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Love reading about innovations on design, development, enterprising and tech.

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sycren··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
So what if a large TV is being used to cast business information in a meeting?

It's ironic that Sony as a media producer and TV maker could be streaming copyrighted images for an algorithm to use.

Could this be used as an example from AI companies on the use of copyrighted images for training data?

sycren··on Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
I think this boils the problem down solely to the individual. What if companies realised this issue and made a period of time during the day devoted solely to learning, knowledge management and innovation. If their developers only use AI to be more productive, then the potential degradation of intellect could stifle innovation and make the company less competitive in the market. It would be interesting if we start seeing a resurgence of Google's mythical 10% rule with companies more inclined to let any employee create side projects using AI (like Cursor) that could benefit the company.
sycren··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
Should there be a better way of reporting and displaying bugs?

For displaying the bugs, I'm thinking of something like what invision was - showing the interface of for example the desktop and showing the number of bugs associated with different elements of the desktop.

By displaying bugs as posts on a forum, I feel that we lose track of how degraded the performance of the system actually is.

sycren··on Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin
But would that make it so that it's impossible to install/access other libraries?
sycren··on People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research
I would imagine that having a camera videoing your preparation of ingredients and cooking would give enough data to classify the ingredients and the used volumes. From the video it should be easier to track the weight of everything... and perhaps depending on how the ingredients are used, determine/predict how the macronutrients are altered during the process.
sycren··on A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
If the definition of the meter is still wrong disallowing π² = g, how might this affect other calculations like for example thrust and in aerospace engineering?
sycren··on Ask HN: Seeking ideas for preschool/school projects
You could consider doing a mini hackathon with the kids whereby the aim is to create a board game of some kind. Have the kids design the game on paper or card,then at the end use your cnc mill to create the boards, tiles, player pieces etc. You could then use the world cafe (https://toolbox.hyperisland.com/world-cafe) facilitation method for all the teams to explain their games to each other and recommend improvements. You could even show them how to use chatgpt to take their game ideas and flesh them out at a later stage (tutorial, rules etc.)

This idea would allow them to create something fun which is their own, that they can keep in the classroom and play with. It may also make them think of what other games they can create in the future.

sycren··on Impacts of lack of sleep
Could devices to trigger other senses work? Like an aromatic diffuser on a timer switch that pumps out a scent, or a SAD lamp that simulates sunlight. A vibration device for the bed
sycren··on Negative Mass
Since it focuses on electrical charge, would it be worth renaming it to Anti-charged-matter

Are there other types of Antimatter that focus on different properties?

sycren··on An example of LLM prompting for programming
Instead of starting a new chat, why not change the prompt higher up in the conversation with the relevant detail that you have gained through the responses?
sycren··on Dishwasher Salmon
What is the argument for and against it?
sycren··on The RIAA vs. Steve Jobs
Isn't this already built with https://huggingface.co/ ?
sycren··on systemd 100% cpu hang? – Proxmox Support Forum
This should be the CEST Austria Daylight Savings change tonight. https://www.visitingvienna.com/visitorinfo/time/

Proxmox is based out of Vienna, Austria.

So a Timing glitch.

sycren··on Why are TV Cameras still huge and expensive? (2019) [video]
Who is currently researching lenses that are cheaper, sustainable, at a production that can scale?

Are there any other industries on the peripheral that would also benefit from market innovation in optics?

sycren··on AMD, Intel, and Nvidia Reportedly Slash Orders with TSMC
Could this matter be geopolitically based?
sycren··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
Potentially it could be used as temporary atmospherical music for pre-viz video shots
sycren··on Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video
What are the next steps to look at from here?

- Creating a grammar to 'direct' the video

-- Blocklist for inappropriate words or phrasing through an Independent advisory body

- Optimising the output to synthesise a coherent video

- Add rudimentary sound output for the video

- Ultimately, the next frontier is building virtual simulations, ie. World Building <> Metaverse

sycren··on Apple account disabled after using many different gift cards
Is this one of those challenges that can be expedited with a good lawyer?
sycren··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
Due to her passing away in Scotland, I believe there is a different Operation in play, Operation Unicorn - https://www.thenational.scot/news/21224640.operation-unicorn...
sycren··on Negative incentives in academic research
Earlier this year I was exploring a web3 industry 4.0 open science solution rethinking how research is performed, by who (or what), skills required, deliverables (no journals needed), a semantic knowledge base of results good & bad, validated through repetition, a framework for how experiments are managed.

Here's my research on the 'Challenges facing Academic Research' - https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOkNfljM=/?share_link_id=58427...

Quotes that I found important:

"It discourages rigorous research as it is difficult to obtain enough results for a paper (and hence progress) in two to three years.

The constant stress drives otherwise talented and intelligent people out of science also."

- Anonymous

"End the PhD or drastically change it. there is a high level of depression among phd students. long hours, limited career prospects, and low wages contribute to this emotion."

- Don Gibson, Scientist at BioConsortia

Funding "affects what we study, what we publish, the risks we (frequently don't) take, it nudges us to emphasise safe, predictable (read: fundable) science"

- Gary Bennett - Neuroscientist at Duke University

"We need to recognise academic journals for what they are: shop windows for incomplete descriptions of research, that make semi-arbitrary editorial [judgments] about what to publish and often have harmful policies that restrict access to important post-publication critical appraisal of published research." —Ben Goldacre, The Datalab, epidemiology researcher, physician, and author

"An estimated $200 billion - or the equivalent of 85% of global spending on research - is routinely wasted on poorly designed and redundant studies." - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

"As much as 30% of the most influential original medical research papers turn out to be wrong or exaggerated." - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201218#COM...

"The BMJ found that one-third of university press releases contained either exaggerated claims of causation (when the study itself only suggested correlation), unwarranted implications about animal studies for people, or unfounded health advice." - https://www.vox.com/2014/12/10/7372921/health-journalism-sci...

sycren··on The most satisfying checkbox
Inside the habit tracker, I expect that you could also grow tired of the interaction played repeatably.

Would it make a difference if the interaction was procedurally generated, offering an unexpected reward at your fingertips each day?

Google Doodles <MEETS> Checkboxes

sycren··on NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality
One of the problems is if TTS becomes comparable to an actor's performance. It's interesting that we are also now moving in the direction where you can copyright your voice.
sycren··on Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom
Could it be suggested that banning end-to-end encryption may put citizens, businesses,institutions & infrastructure at risk from hostile nations (Russia in this instance), who may seek this as a potential attack vector?

Therefore we position EARN-IT as a national security threat over individual privacy.

sycren··on Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking
So what happens to the chipmaking industry in the event of a Russian occupation of Ukraine and a Chinese occupation of Taiwan?
sycren··on 717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch
Is there any distortion/difference seeing the painting in real-life at an off-angle that cannot be replicated through current scans?

And are there any neurological studies about seeing/feeling physical objects versus virtual? And would VR help close the gap?

sycren··on Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use
By uploading the licensed music in the first place, are we not breaching copyright law?
sycren··on Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
Are there any other useful chemical reactions that can utilise this waste product?
sycren··on Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
The chemical equation for rust is: 4Fe + 3O2 + 6H2O → 4Fe(OH)3

Where does the hydrogen come from when burning the iron powder since (presumably) water is not part of the burning process?

sycren··on How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
Rather than try to remove all contaminants, is it possible to mark them with an indicator of their origin?
sycren··on Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?
In London, I work as a consultant growing startups - but now I'm looking for a full-time role in growth/marketing/partnerships for a high growth tech company...

My side project is a hackathon/startup school hybrid focusing on creating entreprenurial solutions that tackle the challenges of diversity - http://www.startupandbloom.com/

Currently, I'm writing up press releases and sponsorship documents.

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