Hacker News: wesleychen

New comment by wesleychen in "Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes"

wesleychen — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:26:53 +0000

Can you send me the video?

New comment by wesleychen in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"

wesleychen — Wed, 28 May 2025 23:40:51 +0000

It's very useful if you change addresses often.

New comment by wesleychen in "If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad"

wesleychen — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:52:12 +0000

He paid Godinet 20,000 dollars but all he received was 2 sets. So basically Godinet scammed him instead of becoming a manufacturing partner.

New comment by wesleychen in "Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation"

wesleychen — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:51:43 +0000

It sounds like he retained the paper rather than disposing it.

New comment by wesleychen in "The Rise and Fall of Adam Osborne"

wesleychen — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:51:48 +0000

Why do you think that? It reads like a magazine article to me.

New comment by wesleychen in "Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone"

wesleychen — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:25:19 +0000

I think they call it a Large Action Model not an LLM.

New comment by wesleychen in "Mario Maker 2 API"

wesleychen — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:46:10 +0000

If you filter levels by a higher difficulty you can get some that require you to actually play.

New comment by wesleychen in "Tracking and technology in cars is being weaponized by abusive partners"

wesleychen — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:57:02 +0000

It’s pretty universal among my friends in their early 20s, spanning across the country.

New comment by wesleychen in "Paper vs. devices: Brain activation differences during memory retrieval (2021)"

wesleychen — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:11:14 +0000

Except in this study they were comparing writing on a paper to writing on a tablet so it seems that somehow the fact that the writing happened to a piece of paper makes our memory better and its not just the act of writing itself.

New comment by wesleychen in "$200M gift propels scientific research in the search for life beyond Earth"

wesleychen — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 22:31:27 +0000

I think the "other" in the Wikipedia articles refers to that the six listed (Andrew Viterbi, Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Harvey White) are in addition to the "leader" Irwin Jacobs, not that they are in addition to seven unlisted founders.

New comment by wesleychen in ""A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4"

wesleychen — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 01:05:30 +0000

Wasn't the goal to make the girls interesting?

New comment by wesleychen in "Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started"

wesleychen — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:35:32 +0000

You can solve this easily by always flipping with the same side (doesn’t matter which) facing up for all flips.

New comment by wesleychen in "Building a DIY Pen Plotter"

wesleychen — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 01:04:48 +0000

It has a not-so-charming price tag (490 CAD).

New comment by wesleychen in "Amazon PillPack – Your medication, sorted and delivered"

wesleychen — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:47:00 +0000

I always end up with a bunch of extra painkillers after getting dental work done (wisdom teeth removal, gum graft, etc.)

New comment by wesleychen in "PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading"

wesleychen — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 20:04:25 +0000

Does anyone know of a good way to tile large PDFs (i.e. split a single PDF into smaller pages)? Adobe reader only allows you to do this when printing and you can't save the tiled PDF as its own file.

New comment by wesleychen in "Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?"

wesleychen — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 23:44:59 +0000

I think because the minimum focus distance for most phone cameras is around 8 inches so they have to film kind of far away or else it will go blurry.

New comment by wesleychen in "The Tyranny of the Tale"

wesleychen — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:46:32 +0000

What a concise narrative that would be!

New comment by wesleychen in "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf]"

wesleychen — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:44:33 +0000

The reason why Chomsky is relevant is because this post is a link to a book by Chomsky...

New comment by wesleychen in "The Password Game"

wesleychen — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:27:35 +0000

Try Qe8+ if it's check or Qxe8 if you're taking a piece.

New comment by wesleychen in "The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city"

wesleychen — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 05:53:36 +0000

Are you saying that bars in the UK are quiet? That sounds terrible if true, but I find it hard to believe.