Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
pzo
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
37 ms
·
601.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
People who are not working in IT but in a much less paid professions don't have enough war chest and savings to have luxury take a year off to learn new skill. This might even apply to fresh IT students who started collage this year -
602.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
> Realistic view: Unemployment is actually at an all time low despite centuries of industrialization, automation, etc. A key word is "centuries" - previously this industrialisation was not such a rapid process (took centuries i
603.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
Sometimes even dynamic linking might be not enough - on iOS you can build dynamic frameworks that are dynamically linked but they are signed with developer provisioning key when distributed via App Store. AFAIK there is not other way for en
604.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
OP didn't mentioned to slash salaries just by half not by 75%. Most IT people in western countries in Europe are not making even 200k per year. Even in London is hard to get 120k unless you maybe working as a contractor. A lot of those
605.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
> having a body and sensorimotor interactions with the environment are already established as fundamental preconditions for cognition and in turn consciousness. Does someone who is blind is not conscious then? How about when someone who
606.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
and is extremely slow - almost useless for me comparing to previous versions. I would still prefer to choose explicitly GPT-4 model that doesn't browse and don't do image recognition. Now too often it goes to searching the web eve
607.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
Current smart glasses (like those AR glases from Meta) doesn't provide any screen output. Also not everyone want to wear glasses (and many that do need prefer contact lenses). But I agree with your point that some combination of Apple
608.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
same with swiftkey - can handle whispered speech to some extend. Still I would guess Meta Glasses or AirPods should be better to handle such whispered mode since microphones are so much closer. Would be interesting if Airpods had some conta
609.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
xerox as well invented computer mouse and GUI as we know it.
610.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
> Looks like Google has better hardware for AI than anyone else, and they are the only company having both AI research and AI hardware On top of that they have lots of training data: youtube, gmail, google docs, google drive, indexed www
611.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
successor to steam locomotives are not just only electric locomotive but cars, planes, rockets. In few decades we might use more often rockets such as SpaceX for moving cargo or travel. Sure maybe in 200 years we won't get AGI but curr
612.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
This is also not a good question. I had a friend who is freelancer making very good money but was hard for him to even get credit card comparing to someone who has medium salary but has permanent job. Another friend had hard time getting mo
613.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
smartphone industry is just ~15 years old. We have personal PC since like ~40 years only. LLM as ChatGPT 3.5 is not even 1 year old since release. It took still a while before fridge got invented and got into mainstream. 200 years is a huge
614.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
> Would you take the same position in software? Almost certainly not - because it is complex. Why not? > Sure, there's plenty of no-code or low-code platforms out there - but why are they not more popular? I would compare softwar
615.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
How does it compare to this open source shortcut? https://github.com/Yue-Yang/ChatGPT-Siri
616.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
I didn't mean that this is ok to punch someone. My point is it will annoy a lot of people and some will eventually punch you. There are many legal things that if you do you are just asking yourself for a problem. I also think in some c
617.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
Try taking your phone out and start recording when talking to some random people on the street or in shop at cash register, or when talking to policeman etc. and see if none of them will start getting very annoyed or even aggressive - even
618.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
such LED can be covered with tape, paint or damaged on purpose.
619.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
sometimes audio is not enough, e.g. when driving motorbike/scooter in big city (Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur) audio navigation is not enough to on time figure out which lane ramp you have to use at some intersection.
620.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
that 9.6Gbps speed mentioned in the article doesn't apply for most consumer devices because they have only 2 antennas. Only expensive routers have many antennas to reach such speed. Not sure if we can have 8 antennas in smartphones
621.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
another example: Apple added camera continuity for latest tvOS, you might want make video call with 4k at 60fps - sure you probably want to compress it but still you want to reduce latency. Also with smartphones that have 1 TB of storage wo
622.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
compressing big video frames (4k) takes time. If your application is latency critical (and drones moving at 100km/h is) and you are streaming at 120fps you have only 8ms for video frame processing. Sometimes you also want uncompressed
623.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
for iPhones maybe not but for drones or AR devices if you want to stream 4k at 60fps or 120fps then there is a lot of data to send. You could use iPhone as Drone payload for doing some site/construction inspection etc. Same with drones
624.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
I was more thinking if there is some frame collision and have a lot of data to send then overall robustness latency should be reduced? Similar like in a bus even if they travel at the same speed if you miss your bus or bus is full you have
625.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
> Wi-Fi 6's comparable maximum rate is 9.6Gbps. There is no consumer problem of today, no domestic use case imaginable, where 50Gbps works where 10 will not. iphone has just 2x2 MIMO antena so even with WiFi 6 can get only max 2.4Gb
626.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
Then imagine future were we made progress and can make organs the human use in some biolab. Would you still prefer to enforce burning human body after death just to (supposed to) avoid illegal human organ trade? What if the company that cr
627.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
I don't understand some people here that are clapping apple for DRM their devices as kind of protection from thefts. There is a way to have a cookie and eat it too in this case if they would allow user easily to remove DRM via iCloud o
628.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
Do you think pickpocketer take your phone out of your pocket, check it then say "oh shit this is iphone 15 with DRM" and put it back to your pocket ? Pickpocketers will fish anything that is in your pocket and in crowded public tr
629.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
It's just marketing - there are apps where you can already record spatial video such as record 3d. They didn't mention any improvement to lidar. You can even use any truedepth iphone if you are Ok making 3d video using front camer
630.
▲
by
pzo
3y ago
1) Wireless reverse charge from phone - you go take a shower remove phone from your pocket and remove your watch and put on your phone - 10 min shower + 5 min shaving should be enough to charge to 100% as some android phones with 100W fast
More ›