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Show HN: AI Tool Trek – Another AI Tool Directory
Hey HN! I wanted to share my new project, AIToolTrek - a curated directory of the best AI tools and latest AI news, built with Next.js, Cloudflare, and Supabase.

Like those who are fascinated by AI, I found myself needing a better way to keep up with all the new tools being released. AIToolTrek makes it easy to discover the right tools for your needs, whether you're a developer, researcher, or AI enthusiast.

Calling all AI tool builders! I'd love to get your feedback AIToolTrek too!
Summary:

* Form Energy, with funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures (backed by Bezos and Gates)

* Iron/air chemistry

* Siting in Bangor, Maine

* 85 MW/8500 MWh

* Can discharge for ~100 hours
> Question: So what stops them firing the old bloke, simply because they are wearing a red shirt?

The possibility of a lawsuit, resulting in fines and penalties. Obviously many people won't bother to sue, and some companies will take the risk.
The term speech is very broadly defined in law. A purely physical act can be speech in a certain context. It does not have to literally involve an exchange of words.

Many protests may turn into riots, that does not suddenly mean that the people involved in the violence are no longer expressing an opinion.
Sounds like the US bail system to me
The QR code contains the TOTP key, which is the seed that's used to generate the codes, which form a time-based pseudorandom sequence.
Sounds like you might be reinventing a wheel...

Can you simply include some existing open source tooling into your uptime monitor, and then contribute to those open source projects any desired new features?
Had no idea this was invented before me :D It works wonderfully, even with too vague ideas or concepts and retains even after 20 or something years. You can start working on something and return to it later. When I think about some topic, like hardware or about a set of vague topics, I'm being automatically teleported to a specific place I'm familiar with, or have been there at least couple of times.
yeah, survivorship bias is a thing
They also show actual images they took of real scenes. See figure 6.
Volcano erupts in Russia after 7.0-magnitude earthquake
When blockchain meets the real world, only Algorand delivers [video]
> repeatedly threatens to take Taiwan by force

See, the problem with this is that he never did threaten that. It's CIA propaganda. Indeed such a threat would make zero sense even logically, since from the standpoint of China (and the US State Department) Taiwan _is_ China.
Yeah, so that means, China is doing it right with Weibo and Douyin. It's Twitter and Instagram respectively but built top to bottom for full Chinese ideological, legal, and financial conformance. I used to think that's weird, but it could be where we're headed.
Or enable the option to use any standard TOTP authenticator.
Running a "guy with a truck" business is great for working 3 days a week, if you can make the finances work. Simply ... only accept 3 jobs a week!

You just have to be a freelancer (and all that entails), and be able to live on a very low income.
...they are all very poor people who follow as a trade, what other people pursue as a pastime.

From The Wealth of Nations:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN4.html#I.10.6

Hunting and fishing, the most important employments of mankind in the
rude state of society, become in its advanced state their most
agreeable amusements, and they pursue for pleasure what they once
followed from necessity. In the advanced state of society, therefore,
they are all very poor people who follow as a trade, what other people
pursue as a pastime. Fishermen have been so since the time of
Theocritus. A poacher is every-where a very poor man in Great Britain.
In countries where the rigour of the law suffers no poachers, the
licensed hunter is not in a much better condition. The natural taste
for those employments makes more people follow them than can live
comfortably by them, and the produce of their labour, in proportion to
its quantity, comes always too cheap to market to afford any thing but
the most scanty subsistence to the labourers.
“Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich” is the name!
> I was trying to prove myself worthy of being in the world

I was there too, and I see others doing it. I think that when we look externally for our value, we end up sacrificing a lot of ourselves for someone else's approval.

Is 'rationality' the right word here (I see you put it in quotes)? It doesn't seem rational or based on reason, more a social custom.
Am I the only one who feels the absence of a slice type strictly checked by both index and content?
Along the same grain, Google, the search powerhouse, releases Google Authenticator with no search bar in the Android version. And continues to wilfully not include one despite multiple feature requests.

Yet there's a search bar in the iOS version. Just why?

I'm willing to bet that in that gigantic Piper repo, there's already a local search library that they could just drop in in a single CL. But that's not LLM.
Story points are the pieces of flair of the SWE world. Trivial to have more of, but the only objective measure execs can freak out about
It's not that long if you can retire and learn good skills.
and then, after all that bad leadership and bureaucracy, one of the top executives (Schmidt) blames google's lost lead in AI on the workers who don't want to work anymore and are just concerned with getting all the perks and work life balance.
ugh this one is by the worst and the only way to discover is knowing your password is 100% correct. I usually will drop the password length from 24 -> 12 to sort it out.
Yes, democracy is subject to a 51% attack, like blockchain stuff. Better than a 1% or 10% attack though. Some countries like the US have a constitution that can only be changed by a majority >> 50%, offering additional but still not full protection. This is why I mentioned it’s also desirable to have a common value system among the citizenry. In the end, a country has to be more than just laws and voting, and at some point people have to actually get along and make it work together.
'Ultimate wife guy' or 'yikes'? Mark Zuckerberg reveals 7ft statue of wife
This company seems to be publically traded -- should we all buy it's stock and take it over ?
This job involved dealing with protected information that cost a lot of taxpayer dollars to obtain. You'd definitely expect more caution from the federal government than private industry, especially given that they're supposed to do things "right".
I had something similar happen with an HP Ethernet switch years ago. I was looking at a factory reset (and had no backup of the config... ugh...). I started re-entering the password with 1 fewer character on each attempt and finally got in. Maddening.
As far as I’m aware the base layer bitcoin blockchain still doesn’t have the capacity to onboard a significant fraction of the population. Additionally you need to keep your LN node always online otherwise you risk losing your funds, which is an utterly impractical requirement for the vast majority users. And if you’re going to suggest people should use custodial/centralized services to make bitcoin/lightning transactions then what is even the point of using crypto.

Sorry if that sounds unnecessarily harsh. It’s not directed at you, parent commenter. I agree that this is the exact use case crypto was meant to solve. I just think it’s a tragedy how Blockstream and co have crippled bitcoin and its development.
For me it starts with a small patch of my visual field going blind - not white or black, just not able to see anything or make out detail in that area. Typically it's a spot in the center of my vision such that I can't read. After 5-10 minutes, flashing, swirling colored patterns will appear in that same spot. The affected area then enlarges progressively over the course of anywhere between 30 minutes and several hours, covering a polygonally shaped area with the flashing swirling patterns. Sometimes it will stop after 2-3 hours and gradually disappear. Other times the area of blindness and flashing colors will continue to expand for 6 or more hours until it covers an entire half of my visual field.

After the visual aura disappears, usually (but not always) an intense headache will start that lasts the rest of the day.

Triggers for me are unknown but in the past have included air pollution (e.g. smoke from wildfires) and very bright light (watching a video with a white background for too long on a high brightness TV).

I have also noticed greatly reduced frequency of these migraines after I started taking magnesium glycinate daily.
Seems logically equivalent. If you have the right to express your opinions (no qualifier here, so they can be popular or not), that means no one can do anything to you (unless you commit a crime, of course). Perhaps one could argue that "speech" encompasses more than "opinion", but then the issue would become terminological.

Anyway, Brazil has freedom of speech in the very sense you've mentioned here. Unpopular speech is not a crime.
Was really excited when I first found it but it looks abandoned
Isn’t this shape just the inevitable outcome of the more sane distribution from 50 years ago if you simply add time + compound interest? Wouldn’t it be more surprising if wealth didn’t grow faster based on how much wealth you already have?
Show HN: Awesome Flux – Open Source repo for FLUX model resources
FLUX is an advanced open-source image generation model developed by Black Forest Labs. Its ecosystem has been growing rapidly, and I've created a curated list of resources focusing on this ecosystem.

The GitHub repo (https://github.com/Eris2025/awesome-flux) includes:

1)A comprehensive README with official resources, fine-tuned models, quantized models, ControlNet models, community LoRAs, LoRA training resources, community projects, and Hugging Face demos.

2)A Python script (generate_website.py) that converts the markdown resource list into a static website.

I've also set up a website (https://awesomeflux.com/) to make these resources more accessible.

I'm excited to share this and welcome any contributions or feedback.
Different big tech but similar strategy. Sell and diversify. I think it's a reasonable one. The people that made more money took on more risk and gambled. If you went into e.g. the S&P 500 or real estate you probably did ok.

The last 15 years were good in tech but the earlier Google employees did even better.

I'm guessing neither of us made money on bitcoin or gamestop... I don't lose sleep over that.
Yeah if you're a SRE or admin good luck. I think some companies are much better at looking after you than others so make sure you find somewhere good.

I think it made me a better developer because I've seen a lot of what can go wrong. Probably reduces my productivity but ultimate my stuff is more likely to work.
sometimes if they pay you a large salary, the only thing they are taking from you is your ability to work for a competitor.
Corps put value on TCO, repairability, sturdiness, LTS... Not on looks and image.
As an EM I've also had circumstances where the person we're interviewing is borderline between two levels. They rate out as very promising, but really should be leveled at the lower level. However, for a variety of reasons they need to be leveled at the higher level.

And in those cases when it seems worth it, I've offered the higher level at the lower end of the range.
Hey man. Consider that it's useful to get perspectives from people who are in situations different from your own. They're not telling you that you suck for not being in their position.
I love how making a computer 'game' now follows age-old artistic paths, now using game development tools and mediums:

- "One of his ideas - a deer standing in front of a giant robot - materialized in a dream. When he woke up, he sketched it out. He built it in Unreal Engine, a popular software development tool by Epic Games." -- There are many stories of artists sleeping with a notepad next to their bed, writing down inspirations and ideas their subconsciouses work out.

- "It was a series of beautifully rendered images that were no more playable than the Mona Lisa. / "It was a facade," Tan said. "It looks like something, but it isn't something." / There was no plot, no story line, no gameplay loop to keep players interested" -- Lots of art starts with one inspiring element, and then the artist builds it out from there.

- "... turning the painting into a bona fide video game would take work. A lot of work. "I was pretty ignorant at the time at how much work I needed to actually do," Tan said." -- An old story of artist's visions.

- "He realized he was trying to please everybody. / "I didn't feel like I had anything authentic inside of me," Tan said. "I didn't know how to write anything. And I didn't know what I wanted to say.""

To me that is an artist speaking, not a game developer. I wonder, how much are game dev tools geared to artists finding their voice and communicating what makes their vision special and unique, and how much of the product is the dev tool maker's vision (their aethetic, their capabilities, etc.)?
I absolutely love mpv. And if you have a Mac check out IINA. It’s just a relatively thin GUI over the mpv core.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-s-party-congress/Xi-v...

Xi Jinping opened the Chinese Communist Party's twice-a-decade National Congress on Sunday by pledging to never renounce using force to take control of Taiwan

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/10/chinas-xi-says-outs...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has met former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and said that outside influence cannot stop the “family” reunion between Beijing and Taipei....Beijing views the self-ruled island as a province that must be reunited with mainland China, and it has not ruled out using force to assert its claims to Taiwan.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-calls-taiwa...

China's "reunification" with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year's address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/xi-warned-biden-summit-be...

Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided
It looks like Borgo is to Golang what Typescript is to Javascript. It's kind of ridiculous that Golang would need this, but it actually makes sense to me as something you'd want to use.
Slightly related: mpv also has excellent backward playing capability! Of course video encodings aren’t optimized for this so it does some work to make the performance reasonable.
1D Rubiks Cube Game
>to me, it seems like an almost inescapable conclusion from the widespread use of papyrus, its short lifespan (particularly in anything other than the driest conditions), and the limited supplies available of animal parchment

I agree that papyrus would fare much better in eg. Egypt than in Europe, and Buringh mentions that some of the Greek works translated by Muslims in the 8th century were in fact written on papyrus:

>Muslim scholars and scribes translated Greek and Syriac rolls and manuscripts originally copied on parchment and papyrus into Arabic and transcribed them on sheets of paper that were afterwards bound into books.

He does also mention that some of them were in parchment, however, and from the author I quoted above it seems that important works were copied to parchment already starting from the 4th century. While not about Greek works, I find this quote on the subject relevant:

>Texts perished, not because pagan authors were under attack, but
because no one was interested in reading them, and parchment was
too precious to carry an obsolete text; [...] amongst those palimpsested
we find Plautus and Terence, Cicero and Livy, the Elder and
Younger Pliny, Sallust and Seneca, Vergil and Ovid, Lucan, Juvenal
and Persius, Gellius and Fronto[0]

It also seems from the same book that Greek works were still available in the Byzantine empire:

>In the twelfth century the range of translations was increased
substantially. Much of the credit belongs to Burgundio of Pisa
(1110-93),who had spent the years 1135-8 in Constantinople as an
interpreter and returned there later, taking the opportunity to
collect books. [...] Slightly better known are the inelegant and literal versions of
Plato, Euclid, and Ptolemy made in Sicily c. 1160 under the aegis of
Henricus Aristippus, archdeacon of Catania (d. 1162), who is said to
nave acquired some manuscripts sent as a gift by the Byzantine
emperor to the Norman king of Sicily

I doubt these survived from antiquity as papyrus (although perhaps I am wrong here). These also don't seem to be a re-translation from Arabic either(? would be strange for that not to have been mentioned). They were likely simply copied and maintained throughout the years. This implies to me that papyrus is not the significant factor here. I think the cause was 1. the lack of interest 2. the "cultural divide" (p.79) between what was the Western Rome Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire which limited the study of Greek and the import of Greek books, resulting in 3. almost nobody in Europe could read Greek. Although further investigation is needed.

>but i don't think such works were ever branded as heretical, at least by the organized church;

I think you are right here. I vaguely recalled when I wrote that that certain classical authors were considered heretical, but from a search all I found was the condemnations of some of Aristotle's ideas in the 1200s.[1]

[0] Reynolds & Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (1991)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condemnations_of_1210%E2%80%93...
I was thinking exactly at this. I think a block of ads would hurt even more X than a total-block of X.

If you block X, you block obviously ads, but you also block local traffic to the website.

If you just block ads, and the traffic continues, you are actually losing even more money.

Sure, Musk could just implement crypto on X, but I think it would still be very effective.
When I bought a new phone and moved all my stuff over from a backup of my original phone, apparently the Google Authenticator doesn’t back something up.

When I launched GA all of my 2FA data was gone.

Thankfully I had my backup codes. And I could also still use the old one on the old phone. But the nightmare potential is quite high.
I personally use monit (emphasis on "simple"). I've been looking at nagios lately, though.
Just wanted to say thank you to the maintainer and creator of magic wormhole. I had to help my nephew debug what had happened to his computer which didn't have any gui after a restart. Setting up magic wormhole to send files back and forth was a feasible solution over the phone.
UK, US and Australia trial AI-enabled killer drones
I amalgamated some audio filters to cycle through on a F1 press

- Loudness Normalization: "lavfi=[loudnorm=i=-14.0:lra=13.0:tp=-1.0]"

- Loudness Normalization + Mild Tinnitus Filter: "lavfi=[loudnorm=i=-14.0:lra=13.0:tp=-1.0,equalizer=f=6000:width_type=o:w=2:g=-20]"

- Mild Tinnitus Filter: "equalizer=f=6000:width_type=o:w=2:g=-20"

- Aggressive Tinnitus Filter: "equalizer=f=4000:width_type=q:w=1:g=-30,equalizer=f=6000:width_type=q:w=1:g=-30,equalizer=f=8000:width_type=q:w=1:g=-30"

- Bass Reduction: "bass=f=210:g=-17.7"

- Alternative Loudness Normalization: "loudnorm=linear=no"

- Dynamic Audio Normalization: "dynaudnorm=s=0"

- None: ""

F1 cycle-values af "lavfi=[loudnorm=i=-14.0:lra=13.0:tp=-1.0]" "lavfi=[loudnorm=i=-14.0:lra=13.0:tp=-1.0,equalizer=f=6000:width_type=o:w=2:g=-20]" "equalizer=f=6000:width_type=o:w=2:g=-20" "equalizer=f=4000:width_type=q:w=1:g=-30,equalizer=f=6000:width_type=q:w=1:g=-30,equalizer=f=8000:width_type=q:w=1:g=-30" "bass=f=210:g=-17.7" "loudnorm=linear=no" "dynaudnorm=s=0" ""

https://reddit.com/r/mpv/comments/xf8p9t/movie_volume_compre...

https://pastebin.pl/view/2f48e64c
> Either people aren't aware of an optimal strategy (if one exists) or they ignore it for various reason.

And my point was precisely that it often doesn't exist. What is an optimal strategy?

> People know they should exercise, get enough sleep, eat healthy, stay hydrated, tackle high priority tasks instead of procrastinating, etc. - and yet they still aren't doing those things (or as much as they should).
> Knowing something is not enough.

Your example doesn't even support this. People know they have to get enough sleep but they also know they have to <insert something else>. It depends on what they are optimizing for. i.e. there is no singular optimal strategy.

You've just proved my point rather than yours.

I don't know if knowing is not enough, but clearly the people in your example don't know what the optimal strategy is. E.g. eating healthy is NOT the optimal strategy as it could make them unhappy (e.g. don't like the taste). It's not optimal unless it's strictly better.
Modi and the BJP are avowed, proud ethnic nationalists, seeking to preserve and enforce their version of traditional religion.
I'm going to leave this article up and promise to provide better in-depth articles in this regard.
While I like the reasoning of Japan's use, I think the other ones aren't strong enough to necessitate faxes being the method of choice for me.
So glad I webscrape with Swift now.
mediation/arbitration

It already works like that here (eu) for debit cards (which most people have; very few have credit cards although they don't know the difference). Double charges from taxi drivers is not possible as it's tapping or dipping your card and you are there for that (we are assuming some system that prevents someone stealing your card like biometrics or whatnot); products not as delivered is responsibility for the seller to refund/replace and in other cases you go through a process of mediation. I had it once in my life, which is now 50 years. It sounds like Americans willy-nilly chargeback whatever because they can (fries were not hot or cold enough): seems not very good for the fees. Most people who travel have creditcards here and the most ones I know have no idea they can chargeback or ever needed it.
You can press e to frame advance. Can't go back though.
Has anyone else noticed it's not possible to have an account that you can log in anymore? Locked out by AI, locked out by suspicious activity, locked out due to lost phone, lost authy, broken everything. You drive an RV? locked out due to location change. You have a common name? Locked out. Have a foreign name? Locked out.
Definitely agree there, a democracy cannot function without the majority making concessions to the minority. Concessions like not changing the law to keep themselves in power forever.
Why are tons of old articles reposted daily
It's used as an insult it to make fun of people over on TikTok sometimes. It's typically just harmless in-group banter not directly aimed at someone, but it occasionally leaks over to "the other side" and people get mad.
And for anyone still considering SRE: when interviewing, ask how incentives/bonuses/promotions work for software engineers and how does that compare to SREs. A lot of promotable activities for SWE (shipping new things constantly) have negative value for an SRE role, since continually changing infrastructure ensures on-call never develops mastery of those systems.
Can you share any code or references for this? Several people I work with are interested in this.
search engines and wikipedia point to actively maintained versions
I bought the prebuilt kit and love it. It works with the ezCoo KVM switch to expand it to 4 remote targets.

https://pikvm.github.io/pikvm/ezcoo/

It pretty much all "just works" out of the box.
Imagine a Chinese dissident brags about how they haven't been thrown into jail for criticizing the President... yet.
I love their section on how to embed mpv in other apps [1]. Too bad there's not an XEmbed equivalent for Wayland [2].

[1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-examples/blob/master/libmp...

[2] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9654