There is drama for Watchy, but I don't think there is any for BangleJS (other than being a bit iffy on iphones)
What's the drama with Watchy? I wasn't aware of any but I didn't play with mine that much either.
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dbl000 commented on FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-... · Posted by u/CrankyBear
I don't understand the rational for announcing that a vulnerability in project X was discovered before the patch is released. I read the project zero blogspot announcement but it doesn't make much sense to me. Google claims this is help downsteam users but that feels like a largely non-issue to me.
If you announce a vulnerability (unspecified) is found in a project before the patch is released doesn't that just incentivize bad actors to now direct their efforts at finding a vulnerability in that project?
dbl000 commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model book.sv... · Posted by u/costco
> It did stumble with ... more niche books (The Complete Yes Minister).
If you haven't already read it, you might like Lawrence Durrell's Antrobus [1].
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/759709.Antrobus_complete
I haven't read it, but I will check it out!
dbl000 commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model book.sv... · Posted by u/costco
Thank you for the compliments :) I used 50-100 datacenter proxies. I just logged requests made by the iOS app with Charles and then recreated the headers to the best of my ability though the server did not seem to be very strict at all. Worth noting though that static residential proxies are not too expensive these days anyways.
Re the API: The model does actually run fairly well on CPU so it probably wouldn't be too expensive to serve. I guess if there is demand for it I could do it. I think most social book sites would probably like to own their recommendation system though.
I would love an API or the dataset if you could share it somehow! Just to play around with my own book lists.
dbl000 commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model book.sv... · Posted by u/costco
Echoing what everyone else has said here - awesome site, love how fast it was.
I did notice that when I put in a single book in a series (in my case Going Postal, Discworld #33) that tended to dominate the rest of the selection. That does make sense, but I don't want recommendations for a series I'm already well into.
Also noticed that a few books (Spycraft by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman, Tribalism is Dumb by Andrew Heaton) that I know are in goodreads and reviewed didn't show up in the search. I tried both author's name and the title of the book. Maybe they aren't in the dataset.
It did stumble with some books more niche books (The Complete Yes Minister). Trying the "Similar" button gave me more books that were _technically_ similar because they were novelizations of British comedy shows, but not what I was looking for.
For more common books though it lined up very well with books already on my wishlist!
Relatedly there's a Map Men video on why north is up. [0] I don't buy the whole top is 'good' and lower is 'bad'. I think the bias is just a lot of the groups that made maps were located north(ish) and traveling roughly southward which made it a convenient orientation, especially during the age of sail.
dbl000 commented on A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams arxiv.org/abs/2503.20821... · Posted by u/stmw
Politics in general has a lot of parallels to religion.
People need to segment into belief groups, and politics is the new church.
Only this church is a popularity game to decide who controls a vast federal standing domestic army of armed police, as well as an outward projecting armed forces. The scary thing is that everyone seems to believe their church is correct, and willing to employ the machine of violence to enforce it.
This is kind of one of the points Jonathan Rauch made in his book "Cross Purposes"[0]. He talks about how the common zeitgeist went from being christian and conservative to being christian because you were a conservative and because of that people are treating politics with the same fervor that they would have treated religion in the past.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Purposes-Christianitys-Bargain-...
If anyone is interested in getting into cocktails I really can't recommend Cocktails with Suderman enough. The early posts are free and go into the theory of how cocktails are structured and why they work. Once you start to understand the structure of the major cocktails it makes it a lot easier to understand how you can play with the ingredients and make something new.
For instance, tons of cocktails fall into the "sour" category. They usually have proportions of 2:1:1 or 3:1:1 of a liquor, a sour, and a syrup. If you have rum, lime juice, and simple syrup it's a daiquiri. Swap out the lime juice for lemon juice and the rum for whiskey and you get a whiskey sour. Swap out the simple syrup for honey syrup and you get a Gold Rush. Use tequila, lime juice, and a blend of agave syrup and Cointreau and you have a margarita. Gin, lime, and simple syrup is a gimlet. And so on.
Also, as others have mentioned, the quality of the ingredients and the brands often matter a lot. A Manhattan calls for whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters, but the choice of whiskey and vermouth makes a big difference in the character of the drink. (And if you are using old vermouth that has been sitting out on the counter for a few years, or making a drink with bottled lime juice, it's just not going to turn out all that good.)
I also want to shout out The Sprits which serves as a book club for cocktails. Very good if you're just exploring. Each week you get a cocktail and a themed playlist to go with it, plus some other random musings.
dbl000 commented on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? · Posted by u/troupo
It's not just information density but rather intended use design. A lot of engineering/manufacturing parts suppliers tend to have good information dense websites that are really catered to their customers for finding parts.
Take mouser.com, digikey.com, grainger.com rockauto.com or mcmaster.com. They all have a bit of a "landing page" but once you go to search for parts you've got something that was really designed to be an intuitive parts search. Compare that with jameco.com which competes with mouser/digikey but has a more classic webshop search system. It’s a bit more frustrating to use.
Some news sites also do a great job of presenting headlines and highlights well in a small area. I think semafor.com is probably my current favorite, but I'll readily admit that it's not the most information dense.
CAD software also tends to be good at this, but that might be just because the UI has chugged along since the 90's. AutoCAD/Inventor/Solidworks/SolidEdge/KiCAD/Altium/Virtuoso are all great examples where if you've got prior experience with them (or even similar software) you can sit down and quickly get up to speed on a project and see what's been done. I think the distinction is that a lot of software/websites are designed to keep the average user focused on a single aspect and so they are designed to either remove or hide the complexity but for more “professional” level tools you need all that data and information. You can probably blame (for better or for worse) material UI for a lot of this spaced-out thing. In my mind that was the first mobile first UI scheme that really took off and it's basically influenced everything that's come sense then. Computer first software might be your best bet to get some examples. Because a lot of the web is mobile first/mobile forward now you probably aren't going to find a lot of examples on that. I would love to see examples of information dense mobile first sites.
A few other examples I just wanted to brain dump:
- labgopher.com
- tld-list.com
- The Bloomberg Terminal
- Ghidra
- Most plane cockpits, especially modern fighter planes if you ever get to see/sit on one.
- A lot of “professional level creative software” – Reaper, Affinity
- Train control and monitoring systems
My "productivity solution" is currently TriliumNotes with three work spaces as 1) Planner with sub notes for year, month, day 2) Brain Dump with subnotes for year and month 3) Projects with sub notes for each project. I manage tasks with Vikunja and then my time with Google Calendar.
It's an absolute mess, but it's the closest I've gotten to a solution that works the way my brain does.