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Many squares in circles bests were found this month.

https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/squincir/

A literature search didn't turn much evidence of this at all, let alone conclusive evidence. Any sources? I swirl right hand clockwise. I also draw circles clockwise. One article said circle drawing direction was likely cultural or linked to handwriting systems, not which was more "natural".

It’s similar in other sports. Around 30% of top cricketers are left handed. It’s 40% for some leading countries.

The “hypothesis presumes that athletes in interactive sports are much more likely to play and practice against right-handed opponents. As a result, these athletes develop both greater familiarity and highly specific skills to anticipate the action outcomes of their right-handed opponents via attunement to crucial perceptual information”

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7424046/

> So I built a scraper that hits the UK government's mandatory Fuel Finder API every 10 minutes and stores every price change. 90k records across 7,700 stations since January.

Only 1 change per station per week on average? Fewer than I expected. Not sure I'd call it a scraper, myself.

157p/L national average is about 8 USD/G.

Being a world leader with 1's and 2's, it was only a matter of time that they diversified into 0's and 1's.

Reminds me of the 1990 Amiga game Nuclear War. Characters included Infidel Castro, Mao the Pun, Ronnie Raygun, Ghanji, Gorbachef, Colonel Khadaffy, and of course Ayatollah Kookamamie. https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/nuclear-war

Human in the loop reinforcement learning

Same here. Single screen, single app, at least 95% of the time. For decades.

I’d like to try a squarish monitor, but it seems to be a barren wasteland of choice: mateview, dualup, or flexscan. Meh.

> By this server's count, you are visitor number Warning: include(visitor_count.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/public/kagi.com/index.php on line 6!

It's like going back in time.

To many fellow Europeans, the “old grandpa shouting at the clouds” is perceived to be some other entity.

I was pleasantly surprised by the age verification. "Based on the age of your Apple account you are verified as being at least 18 years old". Done. Tempus fugit.

color vision deficiency

Shameless clone of MacWhisper (with an H).

https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

It would be an idea for someone to make a browser plugin that used Kagi Translate to do the reverse translation while visiting LinkedIn.

Hence Chang Beer.

synthesia

It’s linked to in the first sentence of the OP.

Another tangent. Bryce Bayer is the dad of a HN poster. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12111995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36043826

Agreed. I just hope they repair their Shift keys soon.

FWIW, thea1200 went live for preorders last week. You can order on the manufacturer site, or even Amazon (some countries).

I have a A2000, and use Amiberry, but I'm looking forward to using this thing.

https://retrogames.biz/products/thea1200/

I was too fascinated by the different thumb nail lengths to concentrate much on the video.

I sort of like it upside down, power of ra.

Unsurprisingly, macaw test images go way back. There is one in this old Kodak test image dataset that is often used in CG tests.

https://r0k.us/graphics/kodak/kodim23.html

It seems to have been uploaded in 1999 from an old slide dataset.

This seems to be the Photo CD from 1993. I suppose the source goes back earlier.

https://www.math.purdue.edu/~lucier/PHOTO_CD/

Exactly right. Neatly said by the author in the linked article.

> I spent years building ImageNet, the first large-scale visual learning and benchmarking dataset and one of three key elements enabling the birth of modern AI, along with neural network algorithms and modern compute like graphics processing units (GPUs).

Datasets + NNs + GPUs. Three "vastly different" advances that came together. ImageNet was THE dataset.

> Fei-Fei: ???

Underrated and unsung. Fei Fei Li first launched ImageNet way back in 2007, a hugely influential move sparking much of the computer vision deep learning that followed since. I remember in a lecture about 7 years ago jph00 saying "text is just waiting for its imagenet moment" -> then came the gpt explosion. Fei Fei was massively instrumental in where we are today.

I don't use X so didn't view the page, but this has some information including an embedded youtube interview: https://www.chess.com/news/view/2025-fide-world-cup-round-1-...

The display was in a booth replicating the 1984 Winter CES booth. Here is a Creative Computing article from the 1984 event.

https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n4/150_Amiga_Lorr...

Forbodingly, the article signs off with "Amiga, please don't join the sorrowful ranks that have wasted technological superiority through marketing muck-ups."

Sadly, it isn't strictly true. maybe the article should have said "applied" not "created".

Even the wikipedia page for "Usability" points to a 1982 BYTE article advocating "Usable" for software tools.

The existing word "usability" was being applied in human computer interface texts/papers around the time (1987, 1988) as computer UIs made advances.

The best summary of history I could find was in this article (section 5.1), claiming the first usage was in 1971, or 1979, or perhaps 1981, depending on interpretation.

https://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-journal-applied-research-...

If you want a single example it is untrue, a good example is "IBM makes usability as important as functionality" from 1986. I found a copy online but hate deeplinking to such things.

It's possible that Cachet was unaware of all that academia and independently "created" the term.

Of course the actual word is much, much older in the world of meatspace.

I was using xcopy at the time as a kid and still play with a physical Amiga. Nostalgia.

No mention of the Amiga? Amiga Guide is a hypertext format, first released around 1992 with Workbench 2.1 I think, with Blue highlighting, again if memory serves, inherited from the OS theme.

Is there data behind that or is it just anecdata?

A year ago someone on HN said “I can confirm that iMessage is extremely common in Australia. WhatsApp is very uncommon, outside of people with European (and maybe South American?) friends or family to keep in touch with.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365562

My guess is you’re both expressing truths of your individual social circles but making unjustified extrapolations to an entire nation.