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“Stranger Things” to “All the Light We Cannot See”: Shawn Levy doesn’t need a “signature aesthetic”http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85c8d86f1f4d4ba124a0d3c4d63280&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.salon.com%2f2023%2f11%2f08%2fshawn-levy-all-the-light-we-cannot-see%2f&c=12908307461970842120&mkt=en-usShawn Levy is a producer, writer, actor, and director. You know his work, including the "Night at the Museum" movies, "Stranger Things," "Free Guy," "The Adam Project ...Nov 8, 2023 4:00 AM
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“Stranger Things” to “All the Light We Cannot See”: Shawn Levy doesn’t need a “signature aesthetic”http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e8139a2c442a8e29f8f615547532&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.salon.com%2f2023%2f11%2f08%2fshawn-levy-all-the-light-we-cannot-see%2f&c=12908307461970842120&mkt=en-usShawn Levy is a producer, writer, actor, and director. You know his work, including the "Night at the Museum" movies, "Stranger Things," "Free Guy," "The Adam Project ...Nov 8, 2023 4:00 AM
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“Stranger Things” to “All the Light We Cannot See”: Shawn Levy doesn’t need a “signature aesthetic”http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e3c5560242df82f40622b5e8016d&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.salon.com%2f2023%2f11%2f08%2fshawn-levy-all-the-light-we-cannot-see%2f&c=12908307461970842120&mkt=en-usShawn Levy is a producer, writer, actor, and director. You know his work, including the "Night at the Museum" movies, "Stranger Things," "Free Guy," "The Adam Project ...Nov 8, 2023 4:00 AM
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“Stranger Things” to “All the Light We Cannot See”: Shawn Levy doesn’t need a “signature aesthetic”http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dd6c6e784db0ab6129334b1c291c&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.salon.com%2f2023%2f11%2f08%2fshawn-levy-all-the-light-we-cannot-see%2f&c=12908307461970842120&mkt=en-usShawn Levy is a producer, writer, actor, and director. You know his work, including the "Night at the Museum" movies, "Stranger Things," "Free Guy," "The Adam Project ...Nov 8, 2023 4:00 AM
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“Stranger Things” to “All the Light We Cannot See”: Shawn Levy doesn’t need a “signature aesthetic”http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d54352be430293c003b2d3705eee&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.salon.com%2f2023%2f11%2f08%2fshawn-levy-all-the-light-we-cannot-see%2f&c=12908307461970842120&mkt=en-usShawn Levy is a producer, writer, actor, and director. You know his work, including the "Night at the Museum" movies, "Stranger Things," "Free Guy," "The Adam Project ...Nov 8, 2023 4:00 AM
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“Stranger Things” to “All the Light We Cannot See”: Shawn Levy doesn’t need a “signature aesthetic”http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85db4d8e3b419682e6a6e76c7d8d71&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.salon.com%2f2023%2f11%2f08%2fshawn-levy-all-the-light-we-cannot-see%2f&c=12908307461970842120&mkt=en-usShawn Levy is a producer, writer, actor, and director. You know his work, including the "Night at the Museum" movies, "Stranger Things," "Free Guy," "The Adam Project ...Nov 8, 2023 4:00 AM
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The Business Case for Commercial Artificial Grasshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38035412Businesses, property owners and facility managers are constantly looking for ways to enhance the aesthetics of their outdoor spaces while minimizing maintenance costs. Commercial artificial grass, often called synthetic turf, is becoming a game-changer in this area.In this blog post, we’ll explore the compelling business case for commercial artificial grass and why more companies are choosing this low-maintenance, eco-friendly alternative.The Allure of Commercial Artificial Grass Commercial artificial grass has come a long way from the synthetic turf of yesteryears. Modern technology has made it increasingly difficult to distinguish between artificial and natural grass, thanks to improvements in aesthetics, texture, and feel. This realistic look is just one of the many factors driving the adoption of commercial artificial grass in various business settings.Low Maintenance and Cost Savings One of the primary reasons businesses opt for commercial artificial grass is its minimal maintenanOct 27, 2023 6:42 AM
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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Central sensitization syndrome: What to knowhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89f07c81c34291b2768ab5b04426d9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.medicalnewstoday.com%2Farticles%2Fcentral-sensitization-syndrome&c=15700554481572173917&mkt=en-usCentral sensitization syndrome can cause the brain to overreact to harmless stimulation, leading to intense pain feelings. Typically, the CNS sends sensory signals to the brain. The brain accurately ...Sep 15, 2023 4:00 PM
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Space Force to release guidelines for the use of commercial satellite serviceshttps://spacenews.com/space-force-to-release-guidelines-for-the-use-of-commercial-satellite-services/U.S. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said the Space Force is finalizing a blueprint for how it will integrate commercial satellite services into military activities.Sep 13, 2023 7:57 PM
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Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversationshttps://github.com/Ads-cmu/WhatsApp-LlamaHello HN!I've been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept's appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this!I've just released a fork of the facebookresearch/llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can train the model (using QLoRA) to respond in a way that's eerily similar to your own texting style.What I've figured out so far:Quick Learning: The model quickly adapts to personal nuances, emoji usage, and phrases that you use. I've trained just 1 epoch on a P100 GPU using QLoRA and 4 bit quantization, and its already captured my mannerismsTuring Tests: As an experiment, I asked my friends to ask me 3 questSep 9, 2023 5:43 PM
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How did plants first evolve into all different shapes and sizes? We mapped a billion years of plant history to find outhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b8c11cf5246d2abe76d5cd0dc0ddc&url=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2023-09-evolve-sizes-billion-years-history.html&c=15665455724243351815&mkt=en-usPlants range from simple seaweeds and single-celled pond scum, through to mosses, ferns and huge trees. Paleontologists like us have long debated exactly how this diverse range of shapes and sizes ...Sep 9, 2023 10:10 AM
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Best Backgrounds to Choose in Starfieldhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1d4de3f444b6b5888305ea6d4476&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.siliconera.com%2Fbest-backgrounds-to-choose-in-starfield%2F&c=2516678656824513625&mkt=en-usfeatures a comprehensive character creator screen where you pick what type of galactic spacefarer you want to be and select elements like your background. Your background is arguably the most ...Aug 31, 2023 10:45 AM
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Which Background should you choose in Starfield?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1d4de3f444b6b5888305ea6d4476&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shacknews.com%2Farticle%2F136873%2Fbest-background-starfield&c=13877554269977270069&mkt=en-usWhile creating your character for Starfield, you’ll have the option to choose a Background. Making a good choice can be the difference between thriving or struggling in the early hours. Here are our ...Aug 31, 2023 6:45 AM
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SAB Orbital Vehicle Could Work in Concert With Space Riderhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/sab-orbital-vehicle-could-work-in-concert-with-space-rider/Italian-based space transportation company SAB Launch Services is studying ways that its IOSHEX orbital vehicle could work in concert with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Rider vehicle. Space Rider is an ESA-led project to develop a small uncrewed spaceplane that will enable the launch, in-orbit testing/manufacture, and return of client payloads. Development of the […] The post SAB Orbital Vehicle Could Work in Concert With Space Rider appeared first on European Spaceflight.Aug 23, 2023 7:45 PM
