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Show HN: Resurrect the wireless functionality of your old Panasonic cameras
This is fine if we’re talking about spam, but lots of people are trying to find good solutions to send newsletters that people actually ask to have delivered via email.
> Aren't high-level languages supposed to make our lives easier?

Assembly code is easy to learn and easy to code simple programs, but it’s a whole toolbox full of foot-guns and it’s easy to make a buggy unmaintainable mess.
Are we foregoing solar+wind in Europe because that money was diverted to fusion research or is it due to other reasons?
Has anyone made a click-and-drag UI for git? Where you can do operations on branches by just dragging them around.
> " ... is bringing to the table is the idea ..."

Wikipedia states that

"Keep it simple, stupid!", is a design principle first noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960 [0]

... but some coders, including yours truly, has been brought up with that principle as a keystone of programming from day one (which was decades ago). It is related to the more modern DRY principle.

If this is brought to the table now it is only seemingly so, caused by the fact that those at the table must have forgot it, or never learned it. Of course, there are also commercial interests in keeping things as complicated as possible - it could just be that these have had too much influence for too long.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
Give unto Caesar...
Since I spend a lot of time in the web browser, I use the address bar for the same thing. Ctrl+(C then T then V then A then C then W) is my muscle memory "copy without formatting" shortcut.
Pihole doesn't block YouTube ads on the Nvidia shield. You need to run sponsor block on a separate machine.

https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
>Does Apple have developer relations engineers

There's a few that participate in the apple developer forums (quinn is the most notable one). There's also DTS tickets which you can file
I'm guessing the author's website is misconfigured. Every path except the root returns an HTTP 404, but the 404 page loads some JavaScript that fetches assets based on the URL. For example, the ThinkPad blog post loads https://utkarshsingh.xyz/assets/thinkpad-p14s/thinkpad-p14s....

This mostly works, but some browsers will display a warning or their own 404 page. Also it means his site won't be indexed in search engines.
Phew. I was afraid that this was going to be some attempt to be not about Milton.

My best friend gave me this book a few decades ago. I hadn't read it during my literature course years. I read it and we discussed it for months. A worthwhile effort.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359310 - Sept 2023 (354 comments)
Same machine here as well, running the latest Ubuntu (23.10) power profiles do work but auto-cpufreq is way more effective in increasing battery runtime for me.

I can get ~6h of runtime (~10W draw) if i mostly just code in VSCode + some browsing, with display at 1/3 brightness and the code being executed remote. Went with the OLED panel, so that definitively doesn't help battery runtime, but damn those colors are nice :)

I wish they would fit in a bigger battery or do some more tuning so that some cores could actually turn off if they aren't used, id happily accept the spool up time for big jobs, if this could increase the battery runtime a few hours/allow for higher brightness.
What kind of runtimes/draws are you getting?
> The final straw was a suspension issue, possibly introduced due to a regression in the Linux kernel

Wow, I had these in 2012 on multiple machines and thought it wasn’t a year of laptop Linux yet.
We laugh… but this is imminent.
It’s Hunca Munca! Incidentally that’s what we named our Roomba.
>I have moved to Plex, but will probably move off of that as they continue to poison the product.

What's Plex doing? I thought the whole point was to just be a dumb way to host your own server, and then maybe charge for curation or other convenience that you can do yourself.

I have Emby because of availability (no idea why, but Emby was on my Samsung TV app store but not Plex), but its odd to hear of such a service also trying to be greedy.
for me it's distrust of private companies to take public safety seriously even with regulatory oversight. the costs of failure are bigger with nuclear.
Sounds like a great analogy?
4,294,967,295
(1667) :o)
Luckily we have people looking into the future and invest in things that bring us new tech.
That was, indeed, one of the people I was referring to.
Whenever this is posted, it sort of reminds me of the IRS and one way they use to detect fraud.

They observed that sometimes, the amounts in the tax returns were too “random” though not in exactly the same sense as the article.

For example, people manually filling out bad tax returns would never use an amount like $5,000 because the number didn’t feel random enough.

This type of analysis is always fascinating and I still see new applications from time to time.
Is there any laptop these days that comes close to MacBooks hardware-wise and run Linux?
> this is why all thermal based generation is in a death spiral (although natural gas will survive longer than the rest) while solar and wind generation is growing literally exponentially

You’re extrapolating the early learning curve to a mature industry. That ignores the law of diminishing returns. Anyone arguing we can monosource our power is missing fundamental aspects of grid management and the state of technology.
The behavior is common, the only thing suspicious is calling it “tidying up” rather than nest building or whatever.
This exactly summarizes how this last month has felt. Weird, frustrating issues that are weirdly hard to even find documentation on.
I hadn't clocked that he live through the wars of the three kingdoms.
The optimization for size is pretty hard (for me at least). Lots of cool stuff you can do. But if you are on a time crunch/trying to go to production it doesn’t happen.

These days I just default to ‘thin’ implementations like mbedtls when I know it’s gonna come up :)
There was also significant uplight from the 2016 Kaikōura earthquakes in New Zealand. It was quite amazing to see. It lead to massive death of marine organisms that were underwater and then suddenly were not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kaik%C5%8Dura_earthquake
Strain-switchable field-induced superconductivity
Location: New York, NY
Remote: Yes, within the US
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: MS Office, Power BI, StorQM, Airtable
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ODbEFEnA8Y2WfxZWba3oV8sK...
Email: sofi.zalaquett@gmail.com

Currently working as a Project Manager at a bank and looking for a tech role.
I'm running a pihole at home.. but, I definitely still see YouTube ads. I don't see how it's possible with a pihole to block YT as the adds are served from the same domain. I guess you're only referring to the Amazon ads?
> Moreso, it's state violence to deny a basic human need such as shelter for profit

It’s violence to not provide something for free? What do you call forcing someone to build a house for someone else?
Another issue I've personally run into is historic and family photos. Since the person who took the photo is often the copyright holder, often times old photos with no known information can cause some issues with publishing or archiving.

A more detailed example: I was scanning some family photos (for backup/archive/family use, no publishing as of now) and noticed that several have small stickers marked with copyright notices of the small town photography company that took them. I asked my family members and they said the company is no longer in business, but I worry that those photos will never be able to be published until after well over 100 years after it was taken. How can I track down the copyright for such photos?
I found that the Physically Based Rendering book[1] has some nice material on low discrepancy sequences in chapter 8, specifically 8.6 and 8.7. It also contains some neat comparisons of how it impacts rendering.

[1]: https://pbr-book.org/4ed/contents
This doesn't block YouTube ads though. Not for me anyway.
For whatever reason, the PDF that is linked in that email, is temporarily unavailable, so here's an archived link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160312012246/http://www.cs.mip...
It's a test case.
> My biggest pet peeve with typescript is how it never explains most of this stuff officially.

All of it is in the documentation.. And saying that, I ordered two books on Typescript this week exclusively to brush on on stuff like this. So, yep.
Don't forget it costs $30B and takes 20+ years to build!
That’s literally what they have done. My iPhone 15 tells me the battery install date, the cycle count, the remaining life estimate and what performance profile it is using which can be overridden.
Unstable Diffusion
The joys of open source. If one day they want to close up, someone else can continue on what was open. Nice to have an evactuation plan built-in to such services in case things go rouge or the devs simply need to make decisions for themselves over the customer.
Ha. This is excellent.
Fortunately my workouts were short and of the anaerobic nature so I didn't really break into a sweat.
> paroosing

you might mean "perusing" (one of the many vocabulary words, like "quaff", "wield", and "comestible", that I learned from Nethack when I was younger) ?
> lack of a closed ecosystem

It’s a nothingburger—we can hide radioactive waste for a long time. Experts do not see it as a roadblock [1], and it’s a problem that diminishes with new designs.

We’re not closing the loop on solar panels or wind turbines, by the way. Masswise, that’s a bigger problem. Toxicitywise, it’s in the same class after a few years. (Radioactive waste, unlike the worst chemical pollution, degrades over time. Not just dilutes. But actually degrades. The only reason we’re more scared of uranium than ethylene solvents or benzenes is novelty.)

More directly, the world isn’t replacing nukes with solar. We—mostly the developing world—are replacing them with coal and gas. Stalling on nukes to cure public misconceptions is public action at its worst.

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2023/3-questions-knowing-about-nuclear-...
Yeah it's true ARM isn't terrible the few times I've played with it.

In contrast, I Verilog'd up my own homebuilt system with a RISC-V core, and didn't particularly reading/writing in the RISC-V instruction set.
A totally different but very nice approach to generating uniform-ish node distributions is described in this paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089812211...

Useful for PDE and geometry.
Maybe something of a compromise then, first time making it creates a 20 year copyright, any additional years have to be applied for with a fee that increases the more years it's kept.
Next, focus on making something some percent of your users will love.

I think you have a good first pass technical implementation, and your next task is to polish your UX/UI to the point where at least one of your apps will inspire a following of passionate advocates. I don’t think your current pass will do that - the “all in one” interoperability angle alone wont be enough.

The docs market is $100B+ - it’s huge, and highly contended.

Notion targeted creative, designer types with great typography and minimal UI taste. Coda targeted Product Manager types with lots of features for building fluid workflows for complex projects. What’s going to be your first user story & angle?
Looks like a great set of starter apps if anybody wants to try and revive HP's WebOS.
You're correct, it worked on wired networks just fine. I think they're specifically talking wifi.
Had never heard of this, but now I’m gone have to look into it. Thanks m8!
Palantir products gets very little public exposure aside from mockup-looking advertisement materials, I'm sure it would have been cloned as an OSS if we were in 90s so long it amounts to anything substantial, yet there is none. That feels weird.
> get suckered into passively consuming vacuous mass-market media

As opposed to actively consuming indie media on Youtube/Tiktok/Instagram?

What's the angle here? a quip on personal productivity, or a slight against corporations for being creatively bankrupt?
There are decades of quality films worth seeking, some are on Criterion Collection physical media and their streaming service.
An alternative take is that it’s just a fun title for a cute thing that happened in someone’s shed.
> But I don't want the mods running the instance choosing what I can or cannot see because they don't like eg. Harry Potter. That's my individual decision to make.

Yes, such a phenomenon takes place there sometimes, mostly this problem occurs on some little servers with few active users. I don't think it's a big problem for fediverse, there are servers with adequate moderation you can choose or just run your own.
Last time I checked the Lenovo Yoga Pro line has an aluminium chassis and also passes the military testing that thinkpads go through.

Honestly I didn't see much of point in paying more for a thinkpad loaded with enterprise specs(pro chip, for instance) and lacking amenities like a graphic card instead of just going right away to a high end consumer-oriented laptop like Yoga Pro.

Am I missing something?
I'm also considering that P14s AMD Gen4. But to do some ML stuff i need the damn Nvidia cuda cores :/ It has a USB4 port and could in theory run a eGPU but i can't find any infos if it would work.

Also it seams that the [1] intel 1360p is a bit faster? and i'm on the safer side because of real thunderbold support.

[1] https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/intel-core-i7-1360p-vs...
The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)
Obviously. But relax. It is nice to think about something fun for a change.
What makes a corner unreachable?
My naive thinking would be that a given lawyer would be either impossible to con, or ripe for the taking because they believe they’re impossible to con. I’d also guess that if you could manage to con a lawyer, they’d rather fall on a sword than admit they were swindled.
It looks good. The problem for me, to use it is that Google Sheets and Docs are way more fully featured, even if they aren't integrated as neatly as you have done. You will need to find the people for who having calendars, docs and sheets in one place matters a lot. Maybe it is the kind of people who already use notion and obsidian etc.

There are some UX things I think should be looked at:

1. New sheet asks me 'Create source' or 'select source'. One is black and the other blue. I assume they are both links? Looks like I need to click "Create source" to do the thing I would intuitively expect, which is to show me a blank spreadsheet to edit.

2. First column of a new spreadsheet is called "Name" and I cannot rename it, it only has sort options, but if I add another column it is called "unnamed" and I can rename it. I am not sure why this is. Since all I have been told at this point is that it is a "sheet" I am expecting a free homogenous experience like Excel. If it is not that, you might think about how to make it more obvious what it is. (Do I need training, a quick tutorial, a quick highlight-feature/click-next intro etc.?)
Wordpad was essentially just the Text Edit control, wrapped in some GUI cheese. Unless they plan to remove that control, it's trivial to re-constitute the program. When I took a Windows programming course, this was actually one of the homework assignments.
Are we stuck with the Zoo Hypothesis?
What's an example problem?

(Something about building a company of power-seeking people who don't notice, or aren't bothered by, ethical questionability? Some companies have herded those well enough, and thrived for decades, like that.)
What does the cerebellum do?
This scam is pretty active right now. My brother in law was called 2 days prior and they called my wife again 2 days later…

Rough scam script:

- <background audio of police station>
- hello, is this XYZ?
- this is Officer Z, do you agree to abide by Judge ABC’s orders?
- we have been trying to reach you by mail about this case. It has to do with a minor.
- the judge has issued a gag order, do not talk with anyone about this
- look up the number from the phone, see I am really calling from the courthouse

== keep you on the phone, my wife actually didn’t pick up when I called in the midst of the scam and followed with a text ==

- someone committed a crime using your name, we don’t think it was you but because you didn’t respond to mail, there is a warrant for your arrest
- you need to post bail
- go withdraw money from the bank and bring it to the courthouse
- where are you? The courthouse is closing
- it’s getting late, use a 3rd party processor setup during Covid
- go to grocery store, use a CoinStar machine
- send money to phone number (using XLM currency)
Do they still have the mouse nipple?
The Great Marijuana Experiment: A Tale of Two Drug Wars (2014)
That's why player behind dealer always cuts after dealer shuffled.
> describe their fundamental structure

That is literally, literally, what it does.

One may argue that it does so wrongly, but that's a different claim entirely.

> there’s no reason to imply they do

The predictions matching reality to the best of our collective abilities to test them is such a reason.

The saying that "all models are wrong but some are useful" is a reason against that.
ThinkPad P14s = ThinkPad T14 with 64GB RAM and NVIDIA RTX A500 = 1mm thicker ThinkPad X1 Carbon which costs $1000 less
Like Althttpd?

That’s the web server created by the SQLite team and also serves sqlite.org

https://sqlite.org/althttpd/doc/trunk/althttpd.md
I like that idea. Although a sustainable forest also takes carbon out of the atmosphere. (Same for any trees that would have been burned for fire control). We just need to make sure we are not using trees we didn't plant or have to destroy anyway.
I posted details in a reply to myself above
Carta is using cap tables to generate leads
My point around internet availability wasn’t around how you could download stuff but how you could find information.

At the time, the way operating systems were advertised was in trade/enthusiast publications or the occasional tech article within a news publication or campaigns within stores. There weren’t prompts in the OS to upgrade, and most people didn’t think about their OS beyond what came factory installed. Each of the above required people to go out of their way to even know new OS versions were out unless they were enthusiasts.
I have a lot of bookshelves along a wall of my house. People say "wow, how many of those books have you read?" and I say "almost none of them".

If I read a book, I usually get rid of it by selling it to a used bookstore, or handing it to somebody else. I buy books that look interesting when I see them, then take them home and shelve them, and promptly forget about them. When I want to read a new book, I browse my shelves the same way I'd browse at a bookstore, except every single book is interesting, or was at once time.

Sure, it's insane, but it's what I like to do.

A side effect is that I occasionally buy the same books several times, either because I want to reread it, or just because I forget that I've bought it already. That doesn't bother me, they all come from used bookstores I want to support anyway.

I have separate shelves for books I don't want to get rid of, like nice editions and heirlooms. But for the most part, almost all the books I own are unread, despite reading being one of the things I do the most.
Re manufacturing, I went to Fabtech before, they have events in different cities I believe: https://canada.fabtechexpo.com/

Also CMTS which is similar: https://www.cmts.ca/ again I think there are similar ones on other cities.

These are not on the scale of CES.
+1 Insightful
The issue is that discovering whether or not it is incompatible is unclear.

It's never "this doesn't work on Linux".

It's "This SMBus driver is only supported by version 10.1 of arcane library. It will work but first you have to swap out this shim for another one and configure dpkg to never upgrade it. However, this requires that your kernel needs to be compiled with flags foo, bar, and baz. Oh btw, your CPU doesn't support those instructions lol."

I'm being hyperbolic, but it's usually that after some banging your head against the wall you find that, yeah, it could work, but I'm not compiling custom shit to get my function key light working.
Unfortunately the std module alone doesn't help much because 1 second is 3x slower than before the optimization described in the post but maybe more fine-grained modules will (or if std module import made faster).
Yep, it's a thing. Been using it for a few years, works very well here. (it's not free though, you need Plex Pass, though if you're planning to stay for many years, the 1 time fee is worth it, discounted usually 1-2 times a year) https://support.plex.tv/articles/115003944134-removing-comme...

You can also use something like threadfin / xteve to stream free live feeds (things like public channels, depending on where live you may have many or few options) to Plex, which you can then also record.
It seems like someone in the legal department ought to be responsible, up to the chief legal officer. If the company is developing or purchasing a program to automate legal documents, it ought to be a legal executive's responsibility to ensure that program is not breaking the law on their behalf. Someone approved using the program.
This looks very much like the Noevim plugin I began using about a month ago: neogit[0].

The keybindings were a bit rough, and it took me about an hour of use before I was really comfortable with the overall workflow. Once I was, though, I’ve found it to be much faster than my previous workflow (suspending neovim and using git directly in the shell).

0: https://github.com/NeogitOrg/neogit
Yes, we’re all very lucky China is investing in solar power instead of blowing taxpayer money on science fiction.
they started with 100 children. A majority din't pass their requirements. In the end only 43 participated. I don't even hope to expect an success if they repeat the experiment.
France has recently increased its prices on nuclear power. I noticed earlier last year that Germany is importing nuclear power from France, which is subsidized by France. So, and take this with a grain of salt, I am not an expert on this topic, Germany was essentially taking advantage of France. It is possible that they have now fixed this through the price hike.
The article alludes to this, but the quarantine efforts were not actually very successful. See also: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/724888?jou...
RISC architecture has already changed everything. Or did you miss when Apple Silicon basically lapped everybody in performance per watt, while having raw performance numbers comparable to, if not exceeding, x86 hardware?

Sometimes, it really is the case that a great new technology doesn't exist until Apple invents it.
If you look at the absolute worst case of all time, sure! But why do that? Take a look at how the Koreans are doing building the 4 big APR-1400s in UAE, or how China is pounding out Hualong Ones, and Russia has fully serialized VVER production. Heck, Japan could build ABWRs in 36 months back in the 90s.