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Re:Photos taken inside musical instruments on Saturday May 31, 2025 @02:03PM (#44145923)
It's basically the opposite effect of tilt-shift photography [1].

See an example: https://i0.wp.com/digital-photography-school.com/wp-content/...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%E2%80%93shift_photography

Re:Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @05:22PM (#42562294)
For those interested, "The Complete Autobiography of Morris Chang (Volumes 1 and 2)" is the machine translation of the above.
Re:Being a Developer in the Age of Reasoning AI on Monday December 23, 2024 @07:46PM (#42498785)
What is your project?
Super cool! I had a very similar idea recently: I wanted to have on-demand podcasts about one's surroundings as you explore a new place (also taking into account a small list of user interests). I did a prototype [1] with the OpenAI APIs but the generated results were too shallow and not as interesting. It seems you prepared it with more carefully curated content, smart. My city is covered by Audiala, will give it a try!

[1] https://github.com/geonnave/roadcast

Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:36AM (#40356334)
Something similar already exists, see https://www.rewind.ai/ and https://www.perfectmemory.ai/
Re:The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:17AM (#39465532)
> I hate having to negotiate with AI like it's a difficult child.

Surely not in the list of things I expected to ever read in real life.

Re:One man’s quest to end cheating in virtual cycling on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:53AM (#37671490)
> Back in ancient Greece, statues weren’t constructed to celebrate athletes: They were built to shame them into not cheating.

Is this true? Could not find any source for it.

Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:52AM (#37642300)
> Selecting text

> (...) there is a completely new gesture, double tap. Wait, there is actually a third gesture long press, which also works.

TIL about the double tap -- always used the long press to select text. It is interesting that the author refers to long press as an alternative. Do most people use double tap for that?

Re:Show HN: Host a Website in the URL on Thursday September 07, 2023 @10:05AM (#37419084)
primg is, indeed, inspired by the prime giraffe :)
Re:Show HN: Host a Website in the URL on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @04:49PM (#37411114)
On the subject of weird stuff on a URL, here is a prime dog: https://geonnave.github.io/primg/#17976931348623159077293051...
Re:All of the vehicle license plates available in America on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:11PM (#37215419)
Where are the Mexican, Brazilian, Colombian license plates? I mean, it's 2023 and people still talk about America when they actually want to mean the US.
LoRa[WAN] is too limited for this use case. MTUs range from 51 to 242 bytes, and packet loss increases with packet sizes and distance. In addition, it lacks a built-in mechanism for reliability (e.g. ACKs). In other words, lots of headaches, unless your use case is sending non-critical telemetry data up to a few hundreds times per day.

For more information I recommend this paper [1] (unfortunately behind a paywall).

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8030482

Re:Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:47AM (#37189344)
Similar "noise radar systems are being tested in Paris [1] and New York [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/noise-radar-in... [2] https://www.nyc.gov/site/dep/news/22-005/roadside-sound-mete...

For those also wondering what is ETL and dbt:

> ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is a process that involves extracting data from various sources, transforming it to fit operational needs, and loading it into a database for analysis. dbt (data build tool) is an open-source software tool that enables data analysts and engineers to transform and model data in the data warehouse, streamlining the transformation part of the ETL process.

In (Brazilian) Portuguese software engineers are usually graded Júnior, Pleno, or Sênior, where "Pleno" means something like "full". It is used for these intermediary situations where neither Junior or Senior applies.
Re:Google and HTTP on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:11PM (#36588592)
The way the author begins the article makes you think Google is trying to s/HTTP/$NEW_PROPRIETARY_PROTOCOL/, although they just mean s/HTTP/HTTPS/.
Oh but it is: I find it useful. For example, I would not pay a lawyer for that contract, so having it draft me a mediocre contract is still better than having no contract.
My experience is completely different. I have successfully used GPT-4 to:

- write a contract for the sale of my motorcycle: put all details, names and numbers with labels on a spreadsheet, paste on the chat and ask for a contract, then edit.

- learn french: I told gpt "when I write wrong stuff in french, always let me know and teach me the correct ways". Then, after a few weeks I asked for a .csv with the stuff that he corrected so I could import into Anki, which actually worked.

- coding on a daily basis: I am learning Rust on my new job, so I ask it things all the time, it helps me a lot.

This is really cool, congrats!
In the Dune novel, the solution for this was a kind of evolved/specialized human kind that was able to see a bit into the future (with the help of a "drug", the Spice). Only this kind of "human" could be a pilot of a faster-than-light spaceships.
Re:Brazilian vote counting (real time) on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:54PM (#33060675)
You just have to file a note explaining that you could not vote -- we call it "justifying the (non-) vote" / "justificar o voto". As of the current election, the it can be done on a mobile app.
Re:Getting started with decentralized identity on Saturday July 30, 2022 @09:31AM (#32286661)
For the "Learning resources" section, I would also recommend checking ION¹. I have tested a few DID Methods including Sovrin, Veres One, and ION, and the latter is the most spec-adherent and well-implemented, apart from receiving funding from companies like Microsoft and TBD (which is proposing web5 in the first place). And yes, it is the only DID Method to receive support from big tech (was incubated within Microsoft, then donated to the Decentralized Identity Foundation), and it also happens to be a technically better solution.

Why I think it is better: (1) don't need a new blockchain (re-uses Bitcoin's); and (2) implements DIDs / DID Documents with all needed features (e.g. last time I tried, Sovrin's implementation did not support serviceEndpoints!)

¹ https://identity.foundation/ion/

² https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/03/25/microsofts-ion-d...

Re:Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage? on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:24PM (#29789856)
Today I learned: EUV stands for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography.
Re:Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card on Sunday July 11, 2021 @06:38PM (#27805031)
A nice addition would be either (1) support other languages or (2 - simpler) the ability to edit the field titles (e.g. change from "Network name" to "Nome da rede").
Re:55% of all Tether, $25B, were created in 2021 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:51AM (#26843864)
Serious question: what happens when I buy USDT using another currency than USD? e.g. EUR or BRL. How can USDT maintain its parity with USD under such circunstances?
Re:Twitter acquires Revue on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:13AM (#25915927)
Clearly and unsurprisingly this is to compete with Substack. Great move.

Now, regarding character limits, beyond linking to a personal website or having a newsletter, I have seen avid content creators posting images containing small essays directly on Twitter to allow a deeper in-app reading experience.

Maybe this should be a next, and less trivial, problem for Twitter to work on.

Re:The Future of Online Identity Is Decentralized on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:40PM (#23816364)
I support this view.

The DID and VC specs are the most advanced tools we have now to implement decentralized identity, plus there are many startups applying these in real world, solving problems and generating open source implementations.

Btw, I joined the Internet Identity Workshop last spring and it was an incredible experience. (https://internetidentityworkshop.com/)

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