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by paulz_ 6y ago
Hey jbk just wanted to take this chance to say thanks! VLC has been year over year some of the most consitently good software I've ever used. Thank you for all the hard work I'm sure goes into making a killer product.
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by paulz_ 6y ago
Unfortunately it was canceled. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/26/21402585/amazon-cancels-t...
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by paulz_ 6y ago
I used to work with some guys who were really into kickstarter. It seemed about 50/50 on if the stuff they funded turned out to be complete vaporware. Some of the stuff they got was pretty cool though. I got the impression that some st
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by paulz_ 6y ago
I'm currently finishing up The Culture series by Iain M. Banks. The first novel is called Consider Phlebas. It's my favorite sci-fi universe of any book, movie, or game. Feels a bit like Star Trek if the Federation were more advan
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by paulz_ 6y ago
On the off chance this is the real realelonmusk: How long do you think it will be until neuralink has the capabilities to fully simulate senses and experiences on the level of movies like the matrix? Thank you for doing important and inspir
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by paulz_ 6y ago
I've moved some group chats to discord and have had pretty good luck with it so far.
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by paulz_ 6y ago
What Do You Care What Other People Think? is another book by Feynman written in the same style. I think Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman! is better but love both of them.
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by paulz_ 6y ago
For the past few years I've been trying to find better news sources with less clickbait. Engagement is the incentive that drives news now. It takes more effort to get relevant information out of the articles. Headlines feel designed to
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by paulz_ 6y ago
You can find this pattern in so many things. Companies, Projects, or Artists spend their early days building up reputation. Usually by making something great. After some inflection point they switch to spending down that reputation (usually
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by paulz_ 6y ago
The idea seems interesting to me. A model that detects click bait / vapid content would probably be even more compelling. In both cases it's hard to put a finger on what exactly you're training the model for. In any case - if
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by paulz_ 6y ago
Append either reddit or hacker news to your searches. The threads that are returned will have what you're looking for or they will contain links that do. You can limit the results more agressively by using site:reddit.com or site:news.
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by paulz_ 6y ago
Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame wrote about this experience calling it "Gell-Mann Amnesia." >“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well
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by paulz_ 6y ago
Figuring out how to get back to being a freeloader. For maybe the last 15 years or so I've been blocking or avoiding ads. uBlock origin is probably the most valuable product I use as well as AdBlock Plus before that. I know I know! I&#
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by paulz_ 6y ago
It's remarkably difficult and I wish there were better resources. I also wish news wasn't so driven by clicks and engagement. I use 3 primary ones. https://www.reuters.com/ I find it to a pretty accurate and neutr
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by paulz_ 6y ago
A history of space travel.
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by paulz_ 6y ago
Someone has actually been working on a project like this. While not 100% complete it's the best working one I know of. Can definitely relate to the problem being described here, especially when writing IAM policies for terraform deploy
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by paulz_ 6y ago
I actually wrote a half baked version of this to replace the headline with a machine learning generated summary of the article. Headlines wound up being sort of long and clunky but I did like them a lot more than the sort of headlines being
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by paulz_ 6y ago
Fusion! We know it's possible. We have some half working proof of concept projects. I was shocked when I learned that research spending on fusion energy worldwide is something like $1.5B. Thats basically a rounding error compared to th
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by paulz_ 7y ago
The author also did an episode of Indie Hackers [0] which is in my opinion the best episode of that podcast. I wish her and Courtland would do a regular podcast together. [0] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/086-lyn
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by paulz_ 7y ago
I've wondered if you could fix some of the problems with the modern internet / political landscape by making targeted advertising illegal. You would still have advertising, but less incentive to collect data on individuals. I woul
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by paulz_ 7y ago
For parts you basically want a high end gaming PC[0] + a Valve Index. SF is probably a great place to find VR Arcades. Googling it looks like there are a couple here is one[1]. Might be better to ask / google around and see which ones
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by paulz_ 7y ago
Another VR app I love that isn't really a game is called SpaceEngine. It started as a flatscreen project that later added VR support. There is a lot of cool stuff like this in VR that was originally developed for another medium and was
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by paulz_ 7y ago
Virtual Reality. If you're reading this and you haven't tried VR yet - I can't recommend it highly enough. Particularly a higher end experience connected to a PC with tracking (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or Valve Index). The lowe
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by paulz_ 7y ago
PG actually wrote an essay[0] about this a few years back. It also happens to be one of the few available on youtube[1] if you would rather watch than read. [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html [1] https:/
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by paulz_ 7y ago
Ah I see what you mean. Makes sense.
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by paulz_ 7y ago
Wow this is really cool - thanks for sharing. Apparently you can add a clickable button to repos like this now for deploying to cloud run. Might be something you would be interested in. Would be cool to be able to click a button and then ha
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Ask HN: Are you limited in what language you can write in at FAANG?
3 points by paulz_ 8y ago|9 comments
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by paulz_ 8y ago
So I've tried this as well to great effect. I can see objective positive benefits in my life when I stop consuming news all together. I've considered going this route and "taking a break" permanently. I feel sort of guil
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by paulz_ 8y ago
>Is this a real account? Haha, yes. I guess that does sound strange. I've grown up consuming news via the internet. It always seemed like a faster / easier way to get news rather than buying a magazine or newspaper. I would be
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by paulz_ 8y ago
Hangs on the security check when I try to visit. https://i.imgur.com/JWbP197.png

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