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Re:Neutrinos' maximum possible mass shrinks further
on Monday April 14, 2025 @02:37AM (#43678631)
This measurement was performed in a lab in Germany. The main spectrometer of the apparatus used for the measurement was fabricated in Germany. The delivery route was almost 9000 km. https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/march-2007/deconstr...
Re:A Two-Stroke Engine Made from Scratch Using Basic Hardware Store Parts
on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @06:42PM (#41186297)
Re:Schiphol conducts trial with self-driving buses on airside
on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @03:09PM (#39843327)
Except for the incredibly low ceilings in some places.
Re:The End of the Dark Universe?
on Saturday March 16, 2024 @12:15AM (#39723343)
That's an older paper that was initially uploaded in 2018 and revised last year. The preprint under discussion is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19459
Satya Nadella on the bigger vision behind Microsoft's new battery
Re:Bourbaki Dangerous Bend Symbol
on Saturday December 30, 2023 @11:51AM (#38816638)
I gave a couple of physics talks where I used the "fasten seatbelt" sign on a series of slides introducing a controversial topic (weak value amplification). I told the audiences beforehand that they just needed to stay in their seats for these slides and we'd discuss once I'd laid everything out.
Re:Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
on Sunday December 03, 2023 @06:14PM (#38511781)
During my physics PhD I built my own Segway (and a second one with a power tool company who came to me after first asking tlb) and did a bunch of projects with a high-power laser cutter that I got funding for in our lab. I included these on my resume and they were much easier for interviewers to talk to me about than my PhD work. I think they also helped me stand out a bit. Receiving positive feedback about these projects gave me confidence to sell myself as someone who could build things.
Re:Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light po...
on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:41AM (#38321374)
I wonder if your eyes move around a lot. It's known that we can see flicker in things like LEDs on a clock when our eyes move fast enough that subsequent flashes are sufficiently separated in the field of vision, particularly in our peripheral vision, and I've also experienced this with LED headlights while driving.
Surgeons in New York announce first eye transplant
Antidepressants or Tolkien
The Craft of Experimental Physics (2015)
Re:Straightforward Thai Railway Safety Posters
on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:09PM (#37165745)
The Thai anti-smoking ads are pretty straightforward/gruesome as well, and cigarette companies are required to include them on their packaging.
Re:Akan Names
on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:09PM (#36732470)
From the guidelines:
Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
Re:A quick look back at when Microsoft made an interactive Barney toy
on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:06PM (#36658350)
My current boss worked on ActiMates. He'd probably be happy to answer questions if anyone here has any for me to pass along.
Re:Show HN: Degrees What?
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:50AM (#36583558)
It's not just nice for that reason, that's the reason the scale exists.
Re:Show HN: Degrees What?
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:42AM (#36583498)
I presume that's kind of the point. It's fun.
Re:Show HN: Degrees What?
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:18AM (#36582872)
I think the point was that it's just "Kelvin" not "degrees Kelvin"
Re:Show HN: Degrees What?
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:58AM (#36582732)
I always want to ask “degrees what?"
I once worked on a system that ran at -40 degrees. I loved leaving off the scale when giving tours and telling about it, because someone would invariably ask if I meant Celsius or Fahrenheit and then everyone got to learn where the crossing point of the two scales is.
Re:
on Monday May 08, 2023 @10:43PM (#35869629)
Have you confirmed that their charges aren't still showing up on your credit card statement? Merchants collecting recurring payments use updater services to update expiration dates automatically.
Re:Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack
on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:40PM (#35483688)
ขอบคุณครับคุณสมศักดิ์ Glad someone called me out on not reading the article. I'll do better next time.
Re:Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack
on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:59AM (#35483087)
Here's the Substack announcement of their new Notes feature that may have prompted this (or maybe Musk is just being Musk):
https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes
Edit: Correcting to acknowledge this is in the first paragraph of the article. Doh!
Re:Building a legged robot in 80 days: Lessons learned, tears shed, bl...
on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:50PM (#34701751)
James Bruton's videos might be a good place to start.
Re:The Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1k ‘Lost’ Varieties
on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:48PM (#34480070)
Here's a nice Wyoming PBS piece on rescuing Wyomingian varieties: https://youtu.be/KZyD74vNdcc
Re:The Rise of Steel Part II
on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:46PM (#34458729)
See also: https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-... (discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517792)
Re:Tocharian Languages
on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:12AM (#34349474)
Victor Mair, who is heavily cited on the Wikipedia page, has a large number of posts about Tocharian on the Language Log: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=tocharian
Re:Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:13PM (#34277565)
In the fields of physics I'm familiar with the group leader is usually listed last on papers. They get credit wherever they are in the author list, while being first or second author carries more cachet for students and postdocs who are trying to establish their careers.
Re:I made a home security system, powered by a Raspberry Pi 3
on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:28AM (#34204669)
If I were to do this I'd probably start with a system from Unipi [0], either their Raspberry Pi add-on board or one of their PLCs. They're pretty handy and more versatile than standard PLC systems.
Re:A fake job offer gone wrong
on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:08PM (#33934296)
The credit card applications got blocked, but I found out about them because the thieves used my email address on the applications. The most frustrating part was trying to get in contact with the right people at T-Mobile and Verizon to report and shut down the fraudulent accounts. I found out about those because of soft credit pulls on my credit report. I'm not sure if a credit freeze would have prevented them since they were just soft pulls.
Re:A fake job offer gone wrong
on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:21AM (#33930697)
They have my drivers license which contains a lot personal information but eh... proably somewhere based in india or something, I dunno.
Freeze your credit reports with all 3 credit reporting companies. Last year someone flew into Seattle from out of state with a driver license with their photo but my info, including an old driver license number. They got a bunch of cell phones and attempted to open a number of store credit cards with it. They bought a car with a fake of someone else's https://bellevuebeatblog.com/2021/04/28/64000-dodge-challeng...