Hacker News: y2kenny

New comment by y2kenny in "Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water"

y2kenny — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 04:13:30 +0000

Just as a reference, 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...

New comment by y2kenny in "Keep your AI claims in check"

y2kenny — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:52:50 +0000

Isn't labeling still an important part of modern AI?

New comment by y2kenny in "“I’m selling data of 400M Twitter users that was scraped via a vulnerability”"

y2kenny — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:31:46 +0000

Some VoIP provider may offer IVR service and one can setup similar mechanism using IVR. I know voip.ms offers IVR.

New comment by y2kenny in "Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”"

y2kenny — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 02:04:21 +0000

Probably because he was at one point. Even Sweeney bragged about getting around it: http://web.archive.org/web/20220204202539/https://twitter.co...

The Internet Changed Me

y2kenny — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 23:53:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm-yXsm23_c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859423

Points: 1

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New comment by y2kenny in "Elizabeth Holmes found guilty"

y2kenny — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 05:44:56 +0000

This reminds me of the Black Mirror's "Black Museum" episode...

New comment by y2kenny in "Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster"

y2kenny — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:08:42 +0000

Zuul is great. After using it for about a year in production, I must say Zuul is everything I hoped for and more (coming from a Jenkins deployment previously.) Some of the concepts take a bit of effort to wrap my head around but once I understood them they make a lot of sense. Leveraging of Ansible is great. Making jobs cheap and inheritable is awesome.

New comment by y2kenny in "Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted"

y2kenny — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:33:08 +0000

I think we should start adopting the term 'tinnitus' when people argue with 'dogwhistle'. Just because a person calling X a dogwhistle of Y doesn't make it so.

New comment by y2kenny in "Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever"

y2kenny — Wed, 05 May 2021 01:26:12 +0000

Can you elaborate more? What are the things that are bad for general amp but good for guitar amp? Is the amplification non-linear in some specific ways and how does it help with guitar music? (I know nothing about guitar except what it looks like.)

Suez Canal blocked by container ship Ever Given: Live

y2kenny — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:09:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/3/24/suez-canal-blocked-by-massive-container-ship-ever-green-live

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26568180

Points: 1

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Camera Tech from 1971: Match-needle exposure meter

y2kenny — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:44:27 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24943407

Points: 1

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New comment by y2kenny in "AMD to Acquire Xilinx"

y2kenny — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:39:59 +0000

For those who are not familiar, AWG stands for Arbitrary Waveform Generator.

New comment by y2kenny in "Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns"

y2kenny — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:04:21 +0000

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

"Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

I don't see any mention of government there. Why limit the interpretation of free speech to the US constitution? How do you reconcile ideologically or philosophically that it is not ok for US Congress to limit speech but ok for other powerful entities?

Gnome-shell extension that improves window tiling capabilities of gnome-shell

y2kenny — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:01:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gTile/gTile

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495359

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by y2kenny in "Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME"

y2kenny — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:58:26 +0000

For folks who are looking for tiling without switching the windows manager, the gTile [0] GNOME shell extension is pretty good.

[0]: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/28/gtile/

New comment by y2kenny in "Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902"

y2kenny — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:50:59 +0000

More footage about the line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2roHdZ9UB9Y

I don't speak the language but the auto transcribe and auto translate seems to work ok.

South Korea Shows How to Safely Hold a National Election During Covid-19

y2kenny — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:55:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/elections-during-pandemic-south-korea-shows-how-safely-hold-national-election-during

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24009208

Points: 2

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New comment by y2kenny in "Student group leader arrested on suspicion of inciting secession in HK"

y2kenny — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:19:57 +0000

Yes, big businesses as well: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/06/03/hsbc-backs-c...

>> Last Friday Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing former leader, demanded that HSBC state its position after enjoying privileges in the territory that “should not be taken for granted”.

He also warned that it could “be replaced by banks from China or other countries overnight”.

In a Facebook post he wrote: “We need to let … British companies such as HSBC know which side of the bread is buttered.”

New comment by y2kenny in "Resignation Letter"

y2kenny — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:47:17 +0000

> "Free speech" is about the government suppressing your speech.

No it's not.

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." -- United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19 https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Revealed: Seven year coronavirus trail from mine deaths to a Wuhan lab

y2kenny — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 05:27:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/seven-year-covid-trail-revealed-l5vxt7jqp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23744984

Points: 4

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