Hacker News: sravfeyn

The Displacement of Cognitive Labor and What Comes After

sravfeyn — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:41:55 +0000

Article URL: https://sahajgarg.github.io/blog/cognitive-labor/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504328

Points: 2

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AuthaGraph Map; The World's Most Accurate Map

sravfeyn — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:41:28 +0000

Article URL: https://allthatsinteresting.com/authagraph-world-map

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25121796

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Google Pulls ‘Remove China Apps’ from Play Store

sravfeyn — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:18:06 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/02/remove-china-apps-google-play-store/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23464479

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Resources to Support Small Farmers and Local Food Systems During Covid-19

sravfeyn — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 07:26:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.localfutures.org/covid-19/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810768

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Two – A Short Film without words on Consumerism

sravfeyn — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:00:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zACGLjd9JNY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178168

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sravfeyn in "Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound"

sravfeyn — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:44:21 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex for people interested in 'stapedius reflex' that the article talks about.

New net neutrality regulation approved in India

sravfeyn — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 08:24:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/a-welcome-move/article24427683.ece?homepage=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556350

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sravfeyn in "Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify"

sravfeyn — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:50:52 +0000

This is great! I wished something like this existed for Indian classical music, since in it also a composition can be performed by multiple artists differently and multiple performances can be created with with different permutations of the rhythm and melody. This player, as is, doesn't account for compositional units of Indian classical music (obviously because it's designed for Western Classical music).

Language is also something that is missed in mainstream music players.

Facebook's experiments with user behavior in Serbia

sravfeyn — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/opinion/serbia-facebook-explore-feed.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15702422

Points: 112

# Comments: 108

Tez, Google's digital payment app for India

sravfeyn — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:37:19 +0000

Article URL: https://tez.google.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15283052

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit

sravfeyn — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:19:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-teleported-from-earth-to-orbit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14760094

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation

sravfeyn — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:15:15 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00934

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14760081

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Japanese Gardening

sravfeyn — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:54:33 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_garden

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12441726

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sravfeyn in "Vipers, mambas and taipans: the escalating health crisis over snakebites"

sravfeyn — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:49:52 +0000

Snakes kill rodents that transmit various diseases (mentioned in the article)

Free Basics is back, now through the backdoor

sravfeyn — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 14:12:24 +0000

Article URL: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/parminder-jeet-singh-india-and-facebook-free-basics-now-through-the-backdoor/article8807948.ece?homepage=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12036529

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sravfeyn in "A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away"

sravfeyn — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:47:33 +0000

How significant are the relativistic effects at 0.2c (the probe speed they are aiming for)?

A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away

sravfeyn — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:13:13 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/science/alpha-centauri-breakthrough-starshot-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking.html?mabReward=A6&moduleDetail=recommendations-2&action=click&contentCollection=Americas®ion=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11480840

Points: 492

# Comments: 262

Facebook releases services marketplace in India

sravfeyn — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 05:12:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/services

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452700

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sravfeyn in "Giant ape went extinct 100,000 years ago, due to its inability to adapt"

sravfeyn — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 06:25:43 +0000

I find evolution terminology funny.

Aren't the terms 'something going extinct' and 'inability to adapt' essentially same. They are symmetrically causal to one another. It has inability to adapt, hence it went extinct; it went extinct hence we say it didn't have the ability to adapt. What new unit of knowledge do we gain by saying something like the OP's title?

In short, the 'ability to adopt' is itself measured in terms of whether 'something is extinct or not'

New comment by sravfeyn in "Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant"

sravfeyn — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:31:37 +0000

> The actual problem is people's prejudices and assumptions. This is what we need to fix.

Right, so the whole premise of your indifference or opposition to the privacy argument is that people should not have prejudices or (wrong) assumptions. Isn't that too idealistic and to rid people of the prejudices and figure out right moral standard for behaviour - will it not take many more generations, if at all it happens? Till then; till we figure out the right _prejudices_; till all of humanity naturally elevates to the right moral standard, shouldn't we be wary of those bad agents who can abuse others by breaking into their private matters?

Your premise, in short, assumes an ideal world where none is troubling others for their private acts, which unfortunately isn't the case yet.