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sureklix··on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
Can I have some shoes please? And also a MacOS version built via Claude 3.7?
sureklix··on Show HN: Skyrim – Open-source Large Weather Model (LWM) Zoo
It shines especially when you need to run ensembles!
sureklix··on Show HN: Skyrim – Open-source Large Weather Model (LWM) Zoo
Very good question! These models are trained on ~40 years of ERA5 data –you can think of past forecasts from numerical models integrated with real observational data to have a continuous distribution of weather parameters (temperature, wind etc.) Therefore model resolution is 0.25 degrees (28km x 28km at the equator).

The way accuracy is measured is through picking targets (say temperature at 2 meters, at x,y lat & lon and forecasted 24h ago) and comparing them on RMSE and ACC (anomaly correlation co-efficient). For instance, in Google Graphcast paper they pick 1380 targets and the model out performs NWPs in 90% of them.

sureklix··on Show HN: Skyrim – Open-source Large Weather Model (LWM) Zoo
OK so feels like this needs some explanation. It is in an entirely unrelated field, just like Palantir (also directly from LOTR). Not to distract the discussion, but Skyrim trademark is registered at USPTO in the field of computer game related anything.
sureklix··on Show HN: Skyrim – Open-source Large Weather Model (LWM) Zoo
this is what happens when you listen to the soundtrack on repeat for weeks while developing this...
sureklix··on Show HN: GPT-4 Reverse Turing Test
Ironically, the more divergent you are in your thinking, easier it is to prove that you are human.
sureklix··on AI Won't Cause Unemployment
We need to invent a version of the glass bead game to avoid mass unemployment.
sureklix··on Ask HN: Where and how do you find your early adoptors?
Old school advice but worked really well in my previous startup –(i) conferences and (ii) snow-ball interviewing.

(i) In your case you need to somehow find this high density potential early user in-person gatherings. You can for instance hang out in a non-generic co-working space where you know it is the choice for digital nomads etc. in your city.

(ii) This is somewhat under-rated but you really can crawl the network of people you know ad infinitum. You only need few people you know who are productivity obsessed to start with. And then always ask them "who should I chat for 15 mins. to get feedback on this etc. (I would suggest crafting this ask really well so that it doesn't come off as demanding. Try to genuinely give value at every interaction, that's how I enjoyed the process as a hardcore introvert.). I spoke to about 5-10 people every week and ended up with a decent community of early users in <3 months.

sureklix··on There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid test kit
> And making it bluetooth removes a source of e-waste!

wait, so bluetooth is cheaper than paper?

sureklix··on You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
who is building an adblocker using ARKit?
sureklix··on Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed
"The more actively you try to learn the better you learn" category conclusion.

Any tools/frontends for ultimate youtube-based learning? Some things I miss: - highlight code screencasts (so I can copy and paste) - 3x (not all have 2x in youtube) - transcript extract and keyword search and jump to that location in the video => there must be someone doing this

PS: Not trying to promote any project by asking this, genuinely curious.

sureklix··on Web3? I have my DAOts
There are lots of points in the article challenging smart contracts because they need a social contract. Ethereum community also understands that social contract > smart contract. See below:

From Vitalik https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html:

"...What's going on here is a pattern of a similar type to what we saw with the not-yet-issued Bitcoin and Ethereum coin rewards: the coins were ultimately owned not by a cryptographic key, but by some kind of social contract."

"...Once again, millions of dollars of value are being controlled and allocated, not by individuals or cryptographic keys, but by social conceptions of legitimacy."

So the point is a bit moot, money is not flowing to web3 because of immutability per se. For most venture capital, mainly it is an effort to create a levelled playing field for startups –"decentralized x" etc. For retail investors, highly volatile, information symmetric (perceived) assets.

sureklix··on Is Web3 Bullshit?
Cool, but this is one data point. Would be good research how autocratic type of coordination convergence (e.g. functional oligarchy in this case) is the case compared to open source? If more then that means DAOs are failing to be a better coordination technology.
sureklix··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
So is this a filter on top of Google or is it search from scratch? Would love to understand more of the implementation.
sureklix··on Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
Go to south west Turkey. Several kite surfing towns, food is very similar to Greek, people are super friendly, weather is fantastic. Internet is good enough. Finally, 1K USD a month is equivalent to a local mid-level engineer net salary.
sureklix··on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
You still have to go through an on-ramp provider or OF does the on-ramp but then probably lots of reg headache. Plus I bet impulse buying is the way to activate OF users. One way to solve this can be to find an on-ramp solution w/ UX on par with card payments and then handle pay-in and pay-outs via Zcash or Monero or using Aztec protocol.
sureklix··on The Endgame for Cryptocurrency
In this case, wider adoption (e.g. payments) will inevitably lead to USD hyperinflation. If onramp is not heavily regulated then you are giving up control of the money supply. Hard to not expect.
sureklix··on Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments
A regulatory move in the same direction from the US wouldn't be that surprising, by the end of this year.

Also an overlooked detail in the article: "Last week, Turkish authorities demanded user information from crypto trading platforms." Your BTC can be an asset that can be seized as part of a confiscation procedure –also in Turkish law... Seriously, not your keys not your money. DEX is under-appreciated in this ecosystem.

sureklix··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
Here are some I've been thinking about:

- Eventually the virus mutates and becomes less lethal –it needs a healthy host population to survive. Evolution, not vaccines will drive normalization.\n - Cloud gaming explodes in Q1. Just before spring we will have a killer app for VR. - Much more paid-communities... - Close to the end of Q3, Apple starts creating a buzz around AR glasses.

sureklix··on Car Paint Colors Have Gotten More Boring over the Years
Hypothesis 1: Inverse of variation is correlated with daily internet use and increasing group think. Hypothesis 2: Car lifecycle getting more efficient, hardware lasts longer. Same in iPhones?
sureklix··on Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making
Great stuff! I'm a ML researcher / engineer in NLP, and I'm curious what sort of speech recognition tools you guys are using? I'm thinking of building really solid SDK's in this space:)
sureklix··on Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making
Good luck! I was wondering what backend do you guys use for Speech-to-text? As a ML guy I'm quite interested to learn what people experiment with. Cheers:)
sureklix··on Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?
Good question, I wonder the same. I would say E-ink is still the best bet in terms of no-light emission property. Someone from ReMarkable could give really good insights as they are the hottest startup building a product within this space. Other than that possibly the cheapest option would be to tile old kindles and find a way to interface with them...

Sad that Amazon makes Kindle very closed to modification in terms of software. Therefore I am a huge fan of ReMarkable because an underdog may allow us to finally build e-ink apps: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

sureklix··on Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?
Thinking about the same and doing a deep dive in real estate actually (not thinking of investing through funds but rather doing buy-to-let). Any solid resources / strategies recommended for a complete beginner?
sureklix··on Placer.ai: Visibility into consumer foot-traffic
Good question. According to Venture Beat they have their SDK installed in top 100 apps in 2018.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/24/placer-ai-raises-4-millio...

So then through app publishers, either intentionally or through an SDK dependency that they are unaware of. I wonder how app revenue sources is evolving over time. Could it be that "data monetization" is one the rise with the proliferation of startups like this one?