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New comment by hexeater in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

hexeater — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:49:36 +0000

And protein folding + Nobel Prize

New comment by hexeater in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"

hexeater — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:44:08 +0000

Hero - keep fighting!

New comment by hexeater in "Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs"

hexeater — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:25:20 +0000

The conversations around taxation and gov finance in the USA are absolutely delulu. I'm in California. Not including sales and property taxes, high earners are paying over 50% in taxes. Whereas the overall expenditures are unsustainable and in many cases just not working anyway. Notable examples are that we are paying more in Interest than for military at the federal level, and we are burning cash on failed homeless policies without any hope of actual change. Any rational conversation has to cut spending.

New comment by hexeater in "One Handed Keyboard"

hexeater — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:20:01 +0000

Add eye tracking to replace the track ball please. :-)

New comment by hexeater in "A method to promote sleep in crying infants using the transport response [pdf]"

hexeater — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 03:01:00 +0000

I have twins, they share a room. they are 19 months old. They have been sleeping through the night since 10 months old. My technique is I put them to bed fully awake at the same time every night. They each get a half full bottle, and I say good night. Before I goto bed, I put another half full bottle in their cribs, and they find it on their own when they wake up. And then I see them in the morning. I had to let them cry it out for a few weeks, but now they just goto bed with no crying. In the morning they talk to each other until I go into the room.

I couldn't imagine doing it any other way. too exhausting for everybody. Being able to goto sleep on your own is a skill! And it's a self taught thing.

New comment by hexeater in "In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a housing crisis"

hexeater — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 22:05:58 +0000

About 5 years ago, I asked a politician about housing. The assemblyman told me that housing is largely controlled at the local level and driven by local city politics. He explained that voters tend to be home owners and property owners. The conundrum then is how to make housing affordable without impacting long term investment of majority of voters. A politician or city council which actually moved the needle on housing would be putting themselves at risk of losing many votes, and thus their political careers.

Ask HN: What is best way to introduce CS and Programming to 13 year old

hexeater — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:48:23 +0000

The 13 year old girl in question is acing everything, is self motivated, and expressing interest in learning CS. Back in the day, I started with an intro to CS / programming book in java. What's the best way nowadays for a teenager to do self study?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22076315

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hexeater in "IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax"

hexeater — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 19:32:35 +0000

I have gotten IRS penalties/interest due to my incorrectly reporting. I was confused about how to report RSU and Stock Option income, and then I was doubly confused about how to do quarterly filings.

I am REALLY trying to do this on my own without an accountant. I think I got it right with 2019, but I will find in a few week how far off I am when I try to file.

I'd say my interaction feels like the IRS is just painting by numbers - they are just running the numbers and checking if you filed correctly or not. If you did not and the number is significant, they send you a letter.

New comment by hexeater in "Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet"

hexeater — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:31:27 +0000

My impression is that the original author's views were crafted to celebrate prior work, and provide a platform for the new work to come. with a healthy dollop of self promotion.

New comment by hexeater in "Ask HN: What are best ways to down res JPG images?"

hexeater — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:48:21 +0000

We don’t charge for storage, it’s just a cost for us.

New comment by hexeater in "Ask HN: What are best ways to down res JPG images?"

hexeater — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:47:48 +0000

Thanks for suggestions. Seems like it is a standard process to convert to grey scale prior to OCR anyway. :-)

Ask HN: What are best ways to down res JPG images?

hexeater — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 23:03:06 +0000

Our cloud service has a ton of jpgs loaded by users. The images are loaded, then viewed occasionally by auditors and sometimes automated OCR. So written once and read/viewed ~4 times. We want to look at ways to save storage footprint, and I'd like to down sample the JPGs yet keep enough quality to keep users and automated OCR systems happy.

I'm hoping that someone has studied this problem and any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21198245

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

New comment by hexeater in "At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power"

hexeater — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:16:58 +0000

“Better algorithms” - sounds like a good research topic!

New comment by hexeater in "Magic Leap One now available for $2295"

hexeater — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:23:45 +0000

I suppose we have to suffer this type of non-content in order to enable those who ultimately deliver the goods!