People have also been building ingenious systems for growing fruit for a long time:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-...
Readit Newsbarathr commented on Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC obscura.net/blog/bootstra... · Posted by u/kevincox
We've found that this decoupling (multi-party) approach is a good way to improve privacy in a bunch of networking contexts -- here's a paper we wrote a few years ago with colleagues at Fastly and Cloudflare on the topic:
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2022/papers/hotnets2...
barathr commented on PeerAuth, TOTP-based peer authentication in the post-truth world ksze.github.io/PeerAuth/... · Posted by u/k_sze
This is a little stupid project that I created after seeing what AI can do nowadays.
In an "ideal" world:
- everybody should start using public/private key cryptography to authenticate each other, but that's still rather unwieldy nowadays. I'm not aware of any solution with a good UX;
- people would stop posting their photos/videos/audio recordings on the web, and also scrub anything that have been uploaded in the past.
We don't live in an "ideal" world, and TOTP is pretty widespread now, and you can easily read the TOTP code over the phone, etc. So this solution was born.
This is really clever and elegant. Thanks for building it.
barathr commented on Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios inkandswitch.com/ambsheet... · Posted by u/azhenley
Would you be open to sharing the code?
Sure, here's what Claude generated (all the usual caveats apply): https://pastebin.com/Xbs2qasH
barathr commented on Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios inkandswitch.com/ambsheet... · Posted by u/azhenley
This is a neat idea, and one that I frequently find a need for. (I was curious how it'd work, so I copied and pasted the description and screenshot of the UI into Claude and in two prompts it built a working React app prototype.)
I highly recommend Klinenberg's Palaces for the People, which he named after Carnegie's phrase for libraries. Here's an interview he did on 99% Invisible:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/palaces-for-the-peopl...
Hey HN, thanks for posting. My name is Grischa, I'm the creator of Threlte. Here's a blog post of what's new in Threlte 8: https://threlte.xyz/blog/threlte-8
Threlte is a renderer and component library for using Three.js in a declarative and state-driven way in Svelte apps. It provides strictly typed components for deep reactivity and interactivity out-of-the-box.
It's suffice to say it was a whole lot of work and a great challenge to make use of Svelte 5. A lot of the important parts have been rewritten to make use of the new reactivity model, some APIs have been aligned with conventions introduced by Svelte 5 and type safety has been improved all over. Also this release includes the first alpha release of Threlte Studio which is what we call a spatial programming toolset.
If you're looking for an migration guide, it's here: https://threlte.xyz/docs/learn/advanced/migration-guides#thr...
Any chance that Threlte makes it easy to do view-independent rendering / ray tracing? Basically if you have many surfaces in your scene and you want to not just visualize the scene but find out how much light is arriving at any surface (even ones the camera currently can't see), is that something Threlte enables?
I'm interested in computing light that trees receive and want to be able to visualize it but also have even leaves that aren't in view to continue to receive light during the simulation.
barathr commented on NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture nsa.gov/helpful-links/nsa... · Posted by u/gaws
Amazing how prescient her talk is on so many levels -- things that in 1982 there were likely few folks really thinking about deeply and holistically.
barathr commented on Seeing Like a Data Structure belfercenter.org/publicat... · Posted by u/barathr
Sorry, my comment was harsher than it needed to be. I've struggled with belonging where most people seem to fit in, but on the other hand I've benefited greatly, I think, from the processes that make me a taxable citizen rather than a member of a community.
What we're hoping for (and is the theme of the piece) is that we are and can and should be both and more -- taxable citizens, members of illegible communities, and many more things. It's a both-and perspective -- life is and should be composed of many overlapping systems.
However, in the off grid-setting I did discover some nuance. Sometimes you could really do with some power around sunset or sunrise. In the winter, being able to more reliably run my air-source heat pump at sun-up would have been very handy. Or likewise, some extra power to run the AC (which is the same device) in the early evening in the summer would have also been handy.
There were plenty of cold mornings when I was keeping an eye on the solar grafana dashboard, waiting for that hockey-stick moment when the sun swung into the right place!
I did consider the possibility of setting up an additional east or wast facing array to capture sun at the extremes of the day. Unfortunately that would have required its own MPTT charge controller, and would have just been more complexity in general.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m#section.13.4
Basically take your latitude and add 15 degrees and that'll get you good annual coverage.