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KuzMenachemon CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion

Just FYI, you can go to Settings -> Safari -> Advanced -> Feature Flags -> Prefer Page Rendering Updates near 60fps and switch it off to get 120Hz

KuzMenachemon Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs

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KuzMenachemon Every default macOS wallpaper

One thing I found annoying about the MBP mini LED screen is that macOS will not make the menu bar truly black, no matter how hard I've tried. Even using a #000000 picture as background, with 'Digital Color Meter' claiming that the screen is showing 000 everywhere, in dark environments it's obvious that the menu bar is a different color from the rest of the background.

KuzMenachemon Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

Reminds me of an excellent 3blue1brown video about Newton’s method [1]. You can see similar fractal patterns emerge there too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RdOwhmqP5s

KuzMenachemon Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?

link has a , in place of a .

KuzMenachemon Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon

You can put some obstacles (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml/generating_...) in the way though.

KuzMenachemon MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Totally agree regarding the UK, I was mostly trying to understand where the belief in the "lockstep decline" of the other countries (Germany, France, ...) comes from.

KuzMenachemon MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Genuinely curious: why/how are these countries declining in your view?

KuzMenachemon Switzerland considers jail sentences for those heating their homes unreasonably

Fair enough - I’ve appended my comment

KuzMenachemon Switzerland considers jail sentences for those heating their homes unreasonably

Are you Swiss? Switzerland punishes many non-violent offenders with a jail sentence already. It seems to me like Swiss jail is meant for what the Swiss people decide it’s for.

KuzMenachemon Stabilization of gamma sulfur enables 4000 cycle Li-S batteries [pdf]

If you overprovision the electricity production you can get away with less battery capacity. It’s a tradeoff and the cost-optimal point is not going to be the one where the production is exactly equal to the demand.

KuzMenachemon Launch HN: Hotswap (YC S21) – Easily migrate customers away from competitors

English as a second language I presume

KuzMenachemon PlenOctrees For Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)

Automatic, visually accurate 3D visualization of real-world objects from a few images.

KuzMenachemon Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland

You can incentivize the creation of certain types of businesses that aid in the economic development of the country though. Many countries, especially in Asia, have "decided" to become successful producers of industrial goods. For example, the automotive and electronics industry in South Korea were heavily supported by national policy, after the government decided that these areas were critical for the development of the country [0]. This actually worked incredibly well - many companies are still around today (e.g. Hyundai, Samsung, LG).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Year_Plans_of_South_Korea

KuzMenachemon In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)

I agree with your points re. Myers-Briggs, however modern IQ tests are generally regarded as pretty reproducible and an individual’s score remains quite stable over long periods of time. Confidence intervals are about 10 points for decent tests. [1]

They are not perfect of course, but it’s a little unfair to compare MB with IQ tests in this manner. I know you caveated your comment by saying that not all IQ Tests are like this, which is certainly true. However, I see no statistical reason not to tell people the result of a high-quality IQ test.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Reliabil...