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by untech 3y ago
Haha, are you talking about Sakhalin? Russia would never sell it, it has imperial/geopolitical significance.
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by untech 3y ago
1. That’s not a very nice thing to say. Raised in Russia, I know that there are some people who hate Poles, however, all these haters are backwards and anti-progressive in general. 2. Lithuanians are not Slavs.
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by untech 3y ago
The original article suggests that reverse-osmosis filters might generate nanoplastics
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by untech 3y ago
Well, legalisation of crypto is a known issue. You really can’t just transfer a large amount of money from crypto to fiat and buy a flat or a car — the state will intervene in some way or another. I think you’ll find the same problem if you
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by untech 3y ago
I guessed the game just by “show HN” title :) We played this game a lot in the Urals during high school, but upon arriving in Moscow for higher education discovered that locals don’t know about it. Good memories. I implemented a version of
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by untech 3y ago
Yeah, look at Zelensky / Zelenskyy / Zelenskyi / Zelenskiy, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy He's also Volodymyr / Vladimir, and it's like with Kyiv: the Leve
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by untech 3y ago
Well, my Cyrillic full name has only two realistic transliterations, but I have friends who have it much worse. Especially people who has a Cyrillic Ë somewhere in their name, because it could be spelled without the diacritic in Cyrillic it
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by untech 3y ago
> Internationalisation is hard, like for Пётр Ильич Чайковский (Tchaikovsky) and his 31 different names on MusicBrainz. https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-de... Also from Wikipedia: Pyotr Ilyi
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by untech 3y ago
Similar project for Pocketbook readers: https://github.com/borzunov/remoteink
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by untech 3y ago
Wow. Given that Kaspersky leaders are very non-neutral, it makes these comments even fishier, because they look like a clumsy attempt to implicate Ukrainians in an attack. (Clumsy because, firstly, source code comments is a very strange pl
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by untech 3y ago
Why did the authors blanked out “Ukraine” from an (apparent) statement “Glory to Ukraine” in the comments? Seemed weird to me, what’s the point?
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by untech 3y ago
Interesting monetisation model. Wouldn’t a library which does the processing on-device be easily stealable? How do you plan to combat piracy?
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by untech 3y ago
I was tired of waiting after 30 seconds or so. I think it would help to have a more meaningful progress reporting, like flight ticket services have. 99% Invisible had a nice episode on the subject. https://99percentinvisible.org&
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Prosperous Universe: deep browser-based space economy simulation(prosperousuniverse.com)
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by untech 3y ago
Insane video, thank you for sharing. It was way more psychological then I thought. Still not sure whether “the legend” is a hero or a villain here.
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by untech 3y ago
It seems that navigation memory theory should imply not a hierarchical structure, but a wiki-like structure with many links. In a tree, there’s only one path to a given element, which is not the case in the physical world.
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by untech 3y ago
But you see, intuitively we think that the number of upvotes in that model is a “dollar payout” for this post. But actually it isn’t! In a meme community, a post with 1000 upvotes would bring its author 1000 * (1/1000) = 1 dollar, but
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by untech 3y ago
Usually you indeed scan this file sequentially, doing some filtration / transformation. As you do this transformation for each record, the speed of the tool used (e.g. jq) really matters. Databases are not used in this case because it’
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by untech 3y ago
Datasets are often stored in (sometimes gzipped) jsonlines format in my field (NLP). The file size could reach 100s of GBs.
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by untech 3y ago
> Determining which language was used to write any particular operating system can be challenging because every OS is written in a combination of multiple languages. Don’t want to insult the author, but passages like these really trigger
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by untech 3y ago
Thanks for the article! I noticed a small issue: the “Powers of two” subsection didn’t render properly, probably due to a Markdown syntax error.
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by untech 4y ago
Lizardman’s Constant by Scott Alexander: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
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by untech 4y ago
It’s a rebranded Atom, which was sunsetted recently.
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by untech 4y ago
I’ve never read books from a computer, it’s always a phone, a tablet, or an eink reader. Somehow reading a long-form text without being able to hold the medium in my hand feels wrong. Am I missing a convenient experience? I’d like to hear s
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by untech 4y ago
I worked with large-ish Python codebases focused on “full-stack ML“ (data pipelines ending with trained models and APIs for using these models). Some of my colleagues relied on PyCharm for refactoring. I preferred to use cli tools (vim + tm
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by untech 4y ago
Yes, I agree that we know many correlating factors. We don’t now, however, how depression works on a biochemical level, and whether it is a process that could be described on such a level.
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by untech 4y ago
Yes, and I still don’t understand why this submission got successful while others didn’t! He tried “Show HN”, it failed. I thought that his title was too unclear, tried submitting myself as an ordinary link, it failed. Then TechCrunch wrote
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by untech 4y ago
I didn’t tried your app yet, but I think your idea is great, and that this niche is underexploited. I hope you won’t mind a little feedback. There is one screenshot on the app page, it looks fine in general, but I was a bit frustrated by th
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by untech 4y ago
My friend from time to time makes some really cool project, then he posts it on HN and gets zero traction. His submission page [1] looks so ridiculous now, that I joke that his next submission would look like “Show HN: I created a true AGI
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by untech 4y ago
…because literally nobody really knows what causes the depression.

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