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Tell HN: Proton is reading and filtering incoming mail
4 points by reactchain 1y ago|2 comments
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by reactchain 5y ago
This is really cool. I can see it being extremely useful for reviewing. The numerical citation style of CS papers has always been a pain point for me.
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by reactchain 6y ago
The argument here is that "smart people are worse looking" is actually a case of _of the people you encounter_ smart people are worse looking, but that overall there is no correlation. This makes sense, but I think it's more
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by reactchain 6y ago
This is a great essay, better than some of Paul's other recent writing which has felt less inspiring than his old stuff. This feels in depth and written from the heart.
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by reactchain 6y ago
True, but I think it points to an inherent weakness in the business model. The reason it's so hard to build these businesses without relying on Google (and playing cat and mouse with their ranking algorithms) is because customers funda
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by reactchain 6y ago
There is a recurring lesson with these type of threads: don't build a business that is dependent on an unstable, black-box algorithm of a mega-corp. If your business is so fragile that an algorithm update by Google causes you to have n
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by reactchain 6y ago
I find the more important question to be "how do you remember what you read?". I think (at least in my case) remembering more of what I've read would be a better investment in time than reading more, or better directing my re
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by reactchain 6y ago
Check that you're getting enough uninterrupted sleep. I think it's a hugely underestimated way to gain mental clarity.
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by reactchain 6y ago
Yeah, this has been going on for a long time. The methods evolve, but the bullshit stays the same [1]. Good rules of thumb: 1. If it praises a product, the article was paid for 2. If it has a link that looks even slightly out of place, that
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by reactchain 6y ago
Has anyone noticed a shortage of Pi Zeros recently? It seems everywhere has run out of stock.
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by reactchain 6y ago
The US has a very coveted position in the West, but the reach of this is getting smaller every year. Having root access to FAANG for instance is pretty useless in China, Apple is the only one of those five with any presence to speak of. And
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by reactchain 6y ago
What are the chances major projects we use today aren't backdoored similarly? It's so easy to do and so hard to detect.
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by reactchain 6y ago
This is fantastic. Way better than the Algolia search which seems to be the most "official" one. I love that you cached the article content too.
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by reactchain 6y ago
Isn't this type of thing usually a civil case - how is it that he can get jail time? Also what ever happened to Kalanick in all of this?
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by reactchain 6y ago
The next logical step of course is to start bumping up "disadvantaged" listings in search rankings.
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by reactchain 6y ago
I'd love to read more about the economics of captchas - what is the "labor" of classifying images worth? What is the marginal cost per captcha of human solver farms, etc. Can anyone point me to some resources?
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by reactchain 6y ago
How can one test GPT-3?
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by reactchain 6y ago
> As for the blackmail and war starting you probably couldn't do much with public tweets Depends how tense the situation already was. A well-timed tweet could be enough to tip things over the edge if both sides were already on the e
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by reactchain 6y ago
That is just embarrassingly petty - I've just lost a little more respect for the guy.
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by reactchain 6y ago
I think the goal of running native speed compiled-ish code on the browser in a sandboxed way would be great if it worked. CSS and HTML for "apps" has always seemed like a hack to me. The problem is every single attempt to do this
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by reactchain 6y ago
Flutter for web feels like going back to the .net "webforms" days, where you could supposedly build a web app the same way as a desktop one and the whole client-server thing was abstracted away. Except it sucked , I still have ni
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by reactchain 6y ago
Douyin is likely better designed for censorship, data collection and so on, particularly in the context of Chinese language - I'd say the parent comment is right, the goal here is to replace TikTok with Douyin.
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by reactchain 6y ago
> The company has said that TikTok has not shared data with the Chinese government nor would it, a position that would be difficult — if not impossible — to maintain under the new law. Are we expected to believe that it was pulled becaus
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List of Paradoxes(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by reactchain 6y ago|0 comments
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by reactchain 6y ago
The documentation could use some work - I have scoured the website and FAQ but still don't understand how this works. Does it compile into javascript, or it is a Python interpreter for the browser? What subset of python does it support
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by reactchain 6y ago
> The editor is ... mine One of the things I like most about vim is that you can use it on just about any remote machine, and even if you don't have your own vimrc the default editor is still really powerful.
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by reactchain 6y ago
100% concur with this. I learnt Vim many years ago and I genuinely don't know what I'd do without it. It's always just there when I ssh into a new server. And the JetBrains suite has an awesome vim mode meaning I can use mo
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by reactchain 6y ago
The "openness" of the west is being blatantly exploited, and yet for some reason people are still hesitant to call it out for what it is. Almost every significant US internet company is totally blocked in China. Until the US com
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by reactchain 6y ago
I want a tool like this for any website, that intelligently extracts just the useful part as plain text. Reader view and so forth just don't work that well. Are there any tools around like this?