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The mobile displays we've received in the last few mobile generations have had wider-gamut displays than the displays that came before... but, I wouldn't necessarily call them wide-gamut.

To call it wide-gamut (without a slight wince while doing so), we'd need:

- 1000 nit brightness minimum (some are here and above)

- 99.99% P3 color conformity minimum (although if we're moving color spaces, why not reach for Rec2020)

- No dimming issues (if you've ever tried using a white mouse cursor on a black display, you know how annoying the lighting smear around it can be)

Right now, displays can support those different points and surpass them, but very very few can do all three at the same time.

There are miniLED displays that can support all three, but there's other issues that can pop up that can make them not worth it (e.g. viewing angle, and sometimes still weird dimming).

Then there's the newer microLED displays which avoid those problems, but there's still some production issues.

We're really close to the wide-gamut age, but I still think we need two things before we can cross that threshold and truely say we're in the wide-gamut age.

1. microLED becomes cheap enough to be the norm

2. iOS, and Android remove their "feature" where they oversaturate photos to simulate wide-gamut.

We're nearly there...
go to the YouTube channels of companies like AWS, Azure, GCP --they publish 10 to 30 minute videos of various employees, from product managers to architects etc doing explainers on various topics, products and services they offer.

More generally --the billions of hours and growing of audio video on YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms -- is literally someone in real life (most cases), likely some employee, that could be or become a middle manager somewhere.
Show HN: ReadToMe (iOS) turns paper books into audio
I'm launching something that started as a side project publicly today: ReadToMe, which is an iPhone app that turns paper books and other printed text into audio.

Originally this was a Christmas present for my fiancée, who loves books but has an eye problem that makes it hard for her to read more than a few pages at a time. She mostly listens to audiobooks while following along with the paper book, but some books aren't available in audiobook or even e-book form, and all of the existing apps we tried were surprisingly bad at scanning paper books into audio — they make lots of mistakes, include footnotes and page numbers, etc., in a way that really degrades the experience.

Being an AI-oriented engineer by training, I had a crack at solving the problem myself, and was pleasantly surprised at how well the proof of concept worked. I then had some time free while shutting down my previous company (Mezli, YC W21), during which I polished up the app to the point you see it at now.

The way it works:

On the front end, it's a SwiftUI app (mostly written by ChatGPT!) that consists mostly of a document scanner (VNDocumentCameraViewController) and a custom-built audio player.

The back end is more complex — book photos are first sent to an OCR API, then some custom code I wrote does a first pass at stitching together and correcting the results. Then, the corrected OCR results are sent to GPT-3.5-turbo for further post-processing and re-stitching together, and finally to a text-to-speech API for conversion to audio.

The hardest part of this process was actually getting the GPT calls right — I ended up writing a custom LLM eval framework for making sure the LLM wasn't making edits relative to the true text of the book.

A few issues remain, which I'll work on fixing if the app gets a significant amount of traction, including:

1) It can take multiple minutes to get audio back from a scan, especially if it's on the longer side (10+ pages). I'll be able to bring this down by spinning up dedicated servers for the OCR and TTS back-end.

2) The LLM sometimes does TOO good of a job at correcting "mistakes" in book text. This issue crops up particularly often when an author deliberately uses improper grammar, e.g. in dialogue.

The app is priced at $9.99/month for up to 250 pages/month right now, which I estimate will just about cover the costs of API calls. I'll be bringing the price point down as the pricing of the required AI APIs comes down. There's also a 3-day free trial if you want to try it out.

If you do find this useful, or know somebody who might, I'd appreciate you giving it a try or letting them know! And please let me know if you have any feedback, including issues or feature requests.
There are good questions to ask about the pollution involved in making paper bags but:

1. That has to be compared against the pollution involved in making plastic bags, not against nothing at all.

2. Paper bags can use recycled paper, so it’s not really (directly) from trees.
All these complaints about laws banning these bags are kind of whiny considering how not a big deal this is. C'mon.
I checked the top 10 cars sold in the UK in 2023 and it's hard to say life is gonna change much around me by looking at the cars on that list [1]. All of the cars on that list would still be allowed and I definitely see some "big" cars there. For instance a Kia Sportage is right in the limit of what would be allowed with 1.5 tons, same with the Vauxhall Mokka and the Nissan Qashqai.

If the concern is pollution maybe it's worth it but if the aim was to improve safety for kids and for cyclists I think the limit should be much lower.

[1] https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/best-cars-vans/94280/best-sell...
How are users supposed to change their password?
The same process for buying fruits and vegetables occurred before and after the ban.

It really depends on how you shopped:

Example 1: You buy 5 assorted fruits and vegetables types and have 5 plastic bags with you at checkout. I can't speak for everyone but I'd typically walk out of the store with these bags in my hand because the bags are usually thick enough to not break. I wouldn't use another bag to bag all of the bags because I generally only buy 2-3 of each type at a time.

Example 2: You make a decent grocery run (fruits, vegetables, bread, meats, snacks, drinks, whatever) where you'd probably have 4-5 plastic bags before checkout and then another 4-5 bigger and thicker plastic bags (pre-ban bags) to hold everything at checkout.

In example 2's case you're saving a number of plastic bags with the ban but example 1 isn't or even if you got 1 additional bag to carry everything out you're talking about 5 bags vs 6 here which isn't that big of an impact.

Not all places used plastic bags too. Costco never had bags and some places have paper bags although I rarely see places with paper bags in my area.

When the ban hit in my area the grocery store started to sell their own bags which are pretty robust, these bags will outlive all of us.
As someone a bit older I find these stories somewhere between amusing and sad. How much time do (mostly) young people now waste trying to do substantial work on unsuitable mobile devices with toy apps when they could have been using a proper computer with real peripherals and the right software for the job?
Yes, and so always attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain

Worth a re-watch in this day and age given your comments on the zeitgeist.
Where are you before you go into a shop? Surely some times it's at work or home, or the car. Might help to keep a couple of fold-up bags in each of those spots. Usually habits lag these phased changes by a couple of years, but you get better at being prepared or anticipating times you'll need them.
We'll simply put a serial number on every single-use plastic bag, and link it to a government-issued photo ID card when you accept the bag. There will be a mobile app allowing you to register the transfer of a registered plastic bag to another citizen, possibly using the blockchain. The police will then arrest the owners of lost bags in their copious free time. /s
This is the ballpit sandbox forum for YCombinator, a club for software startup investment fund managers who can quote from the Tibetian Book of the Dead.

The lesson here is that attrition and shrinkage will always be with us, it's only the rate that varies in market accordance with the enshittification of product.

The 'better' the product, the lower the shrinkage.

As supported by a majority of thread comments "I used to pirate when I was poor, then I didn't - now I do again as the commercial offering sucks".

[attribution] https://thebillionscompanion.net/all/tag/Tibetan+Book+of+the...
Was watching the Casey Neistat review video today and it's both crazy as in exciting and somehow terribly frightening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvkgmyfMPks There is just something eerie about the whole thing, like existing on the edge between the digital and real world.

But truly this is the future, there is no stop and it will be miniaturized down to normal glass size sooner or later
Just think, if you put that 4K into an activities fund for yourself you could have weekly meetups in person for a year before running out of cash.
Biggest Wikileaker Joshua Adam Schulte Sentenced to 40 years
Ubuntu 18 went EOL on May 31, 2023 so about 8 months ago. What CentOS are you running that's still in support and was affected by this change? I had to upgrade all my systems last year after the EOL as most python packages dropped 3.8 support.
My entire point is that implementation isn’t sufficient for understanding. Alpha Zero is the perfect example of that; you can create an amazing chess playing machine and (potentially) learn nothing at all about how to play chess.

…so what’s your point? I’m not getting it from those two words.
Only on HN do I see people saying crypto actually mean like bitcoin or whatever. The rest of the technical world still knows crypto as cryptography.
What are non-tech-savvy people actually using for piracy these days?

Torrents require you to own a PC (there's no way to torrent on a phone or smart TV AFAIK), Usenet requires you to have some tech knowledge, same goes for Plex / Jellyfin.

I feel like piracy nowadays is a lot harder for an average Joe than it used to be. People now expect that they can turn on their TV, open an app, enter a title in the search box and start watching, and P2P just doesn't work that way.
Scraping the whole web isn't considered an attack because, well, that's just how search engines work. That being said, there are all sorts of norms (e.g. robots.txt) qualifying what kinds of scraping are accepted.

As far as I can tell, AI researchers assumed they could just piggyback on top of those norms to get access to large amounts of training data. The problem is that it's difficult to call copying an attack unless you go full MAFIAA[0]brain and argue that monopoly rents on creative works are the only functional backstop to the 1st Amendment. Hell, even if you do, the EU and Japan[1] both have a statutory copyright exception explicitly legalizing AI training on other people's text. It's not even accepted dogma among copyright holders that this is an attack.

[0] Music And Film Industry Association of America, a fictional industry association purported to be the merger of the MPAA and RIAA announced on April 1st, 2006: http://mafiaa.org/

[1] Yes, the same country whose copyright laws infamously have no Fair Use equivalent. In Japan, it is illegal to review or parody a copyrighted work without a license, but it is legal to train an AI on it.
If you ran a gas stove and couldn't measure anything, I really question your meters or method - it maybe your house is build like a cheese grater.

My meter was off the charts when turning on the gas range or oven. I didn't get a meter until after a trip to the in-laws when my wife noticed that cooking at their house didn't make her sick, but as soon as we were back home it was an issue.

We swapped the gas for induction and love it - especially the part where she isn't getting sick from using it. Our house is built very tight. The air quality meter also got me to put in an air exchanger. It was great to have numbers before and after these changes.

We had gas because I've always liked cooking on it and it works when the power is out. It was hard to give that up. Now we use a camp stove when the power is out.

I think a ban is too strong. It seems like building codes requiring a range hood that actually works could be enough.
1,183 Beta Applications in 24 Hours! || YT Demo Premiere
Due to the overwhelming outpour of interest in such a short period, I decided to put together a little demo video to further showcase Pear.AI

Check out the sneak peek of our demo and apply to be a part of the closed beta today!

https://www.pivotresearchfoundation.us/project-pear
Honestly it wasn’t bad at all! I’m sort of surprised how nice it was to work with using that setup. I had a little bit of trouble because the terminal/ssh app I like on my iPad (Blink) doesn’t work well at all on AVP, so I had to find another one. I ended up with La Termina which has a UX built for AVP.

I think my only other complaints would be these:

1. Scrolling in Safari can be annoying depending on the website. Last night I was trying to refactor some GitHub Actions, and scrolling through the Action run page, it really wanted to get stuck selecting random parts of the GitHub UI that were close to what I was looking at but definitely not what I was looking at. I want some kind of cursor I can pick up and move in those scenarios I guess.

2. I don’t know why but I kinda expected my iPad keyboard to just work with the AVP, but it obviously did not. I wanted it to work like it does with the Mac, where I can just connect to the iPad as another screen and also use its peripherals, but that was not the case, so I had to run up to my office and grab a Bluetooth keyboard.

All in all it’s not a bad experience so far. I’m not sold on it being better than the iPad just because the AVP is so heavy. But it’s definitely cool having a gigantic 4k terminal floating in the air above my bed while my wife reads her book and calls me a turbonerd. :P
Companion Book:

"Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning" by Andrei Martyanov
I enjoy the writers refined writing style. A beautiful use of Trompe l’œil. The name for 2D art that looks 3D.
It only occurred to me recently that when people compare something to the length of a football field, they are probably talking about American Football. I had always just assumed (without thinking about it) it was the length of an Australian Rules Football field, which can be almost 70% longer!

It must be about time we all just used metres and grams?
Normal way is "site:reddit.com"
Keep a couple of fold up bags at work and take one on the lunch break if planning to shop or if shopping on the way home. I can't think of a time that I went out for a lunch break and then on a whim bought two full bags worth of groceries back to the office.
I was referring to a legal solution to plastic bag littering, which is what "broken windows theory" refers to.

The differences in littering in, say, Japan, have nothing to do with legal differences, because they're cultural. Cultures differ, and they have benefits and downsides. Trying to implement a legal solution to bag littering in the US would work about as well as trying to implement a legal solution in India to get people to stay within their lane when they drive.
Thank you. It’s been a while since I read Candide and while I say “All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds” somewhat regularly, that detail has since fled my mind.
Yes it's easier to keep hitting a pleasure switch, especially if you have a brain of a rat.
this is not accurate.

what he said was "Former Marcos Deputies have alleged that it was also intended to facilitate nuclear weapon design"

Also, its not like The Marcos regime was a stickler for the rules mate....
The biggest problem with games not running well on Linux now seems to be the invasive anti-cheat malware that some of the big online titles demand. It says a lot about Windows and Linux as "secure" platforms that this concept exists at all on one of them but effectively doesn't on the other.
I got back from the Apple Store a few hours ago and that headline is exactly how I felt when I finished the 20 minute demo. It was amazing, it’s the future of entertainment especially sports and that’s the sad part, you will be enjoying it alone.
They omitted the attempt by OG Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver to revive the codpiece:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1975/9/26/eldridge-cleave...
Not quite. The spokesman is a talking about controlled deorbit, where propulsion is used to actively lower altitude rather than coasting down due to atmospheric drag. This is in contrast to controlled reentry, which targets an ellipse on the ground where any debris would fall. The latter requires either much more thrust than their electric thrusters have, or a much steeper reentry angle than Starlink's circular orbits.

Starlink satellites are pretty well aerodynamically balanced when in their "ducked" orientation, but are not going to be able to overcome aerodynamic torques below 200 km or so, meaning they will be unable to point their thrusters in target directions. At that point, there are still 1-2 days before reentry will occur. Hour-to-hour variability in tropospheric atmospheric density due to solar flux levels and geomagnetic activity means that the precise reentry time will be unpredictable to within a few hours (which equates to anywhere along the ground track of a few orbits).
I like them apples.
The commit to add the flag saying JXL was being removed soon was reviewed and approved by James Zern, who also created and authored the commit that actually ripped out the JXL code from Chromium. Zern is one of the co-authors of WebP and is the primary contributor to libwebp.
The problem is that inevitably the boss will forget his signature one day. Who is going to challenge him? And if he his challenged, how will he take it?

Even in the West, nobody of low seniority challenges the C-level executive when they tailgate or walk around without their badge. And if you are new, if there is an important looking individual you don't recognise, you leave him alone, totally validating the "act as you belong adage".
> the less connected we've become as people.

This ^.

I'm hesitant to embrace a tech that so clearly and obviously keeps people separated. At least with a phone, you can position it so 2 people can view it simultaneously.
I think the thought is that you should buy less bags. I'm seeing you in other comments, lamenting the fact that you routinely go shopping without any bags. I'll admit that there could be perfectly reasonable situations that are negatively impacted by the bag levy, however I think the entire purpose of this levy is to discourage you from buying bags. You should have a few, and re-use them when you go shopping. Eventually you'll replace them, but it'll be after a while and it'll be at negligible cost.

If you're buying so many bags that a £1 cost is "outrageous" to you, you are the problem.
> Somehow though, in person I have a solid skill at teaching people technical information at a level they can understand it, I am quick to identify what types of analogies they will understand

That's interesting. There's something odd about me but I don't know what, I'm not like other people and they tend to consider me a bit weird (usually in a nice way). In turn, I often can't understand them. That said, what I just quoted above of yours pretty much describes me. I'm extremely good at putting myself in another person's boots for teaching technical subjects, and indeed I'm not too shabby at the social side of things - I'm often surprised at people's faux pas. And yet, people's behaviour regularly baffles me too. It's like I'm picking up a lot of some things but perhaps too little of another.

I did an online test for autism, expected to come out below average but much to my surprise came out above.

> you would probably consider me -a hard worker -a dirtbag -adept -foolish

Looks a bit like you're passing CLI arguments :-)
A cynic would say that it’s harder for companies to make money selling products that reduce/renew/reuse.
You lose a fair bit of peripheral vision. People definitely will die.
That is true but it’s also why I feel so strongly about not optimising it to extract more money from fewer wealthier people.

I don’t know - in Australia we oversize stadiums and, relative to population, expand our leagues much more so that there is much more opportunity to attend in person. A family of four can attend anything except finals (playoffs) for easily under au$100. But private ownership isn’t a part of the most popular codes.

I love live sport, and it’d be sad if the opportunity to attend was restricted to only the wealthy because charging half the people 5x the money is the optimal business decision.
I was bored and it made me laugh. You'll be fine.
That’s a good observation, except that the two are often linked of course.
Custom keyboards are a great example of an app that - by default - shouldn't have write access to shared resources (that is, no network access, no writing to files which other apps can read).

Adding either of those entitlements to a keyboard app should require extremely scary dialogs. Needs to be possible - perhaps you want your password manager with sync to be part of the keyboard app - but it's clearly a huge risk.
If you're using llama.cpp there is also a tool to convert Typescript interfaces to the BNF grammar used to restrict the output tokens: https://grammar.intrinsiclabs.ai/
“Glass Klein Bottles for sale - inquire within”

Still puts a smile on my face, every time.
I run the subreddit! No idea why The Verge made a whole article about the sub's posts but I'm not mad lol.
Your flippant joke is ten years old, has certainly been made thousands of times on this site alone, and is based entirely upon a lack understanding of the issue it targets. At best it’s tired and overplayed. At worst it furthers misunderstanding.

Maybe aim just a touch higher?
I didn't know that! However the CD32 was at that point in history (1993) a blip, it was far too little far too late. It sold 125,000 units, while the PC clone market was shipping 37 million units in 1993.

I agree fully with the OS issues, but for the purposes of gaming, it turned out to not be an issue really I guess..
I don't think SymPy has abstract Function attributes to reason about, but it does have limited reasoning about number classes given e.g. `x = Symbol('x', real=True)`

SymPy docs > Writing Custom Functions > Easy Cases: Fully Symbolic or Fully Evaluated: https://docs.sympy.org/latest/guides/custom-functions.html#w...

If there is some sort of e.g. geometric correspondence, it could be possible for a Church-Turing classical computer to compute quantum functions (that return wave functions) that a Church-Turing-Deutsch quantum computer can compute; but otherwise Lean can't compute most quantum circuits either.
Practically no one would ever be talking about Australian Rules Football (outside of the handful of countries where that's popular, of course), although presumably outside of the US they'd often be talking about soccer.
Everyone here is complaining about the search results - but instead I think we should all take some time to appreciate that someone worked hard to create a search engine (including the scraper / crawler part) and making it open source (AGPL).

The results will be improved over time I guess, and for the few search queries I've done - I'm fairly happy with the results.

Kudos to the authors!
This may or may not change - if you're talking about real life (some) fleash and (some) blood X-Ray models with profiles that can cut glass then yes, they can look weird IRL actual 3d.

However that may (or may not) push the use of models that live IRL and look pretty decent from most angles being used as the foundation for VR modelling.

The point being, one way or another, 3D VR will likely lose the weirdness, through viewer acclimation or product delivery advancement.