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by leohonexus 2y ago
Thanks, I've updated my comment to clarify. I think HN is being incorrectly negative here. The original comment about Dropbox was saying how everyone can "trivially" implement Dropbox using a network share and hence it has no
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by leohonexus 2y ago
For the record: I think this is going to be one of the posts where the HN vibe would be totally off (incorrectly negative) looking back 10 years from now. Similar to the original Dropbox post: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by leohonexus 2y ago
Fun fact: The founder of TikTok Alex Zhu worked on an education app but failed so miserably he decided to pivot to musical.ly, which later became TikTok. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7y971yL5dE
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by leohonexus 2y ago
Bought both your books, they are awesome :)
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by leohonexus 2y ago
I deeply appreciate this - as a native speaker though, some of the translations don't sound as accurate to me. For example, 永遠冇絕對 was translated as "forever is not absolute", but a better translation would be "nothing is
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by leohonexus 2y ago
Link to the cluster's specs: https://andromeda.ai/
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by leohonexus 2y ago
During my school years, my teacher confiscated a deck of my trading cards and stored them in the classroom drawer. You could probably see where this goes next - very quickly all my cards were stolen by my classmates, and I could do nothing
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by leohonexus 2y ago
That an official government document explicitly mentioning that school staff is allowed to search a device without law enforcement (either being present, or authorized by warrant) is problematic in and of itself.
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by leohonexus 2y ago
I was curious about the legal grounds that schools have to confiscate student's phones for up to a week, and I found this document from the UK government: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62d1643e8fa8
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by leohonexus 2y ago
Very cool to see large-scale software projects used for scientific discoveries. Another example: Gravitational waves were found with GStreamer at LIGO: https://lscsoft.docs.ligo.org/gstlal/
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by leohonexus 3y ago
Not clearing them from their wrong, but it's worth mentioning that Steve Jobs demo'ed the iPhone while many features were still in development / unstable - he had to follow a "golden path" or else the demo iPhone wo
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by leohonexus 3y ago
I think it's a case of car manufacturers not optimizing for safety where there's no federal regulations for. There's no incentive for manufacturers to make their cars safer for scenarios not tested by regulation. I watched a
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by leohonexus 3y ago
Model X's laminated glass is near impossible to break underwater according to the article. Instead of a window hammer, in the US you could probably use a handgun to shatter the glass instead. The Cybertruck though uses "bulletproo
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by leohonexus 3y ago
Another interesting example is "Delay No More", which in Cantonese, sounds very much like a local slang with connotations referring to one's mother. Reference: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=234
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Whirlpool SlimTech makes refrigerator doors 60% thinner(fastcompany.com)
3 points by leohonexus 3y ago|0 comments
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by leohonexus 3y ago
If a HW company is shutting down due to financial difficulties, the fact they previously paid to get a "license" to make smart devices won't be any incentive for them to continue operating. How does this help the situation ot
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by leohonexus 3y ago
Sounds like that would be a perfect simple application for a go/ link or a Raycast extension, just saying :p
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VALL-E: Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers(microsoft.com)
4 points by leohonexus 3y ago|0 comments
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by leohonexus 3y ago
I would recommend "Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change"[1] if you're into reading books. I once took a semester-long course on emotional-based therapy taught by one of its practitioners and it really helped i
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by leohonexus 3y ago
Hah! I was thinking this: https://xkcd.com/505/
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by leohonexus 3y ago
To see life evolve from algae, one would have to live 7.5 million lifespans, assuming one has a lifespan of 100 years. Ancient Egypt is just 50 lifespans away in comparison. That's the most mind-boggling fact I learnt today.
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One line of code that did cost $8,000(pietrasiak.com)
2 points by leohonexus 3y ago|4 comments
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by leohonexus 3y ago
If I recall correctly, at boot time CPUs retrieve the firmware along with a cryptographic signature that verifies the firmware came from the signer. Some boards choose to burn this signature into the hardware using e-fuses. If the signing k
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by leohonexus 3y ago
And the HN discussion of that video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32388279
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Show HN: Get to PMF Faster with AI Conducted User Interviews(rhetorai.com)
5 points by leohonexus 4y ago|0 comments
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by leohonexus 4y ago
Probably not possible in this architecture - since probabilities of minecarts are hardcoded, judging from the video that's how they scale random number generation.
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Convolutional Neural Networks implemented in Minecraft(youtube.com)
4 points by leohonexus 4y ago|2 comments
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by leohonexus 4y ago
I don't live in the EU (nor the Americas for that matter) so I'm speaking from first impressions of browsing the site.
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by leohonexus 4y ago
Not affiliated with EU at all. Their branding and wording makes it look like they are until you scroll to the bottom and read the About. Admittedly I don't live in the EU so to some of you folks the non-affiliation may seem obvious.
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by leohonexus 4y ago
Interesting! Looking forward to reading the upcoming browsers extension / computer hacks book. That being said, there doesn't seem to be a way to follow your progress on the blog?

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