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New comment by bart__ in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

bart__ — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:07:58 +0000

I had similar ideas in the past but never made anything. I wanted to have a host mode where it is hosted on a Chromecast. I believe Chromecast can run custom JS so it should be possible. Maybe even rendering on a phone and streaming to the Chromecast. That would make it even more low friction, so nobody needs to get a tablet or laptop out and hook it up to the screen. Would you be interested in adding that? If you'd want I can maybe even help out with implementing it. Maybe somebody mentioned this before but I couldn't find it.

New comment by bart__ in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

bart__ — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:56:47 +0000

The best solution I could think of on the spot was this: First write down every license place until it fills up. Then for each time a car drives by, give it a 1/2 chance to write it down. Moving down the list regardless of the outcome. Then once the bottom is reached, do it again but with 1/3 a chance. Over and over again, decreasing the chance each time.

I checked for which situations it is valid, and it surprisingly was when there are many more cars than the list size. But it is not valid when there are just a few more cars than the list size.

New comment by bart__ in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

bart__ — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:27:41 +0000

Nice statistical problem! I only thought of a solution that is valid for many cars and few worksheet spots. Were you able to fully solve it on the spot?

New comment by bart__ in "A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com"

bart__ — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 09:00:14 +0000

Certificate Transparency, all CA's log their issued certificates to central log servers, managed by Cloudflare, google etc. If this is not done, the certificate will not be seen as trusted by Browsers. It was designed to have a publicly auditable source of issued certificates, exactly so we can notice rogue google.com certs.

New comment by bart__ in "Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service"

bart__ — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:08:44 +0000

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Certif...

As the other commenter already pointed out, Firefox does not require this. Safari and Chrome do. This indeed is not directly applicable to this situation, since XMPP don't involve browsers. But for websites, the parents attack scenario is not applicable.

New comment by bart__ in "Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service"

bart__ — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:43:25 +0000

Browsers will check if a certificate is in the transparency log, and alert the user if it isn't if I am not mistaken.

New comment by bart__ in "Ask HN: How does Starlink work for IP address/ASN internationally?"

bart__ — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 21:36:34 +0000

Probably the coolest answer in this thread! Did Antarctica have any other option for internet, next to the previous gen satellites?

New comment by bart__ in "Beginner's Guide to Llama Models"

bart__ — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:40:33 +0000

4090 only has 24 GB and will only be able to fine tune (and merge, which is more memory intensive) the 7B model. The RTX6000 with 48 GB is able to fine tune the 13B model. The 70B model presumably needs multiple GPUs, like 4 RTX6000. For people starting out, you can also use a free GPU from Google colab to fine tune a 7B model. Finetuning 70B gets more expensive and I would suggest trying smaller models first with a high quality dataset.

It is mostly linear I think.

New comment by bart__ in "Beginner's Guide to Llama Models"

bart__ — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:56:27 +0000

~20 GB vram for the 7B model and 48 GB for the 13B model. It depends on the context size as well. I'd recommend renting a 4090 from a cloud provider like runpod/vast ai to get started, using a PEFT tutorial.

New comment by bart__ in "Multi-camera real-time object detection with WebRTC and YOLO"

bart__ — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 22:14:25 +0000

It is also 99% sure some sort of post is a human.

New comment by bart__ in "LibrePCB 0.1.7"

bart__ — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 19:07:53 +0000

Totally contra to this project, but relevant for your point. I found EasyEDA, developed by the people from JLCPCB, to be very easy to use for hobbiest boards. Their integration with their SMT assembly service was also pretty neat for my usecase

New comment by bart__ in "Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels"

bart__ — Wed, 18 May 2022 07:09:47 +0000

Since nobody has mentioned it yet, KOReader is an open source reader application for ereaders, kindles & others, and has the ability to reflow PDF's. While not perfect, it can work good enough to read well formatted PDF's.

New comment by bart__ in "Could cancer cells’ iron addiction be their Achilles heel?"

bart__ — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:26:25 +0000

I'm no expert, but I know cancer cells promote adding blood pathways towards them, so it might be that they have an "uneven share" of the nutrients transported to them, and thus die out later than the healthy tissue.

New comment by bart__ in "'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed"

bart__ — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:43:01 +0000

as a Dutch person currently following driving lessons, I was thaught this technique a few weeks ago

New comment by bart__ in "Air-Gap Attack Turns Memory Modules into Wi-Fi Radios"

bart__ — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:00:13 +0000

Wow that really is ingenious! Wonder what other ways, maybe with high pitched audio, are possible.

New comment by bart__ in "Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people"

bart__ — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:41:17 +0000

I always wondered why /r/thenetherlands was so left and (very?) progressive and I never saw any comments giving counter weight. But now I know the mods are so quick to shadowban I am not sure I should even bother with the subreddit anymore, it's mostly bullshit anyway.

New comment by bart__ in "Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]"

bart__ — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:57:49 +0000

On your second point: The paper shows, when comparing recovered to recovered with single dose, that there are about half as many re-infections. And yes we're talking about 0.3% vs 0.15% reinfection (that's why there is not enough power for significance), but halving the chances may still be important. I'm opposed to compulsory vaccination either way though.

New comment by bart__ in "150 people fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over the 4th of July weekend"

bart__ — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:18:18 +0000

Maybe it is normal? (in the U.S.). Wouldn't that be more insane?

New comment by bart__ in "Brave Search beta"

bart__ — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:48:55 +0000

What am I supposed to see? All engines give the same or very similar results for me

New comment by bart__ in "SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans"

bart__ — Tue, 25 May 2021 08:44:08 +0000

Thank you, seems to support OP's statement. Given that COVID antibody tests also show cross-reactivity with SARS it seems likely to me he is in fact correct.