skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a Walter 40-cxm-100 model from ... 2005 ish maybe? (Point being , it's all metal, and SOLID) - where I imagine a newer model may be not so metal and solid (or maybe it is?)

Regardless, we lucked out and had someone give it to us because they were no longer using it for their original purpose (finding parasites , etc in many large flocks of sheep via fecal samples - get gave it a good wipe down, haha - plus I grew up on a farm and live in Maine, so wasn't much of a concern...) But originally seemed to be a $400 scope. Now a comparable model seems to be closer to $300.

Honestly, I have pretty limited microscope experience, but my experience with anything optical really tends to carry a paying for the glass quality situation, and where things like binoculars, telescope, cameras you get it, anything where the optics ARE the tool, there seems to be a price point somewhere separating "this does not work as intended vs this works as intended and this it is actually useful". I have no idea where this line is for microscopes however. Kids telescopes, junk.

I don't know your kids, but at 3 and 5 we certainly had a cheap digital scope to plug into a phone and explore - I still have ladybug, bees, etc pictures on the wall. If you don't have one of these yet, I'd suggest that route first? I can say that my son (9) finds the bacteria/etc amazing as I do, but my daughter is still more into the digital lower zoom levels. Partially age, partially kid to kid basis.

Been doing all of these type of stuff with them hardcore since 2 and 4. Dry ice experiments, building weird things, even built one of those digital topographical sandboxes you've probably seen in the living room (then went for blocks covered by painter rags, instead of sand in the living room...and I'm a painter, ha)

Point is, it's paid off huge. They are ever curious about the world, and often approach things as how or why does this work?

New toys for us all is a hackRF/portapack and a RTL-SDR, and it warms my heart to see them learning about RF at the same time I do.

Sorry, tangent. I'd try to figure out where that optical price point is. And if looking to cheaply get it on a screen, a cellphone adapter is a pita to hook up (it's on a nexus 6p old phone for our case) , it works pretty well, and the additional camera processing our phones do actually seems to add to the experience vs a stand alone camera unit ($150-$500).

We have moss soaking in water on the counter now. Tomorrow is family day, and we're aiming to get real up close and personal to some water bears!
Is you VPN installed in some type of datacenter or hosting service? If so thats how I am detecting it. Yes I am blocking all IPs from specific ASNs.
> Will the output of your product add a suicide timer to a cell?

Absolutely not.

> Will the output of your product prevent the cells from procreating/multiplying?

Absolutely not.

> Will the output of your product prevent pathogen creation?

Strictly defined as the output being a chip, absolutely does not.

> Will the output of your product require a specific, unnatural energy source that can only be man made?

Absolutely not.

> Professionals take great care in thinking about those problems

I am a professional in this field, and have been thinking about these problems quite deeply (if you check on my website, my first time writing about my concern for these problems was back in 2014). I have developed opinions on this over the years, but roughly they come down to the fact that many folks have a gross misunderstanding of the field in general, but quite like to think that they understand what is going on.

For example, I mentioned I wanted to do oligo pool synthesis - how the hell would the output of an oligo pool synth run add a suicide timer? Or prevent replication? Or require a certain kind of energy source? In the context of the stated goal, these objections really don't make any sense. It is roughly equivalent to someone wanting to run a mining company and getting countered by "will the output of your product stop school shootings?". Perhaps better questions are along the lines of - how are oligos matching biohazard sequences prevented from being synthesized? Well, this is a question of both governmental policy (what IS a biohazardous sequence?) and of the integrated device (does it phone home for each synthesized sequence? What about hardware hacking?).
Unison (https://www.unison-lang.org/)
I'd love to see a comparison like this for caddy and pingora once pingora is open sourced. Here's the HN link for the announcement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32836661
I mean, the supply shortage was a big problem for people that just wanted to play a game. My GPU died and I had to buy a used RTX Titan (in the 3090 era) just to have anything. (It's great though, I use it for gaming, ray tracing, and machine learning. Still looking forward to the 40xx series though.)
I'm guessing you use a corporate account and ship international regularly. those discounts can really rack up. try creating a shipment without the account, I doubt its lower than 80. source: I work at a fedex office and process international shipments every day.
They could just enter the license plate and an intersection into a simple database so the PPA could look it up when asked. Using Google Forms would be an adequate solution. It's just not worth their time.

EDIT: or even a picture of their license plate would capture the GPS coordinates in the image file itself. It would be so incredibly simple to at least capture the data.
yeah.. in the real world people cut their losses rather than sue the company a gazillion times larger than themselves, in foreign juristictions etc.

But I seriously ask anyone, how important is processing payments to you? what do you suspect the chances are? would you prefer to go through a bit more hoops upfront with a non-stripe alternative, or roll a 1/100 or even 1/10000 dice that one day you're just gonna be royally screwed over?

I have seen it happen very close, so I know my choice. It always "only" happens to other people... until it happens to you. Its easy to say "yeah.. they were doing shady things, I dont", but when the algorithmic gods determine you to be shady, no mere mortal, except perhaps a couple of very influential people lurking HN(cough edwin cough) will do anything. Will you catch his eye? is it worth the risk?

ANYTHING you depend on, spend serious serious time doing vetting, making sure its proper, and I would say, for the love of god, make it someone you could go visit physically.
You make some good points, but honestly I'm not terribly interested in continuing the conversation. I apologize for my overly aggressive rhetoric.
In Philly, residents can get permits to park near their home for an unlimited time. So you could leave for a week's vacation and have your car "courtesy towed" from right outside your house by the time you got back even with 72 hours notice.
One safe bet about the future would seem to be that environment degradation will worsen, and jobs connected to that will increase.

We don’t think too carefully today about optimizing water usage, or protecting houses from wildfire. But there’s billions of dollars in assets that rely heavily on those things. So jobs linked to preserving their value will increase.
So what happened during the 1% where it did happen?
How can I invest my money exactly how they do to get the same winning rate? Is that info publicly tracked?
Can you share some connections for "Tools for Thought crowd"? Sounds like a Bret Viktor connected thing
> when I hear a hipster who's lived here for 2 years try to inject jawn into every conversation. Feels very forced.

Same thing happens with "y'all", even though it's nowhere close to being as esoteric/regional. A couple years ago, Twitter seemed to have become obsessed with incorporating it conspicuously into every other tweet. I didn't even know "y'all" had rules until that happened. (I couldn't really tell you what those rules are, but it was popping up in places that were so syntactically awkward, by people who were clearly not "y'all" natives. So they definitely exist.)
Last time I checked, Windows 11's UI is as ruined by the existence of touchscreens as it's ever been since 8. There are also ads in the taskbar. There are also all the Edge shenanigans. There are also updates that know better than you do what you want (that "sane configuration" for that Windows 10 VM actually included disabling all update-related services).

Windows 7 was the last properly-desktop version of Windows.

Does Apple also ruin the UI on macOS? Yes, absolutely. But they still don't do it that much, and they actually officially acknowledge that someone might have reasons to stay on an old version — they provide security updates for 2 additional years for all old versions. They also understand that people use computers to get jobs done and thus are not to be interrupted with sudden "let's cross this one out of your list" modals.

In an ideal world though, an OS doesn't need updating at all and has zero vulnerabilities. But I guess just hold the f up and stop with your endless feature creep and focus all your engineering on fixing your shit is too much to ask from the modern IT industry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>Awesome, thanks so much, this cleared it up. Sorry this ended up requiring you to write a novel.

No apologies necessary. I misunderstood you and was unclear in my response.

I'll try to do better in the future.

That said, I'm glad I was able to clarify. Although I am curious as to your (and everyone else too) take on how we might tweak the legal environment to address the issues under discussion.
> is threat being overstated for propaganda?

In the insurance journal?
I feel like if you advertise this to the various "Mechanical Keyboard" communities they'd lose their shit in a positive way. r/mechanicalkeyboard is a main public one
That's intriguing, what's your business and how are people finding you via Discord? (If you don't mind explaining — if you do, I get it.)
Makes me wonder if ARM licenses will soon mandate that all processors in an SoC be ARM. There’s a certain hint of ARM desperation in their treatment of Qualcomm over Nuvia IP.
Oh and I was wrong. Its a 4x, 10x, 40x paired with a 10x objective.

Camera objective unknown but seems to be around a 40x

There is a HUGE jump from the 10 to the 40 when you switch.
There are examples in retail: https://www.mcmaster.com/
I'm not about to pull up your many, many SneerClub comments. You can speak for yourself. In fact, usually you're excited to do so — have fun :)
If we had really smart software engineers, well paid red-teams, and robust government policy collaboration with industry, I think we can make it at least 95% harder to create something dangerous. We have none of those, though.

It's super hard, but until novel bioweapons are discovered, it is at least a tractable problem.
I never really thought grad students knew much more than under grad they were just willing to grind for longer. There are exceptions in some fields where undergrad programs are really weak but that master’s is simply a signal that You will continue to grind hard
All my vet friends need this. Veterinary medicine suicide rate is pretty high.
You mean like this? https://noctua.at/en/asus-and-noctua-announce-asus-geforce-r...
I don't know about HTTP, but TLS had explicit invariants. You could write a working TLS 1.2 proxy in say, 2010, and do it correctly, having of course no idea how TLS 1.3 will work, and it would have worked with TLS 1.3 as conceived over a year before publication, back when it admitted it was TLS 1.3 (0x03 0x04 ~= SSL 3.4)

But real world systems, most prominently "middleboxes" often sold as security devices, did not obey the invariants, they were actually bad implementations of TLS 1.2, but they worked and so they'd been able to proliferate. TLS 1.3 as eventually standardised needed to cope with that nonsense.

So, if there are HTTP invariants, then a proxy merely needs to get those correct and would in principle interoperate despite newer HTTP versions. With TLS 1.2 invariants talking to a TLS 1.3 client that meant a proper proxy would shrug and say "I can't speak TLS 1.3, you need to talk TLS 1.2" and that works fine. Whereas the middleboxes tended to go "OMG. A byte I didn't understand! We're under attack! Light the beacons, all men to the battlements!"
Nobody parks cash at a bank looking for returns. They're looking for a stable store of value. ETH appreciation is not a selling point for replacing a bank, even if the return happens to be positive (right now, with hindsight).
I repair homes for a living and the amount of stuff I've found that's wrong which has presumably been done by a professional is staggering.

The house I'm currently working at, I'm replacing all the flooring, most of the sub floor, some of the walls, and more. I'll have an electrician come in soon and do some work to fix the electrical. It's a metal roof and they did a real good job installing it except they apparently ran out of the proper screws and used incorrect screws to finish the job. The proper screws to attach a metal roof have a gasket so that water can't get in through the screw hole.

Do not use deck screws to attach a metal roof or you'll be paying someone like me a lot of money later on.
until users get too dependent on it and the maintainers stop maintaining it... or the maintainer goes rogue... or there is a vulnerability/bug introduced by someone... and you can't easily switch to another platform
I am a huge fan of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. I'm happy to learn it isn't the only viable terminal game out there. I will be trying Cataclysm.
I have one of these after seeing a lecture about them at my University.

They are incredible little devices, I'm planning a charity to donate these to the elementary schools in my area!
Show HN: Zukini – Simple browser grocery/reminder list
Hi HN!

Often when my wife and I try to order groceries online, we have to maintain a bit of a grocery list of items that we thought up over the week. But we also sometimes forget what's on the list when we're trying to put the order in (because it's out of sight, meaning it's often out of mind as well).

I thought I just might make this simple extension to see if it's of any use to myself and others. Originally I wanted to have a shared sync functionality so that we could both just put in the same "list key" and we'd sync each other's list online, but it seems I'll have to make my own service to support that, which will come soon.

If it interests you, try it out and let me know what you think! This is the first time I've ever "released" something so I hope you enjoy and/or share some feedback.
So lets talk it straight.

The merge killed the thing that keep ETH DE-centralized.

Now who owns more ETH has more power...

Like centralized finance.. instead of Defi.
Here's the top three search results from the most popular online store in my country:

- MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti VENTUS 3X 12G OC
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING OC 10G LHR
- ASUS GeForce TUF RTX 3080 GAMING

I know TI means beatter - not sure how much better. What the hell is a Ventus? Is it Ventus 3x or just 3x? Also what is being 3x-ed here? I assume OC means overclocked - which only raises more eyebrows. Presumably 12G is better than 10G - I haven't seen any games with graphics memory requirements since games came in box sets and we counted things in megabytes not gigabytes. The ASUS card I guess is memoryless [I kidd], but comes with something called a TUF - I guess that's better than a mere OC? LHR means London Heathrow - I hope the Gigabyte card provides a more enjoyable experience than a trip to LHR. Good to know that the last two cards for gaming, I was afraid I'd buy a $1000+ graphics card that I cannot use for games.

Imagine if Apple + friends would market phones as "ASUS IPHONE 13 Vroom 2x 8GB NRT".

TL;DR I want to buy a card to play Elden Ring at 4k that won't make my computer sound like a 747 about to take-off. I don't want to spend my weekend on Reddit dissertations to decypher some marketers idea of high-tech hieroglyphics just so I can understand what I'm buying.
And 99% of them will be used for games. So sad.
> We think we have internet identity system figured out. We don't

“We” do. There are companies that have very strong security and IAM protections. Others have chosen to invest almost nothing. Your vague wording conflates these two very different things.

Some companies have a great concept of identity and have placed high value on identity verification.

Free email accounts aren’t protected the same way retirement investment accounts are because they carry different risk profiles and different value.
All of the IP are stored in memory. This takes up about 3.5 GB. I have a text file that is 445K lines that contains all of the specific IP addresses and the IP prefixes (CIDR) that make up that 250 million ips.

Uncompressed I do not know. Are you interested in the ranges and ip addresses or a list of all the ip addresses that make up all the ranges as well?

Let me know what you need and I could definitely try and accommodate for you.
> I am also thinking of how to patch running systems without downtime.

This is cool, I spent a few nights thinking about how this might play out. Unison-lang has a novel take on this.
> burning billions of joules per day in a bank of resistive elements and then dumping the heat directly into the atmosphere is morally wrong.

Does this include mean computer gaming? How about watching movies? Is it morally wrong if done using computer "burning joules..."?
Doesn’t that depend on who values it? Also, I get the impression they have quite a few liabilities.
Still think Sail and ATC from the BSD games pack were great.
> Hindsight is 20/20, obviously would've been an excellent idea to enter that recovery phone or email address field. Why wouldn't you do it?

Because OP has his password! The recovery email is supposed to be for people who forget their password! OP didn't forget it.

What are you supposed to do if Google randomly decides to lock you out of the recovery email too? How many emails is a person expected to have?

Google is basically just punishing people who take steps to avoid tracking on the web.
Druck was short the S&P jan-march and covered, he was looking for a second entry if it was given. His position isn't a secret.

Also, forget him saying it. He says a lot of things at a lot of different times. The real people to question are the ones making his headline known. CNBC/MarketWatch/Cramer et all are the biggest shills for banks. If you remember, they were all pushing Dalio's cash is trash line--which he has been saying since about 2018--HARD at the peak.
I vaguely remember the treatment of statistics in my high school/college science classes where calculus wasn't used. It was confusing and tedious. They have you memorize quantiles of the normal distribution so you can answer questions referring to the central limit theorem without ever understanding it, because it is not really possible to understand it without understanding integration. Combined with the fact of the general incompetence of people designing high school curricula, I'm fairly convinced that statistics sans calculus as a mandatory requirement would be a waste of time, joke of a class that would the average kid hate math even more than they do today.
>nepotism: one of your employees gets a hiring or intern suggestion from their old PI

Not nepotism

>your employees go back to the school they went to for career fair/outreach programs

Also not nepotism
Man, people are using weighted chains to keep their Tesla Autopilots thinking a human is in control so they can sleep on their way to the office.

The world is full of crazy and stupid people.
Hey, I'm in similar shoes, left Microsoft to focus broadly on EdTech, my skillset is in realtime graphics (WebGL and friends) and frontend

Could be fun to connect sometime, even just to make a community of devs in this space!
A ton of not-data-center-people took mining as a hobby...
This sounds very connected to GraphQL
Will Tesla Add Radar Back into Its EVs as Part of Hardware 4?
Close but no cigar. <grin>

~/wrk
Great to see this project (again) on HN. I backed this project on kickstarter and have a box of them from a few years ago. If you want some and are in the US I’m willing to send two your way.
Uni was where I grew up and learned to do things myself rather than waiting for others to do them for me. How to study, how to organize my time, how to have social relationships, ... While my folks (thankfully) paid the bills, I handled the courses, drop/add, degree progression, etc. Applied to grad school and handled that on my own (no explicit tuition).

Take that away, and I'm left trying to engage and leave home. No thanks.
This post was from before the merge to proof of stake.
Versão: ARC - Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Except the point being made is that only the rich and affluent get to make creative decisions. Though the experts who get any traction also belong to this group in my experience. A CMU Professor just draws more eyes than one from The University of Minnesota.
It's such a common view in poli-sci I'd consider it practically standard, to the point that it doesn't come up much because everyone just assumes everyone else thinks the US constitution's kinda crap. It's such an old discussion and views on it are often-enough in line with one another that it's a boring topic.

> That said, what constitution do you consider to be better written than the US?

I think the usual poli-sci answer would be "there's a reason most new democracies—including the ones the US sets up—tend to model the Westminster system rather than the US". Even US officials helping nascent democracies generally don't try to push anything like our constitution on them, because it's widely regarded as pretty bad.
Ask HN: What was your big mental realization?
One day you woke up and made a sudden small realization that changed the way to see yourself, society & life in general.
> this is a colossal release

It isn't. It's (yet another) pre-release. There's a story about an upcoming Godot release posted every 1, 2, 3 weeks or so.
On the other hand, if you've been eating sugar and drinking battery acid all along and your teeth haven't fallen out yet, please let me know what kind of toothpaste you've been using.
That is what I mean. In the same way Pidgin put MSN Messenger and AIM, ICQ, and IRC in a single software. Like you say, Apple does the same with iMessage and SMS messing services in the Messages app.
https://www.courthousenews.com/fired-uber-attorney-testifies...
Sorry hired as part of their bug bounty program which is part of where that case is important as it could lead to the death of bug bounty programs potentially
I pledge to not spill 4.9 million barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico.
It makes a lot of sense. We have Godot submissions all the time.

Someone submitted one for a v4 alpha. (That it didn't get traction is irrelevant.)

Here's one for the beta.

When v4 is released, it'll inevitably be posted here, too.