Hacker News: akrain

New comment by akrain in "Amazon's 'Just Walk Out' tech was powered by low-paid Indian workers: report"

akrain — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:35:08 +0000

Here is an archived version of the same story (from another website): https://archive.is/TE40H

New comment by akrain in "Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue"

akrain — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:58:36 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. I will surely give them a try. The only recent Jazz musician that I have heard is Kamasi Washington.

New comment by akrain in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

akrain — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 02:27:22 +0000

My blog about a few treks in the Indian Himalayas http://overthehills.in/

New comment by akrain in "If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off"

akrain — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 05:31:34 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I tried to search for the passage but couldn't find it myslef.

New comment by akrain in "If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off"

akrain — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 13:59:59 +0000

I can't recall the exact lines but Thomas Pynchon's V. has an interesting variation of this story.

New comment by akrain in "Delhi suffers at 49°C as heatwave sweeps India"

akrain — Mon, 16 May 2022 12:37:09 +0000

Apparently, IMD has released historical weather data last year and it is available here: https://www.imdpune.gov.in/Clim_Pred_LRF_New/Grided_Data_Dow...

However, it is in some weird binary format which I have no clue about. They have also shared some C and Fortran (yes Fortran) code to read the files.

New comment by akrain in "Delhi suffers at 49°C as heatwave sweeps India"

akrain — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:04:53 +0000

Actually, the record is correct but not for the city's main weather station. The temperature of 49C was recorded in two of the city's outer areas one of which was Najafgarh and other was Mungeshpur.

You can select those from the left nav on IMD's website and see the results yourself.

https://city.imd.gov.in/citywx/localwx.php

Study says Himalayan rivers will not be affected due to retreating glaciers

akrain — Wed, 04 May 2022 12:38:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/false-alarm-over-retreat-himalayan-glaciers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31259588

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by akrain in "Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave"

akrain — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 12:18:36 +0000

I live in a suburb of Delhi and to be honest it is not just the occasional days that it stays that high. This year it has consistently been above 40C since late March. Summer has just started and the hottest months are generally May and June. So, it is going stay like this for more than three months this year in all. Even worse is that unlike desert regions, even the night temperatures here stay above 30C many times during this part of the year. Sometimes you open the window at night expecting it to be better only to realize that a hot "breeze" is blowing.

Owing to the pandemic, I had spent the last couple of years in the foothills of the Himalaya where the temperature rarely went beyond 30C. It has been really hard coping up with the heat as it literally sucks the life out of you.

Ref: https://www.accuweather.com/en/in/delhi/202396/april-weather...

Strategists warn of big tech under pressure

akrain — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:56:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/14/us-china-tech-giants-under-regulatory-pressure-competition.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328816

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by akrain in "The volcanic explosion in Tonga destroyed an island and created many mysteries"

akrain — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 13:34:24 +0000

Such are the vagaries of life.

New comment by akrain in "The volcanic explosion in Tonga destroyed an island and created many mysteries"

akrain — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 10:48:09 +0000

Paywall removed: https://archive.fo/A9uba

New comment by akrain in "Fire Ants Form Rafts (2017)"

akrain — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:21:18 +0000

According to the article:

"When using mandibles, the ants are careful to avoid hurting each other."

Not too much ouch then.

New comment by akrain in "Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)"

akrain — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 04:20:36 +0000

I have started writing a blog[1] about my treks in the Indian Himalayas. My pace of writing is really slow, so don't have too many articles in there yet. But have a couple of more posts in the pipeline.

[1] https://overthehills.in/

New comment by akrain in "India approves first DNA Covid vaccine"

akrain — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 11:26:21 +0000

I couldn't find the effectiveness of Covishield against Delta but for Covaxin the claimed efficacy is in the same ballpark at 65%. So this is not bad at all.

Ref: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/covaxin-65-efficie...

New comment by akrain in "Speed Is the Killer Feature"

akrain — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:56:56 +0000

To be honest, it is much better overall. Didn't want to start a flame war here

New comment by akrain in "Speed Is the Killer Feature"

akrain — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:00:46 +0000

As a counterpoint, I recently switched from an old iPhone SE to a Pixel 4a and the experience could not have been any better. I find the vanilla Android to be as snappy as iOS for daily tasks if not better. The problem lies with custom Android ROMs on low spec phones which do hamper the user experience quite a bit

New comment by akrain in "The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft"

akrain — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 03:16:27 +0000

Although I can't find a reference to an aircraft engine, Chrysler did have a variable displacement tech on its third gen Hemi engines that could turn off one bank of the V8.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Displacement_System

New comment by akrain in "The End of the Redis Adventure"

akrain — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 18:47:58 +0000

I know at least one software that was complete - hasn'tbeen updated in a long time and I still useit. It's Winamp.

Today’s correction isn’t much like the dot-com bubble

akrain — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:49:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/are-we-cusp-next-dot-com-bubble/600232/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303173

Points: 238

# Comments: 152