skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The traditional Nikon mount has a small screw that is turned. The camera autofocus speed is limited by the amount of torque that can be applied to the screw - which can make focusing some of the heavier lenses slower.

https://www.discoverdigitalphotography.com/2012/lens-mounts-...

The "AF-D" lenses have contacts back to the camera body that communicate distance information (that is in turn used by the camera body to calculate flash power).

The G mount lenses remove the manual coupling for the f/stop which means that only bodies that can control the aperture from the body can use them. My FM3A has no aperture control on the body and so with that camera, I unlock the aperture ring.

The AF-S camera lenses have the focusing motor in the body.

VR in Nikon is done in lens. https://kenrockwell.com/nikon/80400vr.htm It needs to - you can't jiggle the film around to keep it in the same place.

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The impressive part of Nikon's compatibility isn't only the "you can use an AI-S lens on a modern (professional) body, but also "you can use any of the F mount lenses on an old body" (the G lenses don't have the f/stop ring and the E lenses have the focus motor in the lens).

While it appears that Nikon has mostly shifted to E and G mount, third party lenses are still being manufactured for the F mount.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1519140-REG/tokina_at... - and you can see all the parts of the F mount, manual aperture ring control, 5 pins for distance, '-' slotted screw for focus.
>Google terribly mishandled this problem

It will sink in when you think of Google as the ad company that it is, and their HW phone division is ran like some intern side project.
The "coding benchmarks" like "SWE-verified" are actually of very low quality and the answer riddled with problems.

Good Explainer: "The Disturbing Reality of AI Coding"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnOc_kKKuac
I took this class at ETH Zurich and it is one of my favorite classes. Especially how do you quantify uncertainty and how they build the starting blocks of reinforcement learning. I think it’s an excellent read for data scientists and ML engineers.

This document is the lecture notes.
I dont think anyone has found a good way to map higher dimensional space onto 4D visualizations, yet.

Maybe this is why tokens and language are so useful for humans ? they might be the closest analog we have.
I played a bit with one of these in an Apple Store. I really got the feeling that it was unsuitable for GUI applications, unless you had razor sharp, eagle-eye eyesight. If you just ran text mode apps all day, it might've been totally brilliant.
> Maybe I'm naive but I think an interview should be an honest exchange of what you actually know, not what you crammed for before the interview.

All the way back in ~2012, Amazon's own recruiters were recommending candidates cram "Cracking the Code Interview" (to the surprise of the actual interviewers, who didn't want you doing that). This is the way things have been for a long time now.
I wonder if they're aiming for it to be a book. Hubotter describes it on his web page as "notes on Probabilistic AI".
It does not take more than 10 lines of code to launch a goroutine (or two, or more, due to how easy worker pools are in Go) that receives email requests and sends them in batches.
> The original “MacBook” 12” retina could have been wonderful aside from the extremely poor performance, keyboard, and single USB, and battery life

“Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln”

> I still have my 2013 11.6” i7 and once I replace the battery and hinges (threw it across bed while open too many times) it’ll be good for another 10 years.

I doubt you would feel the same way if you had a M series MacBook Air.
I always wanted to build a controller for Canon Telephoto lenses to use them with c-mount cameras and control the focus from a PC. Might be helpful for that.
Exactly. We used to have different protocols for these things, which were far more efficient than jamming it all into HTTP inside TLS inside TCP. Can’t even do UDP in the browser, which is exactly what you need for realtime streaming communication.

25 years ago, on my 1GHz computer, with 512MB of RAM, I had no trouble watching videos, playing music, sending files & emails, making calls, etc--all over the internet. So many people are confused into thinking that computing didn't begin until javascript, which was not the beginning, but the beginning of the end.
I think these theoretical scenarios probably don't apply to Apple? As long as devices are password-gated. If you have a password to someone's device, it's already over, they have access to everything, including synced passwords.

Btw, something that Apple does sync that's similar is passkeys. They're synced to iCloud. At least on GitHub, you don't even need 2fa if you log in via passkey.
We've worked with dozens of teams building LLM agents across industries. Consistently, the most successful implementations use simple, composable patterns rather than complex frameworks.

This explains the Manus hype. Both why it didn't work (too complex) and why there was so much hype (thinking things had significantly advanced beyond this).

Maybe advancements will make Manus-esque systems functional but for now it seems like adding brittle processes on top of one another.
but tell me, a better language in what? it's exactly this doubt that I want to clarify
I've had two "Online Assessments," as they're called, in the past couple of weeks and they're even weirder than that now. The request access to my desktop, webcam, microphone, akin to a proctored exam. They don't let you use your own editor, or even leave the window. There is no one there to interact with, ask clarifying questions, etc. It then plays everything back with keystrokes sync'd to video/audio for the reviewer.

If I have to go through that bullshit, I would at least like the opportunity to use it to show how I think, ask clarifying questions even if it is just to show understanding of edge cases, create some small talk, etc.
I have an amateur built experimental airplane, and on my first flight, GPS wasn't working. It was working on the ground, so I figured a bad coax cable or something from the vibration. When I landed it started working again, but later in the day it wasn't. A few days later I found out that the nearby Air Force base was testing GPS jamming, and there was even a NOTAM about it.

There's a site that tracks GPS jamming: https://gpsjam.org/
Will you send me an invite to tildes?
Hey, nitpicks aside your site is great! Coming from a Fuji buyer…
Yes, this is normal for languages. The only pushback here is against the term “portable assembler” being applied to C, where it’s incomplete often enough that many people feel it’s no longer a helpful label.

I think it’s also reflecting the maturity and growth of the industry. A turn of the century programmer could relatively easily find areas where dropping down to assembly was useful, but over the subsequent decades that’s become not only uncommon but often actively harmful: your code hand-optimized for a particular processor is likely slower on newer processors than what a modern compiler emits and is definitely a barrier to portability in an era where not only are ARM and potentially RISC-V of interest but also where code is being run on SIMD units or GPUs. This makes the low-level “portable assembler” idea less useful because there’s less code written in that middle ground when you want either a higher-level representation which gives compilers more flexibility or precise control. For example, cryptography implementers want not just high performance but also rigid control of the emitted code to avoid a compiler optimizing their careful constant-time implementation into a vulnerability.
> he chose to expose government fraud and wastes

He's doing no such thing.
Looks like Grok is down too, at least the UI is broke for me.
Developers: Don't Let AI Rot Your Brain
What would you (or other informed parties) recommend?
Looking at all the economic indicators, of course we will be heading for a recession.

The big question is how long a party that prides itself on being wholly divorced from reality or consequences can keep its devoted cult happy enough to keep buying and taking on debt.

Looking back at 2008, it's amazing how far collectively self-deceiving ourselves allows us to walk out into empty air before falling.
Dpdpu: Data Processing with DPUs [pdf]
It was a lot of corner cases that we had to get right, it's the most advanced code that LFortran can compile. I think none of the features individually is difficult to support, but there were a lot of them.
It's hard to convey just how revolutionary the original voodoo cards were. There aren't many times in my life where there was a clear line of before and after, but this was one of those times.
> ... and other hidden complex control flow,....

Until someone calls longjmp() or a signal() is triggered. Extra bonus of fun if it happens to be multithreaded application, or in the middle of a non-rentrant call.
There really weren't any "gems" at all during that era of MacBooks just because they all had that awful chiclet keyboard that was possibly the worst keyboard of all time.
why? if I can get to know my code better through it
I have a shortwave receiver and it is all weird Christian stuff.

Even if that were my thing, I probably wouldn't listen because it all sounds awful. Is there something about shortwave that limits the audio fidelity?
When I was an engineer at Amazon, we all just made up our own questions, or passed fun ones around the office. I assume the Bar Raisers probably had an actual rubric, but the rest of us didn't (and we all had interviewing quotas to meet)
Thank you for adding that. I completely agree with you.
You're probably right :)
> I want a similar thing to ActiveRecord

First of all, you shouldn't be using Go, because it's not the language where you do those kinds of things.
It's interesting but kind of trails off... would be better if it went into the experimental results.
They do actually have crowdsourced databases for pilot exams now that the question bank is not longer published by the FAA
> Just like a UI can be better or worse, so can API: it might be concise, expressive, consistent – or verbose, clunky and completely unpredictable. Just like in UI you don’t want to click through dozens of submenus, in API you don’t want to make a dozen of calls to do something simple.

What you're describing are qualities of an interface, as in a User Interface or an Application Interface. You are right that UIs and APIs are similar, because they are both Interfaces. You are right that a good Interface has certain qualities, whether it's a UI or an API. For example, a GraphQL API tries to address the challenge of, "in API you don’t want to make a dozen of calls to do something simple" by consolidating multiple calls into 1.

That said, API is the interface programs use to interact with an application, UI is the interface humans use to interact with a program. Sometimes you get both: A developer interacts with an IDE or text editor (a user interface), and the IDE or text editor interacts with the underlying layer (an application interface).

What you don't see are humans typing bytes to an MCU server, or any other API. Humans are clicking or typing commands into a program via a UI, the program connects to the MCU server via an API, the MCU server connects to, say, a weather server via an API.
yeah, I mean 3Blue1Brown has done a great job .. and maybe those would be even better if you could app-ify them into something you can interact with.

Current gen of LLM programming AIs might make it less leg-work to make these
Didn't Musk famously shut down one of their data centers reducing their redundancy ?
I am actually working on a project called vimgolf.ai, where I am looking at giving users the ability to practice these commands. Right now, only have a few levels, but looking at expanding to account for 80% of the commands used on a daily basis. If anybody's interested, please check out. Though please be aware at this time, the site does crash from time to time. Still working on scaling the nvim instances across nodes.
> It's so weird, but I really miss Steve.

When I see the sincere sentiment sometimes expressed towards Jobs, I wonder if something similar is being tapped into when people - often tech people - use and experience LLMs.

To put it a bit bluntly, it almost feels like there's a mystical or religious element to it. As if we desperately want there to be miracles, and oracles, and god-like, caring men who can provide us with beautiful products, and rituals, and a future where everything is sleek and bountiful and timeless. As if some spiritual "hole" were being filled.

I don't mean to disparage anyone who feels fondly towards Jobs or LLMs, I'm merely sharing an observation of mine.
The other question is why did Germany/EU disarm in the first place when the US didn't, despite not living next-dorr to Russia?
Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses
ouch, I am certain some people did the same for nokia against android/apple :P
Don't for the Touch Bar.
It's definitely reused again.

And there are definitely question banks. I saw my team go through (the company recommended lists) in a meeting and we selected some questions
“When I began to navigate psychospace with LSD, I realized that before we were conscious, seemingly self-propelled human beings, many tapes and corridors had been created in our minds and reflexes which were not of our own making. These patterns and tapes laid down in our consciousness are walled off from each other. I see it as a vast labyrinth with high walls sealing off the many directives created by our personal history.

Many of these directives are contradictory. The coexistence of these contradictory programs is what we call inner conflict. This conflict causes us to constantly check ourselves while we are caught in the opposition of polarity. Another metaphor would be like a computer with many programs running simultaneously. The more programs that are running, the slower the computer functions. This is a problem then. With all the programs running that are demanded of our consciousness in this modern world, we have problems finding deep integration.

To complicate matters, the programs are reinforced by fear. Fear separates, love integrates. We find ourselves drawn to love and unity, but afraid to make the leap.

What I found to be the genius of LSD is that it really gets you high, higher than the programs, higher than the walls that mask and blind one to the energy destroying presence of many contradictory but hidden programs. When LSD is used intentionally it enables you to see all the tracks laid down, to explore each one intensely. It also allows you to see the many parallel and redundant programs as well as the contradictory ones.

It allows you to see the underlying unity of all opposites in the magic play of existence. This allows you to edit these programs and recreate superior programs that give you the insight to shake loose the restrictions and conflicts programmed into each one of us by our parents, our religion, our early education, and by society as a whole.”

~ Nick Sand, 2001, Mind States conference, quoted in Casey Hardison's obituary
I loved playing starsiege back in 2000. I had a wired college campus connection, but shared with so many students, my pings would go anywhere from 50 to 500 depending on time of day. Near-timeouts showed the client side prediction code in action, with mechs sliding around and then freezing in place.
I remember how i was amazed when i got my first 3d card, a Voodoo 2. It was like having an arcade at home.

The 3dfx logo spining up when you launched a GLide game was something.

Unreal in particular was amazing, i remember as a kid just watching the lighting and the water.

At that time every light in a game had to be colored, just because it could be done. Small rooms with green, red and blue lights moving all over the place, so 90s.

I never had that "Wow" factor again, from there everything felt like incremental instead of revolutionary. How an absolute market leader disapeared in 2 years is incredible.

I think i only got the same wow factor the first time i tested a VR headset.
If by “elite” you call everyone who can write some js then sure.

If you mean developers that know at least something about software- then this is definitely not the case.
> It fills the niche that VBA used to of shadow-IT automation.

As far as I'm concerned, nothing does. People who haven't used it just won't know :-(

The full Visual Basic with GUI drag-drop forms designer[1] mash-up with Microsoft Excel, so the spreadsheet is the form and you can drag-drop the standard components like buttons and textboxes onto the spreadsheet[2], doubleclick them and be inside the full VBA IDE in a button handler subroutine with syntax highlighting and autocomplete and classic on-device full language help and everything[3].

Sure you can't easily version control the code, audit the code, and all that, but it was beautifully hacky and convenient in the way that only "automating a GUI program" can be, and PowerShell and Python can never be, and smartphone apps never are, and web apps never are[4], and nothing I know of has replaced it.

[1] https://devclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/vb6-768x565....

[2] https://www.homeandlearn.org/images/user_forms/launch_form_b... and https://analystcave.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/excel-vba...

[3] https://process.filestackapi.com/cache=expiry:max/XJdCsULaRU...

[4] Userscripts and Greasemonkey and the like make it somewhat possible, but it is not convenient or beautiful or properly supported.
P40s are no longer $150. On eBay, they're at least $250 from China, or $400 for US sellers
Recession priced in. Next up fed ease + lower inflation = SPY 750
https://archive.today/TfXKS
I recently migrated to Orion in order to continue using Ublock Origin, and became a Kagi subscriber as well. Very pleased with the results so far, and I have yet to try the assistant but I'll give that a go today.
If I remember correctly to get transparent water the level also had to be re processed through the "vis" program with a transparent water flag set.

vis did a precalculation for where a level segment(the partition in binary space partition) could be seen from any other level segment. the end effect was that while glquake did have a option for transparent water, the geometry would not draw on the far side. making the effect useless without a bit of extra work. But I have to admit I have no idea if entities(other players) would draw or not.

update: found this https://quakeone.com/forum/quake-help/general-help/4754-visp...

Apparently there is a no_vis option to run without the visible set optimizations.
> The key point is that it's not just about cookies; any persistent tracking requires consent.

The law mandates that you inform the user if you are setting any type of cookies. So its necessary to have a banner even if you don't need to get consent. You could inform the user in other ways, but cookie banners are easier.
If you're looking for a symbolic way to register disapproval of Google, an alternative is to install GrapheneOS.

Of course, Google would probably prefer that people go to GrapheneOS (where users currently are still a little at the mercy of Google) rather than to Apple (where that's an additional customer for the competition).

But you might find, as I did, that you also don't fully like how Apple treats customers.

So, GrapheneOS seemed to be the most practical compromise for me, right now.
The game looks cool!

Building an AI Built Games directory at https://aibuiltgames.com

It went mid viral https://x.com/rrmdp/status/1895169783747801435?t=WeA11H9Bafg...

70+ games in the list please submit yours!
Magpies and crows are using “anti-bird spikes” to make nests (2023)
Isn't "the distribution" a state?
Spatio-temporal dynamics of future carbon stocks in natural forests of China
There's similar weighing laptops out there. The LG Gram line for example, some of the ThinkPad X series.
Still waiting for apple to re-embrace the 11 or 12inch laptop market again. The 12in Macbook was so let down by its Intel SoC, it could really shine with what they have now. Personally I think they should just shove the A18 / A17 Pro into the smallest laptop possible. My iPad Mini (2024 A17pro) is so close to being a perfect little laptop if iPad OS wasn't so limited.

Shout out to the Powerbook 12 inch for convincing me we don't need to go bigger ever again.
Related: https://stackoverflow.com/q/79454372/523612
Just a fascinating picture into a field I know little about.

It is frustrating that deforestation still continues at its own pace with little regard for the sometimes irreversible loss of forests throughout the world. I guess this gives us a little hope that we can simulate old wood in new wood trees, but once the old wood trees are gone, they're gone.
it’s been a while since I’ve been a beginner so I might not have the best resources, but I would recommend Harvard’s Stat 110 with Joe Blitzstein (lectures online) and then Machine Learning by Kevin Murphy. might be a scarier book to someone not confident in their math, but overall a better one imo

for something more directly comparable to the niche ISLR filled, Bishop’s books are generally better - although I can’t recall their title
They are not worried enough. Taiwan, despite the existential risk, spends less than the UK (perc gdp).
I am not in the US and yes, it is not a thing (though there was a pizza place that had phone order, but that's rather an exception).
Sweden's military exports set record highs
The comment I was responding to said/implied that transgenic research is somehow politically prohibited now. This is simply false, and no amount of hand-wringing about what the president meant is relevant to the question I was addressing.

The one thing that is absolutely undebatable is that he wasn't talking about transgenic research, yet somehow that has become the meme.
Got my 50 bucks last week, a pleasant little something to partially cover battery replacement I paid a 100 EUR for after three years of use. I wish phone batteries were as simple to replace as in 00's. Maybe my next phone will be like that in several years, gonna keep my 4a meanwhile.
:Lexplore opens a split window with a directory listing you can navigate.

:33Lexplore opens the split with a slimmer, 33% width, window. :Lex<tab> to autocomplete if you do not want to type as much.
Copy the link, send it to your friends, and start chatting.
A technical history of Acorn Computers
Isn't that basically the new Air, minus the ports?
The 9070 cards are hard to find, and inflated 30% above MSRP right now. Apparently the supply of fuse-crippled 9070 cards was just used to up-sell 9070 XT (easier to find.)

Have a look at the GamersNexus YT rant about it... They make a fair argument in that price range an older model used RTX nvidia card may be a better value.

Depends on your use-case, as rtx 5090 nvidia AI frame interpolation is dog crap hype for CGI or CUDA accelerated ML libraries.

Personally, I would go with the rtx 4090 or even an rtx 3090 with 24G vram for ML and CGI workstation, as CUDA+Optix has better software support. For just gaming, the 9070 XT is a better deal when the MSRP is within range. Depends how willing you are to get ripped off by scalper prices right now. lol =3
The camera and mic are generally regarded as security sensitive because of the possibility that they can be used to surveil. That’s why it’s a selling point to have physical hardware or hardware-bound controls or indicators that can’t be bypassed by the OS.
U.S. Climate Aid Cuts to Leave Large Gap in Global Funding
Fixing go 1.24's tool directive biggest problem
anti-matter-millionaires
You could always physically mount them but there were compatibility issues as Nikon added functionality over the years. It was a tradeoff.