Hacker News: jakosz

New comment by jakosz in "AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe"

jakosz — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:24:09 +0000

Now we can start guessing what futures they are betting on: these, in which open-sourcing the whole thing commoditises critical complements.

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https://www.gwern.net/Complement

New comment by jakosz in "AWS does not support multiple U2F/MFA devices"

jakosz — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:55:02 +0000

Seriously, why?

AWS does not support multiple U2F/MFA devices

jakosz — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:55:02 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=137055&start=50&tstart=0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25956364

Points: 2

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New comment by jakosz in "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014)"

jakosz — Wed, 23 May 2018 23:21:57 +0000

You can get very good improvements over Spark too. I've been using GNU Parallel + redis + Cython workers to calculate distance pairs for a disambiguation problem. But then again, if it fits into a few X1 instances, it's not big data!

New comment by jakosz in "Touched (2015)"

jakosz — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:56:17 +0000

'Some conclusions' section reminds me of a short piece PG has once written on regrets of the dying. I find it amazing how consistent some of the points are -- happiness is your choice, cultivate friendships, say what you think and don't obsess with work.

Ask HN: Do you get spam in your web-facing email?

jakosz — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:16:10 +0000

Judging from the prevalence of email obfuscation out there the problem appears to be far from solved. Does it hurt?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15636010

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jakosz in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

jakosz — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 20:57:13 +0000

Grep for the internet.

What I often want is not a search engine, not a recommender, but a filter. Something that would allow me to look at the distributions of content on the Web rather than trying to answer my questions. I badly wanted to pay someone a few quid for a service like this, but had to build it myself.

Feel free to piggyback on the next batch job; use fBd7guQLDLx6RIm00GE7uH5h0Lk1CKKl as access key.

https://alpha.crawlfilter.com/

Cybersecurity firm finds evidence that Russian military unit was behind DNC hack

jakosz — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 15:03:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cybersecurity-firm-finds-a-link-between-dnc-hack-and-ukrainian-artillery/2016/12/21/47bf1f5a-c7e3-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13237633

Points: 23

# Comments: 10

New comment by jakosz in "Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence"

jakosz — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:17:39 +0000

I struggle to see how data-driven bias is unexpected.

Hibernating bears could hold the key to long-distance space travel

jakosz — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:32:23 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/09/hibernating-bears-could-hold-the-key-to-long-distance-space-travel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857729

Points: 2

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New comment by jakosz in "Google's Vint Cerf Warns of 'digital Dark Age'"

jakosz — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:56:16 +0000

This is already an issue in many areas, perhaps most troubling with regards to scientific data (e.g. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6018/694.short)

New comment by jakosz in "Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria"

jakosz — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:10:07 +0000

If you're going to perform a comprehensive scan (i.e. not just to sample alexa's 1M), there's a lot of crap waiting for you in the long tail -- you may want to use my subset of alexa's rankings instead, which contains only names that have been on the list for the last 322 days (it's ~700K rows): http://www.szejda.pl/pub/alexa-20130313-20140128.bz2

New comment by jakosz in "Best 404 ever (warning! Sound)"

jakosz — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:06:49 +0000

Dropbox is still my favourite: http://dropbox.com/404.html

Minerals and metals scarcity in manufacturing: A ‘ticking time-bomb’

jakosz — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:47:07 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ukmediacentre.pwc.com/News-Releases/Rare-earth-metals-scarcity-A-ticking-time-bomb-for-the-world-asks-PwC-1174.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395869

Points: 2

# Comments: 2