Hacker News: pastaking

New comment by pastaking in "House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure"

pastaking — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:23:25 +0000

It's two different sets of creators -> two content pools. Also, there are many, many users outside of US or China, with their own regional content pools.

New comment by pastaking in "Go will use pdqsort in next release"

pastaking — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 06:01:12 +0000

On a side note, this change's author is from ByteDance. It's great to see everyone working together on open source.

New comment by pastaking in "Jd"

pastaking — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:12:11 +0000

Serious question: Why does this have so many upvotes? As a layman I have never heard of J or Jd before, someone please provide some context?

New comment by pastaking in "Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet"

pastaking — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:22:21 +0000

Good for Huawei. Finally, an affordable alternative to Remarkable.

New comment by pastaking in "Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?"

pastaking — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:36:00 +0000

It's winter right now, go for a run outside, especially if there's snow. You can watch some YouTube videos about how to layer up properly. The air is extra crisp right now and almost nobody runs so the world is yours. I find it extra relaxing and a huge runners high afterwards.

New comment by pastaking in "YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions"

pastaking — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:25:18 +0000

I've worked with the accessibility team at YouTube. That team has brilliant engineers who are themselves blind or deaf, so they really do understand their customers, even if that community is relatively small. If this a grassroots decision from that team, I'm sure they have thought long and hard about it, and I respect that decision.

I still believe Alphabet is a company that truly wants to make the world a better place -- I hope they're living by their principles, and not letting the profits (of which they have plenty) get in way.

New comment by pastaking in "Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores"

pastaking — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 01:31:29 +0000

Wouldn’t this be better handled by a more sophisticated solution like some kind of law or governance organization? Banning specific apps is like whack a mole. There will also be other countries with opposing ideological beliefs - we probably shouldn’t want to play whack a mole country by country either.

New comment by pastaking in "Toonify Yourself"

pastaking — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 22:23:28 +0000

This is so cool! I'm curious, how much does it cost to run a server that does deep learning inference on the scale of hugged-by-hn-frontpage?

New comment by pastaking in "Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life"

pastaking — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 15:26:09 +0000

Truly sad. When HK was handed back to China in 1999, did we know this is inevitable?

New comment by pastaking in "TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce"

pastaking — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:29:19 +0000

Does anyone know when we will likely hear the result of this trial?

New comment by pastaking in "Trump gives TikTok a new deadline: 90 days instead of 45"

pastaking — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:47:43 +0000

Does the new EO override the previous EO? Technically, if it’s allowed “no transactions” in 45 days, then it can’t really sell anything in the latter half of the 90 days.

New comment by pastaking in "The TikTok War"

pastaking — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:04:33 +0000

Maybe a correction: The article mentions that Amazon asked its employees to delete the app. But Amazon later retracted that decision.

New comment by pastaking in "iPadOS"

pastaking — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:05:15 +0000

Can we split screen vertically now?

New comment by pastaking in "Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007"

pastaking — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 17:26:23 +0000

Can someone provide an ELI5 on what are yield curves and why is it an indicator of a recession?

Ask HN: Why don’t more companies just email me sign-in links?

pastaking — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:34:20 +0000

For logging into slack, they just email me a link, then I click on it to sign in. This is very convenient as I don’t have to remember another password. Why don’t more websites/apps do this? Is it due to some security issue I’m not aware of?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20418196

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by pastaking in "Show HN: Lirik (Lyrics Syncing Tool)"

pastaking — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 23:12:07 +0000

Looks great! How did you align audio with text?

Ask HN: What would you do with Gigabit internet?

pastaking — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 15:40:14 +0000

Hi HN, there is an option to get symmetric gigabit fiber internet (same download and upload speeds) at the new building I'm moving to. I'm debating whether I actually need that kind of speed (versus, say, 250 Mbps). What interesting things do you / would you do with really fast internet?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17638658

Points: 6

# Comments: 7

New comment by pastaking in "Ask HN: Is anyone working on tech for dementia/Alzheimer's?"

pastaking — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 15:35:21 +0000

Check out http://www.winterlightlabs.com/

Monitor dementia / alzheimer's through speech

Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?

pastaking — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:45:02 +0000

When I browse HN, I usually pick out a few articles I want to read from the front page, then email the links to myself to read later.

This method works out pretty well for me. I’m wondering if people have other strategies that work better?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637835

Points: 57

# Comments: 76

New comment by pastaking in "Microsoft announces Surface Go"

pastaking — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:43:22 +0000

This will be a great affordable option for students who want to use a surface to take notes!