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halukakin

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halukakin··on Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate
Considering Turkey is an EU membership candidate. This should fall under the guidelines of Digital Services Act. This is a clear violation.
halukakin··on The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
If this is inevitable (and I'm not saying it's not), who will produce high quality news content?
halukakin··on The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
For many of our google searches, the first results tend to be wikipedia, instagram, etc... We click on those clicks and both google and the clicked website get a share of our traffic. So it is somewhat fair.

But in current AI situation, wikipedia, nytimes, stackoverflow etc are getting a pretty unfair deal. Probably all major text based outlets are seeing a drop in their numbers now...

halukakin··on The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
I think there should be some serious changes about this. Github already knows which software packages a company uses. They could facilitate this. For example if the OSS maintainer asks for it, any company more than say three members should pay a monthly fee per package. Even 1 USD per package per month would make a huge difference for OSS. So if your javascript package.json has 20 dependencies, and you are actively developing, every month you should expect to pay 20USDfor that package.json.

I know the math above can be challenged from multiple aspects. But we need to start from somewhere.

halukakin··on Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
There are many digital marketing executives who are banned to advertise on Facebook. FB decides they did something wrong once, and now they cannot advertise anymore. So effectively they cannot find a job in digital advertising because Meta wants you to use your personal account for advertising even when you are working for a company. This needs to stop. Maybe this could be moved under the scope of "EU Digital Markets Act" with some effort.
halukakin··on Slack's private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays
I hope github would start allowing all users to use ip whitelisting features. I understand it is a sell point for enterprise accounts, but tokens/passwords are not secure enough in today's environment.
halukakin··on Can large language models reason about medical questions?
Pre-internet, MD's main job was to use their memory to comb through an immense level of knowledge and find the best fitting explanation for a patient's complaints. A pretty hard task, mostly suitable for very smart people.

Now with internet, it is a process waiting to be disrupted. I would say it is already over due.

halukakin··on AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines
Today I experienced just the opposite. Chatgpt answered some business questions in less than a minute. I would have spent 30 mins in seo optimized sites to find the exact same info.
halukakin··on Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none
Before deleting your account it would be good measure to update passwords to passwords you don't really use. You never know if deleted data is deleted from db as well.
halukakin··on What Happened at Alameda Research
"FTX periodically uses a portion of its profits to buy back FTT tokens. This makes FTT kind of like stock in FTX: The higher FTX’s profits are, the higher the price of FTT will be."

I think this is an interesting alternative to equity vesting. Not all countries have laws that make equity vesting possible. Also this could work if you are a US company and hiring from all abroad. You can give tokens to your employers abroad, keep the token valuable as long as the company is profitable. What do you think?

halukakin··on Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)
Very helpful. Thank you!
halukakin··on Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)
Got it. Thank you!
halukakin··on Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)
Could someone provide link(s) on how regular snapshots of databases can be taken like this? (Googling didn't help much, maybe I'm googling for the wrong keywords.) For me, backing up the database is a few-hour-long process. Restoring it for a developer again is a few hours process. I read about snapshots before but haven't realized they could be this effective.
halukakin··on Redis explained
Not all applications can store data out of the box. For instance some ways of PHP have embedded caches, some others don't have cache by default and you would need to install cache software (for instance apcu). Also, redis has many different types of data. For instance coding something similar to its "hash" data type is not trivial.
halukakin··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
This would have been switching from an overinflated stock to a much more overinflated stock.
halukakin··on Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
I hope lighthouse team does not act on this. No need to complicate an already complex product for synthetic edge cases.
halukakin··on Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
When you buy BTC using coinbase do you really have a wallet somewhere, do you really buy BTC? Or does coinbase allocate BTC to you from its own BTC holdings?
halukakin··on First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
Wish governments would spare funding to these research efforts.
halukakin··on First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
Reading the article, I'm not seeing much info on how the results were 7 months old in terms of brain development. At that age, one would expect brain development to improve. I hope the researchers discuss this in more detail in future news.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
Thank you so much. I'll read about Violet's story.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
Could it be one of these two maybe? https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/03/11/905396/a-family-... https://www.lydianaccelerator.org/
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
Julia is still very active in the community. Her efforts will help thousands of kids to be cured in the future.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
Hi Mike, Thank you for this. I'll definitely study kernls. I think we should definitely try this through idefine.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
I wasn't aware how much they raised. The figures sum up close to billion $ so far. I think there is a lot to learn from them. Thank you.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
Thank you. I recently read a little about Dr. Morgan's research as well. I hope she would take on KS kids as well for research. I think my daughter started to show some level of frustration as well, but currently, we are like what they call "helicopter parents", whatever she seems to want, it's done immediately. My understanding is we will start to see more of the frustration in the future.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
I'm not sure how much we are in contact with them through idefine. We should definitely encourage patients to signup on genida. This increases awareness at many levels. Thank you. I'll study genida's website.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
Thank you so much! I will definitely learn more about her work.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
I met with Ethan once to discuss potential drug repurposing avenues. Obviously, I understand he is doing this for profit and I hope his company becomes a unicorn one day. His weekly clubhouse meetings are on par with phd level courses, they feel like information coming out of a firehose. His contribution to the community is incredible.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
Once we reach a significant funding level I'm guessing Universities will be where these research will be conducted.
halukakin··on Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
Thank you for sharing this. We share the same thoughts&feelings every day. You are not alone.
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