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gus_massa··on Ask HN: Non-Malicious Bots
Most of the times it's just a check that the bot is not making too many request, sometimes using a recent request list, sometimes asking the browser to make a very hard calculation that takes a few seconds to slow down everyone. It does not distinguish good bots and bad bots, just try to protect the server against too many requests.
gus_massa··on The largest open-source DLE collection
Are you planing to classify them like: trivia / math / puzzles / whatever ?
gus_massa··on I Build Qorqbot – OS Grokbot
URL of the project?

[I'm not available but other people may be interested] Is it a paid position or only equity?

gus_massa··on PolyNotes App
URL?
gus_massa··on Print Shops Hate Her
It loks like a nice project. Is this your site? (I guess no. Either option is fine.)

When the title is non descriptive, you can add the subtitle or the first line. In this case, something like

"Print Shops Hate Her: I made a digital frame"

or

"Print Shops Hate Her: Making a digital frame"

PS: dang/tomhow may decide to revert it to the original title anyway.

gus_massa··on Artificial Intelligence in higher education – gov report (Norwegian)
Do you have a tl;dr? I have to hit translate on each page and it's hard.

I teach math in the first year of the university in Argentina: Only points for the on-site midterm. Only use an old calculator with plastic buttons. The proctor must be nice but pay attention to weird situations. I'm worry about the glasses.

gus_massa··on Ask HN: Is it possible to backtest math/scinse breakthroughs with AI models?
I'm not sure what you expect to find. If there is a better theory, you can still publish it now.

There is a problem with classification and arbitrary choices like when to add a leap second or if Eris is a planet or how many colors the rainbow has.

gus_massa··on What have you learned that's now outdated?
* The Milky way is a +not+ barred spiral galaxy (-> now it has a bar)

* Dinosaurs are extinct (-> now birds are dinosaurs)

gus_massa··on Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment
The second one http://exo-science.com/leaf3.png looks like most of what I found. It's strange to see zero discharge at the cut and an particular at the right part of the cut that has an acute angle. Suspicious...

The other like http://exo-science.com/leaf1.png are very similar to the one in the article, but they just have too much detail on the phantom part to be real. If I have to guess, they cut the leave and put both parts on the device.

I'd wait until Mythbuster return.

gus_massa··on Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment
I like this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX-rGLNSoFM more technical details in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRKIGhOJ5Ew
gus_massa··on Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment
I agree, the Kirian photography is real, but the GP is taking about the paranormal claims, in particular the torn leaf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography#Torn_leaf_...

(Are the original photographs available somewhere? I found only bad modern photoshoped versions, and even a guy that made a debunking video and then his photos were repeated as confirmation evidence.)

gus_massa··on QueCarrera – Pick a university degree in Madrid, with cut-off grades
It's strange the method to click to choose, and then click to avoid and then click to empty. I understood it after a few clicks anyway.

How hard is to extend this to other major Spanish cities?

gus_massa··on The Weil conjectures formalized in Lean
Just to confirm:

Weil made a few conjetures. Someone else proved all the conjeture later. You formalized the statement of the conjetures and the proofs in Lean. (?)

gus_massa··on Just turned my car into a Tesla Roadster
Do you have a sample before->after?
gus_massa··on Show HN: An aquarium game with a real nitrogen cycle
What are the Nitrogen sinks? I expect Nitrogen to enter as part of the protein in food, but then it will be eaten and release as urea or something and accumulate. How does it disappear?

Small feature request: To feed them I have to click the "feed" button and click somewhere in the tank. I expected that clicking again somewhere in the tank will release more food, but I have to click again the "feed" button. It's not obvious when the "feed" mode is locked and when not.

gus_massa··on Codet JSON
URL?

Are you the author or related to the author? People is friendlier here when the author replies technical questions about the project.

gus_massa··on Verifying a satellite image with temporal evidence
URL?
gus_massa··on Can Democrats effectively abolish Electoral College after midterm wins?
My guess is that they will raise the "just kidding" card.
gus_massa··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
I have "my" office at the university.

I expect that I can be relocated to another office with a month of advance notice. Also cleanup, fire security check and fixing water leakage while I'm not there.

I don't expect that someone else will provide the keys of "my" office to the biology department when they have to keep a few sheeps during the weekend.

gus_massa··on We are seeking feedback for our school project
Clicky: https://aisus.dev
gus_massa··on Ask HN: Open source lightroom alternative, how do I improve it?
From the last post:

> What advantages does this offer over Darktable, the long standing FOSS lightroom alternative?

gus_massa··on Chess X GO custom AI
Clicky: https://tabularasachess.com/
gus_massa··on A 3D Science Simulator with Molecules, a Periodic Table, and a Solar System
In the Solar System, is it possible to add the dwarf planets?
gus_massa··on Italian chef fired after refusing to put pineapple on pizza
One of my friends went to Italy, and they refused to add cheese to his pasta with seafood. Something something a toxic combination.

They gave him the cheese anyway, so it was at his own risk to make the combination.

Disclaimer: I put cheese on every pasta, including the one that has seafood.

gus_massa··on Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion?
> They have even created hybrids of matter and antimatter, in which a nucleus containing protons is orbited by negatively charged antiprotons. In short, you can have regular hydrogen, muonic hydrogen, kaonic hydrogen, antiprotonic hydrogen, and so on.

Most of them live for a very short time, less than a millisecond. If you want to start with something that you can buy and put on your desktop try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water But beware that it's almost identical to normal water. (The other variants discussed in the article are more different but very expensive and short lived.)

gus_massa··on Ask HN: Can you help me design my YouTube feed?
Reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353244
gus_massa··on Ask HN: Design My YouTube Feed
> No Shorts

That's a good idea.

> no channel with latest video older than two weeks

Why? There are plenty of very good channels that post too seldom, because they take a lot of time to prepare the videos.

https://www.youtube.com/@AppliedScience One every two months. Amazing work, but don't expect repeat the experiment at home. The host writes comments in HN from time to time.

https://www.youtube.com/@CaptainDisillusion It looks like no videos in the last year :( Don't get distracted by the silly costume, the special effects are even better when you see the video for a second time.

https://www.youtube.com/@ElectroBOOM/videos Like one per month. Another different style. Beware of fake short circuit explosions.

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Do you want a job, or do you have a company and you want to hire someone?
gus_massa··on AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie
I call bullshit.

Probably the error bars are so high that is meaningless, unless they also input the cancer type and stage and other info.

gus_massa··on Another child dies of measles as CDC reportedly holds up health alert
More like the risk increase if you have other problem.

It also applies to car crashes. If you are a 20 year old with perfect health, the chances of diying is less than if you are a 95 year old returning from the hospital after a heart attack.

Use your seatbelt and get your vaccines, because the risk is not 0 for everyone.

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