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dudus

3,481 karma · joined January 2, 2011

Interests: AI, LLMs, Open Source, Startups, Technology, UI/UX Design, Web Development
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dudus··on What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world
What is astounding is how hard it is to find what the law says in some places. The article suggest that's the case in Israel where the situation is quite confusing.

For another example Brazil is quite confusing where even the phisicians don't know when it can or can't be done.

dudus··on Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
YouTube is amazing. YouTube search is good but has some bad spots. Software is one of them, a lot of bad quality content. Luckily you can be creative with the filtering and sorting to cut out the low quality content by views
dudus··on Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%
Stripe is pre-IPO so any valuation is internal given there's no public market to set a value for it.

It would matter in case they try to raise capital again in the future. By lowering the valuation they make the company cheaper to invest.

dudus··on ChromeOS Flex is now ready to scale to PCs and Macs
Better isolation and drivers that don't need to live in the Kernel.

Just a better security model really.

dudus··on Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California and its social fabric
You have to budget in the water for the almond fields as well.
dudus··on Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
Google Analytics has an enterprise paid version and it starts at 6 figures, Adobe has a very competitive product in the same space. So there's definitively room for a paid product in the market.
dudus··on Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
And to be clear Google Analytics has a setting to "anonymize" the IP address which deletes the last octet of the address and makes geolocation less accurate.

Then there's an argument that the IP address still reaches Google servers before it's deleted. But that's just splitting hairs at this point. If Google doesn't process the data with IP the IP address I see no harm.

IP addresses are not something that you can choose to not send at all. It's kind of required by the TCP/IP stack. If that was the case users in EU could not access any website in the USA.

dudus··on Glucosamine significantly reduces risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality
It had almost half a million subjects. Isn't that enough replication?
dudus··on Association between ADHD medication and depression: A 10-year follow-up
Maybe you could have got worse without the meds.
dudus··on Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US
As a counter argument McDonald's does the same thing and is quite successful at it. When you open a franchise you have to build on the main corp land and pay for rent on it in perpetuity, on top of franchise fees .
dudus··on Show HN: Plasmo – a framework for building modern Chrome extensions
Very well priced but....

I think I get what you were trying to do with the pricing "per hacker".

But really it's just confusing. Say it's $30/users/month

The price is good. I just find the hacker term unnecessary

dudus··on Terraform Labs Caught Moving $4.8M Through Shell Company
I think my heart skipped a beat when I read the headline as I had just made an investment in $HCP. I was relieved after reading it's just another nail on Terra and not at all related to Hashicorp.
dudus··on Terraform Labs Caught Moving $4.8M Through Shell Company
I can attest that's not the case. A lot of people think they found a really good investment and it would be a bad move to not massively invest in it.
dudus··on Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix
I didn't know Rocket.Chat, but it looks like a decent OpenSource alternative to Slack. The fact they are switching to Matrix seems like a bigger win to Matrix than Rocket.Chat.

Rocket.Chat is a real world chat client that seems to have some success and they just decided to delegate an important part of their stack to a third party project. What better validation do you expect than that?

dudus··on Tether Withdrawals Top $10B
If you are so sure about Tether why not fulfill the other end of the bargain?

I will borrow your Tether for a 20% premium for 3 years. Are you in?

dudus··on Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
They do get into feature fights often. See Apple not adopting PWAs, or IE focusing on blocking 3rd party cookies. But the parts that are covered by jQuery are solved and agreed upon.
dudus··on New York Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent
Isn't short term rentals banned in NYC?
dudus··on Show HN: Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs
This is a great idea. Kudos.
dudus··on I/O 2022
Yo me it just seems like everyone is following a playbook for presentations based on some bullshit science and pairing that with the best Steve Jobs impersonation you can.
dudus··on Google's most ridiculous trick to force users into adding phone number
I think the fact you can't generate an app password without a 2FA is because it never made sense. You would be better off just logging into your account directly. Now that you can't do that it makes sense. I'd file that as a FR.

One point is that app passwords can be a security issue in itself. If you have one the security page on Google alerts you with a big flashy yellow exclamation point and recommend you you to remove it. I did it, broke my email and took a few days to connect the dots, recreate a new app password and setup email again.

I think the problem they have is that mail clients don't do oAuth. So you always have that security weak link if you need IMAP/pop access.

dudus··on Redox OS 0.7.0
This looks fun. did you look into Fuchsia? It has similar concepts of microkernel with userland drivers.
dudus··on Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results
I'll take a project to develop some automation in Google Apps Script any day before I take a VB scripting job.
dudus··on The Lichess World Championship

  > Some naysayers may point out that The World Championship match is always the high-water mark for interest in chess and watering it down with a series of dueling World Championship titles could cause damage to the sport as a whole. What those people don’t realize is how much money we’re going to make off of this! Perhaps in the long term a World Championship schism will “kill the golden goose” as it were, but in the short term? I want a Jet Ski!
Was this supposed to be a joke? I don't get it Lichess!
dudus··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
He just has a different kind of decision power by owning 100% of a private company. But he doesn't need to be involved on day to day operations and can appoint a CEO to do his bidding.
dudus··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
Why do you assume he'll be running the company? I assumed he would appoint a new CEO and just participate on the board.
dudus··on 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
There's really no reason to use AppEngine these days. I believe it still exists for legacy apps. You should be using Cloud run. Cloud run support WebSockets[1].

If you already have an AppEngine App you can always keep it and create a CloudRun app to handle the WebSocket part and they communicate well.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/triggering/websockets

dudus··on OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Their website is very upfront

https://opentitan.org/

dudus··on Ask HN: Why does this image look 3D?
Came here to say this, and also that I like this other page with a good explanation of the phenomenon.

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/scolor-e.html

dudus··on Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond
I remember from college there was big-Oh `O(x)` and little-Oh `o(x)`. Is Omega/Theta the same as little-Oh?
dudus··on Americans are drowning in spam
When I lived in Canada I remember they had a nifty solution. Put a green round sticker in your mailbox and the mailman will skip your inbox when placing crap mail.
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