Hacker News: dpau

New comment by dpau in "Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel"

dpau — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 15:21:22 +0000

good answer. (edit: i wasn't being facetious, i agreed with your comment.) and for anyone complaining about "wasting time" on this issue of terminology, i'd point them to the millions of hours lost due to tabs vs. spaces debates. it's not a waste of time, you just don't recognize it as important. defer to those who do.

New comment by dpau in "CDC director: Keeping schools closed greater health threat to children reopening"

dpau — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:41:01 +0000

The problem is that the "public health consequences of having the schools closed on the kids" have not been defined, yet alone measured, and thus we have no basis for comparison against the fairly well-established risks of opening schools. The director is making a political statement based on hunches rather than evaluating risks based on science.

New comment by dpau in "CDC director: Keeping schools closed greater health threat to children reopening"

dpau — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:10:09 +0000

I couldn’t find anything documented about the consequences of having schools closed, only the consequences of them being open. According to internal CDC documents, “fully reopening schools and universities remained the “highest risk” for the spread of the coronavirus” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-schools...

New comment by dpau in "Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains"

dpau — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:56:37 +0000

what of those who don't quarantine, get covid, and pass the virus on to their elderly relatives? would you make the same trade?

New comment by dpau in "Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image"

dpau — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 18:48:06 +0000

love these tools, have used them on multiple projects, thanks so much for your work.

New comment by dpau in "Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development"

dpau — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:33:16 +0000

bit of a difference between educating people about nazism vs. giving actual neo-nazis a space to use for communication and recruitment.

New comment by dpau in "Ask HN: Is it too late to start creating content on YouTube?"

dpau — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 05:17:11 +0000

I agree. There's already so much content and trash on Youtube that it will be a huge investment to make it worthwhile, assuming you are lucky. Creating structured, high-quality course content in a field not covered well by existing courses on sites like teachable and udemy will still be hard work, but with a higher chance of success.

New comment by dpau in "DeepFaceDrawing Generates Photorealistic Portraits from Freehand Sketches"

dpau — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 05:15:01 +0000

"We build this on the face image data of CelebAMask-HQ [24], which contains high-resolution facial images with semantic masks of facial attributes. For simplicity, we currently focus on front faces, without decorative accessories (e.g., glasses, face masks)."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.01047.pdf

New comment by dpau in "DeepFaceDrawing Generates Photorealistic Portraits from Freehand Sketches"

dpau — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 02:42:09 +0000

Could police sketch artists use this as a tool?

New comment by dpau in "Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach"

dpau — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 05:33:08 +0000

the comment was referring to failure in execution, not necessarily failure in choosing the correct approach. it's hard to argue that sweden shouldn't have been more careful with its elderly and vulnerable, even if going for herd immunity.

New comment by dpau in "Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach"

dpau — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 05:27:07 +0000

on the other hand many places recorded record low injuries and fatalities from car crashes due to quarantine. i wonder how it balances out in the end.

New comment by dpau in "“Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”"

dpau — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 19:31:32 +0000

bad analogy. trump has far, far greater power than any talk show host and is advocating violence against americans.

New comment by dpau in "White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter"

dpau — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:16:24 +0000

"The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization"

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12671296442282475...

New comment by dpau in "Stitch Fix to Lay off About 1,400 Employees in California"

dpau — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 04:23:30 +0000

recent somewhat related article discussion:

Remote work means anyone can take your job https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23337857

New comment by dpau in "Do I need to go to university?"

dpau — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:50:29 +0000

you were of course correct, but your professor was simply illustrating a point- of whether we can trust our senses, of how we truly "know" something. philosophy often brings up "commonsensical" questions such as these. he probably didn't reply to you because he was bored from hearing the same smart alecky response every year :)

New comment by dpau in "Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?"

dpau — Sun, 31 May 2020 04:14:59 +0000

you're right, not all of us can be super star devs (i certainly am not) but we can apply their techniques, mainly stay healthy and never stop learning.

New comment by dpau in "Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?"

dpau — Sun, 31 May 2020 03:17:54 +0000

given the numerous posts about age discrimination on hn, i'm delighted to hear your story and wish you many more years of happy programming. as a whipper-snapper 40-something developer, it gives me hope and motivation.

New comment by dpau in "MasterClass is seizing its moment"

dpau — Wed, 27 May 2020 00:16:07 +0000

One offering from The Great Courses that the HN crowd might appreciate is "Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature":

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-utopian-and-dy...

The professor is excellent.

New comment by dpau in "Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas"

dpau — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:19:16 +0000

tongue in cheek. lately musk has reminded me not to have heros :(

New comment by dpau in "Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas"

dpau — Mon, 18 May 2020 19:27:48 +0000

this is an awesome take- musk has been playing 4d chess all along, getting hard-core conservatives to buy into renewable energy..