Section 1 GG. It mainly protects opinions but also facts relevant to forming opinions, unless those facts are proven false or intentionally false. Freedom of Speech can be infringed acording to Art. 5 Section 2 GG for protection of ones honor, visible in Section 185 and Section 188 german penal code, that punishes insulting. When free speech and protection of ones honor collide, the court has to weigh, which in a specific case is more important."

TL;DR: no matter how much copium you sniff, you actually don't have freedom of speech in Germany.

So in Germany your speech is not protected from the government anymore and is entirely subject to opinion of judges and the public. To some extent Germans do not even have freedom of expression because the guilt culture makes people default to calling illegal migration critics Nazis so nobody speaks publicly about this.

I'm your east side neighbour, not an American. Our speech here has much better protection, you'll only get in trouble if you make threats or call for violence (as it should be), not for calling politicians "a willie" or "an old woman", because we remember our oppressive communist past and worked to not repeat that level of government censorship, while Germans tried so hard to "not be Nazis" that they put their heads so far up their own ass that they turned back into the same Nazis they say they're fighting. Crazy shit really.
Counterpoint: removing Hypervisor API from iOS 16, ostensibly to prevent iPads from cannibalizing MacBooks.
I think its because Fisker was in bankruptcy and the cars were sold at deep discounts as part of liquidation.
Apple Unveils 'C1' as First Custom Cellular Modem
Magsafe sticker is is 1$ for a pack of 10 so it's really not a problem.
Stephen Hawking theorized it is even possible there is one hiding in our sun.

Below a certain size it would not be detectable by any current method.

And of course there is a PBS Space Time for that

(edit wrong video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6kJaMf3Lgo

(more awesome here https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime/videos )
> non-usable

https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/day would be easy to make into a very much usable clock. I'm actually a little disappointed it didn't already update as a minute passed ;-)
Oh also to clarify: What exactly is the device they have made? Well it's pretty complicated but one handwavey explanation is that they have created a device that splits an electron into two quasiparticles and does computations by physically moving these quasiparticles around each other. This is what they refer to as braiding.
By law, any public company in the US (and most other countries) are required to have a financial statement audit. I am sure there are instances where it is not required, but substantially all private companies that have debt are required per their credit agreement to have a financial statement audit completed. I would be interested where you are getting your information that auditing a company is not a normal process.
Imagine if Tesla copied another automaker's name then created a demo of their car rolling down a hill.
Rather than gesturing generally at all of these "irrational" and "hyperbolic" comments, why not take the time to thoughtfully rebut any specific comment that you believe is engaging in irrationality and hyperbole?

I would also cool it with the dismissive tone and avoid saying things like "cray cray" before accusing anyone else of being juvenile.
> "Maybe those jobs were important."

It's been reported that 400 new hires on probationary status were let go. None of them were involved in safety related operations. The FAA has around 45,000 total employees, so it's a rather tiny percentage, in any case.
>Anyone else surprised to hear that MapQuest still even exists?

I'm not, in fact I just used it yesterday. I'd hate to see them go away.
I tried to write an Android app once, and I did not find it simple. I vaguely remember needing a Mac or Windows, downloading an IDE, learning Java, and then vaguely searching for things like "what do I need to make a pop-up in Android" and having no idea what functionality was available or how to call it. I gave up after 2 days.

This is what I think of as simple:

$ result="$(
dialog --radiolist "Pick a card" 0 0 0 \
"Six of hearts" 1 "on" \
"Nine of clubs" 2 "off" \
"Ace of spades" 3 "off" \
)"
$
$ if [ "$result" = "3" ] ; then
dialog --msgbox "I love Motörhead too!" 0 0
fi
$

You don't need Java code, frameworks, permission-accepting, IDEs, packaging, shuffling files to and fro, web servers, etc etc. All of that shit that people today just accept as the best we can come up with. All that unnecessary complexity, for what? So we can gatekeep computing for the geniuses? So we can justify having to spend hundreds of dollars on a new mini-supercomputer every year, just to display a calendar? I'd really rather not.

Give me the equivalent of a 486DX2 with 16MB of RAM, a simple TTY, and a program that renders dialog boxes directly to video memory, and I can do everything I'll ever need to [with a small e-ink screen]. Save the fancy stuff for tablets and laptops.
> In the last 12-18 months, a bunch of Android phones have gotten large battery capacity upgrades

Can you give some examples? I'd like to test one out but I'm not buying the most recent product as a rule.
Those are not even remotely close to 30%. If the cut was based on real expenses for services provided you'd see it change over time. That it's been stuck ack 30% for so long shows that there is only one reason for such a high cut: because they can get away with it.
Dick's "the Empire never died" model becomes more useful the older I get.
> You don’t know how phone numbers work… and you’re making really bad assumptions through your entire post.

My understanding and assumptions are evidently no worse than yours.

> account owners are different than account payers are different than account assignees

For residential/personal phone plans, they are not. In my T-Mobile account there is exactly one person who can be designated as the owner, payer, and assignee for all of the lines on my account, that person being me. I can at most change the label on a given line, but that label can be literally anything.

> Google is tying to account payers, not assignees.

There is no notion of an "assignee" from any perspective that Google can see. There is only the account payer, which is one and the same with the account owner.

(If the payer is not the owner, then that's called fraud and is a crime in most countries.)

> This is clearly incorrect to everyone else in this comment section.

And it's also clearly incorrect by Google's own guidelines as quoted above. That's the entirety of my point.

We're obviously not going to change each other's minds, so this is probably the point where we should agree to disagree and move on. Last word's yours.
Black holes emit Hawking radiation regardless of ambient temperature. It's just that right now, the mass(-energy) of photons falling into the hole from the CMBR is outpacing the mass loss to Hawking radiation for large black holes, so large black holes aren't currently evaporating from their own Hawking radiation.

It's like standing next to a campfire. Your body is still emitting thermal radiation in the IR, it's just that you're receiving more thermal radiation from the fire than you're putting out.
Qi2 doesn’t require the magnetic component however.
Good point. A condition like autism or schizotypy might not be about "the way your cells work right now" but rather about how your brain was wired during development and what a drug or gene therapy could do now is limited.

Still on some level, cells have a basic 'operating system' of genes that are involved in everyday metabolism and cell replication, then there are genes involved in development and there are also genes that certain cells use to do their special work. Genes related to development can be somewhat tested with methods like

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9310295/
At this point there’s only really one thing I want from an iPhone and that’s an option for a 12/13 mini sized device again. Surely those phones didn’t sell so few that it’s not worth doing at all?
I know, but the official specs and comparison page explicitly only say Qi (with 7.5 W) for the 16e where they say MagSafe and Qi2 (with 25 W) for the iPhone 16. The comparison page is also lacking the MagSafe symbol for the 16e.
Apple has huge margins, it's not a problem unless you think about margins. Making more money is normally good, even if the margin is slightly lower.
There are a lot of hydrogen vehicles on the road already, especially buses.
Anyone have any location based games they recommend?

Still seems like such a fun concept, a game encouraging interaction with the world. I had a friend who used Pokemon Go during COVID to get himself out of the house, take walks.
Why do you attribute all those things to Elon? Didn’t he buy into all of his companies?

What a weird way to say that. He “gave” us spacex or Tesla.
The right level is hard though. I know more than one old person who spent time in a hospital because they thought they could do something they couldn't and broke their bone. "For $20 they would install the new dryer, but no we thought we could do it and that is how my foot got broke in the fall". You should have a cane handy when you need one, but don't use it if you don't need it.

I have no idea how to find the right balance.
The SE is not the smallest possible modern iPhone, just the smallest screen. The 13 mini has a larger screen but is physically smaller.
Why is it idiotic? The obvious answer to anyone anywhere is that misgendering someone is less harmful than letting 1000 people die and the trolley problem is the most documented (so most likely to be in the dataset) problem that correlates to the issue of choosing the lesser of two evils.

If we are going to trust AI to do things (we can't check everything it does thoroughly that will defeat a lot of the efficiency it promises), it should be able to understand choosing the lesser of two evils.
Additionally, Mr. Beast and other “content creators” are really just the face of small-to-medium-sized companies with brands established in much lower-competition markets with much lower standards and almost certainly could not recreate that success today as indie YouTubers, etc. Beast had over 250 employees as of a 2023 interview with a former employee. At one point I saw more 3D generalist ads for positions in his thumbnails department than from most huge studios, and they’re not looking for one-off work from freelancers— they’ve got an established 3D pipeline set up and they’re looking for full time staff that have experience with it. For THUMBNAILS. So now, when you’re starting out, you’re competing for search results space and recommendations with corporate, or legacy-media-backed marketing agencies presenting themselves as independent creators. Good. Fucking. Luck.

The only naive “Kumbaya, my lord” perspective around here is that the current “creative” tooling the corporate tech sector is building is positive for humanity’s creative landscape, and they didn’t just take what used to be the largest and healthiest independent creative marketplace humanity has ever experienced and hand it directly to corporate entities and low-effort, low-value bullshit “content” hucksters.
This is one of my quickest adopted AI features. Twitter is one of the most opaque social media because of the character limit and the way it mixes different in-crowds in verbal combat, so explaining the context really makes it more fun to use. They just need to improve the feature with even more training. I feel there is usually one main obscure item that needs explaining and it often explains everything else.
They haven’t sold the MacBook you’re talking about since 2019.
>Only by understanding why they currently choose to use Springer et al, can you understand what is lost by requiring free publishing.

Because we're stuck in a local sub-optima. Those journals are currently prestigious because top researchers publish in them and top researchers publish in them because they are prestigious.

A high acceptance bar may play a role but that is easily achievable and generally does not work anyway based on the number of fraudulent papers that have been accepted. Reviewer comments should be published alongside as should the data.
Volume would be a terrible metric for phones.

You don't make a phone half as tall and twice as thick and claim it's the same size...
cmd+f "jack" on Apple's page, got 0 results. Pass.
Specifically the swipe-up gestures you now need for the unlock / home navigations?

(I initially thought you might mean faceid doesn't work if you're a bit shaky, but I just tried that and it surprisingly doesn't care.)
Seems like they've been pushed to release this as open source alternatives are catching up, if not passing them by [1] ...

[1] https://augmentos.org/
A standing army is not the only way to ensure continued existence. Republic of Ireland has something like 6000 troops, no Navy as such, I'm not sure they have any armed aircraft, and yet... there it is.
Gas turbines are more efficient than steam turbines simply because they can be used at higher temperatures.

However the exhaust gas of a gas turbine will still contain a great part of the input energy.

Therefore in order to reach maximum efficiency in a power plant, you must start with a gas turbine, which must be followed by a cascade of 2 or 3 steam turbines that run at lower and lower temperatures (this combination of a gas turbine with some steam turbines is what "combined cycle" means), until you obtain exhaust steam that is not much hotter than ambient temperature, and which can be used for heating, to recover even more of the input energy than what has been converted into electric energy.

Instead of gases or steam, turbines may also use supercritical fluids, e.g. carbon dioxide, which may lead to using less turbine stages and with much smaller turbines (that must work at much higher fluid pressures).

A gas turbine that is used alone, without steam turbines that recover the heat from its exhaust gas, has normally a too low efficiency. Its use can be acceptable only for mobile generators or emergency generators, where the size and complexity are more important than the efficiency.
Touch ID is on the power button of iPad Air. Hopefully it will return on iPhone Air.
No touch to unlock is one of the main things keeping me on Android
An open source FPGA toolchain for a large European space-grade FPGA
It's very good. Most of my TF2 hours back in The Day were on 360 which never got Valve's original class updates anyway, so TF2 Classic feels to me like if TF2 had ever gotten updates at all :p

A good example of the stuff they're trying is the Jump Pad PDA, the alternate to Teleporters for Engineer. I like them a lot because they really open up the verticality of the maps to players who aren't obsessive rocket/sticky-jumpers: https://wiki.tf2classic.com/wiki/Jump_Pads

It's fun as Engineer too since they make that slot more useful in circumstances where Teleporters are a waste. A single Jump Pad costs more metal than a single Teleporter, but then it's also useful on its own instead of requiring the complete pair. It's great if there's an enemy Spy who has made it their mission to constantly harass your buildings, and on maps/modes where the objective is so close to spawn (like the first phase of Payload as BLU and the final phases of Payload as RED) that Teleporters are less tactically important.

e: also the obvious visible fact that TF2C maintains the original cohesive art style with meaningful silhouettes, something Valve made a huge deal about in the TF2 developer commentaries only to throw away in favor of becoming Very Rich via gambling for colorful sparkly hats lol https://ia904504.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/11...
My dad laments that "Caring about the environment used to be a Conservative position" and "We just need to take the effort to care about people who are different from us" and "I think the gun rights people take it too far and it's fine to have regulation on gun ownership".

But he didn't vote for a classic conservative. He voted for Trump.
Such a strange name choice for a startup - my mind completes the name, which evokes the name of their competitor.
The other phonemakers didn't grumble about the jack because they realized they could pull the same scam
Ask HN: What do you do if you get laid off
I work in cybersec, but seeing a ton of software engineers, architects, etc getting laid off.

What is your plan if you get laid off?

im trying to formulate what that might look like for me, but with todays insane job market is a very challenging position to be in.
Unsloth AI (YC S24) is hiring ML engineers
A Retrospective Interview with Leonard Richardson
So even when Patterson's research was published in 1965

It's a rambling article that provides no real evidence, only speculation about future discoveries (which never came) and absurd arguments why its concentration is supposed to be smaller.
CPP in the Kernel Discussion
I thought it was going to be an actual modem... like they had previously.
Funny, I'm actually considering buying this specifically because it comes with Apple Intelligence, and I'm someone who usually avoids AI slop. I guess I just like Apple's particular flavor of AI slop since I use it with the mail and iMessage apps on my Mac all the time.
It just crops to the central 12MP of the image sensor. It's the same camera from the iPhone 15
[one of the authors of the two studies] Absolutely spot on - there would likely be more issues if the cells were forced to develop from a single cell to a full blown organism. However, thinking of it as a smoke test, it can still be surprising that such large stretches of DNA are dispensable and the cells survive and propagate!
> How would you do this without an LLM? (I personally would've just typed it up myself, probably.)

This has been a feature of Apple Preview (default image program) for years and years. You can just highlight text and copy it from a jpeg or png.
That's a remarkable insight! I have been a fast typist since I was young, and I have never found it worth the trouble of using even regular autocomplete - it distracts me more than it helps. I have yet to try AI autocomplete, either, because the problems it apparently solves don't really seem to be problems I have. It had never occurred to me that typing skill might have something to do with this.
Understanding Automatic Differentiation in Jax: A Deep Dive
I assume your country is the US, but... when has the US cared about anybody to begin with? Trump may be a lot of things, but at least he's not fooling people.
Is it really computing if you’re just using it like a pad of paper? Is it worth all the noxious process to manufacture it?

I like a different tool as much as the next person, but I think before we jump to the most complicated to for the job we should align our priorities..
You can certainly refer to the set of all real numbers, but that’s not the same as referring to one particular number.
Yes, we should absolutely ban, at the very least, contact football among minors. We have ample evidence of football (and soccer, too, for that matter) student athletes developing full blown CTE by their 20s, and with lifetime risk thousands of times the general population.
The 2D surface area, which affects holding and pocketing, is 13% larger.

Weight also matters.

I honestly still prefer the form factor of the iPhone 3GS. (I have an old one in a drawer for comparison.) 4.8 ounces, 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 with a rounded back. The thickness wasn't a problem.