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kanche··on Escaping from Anaconda's Stranglehold on macOS
A news on the same: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squ...
kanche··on Show HN: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js
Maybe rename it to "Load an Example" or something. Not a clear name.
kanche··on Panic at the Job Market
I think IQ tests and similar are a filter to hire younger people without being explicit. Subtle but effective ageism.
kanche··on IntelliJ IDEA 2023.2
Does anyone have this problem where `/users` present in any path in the run configuration capitalize upon Pycharm exit? e.g. https://imgur.com/2gy8S9k. (I think it happens because in the server I have /users folder and in MacOS I have /Users and it tries to autocorrect path?) It is extremely annoying as everytime I have to revert all the changes pycharm does to all my run configurations. I remember there is a bug entry for this which has been open for quite some time.

Also I am using PyCharm 2022.1.4 (Professional Edition) because they removed the functionality to edit/customize ssh interpreters in the later versions.

I love PyCharm, as I work mainly with ssh interpreters my patience is tested everyday

kanche··on Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
The content i.e. research papers they publish are mostly from government funded research. Taxpayers fund those but don't get access: we have to buy the results from these for-profit corporations.
kanche··on NATO is looking to connect with startups
Looking at CVPR this year, China has the most number of authors [0]. Significant portion of the US and EU authors are probably Chinese students as well. I think they are doing quite well atleast in the front of training researchers.

source: [1]

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4bZC0mX0AY2X_L?format=png&name=...

[1] https://twitter.com/JaredHeinly/status/1407050613263851521

kanche··on What Oxford taught me about posh people
True, some of the Oxford colleges give a "posh" vibe: Magdalen College; some colleges are very friendly: Linacre College
kanche··on India’s second wave
In some places by 20x! https://i.imgur.com/VJHL2VT.jpg
kanche··on India’s second wave
Say when one gets pneumonia during covid can be quite sure that it will afflict long term issues on the lung functioning.
kanche··on A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)
Same with me, I can tell immediately if I am logged in or not.

I use D8D8C0, a slighly darker shade of the background. I find it aesthetically more pleasing than the bright orange bar. Also makes the logo pop.

kanche··on Rethinking Attention with Performers
Missed this news, thanks! OP if you wish to use spacy try v3.

https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-v3-nightly

kanche··on Rethinking Attention with Performers
Everyone has a different way of approaching. I like video walk-throughs of papers. If you are the same, for the theory bit you may find Yannic Kilcher's videos [0,1] helpful.

On implementation side, the best project out there is [2] with good documentation. Also spacy has transformer package [3] (I personally haven't tried it), so maybe it will be easier for you to jump in if you have prior experience with spacy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDulhoQ2pro

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9evrZnBorM

[2] https://huggingface.co/transformers/

[3] https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-transformers

kanche··on Chromium-based Edge preview builds
Making browser cross-platform gives a bigger user base and instills confidence in developers to take a browser into consideration when designing websites, which in turn popularizes the browser as sites work properly.
kanche··on Ask HN: What blogging platform are you using these days?
Hugo- It's a static site generator written in Go. Quite easy to setup and maintain.
kanche··on Terra Bella
Does anyone really like this kind of scrolljacking pages? Not responding properly on an MBP 2015. The project looks so interesting that I tortured myself by scrolling till the end.

To me it feels similar to invasion of space.

kanche··on Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology
You should watch Psycho-Pass. I feel you will like it.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379308/

kanche··on Bose's new beat
I am really not a fan of these kind of companies - Beats, Bose who claim to provide the best sound experience with their mumbo jumbo patented technology, sell earphones at an astonishingly high price which do not even sound good. I search for good earphones/speaker in head-fi - it's a good source of earphone reviews.

I bought MEElectronics A151[0] (1st gen) in 2012, they were at half the price of Bose earphones, and to me, sounds so much better than them. I treat them so badly - throwing them anywhere after coming back home, still going strong.

http://www.meeaudio.com/a151p-balanced-armature-in-ear-headp...

I think one should not make any compromises with earphone and eyeglasses. It was a significant purchase as I was a student then and I feel it was worth it.

kanche··on [dead]
I hacked this together using Parse while learning React. Idea is to build a weekly notification feed style app of different categories of news. No news in the site yet and the site itself is just barely functioning. Need to build a content management system too.
kanche··on Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
Woah, it's a treasure trove! I am definitely checking out some of the books mentioned in the thread :)

Unfortunately, some of the old and gold Springer books are available only in paper format like Shreve's Stochastic Calculus for Finance [0].

[0] http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387401003

kanche··on Show HN: Parachuting robots – a programming puzzle
You don't need the 'goto double' line, execution is anyway going skip to 'double: left' making the line redundant

Also say each step takes one unit of time, so one 'start' loop requires 3 units to go one unit of distance, whereas 'double' takes 3 units to go 2 units of distance, even if you use one left statement in the 'double' loop, robot will still move faster than the other as it will require only two units of time to go one unit of distance.

:)

kanche··on Show HN: Parachuting robots – a programming puzzle
I made it through with two [0]

[0] https://gist.github.com/kanche/92c92c5e926ebc66da68

To watch them run around is so cool! Cool puzzle. Nicely created site. I am trying to give them a pendulum like swing instruction right now, make them dance :P

edit: had two unnecessary instruction in the gist (because each instruction takes same amount of time to execute), and, the robots disappointed me- they can't dance

kanche··on Solu - Social Computer
What are these [0]? They are there where they mentioned Solu OS in the website also in the kickstarter page/video.

[0] http://www.solu.co/css/svg/OS_round.png

kanche··on Frequently Asked Watch Questions on Amazon Forum
Links mentioned in the first post don't work. Scroll down to see them :)
kanche··on Show HN: My father's letters as a diplomatic courier from 1960-66
Interesting read

I used to write letters to my grandfather regularly then the telephone came

I wonder how the story will be on a time fast forwarded to 100 years. Perhaps whatsapp chats on an old phone? Now a days everything we do, we share it on fb/instagram

kanche··on Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?
vim, htop and ncmpcpp :)
kanche··on Telepat: Real-Time, Open Source Data Sync
I think the creators are https://github.com/gabidobo and https://github.com/Mayhem93

I was searching for a good framework for an online booking system, and though one link and other stumbled upon this. I have't heard about it before, so I thought it would be nice to share it with HN; github repo seems to have a low involvement from anyone outside the creators https://github.com/telepat-io .

kanche··on Google’s look, evolved
It feels kiddish and playful (in a positive way)!
kanche··on Radar Made Easy (1974)
On an unrelated note - Mir Publishers, font and size of the book made me reminisce about a book that I had on physics problems by Irodov. Quite a fun book it was :)

[1] https://archive.org/details/IrodovProblemsInGeneralPhysics

kanche··on With Obi Smartphones, John Sculley Takes Old Lessons From Apple and Pepsi
N9 meets HTC One :)
kanche··on Ask HN: Why is HN not mobile friendly yet?
I miss easy navigation features of a desktop browser when opening HN website in mobile browsers.

My flow is - I go through the submissions in a page, and when I like one, most of the time I open the story and its comments page both - in separate tabs. I read the story first and the switch to the next tab to read the comments. When I have completed all the tabs, I go to the next HN page. In mobile it's pretty cumbersome to navigate among tabs.

I seldom use the mobile site, I find the HN reader app by premii[1] the best suited for me.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

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