skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to say that some of the sensor design details, including material and geometry, are not shared. That was a critical optimization process during the design phase (tricky balancing act between cost and performance) and I want to slow down any copy-cat devices. However in terms of performance I am pretty open and detailed about how the device actually behaves:

https://twitter.com/BetterGeiger/status/1475480971050901511

Another metric some people like is CPM/[uSv/hr] when exposed to Cs-137 (662 keV). That number is about 415, whereas cheapo Geigers can be as low as 10, and decent consumer-grade Geiger counters are usually around 120. This number gives a decent idea about relative X-ray/gamma sensitivity of those devices.
Super cool, I asked Master GPT-4 to teach me about these nanorods and they sound super interesting. Exciting that they could be used for flexible/transparent screens and are lighter on battery, that would make AR devices much more seamless.

Now we just need to make them...
Except, it’s hard to do vertical scaling dynamically.

That kind of kills this whole argument except in certain pretty unusual cases.
Naomi Klein investigates ‘conspiracy theory culture’ that has shaken her life
I’m decently successful, but this still makes me just straight up judge myself and not in a good way.

I’d love to have a conversation with the kid just to try and get a glimpse of how his mind works.
Idk, the cynic in me wonders what he actually had to do. Because for a lot of degrees the answer is basically nothing.

5 degrees should not be possible imo. Not because you can’t master 5 subjects but because you shouldn’t have time to do 5 classes worth of work.

It feels manufactured. Talking about the kid doing archery and going to 23 countries makes me feel this even more.
Malting is harnessing natural enzymes produced in germination, better malting is a side effect of faster sprouting (something they'd plausibly breed it for). Wild barley is still around, one could hybridize as early a variety as he wishes. Lambic beers are still produced on wild yeast too.

It would be hard to match an exact beer as a particular early brewer made, but seemingly easy to cover the entire spectrum of beers plausibly open to them. Then again, I have doubts they were consistent and reproducible with the kind of instruments they had.
Did he file a claim on the FBI website? You cannot jut contact the FBI or SS in the way you would contact customer support. You have to file a claim and then at their discretion they may open an investigation, and if so, collect more info.
Exactly this bothers me a lot. I do bare metal performance optimizations, but I worry to never find a job outside of academia in that field. as I don't want to do high-frequency trading nor develop games.
The obligatory "This is not a pipe" reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
This is perfect for me... I love idea of being laid back with my feet up and having a HUGE screen to do stuff. I get it is not perfect screen, but I can see how this will get better.

I might not be early adopter as 2K laptop one, but the very next one, totally count on me.

The only issue... Zoom meetings... It is weird if you have headset on.
That doesn't really ring true. iPhones are the baseline and Android has that plus the cheap models plus all the whacky weird and wonderful. iPhone has good build quality and reliability - it's the Toyota Corolla. But if there had been no Android then there would be no large screen iPhones, maybe no push on the camera specs. If Apple make a foldable it'll be because they saw Android do it and waited until they could do it better.
I have a hard time believing some constitutional amendments are foundational principles of legal doctrine and others are basically just flavor text.
Yeah, he's going to have a lot of regrets later on socially. But these type of kids would fit in a traditional school anyway so maybe its for the best.
> Plumbing is easy, pressurized pipes and pumps can deal with that just fine.

AIUI, plumbing is technically easy, but is still insanely expensive for conversions.

That said, it makes sense that HVAC would be a bigger problem.
He probably did Archery once during the summer...

It's all padding.

No one has the time to do any of that with any level of competency!
I managed to get a Capture One 22 license for half price (when I was quitting Adobe), I did the trial and the let it expire - I actually was just going to buy it but forgot. Then I just got an email like "Hey, would half price be enough incentive?" and I was like, "Sure".

It looks like things have changed somewhat with the perpetual licensing since then, but the version I have does what I want for the cameras I use and supports Apple Silicon, so I hope to keep using this version for the next four or five years so without paying any more...

But good to have alternatives, I'll definitely look at this software in a few years if something happens like incompatibility with a future version of macOS or something.
> I wish more programming languages provided interfaces for building libraries around the std library like what Go does. It makes using libraries a lot better because you aren't dependent on that library as long as it uses the std library interface.

> This is huge for things like database drivers which might become outdated or not support certain features. In Go switching database drivers in as simple as importing the new library. You dont have to change your code.

The effect is that every database driver becomes outdated and doesn't support certain features, instead of just a few. Python people have a saying that the standard library is where modules go to die. Java's database drivers massively lag behind (e.g. there's still no good async support for most of them), because JDBC is a lowest common denominator that every driver has to be dumbed down to, but is established enough that it sucks all the oxygen away from any efforts to write better drivers.

Far better to keep the standard library small and allow modules to update on their own terms and their own schedule. If the library you're using does what you need, you can stick with it, but a better alternative (which always means a new interface in practice - the idea that you can make substantial improvement without changing the interface is mostly a myth, because the interface is the most important part of a library) can appear and compete on its merits, and if the improvements are worth migrating to then it will win out.
Unfortunately those APIs are pretty ancient. Even if Bevy were to provide a renderer targeting those, it would end up being _much_ more limited. DX11/GLES 3/WebGL 2 are already pretty limited targets.

We simply don't have the contributors to create and maintain such a renderer, at least at the moment.
Whats an Accossicate Degree?
That's what the 8087 coprocessor option is for.
The next console will be a follow up to the Switch. It probably has some kind of added gimmick, but I think the form factor will largely stay the same.

When Nintendo has a hit console they try to extend and expand on the idea for their next console and even the naming is typically very similar:

NES -> SNES

GB -> GBC

DS -> 3DS

Wii -> WiiU

When they have a flop they usually pivot hard, which is how we got the Wii. Hopefully they can avoid the terrible naming of the WiiU. I remember at the time a lot of confusion regarding if it was just an a tablet accessory for the Wii.
>Is anyone else starting to feel cynical?

Been here for a long while. Welcome, friend!
I think their point was, would Google move forward if they weren’t forced by Apple?

Google News took over and they gave up. Gmail got huge and they stopped doing much other than adding ads. Maps slowed down, other than adding ads. Google search keeps getting worse, they can’t seem to fix the SEO/spam problem. But they can add more ads.

Left to their own devices, Google seems happy to collect rent.

Apple, historically, makes their money by selling new hardware, and that requires improving things enough people want to buy it.
Supreme Court won’t hold tech companies liable for user posts
Sure, plenty of people, including me.
Polonium-210 is a very rare example of near pure alpha-decay chain, radon decay products are short-lived and emit both beta and gamma particles.
Did you really just compare a midsized US citing to freaking Amsterdam? That’s… hopelessly out of touch is about the kindest thing I could say.
The point of Retina is that the pixels aren't visible at normal viewing distances. You really shouldn't be using any (non-VR) screen 6 inches away. At 18 inches the effective PPI would be 400, so not much more than retina even at insane brightness.

I could see it being a big deal for VR, though.
One of the nicest screens I have ever used was on a monochrome ega laptop.

Sure, the pixels were huge and slow, but the contrast ratio was really good without it being too bright. It’s hard to explain why it was so good. I suspect it was a bit transflective.
This is something I was quite jealous of Americans. In Germany you can just go to claasses in university without paying but if you skip school too much you fail your grade no matter how good you are and not attending school at a young age is actually illegal. And then failing school disqualifies you from university.

German school was immensely frustrating to me. I'd lose grade for giving answers too early because the math level was so incredibly low.

At the same time I recognize now that in the grand scheme of things the average German high school is better than the average American one and that we had a lot things biology and chemistry that they don't seem to do until college
It’s “live” as in “alive” because you get a bit of motion. The opposite would be “inanimate”, which seems apropos.

You’re right that there’s probably a video format under the hood but the experience to meant to be closer to a still picture with a bit of added magic (a la Harry Potter). The clip is too short to catch much action or have (intentionally) meaningful audio.
Photographers should be paid, but come on, it's a photograph of a person, not carving the Statue of David out of marble.
> You’re acting like residential retrofits have never been done. They have. These are workable problems.

The issues is not “is it a workable problem”, everyone knows it is, that’s not in dispute.

The issue is “is the cost compared to the value recovered after the conversion such that, with the particular properties in the particular concrete situation that currently exists, it would be financially better for the owners to do a conversion or to abandon the property”.

You are trying to make a specific, concrete issue into a general, abstract one.
It wouldn’t matter how many people ride the bus in my town. They lose money as it is, and adding more service would widen the losses.
No one can build a generic human chicken coop that’s more inspiring than a space you create for yourself. Office space is soul crushing because it has nothing of your soul in it. It’s just human chattel storage.
I don’t own a car, and looking around at all of the people who do, I can’t imagine making all of their sacrifices.

The total cost of owning a car sets you back enough to impact all other aspects of your life. Cars are inconvenient to store, maintain, and keep from getting damaged or stolen, which seems to be a constant source of anxiety. Keep driving for long enough and they’re likely to maim or kill you eventually. And in the end, they’re not even that convenient - people behind wheel seem to always be pissed. No wonder, I’d be pissed too if I had to spend 20 minutes looking for a spot to park my stinky mobile death trap. You can keep your freedom.
The majority opinion is, to put it mildly, a fucking disaster. There are four factors to fair use, and in this case, it's pretty clear that the fourth factor (the effect on the market use) is fairly disastrous for Andy Warhol, and would be sufficient to find the use here non-fair. But SCOTUS took up only the question of "what the hell does factor one mean", and the majority opinion basically decides they want to import the fourth factor into factor one in order to answer the question.

Also, the sheer lack of comity between majority and dissenting opinions is... yikes. Kagan and Sotomayor are basically calling each other idiots throughout their respective opinions.
Monopoly (noun): Thing I hate that is incredibly popular, and I’ve got all bitter and twisted about it.
> human eye is extremely sensitivty to relative color variation

Really? How does JPEG get away with severely degrading color information when compressing then? I thought it’s brightness that we are sensitive to.
Ask HN: Why haven't any privacy startups taken off yet?
Companies like skyflow and evervault seem to have some really good ideas and yet have somehow not really hit it big yet (as far as I can see)

Whats the reason here ? Is it just a sales or marketing issue or is there a fundamental flaw with how these products integrate
I had the opportunity to go to college at 10 and again at 13. I’m very glad I went instead to a math and science boarding school (IMSA) instead. The networking alone I was able to do there has been incredible for my adult life. Add on the ability to pursue independent research projects at a level equivalent to grad school and I was able to maximize my intellectual interests while still improving my personal skills and growth as a human being, not just an achievement machine.

If I had gone to uni and graduated with a PhD before 18 I know exactly how I would have ended up. With few friends, low career prospects, and extremely low odds of improving that situation.
hope it didn't seem like I dislike it. It's just a tool for a job.

I still write bash and love it for the simple things. Now I have the experience to rewrite it early before it gets out of hand.
"half a decade" isn't a brag. Its overselling the fact that you coded for 5 years. Big whoop. Stop being a wordcel and making it seem like you are more qualified than others in the space because you used the term "half a decade" like its some large quantity of time.
How is this feasible at all? Not only all the tech for the AR device to be light and have decent battery life, but the software you describe would need optical recognition of what you're looking at, then match that to the manual of the object to tell you what the pins do. All on a device with significant size and heat constraints.
Not that it's a race, but how far "ahead" is Godot?

I'm really hoping for Bevy and/or Fyrox catch up to Godot. I like all three, but having a Rust ecosystem for gamedev will be a game changer. Especially if they eventually garner the same kind of support that Blender has.

Cheering you on!
A guide to the advanced texture tricks in AAA games
IT worker sues boss claiming placeholder values in email were kisses
I’m curious if they did anything with the eye tracking technology they bought from SMD. We were in the process of buying one of those headsets when they abruptly closed shop and sold out. -$35k at the time per unit.
Just goes to show how much you can accomplish when you are focused on schooling, instead drinking and chasing skirts
It's hard for me to visualize why some jobs would require neckties. It's not a piece of useful equipment, like a safety helmet. What would offices lose by having workers wear whatever they like?
2^n, 2^m, and 2^p, respectively.
Part of it is that the cost to play VR - which is primarily the time cost - is too high for the experience you get out of it. For example, the only games that provides a true VR-only experience you can boot up on a dime are Beat Saber and VR Chat - other VR titles tend to follow the pattern of "<existing genre> but in VR". To add, you need 2x the processing power since you need to render the game twice, so you are going to take a hit in visual fidelity, AND you typically want 90fps or higher to avoid motion blur, which raises the bar for playing any high-fidelity VR game (at least until generalized foveated rendering APIs become available and headsets implement it).
Careful to draw conclusions from SF it’s just about the only place in the US with decent weather year round in the US. Most the rest is baking hot or incredibly wet (or both) in the summer, and if they aren’t they likely have several months of snow in the winter. Some places even manage both.
Typically it takes 2 years instead of the 4 a bachelor's degree would take
I don't know if it's the city he's talking about, but by landmass, about half of San Francisco is the burbs.
Yeah, I've already cut all the phone lines since there was a tonne of noise when I was with ADSL. I've now got fibre into a closet which is connected straight to a modem and switch... I'll be getting an electrician to CAT6 from the switch the the rest of the house and then AP from the terminals
> "Associates degree in History, Associates degrees in Science, Associate degrees in Social Science, Science and Mathematics, arts and human expressions, social behavior and self-development."

I seriously can't tell what the five degrees are from that list. And most seem junk anyway.

Most impressive is the fact he was born at 27 weeks!
This title is clickbait. A direct title would be: "iOS photo permissions expose audio to applications".
Yeah, it's a lot easier to imagine a car-free world when you're in New York and you can walk around a corner to a grocery. The rest of us live at least ten minutes from the nearest grocery by car, which makes for about a thirty minute walk, which is fine, unless you need more than two days of food, or it's snowing, or you just don't have an extra hour or so that day.
I can’t speak to screen sizes. I’m still not sure what the deal was there.

There was a reason for OLED. The first Android phones with OLED looked hideous. The saturation was all wrong and they used pentile subpixel arrangements. Further more I remember seeing pictures of burn-in on some (cheaper/off brand?) OLED phones.

Apple has their priorities. And display quality is one of them. Look at professional reviews of their monitors and other displays like the iPhones and iPads. Whatever people think of the cost/features they tend to be be impressed with the display accuracy out of the box.

They waited until they could get enough OLED screens to handle their demand. But they also wanted certain levels of color accuracy, I assume non-pentile, and something that could handle avoiding burn in for the expected lifetime of the phone.

That must have taken time.

Screen to body: I suspect they knew they were getting close on the iPhone X design and wanted it to really stand out, so they stuck with the forehead/chin longer than others. Total guess though.
I've done it with a few libraries. They usually have defined ownership, but it's specified in the library's manual, not in the code. Even unusual patterns can generally be mapped to Cow or Option or worst case some custom smart pointer with minimal amount of unsafe. But very often merely converting pointers to & vs &mut vs Box as appropriate gets the job done.

The most common sin is C libraries taking just a pointer and hoping for the best, instead of pointer+length for buffers (slices). But that's also a "local" problem you can fix by adding an extra argument, generally not a major redesign.

Thread-safety tends to be worse to map, because C reasons about safety of function calls, while Rust about sharing of data types. So "it's safe to call foo unless option bar is set to -5" doesn't translate well.
No, the iPhone is the Lexus.
Well, cars and roads. Roads are being made and maintained by your tax money. Some federal and some local.
Maybe you're right about the getting the foot in the door, but in 14 years of work and 4 countries nobody ever asked me for my degree (I have a Masters). The only ones that cared were immigration.
You could swap “Safari” for IE6 and tell the same story. I don’t know what it is about OS dominance that drives such disinterest in upgrading browsers outside of wanting to push native apps for that App Store revenue.
Exactly. Perl had BerkleyDB as part of Core, as well as CGI. How's that going for the Perl footprint!
Claims were filled. In a few cases agents were spoken to to take statements. There was a secret service office close enough so he went in person. No avail.
Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1%
It looks like he picked up 4 associate degrees from Interdisciplinary Studies [0] and then a separate History Associate in Arts Degree. (Unless there's another Associates degree in History that I'm missing).

And he did this in the space of 3 years.

Each associate degree requires 18 units (credits). I'm guessing that there's some overlap, so he might not have needed a full 90 units to pick up all 5 degrees.

That means he would've needed to take at most 10 courses per year.

Does anyone want to figure out the minimum possible units required? ;)

[0] https://catalog.nocccd.edu/fullerton-college/degrees-certifi...
[1] https://catalog.nocccd.edu/fullerton-college/degrees-certifi...
ARM Safari is an absurdly energy efficient browser as well.

They’ve definitely made some significant missteps over the last few years, mostly around breaking storage APIs and being slow to fix it due to being part of the macOS release cadence.
That allowed him to start schooling earlier! You don’t earn five associates degrees in silly subjects by sitting there in the womb until term!
Looks like he got an early start!
Oddities of human capability exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Heinrich_Heineken

Christian Heinrich Heineken or Heinecken (February 6, 1721 – June 27, 1725), also known as "the infant scholar of Lübeck", was a German child prodigy who lived only to the age of four.
What you're saying is, frankly, very naive. If you think critically, you must realize the cognitive bias here. There's something like 2 million people riding the MTA every day and they statistically hardly ever have problems as extreme as the Penny/Neely situation. If you go on YouTube or Reddit, you'll see thousands of road rage incidents, and that's not stopping you from being pro-car. It's not acceptable that families have to be on alert when riding the subway and gov't should definitely work to improve the situation, but the same can be said about American roads. It would be amazing if the MTA could be as efficient/on time as the Tokyo system, or as pretty as the Stockholm stations, but the same is true for many aspects of public infrastructure across the US.
Time will tell, but I think Tim Cook is the greatest CEO of our generation. Yes, Steve, Musk, Zuck, Gates etc are genius inventors, entrepreneurs and designers; but in terms of executions and day-to-day CEO stuff, I can't think of anyone better than Tim. I hope the headset is a success too.
This is probably really obtuse of me, but how is this different than tcpdump?
Altoids tins are pretty strong, small enough to be handy and cheap. This makes them the ideal container for a lot of small electronics projects, but a pi doesn't quite fit. I see it as a perfect small electronics container which you can pull out and use on the go.
I think they are just warily of being reliant on a single supplier - they have been burned before; https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt
Intel may not but I suspect someone somewhere still is. It’s a powerful microprocessor.
If only everyone were as gracious and thoughtful… thanks for demonstrating responsible engagement online!

Yes, Poe's Law and all for sure…

Also: https://mimiandeunice.com/2011/06/08/status-quo/
He most likely doesn't know. I predict there's no agency and the parents just dictate everything for him.

What's 12yo has that level of agency?

Don't beat yourself up. He doesn't have responsibility or bills to pay
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