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nkristoffersenon iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera Review: Zion NP

You are in luck! Apple has been providing RAW image capture APIs for several years which means you can get a pure image with no processing with many 3rd party apps.

Either recommend patients to use a RAW camera app, or perhaps create a basic app for the healthcare company.

If the image isn’t raw, it is processed in some way, and I can absolutely see how that can mess with diagnostics.

nkristoffersenon Apple Create ML: Creating an Image Classifier Model

Could probably detect if it was a hotdog or not hotdog.

nkristoffersenon You might not need to store plaintext email addresses

To be fair, that scenario is increasing security.

Shared/public devices are not considered secure at all.

nkristoffersenon HomePod Mini

Pretty sure that means HomeKit certified devices, not Apple-built devices.

nkristoffersenon Microsoft Teams as a Platform

This drove me away from the desktop app. The native notification system is great because it gives me full control. I have no control over the teams notifications. So now I use teams in the browser since the browser uses native notifications.

nkristoffersenon Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19

As a paying customer of Freshpaint, my perspective is they are building a great product with a clear value proposition.

The steady stream of product improvements tells me they are still very focused on product development.

nkristoffersenon Ask HN: Why do iPhone cameras color correct?

Better to use an iPhone camera app that captures RAW. Then you can set your own white balance after.

nkristoffersenon Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad

This looks awesome! Congrats on the launch!

I am a current paid user for Miro and use it in much the same way you show here but with the added benefit of allowing external collaborators on browsers.

But, if I didn’t include so many external users, I’d try this. Hell I may try it right now any way. Looks so smooth.

nkristoffersenon Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering

From my understanding you don’t technically own most media (music, movies, software) regardless of the format. It’s a license. Even if you purchase a CD or DVD, etc.

nkristoffersenon Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing

Essentially a teleprompter. Been looking at doing something with my external camera for all of the video calls these days.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Teleprompters/ci/2122/N/4...

nkristoffersenon Ask HN: What's some “one sentence” wisdom you've learned or created?

Commandments I refer to often:

1. Make it work, then make it work well

2. The user doesn’t give a shit how it’s made

3. If you can’t measure it you can’t improve it

4. The problem is more important than the solution

5. Write code that is easy to delete

6. Buy right buy once

nkristoffersenon Infinity: open-source search engine

wouldn't a crawler be a "web crawler"? It doesn't actually handle the search engine aspects.

nkristoffersenon Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi

I mean, it sure seems like a scumbag move, until you understand the full reasoning behind enforcing encrypted keys for each piece of security hardware. Which I believe was to close a security loophole.

To my memory the bricking of phones was a bug related to not handling the non-matching key condition correctly. But I believe they fixed that bug quickly?

nkristoffersenon iOS 14 Notifies Users When an App or Widget Reads Your Clipboard

It's a UX shortcut. I see this in google maps. If an address is in the clipboard it will offer to shortcut straight to search.

nkristoffersenon Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos

I'm pretty sure classification happens locally for Apple as well. They call it "on-device machine learning". It doesn't mention it for MacOS photos but I can see `photoanalysisd` running in the background on my Mac.

https://www.apple.com/ios/photos/

nkristoffersenon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

I created a super opinionated resume builder a couple years ago when I was helping friends get better jobs.

https://jobhero.org

Your builder is much more "builder". I like the drag and drop you implemented (that I can see in the video anyway). What I built was more "you can have any color as long as it's black".

But was fun to build. Was my first react project!

nkristoffersenon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

super cool! I love the markers on the court. Super clear.

nkristoffersenon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

I'm building a treasure hunt web app (for mobile). An app for exploring the city. Had to learn a lot about geo APIs. But may have a potential business model now for larger city-wide events. Have a redesign mocked up now. Started writing the week before Easter and finished the week after.

- Web geo APIs to guide you to the next "treasure".

- Webcam API to capture matching photo.

- "AI" for matching photos and answers to questions in the backend.

- the "AI" doesn't work well, planning to add a python Lambda with a better SSIM algo.

The hardest part so far has been permissions in iOS. If the user blocked geo permissions for Safari it is kind of a pain to enable again for a normal user. I haven't had a chance to test in Android yet but I presume that will present other challenges regarding permissions.

https://app.huntsi.com

nkristoffersenon Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff

Wikipedia states the headquarters is in Fornebu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Air_Shuttle

nkristoffersenon How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work again on macOS Catalina (2019)

What kind of issues are you having with Photos? I have over 50,000 photos and over 4,000 videos and it’s been nothing but a dream.

nkristoffersenon Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player

I'll point out a new feature with iOS I recently discovered. It is now possible to share audio to other apple headphones (with their customer BT chip) https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-audio-with-airp...

Very smooth UX and useful when watching a movie on a plane on an iPad.

nkristoffersenon Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?

I do a lot of GatsbyJS. Now adding Contentful for all landing pages so marketing folk can edit content.

nkristoffersenon What Mac OS’s case-insensitive filenames teaches us

Ran into this issue with CI and git. Was so difficult to track down. Now all Macs on my team are reformatted to be case sensitive because of this. Thankfully it's an option now.

nkristoffersenon How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage

Building a react native version of your app shouldn’t take more than a few days and you could then integrate with the native expectations. Have you tried that?

nkristoffersenon Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7495073/msi-mechanical-key...

Just to give you a sense of what you're asking for.

nkristoffersenon Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?

We are moving from FAST to ES. Major pain.

nkristoffersenon Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

I started really using Reddit when the new UI came out, plus I am 99.999% browsing on mobile.

So with that said, I don't have any problem with the new Reddit since it is what "Reddit" has always been to me.

nkristoffersenon Mac Pro: Fooled You

Reference monitors (video monitors, and audio monitor reference speakers) are expensive due to tight QC specs and accuracy tolerances.

Examples: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?setNs=p_PRICE_2%7c1&Ns...

nkristoffersenon Chasing the Aurora Borealis

I visited Svalbard in February and the Northern lights were not only bright, but moved very quickly. Like a flowing river of light. Was really an incredible sight.

I plan to go back with a pro-grade camera to try and capture it even better.

nkristoffersenon Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries

Really? So many models live forever. Do you think the "Mustang" is long in the tooth?