skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is not performance but battery life.
> The problem with the "walled garden" is that it is insidious.

The problem with all the other options I’ve seen is that they are worse.
Here are a few 90s videos with/about Kai Krause that I feel captured the zeitgeist of the time:

Kai Krause Interview (1996): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Qie-kP3Lk

KPT Bryce 1.0 with John Dvorak and Kai Krause: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY8GPU5osx4

"The Program": https://youtu.be/ZGLjPYgs8bg

Kai Krause at TED8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rw2LGHnCA

His website is worth a visit, too: http://kai.sub.blue/
If I CTRL+F for "blue noise" on the wiki page I can find nothing suggesting that (and I promise I haven't ninja-edited anything), so I think there is a misunderstanding somewhere. Could you please cite the passage that gave you this impression, so we can clear up how we end up drawing different conclusions?

EDIT: Oh, I think I see the source of confusion:

> A matrix tuned for blue noise, such as those generated by the void-and-cluster method, produces a look closer to that of an error diffusion dither method.

If you use a dithering matrix it is by definition ordered, yes. Because it is tiling that matrix in a regular pattern. The matrix has been randomized via a blue-noise method. The test image seems to use a 16 by 16 matrix, which is very small - the seams are clearly recognizable.

However, "blue noise dithering" typically refers to generating a blue noise texture as large as the image to be dithered. This article does so, for example:

https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/

But yeah, I can understand the confusion now. The wording of the wiki article could be clearer.

PS: in case your curiosity has been piqued, here are some more articles on blue noise and dithering:

https://blog.demofox.org/2018/01/30/what-the-heck-is-blue-no...

https://blog.demofox.org/2019/06/25/generating-blue-noise-te...
Ask HN: Could internet-only phone work?
I've been thinking about this for a long time and when Starlink announced Direct to Cell feature the other day it made me think it might be actually possible to create a satellite receiver small enough to fit into a smartphone, remove 3G antenna and have a truly private internet-only (https) phone. You know, StarPhone.

Could that work if it meant making phone numbers and ISPs obsolete (considering we use phone numbers for authentication in a lot of our public and private infrastructure)?
I've been working on a simple calendar app too that is based on this layout. I find the layout cleaner and simpler to comprehend time passing over a year.

[1] https://calii.tiimo.app/
This article made me realize I can never even see the scroll position in Safari, especially on a dark page like that one. And I've gotten used to never seeing it. I don't even look anymore.

Safari's scrollbar on that page is white on white. ???
Poor ADSB coverage there?

You need to have one nerdy geek to record the data per ~500 mile circle of the globe.

Thats why ocean coverage is bad too.
My half baked project (more of an idea really) is a toe-clipping robot.

No really, I'm serious.

Like many older folks I have some mobility issues. Nothing that stops me from doing most things I need to do, but trying to bend over every couple of weeks for minutes at a time, and trying to get a good look in an awkward position to make sure I'm getting a reasonably straight cut to avoid ingrown nails is a challenge.

Of course there are all sorts of folks (like myself) who somehow manage, but there are a lot more who can't.

Yes there are things that claim to be solutions out there. A big one is a clipper attached to a long pole with a trigger to squeeze the clippers. If you already have mobility issues that ends up feeling more like a Rube Goldberg solution (I highly recommend trying it yourself sometime if you need proof it doesn't really work).

Yes, you can pay for a pedicure - but those are a little expensive if you go out for it, and very expensive if you pay for them to come in.

The robot itself would need to be able to manipulate two stainless steel plates to clip the nail but not the toe. I suspect a vacuum that has both Lidar and a Camera could be hacked into such a beast - though the programming would obviously be a challenge.

And yes, if you can price it under $1k I guarantee to buy the first one :-)
Japan Should Sell Nintendo
Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellite cell service to launch in 2024 only for SMS
Don’t get me wrong I’m a big Home Assistant fan, I use it everyday for automations around the house but I just don’t see voice control as a necessity. I feel, and have always felt, that voice control is a gimmick. Do we really need to switch on lights or open the garage door with our voice? Is a switch really that hard to use?

Of course there are certain circumstances where voice control makes sense, e.g. for people with disabilities or people with their hands full (think cooking, painting…etc)

I would love to hear from HA users about how voice control solves immediate problems for them - particularly ones that a switch can’t solve
https://github.com/muxamilian/poor-mans-vr

A poor man's VR: Using the front camera and tensorflow.js, the smartphone becomes a “window” into the real world. Video and image content appear as if they were seen through this window. To do this, the viewer’s position is determined using a neural network. The viewed content is then moved according to the viewer’s position. This makes it seem like the content is physically behind the smartphone and is viewed through the smartphone’s screen. This effect is especially useful for content captured using an ultra-wide lens.
I’m speaking to myself more than to you (I am in the same boat): invest in yourself, not your job.
That’s actually super illegal, at least in America. There’s a lot of very tight restrictions against buying your own product, as it can lead to false sales numbers, etc. Something tells me that if this story were true, it would be very much something he’d want to keep hidden at the time.
launchd is one among many.

systemd adoption across Linux distributions and the features everyone complains about, predates his hiring process by several years.
https://geonde.com/

https://github.com/vinc/geonde.com/

I've been looking into carbon aware computing recently and I wanted an API to get the carbon intensity of the electricity grid in Europe. Then I needed weather data so I reused a piece of code I built a decade ago to get forecasts from the GFS, and another one to get real time data from airports around the world. And finally I needed another API to get the latitude and longitude of a city so I reused yet another old piece of code I wrote a long time ago.

After a month of coding it looks like I got the beginning of an environmental platform for green computing. But it's definitely half baked. And there are good alternatives for each API that exists already.

I found a domain for it and made a landing page, and who knows, it might be useful to other people.
My anecdotal evidence is below .

I went to the Apple Store to get replacement AirPod Pros and while I had to do it a few times it was still under warranty and they gave me a set of replacement Airpors pro.

I received a broken Pro Display XDR (red line on it) and they gave me a replacement but I had to pick it up and also give them the old one.

I was having screen problems with my first MacBook Pro I bought with my Pell grant (zebra pattern with the backlight) they gave me the newer model of my MacBook Pro. This is where they earned my loyalty.

The worst experience I had with Apple is that they lost my Touchpad Macbook but they eventually returned it.
I developped a social non-network trying to optimise for positive interactions. I have a CLI version running happilly on a pubnix (rawtext.club), and am looking for a way to host it on the web too.

So unless you're part of RTC I can only share the blog and readme at the moment :-/

https://rawtext.club/~ahub/be_kind/
Cool, sounds like a fun place to live! Thanks for that :)
I never met him, but hat some good talks per mail with him. All that sounded not like he don't want to answer emails.
But the talk started with 'Your website is really meh, are you serious with that?' and he answered with 'yeay, you are right, it's just a overstated placeholder, here is the link to the real website, it's nearby done'....and then came a link to a website looking like a book, really cool in 1999.
I'm regularly finding that people don't seem to understand the "already crossing the road" part. On several occasions I've had people start to cross a few feet in front of me when I'm indicating and have already started turning, causing me to stand on the brakes and risk a shunt from the car behind.
This probably relates to whether you put more value on money or your time.

Personally, I don't want to collect all music that I listen to (which I can do for virtually free through streaming services). I also find the likes of last.fm cool, but for different reasons.

I'm looking for the digital equivalent of a CD/vinyl collection, which these are not.
I am guessing those places have jammers to prevent the attack by GPS guided munitions?
Dependencies are correlated with complexity in my mind. This is based on my experience, which may be different from yours. My experience with node_modules is actually where I started to become wary of dependencies and try to minimize them in my code. You definitely to be careful of NIH. I find sometimes a better approach is just to cut features.

I think I understand the utilty of the Ory stack. Looks like some excellent kit doing excellent work for a lot of people. But it didn't solve my problems.
Excuse me sir, I believe you dropped your cape.
Is complying with the law an excuse these days?
It shows how governments are powerless when it comes to big corporations.

Technically price-fixing is illegal, but if you call it price-matching and you ensure that you don't meet with your fellow competitors somewhere in a dark basement and fix prices under the light of candles, but instead you do it in the open and even say which competitor you match prices with, then it is all good and legal!
Because the UK branches also have to become one legal entity, and obey to the UK legal system.

As strange at is might look like, US companies have to obey the law of countries they operate on.

Which seems to be quite strange apparently, as I have to educate some of them on how German work law works.
The American people- who are the only ones who matter- want to live in a superpower.

Everything America does is in service of maintaining its position as the hegemonic player. The US intelligence agencies have infiltrated every university and tech company since forever. It's their job.
I filed a Radar for this years ago, rdar://problem/46773896. Doubt anyone looked at it. I am confused how nobody seems to have also ran into this considering the WebKit homepage demonstrates this quite well.
Grind leet code, I get. But gym? Is that to make sure your mental health is in order?
Not very useful for people that can only use one hand.
Agreed. It's pretty wild to see the Fed start pointing fingers at businesses when they've been expanding the money supply for over a decade.

That said, inflation does create an environment where businesses can "reset prices" for reasons other than inflation driving up costs. But that's inflation in general - it creates an environment of rising wages, rising costs and a vicious circle where price increases in one place, drive price in other places. It's one reason why inflation is so hard to break. When expectations are that "prices are going up faster" then people's behavior changes.
It’s usually not considered hard only by those who don’t recognize the difference between the hard and soft problem of consciousness. (And of course, those people exist)

Can you prove to me, an external observer, that you have subjective experience? Can you prove the “redness” you see?[1] You really can’t, and that’s why the problem is hard. You can show brain scans, you can explain the interaction of wavelength on the eye etc. but that describes objective, not subjective, experience. So by your previous logic, your subjective experience does not exist because it’s not provable. Or, more relevant to HN, can you pinpoint when adding those systems to a computer suddenly makes subjective experience emerges in the machine?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
USPS workers have at least 3 unions: City carrier, rural carrier, and clerks.
Floppies were fairly reliable. Storage using audio tape, that varied a lot.
It seems like most people who scroll use touch, wheel, or other non-scroll-bar interfaces, and the scroll bars are just a visual indicator of document size and position while navigating it. I know I do— and have for 20 years unless I was using a shitty laptop without a scrolling input method. Maybe unless I'm scrolling through literally millions of lines of text, which is infrequent enough that I'd prefer to have them hidden and revealable by scrolling a bit.

Not having them take up screen real estate and working with most people's usage styles while being configurable for others is the right decision. The problem is systems and applications that don't let you configure them.

People talk about accessibility and their preferences like they are absolute truths— it's a lot more complex. Not having scroll bars sucks for people that never got comfortable with other scrolling input methods and people who use sight interfaces, for example. They couldn't possibly be less relevant to people who use screen readers, and as an input method rather than an Univision visual indicator, only slightly more relevant to people on phones and tablets. Phone and tablet usage has outpaced regular computer usage for quite some time, and that informs users interaction style. Adding visible UI elements adds cognitive load, and for people who never worked with scroll bars out of necessity, they're just another bulky animated distraction on the screen. Most younger users would probably think them about as useful as an always-visible on-screen keyboard.

I guarantee you— the designers at Apple who chose to hide those scroll bars probably thought more about scrolling more than every one of these commenters combined, and that was before they did formal usability studies.
So now we moved from not having alternatives, to alternatives exist but...
The idea that the risk is the pedestrians not the drivers is the problem

Imagine if whenever a car hit a person, it was the car's fault. I bet we'd get less accidents then the current regime.
Sorry, but cheap chi-fi IEMs easily beat them. Other response says KZ ZSN, but that's not really that. I've recently got Moondrop Chu 2 (a ~ $25 budget IEMs) and they're amazing. The case is aluminum, they're quite small and comfortable to wear (should be fine for smaller ears) while fitting snugly into the ear giving good, passive noise isolation, the wire is very soft and fits neatly around your ear preventing them from being pulled out. If you break the wire, you can buy a replacement one following the 2 pin standard. If you wish so, you can get a cable with a microphone - even worst buds have better mics than any true wireless buds can currently deliver.

Seriously, air pods advantage is just being wireless and having some software features like ANC (they're good overall, but that's nothing special). If that is not a killer feature for somebody, they're just really overpriced ok set of earphones.
A lot of economics assumes that businesses don't collude on prices/employee conditions etc, this isn't true in my experience. Casual conversations, business magazines, investors, even monitoring other companies prices all set the norms, a truly free market doesn't exist.
Calgary's Nexix Inc Celebrates 17 Years of Delivering Top-Tier IT Services
Calgary-based Nexix Inc is marking a significant milestone with 17 years of excellence in the IT industry. Over this time, they have become a trusted IT services provider across North America, specializing in managed IT services, IT support, and IT consulting. Their dedicated team offers 24/7 monitoring, data backup and recovery, and robust cybersecurity measures, ensuring businesses have reliable and strategic IT support to meet their technology needs. As Nexix Inc continues to grow, their focus on aligning technology with business objectives remains a driving force in delivering innovative solutions for their clients.
https://github.com/DanielGilbert/Radia

I wrote "Radia". It is inspired by Apache's Directory Listing feature, and can render markdown files. Instead of showing the content of directories, it can also show the content of a remote repository. It is not limited to one directory or repository, and will put everything under the same root.

I'm using it on my private page, g5t.de - which doesn’t have much content yet.
Thank you! I might incorporate those into my sets :)

Currently I'm doing resistance exercises: stand straight, look ahead, then try to turn your neck left, right, up and down, but prevent that by using your hands to push against that.

I'm also doing lying down chin tucks to strengthen my neck. Turns out 10 years of desk work bad.
Nah, as my experience in 30 years of industry shows, those that come up with appeal to authority argument, aren't really interested in listening anyway.

Life is too short to bother.
Are we to suggest buying Microsoft instead? Windows login and forced Microsoft accounts are a thing. I try to justify buying anything but apple for every purchase. Unfortunately, everyone else insists on making their products worse at a faster rate than apple.
If you've got an AI tool, you'd one to submit to multiple directories for backlinks. This article ranks popular AI tools directories by Ahref domain rating
It is absolutely not self evident to me.

I don't have high confidence that what the situation feels like based on the media that is readily available to me accurately reflects reality. Especially when it comes to international relations. There's always news about how the sky is falling.

I honestly haven't followed the various conflicts around the world closely enough over the years to trust any gut evaluation I could make of the current situation vs, say, the conflicts in Syria, Afganistan, Iraq, and Yugoslavia, just to make a few, from the last few decades.

These conflicts are terrible, but what that actually means to the international community on the order of years is non-trivial and far from self evident AFAICT
I thought the USPS was a government agency with unionized employees. What’s the explanation for this abhorrent behavior?
Ask HN: How to monitor Darkweb if credentials of our SaaS product are leaked?
We develop and maintain a SAAS product. Recently, we were notified by an online security provider that a user's credentials from our platform were exposed on the Dark Web. How can we proactively monitor the Dark Web for such incidents? Are there any subscription-based services available that offer continuous monitoring for this purpose?
I guess we don't need ramps because everyone has feet.
The point wasn’t that money is not important, it’s that it isn’t the only thing that is important. Things are rarely binary.
This looks really good. I'll see about adding it to the table.
If you find "wave hunting" this interesting but don't have a SDR / receiver of your own, there are plenty of (free to use) WebSDRs to get started: http://websdr.org/
This type of service has existed long before ecommerce. Brick and mortar retailers pay someone to go to stores and check prices.
If you don't like this law, then come to Baltimore. Civil disobedience is practiced widely. Car drivers are constantly under threat of random people walking right in front of them without looking.
Gaming in the 90's started out on OpenGL, which was and is cross platform. Ports for Quake were being made for things like SGI workstations, because it was relatively straightforward. Microsoft headed off further development in a cross-platform gaming environment by creating a Windows-only API, and making sure developers used it, with lots and lots of money. Windows became the de facto platform because Microsoft used their monopoly to kill off the burgeoning threat of an open ecosystem. If it hadn't done this, Macs and Linux could have been viable gaming platforms, despite their relative marketshares.
Documentation, like a car's turn signals, is about conveying intent.

Just because many people don't use their turn signals (or use them poorly — like the interstate driver who's still had their turn signal on for the last 10 miles), that's not an argument for removing turn signals and letting people just figure out that you're turning at the moment they need to slam on the brakes.

If I'm remediating an incident, I don't want to guess what the code is _supposed_ to be doing. I want to _know_, so that I can spot the problem.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
My advice is pretty simple.

Start with the customer. If you can get them excited & keep them that way, you solved most of the problem. If you are building something with hopes that "they will come" you are burning cash for fun and no one is going to care when it runs out.

The other piece of advice I would add is that, even though SaaS starts with "Software", you should NEVER start with the software. You should be starting with on-site meetings with your customers. Consulting about the processes the software might be able to help with. You should only start talking about things like clouds, containers and code once you have a schema that the customer can look at and go "aha! That's our business!".

Both pieces of my advice deeply involve the customer in some way. It's incredible to me how many "entrepreneurs" are blind to the fact that someone is eventually going to have to want their product, and for profitability to occur that prospect probably can't be their family member, SO or best friend.
Why do you think it is going to be more private than 3G? SpaceX can observe your connections, Starlink is hard to pay with cash, it still needs a precise info about your location.
I've been working on a simple calendar app[1]. It helps me plan annual leave/ school holidays and visualise the time between upcoming deadlines.

I started it just because I wanted to gain a deeper knowledge of the tech it is using (Blazor WASM) and I find building practical simple projects is great way of learning rather than building the traditional tutorial apps.

It might be useful to someone, who knows! Once I've tidied up the code I plan on sharing on GitHub.

[1] https://calii.tiimo.app/
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
― Conspiracy Theorist Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Interesting that the entirety of Cyprus appears to show interference. That must be pretty annoying for anyone living on the island.