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vectorEQ··on Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two minutes
he's asking for 4.20$ so it's ok to be a bit lazy :D .. 4.10 or 4.30 and i'd expect him to know CSS and to be able to tell me what ISA quantum computers use :O
vectorEQ··on Dating of bones from Indonesia confirm Homo erectus roamed planet for 1.8M years
i think that is was scientists are doing now :D
vectorEQ··on France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax
you are correct. if people don't consume bullshit, no one will sell it. easier said than done though.
vectorEQ··on Is Twitter Down in Europe?
up for me (NL)
vectorEQ··on Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
is this for all farms or just very large ones? i can imagine small time farmers perhaps not having such super seeds / plants?
vectorEQ··on Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens
cool stuff - i used to play guitar a lot and used powertab and guitar pro, but in both there is no feedback, this sounds super nice to me, even though admittedly these days I won't get around to testing it for you anymore as i don't have a guitar anymore. I see you have an import for popular tab formats. not sure whats popular, perhaps others share that sentiment. Would this include things from for example powertab / guitar pro to be imported?
vectorEQ··on WireGuard is in net-next
this is a really nice resource, thanks a lot!
vectorEQ··on Why don't I execute my ideas?
hello, just wanted to comment this feels really relatable. i come out of a period of a lot of stress which in the end put me in a state like which you describe. full of ideas but no mojo to execute any of them, just scrolling through feeds, reading stuff, learning ,but not applying.

For me, trying to focus to get peace in my life and stress myself out less is helping after a long time, a psychologist can definitely help here, and looking back on this period of my life i wish sooner i would have spoken to one..

For me the fear of failure in the end, which i did suspect ,was not the cause but a symptom of another issue i had which was causing a lot of stress. this stress n turn caused fears and other things to creep into my mind.

All the best to u man, hope you find yourself again. Know it's perfectly normal for any human to go through such periods in their life. it's normal :) don't worry, and if you feel it will help don't hesitate to seek professional opinions / advice / help, generally it will help a lot in getting things straightened up in your life faster than on your own energy.

vectorEQ··on Ask HN: Who Owns Atmosphere of Earth?
it wont answer your question ,but this might interest your: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Committee_on_th...

As you can see, even super unaligned countries such as Iran/Iraq are in this committee and effort is i think made to give everyone a say.

vectorEQ··on Ask HN: Will you work remotely via blurred live video?
why would you want such a connection? It seems a useless waste of bandwidth if you keep it on while blurred? Wouldn't it make more sense to enable video when needed and leave it disabled when not needed? What exactly would be the purpose or benefit of this blurred video?
vectorEQ··on Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry
honestly i am a bit surprised why it would be an issue to delete content from a user who is no longer a user... it's kind of in the name of the thing. a user is generally 'able to use' the thing, hence `user`... if someones dead, they are not a user anymore. i think its a bit silly people are claiming disk space and resources for their deceased loved ones and heroes on some other people's service / servers. it seems even indecent to request such a thing... its a free service.

that being said it would likely be trivial to add something like isActivelyViewed as a condition not to delete an account. if a lot of people view a page still it could be considered active. despite the account not being used anymore. If no one looks at it, delete it ...

vectorEQ··on Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry
positivity is hardly newsworthy is it? :D just think about it!
vectorEQ··on FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products
fortiXOR crypto suite
vectorEQ··on A new school curriculum
there is lots of work done to improve education, mostly in how information is conveyed to people, and how they are engaged to interact with subjects. a lot of current western educational facilities still implement the banking theory, where people are seen as an empty bank, and filling them with information is filling the bank with money, i.e. more information provided == smarter people. now people are realising this is terrible ,and applying different models.

doesn't really have to do with memorisation techniques or other little nicknacks that can help people in specific domains. more about how people take in and interpret information, process it and make it their own to apply.

vectorEQ··on Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed
also put in blockchain, everything needs blockchain :O
vectorEQ··on Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillan...
vectorEQ··on Is there any data that says secondhand car seats aren’t safe?
“Used car seats shouldn’t be sold or given away, since they expire every six years and regulations change constantly.”

tell me, how many of you are riding with expired seats? u criminals!

vectorEQ··on Why philosophers believe we’ve reached peak human intelligence
philosophers coming up with excuses for their lack of creativity :D
vectorEQ··on Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243k transfer?
its a random assumption / hypothesis. maybe even it was the real ceo... :D that'd be too funny
vectorEQ··on Intel disables Hardware Lock Elision on all current CPUs
it depends on the kind of applications / loads you are performing, so really it's not possible to put a static value to that. best is just to test it with some benchmarks yourself to be sure how it impacts you. some people report losses of like 20%, others 1 or 2%...
vectorEQ··on New White Paper on GRU Online Operations Puts Spotlight on Pseudo-Think Tanks
Given the past news about facebook and fake data and users / trust issues people have with them etc. etc. how seriously and with how much legitimacy can one take a dataset from them?

further you read this: Analyses Performed: >>> Noting that the data provided was already attributed to the GRU by Facebook <<< , researchers: • evaluated the content within the folders (within Pages) • investigated relationships across folders (between Pages) • evaluated the content, and closely-related content, as it appeared elsewhere on the internet and on other social networks, assessing narrative, authorship, and distribution patterns • evaluated the content against the previously-provided SSCI IRA data set, to ascertain the extent to which there were thematic, temporal, metadata, or collateral-based similarities between the operations (this process is ongoing and will be addressed further in subsequent papers). ----

So, researchers/investigators started their complete methodology based upon the assumption facebook is/was correct in their attribution, didn't complete their research, and subsequently went on to write a paper about it.

Not saying theres no troll farms / fake news farms and other such practices, by private and government entities, but every time someone post anyone about it, the data is worthless, and often important items like how was this attributed to a specific entity, are completely left out. What is anyone supposed to take from such a write up?

There's nothing to learn, just to assume from it... - that's practically on par with what they are writing about...

vectorEQ··on Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network
this neural network is politically biased and possibly racist. it also prefers swedish girls over swedish boys. I do have to agree though, that cheese is better than mouldy cheese. and the fact "comacho for president for ever" nets a score of "Bad: 0.0415 - Good: 0.9614" which i think is fair reflection of voter behaviours and general consensus among humans. 'man' and 'not man' its not so fussy about, 'woman' gets same score as 'man', but 'not woman', oh thats just bad (Bad: 0.9909 - Good: 0.0097)

all in all a great tool to analyse your titles, it will surely help this community grow and mature over time, finally. Thanks a lot for creating this.

vectorEQ··on Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network
i'm orthogonally inclined to disagree, but mainly because i'm sitting on a chair
vectorEQ··on Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed
just avoid facebook if u don't like it. much easier than molesting your poor phone to try and use services which don't agree with you...
vectorEQ··on Illegal Pot Grows in America's Public Forests Are Poisoning Wildlife and Water
by the world police of our one government :O yes sir!
vectorEQ··on Illegal Pot Grows in America's Public Forests Are Poisoning Wildlife and Water
ah , here its legal to buy weed in stores, but stores aren't allowed to buy it from 'vendors' and 'vendors' aren't allowed to produce it :D wonderful world :D full of magic
vectorEQ··on Researchers use CRISPR to eliminate HIV in mice, DNA and all
"Although this approach is incredibly promising, an important caveat is that the editing worked in less than half the mice."

i don't know what i was hoping '...,DNA and all' would mean. i suppose all 50% of these mice.

vectorEQ··on Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind and gprof (2015)
that is/was a problem with zeroMQ, not gperftools:

   27    SIGPROF      terminate process    profiling timer alarm (see setitimer(2))
its use is specifically what that signal is for.

Additionally, it seems fixed in zeroMQ for some things already in 2016... so i doubt thats still valid issue.

vectorEQ··on Would a Real AI Hide Its Super Intelligence in Fear of Being Destroyed?
nice question, but this implies AI would suffer human emotions. if it knew it would be destroyed, it might act. but likely not out of 'fear' >.> i sure hope we don't make robots and AI who can be depressed and suffer such negative emotions :D acting all rash because they are feeling overwhelmed :'D wtf
vectorEQ··on Apple commits $2.5B to combat housing crisis in California
imagine your government neck deep in debts with privately owned companies. ok ok you got me... , now imagine that's not banks :'D ... ok not much changes :D, government giving out their powers and money to some companies. its what they do i guess
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