shop.pimoroni.com
Show HN: PicoVision – A HDMI video stick with dual RP2040 chips (CPU and GPU)https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picovisionI thought it might be a fun one for the HN crowd, to celebrate the launch of our latest product we're running a demoscene competition to see what people can squeeze out of it - details here: https://shop.pimoroni.com/pages/win-a-500-gift-card-in-our-p...PicoVision sports two RP2040 chips (one on a PicoW with WiFi and Bluetooth) acting as GPU and CPU allowing you to drive a HDMI display with smooth fullscreen animation - it can even play DOOM!There's a heap of interesting features built into the GPU firmware including support for "soft" (?!) hardware sprites, palette modes, scrolling, and more! The GPU and CPU share a pair of 8MB PSRAM chips that are swapped each frame using an analog multiplexer to allow them to pass the framebuffer and other information between them with no overhead during VSYNC.It also has a HDMI connector, a microSD socket, GPIO pins, a Qw/ST connector, some buttons, and audio out meaning there are a lot of possibilities from gaming to digital signage and anything iOct 18, 2023 3:11 PM
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Product Management Career Path Growth Potentialshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907422I have a question regarding career path that I would LOVE your thoughts on*TLDR; coming from a technical background I feel ready to move to a product career path and become less technical however my friends think otherwise due to less growth potential.*I come from a technical background and after years of feeling misplaced and having to force motivate myself to be engaged at various technical and coding roles where building product was my first responsibility, I decided that my strength is not in teeny tiny technical work and rather in more strategic human centric and leadership enabling roles. It makes me laugh to now put this in one paragraph! In reality this insight has been the result of a decade of soul searching, head scratching and feeling lost in my career and losing opportunities at my door step.This doesn't mean I'm bad at or not liking technical work at all. I love to use my technical knowledge for advancing business goals and communicating ideas but to do that almost entireOct 16, 2023 10:15 PM
bing.com
Getting older, with — or without? — The Nationalhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ab386395d48f7b549dcd36ea780f2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F10%2F14%2F1205518291%2Fgetting-older-with-or-without-the-national&c=17403963468021808672&mkt=en-usI first heard The National's newest album, Laugh Track, on the day last month when my wife, Tina, and I finally set foot in our new house, thousands of miles from where we'd always lived. It was not ...Oct 14, 2023 3:01 AM
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Getting older, with — or without? — The Nationalhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89035712444dd99db46bcb6366f3e7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F10%2F14%2F1205518291%2Fgetting-older-with-or-without-the-national&c=17403963468021808672&mkt=en-usI first heard The National's newest album, Laugh Track, on the day last month when my wife, Tina, and I finally set foot in our new house, thousands of miles from where we'd always lived. It was not ...Oct 14, 2023 3:01 AM
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Disney – DEI requires a history of privilegehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37876610For background, I am currently a Principal Engineer at a close to FAANG level company, with 16 years of experience in the software industry and a college drop out. I had my own startup for 11 years, chased VC funding, managed and scaled software teams, and scaled software systems to millions of daily active users.I decided it was time for a change so I applied for some lead software engineering roles at Disney. Today I had a phone screening that lasted about 10 minutes. The second the recruiter asked about my highest form of education and I responded that I am a drop out, I could hear the hesitation in her voice so I asked if that was a deal breaker. Of course it was, but based on the years of experience they can see if I still map to the role.Unfortunately after she did the math my 16 years of experience with no degree only qualifies for a junior engineering role across all of Disney Engineering. To even qualify for a senior role, I needed 17 years of experience, and the lead role i aOct 13, 2023 11:11 PM
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Ask HN: Has Anyone Been to Web Summit? Any Tips?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37855931I was invited to attend the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal this November. It's my firs time and I don't know what to expect aside from what is being shown on videos. Anyone here been to Web Summit have any tips? Things I should do? What to avoid? Places to recommend visiting around the venue?Oct 12, 2023 11:47 AM
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BTS member V sparks debate over durag wear in livestream, faces netizen's backlashhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b0cfbf60147aaa0db5f36355c5437&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2Fbts-member-v-sparks-debate-over-durag-wear-in-livestream-faces-netizens-backlash-101696997289876.html&c=16846926709638692227&mkt=en-usBTS member V has faced backlash and accusations of cultural appropriation for wearing a durag in a livestream. He explained that he received it as a gift, but some fans were not satisfied with his ...Oct 10, 2023 10:30 PM
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9 Fake Words That Ended Up in the Dictionaryhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cab99af6439c922693cd7856f822&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mentalfloss.com%2flanguage%2fwords%2f7-fake-words-ended-dictionary&c=15592131614275244348&mkt=en-usGhost words have nothing to do with otherworldly apparitions, but they’re certainly scary for lexicographers. Another kind of fake word is the nihilartikel, which translates from Latin and German as ...Oct 6, 2023 8:26 AM
europeanspaceflight.com
Germany Advocates Competitive Launch Procurement Processhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/germany-advocates-competitive-launch-procurement-process/Germany has announced its intention to pursue a competitive procurement process when purchasing launch services. The country also intends to use its position within the European Space Agency to advocate that the agency does the same. This “paradigm shift in the development and procurement of launch services in Europe” was outlined in the country’s new […] The post Germany Advocates Competitive Launch Procurement Process appeared first on European Spaceflight.Oct 4, 2023 8:23 PM
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The Netflix of Designhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37762027Hey there! I think I am a complete stranger to you so let me introduce myself. I am Shayan Ali a graphic designer and in near future I am going to be an agency owner. I am launching a productize service agency named LoopyDesign. I've seen a problem in the market and there is gap that I want to bridge with my design skills.The problem: The problem is business have design teams and in-house designer to do all the design work for them but, these people charge a lot. The average rates of graphic designer are $80-$100 per hour plus employment benefits too. The turnaround time is not close to what I will have in LoopyDesign and, the chances of hiring a good designer who knows the craft well are very low too.The Solution: The solution is that I am going to build a design agency that replaces these expensive designer for one flat monthly fees which will be lower than their salaries, you can get as many design as you want in a month and you only have to pay once. Each design request will be fulOct 4, 2023 7:35 AM
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Banks' insurance units are fetching top dollar, but selling brings riskhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cac1c7584463c8644af419200ecf4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanbanker.com%2Fnews%2Fbanks-insurance-units-are-fetching-top-dollar-but-selling-brings-risk&c=2917006196246806844&mkt=en-usSince last fall, M&T Bank, Truist Financial and Eastern Bancshares have sold all or part of their insurance subsidiaries. The question now is whether other banks will follow suit. There was a time ...Oct 4, 2023 6:49 AM
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Changing a Behavior Takes Deliberate Efforthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a899141cec04b8693637b11e81d3736&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhbr.org%2Ftip%2F2023%2F10%2Fchanging-a-behavior-takes-deliberate-effort&c=17756494624912942606&mkt=en-usWe all need to grow and develop, and that often means changing some well-worn behaviors. But how exactly do you do that, especially when you know how hard behavior change can be? Try following these ...Oct 3, 2023 9:01 PM
spacepolicyonline.com
FCC Issues First Space Debris Finehttps://spacepolicyonline.com/news/fcc-issues-first-space-debris-fine/The Federal Communications Commission issued a fine today for violating space debris requirements. The DISH satellite television company must admit liability and pay $150,000 for not properly disposing of its […]Oct 3, 2023 2:50 AM
vectara.com
Show HN: Launching a new home-grown embedding LLM for RAGhttps://vectara.com/how-boomerang-takes-retrieval-augmented-generation-to-the-next-level-via-grounded-generation/Hi HN!Vectara is a "batteries included" retrieval augmented generation platform. You can upload your rich text documents like PDFs, HTML pages, word docs, etc, or semi-structured JSON and Vectara handles the text and metadata extraction, segmentation, vector embedding, and vector storage, and keyword storage. You can ask a question or perform a search in the UI or via our APIs and Vectara will automatically handle the vectorization, structured metadata filtering, vector+keyword retrieval, hybrid blending, and generative summarization of the results. We're focusing on building and operationalizing the complex infrastructure for vector storage, hybrid retrieval, and generative summarization so you can use fairly high-level APIs and focus on building your own applications.We know that retrieval accuracy is incredibly important for RAG: garbage in, garbage out. We've seen a lot of projects not spend enough time on really getting the retrieval model right and wasting a lot of time/money witSep 28, 2023 3:06 PM
spacenews.com
The Race for More Space: The flawed logic behind making space a 17th Critical Infrastructurehttps://spacenews.com/the-race-for-more-space/A bipartisan group of lawmakers recently introduced the Space Infrastructure Act, which pursues a recommendation made by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 to designate space as the 17th U.S. critical infrastructure sector. While it’s encouraging to see Congress considering this issue seriously, designating space as a critical infrastructure sector puts form over substance and would not actually address the risk posed by adversaries like China and Russia or from natural phenomena such as space weather.Sep 26, 2023 4:21 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
UARX Partners with Sener to Continue Development of OSSIE OTVhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/uarx-partners-with-sener-to-continue-development-of-ossie-otv/Spanish space transportation startup UARX Space has partnered with the multinational engineering and technology group Sener to assist with the development of the company’s OSSIE orbital transfer vehicle (OTV). OSSIE (Orbit Solutions to Simplify Injection and Exploration) is designed to be capable of performing a number of missions, including satellite delivery, debris removal, and in-orbit […] The post UARX Partners with Sener to Continue Development of OSSIE OTV appeared first on European Spaceflight.Sep 19, 2023 2:01 PM
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Ask HN: What do you think about a CEO providing human name to his business?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37566574As I may get a CEO assistant job at a company dealing with lab equipment and reagents more aligned with my main science interests [1], I googled that company and found that its CEO seems to have a few other similar pharmaceutical companies. But one of them is named with a female human name.I think that business entities are a bit more abstract to bear the labels used for human bodies and it sounds strange for me. I would never buy anything from a company with any human name. This CEO is a PhD and his dissertation is aligned with my main interests, but I do not want to get into another type of bs with this CEO assistant job.What do you think about a CEO providing a female human name to one of his businesses?[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37560705Sep 19, 2023 7:10 AM
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How to Found a New Town (and Why You Might Want To)http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8bba3a6a6243ba86c3a8925916ccff&url=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Fhow-to-found-a-new-town-and-why-you-might-want-to-1850849371&c=5851351039430201636&mkt=en-usJeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...Sep 18, 2023 11:00 AM
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Discord Nitro subscribers may soon get the option to change the app’s iconhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8c8bff1c1c4e4bb73d1c560bcb0b34&url=https%3A%2F%2F9to5google.com%2F2023%2F09%2F15%2Fdiscord-app-icon-nitro%2F&c=13410554881949808106&mkt=en-usTaking notes from some other apps, Discord appears to be adding support for changing the app’s icon as a part of its Nitro subscription. As spotted by the Discord Previews account on Twitter/X, work ...Sep 15, 2023 7:06 AM
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UPDATE: NASA Shares UAP Independent Study Report; Names Directorhttp://www.nasa.gov/press-release/update-nasa-shares-uap-independent-study-report-names-directorIn response to a recommendation by an independent study team for NASA to play a more prominent role in understanding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), the agency announced Thursday it is appointing a director of UAP research.Sep 14, 2023 9:06 PM
