lake99
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6 years ago
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on: The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest
Do you know what the German protesters are proposing as an alternative? Germany banned nuclear, brown lignite is bad, extensive mining destroys forests, wind power destroys forests and is bad for birds, Germany is not a good candidate for solar, and so on. So what's next?
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: FPGA Support – Building an AGC
The article needs to explain what AGC is. Most EEs associate it with Automatic Gain Control... which makes no sense in the context of FPGA.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: India is now producing the world’s cheapest solar power
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: India is now producing the world’s cheapest solar power
I think that will happen when the power companies develop and deploy "smart meters", i.e. make pricing transient, and inform users of predicted and live prices.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Freeing My Phone from Google
Thank you! I'm on the lookout for a new phone supported by LOS. This will come in very handy.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Reinventing Firefox for Android
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
There is "Iridium For Youtube" for both Firefox and Chrome. I use it all the time to block junk channels.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Scientific Bias in Favor of Studies Finding Gender Bias
I don't think fields like linguistics, history, etc. are "social" in the ways that fields like sociology, gender studies, women's studies are. I don't know any instances where academic linguistics or history was accused of cases such as publishing gibberish, using wildly biased questionnaires, drawing wild conclusions, using small sample sizes, etc. Popular claims about "one in five women on college campuses are raped" or "77 cents to the dollar" are results of deeply flawed fields.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
Not at all. Google Chrome and Android are produced by Google too. And yet, the user tracking or advertising sections of Google have their interests met through Chrome and Android. If the Chrome and Android teams had only their users' interests in mind, ad blocking and tracker blocking would have been built into these products.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Training the Brain to Eat Less Sugar
Get evidence from blood tests. Without knowing the details, it is hard to guess. Vitamin B12 deficiency is common.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
Good point. The market segment of keeping companies on MS platforms is one I had not considered. That will certainly contribute to Linux not gaining a marketshare, and possibly fragment the overall Linux developers' ecosystem.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
They can embrace Linux, but they can't extend it in any meaningful way. By which I mean they can't ever create a Microsoft brand of packaged Linux. The Linux marketshare is already flooded with distros, and any software that earns revenue running on Linux runs on all the major distros more or less equally well. What could Microsoft create for which Microsoft Linux would be an option so compelling that companies would pay money to buy Microsoft Linux?
For example, MS could create a whole new graphical alternative to X and Wayland that works better than them both. Their challenge for capitalizing on that would be to create a software that works only somewhat well on X or Wayland, but works perfectly on MS Linux. I predict the Linux crowd will not use it. At best, they'll end up providing an alternative for the benefit of MS aficionados.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
Payload size would be very helpful, but they don't need that to shortlist candidates. Correlating the timestamps of when the comment appeared on HN and when the domain name was accessed from an internal IP may be enough, subject to luck. Considering that Google is already tracking (crawling) the entire web for its core business, adding a few tweaks should not make much of a difference to their system load.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
I don't work for Google. My company has strict policies to discourage employees talking to the public about internal affairs. That was the case with my previous two employers too. Frankly, it makes sense from their POV to not have their dirty laundry made public. And I take similar precautions as a matter of self-preservation anyway. I don't want anything I write here to be used against me either by my current employer or any of my future employers.
Google could be keeping track of which of their internal IPs visited which HN pages, etc.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Chimpanzee Browsing Instagram on iPhone with Precision
Facebook is probably experimenting with that... except for humans. Explains why Zuckerberg would put tape over his own computers' cameras.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: China’s Pig Pandemic
This needs a multipronged approach. Regulations, where regulations work, consumer advocacy where consumer advocacy works, plant-based meat emulations where emulations work, and so on. Honestly though, I'm quite pessimistic that this problem will be solved in the next 50 years. As China and India have become more affluent, their meat consumption has only increased, just the way it happened in the west. And I know from looking around that even educated people here don't care how their meat was farmed.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: Made an AI to Write News Headlines Like Fox News, CNN, Breitbart etc.
It still seems pretty stressed. I only wanted to see some examples; I did not want to enter fresh sentences myself. If you could add a section to your website to show previous queries and results across all simulations, that might be good enough for most visitors.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: AJIT, a ‘Made in India’ Microprocessor
I'm Indian, and have lived in various parts of India for years at a time. I have never come across anyone whose name was Pajit. I've only ever seen "Pajit" because of racist trolls online.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: Erlang: The Movie [video]
I guess this is the source of all the insider jokes that people have been making for the past couple of days.
lake99
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6 years ago
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on: NLP on Mueller Report
> Section 508 requires your PDF to be accessible to users of assistive technology—like screen readers or Braille displays.
Have people filed official complaints about this? I think once the complaint is official (instead of tweets) the department is obligated to respond to it.
