ncarlson

I’m definitely interested. I’d be down for profit sharing as well. I’ve been unemployed for some time now, so I have time to commit towards development.

ncarlson.dev@gmail.com

> How the higher level thought is occurring continues to be a mystery. This is an emergent behavior that wasn’t predicted prior to the first breakthroughs which were intended for translation, not for this type of higher level reasoning.

I'm curious what you mean by higher level thought (or reasoning). Can you elaborate or provide some references?

VMWare had half of its employees laid off in the past two year. Hock Tan cornered the market, taking over VMWare and its competitor, Citrix. Was this caused by Sec 174, or was it just another predatory acquisition?

There's a LOT of pushback against the idea that AI is not magic. Imagine if there was a narrative that said, "[compilers|kernels|web browsers] are magic. Even though we have the source code, we don't really know what's going on under the hood."

That's not my problem. That's your problem.

A lot of things are magic when you don't understand the underlying principles of operation.

> AI we don’t have a model.

So, some engineers just stumbled upon LLMs and said, "Holy smokes, we've created something impressive, but we really can't explain how this stuff works!"

We built these things. Piece by piece. If you don't understand the state-of-the-art architectures, I don't blame you. Neither do I. It's exhausting trying to keep up. But these technologies, by and large, are understood by the engineers that created them.

What is "the ACJ decision from last session"? For that matter, what is ACJ?

Hey zbuf, if you go to any of Cleanfeed's blog posts, the FAQ and Contact links in the footer are broken.

  The headphone jack was putting the additional risk on your device to be crushed.

Can you expand on this? I'm assuming the force required to collapse the 3.5mm cavity would be incredibly high.

  Jacks themselves were good spots to break due to mechanical stress, especially the cheap ones.

The same can be said about the lightning connector.

  It was literally stopping any innovation. Without the jack, new alternatives will pop up at an incredible pace.

This is forced obsolescence. Suppose the jack remained in iPhone 7. Apple would have a much harder time selling wireless earbuds.

These Ask HN's can really be a crap shoot.

  Ask HN: When did the terms Front-End, Back-End, and Full-Stack become prevalent?
  1 point by ncarlson 2 hours ago | past | web | discuss
  
  Ask HN: How can I self-publish talks like InfoQ? (Software question)
  1 point by ncarlson 1531 days ago | past | web
  
  Ask HN: How do I prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI)?
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  Ask HN: Is it just me, or are HN comments becoming more and more negative?
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The sensor is the same size though.

The extent of the risk depends on the sensor and board assembly. But removing the CFA is not unthinkable[1].

[1] https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/210686-moon-with-de-bayer...

If you live in the US, you can walk into any GameStop and buy used PS3Eye cameras for $8.99 + tax. They are an absolute steal.

The IoT camera module market seems to be underserved. Here's my feature wishlist:

* A monochrome sensor option

* Better sensor documentation. Where are the quantum efficiency graphs?

* Larger sensors.

* Less emphasis on megapixels, more emphasis on efficiency.

* Exposure control in microseconds

* Binning

* C, CS, or F lens mount. Heck, I'd even accept a M12 mount, so long as the lens isn't glued into place.

It's amazing how similar Javascript and Lua are. For example, the following three statements are equivalent:

    > JS:   { x : 2 + 3, y : 9 }["x"]  * (11 + 23)
    > Lua: ({ x = 2 + 3, y = 9 })["x"] * (11 + 23)
    > Lua: ({ x = 2 + 3, y = 9 }).x    * (11 + 23)

> If you're doing it and you're not happy, know that you can fix it.

How?

I don't understand the parent's disdain. Your post definitely was worth sharing. Thank you.

The reward is a successful project. Would you chip in $50 bucks to help someone build some interesting widget that otherwise wouldn't get built?

We did it! We fucking did it! (Humanity, that is)

> "Scary crypto stuff"? So you don't understand how PKI works and you're trying to use distributed source control?

Is this an honest question, or are you alluding to the idea that someone who doesn't understand PKI should not use distributed source control?

Most cross-platform libraries are written in C. Consider the multitude of C libraries that are available in Python or Ruby.

These questions cover language-specific keywords of a specific programming paradigm.

I see what you're saying. Yeah, one certainly needs to be careful with those sort of high-level abstractions. I remember when I first started learning WPF, I ran into the exact problem you described. I had a data grid bound to an sqlite database. Without optimization, every row update was making three of four calls to the database. When there were a few thousand records, the UI would screech to a halt.

I can't endorse KnockoutJS because I've never used it. However, I'd like to address the two points you made.

> 1. It's magic box coding (as in I put these simple commands in and the environment just handles it for me and I have little idea how)

Is this not abstraction? I'm not familiar with the internals of the Python interpreter, but I'm able to be productive and creative with it.

> 2. It (by Microsoft's admission) hogs bandwidth. In the desktop world that wasn't a problem but in web applications its a big one.

I'm not convinced that this is a problem outside of edge-case scenarios. However, from my understanding, this limitation is overcome in two ways: 1. Large application are broken up into small modules which can be loaded lazily. 2. Time. The average bandwidth of an internet user increases exponentially over time.

> Meanwhile, many early-adopting merchants find that the burst in customers immediately disappears, and since they can’t perpetually discount 75%, those merchants stop using Groupon.

This is the crux of the argument, and no sources are provided. If you're going to write a persuasive argument based on empirical data, you need to cite your sources.

A couple ideas:

* Nice mechanical pencils

* A Feynman book

Sure. But before everyone gets all uppity about US censorship, lets not forget that both China and North Korea are: 1.) Spying on their citizens. 2.) Not above an internet kill switch.

Do these comments do anything to further discussion?

> they are FDIC

My question would be, are individual Dwolla accounts protected on a per depositor basis? Or, is it just Dwolla Corp's own bank account which is protected under FDIC. Their website doesn't make that clear.

It's entirely possible that user funds are stored in a bank account, owned by Dwolla, and that bank account is FDIC insured. If that's the case, then that bank account is only insured up to $250,000 USD.

I think what's needed most at the moment is an easy way for US dollars to be exchanged for Bitcoin. This was easy enough when Mt Gox was accepting Paypal.

However, now that Paypal has suspended Mt Gox's account, anyone wanting to work with that exchange now has to jump through additional hoops by opening up a Dwolla or Liberty Reserve account. Personally, I found these sites to be rather shady looking.

Any comments? I'd love to hear some feedback.