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1 month ago
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on: FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems
I agree with most people who commented. This looks like an abstraction without a clear purpose, which is not a good thing. Particularly, using fuse as a wrapper for a REST API is ineffective and redundant, since an LLM can work with it more effectively using curl provided an API spec in any format.
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1 year ago
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on: Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas
I remember reading about Google Fiber in the news 10+ years ago. At that time the idea of having a multi-gigabit internet connection at home felt very exciting and futuristic.
Today, fiber at home is almost a given in many countries. I mean, it is good that LA residents will have access to fast internet. But this is commodity now. I don't get it why is this in the news.
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1 year ago
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on: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
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4 years ago
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on: Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
Another article where SQL and HTML are listed as programming languages, great.
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5 years ago
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on: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
My company uses Skype for business(Lync) for internal communication. Unfortunately the official software is not available for Linux which prevents me from switching to Linux on my corporate machine. I know there is a plugin for Pidgin to use Lync. I wonder if anybody tried to use it long enough to tell if it is good enough. I know that the official Mac client is much less stable then the Windows one.
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5 years ago
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on: Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)
The most funny part is that this is effectively true.
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5 years ago
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on: Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)
By this logic quantum physics is also not scientific.
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5 years ago
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on: Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)
I think anything can be a subject to scientific study. Methods are what is essential for a study being scientific, not the subject.
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What happens next after a successful lockdown?
Thank you for quoting poetry in a context. And good luck with employment!
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation
Does it use Selenium under the hood?
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6 years ago
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on: Unofficial Windows XP SP4
Ironically, XP had issues with running legacy software back in the day, as it was the first NT-based OS targeted on desktop computers.
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6 years ago
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on: Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible
I wonder when achieving personal productivity has become a widespread problem and why did this happen.
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6 years ago
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on: Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB
A friend of mine "copied" a bunch of songs from an audio CD to a floppy disk this way.
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6 years ago
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on: Corsica's 'fox cat': On the trail of what may be a new species
Is it bigger or smaller than a maine coon?
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do you ask to see the codebase before taking a job?
I think you are jumping to conclusions here. There are plenty of respectful reasons why a candidate would want to look at the code. After all, the code is what he/she is going to work with. So doing this is as logical as getting to know your future colleagues, workplace and corporate benefits.
I see two main reasons that may prevent the company from sharing the code. First: their security is below standards: e.g. hard coded passwords to the production database in code. Second: their business is extremely sensitive to security(e.g. they are an anti-malware software company or a financial institution), so they must run a deep background check on candidates, which is time consuming, so they only do it right before offering the job and not earlier in the hiring process.
In any other case, an simple NDA would be enough.
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do you ask to see the codebase before taking a job?
Thanks for your explanation. I think the real question here is to what do you pay attention when you inspect codebase of your potential employer and what conclusions can you make from it. Your comment answers that. I also think the fact that you were able to make those conclusions gives you additional credit in the eyes of the potential employer.
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6 years ago
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on: Nasa Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater Than Losses (2015)
Can you please elaborate for a non-scientist?
>ice sheet is gaining in mass due to the melting/compaction of snow
How does melting/compaction affect the mass?
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7 years ago
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on: Whole House Fan and Evaporative Cooler
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8 years ago
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on: Building a Music Recommender with Deep Learning
I agree that the resulting application is rather primitive. Although it was interesting for me, as someone who just learned the theory behind ML, to see how an ML application is built from front to end.
I expect that real world applications would encompass a lot of knowledge, which you normally learn after you developed the first version of the app and started using it. I wonder if there are articles out there, which share ordered and filtered information on that.
