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zith··on RAG to Riches
Indeed, it seems almost forgotten now, but between Web 2.0 and Blockchain, putting AI in your company description was for sure a valuation multiplier.

The current craze is magnitudes larger, of course, but we have not had an AI winter for a long time.

zith··on Reverse Engineering an LCD Display
A little off topic, but what possibilities are there to rip out the guts of a "smart tv" and just use the display as a dump monitor? I love my Samsung display for its visuals, but the OS is terrible.
zith··on Building a freedom-friendly WiFi pocket-router (2020)
I'm a big fan of https://www.supernetworks.org for the flexibility it gives. The security focus is a bonus as well.
zith··on Show HN: Stella Nera – Maddness Hardware Accelerator
Is it possible to get good performance in computation when encoding the data this way, or is there a lot of cycles lost to packing and unpacking these bits?
zith··on Can you beat a stochastic parrot?
From what I understand it is simply gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct.

https://github.com/clevcode/skynet-dev

zith··on Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager
What is the best way of learning modern css?
zith··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
Climate models take this into account [0], contrary to what some people here seem to imply. It is also very likely that this is part of, but not the major factor of recent warming. [1]

I would like to point out that this is not something we're just figuring out "this week" as Hank Green seems to want to frame it.

There's no need to sensationalize. There is no conspiracy here. This is well known. It's good to educate people, but it sucks that even good educators have to crawl in the click-bait mud to reach people.

[0] https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1444679408573419520

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...

zith··on European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects
Note that this article interchangeably uses EU and Europe when referring to the European Union and its member countries.

It might seem silly, but I think it bears repeating that not all countries in Europe are part of the European union.

zith··on Update: The Swedish authorities answered our protocol request
True, we did not have full lock downs. However there were multiple restrictions in place through various phases of the pandemic. Restaurants/bars/clubs closed at 8 pm as opposed to being open to 1 am/ 3am. Max 4 people at a table (with mandated spacing in between). No events with crowds allowed (all theaters, shows, sporting events etc cancelled/without audience). Masks in subway.

Sweden is also not best in class when it comes to privacy. We've introduced far reaching mass surveillance laws, first aimed at counter terrorism but slowly the allowed usage has widened. There EU chat control bill is not being opposed by the parties in power, nor the largest opposition party.

I would not be surprised if the definition you're talking about changed, although it's not a given. Could go either way.

zith··on Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 Review: Return to Form
Me too!

Now I wonder, can the NITS unlocked by HDR content be controlled in some way? Can I write an HDR terminal emulator? I want to be able to use neovim outside without issues.

I think it would be a fun hack to try.

zith··on Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996)
Exactly the same experience as me. I got pretty deeply involved in the digital evolution community.

Great way to spend my teenage years, and a great foundation to have while programming in any language. :)

zith··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
I like this article on the subject. It examines many of the possible reasons given by others in these comments.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/25/wage-stagnation-much-m...

zith··on Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere
I had this problem as well. After I cleared out my old tabs (99+) it disappeared. Might have been correlated.
zith··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
Advisa | Frontend and backend developers | Stockholm, Sweden | Full-time Onsite

We're a loan comparison service that tries to take people existing loan situation and improve it. The banks are making way too much money off of its customers, and we'd like to change that.

Come join a passionate team in a small company where every employee really makes a difference.

- Tech stack backend: NodeJS (service oriented architecture, restful communication and message queues using RabbitMQ), docker, AWS ECS

- Tech stack frontend: Angular, React, Less, ES6

https://emp.jobylon.com/jobs/17670-advisa-product-backend-de...

https://emp.jobylon.com/jobs/17669-advisa-product-frontend-d...

zith··on Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
Maybe the tracking of hands for the controls do not work outside. At least with the kinect, the IR projection that it depends on to map the 3d space will not work well (or at all) in direct sunlight. When I was working with robotics that had kinects mounted for 3d vision we always had to put the blinds down when the sun was shining into the office.
zith··on Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework
For people using Chrome on Android phones you can force enable zoom by going into settings -> accessibility -> force enable zoom.

Maybe there is something similar on iphones?

It seems many people have trouble with this, and even though I have normal eyesight I can get annoyed when the site prevents me from zooming. It does make things easier when developing "native feeling UI" though.

zith··on Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
That article is biased and full of exaggerations (and possibly also outright errors). I live inside the city in Stockholm and have lived both in a suburb and a small town in another part of Sweden in my life. No one I've met spend much time "cleaning and sorting" their garbage. Sure, we might rinse out our cans and milk cartons before putting them in their respective bags underneath the sink, but that takes probably less than three seconds, and we do it mostly so that it won't smell. I've never met anyone that separates the paper from cans. Everyone I know would laugh at such ideas.

Furthermore, the kinds of things we recycle from day to day do not consist of more than 6 categories. Two colors of glass, metal (cans mostly), cartons, paper, plastic. Everyone I know collects this in their own home in paper bags, and then leaves them at a collection point close to their house when they get full. And of course, we don't normally take an extra trip to do this. I leave it on my way to the subway, other people might leave them when they take the car to work. It's really not much of an extra workload. I'm guessing I spend 15 minutes a month on my recycling.

Then we have more rare trash. Electronics, batteries, light bulbs, wood, paint etc. For the suburbs and small towns they have larger recycling plants in each municipality which you can drive to. They have shipping containers where you dump your old bikes, tv's, your large pine tree that you cut down to get some more sun in your yard, etc. A typical family might visit this place one to three times a year to dump some more hazardous or clunky trash.

If you live in an apartment complex (and possibly don't have access to a car) there's usually a room in the complex for all of these things. They have the plastic, glass, metal, batteries and electronics containers close to your own apartment.

For me who live in the city and don't have access to a car, there is actually a truck that comes around a few times a year for me to deposit these things. It has a few collection points close to me (within walking distance) and sends out a text message to my phone a few weeks before they're coming, besides having a schedule online.

Having been raised in this type of a recycling system, I'm always amazed by people, even in Sweden, who think it's too cumbersome. Sure, it happens that I forget to empty my recycling bins at the collection points some times, and then I do throw cartons and cans in my regular garbage (which from what I know is not illegal, btw). But in general there really isn't any noticeable overhead.

zith··on Introducing Braintree.js
What alternatives are available for Europe?
zith··on Show HN: Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
I agree. I would love a watch with this technology that looks like a classic mens watch. Brown leather and a simple round display.
zith··on Lexadecimal - colour codes with meaning
Speaking of hexadecimal numbers that mean something. Does anyone know any good numbers that stand out both in hex and in decimal? Something that would make people suspect it is a number used for debugging.
zith··on 'Steal everything' era of hacking
To be fair, the people who the media call hackers also call themselves hackers. Language is defined by how we use it, not necessarily the way the person who originally coined the terms wanted.

Also, to me, crackers are people who break copy protection and other DRM systems.

zith··on Genetic algorithm demo: finding optimal vehicle design (in Flash)
Fantastic contraption is a bit like that. It's also incredibly addictive.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

zith··on Phrack Magazine issue #67 announced
The website earlier said "phrack will be at ruxcon", which is this weekend (starts the 20th). I imagine it will be released then.
zith··on Using WolframAlpha to Hack Text CAPTCHA
If someone would like to try with some more questions and can't bother to write a screen scraper for the demo page, I scraped a few questions a while back:

http://www.filedump.net/dumped/quesions1285428813.txt

zith··on Ubuntu - Brave New World? Or Jumping off a Cliff?
Google web cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=ubuntu&#...
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