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by SilasX | 2025-05-14 14:24:50+00:00
I agree with the suggestion to try it, because I've had similar experiences myself in a different area: history. Even reading the dry Wikipedia articles made the old topics seem much more interesting than I remembered them being in school, and did a better job at communicating the significance.

However, I wouldn't be so optimistic about your experience being universal. As an experiment, I just started re-reading The Great Gatsby. While it's much better than I remember, it still felt like a slog and failed to hook me in a way that such prized "you have to be familiar with this" literature should be. And I still think they could have done a better job communicating what's so good about it.

Relatedly, I only recently learned that some (most?) people actually like iambic pentameter, that it adds to the joy of hearing the lines read. This is a revelation, since it ... doesn't do anything for me. But that fact feels like it's important subtext that could have been communicated, and I could have been pushed in that direction -- that seems like the obvious move. And yet it just wasn't. Sure, they taught that Shakespeare used it, but only as a dry "oh hey this is one thing to note about his works" not in a "oh and this is a big part of its appeal".

There are a lot of missed opportunities for teaching appreciation of literature.
by globie | 2025-05-14 14:24:58+00:00
I don't understand how this post stacks up against the myriad of communications apps that not only require phone verification when creating a new profile (and maybe SMS2FA), but put great effort into blocking as many VoIP/burner/prepaid numbers as possible.

"Most"? maybe "a troubling few"?

Phone verification is absolutely a widely exploited data mining opportunity, I don't see how it's a red herring at all. It's one of the worst surveillance mechanisms we live with today, only partially waved away with the 2000's concept of burner numbers.
by bombcar | 2025-05-14 14:25:41+00:00
Homer and Shakespear at least have the advantage of being referred to all the time elsewhere. If you don't at least know the basics of Romeo and Juliet you're going to be confused many times (there's something called Romeo and Juliet laws, for goodness sake).

I can't recall anything referencing the Great Gatsby, but maybe they went over my head because I can't recall anything about that except that the Gatsby was apparently Great.
by Symmetry | 2025-05-14 14:25:47+00:00
Back when I read Dickens or Gatsby I hadn't read enough history to really understand what was going on because I'd was missing a lot of context that changed the meaning of events in the book. Gatsby could serve as launching point for learning about the history of the automobile, prohibition, traffic safety, attitudes towards Jews, New York development and geography, and a lot of other things.
by chlodwig | 2025-05-14 14:25:53+00:00
Who in 2025 is actually against putting Lord of the Rings in the curriculum because it is too "popular" or not old enough? It's the same age as a lot of other classic high school texts (1984, Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, etc.) And I think it's quality is actually even more appreciated now than when it became popular. It seems like it is just inertia keeping it out, plus most of the people who want to reform the curriculum want newer books than Lord of the Rings.
by iggldiggl | 2025-05-14 14:26:39+00:00
With file access, the sensible solution would have been of course to just overlay the permissions onto the regular files API (like I think every other sandboxing solution does), so everything that uses files could keep working as usual and you'd just have to add some limited code to request the appropriate permissions [1], but I guess that would have been too sensible, and when all you've got is a SAF, everything looks like a nail or something…

From what I've gathered, getting access to a single user-picked file via SAF isn't too painful, but for browsing a whole directory tree it's more annoying having to use a completely new API for that, doubly so when you're using a library that expects regular files, plus performance is somewhat lacking, too (judging from complaints and bug reports I've seen, both in that it is easy to run into performance pitfalls, but also that even best-case performance is still worse than classic file access).

[1] I think something like that was actually implemented for Android 11 onwards, judging from https://source.android.com/docs/core/storage/scoped#using-sc...? Although possibly still at some noticeable performance cost.
by jdietrich | 2025-05-14 14:26:45+00:00
This kind of service does have at least one very valuable niche application - armed forces personnel on active deployment. During the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, British troops received hundreds of thousands of letters every month through the e-bluey service. Letters could be sent via email (including attachments) and were printed as close as possible to the recipient. It greatly reduced logistics costs and improved speed of delivery, often facilitating next-day delivery to extremely remote Forward Operating Bases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Forces_Post_Office#The...

It isn't an entirely novel idea - during the Second World War, mail was often sent to very remote destinations on microfilm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-mail
by perching_aix | 2025-05-14 14:26:57+00:00
I'm not entirely convinced that greedy influencers are to blame for people hating on overly bright content. Instead, I think something is different with how displays produce brightness compared to just the nature outside. Light outside is supposed to reach up to tens of thousands of nits, yet even 1000 nits is searing on a display. Is it that displays output polarized light? Is it the spectral distribution of especially the better displays being three really tight peaks? I cannot tell you, but I'm suspecting something isn't quite right.

All this aside, HDR and high brightness are different things - HDR is just a representational thing. You can go full send on your SDR monitor as well, you'll just see more banding. The majority of the article is just content marketing about how they perform automatic tonemapping anyways.
by lxgr | 2025-05-14 14:27:31+00:00
Beyond "just" being phishing resistant, for banking/payments, WebAuthN even has the opportunity of providing "what you see is what you sign":

The Secure Payment Confirmation [1] extension to WebAuthN supports using passkeys on third-party sites (think merchant checkouts) and including signed structured messages (think "confirm payment of <amount> at <merchant> on <today>").

It wouldn't be crazy to imagine authenticators with small OLED displays to provide an end-to-end secure channel for displaying that information, similarly to how cryptocurrency hardware wallets already do it.

Of course, this would require a certain popular hardware and software manufacturer with a competing payment solution to implement the extension...

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/secure-payment-confirmation/
by fragmede | 2025-05-14 14:27:32+00:00
The idea that I have to not lose a private key file to access my own money is terrifying, and on top of that, if someone else gains access to that file, they will steal my money is just a horror show on top of that. I also worked at a FinTech for a few years but it's not relevant. What is relevant is how much you trust your own opsec and the level of organization you have for your own files. I can believe that some people find self-custodial ownership of significant amounts of crypto reassuring, but I do not.
by zdc1 | 2025-05-14 14:27:45+00:00
One thing I'd love to see is dynamic CPU allocation or otherwise something similar to Jenkin's concept of a flyweight runner. Certain pipelines can often spend minutes to hours using zero CPU just polling for completion (e.g. CloudFormation, hosted E2E tests, etc.) In these cases I'd be charged for 2 vCPUs but use almost nothing.

Otherwise, the customers are stuck with the same sizing/packing/utilisation problems. And imagine being the CI vendor in this world: you know which pipeline steps use what resources on average (and at the p99), and with that information you could over-provision customer jobs so that you sell 20 vCPUs but schedule them on 10 vCPUs. 200% utilisation baby!
by JeremyNT | 2025-05-14 14:27:47+00:00
You're right, I'm thinking about the future. We're still in the window where the tools aren't really ready.

If you need to get shit done right now you have to mostly do things the old way with similar headcount. I assert though that on the margins the market is already shrinking - if for no other reason than employers with longer time horizons are looking to target future employment levels.
by Solsticebay | 2025-05-14 14:28:16+00:00
I sent an email to complaints department and they said wait 15-20 days, we waited then they responded with what I wrote here which is funds won't be made available to you. I asked clarification and they did not respond for 20 days

So I guess I will take legal action but I hope this to be resolved faster because lawyer told me these things can take years...
by paul7986 | 2025-05-14 14:29:08+00:00
It's for trip planning & discussion ... showing my friends how far each route is from each other to then discuss and plan each travel day.

Also, you mentioned using a drawing program ... i use GPT for everything and can just type to ask it to create this or these types of images (when it finally does maps) why would I use anything else to create these images automagically without any work or effort on my part minus typing the request for it into a text box? I am lazy along with billions of other people are the same and why they use and will continue to latch onto GPT.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-14 14:29:17+00:00
> I could teach anyone to make faster software in an hour or two,

Is one or two hours of two engineers' time more than zero hours, or no?

> just a little learning up front

Is a little learning more than zero learning, or no?

IMO your argument would hold a lot more weight if people felt like their software (as users) is slow, but many people do not. Save for a few applications, I would prefer they keep their same performance profile and improve their feature set than spend any time doing the reverse. And as you have said multiple times now: it does indeed take time!

If your original position was what it is now, which is "there's low hanging fruit," I wouldn't disagree. But what you said is there's no tradeoff. And of course now you are saying there is a tradeoff... so now we agree! Where any one person should land on that tradeoff is super project-specific, so not sure why you're being so assertive about this blanket statement lol.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-14 14:29:55+00:00
The future being grimdark isn't new, that's true.

But humanity had so much finding out to do. Average material conditions haven't moved steadily forwards, no, but humanity has been overall rising. Science and technology developing, insights to the natural world happening & spreading, cultural elements forming & flourishing. The powers that be in the world were quite regionalized, had their fingers in only small pies: there was similarities across the world but it was characterized more as many individual experiments rising and falling, a variance among societies where many things were being tried in many ways. The difficulty in survivng (for much of this time) was overall characterized by the difficulty of finding food in the world, which was brutal work but work against nature.

Today, things are so different. We all see (or can see if we want) the whole world. Progress has tapered down. The bold efforts for progress like the New Deal and international order (UN) have been worn down or unrepaired (notably the security council sotuation). But more than all that, we have lost the civilizational diversity that fed change and growth. We don't try new things, our systems don't shift: we are locked on course, path dependence amid the vast global network of international trade. The efforts to try new things are small tweaks, of limited scope: Obamacare (much protested), 4 day work weeks, some small scale UBI. We have seen so few attempts to house and feed the populations of the world, so few attempts to broaden education. The millions of enterprises across the world keep being hoovered up into ever larger companies with ever more high up and far off seats of power, the 0.1%'s ascent over us all and control of the world's money supply and markets extends and extends.

The stagnancy and unflinching singular trajectory we are all locked into is pitiful. Humanity feels so a long for the ride of a couple absolutely insane pathological freaks. That loss of diversity, the consolidation of many things into fewer and fewer, is an evolutionary stagnancy which even if unconsciously experienced weighs enormously heavy on the human souls of today. It feels terrible, feeling like as the wheel turns, it's not the rise and fall of civilizations, but now the plight of us all, enmeshed, and knowing that we do so very little have so few levels to pull, so few positions of any real power to steer this.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-05-14 14:29:59+00:00
Not to mention, more people than we realize are on their phones. For those of us who use both a phone and computer, it is VERY easy to overlook.

For example, my wife, she is primarily on her phone as a computing device. Only recently after buying a Mac Mini and a Cricut is she back to using a standard computer. She might borrow my laptop for online shopping just so she can open 50 windows and 80 tabs to consume all available memory on my Macbook Air, but that's probably because Safari on iOS has sane tab caps.

I also know that games predominantly for PC / Web have become predominantly mobile over the years. There's a reason Roblox plays on your phone and tablet. You might not have the specs for a gaming machine, but your iPhone / iPad / Android definitely do.
by skhameneh | 2025-05-14 14:30:16+00:00
Isn’t HLG using floating point(s)?

Also DCI-P3 should fit in here somewhere, as it seems to be the most standardized color space for HDR. I would share more insight, if I had it. I thought I understood color profiles well, but I have encountered some challenges when trying to display in one, edit in another, and print “correctly”. And every device seems to treat color profiles a little bit differently.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-14 14:30:28+00:00
I have little doubt that by the time this is over, they’ll be teaching public school kids that WiFi causes cancer, the earth is flat, psychic powers work, vibrating crystals can cure diseases, the moon landings were fake, and professional wrestling is real.

I actually miss the GOP of the 90s, who just wanted to teach that the Earth was 6000 years old and that Jesus rode dinosaurs.
by throwanem | 2025-05-14 14:30:34+00:00
Okay gotcha gotcha. I don't know what a "Wonderlic" is but for what it's worth, up to now, you're the only other person in this entire thread I'm convinced has actually read the book.

Either that, I suppose, or you're a very skillful prompter. I confide you won't take the qualification too personally, recognizing that 2025 merely requires it.
by lxgr | 2025-05-14 14:30:51+00:00
> Subscribe to mightytext.net so you can get SMS on your computer. I don't know if this works if your cell phone can't get signal

It can't – how would it?

The only entity that can forward texts is the carrier, and I doubt that that service is integrated with all US carriers to somehow get them forwarded (which is technically quite difficult for various legacy protocol reasons).

Apple's satellite messaging service is the only solution I know of that can somehow hook into carriers' SMS home router (or IMS equivalent) infrastructure to intercept and out-of-band forward SMS.
by logic_node | 2025-05-14 14:31:34+00:00
The introduction of robot chefs at South Korea's Munmak rest stop is a notable example of automation addressing labor shortages and standardizing food quality. These robots can prepare up to 14 servings simultaneously, operating 24/7 to meet demand.

However, this shift raises concerns about the impact on traditional culinary practices and the roles of human chefs. While efficiency and consistency are achieved, the unique touch and cultural significance that human chefs bring to traditional dishes may be diminished.

It's worth considering a hybrid approach where robots handle repetitive tasks, allowing human chefs to focus on creativity and maintaining the cultural essence of the cuisine. This balance could help preserve culinary traditions while embracing technological advancements.
by quantadev | 2025-05-14 14:31:50+00:00
I had an interview once to work for IPFS, with a guy who already knew my skill level well (decades of experience), because I was active on their web forum solving everyone's problems, for about a year. Even during the interview he mentioned the technical part of the interview wasn't even necessary, because he had total confidence in me, and didn't even ask technical questions at all. He spent the ENTIRE hour selling me on the job. I hardly had time to speak. Everything went perfectly fine. Then he asked me to do the take-home project at the very end, just because "everybody has to", and I politely told him sorry I don't do those. So that ended the opportunity. So you're exactly right it's absolutely an "inertia" thing.
Show HN: ViSOR – two-plane neural scenes you can fly through (code+demo)
by firebird854 | 2025-05-14 14:32:03+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with ways to turn NeRF‑style view synthesis into something you can actually move around in, at interactive frame‑rates, without a data‑center GPU.

The result is ViSOR (View-interpolated Sparse Occlusion Refraction), an open‑source prototype that compresses a whole scene into two learned planes:

Occlusion sheet — stores diffuse colour, soft alpha, specular highlights.

Refraction sheet — fires three slightly bent sub‑rays through a learned micro‑prism to add parallax and a bit of chromatic sparkle.

Because everything lives in those planes, rendering is just two texture‑lookups and a tiny MLP each, so:

≈15 fps at 512 × 512 on an RTX 4090 (current unoptimised Python path).

1–2 GB VRAM while flying around.

Core network weights are only 3.4 MB; a baked spherical‑harmonics lighting grid adds 200 MB if you want nicer global illumination.

The code is in PyTorch with tiny‑cudann hash‑grid latents, Apache 2.0 licence. A single 309 MB checkpoint (network + SH grid) is included for a plug‑and‑play demo — python visor_view.py demo.pt, then WASD to fly.

What works well so far

Glassy or highly specular objects — the micro‑prism trick gives decent highlights.

Memory scales with “number of planes,” not scene size, so multiple ViSORs can tile a larger world.

What’s missing

Training is still slow (single‑scale loss, no fused CUDA kernels).

Only tested on synthetic Blender images; real photos will need exposure/tone‑mapping work.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-14 14:32:19+00:00
>A host of niche but u

Sorry, it was lost in the 100 pounds of spam they deliver to my house every year. If they even do what you claim (if), they undermine that with their true priority... junk mail.

>They'll never add up to the volume or economic profitability of junk mail,

That profitability comes at the expense of our privacy, irritation, costs to dispose of (in a landfill) the trash, and our ability to be reasonably notified of those same official documents you mentioned above.

You don't even know why you want the US mail to continue, but you're scared that if it stopped bad things would happen. They have virtually no value whatsoever, and whatever infinitesimal value remains is sabotaged by their obnoxious spamming enterprise.

>When Evan and Will got called in to meet with the postmaster general, they were joined by the USPS’ general counsel and chief of digital strategy. But instead, Evan recounts that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe “looked at us” and said “we have a misunderstanding. ‘You disrupt my service and we will never work with you.'” Further, “You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.'”
by sovietmudkipz | 2025-05-14 14:32:46+00:00
Not a bad concept. I already do something similar

I already use LLMs to quiz me on books that I'm reading. The current book I've been studying is "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (8th edition)." Obviously since it is a text book, there are homework problems and other discussion points. However; it's also fun to ask grok/chatGPT to quiz me on previous chapters and correct my answers.

There's plenty of conference talks posted on YouTube that I've watched over the years. Next talk I watch I will probably test out being quizzed by LLMs.
Why does code always look better in Gitlab/GitHub than in my editor?
by pachico | 2025-05-14 14:32:47+00:00
No matter how much I fine-tune my editor (these days I only use VSCode), code always feels more pleasant and polished when I see it in GitLab or GitHub compared to inside the editor itself.

I've tried different themes, fonts, colours, even tried to mimic the same look as the web UI (after all, VSCode is also Electron-based!), but I still get the same impression: code looks cleaner and somehow more readable in the browser.

Has anyone else experienced this?
by nullderef | 2025-05-14 14:32:57+00:00
TikTok - you don't need followers to get views. It's not easy, especially if you've never used the platform before. But for B2C it's one of the best platforms.

Do founder stories ("I built this") or demos ("here's this SaaS you'll like"). They get less views than memes or tangential videos. But conversion is much higher and you'll get replies from people who liked it or tried it out. So you can send them a message to ask for feedback.
by DrillShopper | 2025-05-14 14:33:16+00:00
I actually do have two GPUs in my machine, but that wasn't my initial plan when I built this machine. I use the iGPU in my CPU to display my desktop and use my dGPU for Steam under Linux. When I want to run Windows I can unhook the dGPU from Linux, pass it through to Windows, and then both my Linux graphical session and Windows run at the same time. If you have a single GPU then the act of unbinding from Linux it to pass it through to a VM terminates your Linux graphical session (everything not under that graphical session keeps running) until you exit the VM and rebind the GPU to Linux.

As for the second part - yes. Typically you want to export the environment variable DRI_PRIME and set it to the index of the card you want to use to render and it will be displayed on the currently active display card.

The steps might be slightly different if you're using an nVidia card - both of my GPUs are AMD.