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fivestones commented on Why is the sky blue?   explainers.blog/posts/why... · Posted by u/udit99
mncharity · 4 hours ago
Ah, perhaps I should have said something like "educational materials, and apps, and other useful things" (disapproving judgement in the original).

> Well, the thing is that the educational materials are largely free.

A triumph and fruition of these last decades of massive effort. Now we just need to deal with their quality (with commercial as bad as free). AI may help, by reducing barriers to content creation - you might for example, now more easily author an intro astronomy textbook, one that doesn't reinforce top-30 common misconceptions, something the most used (US; commercial) texts still don't manage.

fivestones · 3 hours ago
I’m pretty curious. What are those too 30 misconceptions in US commercial astronomy texts? Is there a list somewhere? Or can you name some?
fivestones commented on Show HN: Lore Engine – Turn 10-hour lectures into 2 hours of comprehensive notes   github.com/Slydite/lore-e... · Posted by u/Slydite
Slydite · 4 months ago
Thanks! I actually had the same problem. The source linking is actually already there - just implemented a bit differently by directly inlining source images at relevant points:

For videos: Screenshots are timestamped in the filename as (frame_00-12-45.jpg)

For PDFs: Page numbers are preserved in the filename as (page_15.jpg)

The "verify as you study" use case is exactly what I built this for. I wanted the AI-enhanced explanations but still needed to double-check against source material during exam prep. The screenshot integration was designed to make that workflow natural instead of bouncing between 2 files.

That said, I could make this more explicit - maybe add the timestamps/page numbers as clickable links in the markdown itself. Would that be more useful than the current inline image approach? It will break if original file is moved.

fivestones · 4 months ago
I think clickable links in the markdown would be great, at least as an option. Even if they would break when the original file is moved.
fivestones commented on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally   timelinize.com... · Posted by u/mholt
michaelterryio · 4 months ago
I can never find it now, but someone had an idea for a computing system which was purely temporal for every object and then you'd only access outside of temporal by filter.

I wish I could find it again.

fivestones commented on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally   timelinize.com... · Posted by u/mholt
codethief · 4 months ago
This looks really cool and like something I've been subconsciously looking for!

A couple thoughts & ideas:

- Given the sensitivity of the data, I would be rather scared to self-host this, unless it's a machine at home, behind a Wireguard/Tailscale setup. I would love to see this as an E2E-encrypted application, similarly to Ente.io.

- Could index and storage backend be decoupled, so that I can host my photos etc. elsewhere and, in particular, prevent data duplication? (For instance, if you already self-host Immich or Ente.io and you also set up backups, it'd be a waste to have Timelinize store a separate copy of the photos IMO.) I know, this is not entirely trivial to achieve but for viewing & interacting with different types of data there are already tons of specialized applications out there. Timelinized can't possibly replace all of them.

- Support for importing Polarsteps trips, and for importing Signal backups (e.g. via https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools ) would be nice!

fivestones · 4 months ago
I’m not sure how exactly timelinize stores photos, but you could sync photos as you take them to timelinize, and then, if they are accessible, point immich to the timelinize photos for its use. That would essentially deduplicate your photos.
fivestones commented on Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release   github.com/immich-app/imm... · Posted by u/Alexvb
addend · 4 months ago
Can Immich do search/filter based on both map (geographic area) and time parameters? Through add-ons or search text syntax?

Example 1. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from times 22:00 to 00:00.

Example 2. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from years 2020 to 2024 in months march to may AND september to october from times 22:00 to 00:00.

In the Immich demo the map view lets me zoom and shows bubbles with the number of photos from an area but I see no way to select an area or bubble to explore just those photos in an album or temporary view. The map view does have a time range option (last N days or date range yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or months range.

Search view has advanced options with place dropdowns (country state city) but no map area rectangle option. Also has date range (yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or non-contiguous time criteria.

I think a photo viewer could implement the exemplified kind of searches in a slim way through a map view (user draws a rectangle) with sliders (year range, months range, time of day range) that ideally let the user set multiple ranges on one slider (march to may AND september to october). Ideally such combo criteria could then also be bookmarked and searched and the filtered in items could be batch operated on (tag, rename, delete).

fivestones · 4 months ago
I want to be able to do all these same kinds of searches too. Especially layering on searches, like what you said about how the search ideally could be bookmarked and searched on. Like any search result could become a smart album maybe. I’d love to be able to search something like [all photos in the box I drew on the map] and then out of those results [photos in 2021 and 2023] and then out of those results [photos of person x] and out of those results a clip search like [people walking on the beach]. It would also be great to remove photos from the search like [photos in this geographical area] but not [clip search for “yellow lab”].
fivestones commented on Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys   nad.com/news/anti-aging-b... · Posted by u/bilsbie
RivieraKid · 4 months ago
We're nowhere close to solving aging. We don't even understand aging and understanding the problem should be much easier than solving it.
fivestones · 4 months ago
A lot of things in science/technology have been invented essentially by accident though, with little to no understanding of why it worked. Who’s to say aging can’t be similar.
fivestones commented on Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys   nad.com/news/anti-aging-b... · Posted by u/bilsbie
billfor · 4 months ago
I'm not clear why they didn't continue the treatment to see if it prevented the monkeys from dying at all?
fivestones · 4 months ago
Maybe they did but when they realized it was working decided not to publish /joking
fivestones commented on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ   foxbusiness.com/politics/... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
sandworm101 · 4 months ago
Ya, the pirate bay is still online, so too innumerable similar sites once targeted by various agencies. A smallish map running on a RP plugged into tor would be very resiliant. But there is a bittorent protocol that allows for rolling updates to a torrent. That would be the best way to distribute kml files imho.
fivestones · 4 months ago
What’s this updatable BitTorrent protocol? I wished for something like this years ago as an auto-updating torrent for downloading Wikipedia with live (or daily or whatever) changes.
fivestones commented on Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video   github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-O... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
karimf · 5 months ago
Is the Qwen3-Omni-Flash the same as Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B, or is the Omni-Flash a different closed-source model?
fivestones · 5 months ago
My question too
fivestones commented on Hosting a website on a disposable vape   bogdanthegeek.github.io/b... · Posted by u/BogdanTheGeek
fivestones · 5 months ago
Just wanted to update that I got this in the mail today. Not bad—6 days from order to delivery, all for just over a dollar. I haven’t tried to hack it at all yet. Here are photos: https://imgur.com/a/J7S8rEW
fivestones · 5 months ago
One more update: it’s a UZ801, with the Qualcomm MSM8916 chipset (according to `adb shell getprop ro.product.model` etc, and the fact that openstick works). I got it running Debian without much trouble, and it’s working great. I followed the tutorial for openstick at https://wthoog.nl/openstick/ (which seems to be down for me now).

I got the one that’s white with a bit of red near/under the cap.

One other thing that took me a bit to figure out: after removing the cap, the entire back of the device slides off (kind of like a battery cover in a remote) and there is a spot to put a SIM card beneath. Supposedly this does GPS too but I haven’t figured out how yet.

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