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How are you coping?

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 t…

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 j…

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 so…

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!…

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 incre…

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 A…

I've always enjoyed meeting other software developers. When meeting someone new, I usually ask "what kind of software do you work on". I've asked and been asked this question count…

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 graph…

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 …

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

There was a recent submission to HN on a talk Rich Hickey gave. It can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4173854 Once in a while, I give presentations at local mee…

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 …