Hacker News: ep_jhu

Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses

ep_jhu — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:46:51 +0000

Article URL: https://news.gallup.com/opinion/methodology/709373/gallup-begins-research-simulated-responses.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120666

Points: 1

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Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5M biomedical papers

ep_jhu — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:42:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068541

Points: 4

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Fortum has started heat production at two large data centre sites in Finland

ep_jhu — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:58:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fortum.com/en/media/2026/05/fortum-has-started-heat-production-two-large-data-centre-sites-finland

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050988

Points: 3

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pvlib: Open-source Python library for solar power modeling

ep_jhu — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:37:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911606

Points: 1

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New comment by ep_jhu in "Nordics and Estonia rolling out offline card payment backup in case internet cut (2025)"

ep_jhu — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:33:54 +0000

(2025)

New comment by ep_jhu in "Amazon's cloud business in Bahrain damaged in Iran strike"

ep_jhu — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:40:11 +0000

This HN thread called it hours before this Reuters report

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602019

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them

ep_jhu — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:54:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514922

Points: 7

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Solar in poor countries is creating a lead hazard

ep_jhu — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:44:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.slowboring.com/p/solar-in-poor-countries-is-creating

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251081

Points: 4

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When the sun sets, batteries rise: 24/7 solar in California

ep_jhu — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:13:00 +0000

Article URL: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/02/17/when-the-sun-sets-batteries-rise-24-7-solar-in-california/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051698

Points: 5

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New comment by ep_jhu in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

ep_jhu — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:59:23 +0000

My wife and I quit our tech jobs and moved from the US to a European country last year to learn/grow/explore. The plan is to renew the visa and continue our exploration.

For 2026, other than more traveling, I have just started a course at the local tech university on solar power, and asset management/O&M of solar installations. The hope is to gain basic domain knowledge for potentially transitioning my career into this field in a year or two, taking advantage of my SWE, data analytics, and PM experience.

I'm also planning to take my host country's driving exam. That means I first need to learn how to drive a car with manual transmission, after 30+ years driving in the US.

EU country grouping cleared to build sovereign digital infrastructure

ep_jhu — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:52:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-country-grouping-cleared-to-build-sovereign-digital-infrastructure/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765819

Points: 5

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EU leaders paper over splits on US tech reliance

ep_jhu — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:19:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-germany-united-states-big-tech-sovereign-digital-transition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682114

Points: 1

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GSA, Google Announce Transformative 'Gemini for Government' OneGov Agreement

ep_jhu — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:13:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-google-announce-gemini-onegov-agreement-08212025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44974523

Points: 3

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New comment by ep_jhu in "Remove Old iMessage Attachments"

ep_jhu — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:21:52 +0000

Nice! I like that it moves things to the recycling bin rather than straight up deleting them. Also, the filtering is great. I wish Apple included that in the OSX (Storage > Messages) or iOS (Storage > Review Large Attachments) UIs. It seems like a must-have.

New comment by ep_jhu in "A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt"

ep_jhu — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:01:16 +0000

Everyone here is thinking about privacy and surveillance and here I am wondering if this is what lets us speed up nano cameras to relativistic speeds with lasers to image other solar systems up close.

New comment by ep_jhu in "Ask HN: What have you made with Raspberry Pi?"

ep_jhu — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 11:25:16 +0000

My COVID project was DCSkyCam[1], which is on a Pi4 with the HQ camera to do sunrises/sunsets, and uses TFLite and other packages for object detection and identification of helicopters that fly by. I also have a Pi 3B running pihole[2] and running custom scrape jobs to alert me of certain website updates, which I’d like to transition to using selenium but the 3B is too slow for chromedriver - might upgrade to a Pi 5 if I can.

[1] https://dcskycam.net [2] https://pi-hole.net/

Habitable Worlds Catalog

ep_jhu — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:28:19 +0000

Article URL: https://phl.upr.edu/hwc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38921485

Points: 2

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New comment by ep_jhu in "Retro on Viberary"

ep_jhu — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:33:13 +0000

One issue I always run into when implementing these approaches is the embedding model's context window being too small to represent what I need.

For example, on this project, looking at the generation of training data [1], it seems like what's actually being generated are embeddings on a string concatenated from each review, title, description, etc. [2]. With the max_seq_length set to 200, wouldn't lengthy book reviews result in the book description text never being encoded? Wouldn't this result in queries not matching against potentially similar descriptions if the reviews are topically dissimilar (e.g., discussing author's style, book's flow, etc. instead of plot).

[1] https://github.com/veekaybee/viberary/blob/main/src/model/ge... [2] https://github.com/veekaybee/viberary/blob/main/src/model/ge...

New comment by ep_jhu in "Starship will attempt a launch this Friday"

ep_jhu — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:34:55 +0000

In 1966 NASA launched two rockets to LEO as part of the Gemini 12 mission - under 2 hours apart (Gemini, Athena docking target.)

As for SpaceX, just a few months ago the Psyche asteroid mission and a Starlink launch also happened the same day.

New comment by ep_jhu in "Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic"

ep_jhu — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:43:10 +0000

There’s already been hacks with 100k user account data leaked: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-100-000-...

OpenAI says it was an issue with the user devices not their service, though.