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nikhilgk··on Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
A similar one I recently discovered is https://www.youtube.com/@SleepOnPhysics. I think it was meant to put you to sleep with the detailed narrative, but I found it to be very interesting and captivating, especially for long drives. The content quality is pretty good, I am almost certain the audio is AI generated, but wonder how the content itself was authored.
nikhilgk··on Tell HN: Bug in Claude Code CLI is instantly draining usage plan quotas
There appears to be a severe regression in the Claude Code CLI that makes it nearly impossible to use for extended sessions right now. Since the weekend, premium quotas are being drained in 10 to 15 minutes. According to GitHub issue, the CLI is instantly hitting rate limits even with extremely high cache hit rates (98%+). A single workflow goes from 0 to 100% quota usage almost immediately. For a tool that costs 100+ dollars per month for these higher limits, getting locked out after two prompts is incredibly frustrating. Cant say if this is a temporary bug, or a taste of things to come.
nikhilgk··on Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32
You could get a dev board and a breakout board on aliexpress for less than $6 - this way you can get away without any soldering for most use cases. And if you use esphome and homeassistant, pretty much all code is just configuration and setup in homeassistant.
nikhilgk··on Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
Yes! Would be interested in trying it out if you are looking for alpha users.
nikhilgk··on HTML hacks that shaped the Internet
And more importantly, as I recall, you could install chrome frame without admin access.
nikhilgk··on Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later
That's a good bout of nostalgia - almost felt like watching an episode of Halt and Catch Fire. Joel, PG and Steve Yegge where some of the influential writers of that time who seemed to have a big impact on how people thought about careers, startups and corporate life.
nikhilgk··on Cosmological time dilation in the early Universe
So if I understood you and the original paper correctly, this observation is not in conflict with the Standard Model or Lambda-CDM and that this is an observational outcome of general relativity. Is that a correct statement? If so, then those models may need to incorporate why this may have happened, right?

Edit: Thank you for the detailed post. Learned a few things from it.

nikhilgk··on Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?
It was surprising to come across an article on geological or planet-scale phenomena that did not mention human activities as a contributing factor to the changes being discussed. Effects of Anthropocene are still only skin deep.
nikhilgk··on The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
Do you mean currently visible desktops or windows? https://github.com/sagb/alttab is the utility of my choice to get what I wanted.
nikhilgk··on Software horror show: SAP Concur
A few years ago, we were building somethings to integrate with multiple expense and invoice management systems. Concur's odata based APIs were by far one of the worst integration experiences I had. (Even worse than integrating with dot net SOAP APIs from AXIS and Java) You could see that some of the older APIs were well documented and thought out and the new versions were considerably worse. What we realized was that the earlier versions were built prior to SAP acquiring Concur.
nikhilgk··on Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
Tangentially, kudos to them for listing out past team members on the about-us page. I've never seen anyone do that before.
nikhilgk··on Time Travel: Probability and Impossibility
That's "relatively" easy to do. Get in a space ship that could quickly get to a fraction of c, travel for a short amount of time and then return back to the starting point. You would have traveled to the future from the point of view of some one at the starting point.
nikhilgk··on Finger counting gives away your nationality
> In India, for example, they use the lines between the segments of the fingers to count. > This means each digit can represent four numbers and the whole hand can represent 20.

The first part is true, but not the second part. You use the thumb as a pointer to track the lines on the other 4 fingers. So you count up to 16 on each hand. Besides, the thumb has 1 line segment less than the other fingers.

nikhilgk··on How Bell’s Theorem proved ‘spooky action at a distance’ is real
> This gets used to explain entanglement but it really has absolutely nothing to do with it. This is nothing that the ancient Greeks wouldn't have known.

To be fair, this usually crops up in entanglement discussions to deomonstrate how it can't be used for FTL communication and not to actually explain what entanglement is.

nikhilgk··on Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVI: What Is the “Dark Forest” Hypothesis?
> Even then out past a thousand light years even a multi-terawatt (EIRP) signal would be difficult to detect.

Not necessarily. Gravitational lensing may enable directed communication at much lower power levels : https://storkpaulo.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/gravitational-le...

nikhilgk··on Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine
Can this be used for building a convergent, dockable phone? What I mean is - if I have, say, a Pine Phone, can I build a dock with its own CPU and RAM, so that when I dock the phone, I get the extra horsepower from the dock, but without the dock, everything still works, albeit a little slower?
nikhilgk··on KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released
Built in SSH agent - to store you ssh keys and make them available to your ssh clients. KeePass supported it to too, but awkwardly through an extension which needed to be separately installed.
nikhilgk··on Tribuo, a Machine Learning Library for Java
> We're not looking at other languages outside of the JVM at the moment, but we're continuing to contribute to Tensorflow Java and ONNX Runtime to improve their Java support. We could look at pytorch inference support based on their Java API, but that overlaps pretty well with the things that ONNX Runtime supports. Do you have any suggestions?

Many models are deployed as restful endpoints, so a quick and easy ways to deploy models as services with containers or serverless providers will be very useful - although admittedly, you might not want that in the core project, could be a good sidecar project to this. Given your focus on model provenance, extending that beyond to model deployment and life cycle management tools such as MLFlow could also be very useful

nikhilgk··on Tribuo, a Machine Learning Library for Java
This looks really interesting! Kudos and thanks for the good work. Some questions:

- What does the future road map look like?

- Are you planning on adding more algorithms ?

- Any plans to bring in dataset and dataframe handling capabilities such as in numpy/pandas etc?

- What other interop features with other languages/platforms are planned?

- Any plans for AutoML features?

nikhilgk··on Show HN: InstaNote – notes in a simple chat interface
Yes, I will pay few bucks too for, local only storage and optional login.
nikhilgk··on “Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“
You can use shelter (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/) or Island (https://island.oasisfeng.com/) to get work profiles on regular android phones.
nikhilgk··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
Of course not : http://money.com/money/4346766/mark-zuckerberg-houses/
nikhilgk··on Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter
Also, look at the Bolshoi Cosmological Simulation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshoi_Cosmological_Simulatio...). Simulating the universe with the currently accepted model of dark matter successfully predicted the large scale structure of the universe. As a model for explaining observations, dark matter does hold some merit.
nikhilgk··on I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help
You register with your regional or national donor group. They are all networked for the most part. I live in the US and three years ago I donated to someone in Italy.
nikhilgk··on Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..
I echo this sentiment. I have been here longer and does not comment unless I have something of value to say, but do actively vote on stories or comments. People whom I know in real life and frequent here have the same usage pattern too. I would hazard a guess that there is a substantial amount of people in this category. So a purely karma based approach may not be sufficient.
nikhilgk··on Sergey Brin Demos Google Glass At I/O
I recommend reading Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End) for a few insights on how this and similar technologies effectively change the way we interact with "computers". As is brought out in the book, I expect a lot of early adoption for gaming.
nikhilgk··on Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
Another user of Zim Desktop Wiki. Almost as simple as notepad, stores as txt files, built in todos and calendars and plugin support. I just store the files in my Dropbox folder, that way I can get to the files even when I do not have zim installed.
nikhilgk··on NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space
> lot of organic stuff

The organic compounds produced by the Miller Urey experiments were mostly amino acids and some sugars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment). These are the building blocks for most of the things that constitute a cell. This discovery may better our understanding of the origins of DNA and RNA - which are the blueprints for putting together the building blocks to make a cell.

nikhilgk··on British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
Makes one wonder if their monikers are really tightly tied to real persons. Maybe the core group uses their names interchangeably and when one of them is ousted with a raid, some one else from the group assumes the online identity.
nikhilgk··on Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs
This is the more significant source of information for moving data out of Google products: http://www.dataliberation.org/
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