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bayesianboton [Ask HN] How many submissions have you accidentally flagged?

I use qutebrowser where I open links from keyboard using hints, and sometimes I press the wrong key and am not even sure which link it clicked, so I have done some accidental flags.. Good to know I can check and cancel them from profile.

bayesianboton AI cameras catch 297 drivers in three days in Cornwall

I'm living in Northern Thailand and I'm wondering this daily. Thailand has about the most dangerous traffic in the world, lots and lots of people dying annually compared to the size of the population, but still constantly I see people, even with their kids, driving a motorbike without their helmets on. It's actually almost rare to see a good helmet, it's either nothing or a mostly useless bowl to avoid fines by the police. If I tell people I won't drive in some situation as I don't have my helmet, they'll just tell me there's no police on the way..

Though in here I think big part is religion - karma / Buddha protects good people, and most people feel they're good people, so their life is already protected, you'd just think they'd get it some day as the fatal road accident numbers are so high every year and everyone knows someone who was "a good person" but is now dead from traffic..

bayesianboton Bypassing YouTube video download throttling

Anyone else having throttling problems with yt-dlp lately? I always watch youtube through mpv that uses yt-dlp on the background, but last week it's been terrible. It starts quickly (I've throttled it to 500kBps so that's the starting speed) but then after a while I'm getting a second of stream for three seconds of download, so I gotta queue up the video long time before playing. I'm using git version of yt-dlp and haven't noticed anything related in the git issues.

bayesianboton New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy

I wonder would it be possible / how much data would you need if you'd only have long recording but no clear text to combine it with. Maybe you'd hear space bar as it often has a distinct sound (maybe backspace and return as well), and could create a script that finds the key associated with the sound by brute forcing every key to every unique sound and trying which combinations come out as reasonable sentences.

bayesianboton Ask HN: What stage of grief are you at regarding climate change?

I started studying science when I was 7. I tried to get people to learn it as well, but nobody wanted to. Just nobody. Then when they didn't like some results of scientific process, they came up with most stupid pseudoscientific arguments why things are actually the way they want them to be. When I understood that the same people vote for our leaders, I thought we'll be doomed for sure..

That's how I've seen the world. My grief has always been that with current scientific process and progress of technology we should be moving much faster towards better, more just world. Instead climate change, the first major problem we encountered with our new technology and powers, we completely screwed up our response and are taking a huge risk of massive loss of lives and ecosystems, while we're fighting about the most stupid stuff and choosing ridiculous leaders with bad reasons. Instead of critical thought, lots of people just get stuck with opinions they want to have, no matter how clearly they're wrong and based on lies and feelings.

And I've felt it's quite hard to stay motivated in this world. My motivation has always been really finicky, I can get extremely motivated on correct circumstances, but have a complete lack of motivation when things are wrong. During past decades these have led me to do a lot of drinking (I've finally mostly stopped few years back) and progressing through life really slowly, sometimes just stopping for months or even a year. I wish I could get over it, but it feels harder and harder. Everything I predicted how the future would be screwed came through, just much much worse I ever could have figured. Even if we beat climate change, there's other problems on the way and I'm not so optimistic how we'll handle those. Feels though to try to be building a better future when it feels most people don't even try or care, when they could affect so much change for better for so little.

bayesianboton Ask HN: What stage of grief are you at regarding climate change?

People keeping calm and carrying on is the reason we are in this mess. I'm feeling quite weirded out myself how most don't want to talk or understand much about it, just pretending it's not there.

bayesianboton SpaceX rocket launches Euclid space telescope to map the 'dark universe'

I just Google like "7pm EST" and it returns it in my local time.

bayesianboton Cloud seeding catching on amid Rocky Mountain drought

There's a study[0] from 2022 that shows the western US megadrought was/is largely caused by human caused climate warming.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/15/us-west-... (the first link in the article is the study, it's quite ugly so I used the article instead, but the study is worth reading)

bayesianboton Native JSON Output from GPT-4

"With these updates, we’ll be inviting many more people from the waitlist to try GPT-4 over the coming weeks, with the intent to remove the waitlist entirely with this model. Thank you to everyone who has been patiently waiting, we are excited to see what you build with GPT-4!"

https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...

bayesianboton SoftBank-backed pizza startup shuts down after raising $445M

The linked Bloomberg article[0] had this info I found quite funny:

> Last June, Zume bought a company called Pivot Packaging to jump-start its ability to sell compostable containers to other businesses. It held a one-day test at a Pizza Hut in Phoenix in October, with the goal of expanding the tests to more locations in January or February of this year. But the boxes can’t legally hold food in some jurisdictions, including San Francisco, because they contain the chemicals known as PFAS

So.. compostable forever chemicals, how does that work?

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-13/inside-th...

bayesianboton Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games

Sound like this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394276/

bayesianboton Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

It doesn't, I think it should but not sure how to add it to the prompt yet - I have a feeling that if I'll just add them after or before the command line, GPT will at least occasionally add hallucinated return codes to the autocompletion. Maybe I'll just add the unsuccessful codes or something, but it needs some testing.

bayesianboton Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

It feeds the information from atuin database as a prompt for OpenAI, like: "Latest calls for the same executable:\ncmd1\ncmd2" (I should work on my prompts, doesn't actually look that optimal, oh well). Then at the end gives the current command line and asks for few options how to finish / replace the line, with some extra requests for GPT (like don't write anything else except the command line etc).

bayesianboton Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

Thanks! I'll do that after I've had more time to finish some features and clean the code up in few days. But I've released a crude version at https://github.com/TIAcode/LLMShellAutoComplete

bayesianboton Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

It's usually ~two seconds or so for the first line to come out of OpenAI. You can see the example video in the github, though I think that was little slow.

If you have big atuin file though, creating indexes for session and cwd are good ideas so we can get the request out quickly..

edit: but much faster than searching or asking LLM for command line parameters instead

bayesianboton Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

Well it's published. Wasn't ready to publish and didn't have time to clean it up but I'll get back to it in the coming days, there's also some extra features on the way but disabled currently. Works quite well for me though.

https://github.com/TIAcode/LLMShellAutoComplete

Forgot to add needs tiktoken, openai and fzf. If someone knows how to do that command line query and replace on other than fish/nushell, please let me know.

bayesianboton Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

I made a script that uses atuin to get previous commands related to your current command line - latest commands ran in the same session, in the same directory, in other sessions, latest commands for the same executable etc. then feeds it into GPT and streams the replies to fzf so you can choose the best autocompletion (or it can fix problems in the line you've written already as well). On Wezterm and Kitty it can also get the terminal screen contents error messages and so. Because of the streaming reply the first autocomplete line is ready quite soon after the keyboard shortcut is pressed.

Have been putting off pushing it to Github, think I'm gonna do that today.

bayesianboton Ask HN: Share Your YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCM4GCy82i41Z1X8pQzjm7Q

Not tech related, but I document the lives of the two Tokay Geckos (male and female, plus now two babies that aren't on the videos yet) living between my outside sofa and house wall in Thailand.

The male gecko came to live there, I had a terrible leftover camera from some other things with like 720p/15fps, stuck it there, put a few videos online. Came back months later expecting to have a handful of views and one of them had like 120k at that point :P

Their life is quite interesting, I've had a lot of fun following them but I've been stupid with the cameras. So far I've ordered three cheap no brand cameras just for this, none of them have been as the specs promised, and the best one broke down some weeks ago. Getting a brand name one soon and hopefully the quality will be much better. Plus I'm not happy that I seem to get most stable views with shorts so I'm kinda torn between posting the videos I'd like to see and videos others apparently prefer.

bayesianboton Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny

https://archive.is/9oNiT

bayesianboton Saying “sup” with `net send`

All these people getting trouble for net sending are not going far enough.

When I was in school the admin left his account logged in and left the room. I was there to make few admin accounts to myself, and later programmed malware that worked as a keylogger and gave me some remote control of all the machines (I put it inside a .BAT script that was ran after login, distributing it to every computer in the school).

I used my powers by downloading stuff and burning it to CDs as I didn't have a good connection. I also gave some access to my friends, and the computer lab turned into a war zone. We were opening stuff on other people's screens, but not good stuff. Things like Goatse and people doing stuff with farm animals they shouldn't be doing..

After some time it had gone way too mad and computer lab got shut down. But the crazy thing is, after a while the school just let it go and didn't even notify our parents. Apparently, nobody wants to tell the parents that a room in school has been OnlyFans Farm Edition for a while.. I had some stern talks with the principal and IT teacher as the only suspect, but that was it.

bayesianboton Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library

Just a heads-up if you need subtitles, for me and apparently many others with Jellyfin the subs get easily out of sync. The issue in Github[0] has been open for 2.5 years and seems dead.. Only option seems to be re-transcoding and burning the subtitles into the video (which is an option, but consumes some system resources).

[0] https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/2547

bayesianboton UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C

If we reached actual zero emissions for humans, the ocean absorbing CO2 from air would almost exactly balance the warming climate lag, IIRC. But you're right in a sense that in reality most likely we'd still be emitting CO2, balance it with the natural CO2 sinks and call that net-zero.

bayesianboton Terminal.Gui: A Cross Platform Terminal UI Toolkit for .NET

Great, there's some terminal programs I'd have preferred to code in C# but did in Python instead as I didn't know this exists.

First I thought resizing doesn't work but it seems it's only an issue with kitty, on alacritty it works as expected, in case anyone else is wondering the same.

bayesianboton Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

The protocol should be able to find same files in other torrents - you could be downloading a bunch of files (like a season of TV), but are able to find and download one file from another torrent that is better seeded (like one single episode torrent). But I don't think any of the clients implement that yet.

bayesianboton RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs

It's always been very strange for me that people who use computers hours and hours per day don't customize their workflows in any ways. Same people who customize and spend a long time choosing their car because they sit an hour or two every day in those, who are always improving their efficiency in stuff like building things, cleaning, cooking etc.. Then they go to their 6-12 hour daily stint on computer and use Edit->Copy, Edit->Paste to copy&paste stuff and that's the level they stay on forever, only changing things when updates change it for them.

bayesianboton Perfectly hard-boiled eggs via steaming method on induction cooktops

I've tried a lot of things with eggs, but one time I threw them in my Air fryer - 150°C for 15 minutes and then in cold water. It's so easy method, they almost never break and I get so consistent results I have not tried anything else after. Air fryers, eggs and cook level preferences are of course not the same for everyone so you might have to try around little bit, but IIRC I got the perfect result on second try.

bayesianboton An insight into live video streaming infrastructure at Twitch

You can do this with yt-dlp and mpv: Just feed twitch url to mpv, pause the stream and let it cache (not sure if you'd have to adjust cache size, I have it set to huge anyways), then adjust speed / skip anyway you want.

bayesianboton Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)

You seem to put a lot on weight on me feeling born on a wrong planet, but it's only a thing I thought because of all the massive differences I noticed compared to all of the other people I ever met, all the way from the way I think to small traits I have. As I didn't think it's very likely that I should be that way and nobody else on this planet is, so it felt like something had gone really wrong. Had I been diagnosed as a kid like your son I obviously would not have felt that way, I'd know the real reason for it and that I'm not the only one. The place where I was born did probably affect it, if not in other ways maybe at least I would have met other open autistic people earlier, but in my town mentally different people were a shame to the family to be hidden and not talked about, and good masking wasn't really optional if you wanted to try to be a part of the community.

I don't see those differences compared to other autistic people. I always thought what kind of people they'd be if I were to find others like me, and in the end the similarities surprised me, I always thought we'd still have bigger differences but now I see so much more common between us than I ever expected. And like seba_dos1 said, overwhelm me too much (which there are multiple ways to do, all similar to other autists I've met) and I get to similar state as non-verbals - extreme trouble processing speech as well as speaking, robotic movement, feels like my brain just doesn't work.

bayesianboton Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)

I and many other autistic people would strongly disagree. Neurotypical vs ASD isn't some gradient like you seem to think, it's much bigger, clearer wall between us.

I am one of those that you wouldn't diagnose autistic, but in reality me and my thoughts are much much much closer to the ones you would than neurotypicals. I wasn't diagnosed as a kid, partly because autism wasn't diagnosed at least in my country when I was born, partly because even though it was obvious to everyone how different I was my parents tried to pretend I'm just a normal kid. And partly because with time I honed my high quality human emulator to the perfection so at some point I could play that almost-"normal" kid part that they and society wanted from me.

Doesn't mean I didn't constantly feel there's been a mistake, I've been born on wrong planet, in middle of different species that doesn't understand me and which I don't understand. Absolutely nothing about the world made sense, life was hard and strange even if I was extremely good at pretending it isn't. It all changed when I found out and found others like me. Nowadays I'd be diagnosed at two years old, and my life would have been so much easier. I wouldn't have the need to pretend (or mask as we call it) as much, which is a HUGE constant stress. I could understand the world and myself much better, and adjust my life knowing better why and how I'm different. I feel like I could have grown up to be much less of a broken person. There are millions and millions like me, many of whom still don't know and are thinking what is going on in this world. They should be diagnosed as early as possible so they could start enjoying life like I have in much healthier way after finding out.

It's not really surprising that it was - and is - underdiagnosed and we're now finding more cases, as not that long time ago we didn't really diagnose it at all, and after that we only diagnosed the minority of cases who couldn't come up with an acceptable human emulator.

And because the mental image we have of autism is so wrong. I spent decades trying to find people like me, disorders that would explain the things. I gave up, thinking I'm unique. But my mental image was wrong also, so I didn't really give it enough thought - autism was a list of symptoms on wikipedia page and Rainman - that's not me, it's just that my brain and thinking is completely different and nobody understands, I can't even tell anyone because it's impossible to explain. It wasn't until I randomly read an article written by autistic person, and like 1/4 way through it I knew I found my kind - before that nobody understood, and that article could have been word to word written by me, except he knew the reasons behind it.

bayesianboton Iron Salt Aerosol for Climate Control

That 25,000 tons figure sounds really controversial. Even the article mentions

> David [Keith] thinks it is going to be easy and cheap, and I don’t agree,” says Robock. He estimates that several million tons of sulfur would have to be injected into the atmosphere annually to offset doubled levels of carbon dioxide, but if the particles clump together, “it could be many times that.”

I found a review of sulfate injection geoengineering studies[0] published in 2017 and with a quick read I can't find any mentions under millions of tons annually.

[0] https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/17/3879/2017/acp-17-3879...