I wasn't impressed with the engineering and JS client-side bundles on Integromat.
What was wrong with it? And why did you need to interact with it at all, I'm curious.
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#372Self-driving cars. Now that the hype is over and the fake-it-til-you-make-it crowd has tanked, there's progress. Slowly, the LIDARs get cheaper, the radars get more resolution, and the software improves. UE5's rendering approach. They finally figured out how to use the GPU to do level of detail. Games can now climb out of the Uncanny Valley. The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU,…
I never really paid attention to consoles (not a gamer in any way) but the ps5 sounds impressive. Shame Sony have a very Apple-like approach to their products and lock everything up. If they bundled up that hardware with linux support, sales would go through the roof and into orbit. I'd personally get a bunch of these and build myself a cluster.
The PS3 had dual-boot support for Linux early on, for a couple years after launch. It was removed in a software update a week or two after I decided to try it. I don't see Sony doubling back on that one, but you never know.
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#373Oxide Computer Company https://oxide.computer/ “True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.” Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre…
And for people wondering why caring about on-premises hosting when you have the cloud, a few weeks ago there was a thread about why would you do the former in favor of the latter. It puts on display that actually a lot of people are still on-premises, and for good reasons, which makes a good case for a company like Oxide to exist. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089999
Also see this meta comment which summed up other top-level comments by their arguments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098654
8/10 is cost related.
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#374Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) occupies a intermediate position in accuracy / skin depth for soft tissue between ultrasound and MRI Optically pumped magnetometers (OPM) approaches SQUID level accuracy without need for supercooled device, can be worn or used as a contact sensor like ultrasound. LoRA long range (10km +) low power sub-gigahertz radio frequency protocol useful for battery powered IoT devices transmit…
Oh man, I used to research in OCT for deep brain stimulation! It's pretty cool tech, that is for sure. It's got a huge market for bio applications and certain industrials. That said, optics is a super finicky field. You can come in and get a Nobel for 5 hours work, or you can spend 50 years in a dark room trying to get things together. Alignment is crazy difficult, thought it seems it shouldn't be. Anyone that wants…
Tell me more about getting a Nobel in 5 hours. I’ll buy your ebook :)
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#375I'd like StarLink (or something else like it!) to succeed increase internet adoption massively around the planet.
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#376Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Lightning Network - A way to do micropayments, if it works, You can stop the tape right there. You know it doesn't and it can't.
Genuinely curious, what’s wrong with the lightning network?
It's not the lightning network -- it's micropayments.
Three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232978
Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
#377Self-driving cars. Now that the hype is over and the fake-it-til-you-make-it crowd has tanked, there's progress. Slowly, the LIDARs get cheaper, the radars get more resolution, and the software improves. UE5's rendering approach. They finally figured out how to use the GPU to do level of detail. Games can now climb out of the Uncanny Valley. The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU,…
I never really paid attention to consoles (not a gamer in any way) but the ps5 sounds impressive. Shame Sony have a very Apple-like approach to their products and lock everything up. If they bundled up that hardware with linux support, sales would go through the roof and into orbit. I'd personally get a bunch of these and build myself a cluster.
Sony is selling them with little to no profit as they expect to earn on games. Guess why their capabale and cheap hardware is locked down to avoid using it for anything except playing bought games ;)
Anyway you can jailbreak ps4 to 5.0.5 firmware and there are unpublished exploits in existence that are waiting for ps5 to be released.
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#378Darklang: https://darklang.com/ I've tried out an early version of their product, and I really like where they're headed.
I agree here. It's really exciting to have a platform where the friction of releases is totally removed. I'm excited to see where they end up with this product.
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
Opportunity can come from ideas that are correct but not generally accepted as correct. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4783265/ If it were to work it would be a useful new modality. I am not promoting it, but it's on my "watch list" due to efforts by AYTU at Cedars Sinai.
Opportunity to give people leukemia. These ideas are at a prehistoric level of biology. We're way beyond this silliness now.
I am talking about work being done in clinical trials at reputable medical clinics. They may be mistaken but I don't think it's "silliness." Here is a recent clinical trial evaluating UVBI https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2331205X.2019.1...
Of course there are many other mainstream treatments that came from somewhat oddball ideas: Sister Kenney's treatments for polio, the Nobel prize winning discovery by Barry Marshall and Robin Warren that ulcers were caused by bacteria (H. Pylori), the use of leaches for treatment of venous congestion after surgery, and the use of maggots for wound debridement.
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#380I guess I'm much more conservative than other folks, but I think we've scratched only 10% of the surface of the benefits that things like Kubernetes, Consul, Vault and Terraform should/will provide. So they're on the list. I feel like at my job I'm pushing at the edges (as far as running large scale, stable production) and we've still got miles left. Also Bazel. I guess this is a boring answer.
Happy to be told otherwise, but I think that Juju is the only tool in that space that understands inter-connected applications and to spin up services that span k8s/VMs/clouds and work together.