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by albert_e 2y ago
split the current star function into a "star rating" and a "save bookmark" function let both users and repos opt out of / hide star ratings if they don't care about this popularity contest let bookmarks be alwa
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Ask HN: How to make PDF from a news arcticle / archive.ph?
1 points by albert_e 2y ago|2 comments
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by albert_e 2y ago
https://archive.ph/uKeHc
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by albert_e 2y ago
interesting idea a doodle-roulette? a blank canvas that randomly pairs two bored people and gives them crayons to jam :) or like a global townsquare but for graffiti -- all are welcome at once on an infinite ever changing canvas
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by albert_e 2y ago
Sorry for a basic question-- does it require a paid Figma subscription? I hear stories about Figma being expensive and dark patterns to bump up the charges. Keeping track of monthly subscription spend across services has become a drain. Hen
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by albert_e 2y ago
Well This looks like a good way to get popular and political support to "expand authorities" in the interest of national security. Coordinate to launch a 'classified' training or research operation that is sure to get so
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by albert_e 2y ago
Can this be called a "brute force" attack in layman's terms?
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The Claude in Amazon Bedrock Course – By Anthropic(anthropic.com)
2 points by albert_e 2y ago|0 comments
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by albert_e 2y ago
All devices -- smartphones included -- need a hardware control to disconnect microphone and camera, and a clear indicator when they are ON. Privacy and security risks of the future loom big.
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by albert_e 2y ago
very interesting observation so the same link has been posted ~10 times in the last one month? and this is the first time the post got any attention mixed feelings there
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by albert_e 2y ago
Related question: One year ago simonw said this in a post about embeddings: [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37985489 ] > Lots of startups are launching new “vector databases”—which are effectively databases that are
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by albert_e 2y ago
why does this site accept Github login ONLY? why not a simple email sign-up or other options? I am rather wary about sharing my Github login/profile with third-party sites -- just keeping a separation between the profile that has links
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by albert_e 2y ago
Appears to be poor system design, but also clever discover and exploit. The amount involved here is meager (less than USD 3000). Hopefully the vulnerability is now patched otherwise this news just published a manual for millions of opportun
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Vulnerability in ATMs exploited to steal cash without modifying account balances(digit.in)
2 points by albert_e 2y ago|1 comments
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by albert_e 2y ago
About finding fascinating hand scribbled notes from books of the past ... I discovered this in a scanned collection of old books maintained by our government ministry of culture ... there are comments on some pages (see pages 8, 11, 17 for
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by albert_e 2y ago
when an external / vendor team picks a project... estimates = contract amount = project budget ... it is hard for a project team to negotiate later often the estimates need to be competitive or bottom most for you to win the contract n
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by albert_e 2y ago
I feel the same. Even the narrator's voice sounded robotic to me. > results still look Unreal. Maybe its the NAME :)
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by albert_e 2y ago
For examples of stations that don't fit on one screen when viewed on mobile ... open any one from the UK
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by albert_e 2y ago
Cool. I like that it supports background playback. I "installed" it as an app by clicking on "add to Home Screen" on my Chrome on Android. The touch target to select a dot seems finicky on mobile. Had to tap multiple tim
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by albert_e 2y ago
Curious ... replaced with what, I would like to know.
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by albert_e 2y ago
The title needs (2019) I thought the news felt like a deja-vu
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by albert_e 2y ago
Hopefully the same common-sense assumption can also be applied then to "butter" as well?
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by albert_e 2y ago
I am extending the argument on semantics: What does "Milk" mean in the context of "Contains Milk" Is almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, coconut milk included? Milk of magnesia?
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by albert_e 2y ago
> One small challenge was maximizing the size of the message text. Sometimes a message is just a word or two; other times it might be several sentences. A single font size can’t accommodate such a wide range of text content. I couldn’t f
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by albert_e 2y ago
is there already a "networking from scratch" type of content somewhere -- not focussed on implementing it in hardware -- but maybe a tool for interactively playing with bits, bytes, packets, frames, etc to simulate each layer of t
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by albert_e 2y ago
It would be very interesting to get a view of the source code for such a site. There are other interesting ideas that could be done by mixing videos selected using other filters etc. By any chance is this or similar on github :)
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by albert_e 2y ago
I just opened it in incognito in Chrome on Android noticed that the YouTube videos continue playing without interruption even when I switch to another tab or minimize chrome altogether and switch to another app. how can we harness this powe
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by albert_e 2y ago
yes - I also feel this does not have strong new findings about ML except some common sense that all ML practitioners should have: that is, do not interpret ML results as cause-and-effect explanations when the data you have captured and mode
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by albert_e 2y ago
Great read! Tangent and the smallest of nitpicks about the page: the <HR> element's styling with a line of big dots confused me into thinking it was the position indicator of an image carousel!
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by albert_e 2y ago
One of my favoirite projects in this space: SmartKnob - Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents https://github.com/scottbez1/smartknob https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

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