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Economic Organization of a Prisoner of War Camp (1945) [pdf]

gaudat — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:39:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/economics-of-pow-camp.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44741181

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gaudat in "I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives"

gaudat — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:28:35 +0000

>home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users

Citation needed. Get a Synology NAS and use their Photos app which backups Live photos on both iDevices and Androids. Buy it for life.

New comment by gaudat in "Watch Antimatter Fall: Scientists Capture Gravity's Pull with a 3840MP Camera"

gaudat — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:33:06 +0000

It's very likely that PCB is made in KiCAD seeing the fonts. I really really hope they make the project files available. That would be a sick example project.

Also, obligatory ꙮ

New comment by gaudat in "AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution"

gaudat — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:18:53 +0000

I dig that PCB design. The panopticon (?) artwork and how the decoupling caps are lined up perfectly along the circumference.

New comment by gaudat in "This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection"

gaudat — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:39:37 +0000

This post links to Quanta [https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sorting-algorithm-al...], which links to the actual paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00807].

Tbh I was expecting a supercharged Dewey Decimals...

New comment by gaudat in "Meet Bex, Kawasaki's Rideable Robot Goat (2022)"

gaudat — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:19:10 +0000

Imagine that thing painted neon green and hurling down the highway.

New comment by gaudat in "Hakko solder wick cutter [pdf]"

gaudat — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:00:54 +0000

For someone who has dabbled in electronics my first impression is "this is useless". Soldor wick is basically multi-stranded copper wires. You can already cut it with whatever snips you have on your bench.

But Hakko is Japanese i think? They like to release wild products. I remember Makita releasing a microwave oven and coffee maker that uses their battery and has their color scheme.

New comment by gaudat in "Sitina1 Open-Source Camera"

gaudat — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:37:04 +0000

The design is pretty modern. But what is with the choice of the Kodak CCD sensor? CCD cameras got a resurgence in Chinese communities with second-hand camera prices increased like tenfold.

Also see Apertus Axiom where they also used the Zynq but used one hell of a CMOS sensor that can do 4K 300FPS.

New comment by gaudat in "House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio"

gaudat — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:32:01 +0000

A part of me really wants to push this and see how far it would go. Why stop at AM? Add in shortwave radio and let us listen to stations on the other side of the earth.

New comment by gaudat in "Ask HN: Marketplaces for Embedded/FPGA Developers"

gaudat — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:01:04 +0000

Do you need latency measured in nanoseconds or multiplexing hundreds of sensors? Otherwise it makes a lot more sense to use a Cortex-M or Cortex-A.

New comment by gaudat in "What Is Rotoscope Animation? The Process Explained (2020)"

gaudat — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:17:44 +0000

For your second example it's impossible to find a YouTube video of Chika dance that is available in every country. Try this: https://streamable.com/0hrdh

It's remarkable how smooth the animation is. And how natural the character's movements are. This scene jumps over the uncanny valley straight into being enjoyable.

And I think there's an AI paper from a Chinese researcher using this video as a demo.

New comment by gaudat in "Squeezing a key through a carry bit (2017) [video]"

gaudat — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:50:43 +0000

>And the beautiful thing about adaptive attacks is that they look exactly like Hollywood, it's beautiful! Because you see them flipping and going through values, getting it right and moving to the next one, which you all told it was fake, it was not!

New comment by gaudat in "Shapeways Files for Bankruptcy"

gaudat — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 18:44:02 +0000

Wenext. I used it from single quantities up to a couple hundred pieces. They assign a human in the loop to check your model that you can email to.

New comment by gaudat in "The Rubik's Cube Turns 50"

gaudat — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 04:09:45 +0000

Hard to believe it's only 50 years old because of how mechanical and simple the cube is compared to other gadgets of that time.

I remember 15 years ago finding many variants of cube with different sizes and number of dimensions (yes, there is a video game of a 4D or 5D rubiks cube).

New comment by gaudat in "The unbearable sorrow of Apple Weather"

gaudat — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:43:18 +0000

Hate to say that but it works for me. I am using the largest regular* font size on an iPhone SE and there's no issue on the exact same page in the weather app.

Perhaps OP is using one of the extra-large font sizes hidden behind the "Larger Accessibility Sizes" toggle. It can be expected users at that font size value accessibility over aesthetics. As screen space is limited there is of course a point where things start to look broken.

The weather app could include a TV or clock-like layout for extra-large text sizes but that doesn't really fly with Apple's UI/UX consistency.

Alarms in medical equipment

gaudat — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 18:45:59 +0000

Article URL: https://th.id.au/alarms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40611638

Points: 185

# Comments: 112

New comment by gaudat in "The illusion of state in state-space models"

gaudat — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:18:07 +0000

Another name hijacked by AI/ML... I was hoping to see some control thoery...

New comment by gaudat in "Northern lights forecasted to be visible into upper United States tonight"

gaudat — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 01:56:19 +0000

Too bad there is a full moon potentially drowning out the aurora...

New comment by gaudat in "STM32 MCU family goes 64-bit with the STM32MP2x (Cortex-A35)"

gaudat — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:27:43 +0000

And the line between the two is blurred now with MCU running at hundreds of MHz. The STM32H7 is has more IPC than the original Raspberry Pi.

New comment by gaudat in "STM32 MCU family goes 64-bit with the STM32MP2x (Cortex-A35)"

gaudat — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:24:48 +0000

It all comes down to cost. These BGA chips have pins under the device unlike older packages like QFP or DIP. The pattern of missing pins is designed so it a fewer signal layers to bring out all the sigal connections in a typical PCB process. Devices with full grids would need more layers or tighter tolerances.

The appeal of STM32MP1 is you can put DDR momery with the chip on a 4 layer board. ST even provides the layout.