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Ask HN: Any messaging app that is both e2e encrypted and support backup/export?
2 points by fchu 5y ago|3 comments
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by fchu 5y ago
If a company built a tool like Copilot to help students write essays, is that considered plagiarism? Probably yes, and the reason is that regurgitating blobs of text without actually thinking like a human and writing them anew doesn't
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by fchu 5y ago
There is something fascinating about this article, and it's not the tips about how to properly work hard, which aren't new or particularly insightful (otherwise reasonable and well summarized). It's the fact that throughout t
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by fchu 5y ago
Google changing the country in their terms of services without user explicit approval/opt-in is much worse than it seems. As a user, I might have Germany as my country in Google while living in Malaysia: maybe I like its privacy law be
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by fchu 5y ago
Free market includes when competition can reasonably enter a market that's not structured through legislation to be overly favorable towards incumbents. Note that there are natural monopolies/oligopolies, which are the result of t
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by fchu 5y ago
Meanwhile Google Meet is still horrendous compared to Zoom, despite me and my coworker both having gigabit internet... Don't get me wrong, this is cool, but a research project becomes really cool when it gets well executed
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by fchu 5y ago
It's not very stealth tech if it's vue
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by fchu 6y ago
Am I the only one who thinks the concept of relative error is not meaningful in this context? It gives a disproportionate meaning to 0 without real physical consideration, eg: - 0.1⁰C ± 0.1 (wow 100% relative error) - 273.25K ± 0.1 (meh 0.0
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by fchu 6y ago
Totally agree. One redeeming truth is that software is similar to finance in that it gives an outsized advantage to a business vs one that doesn't get it. Unlike finance though, "softwarizing" a company is a much more drastic
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by fchu 6y ago
I'm pretty sure they pivoted after starting YC, so in this instance the specific criticism about YC doesn't hold
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by fchu 6y ago
The key difference here is that it's a venture backed effort, which signals something very different from large state-financed research efforts like Iter. Namely, that there is a path to financial viability
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by fchu 6y ago
Learning isn't possible without unlearning whatever temporary construct we used as a crutch, but it doesn't mean using that temporary construct is wrong even if it's not technically correct. More specifically in mathematics,
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by fchu 6y ago
Not quite. Having a blanket "Google doesn't track you" statement doesn't capture the complexity of reality: what if the website you're browsing is using Firebase for their authentication, or Google Pay for payment.
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by fchu 6y ago
This is amazing. I was not happy when my doctor told me I had to do 3 shots, twice a week, for my allergies, with 30min wait time at the doctors, while I could have just had sublingual pills from the comfort of my home if I were in Europe.
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by fchu 6y ago
Having great returns and improving humanity are very different things. I'm pretty sure a lot of scams are benefiting their creators very well, and yet...
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by fchu 6y ago
There was a "go/yeshello" to provide the opposing argument, and later a "go/onlyhello" which is obviously the correct answer
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by fchu 6y ago
The reality is that most users don't care about computer personalization anymore, a computer is just a conduit to the actual desired activity (browsing the web, playing games, watching movies, etc.). Sure, 20 years ago, when content wa
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by fchu 6y ago
I find it fascinating that we're using an overall linear model (Quantum Physics) of our non-linear reality, particularly the bits that are less linear (Bose Einstein condensates) to approximate linear solutions to non-linear models (fl
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by fchu 6y ago
Those are the "empty(/bad) calories for the mind". It's akin to eating processed snacks when you're hungry, instead of nutrient whole foods
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by fchu 6y ago
You can always "bisect" through space (execution flow) OR time (commits) to find a bug. I usually prefer through space, because 1. it actively helps narrow the buggy line in the code you're working on, instead of reflecting o
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by fchu 6y ago
Using the bread as a makeshift N95 to survive is genius
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by fchu 6y ago
(See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance_and_contravarianc... for more context) Yes, as the terms "co/contra-variance" loosely relate to how certain derived attributes "varies" when base
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by fchu 6y ago
There is beauty in first constructing V* as the one-forms over V, which seems like a "one-way" derivation from it, and then finding through V = V that they're actually two very-equal faces of the same coin.
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by fchu 6y ago
That's too simplistic and not realistic. I'd rather go for an heuristic that's the dependency management equivalent of "Ask for forgiveness, not permission": 1.Find the best library that is good enough to solve your
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by fchu 6y ago
The article makes very nuanced points that don't transpire in the title, and thus get straw manned in the comments. Here are the salient points: - The article says nothing against creating a fairer world (aka equality of opportunity) -
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by fchu 6y ago
I think you could flip the status quo on its head, by promoting a full 10M (or 5M...), and making it clear it is NOT the annuity value sum like you do for lesser prizes, since I would argue that your competitivity/differentiation comes
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by fchu 6y ago
Given how police as an institution is failing, I wonder if there is a way to "reboot the system" (#RebootThePolice?) in a way that prevent bad culture to reproduce within. Like building a new corps of police ("NeoPolice"
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by fchu 6y ago
While this is true and H1B can be reformed, it's still a better option than having your dreams crushed because now you're stuck in your home country where job perspectives aren't great.
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by fchu 6y ago
Unfortunately we're now using the word skeptics for 2 totally different things - questioning dogma with sound reasoning and reasonable first principles - trusting one's own belief against overwhelming evidence of the contrary. Gal
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by fchu 6y ago
This needs to be weighted though: while the US government had, is, and will be lying on some stuff to its citizenry, it's unlikely that it's constantly lying, and most of the time it's telling the truth. A massive lie, with n

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