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orsenthil··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Wont there be any overlaps? I tend to think, that great documentaries follow from greatly researched books. The later usually have more space to explore and can in depth, the documentaries to try to condense.
orsenthil··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
I haven't watched the movie yet. I've read the book too. I want to read the book and then watch the movie.

The fact that it is documentary, and is being marketed along the lines of a block-buster on X with memes should have raised eye-brows. There are lot of genuinely good documentaries out there, they all are left to be discovered, and people discover them. But this one, was/is being marketed as must-watch documentary, and with no reference to the book bad blood?

orsenthil··on Ask HN: How do I stop Gemini Live from asking."Would like to know more about..?"
Can it look at the website on my screen? And on-mobile, can it look at the game I am playing or app that I am using?
orsenthil··on Tesla Roadster
As much we credit Elon, can we take a moment and credit the amazing engineering feat of the Telsa and SpaceX engineers who have pulled off this feat. Incredible. Thanks for advancing the human race forward.
orsenthil··on Ask HN: How do I stop Gemini Live from asking."Would like to know more about..?"
Did you build an equivalent of "Gemini Live"? Does it have Screen sharing and conversation support?

Those are the features that other tools do not have yet.

orsenthil··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Yeah, only yesterday I let claude build and deploy me a end to end project that will flicker my lifx light-bulb when commits to any open source project lands. In the morning I saw it stopped around 11 pm PST yesterday. I was wondering why and I was wondering, how easy it is do a complete working project like this in minutes and what is stopping people to do 100s of such project per day. Github wasn't built for this scenario.
orsenthil··on Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
Work out with a friend to share his library card?
orsenthil··on Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
I read books on the computer, with the help of llm that I can ask questions about the book. That's the best reading I have found working for me.
orsenthil··on How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms
It is similar writing an academic paper and getting it published. These blog post reflects on technical strength of the company, so it has to go through the vetting and approval before it gets out of the door, and intermediaries are added as authors.

In academic world, I hear, folks simply add the name of their professors due to their reputation. Of course, professors are putting their reputation at stake by giving a chance to the right students.

orsenthil··on Waymo in Singapore
> "forward deployed engineers"

What is a forward deployed engineer? Isn't it engineering still? Genuine question.

orsenthil··on Waymo in Singapore
Singapore is a controlled economy, and has a large workforce for Taxi Drivers and part-time drivers through Grab. I am not sure how the entrenchment of robotaxis like Waymo (and future tesla) is going to play with the general population. My guess, they will co-exist as the government wont jeopardize the living of the taxi-driver-complaining uncles.

Also, I notice a lot new SF based AI companies have started establishing their offices in Singapore too. Sierra, and Fireworks coming to my mind. As government plays a huge part in Singapore, I guess, government noticing these as necessary investments for the future of Singapore.

orsenthil··on Vinix – A modern operating system written in V
The book about the language was published by packt, and I had my eyebrows raised. I want to give a benefit of doubt tough and learn more.
orsenthil··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
I am assuming these languages are present in translate.google.com If Google Gemini is good in languages other than English, while other models are not, then we can trace back it back to the translate.google.com as a resource as one possibility.
orsenthil··on People that worked on the same idea for decades
Wow!. Nice to meet you.
orsenthil··on People that worked on the same idea for decades
The quote by Hokusai is beautiful.

Algorithms books and material by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne is 40 year effort too.

Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems from Andrew Tanenbaum, same.

orsenthil··on Amazon Achieves Enshitification Inception
Yes, I agree with you. He is both real and it is depressing as the state of world is. I sometimes have take solace in utopian fiction like Kim Stanley Robinson's have my spirits high and have a positive look out. It is just me.
orsenthil··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
> The goal of this story and publishing it in HN seems to catch more eyeballs and marketing of Ankidroid, under new leadership

Ugly and wrong. I am sorry.

orsenthil··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Oh I see. I mistook it then. Sorry, my bad.
orsenthil··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Just remove the open collective link. Point to your homepage where the motivated donors will certainly pay. You already should know how many of the motivated users actually care about donations. The goal of this story and publishing it in HN seems to catch more eyeballs and marketing of Ankidroid, under new leadership. All I am suggesting is, just play along with Google. No harm here.

I am sorry, if I am wrong. Happy to be wrong too.

orsenthil··on Lion-man
TIL that Humans have been around for more than 40,000 years! I thought we started around 1000s of BC.
orsenthil··on Automating Immersive Reading
This is excellent! I wanted this. I had noticed that Kindle had limited feature like this for certain books that support audiobooks. I had tried this style of reading with audiobook and ebook without a any automated sync, but hadn't pursued it. This looks cool. :)
orsenthil··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
> 50 uses of <>, a way of writing "not equal" so old that many working Python developers have never seen it.

This hit me. Not sure when this was used and was deprecated.

orsenthil··on Htmx 4.0
Strange. The picture of the jeep looks similar to the Omarchy Quatro Desktop wallpaper. Is there a connection? How come both look so similar?
orsenthil··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
Yeah, but unintentionally. I think, you were being sarcastic with your comment. I am okay with it, since we both arrive at the same outcome.
orsenthil··on A Citation to Asimov
> Are there any current writers or public figures that have taken up the human-loving atheism of my youth?

Many. Kim Stanley Robinson for instance.

orsenthil··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
Without question, Americans should have a say their democratic process and bring change when needed. They should never fall for the false narrative used to trick them.
orsenthil··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
Artifact ?

What do you mean? I stated where I found this claim.

> Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case, and Angus Deaton.

And all the references it has.

orsenthil··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
> positive policy decision for both sides.

Actually not. Harmful for US. US gains for more from the skilled immigrants (at their cost).

orsenthil··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
I see a lot of comments in this thread in support this stance, as if that is something good for Americans, and say it is not a political statement.

One thing that changed my viewpoint was this book. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case, and Angus Deaton.

In it, they make a point that, almost all US economists agree that immigration, both legal and Illegal Immigration, is not the cause for American working middle class failure. It is lack of education, and capitalistic system wherein rich steal the money from the poor, which is like a reverse robinhood.

Hacker news crowd can easily verify this by spot-checking. But still we fail for the false narrative and divisive exploits of immigration topic, which is certainly not aimed to solve the problem of American well-being at hand. Truth to be hold, politicians know this too.

orsenthil··on PageRank explained
Yes. I think, there used be a directory of a links published, like an index.
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