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by wouterjanl 12d ago
Awesome! Looking at the metro stop near me here in Brussels, the trains seemed stuck for a while at the station. Not impossible this was just real :) Great way to admire the density and connectivity of our public transport!!
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Le Baguette Index(lebaguetteindex.fr)
3 points by wouterjanl 4mo ago|0 comments
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by wouterjanl 5mo ago
Interesting take. If AI indeed takes over the thinking, could the next scarce resource be, humanity? I’d argue that strength is already taken over by the machines, at least in societies where thinking is already the dominant competence. Wha
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by wouterjanl 5mo ago
Funny, I had a similar idea this morning in the shower. I was thinking about how distributed digital infrastructure could be achieved in practice. Running some music streaming and photo server on an old laptop at home that I access via tail
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by wouterjanl 6mo ago
I believe one of the reasons I keep coming back to hackernews is the absence of ads and the near complete focus on content. Shout out to those who work in the background to keep it like this. It would be interesting to hear from dang or oth
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by wouterjanl 7mo ago
Thank you for sharing this and making it open source! I appreciate that when clicking the link you end up immediately in the tool. I saved it. This surely will be useful at some point.
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by wouterjanl 10mo ago
Allow me to use this post to give big kudos to the maintainers of Strudel for having put together a brilliant set of official docs. I found them incredibly well put together and hence really useful to learn. I have played around with Strude
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by wouterjanl 1y ago
I do not think Hiroshima existed in isolation. I totally agree that the Japanese empire and the Third Reich committed horrible war crimes in WW2. If there's anything I lament, it's how it seems so hard to feel empathy for the trau
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by wouterjanl 1y ago
Here’s an extraordinary piece that focuses on the stories of the ordinary lives of the real people surviving 64 kilo enriched uranium exploding above their head yielding a blast of approximately 15 kiloton TNT which caused a fireball with a
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by wouterjanl 1y ago
As you ask why this is here. Copied from the guidelines of this site: “What to submit? On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. (…) anything that gratifies one's intelle
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Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future?(newyorker.com)
19 points by wouterjanl 1y ago|13 comments
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by wouterjanl 1y ago
I don’t understand, what kind of marketing do you think this is? I’m OP. I setup the blog a while ago but only for the first time I thought of something that was actually worth writing about. Something needs to be the first post! I’m sorry
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by wouterjanl 1y ago
Good points! Totally agree that people care less than you think, and it’s very healthy to live your life without thinking you have to please everyone all the time. The nuance I tried to make, but I was perhaps not really clear, is that when
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No Instagram, no privacy(blog.wouterjanleys.com)
128 points by wouterjanl 1y ago|112 comments
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by wouterjanl 1y ago
Really cool stuff. It felt strangely real. Impressive!
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by wouterjanl 1y ago
Excellent essay. I loved the way you made it interactive.
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Try to Praise the Mutilated World(poetryfoundation.org)
1 points by wouterjanl 2y ago|0 comments
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by wouterjanl 2y ago
It's a pretty small, straight forward web app. Think: python backend and a vanilla html / JS frontend, served over flask. The frontend is mostly in one file, so maybe it's not the best test case for crossfile reading, but sti
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by wouterjanl 2y ago
I just tried it out in the context of a small but messy side project. It did exactly what I asked for. The easy of use is a bliss. Impressive!
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by wouterjanl 2y ago
Living without appetite. I get it can help some people with losing weight. But doesn’t it sound a tad sad too? Isn’t desire one of the most complex, beautiful emotions?
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by wouterjanl 2y ago
The ‘ability to learn’ idea may not be so novel, but I am not sure if I agree with calling it ill defined or it having an agenda for more inclusivity. Generally, in schools, at least from my experience, it will still mostly be abstract thin
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by wouterjanl 2y ago
So by your measure, would Hacker News be spam for websites and blogs?
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by wouterjanl 2y ago
Can we imagine it? The lottery of life gets you born in a place that from one day to the other witnesses the arrival of foreign soldiers speaking foreign languages. They roll in your strees in big trucks with big guns always loaded. They ca
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by wouterjanl 2y ago
Article 5 (f) of the EU AI Act, fresh from the press (published two weeks ago), prohibits "the (...) use of AI systems to infer emotions of a natural person in the areas of workplace and education institutions, except where the use of
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by wouterjanl 2y ago
> To appreciate the peculiar beauty of cycling you need to understand what it is. In the middle of nowhere, festoons are hanging over the streets of a small village. It's a long forgotten village, except for today, when for around 1
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The Digital Services Act Transparency Database(transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu)
2 points by wouterjanl 2y ago|0 comments
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by wouterjanl 2y ago
Moving story. Beautifully told. I distil two lessons. 1. It's worth going through a bit of awkwardness to thank people or tell them what they mean to you while you still can. 2. Never go out on the water (or more generally engage in ri
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Google's Chrome antitrust paradox(papers.ssrn.com)
101 points by wouterjanl 2y ago|147 comments
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by wouterjanl 3y ago
Also from his blog: « I am a husband and father. The reason I was born was to become my daughter’s father. I was wise enough to notice and appreciate at the time, the slow ecstatic joy my child’s early years were giving me. So too have her
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by wouterjanl 3y ago
Interesting concept! I wanted to try it out but I’m missing Hindi in the list of languages you can learn. Curious about why the languages that made the cut did so and if you plan to add more languages in the short time?

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