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New comment by y1zhou in "GitHub Authentication issues related to API requests"

y1zhou — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:42:17 +0000

GitHub iOS logged me out. Tried logging in twice before realizing the problem is on their side...

Language Modeling Materializes a World Model of Protein Biology [pdf]

y1zhou — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:27:39 +0000

Article URL: https://biohub.ai/papers/esm_protein.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303165

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by y1zhou in "How does Shazam work?"

y1zhou — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:28:29 +0000

> On the flipside, this "fingerprint" approach is also what makes Shazam work poorly if you just sing into it. You're likely to generate different hashes than the original song, even if you are a very good singer! This is why newer, machine-learning-based systems are built to handle humming and singing, by matching on melody rather than exact frequencies.

So this is why singing/whistling a song to my phone never worked! I've always imagined the tech as some sort of wave pattern matching but the DFT is obviously more efficient for many scenarios. Cool article!

New comment by y1zhou in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

y1zhou — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:08:28 +0000

I'm in the same boat and https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx has been working very well for me.

New comment by y1zhou in "Notion releases offline mode"

y1zhou — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:51:12 +0000

Been trying out [SiYuan](https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan) as a local alternative and love it so far. The files are single-line JSONs so not as ideal as Obsidian .md files, but it seems to be trivial to export to various human-friendly formats.

New comment by y1zhou in "uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust"

y1zhou — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:49:52 +0000

I use the two together with no issues. Micromamba works great for conda dependencies that’s not on PyPi (for many reasons), and everything else I go for uv.

New comment by y1zhou in "Ask HN: What is your recommendation for a wireless keyboard and mouse?"

y1zhou — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 04:02:44 +0000

FWIW since cherry’s switch patents expired there has been a ton of great keyboards from China. I got a PMO Wave 75 and loved it.

Mine is same as the green one in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/1h8011...

New comment by y1zhou in "Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers"

y1zhou — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:12:10 +0000

Has there been recent developments in the style detection and deanonymization tools you mentioned? I would assume many would not work well given the high usage of LLMs nowadays.

Trump to sign executive order to cut prices of medicine to match other countries

y1zhou — Mon, 12 May 2025 05:03:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-sign-executive-order-reducing-prescription-drug-prices-2025-05-11/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43959798

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by y1zhou in "How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)"

y1zhou — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:00:57 +0000

A few years back a journal editor maticulously reviewed all dashes in our manuscript and pointed out places where em dashes should have been used. Since then I started noticing different dashes everywhere around the internet.

New comment by y1zhou in "Switching from Pyenv to Uv"

y1zhou — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:59:15 +0000

Adding dependencies to the script directly was a game-changer. I was able to write a script for a friend with no coding background at all and everything ran smoothly on his machine. No more rabbit holes of bundling Python packages and setting up environments!

New comment by y1zhou in "Fish shell announces 4.0 release"

y1zhou — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 02:00:57 +0000

Support was added for this a few versions back and made life much easier!

New comment by y1zhou in "Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging"

y1zhou — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:47:13 +0000

Does uv handle cases where dependencies go beyond Python? For example, many bioinformatics-related conda packages would come with external binaries written in C++ or other languages. Would uv be able to pull from conda?

New comment by y1zhou in "Diffusion Forcing: Next-Token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion"

y1zhou — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:59:23 +0000

Cool work! Curious if this can be applied back in LLMs as a discrete diffusion model with partial masking.

A New Coefficient of Correlation

y1zhou — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:59:04 +0000

Article URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/a-new-coefficient-of-correlation-64ae4f260310

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40030010

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by y1zhou in "Mario meets Pareto"

y1zhou — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:53:00 +0000

This is so neat! MOO has been a integral part of my work yet it has never occurred to be that Pareto optimization could be applied in kart picking.

New comment by y1zhou in "Forecasts need to have error bars"

y1zhou — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:09:08 +0000

For prediction intervals that are guaranteed coverage, check out conformal prediction [1]. Works great especially for time series data.

[1] https://github.com/valeman/awesome-conformal-prediction

New comment by y1zhou in "Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution"

y1zhou — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:23:07 +0000

On a related note, if you come from the R community and is already familiar with the `tidyverse` suite, `tidypolars` would be a great addition.

https://github.com/markfairbanks/tidypolars

New comment by y1zhou in "Japan asteroid probe finds 23 amino acids, researchers confirm"

y1zhou — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:36:21 +0000

Closest paper I could find is https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn7850, but it made no mentions to amino acids in the main text or the supplement.

New comment by y1zhou in "Latex.js (JavaScript Latex to HTML5 Translator)"

y1zhou — Thu, 19 May 2022 00:47:59 +0000

MathJax supports server-side rendering.

https://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/upgrading/whats-new-3.0.h...