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Status as a Service: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19294564 …

How does one go about learning these kinds of skills?

In addition, I find the new hCaptcha used by Cloudflare much worse than reCAPTCHA. It's slower, with ambiguous inputs demanding more mental effort, and sometimes it just refuses my correct answer…

At least they are being honest, it's "Increase your online security" instead of "Increase your online privacy" :)

I switched to Podman, which comes by default with Fedora, no issues so far.

Could someone explain what VMWare ESXi is? Is is just another Unix-like operating system? Is it compatible with things like Nvidia GPUs?

Here is a PDF of the original article: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/11/21/987... . Also available on archive.org: https://web.archi…

I like these kinds of explanations. As Feynman said: “What I cannot create, I do not understand”.

Because when Pytorch came out, Tensorflow API was cumbersome and hard to work with. In comparison, Pytorch was much more intuitive. Being beginner friendly, it quickly gained traction. It was like Jav…

We can create a repository just for issues, like Microsoft does with WSL: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL …

I once used TrueCrypt for an external HDD and I regretted it. After some years the disk failed, and I had no chance to recover its content as touching a few bits meant the inability to decrypt it or r…

What if collaboration on opensource projects (i.e. hosting, issues and their comments) was decentralized instead of relying on a central entity like Github? That would keep the developer base active a…

As another comment pointed[0], there is a mirror on gitee: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872999 …

Beautiful essay, thanks for sharing.

Another basis for the Chrisitian (also the Jewish and Islamic) view on homosexuality is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah#Religious…

It didn't work for me, it returned: Error fetching alternatives ... <h1>We're sorry...</h1><p>... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries…

I used to spend my time on https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/ looking for.. answers. Until I read "Philosophical Investigations" and "On Certainty" by Ludwig Wi…

You can download it from this archive.org collection (s2011e12): https://archive.org/download/BBCHorizonCollection512Episodes …

This reminds me of the Mere Exposure Effect[0], a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. [0] https://en…

This cool, I always wanted something like this. I'm wondering how did they construct the dataset to train ML models on it. Did they just recruit "labelers" who hummed for evey song? Or …

For anyone interested, I recommend a BBC Horizon documentary about the earth's core called "The Core". I found about it on HN and quite enjoyed it. https://news.ycombinator.c…