ashika | 5 years ago | on: Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server
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ashika | 5 years ago | on: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
game changer if it could also smell poop!
ashika | 5 years ago | on: The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year
i suppose we'll get to see by 2024 if disney drafts yet another legislative extension to keep mickey out of public domain. may as well just come out and pass a law that disney owns all human culture – present past and future. now pay up.
ashika | 5 years ago | on: Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
your brain does lots of preprocessing to create a stable view of "reality", glossing over blind spots, retinal blood flow, etc. in a way we are always hallucinating, and it seems natural that computers should learn what we are actually paying attention to in video, and focus on that
ashika | 5 years ago | on: Giant Pacific Octopus
I've been wondering if their short lifespan is in any way related to cephalopods' recently discovered use of RNA editing techniques[1].
[1] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30344-6
ashika | 5 years ago | on: Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”
i think it still is that, but achieves it so easily as to be unremarkable. rpi has probably introduced many people to linux and debian. it might seem trivial, but anything that gives ordinary people a good experience with open computing should be considered a massive victory.
ashika | 5 years ago | on: Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia
ft's reporting on this story has been great throughout. I would recommend anyone looking to get more background to read the solid investigative pieces Olaf Storbeck and Dan McCrum have done over the past few years1[1]. they deserve a lot of credit for pursuing this likely enron level accounting malfeasance story to the top.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/d080c3fc-c561-11e8-8670-c5353379f...
ashika | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class
>no mechanism a small minority can use to be over-represented when administration considers the wishes of the community (i.e. the Metafilter problem.)
I agree that is a decent criterion for health, but is metafilter really so notorious for special interest coddling? I always found the administration there fairly transparent, especially around topics of decision-making. Did I miss something scandalous? I tend to hold them up as the only example I know of for a healthy general-purpose discussion forum.
ashika | 6 years ago | on: Boeing MQ-25 Stingray
seems useful for the types of support we recently provided the saudis in yemen. this tech would lower the marginal cost of providing that type of support significantly. doubt taxpayers will claw any of that back, though :|
ashika | 6 years ago | on: The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness
I feel you've said more or less the same thing the article is saying, just in more casually dismissive and incendiary terms. TFA refers to many of these factors as being driven by the second demographic transformation. Yes, feminism is a very important part of the SDT, but one needs to be careful with cause and effect. Did feminism cause the SDT? Unlikely. Did the SDT cause feminist ideas to become attractive to more people? That seems far more likely. If that's the case then I wouldn't necessarily lay this (more old people living/dying alone) at feminism's feet. Feminism may provide an ideological argument in favor of certain relationships, but we are the ones choosing to live and die alone, and when we choose we do so for myriad reasons.
Also, women haven't been liberated from the home [1].
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/0c9f068c-711f-11e9-bf5c-6eeb83756...
ashika | 6 years ago | on: Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain
i am surprised that the physical aspect of digesting the processed vs unprocessed food doesn't seem to really matter for that study. i'd have naively thought that chewing and swallowing a chick pea would result in lower nutrient uptake than eating an equal amount of besan. instead it seems a calorie is a calorie and the weight difference is entirely due to less consumption.
even if nutrient uptake is the same, i think it's clear the stomach and intestines are designed for dealing with unprocessed foods.
ashika | 6 years ago | on: John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (1996)
>There are all sorts of other cool stats that we could mine out of the data: greatest frags/minute, longest uninterrupted quake game, cruelest to newbies, etc, etc.
I agree with his use of a double etc there.
ashika | 7 years ago | on: Runtime Analysis of the M-to-N Schedulling Model (1996) [pdf]
>By introducing a second layer of scheduling, the M-to-N model makes performance tuning to the
model exceedingly difficult.
Reminds me of Simon Marlow's work[1] on tuning the Haskell runtime for a specific use at fb.
[1] https://simonmar.github.io/posts/2016-12-08-Haskell-in-the-d...
ashika | 7 years ago | on: ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’
As other posters mention, no path in life is guaranteed to be fulfilling for all individuals. Given that, you shouldn't feel sorry for anyone who has had the opportunity to lead their life according to their own principles. And that is all "feminists" want, the ability for women/all people to be considered equal, responsible agents.
ashika | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Simple Race Registration (Haskell, PostgreSQL, JS)
A little experience. Enough to say at this point it's probably overkill, but if you start writing more geo-aware features (e.g. search nearby, overlapping course search, etc) it may save you some time vs implementing in application code.
ashika | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Simple Race Registration (Haskell, PostgreSQL, JS)
Are you storing the race paths using the PostGIS extension for postgres or something else?
ashika | 12 years ago | on: Mirra 2
Knoll's ReGeneration is the yin to the Mirra 2's yang.
ashika | 13 years ago | on: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
The author is a very funny/insane guy. Exhibit A is his twitter account (https://twitter.com/bonus500). I wouldn't call it an inside joke, but rather a general feature of good comedy where it feels familiar yet distant.
ashika | 13 years ago | on: Map Shows Where 220mph Trains Would Go in the U.S.
This can't be serious. Quincy, Illinois?
ashika | 13 years ago | on: Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now Available, Costs $250 More than Windows 8 Model
This article is ... problematic;
The author apparently made no attempt to do an apples to apples comparison and drew a hasty conclusion. After realizing the error the only change to the article is a small update at the end saying everything he said before was wrong. This is diggbait at its worst.
hard to believe? I can confirm - tcp sessions with average flows of >1Mbps do exist.
you are right in identifying a weakness of the system but incorrect as to its significance. A drag racer cannot turn, because it has been optimized for something else.