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It's too late for this former user of Apple's productivity software. Killing Aperture and nerfing the iWork suite destroyed any willingness I could have ever had to go back.

I like their OS, but it would be a hard sell for me to ever choose to migrate to their productivity software again.
Agreed. I bought a set of IN-18s for 30USD each back in 2009, now they go for over $100.

I finally designed and built a clock for them about 3 years ago, and it sits right under my main monitor. They are captivating. I added “tasteful” (IMHO) digit cycling effects and a PIR sensor to turn off the display when no one is around to prolong the lifetime of the tubes, but your experience with the longevity of your IN-18s is remarkable.

I’ve always wondered what equipment they were originally designed for, given their size. Most likely military I imagine, or maybe public signage?
Related:

Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40231624 - May 2024 (147 comments)
I got the same impression. I think a bullet list reminder if useful Readme sections would be just as useful
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> But public perception of Adobe has dipped in recent years.

I agree with the quoted tweet (or Threads post, whatever) that Adobe is a brand many or most creative professionals spit on, even if we have no choice but to use their software. They've lost so much good will that if there was literally any other comparable tool suite out there, Adobe would be out of business faster than it takes to boot up their horrible software. I do my best to avoid them, but sometimes even I have to put a clothespin on my nose and do certain tasks in Illustrator or Photoshop.
Young people may not have ever seen a display like that.
This is pretty controversial, but the placebo effect does appear to heal physical problems sometimes too.

https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.100...
There is a help-wanted tag on github for this: https://github.com/topics/help-wanted

(I know that GH is not the whole world, but it stores an overwhelming majority of the OSS ecosystem)
I glanced and I don’t see anything you don’t. Just give me a list of suggested headings and a plaintext editor. All this does (as far as I can tell) is save you from typing the headings yourself. If using markdown, there’s some additional formatting being applied (which I’m not saying isn’t handy), but really, who needs a website to do this?
1. Note there are 2 types of searches: category search and free text search.

The free text search, the one you used here, is very basic right now.

Here is how you’d search your query with categories:
https://pornwitch.com/search?tags=female:red-hair,female:ski...

There’s no category yet for “forest nymph” and “freckled” but we’ll make sure to add it.

Your impressive category combination returns no video results, so you can experiment with using less categories or different ones.

2. For filtering out low resolution video you should have a small button on the top right of the search page that allows you to filter out low resolution videos.

3. You’re right, there are a lot of videos on the web with poor tagging. From our experience, it often occurs in unpopular low view videos. The default sorting for videos is “Hottest”, which sorts the video by a rank we calculate. This should in most cases push the low view clickbait videos to the very bottom of the search result list.
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I have a friend who potentially contributed to the placebo effect for a study she was in.

She was in a study to see if a vitamin supplement would have a beneficial effect to a condition she suffered. She didn’t know if she was getting placebo or the supplement so after two weeks of not feeling any positive effect, she decided to start taking additional supplements of the vitamin in question on her own next to the study tablets to “be sure”. I remember choking on my coffee when she casually told me this later. I’m a scientist and it never occurred to me that anyone would act like this in a study.
Laughing at this because last time I tried to arrange a call to get my detailed questions answered it was immediately obvious that the person I worked with had NONE of the answers and I was wasting my time.

I wasn’t even convinced there was a working product after that.

So it goes both ways.
This severely discounts the fact that you’re comparing a model that _knows the average about everything_ to a single human’s capabilit. Also they can do it instantly, instead of having to coordinate many humans over long periods of time. You can’t straight up compare one LLM to one human
I think that's on the game's director, Chris Roberts, because it's not the only time it happened.

Roberts was the lead on Digital Anvil's "Freelancer", until the publisher (Microsoft), frustrated at the scope creep and protracted dev cycle, bought out the studio, demoted Roberts, and cut features so they could ship the thing.
Ask HN: What projects should be on every developer's "bucket list?"
By this I mean what project should everyone build not because its useful or new, but because the process of building it forces you to learn something new. Some examples I've heard are your own programming language or a simple implementation of a database.
Are you gonna tell them not to?
-1 to the conclusion.

Counterexamples include LinkedIn, HN and various subreddits (not all) - they're operating at large scale, very lively but low levels of nasty (as a percentage).
There is scientific consensus that placebos have a subjective effect on symptoms, argued to be some unknown internal/mental effect. This is very widely held in the medical sciences community, and has more broad acceptance than most things held as a so-called consensus. It is not and has never been a lay person thing.

e.g. An article like https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/the-power-... is not kooky or controversial, or the creation of a lay person. It's the accepted understanding of what's happening -- at least what is seemingly happening -- as viewed by medical experts.

As an aside, while placebo does come from Latin for "to please", you have it backwards. Placebos are to please either the patient or the participant, giving them a feeling that they're being treated/studied.
> I have written before in The Atlantic about a problem that I see as superordinate to all of these others: People just aren’t meant to talk with one another this much

The irony of publishing an article intended for a mass audience about how people shouldn't talk to each other. Obviously journalists are the only ones who can be trusted with such power...
I'm not sure what is supposed to be true and what we are supposed to all incorrectly believe.

We clearly double blind instead of single blind because we are all as concerned about researcher bias as the writer of the article. Their beliefs about our beliefs on where the errors are introduced in single blind studies seem at best presumptuous.
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Some placebo proponents would advocate for things like pain, nausea etc.

However, others advocate it for cancer, and run studies where people imagine they don’t have cancer and then measure their tumours to see if they shrink.
It is also the only way to represent join conditions for outer joins.
These topics are very clear cut to me. Forcing someone to take an experimental drug is not okay, and murdering small babies is not okay.
SG23 is already the Safety and Security No But Really group. Multiple safety proposals were already ignored for C++26
What streaming service even does 128kb/s?
Youtube is the only one that comes to mind and that's for free usage only. Paid accounts get 256kbit AAC

Spotify uses OGG Vorbis codec and streams at 160 kbps at standard bitrate and 320 kbps at high quality

In addition to AAC, the entire Apple Music catalog is now also encoded using ALAC in resolutions ranging from 16-bit/44.1 kHz (CD Quality) up to 24-bit/192 kHz

Amazon Prime Music at 256 kbps

That's about 99% of the streaming music market people actually use
They most likely see displays like that on microwaves.
Not who you are replying to but my $30 wired Apple earbuds (came with my 6S) have outlived all of my co-workers half dozen $160 AirPods. That’s reason enough for a lot of people.
This is the type of thing I would not purchase for myself, but I’m happy to see exist. Brilliant design.
Not them, but copyright law is something everyone trying to distribute content should be aware of(especially if you want to redistribute content that you didn't generate).

I'm not a lawyer, but from my understanding as long as you're not actually sending the logo image data through your paid API(e.x. if you just link to the logo file on the MasterCard/airbnb/etc. server instead of hosting it on your own) you should be ok.
The plumber at least is presumably paid a lot more than $1 for doing that job, and they would most likely just pass the cost onto you ?
You mean, like humans have been for many decades now.

Edit: I believe that LLM's are eminently useful to replace experts (of all people) 90% of the time.
Thank you it has been fixed
As someone french the website translation which I assume automated is very off-putting - what works well in english ("our simple editor") feels to me very strange and icky for a product in my mother tongue ("notre simple éditeur" / "votre projet").
I'd have translated it as "Un éditeur simple pour rapidement ajouter et personnaliser toutes les sections d'un fichier README" without involving directly the business and the end-user but rather keeping things impersonal.
I don't daily drive my phone for commuting anymore, but the trade-offs aren't exactly new:
- battery frustrations
- cost of a dozen cheap but good quality headphones vs a wireless equivalent
- easier to lose wireless headsets when you put them down somewhere (wired too, but way cheaper so less big deal)
- audio quality? Who knows

For people that demand noise cancelling, you need an active power source, but I personally hate noise cancellation and always turn them off. Maybe valuable in a plane with lots of engine noise.
I just installed* it. It run well, although I don’t recommend playing it with a Magic Mouse.

* I first installed Whisky, a Wine/Game Porting toolkit/app thingy (https://getwhisky.app). Then I installed Steam for Windows inside Whisky, then downloaded HL2. The download was a little bit hiccup-y, but it worked. Testplay of HL2 was great, apart from the mouse.
>Likewise with vaccines, careful study with placebos could demonstrate that the vaccine under study didn't prevent transmissibility of the infectious virus any better than the placebo did. Notably this was a problem with all the Sars-Cov2 vaccines, none seem to have prevented transmision from an infected person to a vaccinated person. Why wasn't this seen in the clincal trials, one wonders?

I think this is from a misunderstanding of what transmissibility people were talking about. People getting the vaccine did not transmit the disease to others simply by virtue of being vaccinated. What that means is, you can get the shot and not worry that, by getting the shot, you are going to transmit the disease to others.

What that does not mean is that, once vaccinated, you cannot ever transmit the disease to others. If you get sick, the vaccine will likely make you get over it faster and have it less impactful, reducing transmission as an added bonus of those two things happening (you're coughing less so less is put in the air, you are sick for less time so the period you will be heavily contagious for and also symptomatic is shorter) but it will not entirely prevent transmission.
What does 3nm mean here? As far as I know, these are just marketing terms with no basis in physical reality. With Chinese firms, I am even more skeptical than with typical marketing.
>And the NHTSA's female dummies were essentially male dummies shrunk to 4'11" and lightened to 97/108lbs.

Lol. Lmao even: "According to a 2021 report from the National Center for Health Statistics, the average weight of women in the U.S. over the age of 20 was 170.8 pounds."

https://www.forbes.com/health/womens-health/average-weight-f...
The original announcement from Casio said they'd be making a ring version of the venerable DBC-611 calculator watch as well: https://www.g-central.com/casio-to-release-casio-watch-ring-...

It looks like they've instead made a ring version of the CA-53W, which - in the staggeringly few times I see someone wearing a calculator watch - is usually the one they're wearing.

I still wear a DBC-610 as my daily driver, and I do use the calculator and countdown timer features quite often.
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LLMs have a long way to go in the world of EDA.

A few months ago I saw a post on LinkedIn where someone fed the leading LLMs a counter-intuitively drawn circuit with 3 capacitors in parallel and asked what the total capacitance was. Not a single one got it correct - not only did they say the caps were in series (they were not) it even got the series capacitance calculations wrong. I couldn’t believe they whiffed it and had to check myself and sure enough I got the same results as the author and tried all types of prompt magic to get the right answer… no dice.

I also saw an ad for an AI tool that’s designed to help you understand schematics. In its pitch to you, it’s showing what looks like a fairly generic guitar distortion pedal circuit and does manage to correctly identify a capacitor as blocking DC but failed to mention it also functions as a component in an RC high-pass filter. I chuckled when the voice over proudly claims “they didn’t even teach me this in 4 years of Electrical Engineering!” (Really? They don’t teach how capacitors block DC and how RC filters work????)

If you’re in this space you probably need to compile your own carefully curated codex and train something more specialized. The general purpose ones struggle too much.
Was the beef here mostly around the subscription model, then cherry on top with the AI?

Catching up with that 1hr interview...
That could actually be really useful. I'd love to wear a dumbwatch again, and if it's that much smaller then its that much better. Will be keeping an eye out for one that isn't nostaliga-themed.
Interesting I had not heard about triple blinding. Is it much more difficult to design a triple blinded study over a double blind? My colloquial understanding is that designing a double blinded study is a significant hurdle over a single blinded study, but maybe the gap between a double and triple blind is not so high.
Fall of Civilization is my favorite each year. They only released one (very long) episode in 2024. Each episode is pretty dense, and I end up listening to each one a few times. Can't recommend it enough.
> The address isn't tied to you, so how would anyone figure it out?

Or

> there is a pretty small set of people who can access the information.

Which one is it?
You support Ukrainian nazis

They're doing nothing of the sort.
Seriously? Next they will say it is distance to refrigerator.
To be fair, when you need to hire hundreds or thousands of people, you gotta hire average people. The best is a finite resource and not all of the best want to work for FAANG or any megacorp.

I used to want to work at a FAANG-like company when I was just starting out thinking they were going to be full of amazing devs. But over the years, I've seen some of the worst devs go to these companies so that just destroyed that illusion. And the more you hear about the sort of work they do, it just sounds boring compared to startups.
What?? Is this an automated post to make an account look real? This doesn't make any sense in context.
Linux (the ecosystem; not necessarily the kernel) is actively hostile to binary software.
“Cyph is the only encryption app that is secure to use in a web browser, thanks to our patented WebSign technology.”

Run, don’t walk away from vendors making these claims.
As the father of a middle schooler I was recently forced to listen to a lot of Taylor Swift. I reluctantly came to the conclusion that she's enormously talented, even if I don't like her pop era or public personality. (And my daughter has moved past it, mostly because of the personality thing. I'm proud.)
Numitrons are another option; they only require 5V to light the segments. They have a very strange, almost steampunk aesthetic (though Technology Connections is not a fan…) Unlike Nixies or VFDs, they emit a broad spectrum of light, so you can put any color filter you like in front of them (red, green, blue)

I made an alarm clock from some unusual Soviet 9-segment Numitrons a while ago. The code/design is in GitHub as well as a link to a video. https://github.com/74hc595/Numitron-Clock
I'd be really interested. I had the same idea a few years ago, but never got it functional.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42154036.)
And liable to make money at it, on a "greater fool" basis - a successful sale (exit) is not necessarily a successful, profitable company ...
Let's analyze these specific emails for manipulation patterns while being clear we're doing so to understand and prevent harm, not to learn manipulation:

Key manipulative behaviors shown in the emails:

1. Using artificial urgency to force decisions:
"Deepmind is going to give everyone massive counteroffers tomorrow to try to kill it"

2. Changing narratives to maintain control:
Sam Altman's reasons for wanting CEO title kept shifting according to Greg/Ilya

3. Information control and selective disclosure:
Sam being "bothered by how much Greg and Ilya keep the whole team in the loop"

4. Creating dependency through resource control:
Elon using funding as leverage - "I will no longer fund OpenAI until..."

5. Double binds and no-win situations:
Team had to choose between losing funding or accepting control terms

6. Triangulation between parties:
Playing Greg/Ilya against Sam, Sam against Elon, etc.

The patterns use control, artificial urgency, shifting narratives, and manipulation of relationships to maintain power.
Just randomly pump antidepressants into peoples water supplies and check the suicide rate
Old scan of Asus P3B-F motherboard schematic from 1997.

- only managed to extract some of the text from Title Block (project name, date etc)

- despite distinct font got all 8/B and 1/I mixed up.

- the actual useful info got turned into

Tables
Table 1: [Insert table 1 here]

Other Elements
[Insert other elements here]
> I think they are betting on what they might be able to do in the future.

Yeah, blind hope and a bit of smoke and lighting.

> but I don't think we've reached the limits with synthetic data

Synthetic data, at least for visual stuff can, in some cases provide the majority of training data. For $work, we can have say 100k video sequences to train a model, they can then be fine tuned on say 2k real videos. That gets it to be slightly under the same quality as if it was train on pure real video.

So I'm not that hopeful that synthetic data will provide a breakthrough.

I think the current architecture of LLMs are the limitation. They are fundamentally a sequence machine and are not capable of short, or medium term learning. context windows kinda makes up for that, but it doesn't alter the starting state of the model.
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You find it hard to believe that non-deterministic black boxes at the core of complex systems are eager to put non-deterministic black boxes at the core of complex systems?
Yeah, that's just their MO. I think it's easier to run old windows games on a mac than to run old mac games.

And architecture aside, at one point I had to install an old version of iWork (I thin it was '09) to update a file so the latest iWork could read it. They had code on hand that could read those older files, but decided not to integrate it. They don't prioritize backwards compatibility.
I'm not a frequent user of Photoshop, so I was wondering what it does that Krita doesn't? (Or gimp)
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In grandma’s kitchen.
Isn't that the case with every new tech. There was a time in which people tried to cook everything in a microwave
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The calculator buttons would probably be too small for a ring.
Change "replace" to "supplement" and I agree. The level of non-determinism is just too great at this stage, imo.
After you do what I said you can copy the directory and run it anywhere without steam or internet connection. You said its impossible, like steam forces it this way, but it clearly doesn't even if only very few Devs make this choice.
Yes, technically, you are correct.

On the flip side, the long term economic impact of removing millions of workers is likely to be some multiple of $1000 each.
Show me a successful startup that was predicated on the tech they’re working with not advancing?
>That's why the US doesn't have a migrant integration crisis like the EU does - we know how to welcome and inculturate people

I believe you got this other way around. The US doesn't have a migrant immigration crisis like the EU does, because it's a big isolated island with relatively strict immigration policy. The people who immigrate to the US are exactly the kind of self-motivated workers who do the integration work themselves.

Many here believed that investing in integration will magically make open borders policies work, and the countries did. Less people in Europe believe it now.

Another thing is, how much immigration does US get? In Europe, many countries can have a significant fraction (a few percent) of their population immigrate over a few years (for example check how big UA immigration was). That makes integration much harder.

To be clear, I'm not against immigration, but it's a complex topic and I believe you're a bit too optimistic and extreme about it.

>For the sake of full transparency: I'm an open borders maniac, which makes me left wing by American standards and basically persona non grata in Europe.

I don't get dividing people into two neat categories (left and right). And you're welcome in Europe, it would be great to have you and I'm sure you would do well here!
Show HN: A Wear OS app to browse and send HTTP GET requests
I made this simple app that works with a hierarchically organized list of URLs. On the watch you can browse through this list and dereference the URL (HTTP GET). The thing is useful for home-automation use cases. The requests would go to a local server (running, e.g., node red or home assistant) that does the heavy lifting and talks to various smart devices.